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The 30 minute special "A Farwell to Bon Temps" on HBO now with Alan Ball and the cast is very good. Fun memories and stories from them.
The 30 minute special "A Farwell to Bon Temps" on HBO now with Alan Ball and the cast is very good. Fun memories and stories from them.
Will be more naked men this season!!!
^ Thanks
Nothing better than naked hot men
Does it premier this coming season?
I've lost interest in this show since like so many other cable shows lesbians can have lots of carpet fun but dudes getting on can only mean bad things, or is one giant tease. Alan Ball has none. Is he still with the show? Haven't watched in two years.
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^ I agree, Sausy. We always get screwed, and not in a proper way, on these so called "Premium channel series" they could show a lot more guy on guy action and not always make it a joke or some ugly couple, rape, etc
So sad and pathetic they claim to be 'artists' and 'cutting edge' and 'no filters' but that's a lie. It's all about the money and their personal likes/dislikes.
They throw us a bone and then don't let us enjoy it.
The thing is Alan Ball is gay, and dropped the ball so many times not offending anyone it just frustrated the hell out of me. I just didn't think the wildly uneven and often camp laden storyline( I like some camp but much of it has been so over the top it would make Paul Lynde cringe if he were alive today, lol!)is worth my time since they won't get serious with the man on man action. Oh how I've wanted to see Jason(Ryan Kwanten) really getting into another dude and liking it(don't care if he was bi or gay as a character either)for instance.... I really wanted to like this show but I had enough teasing. I'm just sick of when ladies do each other it's erotic but when dudes even begin to play there's an angle, or there is a summary moralistic point... the closest they ever got it right was Jesus and Lafayette and shortly after they killed off Jesus it seemed same old crap. However, if they ever do a good man on man, someone PM or comment to me asap because lol I want to KNOW about it!
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But honestly, I don't think all the edginess in the world would have made it any better than the first two seasons. Despite that, I still watch it though. I just wanna see how this train wreck is going to end !
was let down there was no ass shot from alcide in that scene with sookie.
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Interesting make out between Eric and Jason.
Episode 2 last night (6/39/2014)
worst show on TV sad to see it go though.
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have to say...i aint liking this farewell season
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^ the same here .
They killed of Tara and now Alcide I really want Jason to survive this farewell season.
I was so glad Mrs. Fortenberry finally got what's been coming to her since Season One!
If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities. -- Voltaire (1694-1778).
If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities. -- Voltaire (1694-1778).
I think by the end of the show everyone will turn human some how.(jesica is not healing).
Which make season 6 useless if they turn human.
sookiee and bill will get back together.
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Jason's letting her live was an almost classic example of plot-stupid, where someone does something stupid and out of character because the plot requires it. I say "almost" because doing stupid things isn't out of character for Jason!
For me it's a case of "hate the character, love the actress" (I have the same problem on Grimm). I really want Sarah to die a miserable, painful, distressing death--but not until the last episode! My favorite Sarah-killing fantasy is that Eric turns her and leaves her locked up (sealed in an underground vault, say) with only tainted TruBlood to drink, so she first starves, then dies of Hep V.
I also think Sookie and Bill will get back together. Alcide's death is in part to clear the way for that to happen without making Sookie unsympathetic (interviews with people involved in the show suggest this, but of course they could be lying).
If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities. -- Voltaire (1694-1778).
^ Yes, Marnie was THE witch. I just refrained from calling her a bitch for some odd reason.
Last night's episode fell flat for me. The flashback about how Fangtasia came to be was lame and I did not buy that Pam would be impressed by that speech.
I did buy that she would pass it off as hers.
Jessica needs to get a grip. This is tiresome. I hope next week is better.
Tara's friends didn't even seem that bothered she died, surely they could have made her death have more meaning??? She was a major character and yet they treated her like she didn't mean anything to the show.
I''m confused as to why they would do that.
Biggest shocker of the season: Lafayette is a top.
I've watched this entire show of the last few months and am really sad to see it go. I tend to prefer that to waiting for a few months at a time between seasons. I had no idea Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer were married until watching the clip linked above, though. Hearing all of their natural speaking voices was pretty shocking, too. I've really come to love the show. I think that this current seasons has lacked direction when compared to the previous ones. There's no big bad wolf. I don't think that there has to be, necessarily, but this show has kind of relied on that. I didn't mind the last episode because it gave me more of an impression of what it's like when people aren't being ruthlessly murdered (well, less than normal anyway). It was an interesting change of pace. With that said, I have no idea how this show is going to wrap up or where it could really go from here.
^That was a surprise, but I did enjoy seeing James taking it :>.
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Violet is so awful. And she's going to make some evil trouble for Jason and Jessica.
Lettie Mae was actually appropriate for a while there. Then fucked it up, of course, like she always does. I hate her SO much.
Eric killing the Yaks: glorious, except if Sarah gets away. Was that the same Yak vamp that killed his human lover in Paris?
Sarah has now effectively murdered her whole family: she made the tainted TruBlood that's killing her sister, and brought Yakuza pursuit to her parents knowing how ruthlessly they slaughter anyone who gets in their way. I can't think of a suffering-and-death that would be horrific enough to satisfy after the things she's done. I hope the writers don't just decide to make it anticlimactic.
But also, he was a top that time, with that guy. Might be a bottom with other guys, or with James at other times. I WAS delighted to see James bottoming though.
Did you notice that Jessica used the verb 'fuck' in its hetero sense? "James was fucking Lafayette," she said. Well, no, not in gay language. In gay language Lafayette was fucking James, and they CAN'T both happen at once (well, unless you're both huge hung Cirque du Soliel contortionists). In straight language they MUST both happen at once!
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If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities. -- Voltaire (1694-1778).
Ok I sawyer first two episodes but need a rant but hear me out. I'm so angry that it appear James will have a thing with Laffyette. Ok if Luke Grimmes quit because of this I cannot blame him simply it appeared in the last season that this vampire was a decent one who appeared to be falling for this young red headed female Vampire. I liked how he was a respectful person not a hound like Jason but no to be sensitive, thoughtful etc in this show you must be a Gay male I mean WTF? If you were playing this part and suddenly the scripts you were given has your character cheat and cheat with a another male which seems out of character I do not blame an actor for walking away. End of rant hope it makes sense.
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Yes I agree with the concept of stretching but at the same time if a character changes so dramatically to what they originally were then I can agree with an actor walking away from said part.
I don't think that it was that abrupt or even that much of a change. He wound up relating to Lafayette because he wasn't getting any kind of emotional commitment from Jessica, which still strikes me as being pretty sensitive and deep. And there was a six month time jump between seasons that would account for some of it.
I just loved his delivery.
