Joy Behar Asks McGinniss If He Has ‘Death Wish’ for Writing Book About Palins
September 22, 2011 No Comment
While CNN gave two tough interviews to Palin-bashing author Joe McGinniss, HLN's Joy Behar joked around with him on her Wednesday show. She referenced his newest tome on Sarah Palin and her family, full of nasty gossip and rumors, and jokingly asked “What, do you have a death wish, Joe?” In the previous segment, Behar had made fun of Rush Limbaugh's past drug abuse in her interview with Levi Johnston. “Your mother was selling Oxycontin?” she asked Johnston. “What's she – what's up with that? Does she know Rush Limbaugh?” Not finished with her fun, the HLN host had a laugh over McGinniss' creepy move into the house next door to the Palins. “Could you see Russia from that house?” Behar joked. In the interview, McGinniss charged Palin as a “blatant racist and a “religious extremist,” but Behar challenged only the latter accusation, remarking that Palin was barely a churchgoer – according to Levi Johnston, whom she used to fact-check McGinniss' book in the previous interview. Behar did press McGinniss over his radical stories against Palin and her family – but while treating him as a respectable reporter, not the author of a book filled with gossip and rumors. She also gave credence to the fringe conspiracy theory peddled by the Daily Beast, that prominent Republican figures are “Dominionists” and are pushing to end the separation of church and state in America. When McGinniss accused Palin of belonging to such a sect, Behar asked “how is she any different from, say, Rick Perry?” The “Rogue” author absurdly claimed that the media gave Palin a pass in 2008, saying that “the mainstream media paid no attention to her background, nobody did any homework on her in 2008, running for vice president.” Behar made no attempt to challenge his assumption, instead attempting to explain it. “Well, the media likes sort of a star. She's kind of a star.” [Video below. Click here for audio.]
Continue reading …Palestine won’t push for an immediate Security Council vote on its push for full UN membership, because it doesn’t appear to have the requisite nine votes—even if the US weren’t promising to veto the move. “We will give some time to the Security Council,” a Palestinian negotiator told reporters,…
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Stop-Motion Short of the Day: The history of Western Civilization as told through the changing hairstyles of women over time. [ buzzfeed .] Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Daily What Discovery Date : 21/09/2011 16:42 Number of articles : 4
Continue reading …Should you need another reason to pack it in and go back to bed: After falling 284 points yesterday following the Fed’s announcement of Operation Twist , which investors interpreted as yet another gloomy assessment of the economy, the Dow kicked off today by plunging even more—a lot more. The…
Continue reading …Self-Proclaimed Business Mogul Mitt Romney Says He’s Part of the Middle-Class
September 22, 2011 No Comment
Click here to view this media Millionaire Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Wednesday that he was seeking better tax policies for people in the middle-class like himself. “I think it’s a real problem when you have half of Americans — almost half of Americans that are not paying income tax,” the candidate told a group of supporters at a town hall event in Florida. “My own view with regards to tax policy is that we ought to provide help to the people that have been hurt most by the Obama economy, and that’s the middle class.” “It’s not those at the low end and it’s certainly not for those at the very high end. It’s for the great middle-class, the 80 to 90 percent of us in this country.” Earlier at the same event, he had promised not to pander or be “phony.” In June, Romney told another group of unemployed Floridians that he was “also unemployed.” The former Massachusetts governor has a net worth estimated at up to $250 million . Earlier this month, a supporter in Tampa thanked him for creating jobs by quadrupling the size of his $12 million California beachfront mansion. Romney and his wife Ann also own homes in Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire and Boston, Massachusetts. They recently sold two other homes in Belmont, Massachusetts and near Park City, Utah for about $8.75 million.
Continue reading …‘Today’ Show ‘Professional’ Star Jones Rants: ‘You’re Never Going to See a Rich, White Man Put to Death in U.S.’
September 22, 2011 No Comment
During the weekly “Today's Professionals” panel discussion in the 9 a.m. ET hour of Thursday's NBC “Today,” while on the subject of the execution of Troy Davis, attorney Star Jones used the opportunity to proclaim: “You're never going to see a rich, white man being put to death in the United States of America. That's not going to happen right now.” [ Audio available here ] The outburst was prompted when co-host and panel moderator Savannah Guthrie wondered: “Some people….think the system is rigged against the poor in our society, against African-Americans in particular, and I wonder what your view is of that?” View video after the jump
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Facebook announced on Thursday a dramatic new user interface for profiles called “Timeline.” In a keynote speech at the company’s f8 conference in San Francisco, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg described Timeline as “a great way to discover all the things people have done their whole life.” Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : GigaOM Discovery Date : 22/09/2011 20:14 Number of articles : 4
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Continue reading …New Game Lets You Be a War Correspondent (PTSD, Drained Wallet Sold Separately)
September 22, 2011 No Comment
Warco is a first-person game where players shoot footage instead of a gun. A work in progress at Brisbane-based studio Defiant Development, the game is a collaboration of sorts; Defiant is working with both a journalist and a filmmaker to create a game that puts you in the role of a journalist embedded in a Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Wired: Danger Room Discovery Date : 12/09/2011 17:42 Number of articles : 5
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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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