• Send your thoughts to alan.gardner.casual@guardian.co.uk • Click here to view our live scores service • Here for 26-league stats centre, with in-running tables • Go do some commenting on our Football League blog 54 min: Never mind their socks, Leeds’s metaphorical pants are now round their ankles. Their little behinds are being tanned! GOAL! Southampton 3-0 Leeds (Connolly 52) Ah, that’s another really good goal. Connolly was allowed space to turn on the edge of the box and he flipped the ball into the path of the lurking Lallana before ferreting his way into the box to pick up the return pass. The striker took a moment to compose himself, before stroking a low, side-footed effort into the far corner. 50 min: Well, what I can say for sure, is that Leeds’s socks are definitely up around the knees, where they should be. 49 min: Southampton corner. Cleared. “Hi Alan, this is my first message to the Guardian, and while I don’t care much for either Leeds or Southampton, I felt compelled to write in regarding your mention of metaphorical sock pulling. I was wondering whether it’s the socks that are metaphorical (since they would appear to be wearing real ones) or the act of pulling that is in fact metaphorical. Thoughts?” 47 min: Ross McCormack is then released into the area on the right. He does a bit of scampering and then unleashes a low shot that stings Davis’s palms, but nothing more. 46 min: Andy O’Brien lumps it forward and Leeds immediately lose possession. A smart tackle on Guly enables the visitors to have another go and this time the long ball forward effectively bisects the Southampton back two. Gradel goes motoring in behind them but a combination of luck and judgement between Fonte and Harding enables them to bundle the ball out of the Leeds man’s path and back to the goalkeeper. Peep! Peep! The two teams are back out and ready to engage in some association football. And away they go. Play up, everybody! Peep! Peep! The teams go in to suck on their oranges/have tea cups thrown at them/check their iPhones. It’s Southampton 2-0 Leeds , and I’ll be back to grind through the gears again in 15 minutes. Here’s a Football League blog . Go read it. 45+1 min: “It’s one of those scores, 2-0 – pretty awkward,” observes Iain Dowie in the Sky commentary box. He’s got a degree in chemical engineering, or whatever, so I won’t argue with him. And after comebacks from Brighton, Burnley and Reading today, no one should be chicken counting yet … 44 min: Kisnorbo is penalised for dragging over Lambert, who then takes the free-kick himself, firing a dipping effort over the wall and into the side netting. The home crowd thought that was in. It wasn’t. But it was close. 43 min: Are there any Swedes out there who can give po’ Bob Green are hug? “I live in Sweden these days… maybe ‘disappointment and despair’ is more relevant to my feelings each time I go to a game here… it’s usually worse than anything that Leeds have served up since the day that Woodgate was sold all those years ago. Oh dear, it’s 2-0 now… maybe not…” 41 min: The good news for Leeds is that Southampton haven’t mustered a shot on goal in that last 10 minutes. The bad news: they don’t need to. Still, the men in blue have at least pulled their metaphorical socks up. 39 min: Lallana picks the pocket of right-back Paul Connolly. He also takes the ball off him but can’t quite find space to initiate another attack. Leeds respond with Gradel wriggling through a gap on the left but his cross flies straight into the outstretched arms of Davis in goal. 36 min: The sun is dipping behind the west stand at St Mary’s, giving the pitch a two-tone look, split right down the middle. Southampton appear happy to let Leeds have the ball for a wee while. They haven’t looked like inflicting much damage with it so far. 34 min: Gradel forages with some success up the left, winning a corner with a deflected shot. But again Snodgrass’s delivery fails to find a team-mates in the box. 32 min: A Lallana volley from the edge of the area whistles past the far post. Leeds are being pwned right now. 31 min: Leeds look rattled, they’re being closed down very quickly by the home side and just cannot wrest back the momentum, particularly in midfield. If you were asked to pick which was the newly promoted side, you wouldn’t pick Southampton. 30 min: The first booking of the evening goes to Michael Brown. Surprised? 