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Ok a few episodes in and in truth what was the point of James and Jessica really? Had they brought him in to interact with her help her defend Andy and his daughter it would be OK but to be honest any Vampire character could have been created for the Lafayette storyline. Jessica's is better as a character dealing with the guilt of what she did to Andy's daughter's and easily could have her single to do it. The more I watch the show the more I realise how awful it has got. Started going down hill around S4 which was still good as I really enjoy Fiona Shaw as an actress.
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Thank God for Pam and Eric they truly save this show.
I think this season isn't the best send off for a tv series.
Let the storm rage on! The cold never bothered me anyway.
They really haven't been that good for some time now. They're cable's "Glee"... shows that started really alternative and promising but just got fucked up by the creators and writers. Too much filler and over the top and not enough common sense character development for both shows. And not many will be sorry to see them go, which is a big hint they've long overstayed their welcome. Really a shame because there are some inspirational moments but hardly worthy of seeing even those in anything but YouTube clips.
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^^ No, personally I love the show and probably the best supernatural tv, series for me since Buffy The Vampire Slayer but I think it's the right time to end it.
Let the storm rage on! The cold never bothered me anyway.
^^Personally I have my favorite seasons and moments but the whole show has been nothing but great.
Let the storm rage on! The cold never bothered me anyway.
I can say that I didn't really like season six very much either. There was too much going on in such little time and I was disappointed as to how Warlow's character development as well. I don't think this last season has been anything that great either and Sookie seems like she's lost that spark she once had in the earlier seasons.
Let the storm rage on! The cold never bothered me anyway.
I'm not sure how I feel about the finale. I'm sad to see the show go, though I do think it was time. RIP True Blood <3.


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any of several hundred known celestial objects, generally believed to be rapidly rotating neutron stars, that emit pulses of radiation, esp. radio waves, with a high degree of regularity.
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1968; puls(ating st)ar, on the model of quasar
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a degenerate neutron star; small and extremely dense; rotates very fast and emits regular pulses of polarized radiation
: A rotating neutron star that emits radio pulses periodically
Origin: From pulsating star, patterned after quasar.
A pulsar is a highly magnetized, rotating neutron star that emits a beam of electromagnetic radiation. This radiation can only be observed when the beam of emission is pointing toward the Earth, much the way a lighthouse can only be seen when the light is pointed in the direction of an observer, and is responsible for the pulsed appearance of emission. Neutron stars are very dense, and have short, regular rotational periods. This produces a very precise interval between pulses that range from roughly milliseconds to seconds for an individual pulsar. The precise periods of pulsars makes them useful tools. Observations of a pulsar in a binary neutron star system were used to indirectly confirm the existence of gravitational radiation. The first extrasolar planets were discovered around a pulsar, PSR B1257+12. Certain types of pulsars rival atomic clocks in their accuracy in keeping time.
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to beat or throb.
- pols, klopAfrikaans
- يَنْبُض، يخْفِقArabic
- пулсирамBulgarian
- pulsarPortuguese (BR)
- pulsovatCzech
- pulsierenGerman
- slå; dunkeDanish
- πάλλομαιGreek
- latir, palpitarSpanish
- tuksuma, pulseerimaEstonian
- تپیدن؛ زدنFarsi
- sykkiäFinnish
- battreFrench
- לְהַפעִיםHebrew
- धड़कना, फड़कनाHindi
- lüktetHungarian
- berdenyutIndonesian
- sláIcelandic
- pulsare, battereItalian
- 脈打つJapanese
- 고동치다, 맥박 치다Korean
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- تپیدن؛ زدنPersian
- دربيدل، وهلPashto
- pulsarPortuguese
- a pulsa, a bateRomanian
- биться, пульсироватьRussian
- pulzovaťSlovak
- utripatiSlovenian
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- pulseraSwedish
- เต้นเป็นจังหวะThai
- atmak,çarpmakTurkish
- (心臟)跳動Chinese (Trad.)
- пульсувати; вібруватиUkrainian
- دھڑکنا، پھڑکناUrdu
- đậpVietnamese
- (心脏)跳动Chinese (Simp.)
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Nowhere was the disconnect from reality more tangible than the disconnect over public opinion polling. In the final days before the election, the battle over polling data nearly eclipsed the presidential race itself. One set of polls showed Obama winning the election, while other polls showed his challenger ahead. Even veteran political pros were confused by the data.
Obama maintained a slight lead in nearly all the polls until the first debate on October 3. As long as Obama was conclusively ahead, Fox News insisted that the polling was skewed. Once Romney pulled in front by a narrow range, Fox began to give credence to polling data. After that initial bump faded, the different surveys began to splinter. At one point, Rasmussen and Gallup showed Romney leading the president by up to 5 percentage points. From then on, Fox News showed only the polls that favored Romney.
All the Foxiest commentators – Sean Hannity, Karl Rove, Charles Krauthamer, Dick Morris and the vile Ann Coulter among them – declared that Romney would carry the lion's share of swing states. Most of their projections showed Romney wins in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan, all of which landed in the Obama column early on election night, as well as all the swing states of Ohio, Iowa, Florida, Virginia, North Carolina and Colorado. They all pointed to the polls showing what they wanted to see as if contrary polls did not exist. Is there something in the Kool-Aid that makes everybody delusional at Fox News?
Viewers of real news outlets, such as PBS, CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN or MSNBC, saw a totally different picture. They chewed on the conflicting polls, the ones with Romney clearly in front, as well as other ones that gave the lead to the president. Those networks also quoted Real Clear Politics, which averages all the reputable polls, which often showed a tie. Nate Silver wrote spot-on columns which crunched polling data with amazing accuracy for the second consecutive race. For his prescience, he was mocked and attacked by the right wing.
I don't object to incorrect prognostications. I've been dead wrong on many predictions. All of us have been. Most shameful is the blatant use of suspect data, especially when a more complete panorama of surveys was widely available.
If Fox was truly a news organization rather than a partisan political propaganda machine, it would have informed its viewers about all the polls.
Polling data is not the only reason we should question the Republican grasp of reality. Look at the major gaffes by Republican candidates. Senate candidate Todd Akin insisted that women can't get pregnant from a rape. How many obstetricians would confirm that? Fellow candidate Richard Mourdock believes pregnancy resulting from rape is divinely inspired. Nobody can prove or disprove God's will, so that one is off the table. Romney says corporations are people. OK, Mitt. Show us any common reference material that substantiates such a contention.
These notions don't exist in a vacuum. Obama was characterized as being born in Kenya, a practitioner of Islam, a communist, a fascist and described in horrific racial terms. Those absurd assertions all got aired on Fox as if they were serious ideas.
