Today on Press the Meat, it’s Tim Geithner. Maybe he’ll tell us who he’s chosen to head the Consumer Protection Bureau. Then it’s a roundtable with NY Times weenie David Brooks, the WaPost’s E.J. Dionne, former White House Communications Director Anita Dunn, National Urban League President Marc Morial and teabag founder Rick Santelli.
Over at Faze the Nation, it’s Abigail Thernstrom, the Vice Chair, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Michael Eric Dyson (who is OK, other than he teaches at Georgetown) Cornel West, Wall Street Journal douchebag John Fund, and former Bush shill Michael Gerson. You’d think Bob Schieffer would also have a word or two to say about Daniel Schorr, too.
On Fux News Sunday, Weaselface Wallace has disgraced former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Howard Dean, plus Jesse Jackson on how the White House handled the Shirley Sherrod ouster (not that Fux had anything to do with it, of course). And of course the usual fuxheads.
At the Goebbels network, it’s Timmy Geithner and NJ Gov Chris Christie, plus a mere ⅔ of the Axis of Drivel, Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts, along with Donna Brazile and Fuxhead Stephen Hayes of the Weakly Substandard. Gee, George :jerk: Will actually had somewhere else to go?
On CNN, Fareed Zakaria is all about Afghanistan this week with an exclusive interview with Richard Holbrooke. Then a panel of ‘experts’ – Richard Haass from the Council on Foreign Relations, George Packer of the New Yorker and Bret Stephens of the Wall Street Journal – argue over America’s future in the region. Plus, more from Fareed’s recent trip to London with Harvard historian Niall Ferguson and Lord Robert Skidelsky. You think the Gulf oil fiasco is a big deal (or even an unusual event)? Imagine having an Exxon Valdez-sized oil spill in your backyard every year for the last 50 years. That’s how it is in Nigeria, and Fareed gives us a look at the damage in the Niger River Delta.
I think a better use of your time this Sunday would probably be listening to NPR’s one-hour retrospective on the life and career of Daniel Schorr. It’s on a 2:00 on my local NPR station. As they say, check local listings for broadcast times in your area.
Well, got the old bursitis pretty bad in my right shoulder this weekend, and typing is pretty painful, so I reckon I’d better go now. Have a good Sunday.
I’m done drinking for a long, long time. Finito.
When did it turn into Sunday? WTF!
Shirley Sherrod and Me
By VAN JONES
I UNDERSTAND how Shirley Sherrod, the Agriculture Department official who was forced to resign last week, must have felt.
Last year I, too, resigned from an administration job, after I uttered some ill-chosen words about the Republican Party and was accused — falsely — of signing my name to a petition being passed around by 9/11 conspiracy theorists. Partisan Web sites and pundits pounced, and I, too, saw my name go from obscurity to national infamy within hours.
Our situations aren’t exactly the same. Ms. Sherrod’s comments, in which she, a black woman, appeared to admit to racial discrimination against a white couple, were taken far out of context, while I truly did use a vulgarity.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/opinion/25jones.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=shirley%20sherrod%20and%20me&st=cse
There’s a Battle Outside and It Is Still Ragin’
By FRANK RICH
But one thing was certain: the N.A.A.C.P. was wrong to demand that the Tea Party disown its racist fringe. It should have made that demand of the G.O.P. instead.
The Tea Party Express fronted by Williams is an indisputable Republican subsidiary. It was created by prominent G.O.P. political consultants in California and raises money for G.O.P. candidates, including Sharron Angle, Harry Reid’s Senate opponent in Nevada. But Republican leaders, presiding over a Congressional delegation with no blacks and a party that nearly mirrors it, remain in hiding whenever racial controversies break out under their tent. “I am not interested in getting into that debate,†said Mitch McConnell last week.
Once Williams was disowned by other Tea Partiers, Breitbart posted the bogus Sherrod video as revenge under the headline “Video Proof: The NAACP Awards Racism.†To portray whites as the victims of racist blacks has been a weapon of the right from the moment desegregation started to empower previously subjugated minorities in the 1960s. But its deployment has accelerated with the ascent of a black president. The pace is set by right-wing stars like Glenn Beck, who on Fox branded Barack Obama a racist with “a deep-seated hatred for white people,†and the ever-opportunistic Newt Gingrich, who on Twitter maligned Sonia Sotomayor as a “Latina woman racist.â€
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/opinion/25rich.html?scp=1&sq=there%27s%20a%20battle%20utside%20and%20it%27s%20still%20ragin%27&st=cse
:love: :love: The most :love: :love: of my being says Shirley should just tell the :fu: Obama people to go :fu: themselves — WHAT THE :fu: :fu: is up with them throwing her under the bus??
I won’t be the one to tell Granny to clamp it.
Tomorrow is the 20th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. That is probably an achievement we could not accomplish today with the rise of neanderfux and spinal collapses.