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Continue reading …Greta Van Susteren, Tucker Carlson Have Wild Fight Over Sarah Palin Story (VIDEO)
September 22, 2011 No Comment
Fox News host Greta Van Susteren and Daily Caller editor Tucker Carlson had a scorching, intense, highly acrimonious debate on Monday night about an article Carlson’s website had run. Van Susteren began a feud with Carlson by taking to her blog and writing a scathing post about a Daily Caller article on some very offensive comments made about Sarah Palin by boxer Mike Tyson. The initial article quoted Tyson at length talking about allegations that Palin had a fling with former basketball player Glen Rice, but did not contain any overt denunciation of the comments. Later, Carlson posted an editor’s note to the piece, stressing that he found Tyson’s quotes “repulsive” — but not before Van Susteren walloped his judgment on her blog. She wrote that Carlson was a “pig” with no judgment who was pushing “smut” and violence against women by letting Tyson’s quotes run without comment. Carlson defended himself, saying he was trying to let Tyson’s words speak for themselves. On Monday, Carlson appeared on Van Susteren’s Fox News show, and it was clear that the two were still in deep disagreement. Carlson said he was confused about Van Susteren’s reaction. “Somehow you assumed that we were somehow making this attack on Sarah Palin, which is the opposite in fact of what we were doing,” he said. Van Susteren wasn’t buying that. “I think you’re lying, Tucker,” she said. She accused him of attaching his editor’s note because people “started raising holy hell” about the post. “It’s not journalism,” she said. “It glorifies violence against women.” “Please stop your ad hominem attacks,” Carlson said. He repeated that the site was merely doing its reporting job, and compared it to quoting a member of Al Qaeda. “You’re not a first offender with me,” Van Susteren said. “I gave you the benefit of the doubt six months ago when you wrote that MILF comment [about Sarah Palin] on your tweet.” Carlson fired back by noting that, during Tyson’s most recent appearance on Van Susteren’s show, the host had “asked him nothing about his sexual assault.” He wondered why Van Susteren was getting so angry about Tyson now. The two then shouted over each other for some time. “You’re a purveyor of the worst smut and violence against women!” Van Susteren told Carlson. “…You tried to hide it with that little editorial note.” The conversation continued until Van Susteren’s producer forced her to go to commercial. After the show, Van Susteren took to her blog, saying the conversation “didn’t go well.” Carlson, on the other hand, tweeted that he had “genuinely enjoyed” the chat. WATCH:
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Jada Yuan’s profile of Zooey Deschanel in last week’s New York Magazine asked whether Deschanel’s distinctive brand of adorableness reinforces Hollywood stereotypes about women or expands them. Deschanel, whom Yuan describes as “the paragon of femininity,” is the Katy Perry doppelganger who’s spent the last decade cementing her place as a darling of the indie-film world. This fall, Deschanel steers her acting career in a different direction, starring in a new sitcom called “New Girl” about an eccentric woman who moves in with three single men following a difficult breakup. I haven’t yet seen “New Girl” (it premieres tonight on Fox), but it sounds equal parts worrisome and promising. Some of Deschanel’s character’s traits — “watching ‘Dirty Dancing’ six times a day, sobbing uncontrollably” — seem like echoes of some of the most unfortunate clichés about women that exist. On the plus side, “New Girl’s” comedy ostensibly has a screwball bent that’s been lacking on network TV in recent seasons. Even better, it was created by a female writer named Liz Meriwether who based Deschanel’s character on herself and who told Yuan approvingly, “I didn’t think I could find someone as weird as I am.” Where Meriwether sees weirdness, others see girlishness — and some critics have a problem with that. According to Yuan, some women “resent [Deschanel] for seemingly playing into the male fantasy that women are only attractive when they act like girls.” Yuan quotes a handful of men who find Deschanel attractive (“She’s so hot!,” etc.) and alludes to a controversy that briefly lit up the feminist blogosphere earlier this year when the writer and comedian Julie Klausner wrote a post claiming that women who adopt a cutesy Deschanelesque sensibility make it easier for men to denigrate women. (In the New York profile, Deschanel responds to her critics, saying, “I think the fact that people are associating being girlie with weakness, that needs to be examined.”) What I find baffling about the controversy surrounding Deschanel’s trademark adorableness is that she doesn’t fall neatly into a feminine pigeonhole. Yes, she is thin, white, conventionally beautiful, and bubbly, and she has an apparently authentic enthusiasm for cupcakes and baby animals. But she has played characters who curse indiscriminately (“The Good Girl”), defy their parents (“Almost Famous”), and reject the men who love them (“500 Days of Summer”) — not exactly ladylike behaviors — and her laugh (which Yuan describes rapturously as “as the joyous union of a bray, a bark, and a honk”) is decidedly unfeminine. Deschanel, as far as I can tell from her films and Yuan’s profile is, like all of us, complicated: a mix of soft and hard, girly and nerdy, silly and serious. The fact that Deschanel’s aesthetic seems to have struck a chord in Hollywood and America at large, so much so that she is now carrying her own sitcom, doesn’t bother me — more power to her. Getting to where Deschanel is in her career undoubtedly requires a significant amount of hard work, talent, and drive, and if Deschanel’s natural good looks and childlike idiosyncrasies have helped her along the way, so be it. If anything bothers me, it’s that there aren’t enough female faces and voices in Hollywood that look and sound significantly different from Deschanel’s. Where are the sitcoms written by and starring women of color, lesbian and bisexual women, women whose bodies don’t fit into sample-size clothing? Where are the scripts about women who hate movies like “Dirty Dancing,” who attack every problem with unflagging rationality, who don’t really enjoy baking cupcakes or sewing clothes? These women are no worse or better than the kind of woman Deschanel epitomizes — but they exist, and Hollywood would be a far more interesting place if it began representing them, too.
