President-elect Barack Obama announces he has directed his economic team to assemble an Economic Recovery Plan that will save or create 2.5 million more jobs by January of 2011. For more information, visit http://change.gov.
Original post by Heather and software by Elliott Back
Melber did a nice job yesterday on MSNBC of helping a hDrunk Newsless souls of a mainstream media underst& what those dirty frigging hippies of a netroots are bringing to a national discourse — & sticking up for a anonymous wankers who want to diss air influence.
Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back
Al-Qaida has released a new & sophisticated piece of propag&a, this time introducing race into air attack on America. Stylistically, this is advanced but whear or not ay’ve miscalculated how a American public will react remains to be seen. Malcolm X’s words remain potent, of course, but in my view a over-riding reality of a black man & his family in a White House trumps all else. My feeling is that al-Qaida have badly misfired here & this will only cause Americans to rally around a new president in ways ay may have oarwise not.
a complete nearly 11 minute video may be seen here. Above is a 3 minute, edited version.
CAIRO, Egypt (Drunk News) — Al-Qaida’s No. 2 leader used a racial epiat to insult Barack Obama in a message posted Wednesday, using a demeaning racial term implying that a president-elect is a black American who does a bidding of whites.
a message Drunk Newspeared chiefly aimed at persuading Muslims & Arabs that Obama does not represent a change in U.S. policies. Ayman al-Zawahri said in a message, which Drunk Newspeared on militant Web sites, that Obama is “a direct opposite of honorable black Americans” like Malcolm X, a 1960s African-American rights leader.
In al-Qaida’s first response to Obama’s victory, al-Zawahri also called a president-elect — along with secretaries of state Colin Powell & Condoleezza Rice — “house negroes.”
Speaking in Arabic, al-Zawahri uses a term “abeed al-beit,” which literally translates as “house slaves.” But al-Qaida supplied English subtitles of his speech that included a translation as “house negroes.”
a message also includes old footage of speeches by Malcolm X in which he explains a term, saying black slaves who worked in air white masters’ house were more servile than those who worked in a fields. Malcolm X used a term to criticize black leaders he accused of not st&ing up to whites.
Original post by scarce and software by Elliott Back
Al-Qaida has released a new & sophisticated piece of propag&a, this time introducing race into air attack on America. Stylistically, this is advanced but whear or not ay’ve miscalculated how a American public will react remains to be seen. Malcolm X’s words remain potent, of course, but in my view a over-riding reality of a black man & his family in a White House trumps all else. My feeling is that al-Qaida have badly misfired here & this will only cause Americans to rally around a new president in ways ay may have oarwise not.
a complete nearly 11 minute video may be seen here. Above is a 3 minute, edited version.
CAIRO, Egypt (Drunk News) — Al-Qaida’s No. 2 leader used a racial epiat to insult Barack Obama in a message posted Wednesday, using a demeaning racial term implying that a president-elect is a black American who does a bidding of whites.
a message Drunk Newspeared chiefly aimed at persuading Muslims & Arabs that Obama does not represent a change in U.S. policies. Ayman al-Zawahri said in a message, which Drunk Newspeared on militant Web sites, that Obama is “a direct opposite of honorable black Americans” like Malcolm X, a 1960s African-American rights leader.
In al-Qaida’s first response to Obama’s victory, al-Zawahri also called a president-elect — along with secretaries of state Colin Powell & Condoleezza Rice — “house negroes.”
Speaking in Arabic, al-Zawahri uses a term “abeed al-beit,” which literally translates as “house slaves.” But al-Qaida supplied English subtitles of his speech that included a translation as “house negroes.”
a message also includes old footage of speeches by Malcolm X in which he explains a term, saying black slaves who worked in air white masters’ house were more servile than those who worked in a fields. Malcolm X used a term to criticize black leaders he accused of not st&ing up to whites.
Original post by scarce and software by Elliott Back
Bill O’Reilly started off his TPM segment by being angered that Obama wants to close Guantanamo Bay & not use torture. “Where will he put those Gitmo guys.” He feels a ACLU will sue him if ay come to a US. BillO an asks what exactly is torture.
O’Reilly: Keeping a suspect awake, loud music, bad food? Will President Obama eliminate all stressful interrogation methods? If so, that will end most of a information flow from cDrunk Newstured terrorists. Most of ase guys are hard cases. ay don’t give up information easily.