My question is when the news about Obama's victory finally sinks in, how are conservatives who get all their news and world view from Fox News going to react? Will they continue to believe these fairy tales and propaganda pills dressed up as news, or at least question what they are spoon-fed by Fox? I wish I could say no, but after researching the Obama haters since 2008, I highly doubt it.
John Wright is the author of The Obama Haters: Behind the Right-Wing Campaign of Lies, Innuendo and Racism.
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I lived in Latin America for a decade, and one of my most indelible memories concerns how poor people so often side with the rich rather than their own interests.
On the way to work one day in São Paulo, I noticed a well-dressed man sitting in his shiny new Mercedes. The only problem: his car was stalled and he was holding up traffic, with horns blaring at him. He got out and beckoned pedestrians dressed in ragged clothing to push him out of the way of traffic. It didn't take long, and several obliged. They huffed and puffed, breathing heavily, straining their backs, and pushed the Mercedes over to the side of the road. The driver probably spent more on his Mercedes than most of those peons will earn in a lifetime. What did they get in return? A quick thank you. No money. No offer of a ride. The driver did not even get his hands dirty or strain a muscle. He acted as if they were obligated to rescue him.
The big question is why they bother. What's in it for them? I saw similar scenes repeated time and again.
My wife is Brazilian, and she can't answer the question, except to say that the poor have been humbled into hoping that the rich guy might toss them a bone (one hint: they never do).
If a low-income person driving a beatermobile in Latin America is involved in a traffic accident with someone driving a shiny new car, eyewitnesses inevitably pop out of the woodwork to assert that the poor man did something wrong. Their fellow poor guy has nothing to offer them. In the end, it does not matter who was at fault. The rich guy is never held responsible for anything.
Most Americans would view this as some sort of cultural oddity, pat themselves on the back and insist that sort of mindset would not happen here.
Sorry to tell you folks: it does happen here. It's just that nobody noticed.
Consider this: two-thirds of low-income Americans plan to vote for President Barack Obama, and one-third would vote for Mitt Romney, according to various opinion polls. That's not a majority, but that is one-third too many. And millions of impoverished people never even bother to vote, thinking nothing will improve their lot. How would this group fare under a Romney administration? Listen to the tape in which Romney showered utter contempt for the 47% of Americans who do not pay federal income taxes. And one-third of that group would willingly vote for the guy who openly mocks and disdains them! Voting for Romney is even worse than pushing the rich man's Mercedes because it willingly and knowingly puts him behind the wheel.
The working poor get a refund every April 15 for only the federal income taxes they pay during the year. They already pay Social Security and Medicare, state income taxes, sales tax, gasoline tax and various excise taxes, none of them refunded later. In all, people at the bottom of the heap often pay a far higher portion of their income to various taxes than do those sitting on top of the world. You get the idea that Romney wants to force these people to also pay federal income tax, which would leave them even fewer pennies to scratch out the daily necessities of life.
Once Romney lets the patricians stop paying estate taxes, once the executives push all their income into capital gains, a lot less money will enter the federal treasury. That means that middle- and lower-income people will pay more and that the inevitable lower revenues will mean huge cuts to programs that help everybody: education, health care, food stamps, police and fire protection, and infrastructure.
Republican Vice Presidential nominee Paul Ryan introduced a plan to transform Medicare into a voucher system. Instead of guaranteed coverage, he envisions the government paying a flat fee and forcing the elderly to choose which private insurer they want. Good luck, gramps! Romney and Ryan have also endorsed various schemes to privatize Social Security. Few people remember the high poverty rates among seniors before government-run Social Security and Medicare insurance allowed the majority of them to maintain a decent standard of living.
Romney has vowed to end Obamacare on his first day in office. That would be a disaster for millions of people who were getting access to health care for the first time. Ironically, many people who vote for Romney would lose their health insurance due to things like pre-existing conditions.
Some lower-income folks have been tricked into thinking their job prospects would improve under Romney. Remember that's the guy who famously proposed letting the auto industry collapse. Obama wisely ignored the hecklers and saved it (ditto: "let the housing industry bottom out" to benefit real estate speculators instead of helping anyone in a rut). This is the man who made a freakin' fortune at Bain by moving American jobs offshore and firing American workers. How many auto workers in Michigan and Ohio are voting for Romney? Did any of them stop to consider that they would be permanently unemployed if not for Obama? And what will happen when another U.S. industry hovers on the verge of failure under Romney instead of Obama?
Based on my experience in Latin America, Romney's ideas all coincide with the way things work in the Third World. The wealthy pay a pittance in taxes, the middle class pays for everything, the poor get nothing, and the underfunded public services don't work. That's why it's called the Third World. That's why so many people want to leave. Ask yourself why Romney's economic plans mimic those of underdeveloped nations.
Romney hasn't changed a bit since high school, when he taunted an effeminate classmate. He brags, "I like to fire people." Translation: he likes having power over people's lives. Romney sees the world through the eyes of that Mercedes driver. The only difference is that he does not ask peons to push his limo: he orders them the way workers at Bain-owned companies are forced to train their Chinese replacements. And if they don't oblige, his son Tagg might just "take a swing" at them.
John Wright is the author of The Obama Haters: Behind the Right-Wing Campaign of Lies, Innuendo and Racism (Potomac Books, April 2011)]]>
Instead, McGovern lost the 1972 presidential election to Richard Nixon, perhaps the most corrupt and loathsome man to ever occupy the Oval Office, 61 to 37 percent, one of the biggest landslides in history. I can't help but think how the world might be better if Americans had instead elected McGovern, a hero in World War II who sought to end war.
Yet, in many ways, McGovern won because his beliefs prevailed. The Vietnam War finally ended three years later. Nixon enacted the basic structure of McGovern's anti-poverty program. And fate was exceedingly kind in letting McGovern witness the election of a man of African ancestry to the office denied to him, while those who blocked the way, George Wallace, Strom Thurmond and others, died without seeing what true American equality looked like. And history, the final actuary, will remember McGovern as a principled man while the guy who got the most votes that year is justly reviled.
Some of the most decent human beings to have ever populated the halls of our Congress – Hubert Humphrey, Eugene McCarthy and Robert F. Kennedy – admired McGovern as their moral beacon. His contemporaries, of course, are all long gone. McGovern during his 90 incredible years outlived his friends and adversaries, leaving none of his peers to mourn or eulogize him. So it's up to the rest of us to honor this true American hero.
The first vote I ever cast for president was for McGovern in the primary. I'm ashamed to say that before the general election I wavered under the influence of the right-wing propaganda machine that McGovern somehow stood against America's best interests. In the end, I cast my vote for McGovern. Some might call it an act of futility since he was swept 49 states to one by Nixon. Nonetheless, I am proud of that vote.
