Thursday Open Thread
Welcome to your Thursday open thread. It’s winter again! Arghhhh! Anything else on your mind? Share it below.
Ooohhh…delicious. I think we should call this “shots fired.”
Politico sorted through the confusion today, reporting that “Gingrich is likely to confirm his ‘intention to announce,’ but not actually unveil an exploratory committee.” But before the Gingrich team walk back, C-SPAN host Greta Wodele Brawner asked Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) what he thought of Gingrich running for president and Coburn didn’t seem to be too enthused:
COBURN: He is undoubtedly the smartest man I’ve ever met. He is a thinker. He has great vision. The question to me is, does he have the capability to lead the country and having served under him in the House, he’s probably not one I would choose to support in a presidential primary. … We need somebody that’s soft and wide eyed open and is stable and is learned and is going to consistently bring us together rather than alienate us. … We need somebody whose eye is critical but is not harsh in their manner and I don’t mean to say he’s necessarily harsh. But I’m looking for a leader that can bring us together.
Oh my. I do believe that Tom Coburn implied that Newt Gingrich is crazy. I wonder how that will play out.
Palm trees and sunshine in Wisconsin? Fox News is so desperate to tell a story of “union thugs” that they are showing videos from Sacramento and claiming it’s in Wisconsin.
In reality, the long protest in Madison has been remarkably civil. As a testament to that, conservative media outlets are having a hard time finding examples of on-scene violence in Wisconsin that really bring their alternative narrative home. They’ve even gone so far as to claim their own reporters are under assault when they are not. Indeed, just as they accuse unions of busing in protesters from out of state, they’ve bussed in out-of-state footage, to make a case that can’t be made by the facts.
Check out this clip from Monday night’s episode of the O’Reilly Factor, a lower-quality version of which has gone viral on social media sites.
Fox is apparently very hurt by the chants of “Fox News lies.” Perhaps they should stop lying? Of course, I’m a dirty, stinking liberal so they won’t listen to me.
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That footage is just hysterical. Love how they end up talking about busing people in, when their own radio wingnuts tried to do the same thing and failed at it.
What I want to know, though, is why Democrats (and the so-called liberal media) persist in treating Fox like a credible news outlet? It would be the same thing as sitting down to talk to a “reporter” from the Weekly World News. So when do they ever get it?
Ho hum, just a few more bombing of innocent children in a war that should now be called O-bomb-a’s for sure..
Cassandra,
At least the people on the ground in Madison get what Fox News is all about. It is funny to see the Fox reports acting surprised about the fact that the non-stop lying is not appreciated by some Americans.
Nine innocent boys shot dead collecting fire wood in Afghanistan. Petraeus apologizes. Afghan president warns OBAMA about consequences.
Is it just me or does anybody else think that Bush would have been treated differently by the media if this had happened during his watch?
Why does Obama get a pass?
It is you. If you think Obama is getting a “pass” in the media, it is most assuredly – you.
Priceless!
I don’t know about the media blue hen, more like the liberals that were willing to march in DC and object to a pointless war. They’ve given up hope that things would change.
That’s a fair point. The media never really gave a fuck to begin with.
The media would have treated Bush exactly the same way — no one in America gets rich (or gets ratings) by making a fuss over brown kids getting killed. Lots of them died in Iraq, you know, and outside of some bloggers and maybe Amy Goodman few people knew that. The fact that you, of all people, know about kids dying in Afghanistan indicates to me that Obama isn’t getting the kind of pass that Bush got for kids dying in Iraq.
“The fact that you, of all people, know about kids dying in Afghanistan indicates to me that Obama isn’t getting the kind of pass that Bush got for kids dying in Iraq.”
Me of all people? I have a twelve year old boy, and when I hear of this type of thing, I want to start breaking shit. Anyway, I learned of it from the Drudge Report. I didn’t see it on Huffington Post or New York Times.
Then you didn’t look.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/03/world/asia/03afghan.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/02/nato-apology-killing-civilians_n_830153.html
But you did prove Cassandra’s point.
Pandora-Do those “household chores” include laying block,tile,carpet or linoleum? How’s about framing, dry walling, roofing and other chores around the house like those?
Don’t stand in front of the loop-hole.
You’re liable to be run over by a pick-up full of illegals being tragically exploited by el Jefe.
Huh?
The Texas bill?
Ah… I’d already forgotten that comment. My bad!
lol, pandora. It’s funny because I so seldom see you lost.
This too shall pass, sweetie. (((HUGS)))
http://news.firedoglake.com/2011/03/03/nato-airstrike-murdering-nine-boys-in-afghanistan-fitting-symbol-of-a-disastrous-war/
Seems like a fairly anti-war, anti-Obama headline to me, from a liberal web site.
Pandora,that Huffington Post article is from today, and that New York Times article i was tucked away in the Asia Pacific online section. Sorry if my New York Times browsing skills aren’t up to snuff. I apologize.
That HuffPost article Pandora linked to has a date on it of 3/2/2011 (from the AP). Besides, it is hard to fathom how Pandora could have linked yesterday to an article just posted today.
But if it was hidden in the NYT, it was also in:
WSJ on 3/3
LA Times
Even in the Moonie Times on 3/2 (which is likely your second stop right after Drudge)
My bad. I still think Bush would have been slammed harder.
People don’t care about the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan anymore. The media was tapering off its coverage over there at the end of the Bush Administration.
The shiny object novelty wore off and the media had to ramp up for the Presidential election.
The cost of the war in hard numbers is rarely, if ever, brought during budget discussions.