Displaying 10,501 To 10,530 Of 10,917 Comments Alabama House Democrat Planning to Join the GOP x2! » Posted By Chernynkaya On December 22, 2009 @ 1:30 pm First, Scher, thank you for all the hard work you do here. You are like PPOV’s own private wire service! About Griffith, I say, “Good Riddance.” He only ran as a Dem in a cynical attempt to distance himself from Bush, IMO. Now, he figures it’s safe to reveal himself. Rahm Emanuel’s strategy was pretty cynical too. The DLC won red districts by running DINO’s after the Bush repudiation but what have we really gained? It would be OK if those DINO’s at least voted mainly Dem, but few really have. It’s a false win to me. A rose by any other name, and all that. Or rather, if it smells like shit, looks like shit, and walks like shit…it is a Republican. » Posted By Chernynkaya On December 22, 2009 @ 1:15 pm Honestly, I am gobsmacked– I can’t tell you how good I feel. » Posted By Chernynkaya On December 22, 2009 @ 1:42 pm Geez– so many good blogs to read today!! I edited this out of my blog about the media, but this seems like a good place to add it: There exists right now a yawning divide in the quality of commentary and argumentation regarding health care reform. As the Senate bill has gone through the legislative meat grinder, leading Progressive voices have shifted their rhetoric and opinions based on the changing conditions. Conservatives like Limbaugh and Beck, on the other hand, were screaming “Hitler” and “dictatorship” when the public option was on the table, and their tune hasn’t changed now that it’s no longer under consideration. The debate on the Left has been fact-based. Howard Dean and the Daily Kos’ Markos Moulitsas have argued against passing the public option-less Senate bill, calling it a gift to the already entrenched private health insurance monopolies. Meanwhile, The Washington Post’s Ezra Klein and The New Republic’s Jonathan Cohn have defended the stripped-down bill’s merits, focusing on cost controls and the extension of health insurance to millions of people. Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich occupies something of a middle ground, saying the bill is worth passing, but only just barely. Their arguments have the dry weight of substance and reflect a genuine engagement with the issue. The same can’t really be said about the right side of the aisle. Meanwhile, Glenn Beckerwood theorized that the health care reform bill is purposefully unconstitutional, and that Democrats are ramming it through Congress to set up some sort of framework in which Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is the most powerful person in the country. Rather than bemoan the bill’s allowance for victims of domestic violence, Beck compared the bill itself to an abusive spouse. (I’m sorry this is so long, but since I hunt-and-peck-type, it seems a shame to let all those hard-won keystrokes go to waste. ;~)) » Posted By Chernynkaya On December 22, 2009 @ 1:28 pm Here is a quick, down ‘n dirty progress report on the first 15 days of my work. I have been watching HP stories and have saved 133 stories that I have deemed either Obama/Negative or Obama/Positive. [NOTE: These stories are not well analyzed. Some may not be considered to be negative or positive; some are just generically negative/positive about the Dems. More about that later.] Thus far, HP has published 111 Negative stories and 23 Positive stories. So that’s about 80% negative coverage of Obama. I am going to need advice about my criteria for Negative/Positive. I have been very broad in my consideration. Frankly, I am using my gut reaction, based upon my experience with HP comments. I look at the headline/story and I can almost guarantee how the readers will react. Even if the story is not directly about Obama, many, if not most readers blame him. For example, if Coakley loses in Mass., they will blame Obama. If a Federal agency has a scandal or is ineffective, they will blame Obama. My problem is this: A story might not blame Obama– might be strictly factual with no editorializing. Is that an Obama negative? For now, I am ruling “yes” not because of the story, but because of the negative emphasis in general. Please– Let me know what you think! » Posted By Chernynkaya On January 15, 2010 @ 1:28 pm LOL!!! Yep– lot’s of batshitcrazy down here in the caves too. I think Michelle Bachmann just flew by. Or maybe it was Michelle Malkin… » Posted By Chernynkaya On December 23, 2009 @ 5:20 pm I’m now into the fairly deep bowels of The Internets. ~~~Hello~~~lo~~~lo~~o!