When the Watergate scandal broke loose, many liberals like myself pasted bumper stickers on their cars saying, "DON'T BLAME ME. I VOTED FOR MCGOVERN." Twenty-nine million Americans could proudly declare that we had refused to vote for the man who shamed his office and our great nation, that we instead had supported an honorable man never touched by scandal.
In the intervening years, I learned to recognize and despise the right-wing propaganda machine that echoed through my head and made me doubt my support for McGovern. Later, I saw the same smears and accusations of lack of patriotism lobbed against Michael Dukakis and Bill Clinton. Then I saw a return to Nixon's mendacity when George W. Bush and Dick Cheney took our country to war based on cleverly assembled lies. After that, I felt ashamed of millions of my fellow Americans who made unfounded attacks against Barack Obama. I wrote a book, The Obama Haters: Behind the Right-Wing Campaign of Lies, Innuendo & Racism, to expose their methods, but even the truth won't change the minds of those who tragically are willing to be manipulated by extremists.
On the verge of the 2012 election, the same forces are at play now as 40 years ago when I voted for the first time. By taking the oath of office, Obama has fulfilled many of McGovern's dreams. As president, Obama has carried out programs that befit McGovern, such as access to health care and student loans for the poor, ending misguided overseas wars, and treating all Americans with respect and dignity. Obama was a child when McGovern sought the presidency. His opponent, Mitt Romney, was old enough to vote in 1972, but he supported Nixon. Romney protested against the anti-Vietnam War demonstrators, but he did not have the courage of his convictions – like John McCain, John Kerry, and Al Gore – to wear his country's uniform in Vietnam. Romney thought Bush's war in Iraq was just dandy, but did not send any of his five sons to combat.
Obama, like McGovern before him, devotes his efforts toward an America with opportunity for all Americans. Romney's life, by contrast, is a running narrative of others doing all the work and making all the sacrifices with Romney getting all the money. Romney's taped confession showing disdain for 47 percent of Americans is a throwback to the Nixon tapes which demonstrated similar contempt for everyone who disagreed with him.
Obama, like McGovern, wants an America with opportunity for all Americans. By contrast, Romney's taped confession about disdain for 47 percent of Americans is a throwback to the Nixon tapes which showed similar contempt for everyone who disagreed with him.
Have we learned anything in the 40 years since the Nixon-McGovern race? Which of those two legacies will we honor on November 6, 2012?]]>
An attack mailing provides ammunition for the Republicans in the general election this November. Hey guys, did you forget that Congress is up for grabs? Democrats will never take back Congress if liberals attack each other this way.
Five Democrats are vying for the seat against a far-right Republican and an independent. The winner will replace Jay Inslee, who resigned in March to focus on a tough race for Washington governor.
–Suzan DelBene, a former Microsoft executive, has the endorsement of outgoing Gov. Christine Gregoire; DelBene previously ran for Congress unsuccessfully in a different district before redistricting.
–Darcy Burner, who leads the Democrats in the polls, also lost a previous race for Congress before redistricting. She headed a progressive organization.
–Laura Ruderman served in the Washington state legislature and lost a race for state attorney general.
–Steve Hobbs, a state legislator, touts his experience as being able to work well with Republicans. This won him the endorsement of the Seattle Times, which also endorsed Republican Attorney General Rob McKenna this year and George W. Bush in the past.
An immigrant businessman with no political experience is given little chance of prevailing.
Whoever wins the Aug. 7 primary will face Republican John Koster, who lost a previous election for Congress before redistricting. Koster, a religious right robot, has predictable positions on family planning, marriage equality, health care, energy, gun rights, and taxation. He aligns perfectly with people in Utah or Mississippi, not lefty Seattle.
A mailing from the shadowy Progress for Washington told voters "Nearly every business Suzan DelBene ran eventually failed." The mailer made DelBene look as if she ran Bain Capital with Mitt Romney. If DelBene wins the nomination, you can bet Koster and his deep-pocket backers will use this attack mailing to their benefit.
Local news reports describe Progress for Washington as being headed by Jeremy Pemble, a contributor to Ruderman's campaign. Ruderman told me, "I don't know anything about this. I have been very clear in the press that whichever Democrat comes out of the primary can't be bloodied and broken."
Now it's up to Washington state Democratic Chair Dwight Pelz to do some serious ass kicking. He and top elected Democrats in Washington need to get tough with Pemble and anyone else with lame-brained notions that will hurt Democrats this fall. President Obama is sure to take the state's 12 electoral votes, but some state-wide races and congressional seats could flip to the Republicans. Guys like Pemble should not be helping the other side.
It's already a tough race, and this attack makes it even tougher. The newly redrawn First Congressional District has been described as the most evenly drawn district in the state and possibly, even in the nation. After Washington was awarded a new 10th seat in the House of Representatives starting this election, a bi-partisan commission sliced and diced the existing nine districts to form the new one.
The First District now comprises suburbs to the north, east and west of Seattle and has been represented by Democrats and moderate Republicans for decades. Redistricting, however, drastically changed the geographical configuration starting in this year's election. The First still includes some suburbs of liberal Seattle, but also reaches all the way to the Canadian border to include Bellingham and rural, conservative inland areas.
Polls show Koster with the support of 46 percent of voters in the district going into the primary, far more than any of the Democrats. If Koster looks to be within reach after the primary, outside groups funded by the Koch Brothers and Karl Rove will surely pour money into the district to swing the fall election.
A filing with the Federal Election Commission said that Progress for Washington spent $21,328 on the DelBene attack mailing. They sure fooled me. When I first saw it, I thought it was funded by a right-wing Political Action Committee, because they are the clear beneficiaries.
John Wright is the author of "The Obama Haters: Behind the Right-Wing Campaign of Lies, Innuendo & Racism" and co-author of "Life Without Oil: Why We Must Shift to a New Energy Future."
"When money doesn't talk, it swears" – Bob Dylan
What have we learned from the failed attempt to recall Gov. Scott Walker in Wisconsin?
Money swears? In Wisconsin, it lobbed more F bombs than Rod Blagojevich, George Carlin and Lenny Bruce combined.
This is what America looks like now. The Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling opened the floodgates, unleashing right-wing sewage in the guise of millions of dollars spent on lies. Wisconsin was their test case. If they could buy Scott Walker a full term, they can buy whatever they want, including the White House and Congress.
Other Republican governors will lick their lips, seeing that they can do the same thing, lie about it and triple their donations. The only thing is that they have to deliver to their bosses. That is, the right wing donors and corporations, not the people they represent.
Bob Dylan had it right in 1965 when he wrote
"While money doesn't talk, it swears
Obscenity, who really cares
Propaganda, all is phony"
in his song "It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)."
