Tuesday Open Thread
It’s Tuesday and it’s already started out badly considering I had a 1.5 hour commute because of a huge I-95 traffic jam. Let’s open thread.
This is interesting – was ACORN framed?
Harshbarger also notes that the videos were sometimes less than perfect representations of the events they depict. He writes:
The videos that have been released appear to have been edited, in some cases substantially, including the insertion of a substitute voiceover for significant portions of Mr. O’Keefe’s and Ms. Giles’s comments, which makes it difficult to determine the questions to which ACORN employees are responding. A comparison of the publicly available transcripts to the released videos confirms that large portions of the original video have been omitted from the released versions.
In the wake of the scandal, Congress voted to cut off all federal funds from ACORN. In response, the group is suing the US government, arguing that the measure is a bill of attainder, and therefore unconstitutional.
Will the media cover this as assiduously as they covered the video? I doubt it, IOKIYAR you know.
Today is primary day in Massachusetts. Here’s a look at the primary field, one of whom will probably be Massachusetts’s next senator:
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley has comfortably led in both public and private polling throughout the race, and state Democrats believe it would take an upset of significant proportions for any of her three challengers — Rep. Michael Capuano, community service activist Alan Khazei or Boston Celtics co-owner Steve Pagliuca — to emerge victorious.
Khazei was endorsed by the Kennedy family. Capuano is a member of the House Progressive Caucus.
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Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-K.Y.) sent out a press release on Sunday, titled: “Cutting Medicare is not what Americans want.” That was followed by a new press release on Monday. Its title: “Expanding Medicare is not what Americans want.’ LOL. Actually, they were always against medicare and medicaid.
Wow!
I’m in a bar in TEXAS where we made them put one screen on Rachel Maddow and there’s a whole bunch of us cheering for the major spanking she gave the guy who thinks hw can cure the ghey. That was a thing to behold as is cheering (most of us are out of towners, but hey) by the liberal elite in the middle of a red state.
Go Rachel!
Go Rachel and Yay Texas! Wasn’t the guy she spanked supposed liberal Richard Cohen?
BTW, congratulations to Martha Coakley for winning the MA-Sen Democratic primary. I’m not sure who she’s facing…
APPOQUINIMINK School District Referendum PASSES…2200 to 400 (roughly)!!!! Thanks voters!!!!!
Richard Cohen is that guy who has written all of those book about curing gay people through cuddling or some such. He is not the WaPo writer. Altho I have no idea what the cured gay man Richard Cohen’s politics are, I’d bet they are not liberal. Catch this in rerun if you can — this is just fantastic interviewing by Rachel. This man is literally squirming in his chair and fairly stunned at how prepared she is.