Tag Archives: Late Night Video

Late Night Video — Lacey Lafferty Shoots From the Hip, or Something

No idea how I missed this, but h/t to a Facebook friend for putting this bit of hilarity up today — this is a campaign video from one Lacey Lafferty, who claims to be a candidate for Delaware Governor in 2016 (approx. 1 min, 20 secs and put down all liquids):

And here is a serious question — who puts on all white to go shooting in the woods?

Late Night Video — RIP Lou Reed

Lots of Lou Reed and Velvet Underground memories being written today as Mr. Reed died today of currently unknown causes. I got to hear him once live at Constitution Hall in DC and hoped that the Daughters of the American Revolution were rolling in their graves. This video of Street Hassle is about the era of that concert (but this one performed in Spain):

Then there’s his version of See That My Grave is Kept Clean:

Late Night Video — Ginger Gibson on the Fact Checker Hotseat

Former NJ reporter Ginger Gibson was on Reliable Sources on Sunday speaking to their stand in media critic (Frank Senso), who asked her what she did with the factchecking that gets produced by the various organizations doing this. She told him she ignored it, and we’re off to the races:

She’s asked what she would do with a fact check that says that someone in one of her stories is shown to have been wrong and she says — mostly nothing. Which I get, I suppose — the fact check is after her reporting and few (if any) news organizations will go back to talk about who gave them faulty information. You can hear her hide the business of wrong information in the category of “political fighting” — which is pretty sad when you learn that there really are no death panels and leave that bad information out there until you can point to fact-checking next time you hear the claim. This isn’t as bad as Chuck Todd’s claim that pointing out lies is not his job. But it is still more reason – directly from one of its practitioners – to distrust what the media serves up.

Late Night Video — Dr. King Justifies The Poor People’s Campaign

The Poor People’s Campaign was the effort that Dr. King was involved with organizing when he was assassinated. This campaign was designed to focus on the needs of the nation’s poor people — of all races and nationalities. In 1968, King was traveling the country raising awareness of this campaign for economic justice, which was supposed to occur in the spring. Dr. King was assassinated in April, and even though the People’s Campaign seemed to be derailed, it started on Mother’s Day — with thousands of people converging on Washington, DC. Resurrection City — the tent city — was created on the mall and the protest continued for almost six weeks. The occupation ended in violence and the campaign for economic justice failed. Today’s question is what might have been different if Dr. King lived to see this through?