We're all bleeding. American democracy was just tossed on its death bed is now is dying of exsanguination. We are no longer a nation "of the people, by the people and for the people." America is now clearly devoted only to the wealthy and corporations.
Our Founding Fathers did not believe corporations are people and did not give them the same rights. The founders of American democracy did not equate money to free speech. Those are fictions invented by right-wing majorities on the Supreme Court.
For years, many Democrats and Republicans agreed that democracy was healthier when the influence purchased by big bucks was held in check. Republican John McCain and Democrat Russ Feingold sponsored the eponymous 2002 bill that limited the political influence of money. McCain, to his credit, learned from his mistakes. He was one of the notorious "Keating Five," a group of senators who intervened with federal regulators to help prop up Charles Keating's financial institutions. The collapse of Keating's Lincoln Savings and Loan cost taxpayers $5 billion. Feingold, ironically, lost his Senate seat to a big-spending right winger.
That law was in effect until 2010, when the Supreme Court, in Citizens United, voted 5-4 that money is the same as free speech. That allowed well-funded Republicans to retake the House of Representatives and win governorships all over the country. It also let kooky billionaires single-handedly fund the campaigns of Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich for the Republican nomination even though their support among voters was minimal.
When Walker last year stripped away union collective bargaining rights, citizens in Wisconsin braved the cold Midwestern winter to protest en masse in the streets of Madison. Democratic legislators fled the state to deny Republicans a quorum. A video surfaced in which Walker told a billionaire donor that he was using "divide and conquer" tactics to bring down unions.
Nonetheless, Walker took in at least $31 million in donations to save his job, most of it from out-of-state millionaires. The recall effort had "boots on the ground" in terms of thousands of ordinary citizens knocking on doors, but the anti-Walker forces collected only $4 million, mostly from small donations inside Wisconsin.
What will the fat cats expect in return? They've already collected on the $10 million they donated to Walker's 2010 gubernatorial campaign. Walker neutered union rights, cut taxes for corporations and wealthy individuals, and slashed spending on things like public education. What's next? How will Walker repay that largesse?
The Wisconsin debacle tells Karl Rove and the Koch Brothers that if you spend enough money, you can blanket the airwaves with attack ads and people can be persuaded to vote against their own interests. It's the "divide and conquer" Walker told his billionaire donor: let the wealthy grab all the cheese, toss out a few chunks and the mice will fight each other for the crumbs rather than go after the ones who stole all their cheese.
The right wing had already announced that they were planning to spend $1 billion in attack ads to bring down President Obama in the November elections. Wisconsin shows them that they can clear the table if they spend enough. It's merely a business decision.
I've seen it all before. I lived for a decade in Latin America. That's the way Third World countries operate. And that is precisely where Republican policies are taking the United States. They want to underfund infrastructure, education, health care and anything else that benefits everyone else, as long as they get to keep more of their money for themselves. They have no concept of the common good.
Of course, one thing the Republicans seem to forget is why so many people want to come here from the rest of the world. The Third World is great for the wealthy, who have no social responsibility, but it's pure hell for everybody else.
John Wright is the author of "The Obama Haters: Behind the Right-Wing Campaign of Lies, Innuendo & Racism" and co-author of "Life Without Oil: Why We Must Shift to a New Energy Future."]]>
All Americans were shocked when the world's most elite and awe-inspiring law-enforcement corps, the Secret Service, became entangled in a sex scandal that could have compromised national security. With perfect timing, the General Services Administration, which is obliged to root out waste, fraud and abuse of taxpayer money found itself guilty of waste, fraud and abuse of taxpayer money. It's no surprise that anger over these scandals leached across party lines and dismayed people of all political leanings.
Predictably, Sarah Palin jerked her knee by squealing "the buck stops with the president" and labeling these events "a symptom of government run amok." So far, President Obama's response has been tepid and falls far short of what the public wants and needs. Both events are tailor made for the right-wing echo chamber of bashing anything run or funded by the government wedded to a pathology to bring down Obama no matter what. It matters not that the same thing occurs in the private sector. To wit, the GSA is basically the auditor of government activities; one of the most respected private auditors was Arthur Andersen, which went out of business for collusion uncovered in the Enron scandal. Does anyone think the Secret Service would be better run if it were privatized? Think again. Blackwater did such a lousy job of monitoring its own rogue agents in Iraq and Afghanistan that it had to change its name. Stupidity and corruption exist in both private and public life.
Because the private sector does not police itself, government entities naturally perform that task. As well, a free press and independent public watchdog groups must investigate and disclose wrongdoing no matter where it exists. But that has nothing to do with public perception. Put together, these two scandals weaken the president's argument about the government's proper role against the Republican onslaught that a government which can't even guarantee professionalism in the Secret Service can't run health care better than private insurance companies. Right now, conservatives are ahead as the facts become trumped by public perception. And it gives them a winning argument in the election.
President Obama has a one-time chance and a short window of opportunity to come out the winner in both the factual and public perception arguments. As the owner of the bully pulpit, he can appoint a czar with the exclusive task of weeding out waste, fraud and abuse. The best candidate for the job would be a federal prosecutor or state attorney general with a proven track record as a zealous advocate for the people, someone unafraid to confront cronyism or sacred cows. Someone who would do within the government what Richard Cordray seeks to do in the Consumer Protection Agency. Preferably, a no-nonsense Republican could be the most effective agent of change. Please, Mr. President, no toothless blue-ribbon panel to fix this problem. What's needed is someone with broad authority, unlike the inspectors general who are confined to particular government departments.
If the appointee is a presidential adviser rather than head of a government agency, he or she would not require Senate approval. The czar would answer only to the president or a designated high-level official.
This official could show in numerous ways that he or she is not just window dressing. First, this office would encourage whistle blowers and grant them immunity. Second, this office would have the best press operation in Washington D.C. Instead of news organizations or the political opposition breaking scandals about waste, fraud and abuse within the government, this czar could make lots of noise. Third, the office would not have its own bureaucracy. And finally, this official could lobby prominent conservatives for ideas about which government operations need investigating. Obama's critics would have to put up or shut up. The political impact of their criticism would evaporate. I was a fierce, tireless critic of George W. Bush, but I would have cheered if he had created such a position with authority and a mandate.
By doing so, Obama could please his 2008 voters who have not seen enough "change we can believe in" at the same time he blunts the conservative meme that government is inherently lazy and stupid. To make sure this office is not a gimmick, Obama simply needs to appoint a take-charge sort of hard-driving, apolitical public servant who gives the American people what they deserve: true accountability in the government they pay for.]]>
The rest of us string together bits and pieces about the case and draw conclusions based largely on our world view. One side sees Zimmerman as a murderer acting on racial motivations. The other side believes Zimmerman was properly defending himself against an assault by Trayvon.