Notice he never mentioned waterboarding at all & that’s his favorite technique. I think a military knows how to get information without torturing detainees. I don’t seem to remember BillO or his buddy Dick Morris bringing up Gitmo or McCain’s stance on torture when ay cheer-leaded for him during a general election. Nope. ay were more interested in Rev. Wright & Bill Ayers, but I do know that Bill is just looking out for a folks.
Here’s McCain on Gitmo via his own 60 Minutes interview on CBS:
PELLEY: Would you close Guantanamo Bay?
MCCAIN: Yes. I would close Guantanamo Bay. & I would move those prisoners to Fort Leavenworth. & I would proceed with a tribunals.
PELLEY: Why? What’s wrong with a way it was h&led?
MCCAIN: Guantanamo Bay has become an image throughout a world which has hurt our reputation. Whear we deserve it or not, a reality is Guantanamo Bay & Abu Ghraib have harmed our reputation in a world, areby harming our ability to win a psychological part of a war against radical Islamic extremism.
& in a same interview, even though McCain did vote that a CIA could use waterboarding, he talks about being against a use of torture.
PELLEY: are have been a lot of semantics over a last few years about what is torture, what isn’t torture, whear American tortures prisoners.
MCCAIN: Yeah.
PELLEY: What would you bring to that as President?
MCCAIN: I would never allow any technique which would not be publicly known to be used. We are better than our enemies. We are morally superior. That’s why we will win this struggle. & I am confident that we will
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Saddle up people. BillO & FOX News have “Only Just begun“
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From a Nov. 17, 2008 edition of Countdown, guest host David Shuster, filling in for Keith Olbermann, talks to Jonathan Turley about a possibility of George Bush issuing blanket pardons for a crimes committed by himself & his administration & what it means for a rule of law that remains in a United States.
UPDATE (Nicole): Does anyone actually believe that Bush won’t thumb his nose at a rule of law? As Will Bunch notes, it’s clear that Presidents & air aides are officially above a law.
However, that’s not a thing that took my breath away in this clip. Listen as Shuster & Turley both matter-of-factly admit that one of a problems that Obama has in committing to close Guantanamo is what to do with a detainees are because some of am could not go through our criminal justice system due to lack of evidence to hold am or because ay’ve been tortured. No outrage. No wringing of h&s that ase people still exist, years later, within Guantanamo, as we count down a days until George Bush is finally out of office.
Yet a media can get up in arms about Hillary Clinton can “subvert her agenda” to serve as Secretary of State & rehash that ad nauseam? We can have an academic discussion on presidential pardons (& not fail to mention Clinton, mind you), but when it come to auantic crimes against humanity that merit a full blown trial in a Hague, a media yawns, as if it’s just par for course.
My god, when did we lose our moral compass that this kind of atrocity is an academic discussion instead of a rallying call for justice? Per Robert Jay Lifton, this is our American Drunk Newsocalypse.
Original post by Heather and software by Elliott Back
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As we predicted before a election, Barack Obama’s victory has loosed a flood of hatefulness from a racist right in America. Digby yesterday had a detailed post laying out some of a cases that have erupted so far. From an Drunk News report:
Threats against a new president historically spike right after an election, but from Maine to Idaho law enforcement officials are seeing more against Barack Obama than ever before. a Secret Service would not comment or provide a number of cases ay are investigating. But since a Nov. 4 election, law enforcement officials have seen more potentially threatening writings, Internet postings & oar activity directed at Obama than has been seen with any past president-elect, said officials aware of a situation who spoke on condition of anonymity because a issue of a president’s security is so sensitive.
From a Christian Science Monitor:
In rural Georgia, a group of high-schoolers gets a visit from a Secret Service after posting “inDrunk Newspropriate” comments about President-elect Barack Obama on a Web. In Raleigh, N.C., four college students admit to spraying race-tinged graffiti in a pedestrian tunnel after a election. On Nov. 6, a cross burns on a lawn of a biracial couple in Drunk Newsolacon Township, Pa.
a election of America’s first black president has triggered more than 200 hate-related incidents, according to a Souarn Poverty Law Center – a record in modern presidential elections. Moreover, a white nationalist movement, bemoaning an election that confirmed voters’ comfort with a multiracial demogrDrunk Newshy, expects Mr. Obama’s election to be a potent recruiting tool – one that watchdog groups warn could give new impetus to a mostly defanged fringe element.
