Displaying 3,721 To 3,750 Of 16,275 Comments Difficult to say if it or isn’t typical, Caru because this research included blogs and how active were political blogs during the last election with a sitting president in 2004. I need to put that on my list to-do list – find if Pew did any similar study then. The methodology on this study is unique in that it used a great deal of computer crunching to come to these findings. » Posted By bito On October 17, 2011 @ 2:03 pm And you thought it was just your imagination or does this confirm your suspicions. [img]http://www.journalism.org/sites/journalism.org/files/u29/lead_bar.png[/img] How News Media and Blogs Have Eyed the Presidential Contenders during the First Phase of the 2012 Race http://www.journalism.org/analysis_report/cr?src=prc-headline One man running for president has suffered the most unrelentingly negative treatment of all, the study found: Barack Obama. Though covered largely as president rather than a candidate, negative assessments of Obama have outweighed positive by a ratio of almost 4-1. Those assessments of the president have also been substantially more negative than positive every one of the 23 weeks studied. And in no week during these five months was more than 10% of the coverage about the president positive in tone. […] As for Barack Obama, 9% of the news coverage about him over the last five months has registered as positive while 34% has been negative and 57% has been neutral or largely straight news accounting of events. In each of the 23 weeks studied, his negative coverage exceeded his positive coverage by more than 20 percentage points. And in none of those weeks did his negative coverage fall below 30%. The tone of Obama’s coverage on blogs, while still overwhelmingly negative, was slightly better—14% positive and 36% negative. [img]http://www.journalism.org/sites/journalism.org/files/u29/All_Can_Tone.png[/img] Proving once again, “It’s that damn librul media. Study says Obama the victim of negative press coverage » Posted By bito On October 17, 2011 @ 1:42 pm That is good news, AdLib and I have not heard a peep about this on the Tube, which is completely understandable we do have to hear about Herman over, and over and over and…. (You were way to quick for me posting this, I tweeted it and foolishly dallied reading something else an extra 2 minutes. 🙂 ) » Posted By bito On October 17, 2011 @ 1:11 pm Em, Here are the remarks from Asheville this morning. Remarks by the President on the American Jobs Act at Asheville Regional Airport That idea of printing out PBO’s speeches and sharing is an excellent one. It may take a small investment in paper, ink and time however. 😉 If you don’t have it, here is the link to the ‘official’ White House transcripts: http://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-and-remarks I don’t know if there is a site that has his political speeches, it may be require some searching, one at a time. » Posted By bito On October 17, 2011 @ 1:04 pm Cyrano, I also like to read speeches not rather but in addition to watching/hearing them. It offers me to digest and dwell on certain parts and phrases. PBO can give some very moving speeches and this was one of them. » Posted By bito On October 17, 2011 @ 12:52 pm ICYMI: In his remarks at The National Mall President Obama said, “For this day, we celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s return to the National Mall. In this place, he will stand for all time, among monuments to those who fathered this nation and those who defended it; a black preacher with no official rank or title who somehow gave voice to our deepest dreams and our most lasting ideals, a man who stirred our conscience and thereby helped make our union more perfect.” » Posted By bito On October 16, 2011 @ 3:09 pm Em, just as I was posting the text of the speech I noticed this on our news widget: Obama likens civil rights to economy fight at memorial (Reuters) Say what? MLK also fought for income equality, jobs with justice, livable wages as part of Civil Rights. Read the “Dream” speech and he was in Memphis when he was assassinated, for workers rights MLK may not have been an elected politician but he was very political. I have been having some real problems with Reuters lately. » Posted By bito On October 16, 2011 @ 1:34 pm Here is the text of PBO’s speech at the MLK dedication today. They seem to be slow on posting the replay. Remarks by the President at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Dedication » Posted By bito On October 16, 2011 @ 1:20 pm Was it not Chomsky that said to not depend on the media, concentrate on your cause, grow it until they can no longer ignore you. ? » Posted By bito On October 16, 2011 @ 11:04 am So who is this WSJ editorial editor, Bret Stephens, on Fareed Zarkaria GPS show? He supports military action against Iran and has urged Obama to support Israel. He wrote “Why Hasn’t Israel Bombed Iran (Yet)?” and wrote that Israel is in “frightful peril”.