Only one thing is certain: Zimmerman will not be convicted by a jury of his peers on the charge of second-degree murder.
The cleverest defense lawyers in the world – Clarence Darrow, William Kunstler, and Johnnie Cochran – are all deceased. But it won't take the best and the brightest to get Zimmerman acquitted. Even an asleep-at-the-wheel, incompetent public defender could achieve that. It just takes one juror unwilling to convict, even if 11 vote guilty based on the evidence.
The irrefutable facts are few: Trayvon was walking back to his father's home in a gated community at 7:30 p.m., carrying candy and a soft drink. Trayvon was unarmed; Zimmerman had a gun. He called 911, saying Trayvon looked suspicious. He described Trayvon's appearance as black. The emergency dispatcher instructed Zimmerman not to pursue Trayvon, but Zimmerman pursued anyway. Trayvon was talking to his girlfriend on a cellphone. The girlfriend said Trayvon told her a man was following him; she heard screams she believed to be Trayvon's voice. A struggle ensued. An unidentified eyewitness saw a scuffle but was unable to identify the aggressor. Zimmerman fatally shot Trayvon. He was questioned by police the same night but was not charged.
Even before prosecutors charged George Zimmerman, his father, Robert, already poured strychnine in the potential jury pool by accusing President Barack Obama and civil rights organizations of spewing hatred: "I never foresaw so much hate coming from the president, the congressional Black Caucus, the NAACP," the elder Zimmerman told a local Fox affiliate in Florida.
What were Obama's hateful remarks? "If I had a son he'd look like Trayvon." What's hateful about that?
Obama offered personal and national condolences to Trayvon's family at the same time Fox was finding ways to assassinate Trayvon's memory. The president urged law enforcement to investigate the killing but did not draw any conclusions or say anything to further inflame the already overheated rhetoric. While others debate racial anxieties, the wisdom of "stand your ground laws" and gun control, Obama properly became the mourner in chief, the same way he did after the Tucson tragedy last year, the way Reagan did after the Challenger disaster, the way Clinton did after the Oklahoma City bombing, and Bush did after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Robert Zimmerman, a retired judge, knows what sways juries. He used that knowledge to plant the Obama-hating seed in every potential juror. Fox did not ask him tough questions because Zimmerman cleverly played straight into Fox's anti-Obama crusade. You only need one out of 12 jurors to thwart a conviction.
In excusing jurors, prosecutors will try to weed out overt racists and others deemed hostile to their case. But they won't be able to thin every Obama hater from the herd.
Fox host Sean Hannity has inserted himself – and the Fox propaganda machine – into the story. The same day prosecutors charged George Zimmerman, Hannity's show was riddled with comments to make viewers doubt the shooter's guilt. Hannity presented as fact Zimmerman's assertions (though family members) that Trayvon broke Zimmerman's nose and smashed his head and that Trayvon had confronted Zimmerman as he was backing off from a possible confrontation with the youth.
Hannity's guest Michelle Malkin said the Obama administration was exploiting the shooting for political gains and that Attorney General Eric Holder has "perverted the rule of law." These remarks serve double duty in the propaganda war, sowing seeds of doubt about Zimmerman's guilt in the minds of potential jurors at the same time making Obama look bad. Another Hannity guest (a tea party "leader") said Obama's strategy is "getting people to hate each other."
Is it any surprise that Robert Zimmerman appeared on Fox to smear Obama or that George Zimmerman himself called only Hannity to talk? Hannity refuses to disclose the contents of their conversation.
On the same day Zimmerman was charged, Hannity asked his viewers whether Zimmerman should have been charged with second-degree murder: 22% said yes, 68% said no, and 11% were undecided. Hannity's right-wing audience is obviously way out of step with most Americans. A recent Gallup poll found 36% believe Zimmerman is guilty of a crime, 7% believe he is not guilty and 52% are undecided. Among blacks, 72% think Zimmerman is guilty, while 33% of whites believe he is guilty.
How many members of the potential jury pool have heard Robert Zimmerman? How many have watched Hannity's coverage? That is significant because fewer than one-quarter of Hannity's viewers would be willing to consider convicting Zimmerman, and it's hard to keep all of them out of the jury pool.
John Wright is the author of "The Obama Haters: Behind the Right-Wing Campaign of Lies, Innuendo & Racism" and co-author of "Life Without Oil: Why We Must Shift to a New Energy Future."]]>
The former Alaska governor has reinvented herself as Palin Inc., in which her main product is victimhood wrapped inside juicy bits of reverse logic and lies. So when radio bigmouth Rush Limbaugh attacked Georgetown University student Sandra Fluke as a "slut" and "prostitute," Palin saw herself, not Fluke, as the victim. Welcome to the bizarre alternate reality created by Palin Inc.
"I think the definition of hypocrisy is for Rush Limbaugh to have been called out, forced to apologize and retract what it is that he said in exercising his First Amendment rights and never is that the same applied to the leftist radicals who say such horrible things about the handicapped, about women, about the defenseless," Palin told CNN from Wasilla, Alaska.
If the one-time vice-presidential candidate ever spoke the true facts in a coherent manner, Palin Inc. would go bankrupt.
Limbaugh apologized with his fingers crossed behind his back. Instead of fessing up to his own lack of character and judgment in attacking a private citizen, he instead blamed liberals.
"This is the mistake I made: in fighting them (liberals) on this issue last week, I became like them, against my own instincts, against my own knowledge, against everything I know to be right and wrong, I descended to their level when I used those two words to describe Sandra Fluke. That was my error. I became like them, and I feel very badly about that. I've always tried to maintain a very high degree of integrity and independence on this program," Limbaugh said. "You never descend to the level of your opponent, or they win."
The issue was whether health insurance policies should be mandated to pay for contraceptives. Fluke was invited by Congress to testify in favor of requiring contraception coverage. Limbaugh disagrees, which is his right. Reasonable people can differ. So does Limbaugh believe he could not rebut Fluke without saying that women who use contraception should submit tapes of their sexual activities for his perverse jollies?
Palin whines about "leftist radicals … who say such horrible things about … women" yet refuses to condemn Rush and defend Fluke? If she is truly outraged by any attacks against the disabled, how can she ignore Limbaugh's vicious taunts of actor Michael J. Fox, who suffers from debilitating Parkinson's Disease?