27 min: And Lonergan now makes a tremendous block to deny Lallana a second! Southampton streamed forward again, Guly pulling the ball back from the byline for Lallana to fire off a shot from inside the six-yard box … but Lonergan got his angles right and spread himself starfish-style to make the stop from close range. GOAL! Southampton 2-0 Leeds (Lallana 25) A sumptuous finish from the young Saints midfielder and Leeds’ misery deepens. Southampton sprung quickly into attack after regaining possession in midfield, with Lambert dropping deep and then picking out Lallana’s run into the box on the right … He checked back inside, then curled a left-footed effort precisely into the far corner, across the flailing Lonergan. There was a touch of the Terry Henrys about that finish, I tells thee. 24 min: Last man Andy O’Brien almost gets caught in possession by David Connolly but manages to nick the ball away from the Southampton striker at the last. 22 min: A clumsy challenge some 30 yards from the Southampton goal gives Leeds a free-kick in a central area. Snodgrass, though, nails the chance straight into the wall. That was pretty pap. 20 min: “I was about to email you and ask you to include an ‘auto-refresh’ button to click on… but as a Leeds fan and being a goal down I’m not so sure now… surely it won’t be another season of disappointment and despair for Leeds? Last season apart we’ve had too many of those in recent times.” I dunno, Bob Green. You haven’t been relegated in, what is it, at least four seasons now? 19 min: A dinked Gradel ball to the back post is shepherded out for a corner. Decent delivery that. The set-piece is cleared by Southamptonh via the aerial application of head to ball. 17 min: But Southampton break like quicksilver, with Adam Lallana gliding up the left wing, past one, two Leeds players before he finally runs out of space. 15 min: … though slow down a bit, pal, as my fitness has waned during the close season. Leeds have regained their shape after that ragged opening and are beginning to probe, though the likes of Max Gradel and Robert Snodgrass. 13 min: Southampton are forced to clear their lines following a corner to the visitors. There’s quite a lively atmosphere in the ground now. Hello football, my old friend … GOAL! Southampton 1-0 Leeds (Hammond 10) That’s a cracking strike from the Southampton captain, a left-footer that Le Tissier himself would have been proud of! Hammond picked the ball up in space in midfield before advancing on the box and whipping a low shot into the bottom left-hand corner. No one came to him, though Andy Lonergan may feel he should have got a hand on it. 8 min: At the other end, a Johnny Howson snap shot from inside the area is beaten out by Kelvin Davis. This is breathless stuff! 7 min: Brown, who’s a niggly little tinker if ever there was one, goes in late again. Still no cards from the ref, though. And there’s nearly an opening for Southampton, as Lambert plays in Guly, whose ball into the box slightly wrong foots Connolly at the back post. 5 min: Another foul, this time committed by Michael Brown in the centre circle, allows Southampton to launch an attack forward from the back. Leeds have started in tasty fashion [he says euphemistically]. 3 min: Lambert picks himself up to thump the free-kick into the wall … 2 min: Patrick Kisnorbo has gone crunching through David Connolly from behind and is a little lucky to get no more than a talking to. It’s a first appearance in over a season for Leeds Australian centre-half, who certainly looks a little rusty in the challenge. Peep! Ah, right, kick-off was a 5.20pm then. We’re off! So, football’s back, Southampton are back, Leeds, er, were back last year. There’s a Premier League revival feel to proceedings at St Mary’s, though these teams have met several times during their respective slides down the League ladder. Preamble: I think you’ll find plenty to pique your interest in the Saturday clockwatch … Teams Southampton: Davis, Richardson, Fonte, Martin, Harding, Do Prado, Hammond, Cork, Lallana, Connolly, Lambert. Subs: Bialkowski, Schneiderlin, Butterfield, Chaplow, De Ridder. Leeds: Lonergan, Connolly, Kisnorbo, O’Brien, O’Dea, Snodgrass, Brown, Clayton, Howson, Gradel, McCormack. Subs: Rachubka, Paynter, Sam, Nunez, Bromby. Referee: Kevin Wright (Cambridgeshire) Championship Southampton Leeds United Alan Gardner guardian.co.uk