[8] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bret_Stephens What was the song that he and Steve Forbes were singing? Deregulation, the Government is bad, Banksters are the angelic, the Fed sucks, Fannie and Freddie were at fault for taking the junk from the banksters and the unregulated mortgage fraudsters. Brad Stephens description of #OWS was cartoonish. Read and watch: http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/ » Posted By bito On October 16, 2011 @ 10:29 am Thank You M’woof! I do love watching the TED programs, so many very interesting thoughts from so many real thinkers. Now if it wasn’t such a time bandit. 😉 I could spend all day watching them. » Posted By bito On October 16, 2011 @ 9:23 am President Obama Speaks at Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Dedication on the National Mall White House coverage has concluded. A very moving speech as have many of them have been at the dedication. » Posted By bito On October 16, 2011 @ 9:02 am Kalima posted the story in MB this morning on this sorry SOB “Silvio Berlusconi narrowly survives confidence vote ” » Posted By bito On October 15, 2011 @ 9:28 pm It has been decided! The next POTUS is Herman Cain! Cain wins big in South Carolina tea party straw poll Cain captured an eye-popping 55% of the vote. His closest challenger, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, picked up 14.5%. Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann garnered 8% to come in third. Oh, BTW: Two hundred conservative activists in 25 separate tea party groups participated in the non-binding voting contest. Wow thanks CNN, 200 tea party voters voted in S.C. and how many packed Times Square in NYC today? {Crickets} A whopping 200 voters! More people vote for the town dogcatcher or home coming queen in a little burg. » Posted By bito On October 15, 2011 @ 6:48 pm Em, I posted this on it the other day: » Posted By bito On October 15, 2011 @ 6:21 pm ICTMI: Weekly Address: “Made in America” » Posted By bito On October 15, 2011 @ 5:38 pm KT, Fox may be the worst offender but they all are guilty of having both sides heard as “equals” when one side may be the cause for gridlock. » Posted By bito On October 15, 2011 @ 4:42 pm Em, have you been peeking at the twitter widget again? Great if you saw it there! In contrast with their 3.3 billion spent on lobbying they have only suffered 1.68 billion in SEC fines and penalties. Sounds like a profitable trade-off to me. » Posted By bito On October 15, 2011 @ 4:16 pm Where have I read these sentiments before and how many times? Oh, The Planet! One More Note on ‘False Equivalence’ and the Filibuster Main problem: the decision by Mitch McConnell’s GOP Senate minority, once they lost their majority status in the 2006 elections, to filibuster nearly every item of public business. Nominations, routine appropriations, standard business, not to mention any genuinely controversial proposal. What had been for 200 years an exceptional tactic has become an everyday impediment….. […] ‘Enabler’ problem: The reluctance of the mainstream media to call this what it is, and instead to talk about “partisanship” and “logjam” and “dysfunction.” Yes, those are the results. But the cause is intentional, and it comes overwhelmingly from one side. We had illustrations in the past few days from the NYT and, in jaw-dropping fashion, yesterday from the WaPo. And earlier this morning I was listening to a political “analysis” show on the radio that was all about this sad modern predicament of Congressional gridlock. The word “filibuster” was not used in that hour, unless it was during the minute I was plunging my head into the toilet tank in despair. [….]
