Drew from InvisiblePeople.tv on Vimeo. Commentary Can anything prepare us for Drew’s story? Drew lost his job, then he lost his wife and daughter to a drunk driver. He is an educated man, but today he lives on leftover food he finds in dumpsters. There’s nothing I can add to[Read More…]
Opinion
Storming Camelot: Sen. Kennedy’s Death Brings Out Worst from the Right
Commentary By Karl Frisch Following Wednesday’s early-morning news that Sen. Edward M. Kennedy had lost his battle with brain cancer, Media Matters posted the following statement from president Eric Burns at 3:51 a.m. ET on the County Fair blog: “Ted Kennedy was a true American statesman. The values that he[Read More…]
Nancy Reagan to Son Ron Reagan: I’ll Miss Ted Kennedy
Commentary Ron Reagan interviewed his mom, Nancy Reagan, today on Air America Radio regarding the death of Senator Edward Kennedy. It was incredibly, incredibly moving. Ron’s show comes on every day at 5:00 p.m. in the Chicagoland area. Asking his mother how her and her late husband’s friendship with Ted[Read More…]
Jon Stewart Smacks Down Healthcare Reform Opponent Betsy McCaughey
Commentary From Salon.com: Back in the early 1990’s, Betsy McCaughey wrote “No Exit,” an article for The New Republic on the Clinton administration’s healthcare reform plan. The piece was filled with falsehoods — so many, in fact, that the magazine later disowned it. But by then, it was too late;[Read More…]
Health Care Mobs = Swift Boat Vets. And the Press Plays Dumb, Again
Commentary by Eric Boehlert Here we go again. During August’s summer daze, right-wing mini-mobs (egged on by corporate interests) have run wild at town hall meetings, propagating all kinds of smears and misinformation in an effort to derail an important Democratic campaign. Yet the mini-mob members have been treated as[Read More…]
Betsy Mccaughey Resigns from Medical Company Board Over ‘Conflict Of Interest’ Concerns
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– The Washington Independent highlights Betsy McCaughey’s resignation from the board of directors of Cantel Medical Corp., a medical products company, to “avoid any appearance of a conflict of interest.” McCaughey’s resignation coincides with her attempt to revive her false end-of-life counseling smears on The Daily Show. According to[Read More…]
Creating a Personal Environmental Sustainability Program
Commentary By John A. Ostenburg Environmental sustainability is the terminology applied to planned efforts to preserve natural resources with minimal dependence on synthetic products, especially those that emit carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. The sustainability movement is focused on concerted efforts to slow down the earth’s current warming process.[Read More…]
The Press Still Loves John McCain
Commentary By Jamison Foser Here’s Chris Cillizza’s explanation for calling John McCain’s eleventy-eighth Sunday show appearance this year (scheduled for Sunday’s broadcast of ABC’s This Week) “must-see” television: Chris Cillizza: I think that McCain still holds serious power within the party despite the fact that he lost the 2008 presidential[Read More…]
How the Media Made This Summer’s Political Insanity Inevitable
Commentary By Jamison Foser The most striking aspect of this summer’s political insanity isn’t the frothing at the mouth of a loud minority of Republicans that President Obama is a secret Kenyan bent on subjecting an unwitting American public to government death panels, or the mass confusion among the rest[Read More…]
Those ‘Death Panels’ Really Do Exist
Commentary By Karl Frisch At this point, if anyone still believes that progressive proposals for health insurance reform contain ominous “death panels” designed to kill their grandparents, I have a bridge to sell them in Arizona. Fear not, my conservative friends: The bridge connects a tea bag manufacturing plant with[Read More…]
