I am generally a forgiving soul. If treated half-decently by my opponents I am prepared to overlook many of their indecencies because I understand they come from a place of self-righteous zeal that often overwhelms their better judgment and inspires them to be nasty and dishonest in their service of their political agendas. After all, [...]
On MSNBC, Andrew Breitbart: One. David Shuster: Less Than Zero
January 28, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Lori Ziganto’s latest article at iowntheworld
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Actually, Andrew Breitbart has way more than just one under his belt, but I’m only referring to the throw-down on MSNBC today. Okay, I suppose it can’t really be called a throw-down, as it isn’t a fair fight when [...]
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Susan Sarandon
January 15, 2010 By 8 Comments
Excerpt from the Susan Sarandon profile: … Sarandon was a member and financial supporter of Not In Our Name (NION), the Revolutionary Communist Party-led project whose “Statement of Conscience” condemned not only the Bush administration’s “stark new measures of repression,” but also its “unjust, immoral, illegitimate, [and] openly imperial policy towards the world.” According to NION, it is the [...]
Most Obscene Tweet of the Day: Ana Marie “Wonkette” Cox Unloads on Pat Robertson
January 14, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The NewsReal Blog has some very reasonable obscenity restrictions. Those restrictions will force me to edit the Ana Marie Cox tweet about Pat Robertson this morning. The blogger formerly known as Wonkette suggests a reaction to excerpt from CBN about Haiti being cursed. Suffice to say that her verbiage rhymes with duck and is repeated [...]
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Council on American-Islamic Relations
January 13, 2010 By 1 Comment
Excerpt from the Council on American-Islamic Relations profile: The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) was co-founded in 1994 by Nihad Awad and Omar Ahmad, both of whom had close ties to the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP), which was established by senior Hamas operative Mousa Abu Marzook and functioned as Hamas’ public relations and [...]
Spike Lee
January 8, 2010 By 3 Comments
Excerpt from the Spike Lee profile: In October 2005 Lee produced and directed a movie for HBO entitled When the Levee Broke – a reference to the devastating floods of Hurricane Katrina that had engulfed much of New Orleans the previous month. Lee made clear his belief that President Bush had been slow to dispatch federal aid workers to Louisiana because so [...]
Danny Glover
January 7, 2010 By 2 Comments
Excerpt from the Danny Glover profile: Glover supports Not In Our Name, the Revolutionary Communist Party movement which “pledges resistance to [America's] endless war, detentions and roundups, [and] attacks on civil liberties.” Glover is a strong backer of the socialist magazine Monthly Review, which he says “challenges us to think, inspires us to action, and makes us realize that the impossible is [...]
Rosie O’Donnell
January 6, 2010 By 1 Comment
Excerpt from the Rosie O’Donnell profile: In a May 2005 interview with Geraldo Rivera, O’Donnell charged that since President Bush had “invaded a sovereign nation in defiance of the UN, he is basically a war criminal.” “Honestly,” she said. “He should be tried at The Hague.” She also used the occasion to defend Jane Fonda‘s decision to visit [...]
Barbra Streisand
January 5, 2010 By 2 Comments
Excerpt from the Barbra Streisand profile: An ardent environmentalist, Barbra Streisand claims that Republicans are to blame for “poison in the water, salmonella in the food, carbon dioxide in the air, and toxic waste in the ground.” While she urges ordinary Californians to do their part for energy conservation and environmental protection, one of Streisand’s numerous [...]
The Politics of Blind Faith: Ron Paul Revolution
January 3, 2010 By Leave a Comment
A Paleo-Radical feeding frenzy is stirring the NewsReal waters following Ryan Mauro’s timely coverage of Dr. Ron Paul’s Letterman-joust with Ben Stein. The virulence of the Paulists’ emotional reactions and their allergic reaction to logical opposition of their world-view are indicative of a political faith that constitutes a serious, corrosive element to social stability.
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