Tuesday, July 20
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Tea Party Nation released a statement Monday declaring, “The Tea Party Movement is not racist.”
Judson Phillips, founder of the Tea Party Nation, said his group had to respond because “this is becoming an issue for the whole movement.”
“We are having to react to this quickly because this is the line that the other side wants to hit us with — that we are all racists. If they can make that story stick, it will destroy the effectiveness of the movement,” Phillips said.
In Web ads and at campaign appearances, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul sometimes has called on the music of the band Rush to give his message a little pop.
It turns out the campaign wasn’t using the music with the band’s permission, according to Rush’s attorney, Robert Farmer.
Farmer, general counsel for the Anthem Entertainment Group Inc. in Toronto, which is Rush’s record label, has sent a letter to Paul campaign officials informing them that they have violated copyright laws — and urging them to stop.”This is not a political issue — this is a copyright issue,” Farmer said in an interview. “We would do this no matter who it is.”
Besides, all three members of Rush — Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson and Neil Peart — are Canadians, not Americans, he pointed out.
Rock band Rush says Rand Paul’s campaign can’t use its songs | The Political Carnival.
“We didn’t truly know the dangers of the market, because it was a dark market,” says Brooksley Born, the head of an obscure federal regulatory agency — the Commodity Futures Trading Commission — who not only warned of the potential for economic meltdown in the late 1990s, but also tried to convince the country’s key economic powerbrokers to take actions that could have helped avert the crisis.
“They were totally opposed to it,” Born says. “That puzzled me. What was it that was in this market that had to be hidden?”
Now, with many of the same men who shut down Born in key positions in the Obama administration, The Warning reveals the complicated politics that led to this crisis and what it may say about current attempts to prevent the next one.
FRONTLINE: the warning: watch the full program online | PBS.
Eric Boehlert at Media Matters reported yesterday Glenn Beck’s Fox show just posted another ratings low for this year. The new mark was set last Thursday when the show attracted 1.82 million viewers.
In late January and into February, the program was averaging 3 million viewers each week. Today, the viewership is trending around 2 million — which means that in a span of just three months, Glenn Beck has lost nearly one-third of its television audience.
How soft are Beck’s current ratings? He’s now posting the type of numbers that his show used to get when he was on vacation and somebody less famous stood in for him, like when he took a few days off in late March and his show averaged 1.9 million viewers.
Beck’s been back from his March vacation for weeks now, but his ratings are roughly the same as when he wasn’t even there.
Glenn Beck has lost 1/3 of its TV audience since January | Media Matters for America.
The level of anger and hatred displayed by the Tea Party protesters in this video is appalling. Simply appalling. I can not believe actual human beings would act this way towards another person.
One white dude in a tie, khaki pants and donning shades and a cell phone strapped to his belt can be seen literally THROWING DOLLARS at another man who sits silently on the ground with a sign that reads “Got Parkinson’s? I do and you might. Thanks for helping.”
These Tea Party protesters have fallen into the trap of becoming so entrenched in their principles that they’ve forgotten how to be a human being….how to be an American.
True Americans care. True patriots don’t scream or throw angry dollars at others who have debilitating diseases (remember when Rush Limbaugh mocked Michael J. Fox, saying he was faking his shakes?). This kind of behavior is similar to what we were seeing last summer during the “Town Hall Meetings”. I dubbed it Angryface syndrome.
It’s also why I’ve lost total respect for anyone who chooses to associate themselves with the Tea Party. The Tea Party is filled to the brim with closet racists, religious fanatics and some of the most hateful and narrow-minded people in the country. They’re not patriots, they’re self-entitled scumbags who don’t deserve any compassion.
They certainly display no capacity for compassion in this video. Don’t take my word for it…watch the pleated pants dickwad for yourself:
YouTube – Tea Partiers Mock And Scorn Apparent Parkinson’s Victim.
About a year ago I wrote a post called “Keynesian Economics is like Prescribing Crack for Coke Addicts“. Obama’s $700 billion Stimulus package had just been signed, with pretty much all of the Republicans voting against it.
At the time, I really didn’t know if it would work. Keynes’ economic theories had never been fully tested in this type of a crisis scenario…and we were certainly in one. So here we are a year later….did it work?
First of all, a bit of a clarification: The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act signed by Barack Obama is “the stimulus.” This is the money that went to fund road projects and pay firemen. It’s been called “the stimulus package” or “The recovery act”, and every Republican (except 3) voted AGAINST it. The Recovery Act contained the following provisions:
Unfortunately many Americans confuse the stimulus package with “the bailout”. TARP. The $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program signed by George W. Bush. Hundreds of banks received money from this program…a few have repaid…many have not.
A recent CNN poll showed that 54% of Americans think the stimulus has helped bankers and investors. Obama is losing the PR battle, because Americans think that the Stimulus and the Bailout are the same: They’re Not. While there is much to complain about TARP, the Recovery Act appears to be working. Wall Street seems to think so:
Okay…but that’s just Wall Street…what about jobs?
Looks pretty good there too. Okay..but these numbers might be fudged. How about GDP? That’s the real pulse of the economy, right?
So does this mean that Keynes is vindicated? That supply-side economics is dead? That Adam Smith’s invisible hand has vanished?
I don’t know the answer…I’m just a piano player. But I do know that it looks like we may have dodged a very big bullet…for now. For more on this, visit: Bob Cesca: Happy Anniversary, Recovery Act.
– “We in no way want to promote the hateful rhetoric of Mr. Glenn Beck, and therefore take this matter very seriously,” said Dino Balzano, director of advertising at Concord Music Group, parent company of Hear Music, in an email to ColorOfChange.org.
– “We do not intend to have any additional ad placements during the program,” said Jeff Flaherty, spokesperson for Marriott International, in an email to ColorOfChange.org. “I’d like to point out that diversity and inclusion are core values at Marriott and an essential component of our success.”
– “I first learned about this controversy [in November] and asked Fox to take his show out of our rotation,” said Steve Schwartz, executive vice president of consumer services for Intersections, Inc., in an email to ColorOfChange.org. “We no longer advertise on Glenn Beck’s show.”
During a book signing in the private, gated community near Orlando called “The Villages”, Glenn Beck announced plans to do a tour to divide the country into 7 parts and conduct re-education camps.
Beck plans to teach ethics, history, finance and political science.
I’m not kidding. He says the first city on that tour will be Orlando on March 27, 2010 at UCF.
“It’s like looking into a mirror, after you’ve done a ton of coke off of it. Clearly, Glenn Beck is as sincere in what he says and does as I am in believing that baby carrots are trying to turn me gay.“ — Stephen Colbert
“Because if they can take Glenn Beck’s burst appendix to save his life, who’s to say that they can’t take out your healthy appendix tomorrow and eat it in front of you and your children?“ – Jon Stewart
Stephen Colbert Compares Himself to Glenn Beck | Indecision Forever | Comedy Central.