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Click here to view this media Brian Tashman at RightWingWatch.org has the details on this whackjob. Pam Olsen heads the Tallahassee branch of the International House of Prayer (IHOP, for you sinners out there). Before heading to this week’s Presidency 5 conference in Orlando, Rick Perry named two Religious Right leaders to his Florida Presidency 5 campaign leadership team: John Stemberger and Pam Olsen. While Stemberger’s anti-choice, anti-gay and anti-Muslim activism is well known, Olsen is a far more obscure figure, but no less extreme. Olsen has said that same-sex marriage will lead to God’s judgment, preached Seven Mountains dominionism, and even claims that she, as a prophet, will have the power to raise the dead in the End Times. Olsen heads the Tallahassee branch of the International House of Prayer, whose members helped organize and preached at Perry’s The Response prayer rally in August. The Response emcee Mike Bickle, who once claimed that Oprah is the harbinger of the Antichrist and that gay marriage is “rooted in the depths of hell,” is the founder and director of IHOP. As reported by Sarah Posner, Olsen was inspired to found IHOP Tallahassee after extremist self-proclaimed prophet Cindy Jacobs prophesied over her. In July, Olsen warned that God’s increasingly severe judgments will come on the church and America for legalizing same-sex marriage in the form of natural disasters. From the video: We are under judgment. Do you know how many of the denominations now are suddenly saying, ‘Oh ok we think it’s ok now to have gay marriage, we think it’s ok to have gay preachers, we think it’s ok.’ Whole denominations! The Episcopalians fell off the planet, they think it’s ok to have gay priests. We’ve got other groups, one of the Presbyterians, they’re looking at voting, we’ve got other ones, they’re all of the sudden going, ‘Oh in the name of tolerance,’ and they’re forgetting God’s word completely in whole denominations. You know what, God is not one that’s gonna wink at sin, He will come and shake at everything that can be shaken. God is a God of judgment, He is. If we think we’re not gonna be judged…He judged Israel? Are we better than that? And sometimes I think we think we are, but we’re not. And God is shaking. If anybody looks at the news and has just seen what’s been happening recently with the floods, the fires, the tornadoes, God is shaking. Yeah I think you have God shaking, sure you have the Enemy shaking, you have both and I don’t want to say oh that’s the judgment of God or that’s the Enemy. But the reality is God is judging us, and I think it’s going to get worse.
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Continue reading …No Obama Treatment for Them: MRC Study Finds Morning TV Hits GOP Candidates With Hostile Liberal Agenda
September 22, 2011 No Comment
For most Americans, the 2012 presidential campaign will be experienced on television, and voters will evaluate the candidates based on their performances at televised debates, daily news coverage, and in long-form interviews. Even with all of the changes in the media landscape over past several years, the most-watched regular forums for candidate interviews are the broadcast network morning news programs — NBC’s Today , ABC’s Good Morning America , and CBS’s The Early Show , with a combined weekday audience of more than 13 million as of the second quarter of 2011. But how fairly are those broadcasts treating the candidates, and how well are the network morning show hosts serving Republican primary voters who must decide which candidate will oppose President Obama next fall? To find out, the MRC’s Geoffrey Dickens and I analyzed all 53 weekday morning show interviews with either potential or declared Republican candidates from January 1 through September 15, and compared the results with our study of the same programs’ treatment of the Democratic candidates during the same time period from four years ago. As might be expected, most of the more than 400 questions posed to the Republican candidates this year had to do with early campaign strategy and tactics and basic biographical details. But our analysts counted 98 “ideological questions” — policy-based questions that incorporated either a liberal or conservative premise.