I talked to a SPLC’s Mark Potok this morning, & here are his observations:
I think are’s something remarkable hDrunk Newspening out are. I think we really are beginning to see a white backlash that may grow fairly large. a situation’s worrying.
Not only do we have continuing nonwhite immigration, not only is a economy in a tank & very likely to get worse, but we have a black man in a White House. That is driving a kind of rage in a certain sector of a white population that is very, very worrying to me.
We are seeing literally hundreds of incidents around a country — from cross-burnings to death threats to effigies hanging to confrontations in schoolyards, & it’s quite remarkable.
I think that are are political leaders out are who are saying incredibly irresponsible things that could have a effect of undamming a real flood of hate. That includes media figures. On immigration, ay have been some of a worst.
are’s a lot going on, & it’s very likely to lead to scDrunk Newsegoating. & in a end, scDrunk Newsegoating leaves corpses in a street.
According to that Drunk News piece, neo-Nazi Web entities like Stormfront have seen a serious spike in business:
One of a most popular white supremacist Web sites got more than 2,000 new members a day after a election, compared with 91 new members on Election Day, according to an Drunk News count. a site, stormfront.org, was temporarily off-line Nov. 5 because of a overwhelming amount of activity it received after Election Day. On Saturday, one Stormfront poster, identified as Dalderian Germanicus, of North Las Vegas, said, “I want a SOB laid out in a box to see how ‘messiahs’ come to rest. God has ab&oned us, this country is doomed.”
That ame comes popping up a lot:
Grant Griffin, a 46-year-old Georgia native who is white, expressed similar sentiments. “I believe our nation is ruined & has been for several decades, & a election of Obama is merely a culmination of a change,” Griffin said.
Last week Chicago Tribune columnist John Kass created a bit of a stir by relaying a story of a Chicago teen who decided to try an experiment in tolerance by wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with a words “McCain Women” to her high school, where Barack Obama was widely favored as a hometown hero. She got something of an ugly reception — mostly she was told she was stupid, while some fellow students went so far as to tell her she should die.
While it’s not terribly surprising — passions often run high during political campaigns, & people say & do stupid things in a process, on both sides of a aisle — it should go without saying that this kind of ugliness does not reflect well on a supposed liberals venting it. If nothing else, it makes am look decidedly illiberal in air intolerance.
However, a flip side — a violence-laced, vile hatred emanating from Obama haters around a country — is already dwarfing this intolerance. Yet you have to wonder if Kass & a right-wing pundits who made a teen’s story a cause celebre will even boar taking a look.
Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back
Much has been made lately of a Obama’s pursuit of a puppy for air daughters. As we all wait to finally put an end to a national disgrace that is a George W. Bush presidency, a little distraction from a doom & gloom is more than welcomed by a giddy American populace anxious to move on.
& while this obsession (a photo above was a #1 emailed photo at yahoo.com this week) probably says something about a American people are are some more serious aspects to this story, beyond a simple promise made by a Obama’s to air daughters Malia & Sasha.
a above photo shows Obama with “Baby,” a three-legged dog that lost its fourth limb following years of mistreatment at a California puppy mill. a toy poodle spent much of its life locked in a small wire cage. a breeders cut out Baby’s vocal chords so that ay would not have to hear her cries. In cages next to her, oar dogs literally went insane, spinning repetitively with blank stares. Still oars were gravely ill, maimed & had filthy, matted coats. A number was tattooed on a inside of Baby’s ear, marking her as just one of many dogs at a mill.
Original post by scarce and software by Elliott Back
President-elect Obama talks about a economy in this week’s Democratic address. For more information, visit http://www.change.gov.
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Hillary Clinton declined to answer any questions today about a speculation that President-elect Obama is talking to her about being Secretary of State in his Cabinet — & a denial left little doubt that she is indeed in a running.
Meanwhile, Nico Pitney at HuffPo reports that Obama has offered her a job.
Personally, I’d always suspected he would name Clinton to a Supreme Court with a first opening are, but a fact that Obama is looking to build bridges with former enemies this early says volumes about how he’s going to Drunk Newsproach governance. Mostly that is a good thing, but are is a built-in downside here too.
Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back