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• Send your thoughts to alan.gardner.casual@guardian.co.uk • Click here to view our live scores service • Here for 26-league stats centre, with in-running tables • Go do some commenting on our Football League blog 54 min: Never mind their socks, Leeds’s metaphorical pants are now round their ankles. Their little behinds are being tanned! GOAL! Southampton 3-0 Leeds (Connolly 52) Ah, that’s another really good goal. Connolly was allowed space to turn on the edge of the box and he flipped the ball into the path of the lurking Lallana before ferreting his way into the box to pick up the return pass. The striker took a moment to compose himself, before stroking a low, side-footed effort into the far corner. 50 min: Well, what I can say for sure, is that Leeds’s socks are definitely up around the knees, where they should be. 49 min: Southampton corner. Cleared. “Hi Alan, this is my first message to the Guardian, and while I don’t care much for either Leeds or Southampton, I felt compelled to write in regarding your mention of metaphorical sock pulling. I was wondering whether it’s the socks that are metaphorical (since they would appear to be wearing real ones) or the act of pulling that is in fact metaphorical. Thoughts?” 47 min: Ross McCormack is then released into the area on the right. He does a bit of scampering and then unleashes a low shot that stings Davis’s palms, but nothing more. 46 min: Andy O’Brien lumps it forward and Leeds immediately lose possession. A smart tackle on Guly enables the visitors to have another go and this time the long ball forward effectively bisects the Southampton back two. Gradel goes motoring in behind them but a combination of luck and judgement between Fonte and Harding enables them to bundle the ball out of the Leeds man’s path and back to the goalkeeper. Peep! Peep! The two teams are back out and ready to engage in some association football. And away they go. Play up, everybody! Peep! Peep! The teams go in to suck on their oranges/have tea cups thrown at them/check their iPhones. It’s Southampton 2-0 Leeds , and I’ll be back to grind through the gears again in 15 minutes. Here’s a Football League blog . Go read it. 45+1 min: “It’s one of those scores, 2-0 – pretty awkward,” observes Iain Dowie in the Sky commentary box. He’s got a degree in chemical engineering, or whatever, so I won’t argue with him. And after comebacks from Brighton, Burnley and Reading today, no one should be chicken counting yet … 44 min: Kisnorbo is penalised for dragging over Lambert, who then takes the free-kick himself, firing a dipping effort over the wall and into the side netting. The home crowd thought that was in. It wasn’t. But it was close. 43 min: Are there any Swedes out there who can give po’ Bob Green are hug? “I live in Sweden these days… maybe ‘disappointment and despair’ is more relevant to my feelings each time I go to a game here… it’s usually worse than anything that Leeds have served up since the day that Woodgate was sold all those years ago. Oh dear, it’s 2-0 now… maybe not…” 41 min: The good news for Leeds is that Southampton haven’t mustered a shot on goal in that last 10 minutes. The bad news: they don’t need to. Still, the men in blue have at least pulled their metaphorical socks up. 39 min: Lallana picks the pocket of right-back Paul Connolly. He also takes the ball off him but can’t quite find space to initiate another attack. Leeds respond with Gradel wriggling through a gap on the left but his cross flies straight into the outstretched arms of Davis in goal. 36 min: The sun is dipping behind the west stand at St Mary’s, giving the pitch a two-tone look, split right down the middle. Southampton appear happy to let Leeds have the ball for a wee while. They haven’t looked like inflicting much damage with it so far. 34 min: Gradel forages with some success up the left, winning a corner with a deflected shot. But again Snodgrass’s delivery fails to find a team-mates in the box. 32 min: A Lallana volley from the edge of the area whistles past the far post. Leeds are being pwned right now. 31 min: Leeds look rattled, they’re being closed down very quickly by the home side and just cannot wrest back the momentum, particularly in midfield. If you were asked to pick which was the newly promoted side, you wouldn’t pick Southampton. 30 min: The first booking of the evening goes to Michael Brown. Surprised? 27 min: And Lonergan now makes a tremendous block to deny Lallana a second! Southampton streamed forward again, Guly pulling the ball back from the byline for Lallana to fire off a shot from inside the six-yard box … but Lonergan got his angles right and spread himself starfish-style to make the stop from close range. GOAL! Southampton 2-0 Leeds (Lallana 25) A sumptuous finish from the young Saints midfielder and Leeds’ misery deepens. Southampton sprung quickly into attack after regaining possession in midfield, with Lambert dropping deep and then picking out Lallana’s run into the box on the right … He checked back inside, then curled a left-footed effort precisely into the far corner, across the flailing Lonergan. There was a touch of the Terry Henrys about that finish, I tells thee. 24 min: Last man Andy O’Brien almost gets caught in possession by David Connolly but manages to nick the ball away from the Southampton striker at the last. 22 