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How the Mainstream Press Bungled the Single Biggest Story of the 2012 Campaign
Dec 8, 2012 by RON BEASLEY

Dan Froomkin explains:

So what is the biggest story? The fact that the Tea Party dominated Republican Party is a train wreck.

Post-mortems of contemporary election coverage typically include regrets about horserace journalism, he-said-she-said stenography, and the lack of enlightening stories about the issues.
But according to longtime political observersThomas Mann and Norman Ornstein, campaign coverage in 2012 was a particularly calamitous failure, almost entirely missing the single biggest story of the race: Namely, the radical right-wing, off-the-rails lurch of the Republican Party, both in terms of its agenda and its relationship to the truth.
Mann and Ornstein are two longtime centrist Washington fixtures who earlier this year dramatically rejected the strictures of false equivalency that bind so much of the capital’s media elite and publicly concluded that GOP leaders have become “ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.”

So why does the media do this? The editors are terrified of being labeled as biased. Of course as a result their reporting becomes biased when they ignore the outright lies and detachment from reality of the Republicans.

Read more at http://themoderatevoice.com/170092/media-fail/#d2ZdVA8oqMSIZjcd.99

Good Evenin’ miranda/POU FAM♥- — ***BIG HUG*** :>)

LOL- – -NOW U KNOW- —THIS ain’t nothin’- — -BUT TRUTH!! :>) – -LOL –

- –Complete with spillin’ his DRANK on the newly cleaned carpet!! LOL- – –
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- – -OMG!- – — Missed THIS- – -SAD NEWS: – — –

– –AL State Rep. Kennedy dies at age 67- – -

- — – –Alabama State Rep. Yvonne Kennedy of Mobile has died at age 67.

In addition to serving as a state representative, Kennedy is a former president of Bishop State Community College and was the 19th National President of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
THERE IS MORE.

- – - – -SUCH a LOSS. RIHEP- – -Alabama State Rep. Yvonne Kennedy – —

CONDOLENCES 2 – - -FAMILY/FRIENDS/ALL WHOM SHE SERVED. –AMEN.- – -

miranda- — -OH! –MY! — -GOT! –DANG!! – - -THIS EVIL/VILE- -RACIST!!- – -

- – - -McCain to Join Foreign Relations Committee- – -

- — – -Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) told The Cable that he will join the Senate Foreign Relations Committee ahead of confirmation hearings for whomever President Obama nominates to replace Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

NBC News: “U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice is reportedly a finalist for Secretary of State. McCain has been a main critic of Rice’s, stemming from her appearances on Sunday shows following the attacks in Benghazi that killed four Americans, including an ambassador. But McCain’s move may not be all about Rice. Because of Republican Conference rules, he is term-limited as ranking member of the Armed Services Committee.”

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miranda- – –WOW&1/2!!!– –Looka here- – –

- — – At Least Seven NFL Players Turn In Guns Following Murder-Suicide Tragedy- – -

— – -According to a report from Sports Illustrated, at least seven NFL players have gotten rid of their personal firearms following this month’s horrific episode when Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher shot his girlfriend dead, then turned the gun on himself.

One player reportedly turned in multiple weapons to his franchise’s security detail, “telling his team’s personnel that he didn’t trust himself with the guns.”
THERE IS MORE.

- — – -THANK U 4 YOUR ACTIONS. :>)

Hadta cut this at the bob costa – -ISSUE!.

- — How ’bout IFF: —the KILLERS TRAVON MARTIN- –JORDAN RUSSELL DAVIS,etc.- —DI-ENT HAVE GUNS!!!- —HUH!!?? – -

I’m SICK annnd TIRED of the GUN CONTROL BEING the ISSUE WHEN IT INVOLVES- – BLAHs HAVIN’ the GUNS!!!- – - -SICK annnd TIRED!!!- –

Beckys gettin’ out of pocket. What’s next? Black face on the tennis courts?

