I’ll own up to watching Maddow and O’Donnell which is called news (but just 43 minutes of it) but it’s really more advocacy of political views I hold. They do inform and often entertain, but for real news, detailed and with specifics from on the ground coverage, nothing beats the old-fashioned newspaper, print or digital.
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I agree. I watch them both occasionally on the laptop a day or two latter. I really like Maddow, I just can’t take the emotional hit of video reporting. I like her interviews, and o’Donnell’s opening remarks. Once he goes to a panel, I’m out. Not interested in listening to three or four people try and get a point across, though he manages it better than most.
With video, I can’t stay calm, I do get riled up, angry and afraid. When reading my critical thinking facilities are in the forefront, with video, my emotions are. Interesting how different minds work.
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I’ve always admired his reporting, his past work in the Senate and as producer/writer of The West Wing, the fact that 45 has feuded with him over the years, but the panels. . . they amount to a lot of “Me, too!” while they wait for a word in their ear to bring the chat to an end.
So, I’ve got the Sunday edition of paper people love to hate waiting for me and the tea kettle’s on, so until tomorrow, take care.
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These kinds of sweeping generalizations don’t help. Abolitionists were largely white Christians. White Christians were instrumental in the civil rights movements of the 1960s. I went to a largely white Unitarian church and recall being on many marches with my mother and minister.
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Omar checks all their boxes: female, Muslim, Democrat, outspoken, pro-Palestinian. The Trumpers I know to a man/woman despise Democratic women and Muslims of any nationality and believe that Palestinians “teach hate,” “hate Jews” and “deny the Holocaust.” You’d like to broaden their understanding of the Israel-Palestinian conflict but it’ll never fit on a bumper sticker or into a 15-second soundbite so it’ll basically never get done.
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A quick search of snopes easily shows that Omar is controversial because rightwingers are a bunch of lying chickenshit hatemongers.
Lazy media types take a look at all the stupid memes invoking her name and assume half of it is true, apparently, and voila, that’s their justification for calling her “controversial”. That’s how the media ends up carrying water for the most deplorable people in the country.
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Then there’s the pedaling of anti-Semitic tropes that Omar was involved in and the diminishing (some people did something) of 9/11.
And if you have that uncle, you’ll probably be seeing this before long.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3272409566133078&set=a.497059527001443&type=3&theater
Might want to bookmark this.
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Why on earth wouldn’t being at the site were persons who were to be shipped into slavery were separated from their children not remind everyone of the separation of children from their parents on our borders?
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Wag the dog.
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If I as a white person was being blamed for the Oklahoma City bombing upon sight of my skin, I’d be tempted to point out that I and virtually all of my cohort had absolutely nothing to do with what that fool did. It was an attempt to separate her religious cohort from the actions of a vanishingly small malicious faction – not an attempt to down play the tragedy of 9/11. Her point was that most Muslims have about as much relationship to those conspirators as you and I have to McVeigh.
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It was a mistake.
It was a right wing distortion of what she said and what she meant.
How responsible do you feel for McVeigh?
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It’s called convict labor. It violates international law, and we made a huge shitstorm around China’s practices in this area. China’s response was, “WTF? You do it, too.” Of course, we also invented the chain gang; well documented in song and film. They still have chain gangs in Alabama.
To the best of my knowledge, there is no “free Osama” movement in the United States.
On the other hand, out in the really Borat parts of rural America, there was indeed a “free Timothy McVeigh” movement. And I had meetings scheduled In Denver the week of his trial (and my employer’s offices in Denver were in the same building as the Justice Department, across from the local Federal building – I was advised to choose another week as everyone had been told to work at home and air travel was a bit marginal this week). Timmy’s boys were apparently quite active.
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It was a right wing distortion of what she said and what she meant. How responsible do you feel for McVeigh?
McViegh is inconsequential to this issue.
I heard the video several times. I heard it in her own words. Are we going to be propagating fake news on the left?
Do you know how the right wing make their racist statements and they follow it up the next day with a ‘I was taken out of context’ or ‘I didn’t mean it that way’?