min: A clumsy challenge some 30 yards from the Southampton goal gives Leeds a free-kick in a central area. Snodgrass, though, nails the chance straight into the wall. That was pretty pap. 20 min: “I was about to email you and ask you to include an ‘auto-refresh’ button to click on… but as a Leeds fan and being a goal down I’m not so sure now… surely it won’t be another season of disappointment and despair for Leeds? Last season apart we’ve had too many of those in recent times.” I dunno, Bob Green. You haven’t been relegated in, what is it, at least four seasons now? 19 min: A dinked Gradel ball to the back post is shepherded out for a corner. Decent delivery that. The set-piece is cleared by Southamptonh via the aerial application of head to ball. 17 min: But Southampton break like quicksilver, with Adam Lallana gliding up the left wing, past one, two Leeds players before he finally runs out of space. 15 min: … though slow down a bit, pal, as my fitness has waned during the close season. Leeds have regained their shape after that ragged opening and are beginning to probe, though the likes of Max Gradel and Robert Snodgrass. 13 min: Southampton are forced to clear their lines following a corner to the visitors. There’s quite a lively atmosphere in the ground now. Hello football, my old friend … GOAL! Southampton 1-0 Leeds (Hammond 10) That’s a cracking strike from the Southampton captain, a left-footer that Le Tissier himself would have been proud of! Hammond picked the ball up in space in midfield before advancing on the box and whipping a low shot into the bottom left-hand corner. No one came to him, though Andy Lonergan may feel he should have got a hand on it. 8 min: At the other end, a Johnny Howson snap shot from inside the area is beaten out by Kelvin Davis. This is breathless stuff! 7 min: Brown, who’s a niggly little tinker if ever there was one, goes in late again. Still no cards from the ref, though. And there’s nearly an opening for Southampton, as Lambert plays in Guly, whose ball into the box slightly wrong foots Connolly at the back post. 5 min: Another foul, this time committed by Michael Brown in the centre circle, allows Southampton to launch an attack forward from the back. Leeds have started in tasty fashion [he says euphemistically]. 3 min: Lambert picks himself up to thump the free-kick into the wall … 2 min: Patrick Kisnorbo has gone crunching through David Connolly from behind and is a little lucky to get no more than a talking to. It’s a first appearance in over a season for Leeds Australian centre-half, who certainly looks a little rusty in the challenge. Peep! Ah, right, kick-off was a 5.20pm then. We’re off! So, football’s back, Southampton are back, Leeds, er, were back last year. There’s a Premier League revival feel to proceedings at St Mary’s, though these teams have met several times during their respective slides down the League ladder. Preamble: I think you’ll find plenty to pique your interest in the Saturday clockwatch … Teams Southampton: Davis, Richardson, Fonte, Martin, Harding, Do Prado, Hammond, Cork, Lallana, Connolly, Lambert. Subs: Bialkowski, Schneiderlin, Butterfield, Chaplow, De Ridder. Leeds: Lonergan, Connolly, Kisnorbo, O’Brien, O’Dea, Snodgrass, Brown, Clayton, Howson, Gradel, McCormack. Subs: Rachubka, Paynter, Sam, Nunez, Bromby. Referee: Kevin Wright (Cambridgeshire) Championship Southampton Leeds United Alan Gardner guardian.co.uk
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August 6, 2011 No CommentIs there still any room left on the outrage meter? Because this expansion of using prisoners as corporate slaves (and ALEC’s role in that expansion) is really reminding me of corrupt dictatorial regimes in the Third World, not the United States. From The Nation: Although a wide variety of goods have long been produced by state and federal prisoners for the US government—license plates are the classic example, with more recent contracts including everything from guided missile parts to the solar panels powering government buildings—prison labor for the private sector was legally barred for years, to avoid unfair competition with private companies. But this has changed thanks to the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), its Prison Industries Act, and a little-known federal program known as PIE (the Prison Industries Enhancement Certification Program). While much has been written about prison labor in the past several years, these forces, which have driven its expansion, remain largely unknown. Somewhat more familiar is ALEC’s instrumental role in the explosion of the US prison population in the past few decades. ALEC helped pioneer some of the toughest sentencing laws on the books