~~~ I like this story from Daily Kos: This is Why I Don’t Like Huffington Post Any More There’s a fine line between writing a story with a point of view and slanting a story to fit a point of view. In the last couple of years, I’ve been feeling more and more that Huffington Post (HuffPo) has forgotten about that line. A particularly bad example: Right now on HuffPo’s front page is this headline: Biden’s Standing in White House in Question After Afghan Decision Sounds scary. Only it’s no such thing – except you have to read to the end of the article to realize that. The headline – a news headline – appears crafted not to fit the story, but to pursue an agenda. And that’s even more troubling, for reasons I’ll explain below. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/12/4/810652/-This-is-Why-I-Dont-Like-Huffington-Post-Any-More I’ll see y’all when I rappel back up! » Posted By Chernynkaya On December 23, 2009 @ 4:45 pm From the site News Corpse: Michael Calderone has a column at Politico that suggests a new tactical approach by Republicans to get their message out. He asserts, that the GOP is exploiting the broad reach of the Huffington Post to expand their media presence. It » Posted By Chernynkaya On December 23, 2009 @ 3:18 pm Hi, Emerald! me too– in and out today. But I think what you are doing is exactly right. We should all just post those stories here on this thread whenever we come across them. » Posted By Chernynkaya On December 23, 2009 @ 2:38 pm Super– thanks! » Posted By Chernynkaya On December 23, 2009 @ 12:02 pm Nellie– I really want to do this, but it is YOUR idea. Please let me know if you want me to do this in any particular way. » Posted By Chernynkaya On December 23, 2009 @ 11:51 am I just came across a video of Markos Moulitsas and Joe Scarborough (who blogs on HP) together on Meet The Press, both calling the health bill a corporate giveaway. Now, when those two agree, that’s orchestrated! And I want to eventually compare HP with Fox on each issue involving Obama. » Posted By Chernynkaya On December 23, 2009 @ 11:47 am Oh, wow– Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrreat! Tiger, and thanks to you too, Boomer. » Posted By Chernynkaya On December 23, 2009 @ 11:44 am Great idea– thanks! » Posted By Chernynkaya On December 23, 2009 @ 11:42 am Yeah– that got my attention too. But this is pretty heinous. » Posted By Chernynkaya On December 23, 2009 @ 11:41 am Yes, I do. » Posted By Chernynkaya On December 23, 2009 @ 11:30 am Yes, Tiger– I was trying to get a timeline first, then by topic. Thanks! We’re on the same page. » Posted By Chernynkaya On December 23, 2009 @ 11:29 am BIG help Scher!! Thanks, buddy. » Posted By Chernynkaya On December 23, 2009 @ 11:28 am LOL!! What did you write? I can’t see– it’s so BRIGHT!! Thanks, Boomer! » Posted By Chernynkaya On December 23, 2009 @ 11:28 am Here » Posted By Chernynkaya On December 23, 2009 @ 11:25 am Good morning everyone! I just wanted to say Hi and let you know that I have been doing an HP search on negative Obama stories, and bookmarking them. I’ve got a bunch, but still have plenty left to read. If anyone has any suggestions as to how to organize them, please tell me. After I compile them in my bookmarks, I need to do the Escribicat thing– I think– and compare the story on hp to other news outlets. Does that seem right? » Posted By Chernynkaya On December 23, 2009 @ 10:54 am The schmuck Drew Weston is on The Ed Show now, talking about his “friendly fire” on HP today. And Ed is kinda pushing back. » Posted By Chernynkaya On December 22, 2009 @ 3:19 pm Abby, you bring up something I too have been grappling with. Americans forgive anything but weakness, and the press is painting him as weak, as another Jimmy Carter. I don’t see it that way, but then again, I am not a cowboy. He has a quiet strength that doesn’t translate in our (lack of)culture.To be weak would be to capitulate to those who claim he is weak, in a roundabout kind of way. The fact is, I wish he would fight the Banksters and corporate