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Execução de pena de morte em pleno séclo XXI Troy Davis (Alphonse’s Opinon) Troy Davis Executed In Georgia – 11:08pm EDT – 9/21/11 RonaldStee says: RT @ LupeFiasco : Rest In Peace Troy Davis & Officer Mark MacPhail . And all the innocent civilians killed in illegal wars we fight in the name of justice
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US Supreme Court rejects Troy Davis’ request for stay Bid to spare Troy Davis heads to US Supreme Court Troy Davis Executed After Stay Denied by US Supreme Court JasonLight73 says: U r FOX’s fav minionRT @ michellemalkin : .@ AlecBaldwin Direct your minions’ ire/rage/profanity/racism/sexism at the US Supreme Court , not me.
Continue reading …Troy Davis execution goes ahead despite serious doubts about his guilt
September 21, 2011 No Comment
Condemned man proclaimed innocence in last words to victim’s family before lethal injection in Georgia prison Moments before he was put to death, Troy Davis lifted his head from the gurney to which he was strapped and looked the family of Mark MacPhail, the police officer for whose murder he was convicted, directly in the eyes. “I want to talk to the MacPhail family,” he said. “I was not responsible for what happened that night. I did not have a gun. I was not the one who took the life of your father, son, brother.” He then appealed to his own family and friends to “keep the faith”, said to the medical personnel who were about to kill him “may God have mercy on your souls”, and laid his head down again. He was administered with a triple lethal injection of pentobarbital, pancuronium bromide and potassium chloride, and at 11.08pm he was pronounced dead. The debate about what happened in Georgia’s Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson late on Wednesday night will continue long after the gurney has been put away. In the final gruesome hours of waiting, the American judicial system at its very highest echelons was involved – including the US supreme court, which issued the decisive final ruling. The decision to press ahead with the death sentence despite serious doubts over Davis’s guilt drew accusations that this was the system at its most grotesque. It was Davis’s fourth execution date, and it was dragged out, for more than four hours, to what must have been tortuous effect for the prisoner and his family. Davis, 42, became the 52nd man to be executed in Georgia since the same supreme court reinstated the death penalty in 1973. His lawyers and thousands of supporters around the world were convinced that an innocent man had been sent to his death. As news of his death filtered out of the maximum security prison, his family was still huddled in an area of the prison grounds, surrounded by well-wishers. His sister, Martina Correia, had earlier vowed to continue the fight to end all capital punishment in America and said her brother’s story would be a galvanising force for others. “His message to young people is – you can lie down or you can stand up and fight,” she said. After the execution, Davis’s lawyers lamented what one described as a “legal lynching”. Thomas Ruffin said that the execution was “racially bigoted”. “In the state of Georgia 48.4% of people on death row this morning were black males, and in Georgia they make up no more than 15% of the population.” Ruffin said that seven of the nine witnesses at Davis’s 1991 trial had since recanted. They included a man who said under oath that he had seen MacPhail being killed, and that it was not Davis who shot him but another man called Sylvester Cole. Another witness said under oath that she had heard Coles confess three times to killing MacPhail and using Davis as the fall guy. But throughout Wednesday last-ditch legal manoeuvres by Davis’s defence team failed one by one as both state and federal judges ruled against them. First, a request for Davis to undergo a lie-detector test was rejected. A Georgia judge refused an appeal, then the state supreme court followed suit. In the end his only hope was the US supreme court, and for a moment at 7pm, just as the execution was due to take place, it seemed that the justices had ordered a stay. But the delay was only temporary and at around 10.15pm the court ruled that the execution should go ahead. The decision was welcomed by the MacPhail family. “He [Davis] had all the chances in the world,” the officer’s mother, Anneliese MacPhail, told the Associated Press. “It has got to come to an end.” But a second lawyer for Davis, Jason Ewart, said that as he died he took with him “his quest for justice. In the midst of all the newspaper headlines and vigils you can sometimes lose sight of the man who was on death row. Troy Davis was a family man, and his family mourns tonight.” John Lewis, a local radio reporter who was present at the execution, said that while the prisoner was being killed MacPhail family members sat in the front row looking intently at him. As they left the room after he was pronounced dead, some of them smiled. “So at least someone got some satisfaction out of this,” Lewis said. Troy Davis Capital punishment United States Ed Pilkington guardian.co.uk
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