today, like mandatory minimums for non-violent drug offenders, “three strikes” laws, and “truth in sentencing” laws. In 1995 alone, ALEC’s Truth in Sentencing Act was signed into law in twenty-five states. (Then-State Rep. Scott Walker was an ALEC member when he sponsored Wisconsin’s truth-in-sentencing laws and, according to PR Watch, used its statistics to make the case for the law.) More recently, ALEC has proposed innovative “solutions” to the overcrowding it helped create, such as privatizing the parole process through “the proven success of the private bail bond industry,” as it recommended in 2007. (The American Bail Coalition is an executive member of ALEC’s Public Safety and Elections Task Force.) ALEC has also worked to pass state laws to create private for-profit prisons, a boon to two of its major corporate sponsors: Corrections Corporation of America and Geo Group (formerly Wackenhut Corrections), the largest private prison firms in the country. An In These Times investigation last summer revealed that ALEC arranged secret meetings between Arizona’s state legislators and CCA to draft what became SB 1070, Arizona’s notorious immigration law, to keep CCA prisons flush with immigrant detainees. ALEC has proven expertly capable of devising endless ways to help private corporations benefit from the country’s massive prison population. That mass incarceration would create a huge captive workforce was anticipated long before the US prison population reached its peak—and at a time when the concept of “rehabilitation” was still considered part of the mission of prisons. First created by Congress in 1979, the PIE program was designed “to encourage states and units of local government to establish employment opportunities for prisoners that approximate private sector work opportunities,” according to PRIDE’s website. The benefits to big corporations were clear—a “readily available workforce” for the private sector and “a cost-effective way to occupy a portion of the ever-growing offender/inmate population” for prison officials—yet from its founding until the mid-1990s, few states participated in the program. This started to change in 1993, when Texas State Representative and ALEC member Ray Allen crafted the Texas Prison Industries Act, which aimed to expand the PIE program. After it passed in Texas, Allen advocated that it be duplicated across the country. In 1995, ALEC’s Prison Industries Act was born. “It’s bad enough that our companies have to compete with exploited and forced labor in China,” says Scott Paul Executive Director of the Alliance for American Manufacturing, a coalition of business and unions. “They shouldn’t have to compete against prison labor here at home. The goal should be for other nations to aspire to the quality of life that Americans enjoy, not to discard our efforts through a downward competitive spiral.” Alex Friedmann, associate editor of Prison Legal News, says prison labor is part of a “confluence of similar interests” among politicians and corporations, long referred to as the “prison industrial complex.” As decades of model legislation reveals, ALEC has been at the center of this confluence. “This has been ongoing for decades, with prison privatization contributing to the escalation of incarceration rates in the US,” Friedmann says. Just as mass incarceration has burdened American taxpayers in major prison states, so is the use of inmate labor contributing to lost jobs, unemployment and decreased wages among workers—while corporate profits soar. Please, read the entire thing.
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As NewsBusters reported Friday, conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh caught MSNBC's Rachel Maddow in a bald-faced lie about him. Later that evening, Maddow apologized for her error but blamed it on- wait for it! – the conservative website World Net Daily and then accused Limbaugh of racism (video follows with transcript and commentary): RACHEL MADDOW, HOST: I’m in a face-off, a huge fight, I’m in a massive brawl with Rush Limbaugh right now. And you know what? Rush Limbaugh wins. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIPS) MADDOW: I thought when President Obama released the second form of the birth certificate, that that would not put this thing to rest, that it was, in fact, based in giving more facts would help? But it did put it to rest. I was wrong. It put it to rest. On the president’s 50th birthday, it is now just the dead-enders and the profiteers at still point still plugging this thing. There is nobody who has any pull in conservative politics or Republican politics at all who is — seriously? Are you sure? Are you sure this is — this is from this week, this is from yesterday? OK. Play it. RUSH LIMBAUGH, RADIO HOST: Tomorrow is Obama’s birthday. We haven’t seen proof of that. He tells us August 4th. Sorry. MADDOW: Sorry. Apparently it’s not over. (END VIDEO CLIPS) MADDOW: That was from last night’s show. I was wrong. I lose. Yes, that was Rush Limbaugh on his radio show about not being sure if the president was born. That was not from Rush Limbaugh’s show this past Wednesday, it was, in fact, from his show a year ago, way before the administration produced that second form of President Obama’s birth certificate this past April. A classy, professional anchor would have said she was sorry now, and moved on. Unfortunately, Maddow is neither classy nor professional: MADDOW: The reason I thought this sound bite was from this week because of a report from the pro-birther publication World Net Daily, the link does not work anymore. But here’s a cache version of that report. It was posted just past midnight Wednesday, August 4th, 2011, at 12:15 a.m. And it misattributed the day that Rush Limbaugh’s said those words as today, which would have been Wednesday, August 3rd, the day before the article was posted. The article linked to audio uploaded on August 3rd, 2011 of Rush Limbaugh’s comments — all of which made me believed it was from August 3rd, 2011, audio that I used and wrongly attributed to having been said on August 3rd, 2011. That clip was mislabeled. The article was wrong. And it was wrong of us to not check early World Net Daily’s reporting. I’m very sorry. Here is the cached version of WND's piece, and it does indeed give readers the impression that Limbaugh said this Wednesday and not last year. However, is the far-left MSNBC now relying on far-right publications for its research? Are there really no resources at a division of Comcast, General Electric, and NBC to do some basic fact-checking beyond a website that those associated vehemently disagree with at every turn? And are YouTube video descriptions considered credible enough for MSNBCer's to cite dates from? Doesn't give you much confidence in the veracity of any of their reporting. But Maddow wasn't done making a fool of herself, for instead of leaving it there, she felt the need to attack Limbaugh by accusing him of racism: MADDOW: And if you are worried about overall thesis that Rush Limbaugh is not giving up on trying to use the president’s race against him, this day and age, don’t worry about that thesis. Our error in misdating that tape does not undermine our thesis, as well proven by Mr. Limbaugh on his radio show just this week alone. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) LIMBAUGH: I’m not going to apologize to the magic Negro. Grab the magic Negro. We’re going to click and play it again today. The guy is never going to look older than 12. He’s never going to act older than 12. He’s always going to look like a man-child. (INAUDIBLE) saying out there saying he’s earning every gray hair. Earning every gray hair, I can believe it living with her, but not because of the job of being president. Next thing to look out for is for Obama to take the farms. Well, that’s what Zimbabwe, that’s what Mugabe did, he took the white people’s farms. That’s the only place that had any money. So, tar baby now has racial (INAUDIBLE). So, we’ve got to stop everything. This is Colorado congressman calls Obama a tar baby. We will take a break and be but don’t tar baby me. Do not tar baby me. (END VIDEO CLIP) MADDOW: OK. So, that’s all from, in fact, this week. I stand by my theory that the dead-enders and the profiteers and the people who used the president’s race against him for political purposes are sticking with the birther thing. But I am still sorry I got that other sound bite wrong. That’s why we call it “Department of Corrections.” I’m sorry. And this is what qualifies as an apology and retraction at MSNBC. As if it's possible, making matters worse, rather than any punishment for Maddow's mistake, NBC rewarded her by giving her a guest appearance on Sunday's “Meet the Press.” Gives you a lot of confidence in the integrity of these so-called “news” divisions, doesn't it?