Anyone who believes Limbaugh has a "high degree of integrity" should listen to recordings of his radio show to judge for themselves. Media Matters devotes 139 on-line pages to Limbaugh, who has made a cottage industry of degrading remarks about women, blacks and other racial minorities, and the disabled over the years: http://mediamatters.org/search/tag/rush_limbaugh
As for Palin, comedian David Letterman famously made an off-color quip about her daughter who became pregnant out of wedlock. For that, the late-night host apologized profusely, accepted sole responsibility and did not deflect blame to others in Limbaugh-ese.
The other prominent tasteless attack on Palin came from the liberal Daily Kos Web site, when it reported that 17-year-old daughter Bristol had given birth to Palin's son Trig, who has Down's Syndrome. Bloggers also questioned how then-Gov. Palin, who has a special needs child of her own, could be so stingy with state aid for the disabled.
Daily Kos quickly retracted its story when realizing it was a hoax. Candidate Barack Obama unequivocally blasted Daily Kos, saying, "Let me be as clear as possible. I think people's families are off-limits, and people's children are especially off-limits." Palin, of course, never repaid the favor when Obama's family endured numerous racist taunts. When Obama rushed to defend Palin's family, he did not preface his remarks with anything related to unfounded taunts against himself or his own family. He simply and eloquently stood up for right and rejected what is wrong.
Yet we are at a point that no leading Republican has the integrity to stand up to Rush over this or any of his other frequent vicious attacks: not Palin, not House Speaker John Boehner, not Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, and not leading GOP presidential contenders Romney, Rick Santorum or Newt Gingrich. What's wrong with all of them? Where is the conservative "leadership?"
It's doubtful that Palin Inc. will ever offer the same defense of Obama against slurs because that would mean emerging from Sarah's fantasy universe to inhabit the real world, where she feels alien. It's much easier to wrap yourself in a cocoon of conflicting hallucinations while smearing Obama non-stop.
Because some people need this fantasy conception of the world, we must commend Sarah as a brilliant entrepreneur and architect of Palin Inc. She has become wealthy by concocting and feeding delusions. After all, millions of people believe President Obama was born in Kenya, the moon landing was faked, and that Elvis still lives.
John Wright is the author of "The Obama Haters: Behind the Right-Wing Campaign of Lies, Innuendo & Racism" and co-author of "Life Without Oil: Why We Must Shift to a New Energy Future."]]>
Rush Limbaugh for years has made a cottage industry of attacking racial minorities, women and disabled people. Decent people have stood up to Limbaugh, but his fame and fortune have grown in tandem with his girth because he attracts millions of mindless listeners who are amused by such garish tastelessness. That's good enough for sponsors, who don't give a hoot about good taste. At least, that was the rule until recently. Loud public outcry finally drove at least seven advertisers to drop Limbaugh's show after he called a woman a "slut" and a "prostitute" over her defense of contraception. Let's hope other sponsors follow suit so Limbaugh feels the pinch; he will remain a bully only as long as it is profitable to do so.
Rush went on a rampage against Georgetown University student Sandra Fluke for testifying before Congress after Republicans prevented her from defending Obama administration requirements that health insurance companies provide coverage for contraception. Limbaugh could have made a reasoned argument against Fluke's position, but instead chose to malign her character.
Obama adviser David Axelrod spoke on behalf of outraged millions when he labeled Limbaugh's remarks "vile and degrading." Leaders of the Republicans, who describe themselves as the "party of family values," offered only flaccid, mushy words for the rotund ringmaster of rot.
Presidential candidate Rick Santorum and House Speaker John Boehner timidly called Limbaugh's words "inappropriate" while fellow candidate Newt Gingrich said it was "appropriate for Rush to apologize." Frontrunner Mitt Romney cowered and trembled, lest he offend Rush's fans by taking a stand against slandering a private citizen as a "slut" and "prostitute."
El Rushbo was part of a trifecta of right-wing slurs in recent days. The other two were made by federal judge Richard Cebull and Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
Judge Cebull emailed a racist joke: "A little boy said to his mother; 'Mommy, how come I'm black and you're white?'" the joke in the email said. "His mother replied, 'Don't even go there Barack! From what I can remember about that party, you're lucky you don't bark!'"
Cebull apologized to Obama. Duh! Think about it: if you appeared in Cebull's court, would you believe that he has the intelligence, maturity, and integrity to hear your case? While some Democrats demand Cebull's impeachment, he gets a pass from the party (which runs the House of Representatives) whose "family values" he embodies.
Arpaio, the sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, said his investigation showed reason to believe that Obama's birth certificate is a forgery. This once again fuels irrational conspiracy theories that Obama is not a legally born American citizen, and therefore, ineligible to hold public office. Did it ever occur to Arpaio or the citizens of Phoenix that he should devote his energy to chasing murders, rapists, carjackers and gang bangers? Obsequious Republican presidential candidates, instead of demanding Arpaio's removal over squandering public resources, shamefully jostled for his endorsement.
Limbaugh, Cebull and Arpaio know they can get away with it. First and foremost, they don't even recognize that they are atrocious. Second, slandering anyone with whom they disagree and showing contempt for Obama is part of their DNA. Third, they express the disgraceful views of Republicans in power and the moneyed interests behind them. Such contemptible behavior becomes an issue only when right-wingers are caught being themselves.
The Republican presidential nominee is almost certainly going to be Romney, Santorum or Gingrich. Mitch McConnell and Boehner are the elected Republican leaders. Yet none of these so-called leaders has the character, decency or courage to condemn Limbaugh, Cebull or Arpaio. The worst Limbaugh heard from any of them was "inappropriate." Sneezing on someone's food is inappropriate. Limbaugh, Cebull and Arpaio are reprehensible, shameful, disgusting, and inexcusable. The fact that these three men are hold such positions of influence is evidence of the right wing's moral vacuum.
Since Obama declared his candidacy for president in 2007, he has been pilloried by this same right wing as an alleged communist, socialist, fascist, terrorist, Muslim, and been taunted non-stop by Republican racists. He has held his head high and not responded in kind. He has instructed his surrogates to not hit political adversaries below the belt, but rather to focus on the issues without petty character assassination.
The latest spate of incidents showed Obama at his best. Instead of jumping into the fray to score political points, he called Fluke on the telephone to thank her for speaking up about the health concerns of women and said her parents should be proud of her. We should all be proud of Fluke and Obama for their courage and character. Obama has once again shown his substantial presidential timber, while his rivals demonstrate they are made of rotted wormwood.
John Wright is the author of "The Obama Haters: Behind the Right-Wing Campaign of Lies, Innuendo & Racism" and co-author of "Life Without Oil: Why We Must Shift to a New Energy Future."]]>
John F. Kennedy, when running for president in 1960, made an oft-quoted speech to Southern Baptist ministers to clarify (at the same time he was negating anti-Catholic hate speech) that he would not impose his religious views and that he would not take orders from the Vatican.