And this comment had to come from someone at PlanetPOV! Part of the reason is the flawed understanding many journalists have of objectivity. The thinking is that pointing out that one political party is responsible for the Senate’s dysfunction would be taking sides, which would call their objectivity into question. The irony is, by pretending both sides are equally at fault for the dysfunction and refusing to report on the objective facts of the situation, they’re misleading readers and handing a huge advantage to one side. Obviously, good journalists understand that objectivity isn’t about refusing to take sides, it is about reporting the facts as they are, even when that means making one side look bad. Sadly, this is not the norm in modern political journalism. » Posted By bito On October 15, 2011 @ 12:32 pm C’Lady, I can’t disagree with any of that , the authors piece is on the SEC and how it went from one of the better regulators in the 70’s to becoming a lap dog and inept from the 80’s onward. From a parent waring a child abut drug use to one helping them to procure them. From an agency regulating to a facilitator. Shad says he does not want the SEC to be seen as the “cop on the corner of Wall Street and Broad,” but rather as an essential partner in “capital formation,” » Posted By bito On October 15, 2011 @ 10:56 am Suggested reading: ReMapping Debate (on our blogroll) has been doing a series entitled “Putting Regulatory Failures in Context” and the latest is on the SEC. Having just had a cursory look at the article, these jumped right out at me. January 1981 The inauguration of Ronald Reagan marks major a shift in the direction of the SEC. In January, presidential advisers present a report recommending massive cuts to the SEC. An Associated Press story carried in the New York Times reads: “The report said the S.E.C.’s staff and budget could be cut 30 percent over three years.”[3] [….] July 1981 SEC Chairman John Shad speaks of a new era, in which industry will play a more active role in policing itself. Shad says he does not want the SEC to be seen as the “cop on the corner of Wall Street and Broad,” but rather as an essential partner in “capital formation,” the Washington Post reports.[4] […] In a rule change, the SEC reduces capital requirements for brokerage firms. Firms were previously required to hold funds equal to at least 4 percent of customer debt; they now need only hold funds equal to 2 percent of debt. This change is designed to free more capital for investment; it enables brokerages to operate with greater leverage, increasing potential rewards and risks.[6] […] November 1984 The Lion Capital Group and RTD Securities, two dealers of government securities, declare bankruptcy. Among the victims of the collapse of Lion Capital: more than 20 school districts in New York State, which together suffer losses exceeding $20 million. Despite concerns of some observers about the adequacy of the self-regulatory regime in place for government-securities dealers, the SEC and other federal agencies do not push Congress for the power to regulate the market; interviewed in American Banker, a staffer at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is grim on the prospect of regulation: “What will happen this time? I think you’ll see more of the same — that is to say, nothing will happen unless there is a disaster.” The beginning of the assault on the 99%? The first of the dismantling of the the “New Deal” by the the right and St. Ronnie? » Posted By bito On October 15, 2011 @ 9:28 am Jobs plan or give-away to the oil companies and the top 1%? Top 10 Giveaways To Big Oil In Rick Perry’s ‘Jobs’ Plans Here are the top 10 giveaways to Big Oil in Perry’s plan: 1. End all efforts at federal regulation of fracking by Big Oil. Perry estimates that all this will create over 1 million new jobs. Not surprisingly, this number comes directly from Big Oil’s lobbying arm, the American Petroleum Institute, and has been thoroughly debunked. More>>>http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/10/14/344339/top-10-giveaways-to-big-oil-in-rick-perrys-jobs-plans/ » Posted By bito On October 14, 2011 @ 3:41 pm President Obama and President Lee of the Republic of Korea Speak on the U.S.-South Korea Trade Agreement General Motors Orion Assembly, Lake Orion, Michigan EDIT: Event concluded and removed » Posted By bito On October 14, 2011 @ 10:52 am k’es, I really would like to say that this is effing unbelievable, but with this group of lowlifes nothing is surprising what they do. Absolutely nothing ❗ Mr. Husted cited an appropriation that Republican lawmakers attached to House Bill 319 at the last minute as his reason for refusing to accept the petitions. “It is, therefore, not subject to referendum,” he said. In the end, that may not be Mr. Husted’s decision to make. Legal briefs are being filed in rapid succession before the state Supreme Court in a challenge brought by Ohio Democratic Party Chairman Chris Redfern and other Democrats. You hit it on the nose! Why do these people hate freedom and democracy? I can’t talk you down, I may join you on that cliff! “Liberty and Justice for the few?” » Posted By bito On October 13, 2011 @ 8:49 pm Cincinnati Grandmother Marlene Quinn’s Response to Building a Better Ohio’s Advertisements