Continue reading …As NewsBusters reported Friday, conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh caught MSNBC's Rachel Maddow in a bald-faced lie about him. Later that evening, Maddow apologized for her error but blamed it on- wait for it! – the conservative website World Net Daily and then accused Limbaugh of racism (video follows with transcript and commentary): RACHEL MADDOW, HOST: I’m in a face-off, a huge fight, I’m in a massive brawl with Rush Limbaugh right now. And you know what? Rush Limbaugh wins. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIPS) MADDOW: I thought when President Obama released the second form of the birth certificate, that that would not put this thing to rest, that it was, in fact, based in giving more facts would help? But it did put it to rest. I was wrong. It put it to rest. On the president’s 50th birthday, it is now just the dead-enders and the profiteers at still point still plugging this thing. There is nobody who has any pull in conservative politics or Republican politics at all who is — seriously? Are you sure? Are you sure this is — this is from this week, this is from yesterday? OK. Play it. RUSH LIMBAUGH, RADIO HOST: Tomorrow is Obama’s birthday. We haven’t seen proof of that. He tells us August 4th. Sorry. MADDOW: Sorry. Apparently it’s not over. (END VIDEO CLIPS) MADDOW: That was from last night’s show. I was wrong. I lose. Yes, that was Rush Limbaugh on his radio show about not being sure if the president was born. That was not from Rush Limbaugh’s show this past Wednesday, it was, in fact, from his show a year ago, way before the administration produced that second form of President Obama’s birth certificate this past April. A classy, professional anchor would have said she was sorry now, and moved on. Unfortunately, Maddow is neither classy nor professional: MADDOW: The reason I thought this sound bite was from this week because of a report from the pro-birther publication World Net Daily, the link does not work anymore. But here’s a cache version of that report. It was posted just past midnight Wednesday, August 4th, 2011, at 12:15 a.m. And it misattributed the day that Rush Limbaugh’s said those words as today, which would have been Wednesday, August 3rd, the day before the article was posted. The article linked to audio uploaded on August 3rd, 2011 of Rush Limbaugh’s comments — all of which made me believed it was from August 3rd, 2011, audio that I used and wrongly attributed to having been said on August 3rd, 2011. That clip was mislabeled. The article was wrong. And it was wrong of us to not check early World Net Daily’s reporting. I’m very sorry. Here is the cached version of WND's piece, and it does indeed give readers the impression that Limbaugh said this Wednesday and not last year. However, is the far-left MSNBC now relying on far-right publications for its research? Are there really no resources at a division of Comcast, General Electric, and NBC to do some basic fact-checking beyond a website that those associated vehemently disagree with at every turn? And are YouTube video descriptions considered credible enough for MSNBCer's to cite dates from? Doesn't give you much confidence in the veracity of any of their reporting. But Maddow wasn't done making a fool of herself, for instead of leaving it there, she felt the need to attack Limbaugh by accusing him of racism: MADDOW: And if you are worried about overall thesis that Rush Limbaugh is not giving up on trying to use the president’s race against him, this day and age, don’t worry about that thesis. Our error in misdating that tape does not undermine our thesis, as well proven by Mr. Limbaugh on his radio show just this week alone. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) LIMBAUGH: I’m not going to apologize to the magic Negro. Grab the magic Negro. We’re going to click and play it again today. The guy is never going to look older than 12. He’s never going to act older than 12. He’s always going to look like a man-child. (INAUDIBLE) saying out there saying he’s earning every gray hair. Earning every gray hair, I can believe it living with her, but not because of the job of being president. Next thing to look out for is for Obama to take the farms. Well, that’s what Zimbabwe, that’s what Mugabe did, he took the white people’s farms. That’s the only place that had any money. So, tar baby now has racial (INAUDIBLE). So, we’ve got to stop everything. This is Colorado congressman calls Obama a tar baby. We will take a break and be but don’t tar baby me. Do not tar baby me. (END VIDEO CLIP) MADDOW: OK. So, that’s all from, in fact, this week. I stand by my theory that the dead-enders and the profiteers and the people who used the president’s race against him for political purposes are sticking with the birther thing. But I am still sorry I got that other sound bite wrong. That’s why we call it “Department of Corrections.” I’m sorry. And this is what qualifies as an apology and retraction at MSNBC. As if it's possible, making matters worse, rather than any punishment for Maddow's mistake, NBC rewarded her by giving her a guest appearance on Sunday's “Meet the Press.” Gives you a lot of confidence in the integrity of these so-called “news” divisions, doesn't it?
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