Santorum, like Kennedy a Catholic, is clearly offended that JFK did not gag us with communion wafers, install confessional booths in every public building, or nationalize rosary bead manufacturers.
"To say that people of faith have no role in the public square? You bet that makes you throw up. What kind of country do we live that says only people of non-faith can come into the public square and make their case?" Santorum said on a recent TV interview.
To say that people of faith are not allowed a role in public life is nothing less than a lie.
Forty-three different men have taken the presidential oath of office in the United States. Every one of them put his hand on the Bible. Many openly expressed religious faith. Numerous U.S. presidents have met with popes. Protestant evangelist Billy Graham prayed together with every president over a half century. The facts show Santorum's words to be incorrect.
"…Now we're going to turn around and say we're going to impose our values from the government on people of faith," Santorum said. That's another lie.
Santorum does not understand the meaning of the world "impose." Does the government coerce Catholic clergy to break their vow of chastity? Are Jews forced to eat pork? Are Baptists required to drink alcoholic beverages? Does a bureaucrat force Seventh Day Adventists to consume meat? Are Mormons allowed to do offensive things like baptize Anne Frank? Do Jehovah's Witnesses have to salute the flag? The list goes on and on. Judges occasionally rule in favor of lifesaving medical care against the wishes of a Christian Scientist, but even with life-and-death situations, government intrusion over religious objections is rare.
"Kennedy for the first time articulated the vision saying, no, 'faith is not allowed in the public square. I will keep it separate.' Go on and read the speech 'I will have nothing to do with faith. I won't consult with people of faith.' It was an absolutist doctrine that was foreign at the time of 1960," Santorum emphasized.
That's full of so much mendacity that it's a wonder anyone believes Santorum. Neither Kennedy nor any other U.S. president has ever banned faith in any form. Kennedy never said he would "have nothing to do with faith" and did not refuse to "consult with people of faith." And Kennedy was not the first president to respect the wall between church and state.
Kennedy's doctrine was "absolutist" only insofar as respecting the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…"
At the same time, Santorum fails to quote other parts of Kennedy's 1960 speech: "I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish – where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches or any other ecclesiastical source – where no religious body seeks to impose its will directly or indirectly upon the general populace or the public acts of its officials – and where religious liberty is so indivisible that an act against one church is treated as an act against all."
Who, other than Santorum and a handful of theocratic zealots, disagrees with that?
At least one other president endorsed Kennedy's speech by quoting our Founding Fathers. "The unique thing about America is a wall in our Constitution separating church and state. It guarantees there will never be a state religion in this land, but at the same time it makes sure that every single American is free to choose and practice his or her religious beliefs or to choose no religion at all," President Ronald Reagan, the patriarch of modern conservatives, said in 1984.
When President Obama voices the same views as Reagan, he is excoriated by the religious right as being a tout for Satan. So I'm curious: did Santorum throw up when his hero Reagan made this speech?
John Wright is the author of "The Obama Haters: Behind the Right-Wing Campaign of Lies, Innuendo & Racism" and co-author of "Life Without Oil: Why We Must Shift to a New Energy Future."]]>


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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Hip CEOs such as Yahoo!'s Marissa Mayer or Amazon's Jeff Bezos may be jockeying for pricey video properties from the makers of The Office or Game of Thrones. But investors, who will actually have to game the risks of such splashy media moves, might want to seek some good old-fashioned advice from good old Dear Abby.
"I don't want to say she's Teflon. But she has held on amazingly well. Even during '08 and '09, which were dark days for us," said John Glynn, president of Universal UClick, the Kansas City, Mo., comics and column syndicator that has handled the Dear Abby advice column essentially since the late 1970s.
If investors dare take Glynn's advice and take an honest look at such throwback question-and-answer advice brands as Dear Abby, Annie's Mailbox, Ask Amy and Carolyn Hax, they'll see a series of surprisingly robust new-media stars that work in an upbeat -- and blissfully cost effective -- market.
Glynn estimates that Dear Abby's question-and-answer columns run in roughly 900 print outlets around the world. And even though most are republished online, the exact same content appears in roughly 40 additional online-only media outlets, including some of the Internet's most rarified real estate.Believe it or not,Dear Abby-- even though creator Pauline Phillips died and her daughter Jeanne Phillips continues the series after 15 years of co-writing -- essentially holds its own full subdomain at Web giant Yahoo! News, putting this itty-bitty franchise on the same brand plateau as all of Yahoo!'s U.S and world news, all of its full tech sites and its entire health coverage. "The digital reach is tough to calculate, since Yahoo! does not share their traffic with us," Glynn said. But he was comfortable putting in print that, "excluding Yahoo!, she is doing 30 to 40 million pageviews a month." Read it and weep, Web hipsters: That's six full times Beyonce's 6.2 million views for her blockbuster video Pretty Hurts and a full 10 times the 3 million YouTube subscribers The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon claims.
For sure, advice columns can be a bare-knuckle, zero-sum game, particularly in print. Dickinson forwarded me a list created by a Tribune sales rep of the top 10 markets in which she's published. Sure enough, when say, the Arizona Daily Star added Ask Amy back in March, it dropped Dear Abby. Ouch! Even so, what's fascinating is just how much mileage bothDear Abby and Ask Amy get out out of the relatively simple and low-cost format of giving honest answers to simple questions. These media powerhouses are essentially nothing more than sole proprietors who create-traffic gobbling content with none of the fat production budgets that squeeze Amazon's and Yahoo's already razor-thin margins. "You get the whole human drama, the schadenfreude, the range of human emotions," Glynn said. "And there is none of the costs of major video. It's, by nature, a print experience."
Even more compelling is that Glynn and Dickinson say they've tried and failed at complex and expensive means of scaling their core print brands. "We have tried video versions for many of our properties, and with all the cost of the production, people viewed it once and they were gone," Glynn said. In retrospect, Glynn said, these failures made real, if dark, sense. Bill Watterson, for example, the creator of Calvin and Hobbes -- Glynn's most popular comic -- is famous for not taking calls from Spielberg. Or even George Lucas. He knew his comics were best as comics. And Dickinson says too she too tried to "game the system" with complex websites and support staffs for her columns in various digital platforms -- but gave it all up two years ago. "It was the biggest step in my professional life," Dickinson said, "to have the courage to make things more simple and authentic." Even more telling, both are fairly certain the future will mean more of this less-is-more approach. "We will probably be dealing directly with consumers as they make their way to our own sites," Glynn said. "But that is going to take some time." "I see no major change ahead," Dickinson said. "I really love what I am doing." That all means, friends, splashy Web video deals may shimmer with a golden sheen. But the smart money will realize that human simplicity and honesty is where the real value will be seen.
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