Monday Open Thread
Welcome to your Monday open thread. How many of you watched the Oscars? Did you catch the Delaware shout-out from the winner of short documentary? Luke Matheny probably had the best Oscar winner hair of all time.
For some reason the U.S. Media has not covered much about the protests in Wisconsin. In fact, the diversity problem on Sunday shows is getting worse, not better.
Two weeks ago, the Washington Monthly’s Steve Benen noted that the lineup for the Sunday shows were stacked with Republicans and didn’t feature a single Democratic guest. Last Sunday also tilted heavily toward GOP voices. This Sunday the trend continues. Three Sunday shows — Fox, CBS, and NBC — locked out Democratic voices as featured guests:
Fox News Sunday: Gov. Mitch Daniels (R-IN), former Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-AR)
CBS Face the Nation: Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ)
NBC Meet the Press: Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI), Sen. John McCain (R-AZ)
CNN State of the Union: Gov. Rick Scott (R-FL), Gov. Dan Malloy (D-CT), Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT), Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND)
ABC This Week: Gov. Jan Brewer (R-AZ), Gov. Nikki Haley (R-SC), Gov. Deval Patrick (D-MA), Gov. John Hickenlooper (D-CO)ABC’s This Week, which featured two Democratic voices, did so as part of a balanced four-person panel.
Only one show had a labor leader on. That was Meet The Press, and they added Richard Trumka on Thursday after some intense pressure from critics. Oh, and what a surprise – John McCain was on again. The media just can’t quit him.
The last living US WWI veteran has died. He was 110 years old. He was only a teenager when he served in WWI.
Buckles, who served as a U.S. Army ambulance driver in Europe during what became known as the “Great War,” rose to the rank of corporal before the war ended. He came to prominence in recent years, in part because of the work of DeJonge, a Michigan portrait photographer who had undertaken a project to document the last surviving veterans of that war.
As the years continued, all but Buckles had passed away, leaving him the “last man standing” among U.S. troops who were called “The Doughboys.”
DeJonge found himself the spokesman and advocate for Buckles in his mission to see to it that his comrades were honored with a monument on the National Mall, alongside memorials for veterans of World War II and the conflicts in Korea and Vietnam.
Buckles made history when he was asked to testify in Congress on the matter before a House committee on December 3, 2009.
I assume he made history as the oldest person to testify before Congress. Why did it take so long to get a WWI memorial anyway? Was the “War To End All Wars” a forgotten war?
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Apart from the substance abuse and shooting his fiancée, I am starting to like Charlie Sheen.
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This organism might one day become almost as valuable to mankind as brewer’s yeast:
If this organism makes ethanol, it raises the awesome possibility that I may be able to drink up my entire carbon footprint.
(actually it sounds a bit like cold fusion).
right winger reminding us that Corn was a bad idea, thus all science is bad in 3…2….
Actually, I’m a little concerned that that little organism might be our Ice-9. Let’s see… where on Earth can we find lots of water, sun and air? Oh, every square foot of ocean. What could possibly go wrong???
KV in the house!!
i still dont understand why we cant pave all of kansas, most of arizona and utah and turn them all into giant solar panels with wind turbines. it isnt like any of those places have anything that anyone (important) will miss
I for one welcome our new ethanol-excreting overlords.
Time to stage a viewer boycott of the Sunday talking heads shows. Seriously.
And probably time to ask Tim Kaine WTF Democrats aren’t pushing their way onto these shows (and other newscasts). Part of this is a serious messaging problem.
Maybe this ought to be a liberal bloggers project — start an alternative news discussion program via the web and make sure Dems are featured.
And probably time to ask Tim Kaine WTF Democrats aren’t pushing their way onto these shows (and other newscasts). Part of this is a serious messaging problem.
If they put on centrist Democrats (now known as liberals), they will be working against the White House legislative agenda. And if they put on conservative Democrats, they will be agreeing with Republicans.
I think you can see the problem here.
Maybe this ought to be a liberal bloggers project — start an alternative news discussion program via the web and make sure Dems are featured.
If only there was some sort of technology where anybody could start a forum to advocate a Democratic viewpoint.
Most main stream media is still contending with Watergate shock. Hear me out!! Hear me out I SAY!!
They saw Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford bring down the President and they recoiled at the thought that two actors playing journalists could do that. They are still trying to make amends and prove that they are not a bunch of liberals.
They don’t get that it was the criminality that brought down Nixon.
Response to Obama 2008… there is a way, it’s called door to door. No one believes television anymore, anyway. Someone showing up at your door to listen, not talk, has far more credibility than Chris Matthews cutting off a guest before they finish.
My spouse just lamented that a gallon of milk at Wal-Mart cost $4.21 – ouch! It was in the neighborhood of $3.30 not too long ago. I hate to see what the cost is at Acme or Wawa.
Food and fuel inflation due to many causes is heading here faster than a liberal can say wealth redistribution.
Bernanke’s QE2 was a big mistake.
Wow,that was fun. I just got a stupid-but-sophisticated call from a Dick Morris operation greeting me as a “strong conservative.” He said I would be asked who I preferred to beat Obama in 2012, and asked if I would listen to a recorded message. Intrigued, I said Yes.
The recorded message was from Morris, hitting every wingnut talking point you can name. And pushing his new book.
Then a different live person came on and asked me which candidate I preferred to beat Obama in 2012. He didn’t skip a beat when I said “Russell Feingold” although he did say “I hadn’t heard that name before.”
Then a fast patter of more wingnut talking points: stopping obama… obama knows he’s failing… desparately trying to reinvent himself… rammed Obamacare down our throats… highest deficit… liberal idealogue… worst President ever… amateur foreign policy… drug cartels in Texas… bow down to foreign leaders…
Somewhere in the middle he asked if he could add my name to a NYT ad against Obama, and if I would give some money for a copy of Morris’s book. I said “No thank you,” and then he said “I know times are difficult in the Obama economy” and then he asked me for a smaller amount of money.
“Someone showing up at your door to listen, not talk, has far more credibility than Chris Matthews cutting off a guest before they finish.”
I used to like Matthews. Is it me or is he a closet misogynist? Especially to Republican women. It seems most male talking heads on cable ‘talk over’ all of their guests, especially, Matthews, Hannity and O’Reilly.
That dude on the Oscars with the big hair struck me as a Napoleon Dynamite copycat.
“stopping obama… obama knows he’s failing… desparately trying to reinvent himself… rammed Obamacare down our throats… highest deficit… liberal idealogue… worst President ever… amateur foreign policy… drug cartels in Texas… bow down to foreign leaders…”
I would add to Morris’ list:
Chicago machine politician, anti-business, pro-union, indecisive, duplicitous panderer and community organizer with no P&L or budgetary experience know-how.
yes newshound, you know more Drudge report headlines than anyone else. here is your cookie.
Who’s Drudge?
(Walker) Statement in Response to President Obama’s Misunderstanding
Office of the Governor ^ | 2/28/11
“I’m sure the President knows that most federal employees do not have collective bargaining for wages and benefits while our plan allows it for base pay. And I’m sure the President knows that the average federal worker pays twice as much for health insurance as what we are asking for in Wisconsin. At least I would hope he knows these facts.</