America too, but he won’t, not because he is weak, but because he doesn’t want to, IMHO. For whatever reasons, he doesn’t want to take them on; maybe that’s not on this term’s agenda,maybe he believes it’s counter-productive. But he was never a Liberal. He is a Centrist, alas. » Posted By Chernynkaya On December 22, 2009 @ 1:52 pm Another HP example– you have to read until the end of the post to realize the author disputes the claim, feintly. Is Barack Obama the beneficiary of a biased media working on his behalf? That’s the claim implied in a new study released October 31 by the Project for Excellence in Journalism and the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. According to the study called “The Invisible Primary-Invisible No Longer,” during the first five months of 2007, Obama received by far the most positive coverage of any presidential candidate. This new study follows a long line of media complaints that Obama has received reverential coverage from the press. Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz has claimed that the “walk on water coverage” of Obama “ranges from glowing to gushing,” Slate.com’s Timothy Noah even started a feature titled “The Obama Messiah Watch.” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/neil-nagraj/the-media-coverage-of-oba_b_70820.html » Posted By Chernynkaya On December 22, 2009 @ 1:41 pm I edited my post and deleted the bloggers’ names. Here’s the rest: BIO David Kaufman, 12.21.2009 Founder, Transracial.net “As the Obama presidency and economic downturn confirm, we’re living in a period of both unprecedented possibility and vast economic inequality for African Americans.” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-kaufman/kids-from-the-hood-wendy_b_398166.html » Posted By Chernynkaya On December 22, 2009 @ 1:20 pm Just outstanding! I know nothing about this stuff, but if we could do a short one of these daily or weekly to refute even the headline on the Main page, and link to it on YouTube in our comments, that would be awesome, no? » Posted By Chernynkaya On December 22, 2009 @ 11:59 am HP ON OBAMA 12/22/09: Obama Stagnation in the Political Dark Leadership, Obama Style, and the Looming Losses in 2010: Pretty Speeches, Compromised Values, and the Quest for the Lowest Common Denominator Obama Won’t Push Equal Rights Law in the Right Direction Bippity Boppity Barack State of Love and Trust: Pearl Jam’s Backspacer, Barack Obama and the Nobel Peace Prize Good and Evil in a Troubled World What the Media and Obama Never Understood About the Public Option President Obama was Wrong about ‘The First Man’ Obama’s Af-Pak War Should be Considered Illegal Kids from the ‘Hood: Wendy Williams, Barack Obama and The Prep School Negroes These are all negative. » Posted By Chernynkaya On December 22, 2009 @ 11:55 am Oh God– thanks for the phrase! It was driving me nuts trying to remember. I am amazed I remembered the skit at all. » Posted By Chernynkaya On December 22, 2009 @ 10:48 am Which channel? YouTube, or CNN, MSNBC?? Actually– all of the above! » Posted By Chernynkaya On December 22, 2009 @ 10:32 am Now I remember what that phrase reminded me of: On SNL’s first season they had a repeating skit mocking the show “The McLaughlen Group”, where Right and Left would debate. Dan Ackroyd played the Rightie and he’d always start off his rebuttal against the Leftie, Shana Alexander, with “Shana, you communist tart.” Or something like that. So now it’ll always be for me, “Arianna, you treasonous dog.” » Posted By Chernynkaya On December 22, 2009 @ 10:29 amComments Posted By Chernynkaya
And thanks for linking to my post– And thanks to Nellie, too!
Rush Limpo smeared health care reform supporters as “mentally disturbed” before announcing: “People are going to die prematurely with the government in charge of all this.” Limpo defended the insurance companies’ prerogative to deny coverage based on pre-existing conditions, was outraged that the bill would extend coverage to victims of domestic violence, and advocated “shutting down the government” to prevent its passage.
Kids from the ‘Hood: Wendy Williams, Barack Obama and The Prep School Negroes
Marjorie Cohn, 12.21.2009
Professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law
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