Tennis Player Mocks Serena Williams In Bizarre On-Court Display?
Dec 10, 2012 By Ruth Manuel-Logan

During a recent Sao Paulo, Brazil, exhibition match against Slovak tennis-pro Maria Sharapova, 22-year-old Caroline Wozniacki (pictured) decided to make tennis superstar Serena Williams the “butt” of her joke.

While playing Sharapova, Wozniacki padded up her chest and behind so that she could depict Williams as she competed in the foreign match, which included such onlookers as her boyfriend, 23-year-old Rory McIlroy, who is the current No. 1 World and two-time major-golfing champion.

The Dane, who lost the match, 6-2, 7-6, made many in the audience laugh as she swung her tennis racket while displaying her fake assets.

MORE: http://newsone.com/2099910/caroline-wozniacki-serena-williams/?omcamp=sf_N1TW

Beyoncé signs $50 million Pepsi deal

Dec. 10, 2012, 11:22 AM EST

WENN

Beyoncé has cemented her place as a top earning pop superstar by signing a lucrative deal with Pepsi worth an estimated $50 million.

The singer has previously appeared in Pepsi ads, but she has now stepped up her involvement with the company by becoming the face of the brand and giving Pepsi sponsorship for her albums, concerts, photo shoots and music videos. Pepsi will also provide a multimillion dollar fund for Beyoncé to use to bankroll her own creative projects over the next few years, according to the New York Times.

Beyoncé says in a statement, “Pepsi embraces creativity and understands that artists evolve. As a businesswoman, this allows me to work with a lifestyle brand with no compromise and without sacrificing my creativity.”

Lee Anne Callahan-Longo, who runs Beyoncé’s Parkwood Entertainment company, insists the deal is more than just a regular brand sponsorship agreement, adding, “It’s wise for a brand like Pepsi to give an artist the ability to truly express herself. Instead of just the old-school way of, ‘Do you want to be in an advertisement?’ This is much bigger. This is, ‘How can we create something together that is truly unique?’”

http://music.msn.com/music/article.aspx?news=779196

Reminder: Republicans Still Sitting on VAWA

Posted on 12/08/2012 at 4:30 pm by JM Ashby

Congress still hasn’t renewed the Violence Against Women Act. More specifically, the House of Representatives is still refusing to pass the newest version of the bill which has already passed the Senate.

The Tea Party House originally opposed the latest version of the bill because it granted existing protection to members of the LGBT community, immigrants, and Native American tribes. But the hold-up at this point in negotiations is the latter, not the former.

Eric Cantor is reportedly personally overseeing the final stages of passing the bill and it is he who has a problem with granting existing protections and additional rights to Native Americans.

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Why do Native American tribes need this provision? Because of this.

In some rural villages, rapes are 12 times more common than the national rate, and for Native American women, generally sexual assault is more than twice as common as the national average, according to The New York Times. The Alaska Federation of Natives cites a 2010 report by the University of Alaska Anchorage Justice Center, finding that while only 15.2 percent of Alaskans are Native American, they are the victims of 50 percent of the domestic violence and 61 percent of the sexual assaults committed in the state.

The vast majority of these crimes go unpunished. Local police, expected to prevent rapes and to respond quickly to reports of rapes, sometimes don’t respond at all. Hospitals lack the rape kits and cameras that would allow the collection of biological and photographic evidence to be used at trial. Most Native American rape victims don’t bother to take the nearly futile step of reporting rapes in the first place.

The men who commit these crimes are often not Native American themselves. Indian Country reports that “non-Indians commit 88%” of rapes and domestic violence against Native American women, but they are beyond the reach of local justice: “antiquated jurisdictional laws” prevent tribal justice systems “from prosecuting non-Native criminals.”

A decent human being would clear the way to pass the additional provision without delay, but Eric Cantor has decided that “epidemic levels” of rape, sexual assault, and domestic violence against Native American women is political.

http://bobcesca.com/blog-archives/2012/12/reminder-republicans-still-sitting-on-vawa.html