There is more of this interview at: How Dare Them! » Posted By bito On October 13, 2011 @ 7:15 pm Yep, food, I think the Dems in Wake NC and the PPP memo has it It’s politics: ” if you don’t kick them when their down, when are you going to kick them?” » Posted By bito On October 13, 2011 @ 6:57 pm Is this a lesson to be learned by the Dems from Wake County, N.C.? PPP Memo: How NC Democrats took it to the Tea Party…and won: a blueprint for 2012 From: Dean Debnam and Tom Jensen, Public Policy Polling To: Interested Parties Subject: Democrats can win in 2012 by taking it to the Tea Party Date: October 13th, 2011 […] Over the last few months Democrats in Wake County, North Carolina ran against the Tea Party in a strongly Republican leaning School Board district. And on Tuesday night they won, showing that the party might be able to have success in 2012 even on unfriendly turf by relentlessly hammering GOP candidates for their ties to an increasingly unpopular movement. [….] This was not a race where Democrats played nice- they took the fight to the Republican candidates and exploited their close ties to an increasingly unpopular Tea Party movement. And it worked, in a district where Democratic victory once seemed unimaginable. Democrats will more than likely take back the majority in a November 8th runoff election in a separate district where the party’s candidate won by 10 points yesterday, but fell short of an outright majority. And they did it by running against the Tea Party. It’s a model Democratic candidates across the country should consider following in 2012. PPP polling in key swing states has consistently found that the Tea Party is very unpopular- its favorability is 41/49 in Florida, 40/46 in Missouri, 40/48 in North Carolina, 37/47 in Ohio, and 38/49 in Colorado, just to name a few. And even in red leaning states like Kentucky (40/46) and South Carolina (41/42) being associated with the Tea Party is not a good thing. It was a potent message for Democrats in Wake County Tuesday night. And it could be a potent message for Democrats everywhere across the country next year. Combine the fact that the GOPTP wouldn’t even allow a vote and the TP’s high negatives, it’s time to take it to them! For the sake of the unemployed and the 99% this is no time to play pattie cake. Well, done Wake, NC Dems! » Posted By bito On October 13, 2011 @ 4:48 pm Sue, doesn’t sound like this one will take much investigation, these two sound like they were pretty inept at bank robbery. » Posted By bito On October 13, 2011 @ 4:33 pm In the words of Willie Sutton: 😆 Spanish Bank Manager Caught Robbing His Own Bank While Wearing Fake Moustache And Wig http://www.businessinsider.com/spanish-bank-manager-unsuccessful-in-robbing-his-own-bank-2011-10 “’cause that’s where the moneys at.” » Posted By bito On October 13, 2011 @ 4:15 pm Possible Tornado Reported Near Epicenter of August Earthquake A tornado watch remains in effect until 11 p.m. for most of the D.C. area. A tornado was reported in the central Virginia county that was the epicenter of the 5.8-magnitude earthquake in August, the Associated Press reported. I need to see what Pat Robertson has to say, but does this have anything to do with Cantor, the R’s and their not passing the jobs bill? 😉 » Posted By bito On October 13, 2011 @ 3:34 pmComments Posted By bito
President Obama Delivers Remarks at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Dedication
You can watch live coverage on C-Span or online here: http://www.c-span.org/Live-Video/C-SPAN/
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What a bloody joke CNN!
http://action.weareohio.com/page/content/response
In their political reporting they think they have to interview the rapist and the victim to “get both sides of the story.” That’s BS!
100% of Republicans voted to not even debate or allow amendments on the Jobs Act and that is the story not “the bill didn’t pass. One party is guilty of the gridlock and that is what needs to be reported not “Congress is gridlocked.”
http://www.sec.gov/spotlight/enf-actions-fc.shtml (srcoll to the bottom)
2. End all regulation of Big Oil’s CO2 emissions.
3. Allow Big Oil to drill on sensitive lands owned by taxpayers.
4. End federal efforts to require development of renewable energy, which competes with Big Oil.
5. Cripple the EPA by slashing budget by 60%.
6. Establishing a moratorium on all new regulations on Big Oil.
7. Eliminate tax incentives for renewable energy and create additional subsidies for Big Oil.
8. Kneecap groups for filing suit over environmental violations by Big Oil.
9. Fast-tracking drilling permits for Big Oil in the Gulf Coast.
10. Immediate approval of the top item on Big Oil’s wish-list, the Keystone XL Pipeline.
There does seem to some hope and it does have some precedent.
http://action.weareohio.com/page/content/response
rightcorrect. Take the fight to them, don’t let them bring the fight to you. The T-Party’s support is falling and with the combination of #OWS and their not even allowing a vote on the Jobs Bill will sink them even further.
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