Late Night Video — Emergency Default Crisis Rally

The American Dream Movement called for supporters to rally at the Congress last Thursday, that resulted in a few hundred folks who showed up to send a message to Congress asking for a debt deal that was fair for ordinary Americans -- no cuts fo Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. I noted in a comment recently that this rally was held on the same day that the teajadis also rallied -- with far fewer people (most accounts note that there was more press than ralliers), yet wall to wall coverage in the MSM.

In Which We Find the Media as Broken as the Republican Party

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I wish I could stop being stunned at how badly our MSM can be in telling the public about the issues of the day. But I'm seeing more and more criticism of the coverage of this issue that I wonder if we aren't looking at a point somewhere in the next weeks or months where our media does some of the sheepish navel gazing that followed when it became really plain that the Iraq War was done on a very large bed of lies that the media did little (except for the McClatchy organization) to try to check up on.

Governments Work…

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Governments are good. Governments make our lives better. Governments keep corporations in line and working toward our common good. We need government run courts, police, schools, transportation agencies in order…

A Walk Down Memory Lane

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You really have to love video vaults. Thanks to our friends at Think Progress, we have video from some of today's teabag members of Congress urging that the debt ceiling…