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A moment of silence for one of the greatest, most-effective and prolific politicians in our nation’s history, Senator Edward Kennedy:
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His passing is a tremendous loss not only to our country, to others as well. From his fight against the Vietnam war, to leading the cause to sanction South Africa for apartheid, from voting against the Iraq War and fighting to end it to his large part in securing a peace treaty in Northern Ireland that ended decades of battle between the I.R.A. and the United Kingdom. He was even knighted (honorarily) for his role in the affair.
He has been a champion of the common man, despite his wealthy status, from his fight to bring justice to the underprivileged to social programs that helped to elevate the social status of many Americans. His life-long fight to bring health care to all Americans has left a legacy of hope and generosity that has inspired many Americans, like myself, to not give up the dream of creating a better world.
(Here is a brief listing of his accomplishments.)…
Just a quick update on the fanatical Glenn Beck’s recent loss of sponsors first mentioned in this article.
The total number of sponsors who have pulled out of Beck’s program has ballooned to 36, including a FOX News-wide ban from UPS. Among the losses are CVS Caremark, Clorox, Sprint and even the Right-leaning Wal-Mart Stores Inc., a clear sign that Beck is facing a crisis.
Despite his popularity, I mean Sarah Palin is telling people to watch Glenn Beck (isn’t that so typically reactionary of the dwindling celebrity politician?), the fact is ratings may not help Beck if he doesn’t bring in the cash. He will certainly be advertising poison for atleast the forseeable future.
Here are 10 reasons why.
Can he survive? Probably. Roger Aisles, head partisan dingbat over at Faux News, has stacked his lineup with whacko fringe lunatics anyway. I’m sure he loves Beck and will ride him out, that is, as long as Rupert Murdoch doesn’t get involved, which in all likely hood will not happen.
This may be a watershed moment for Fox News however. The point …
A new survey conducted by Survey USA (whose data tends to be used by conservative news sources like NewsMax) concludes that support for a public option remains high even among Republicans. 58% of all those surveyed support having a public option.
58% of Republicans and 56% of those who identify themselves as Conservative felt a public health insurance plan was extremely important to be in the final bill. 70% of Liberals support the public option while Only 60% of Democrats and 54% of Independents strongly support the measure, suggesting that the greatest doubts of the public option are coming from the Center-Left.
Most remarkably is that the support numbers, much like the ones above, read pretty similarly across the board. Age, region and ideology change the numbers very little.
Overall, with 58% of the country in favor of the public option, is there any reason it should not pass? I mean, the Republicans have thrown everything they had at destroying the bills reputation, and while they have damaged Obama’s perceived ability to handle health care (which …
To my Progressive and Liberal allies:
This is MUST SEE TV and I don’t mean a rerun of Friends. Watching Jon “the man” Stewart cream both Fox (Faux) News and the lady that originated the “death panel” argument, Betsy McCaughey .
To my Conservative counterparts:
I dare any whacko right-wing gun-totting, over-weight, fast-food eating, Fox News watching, WalMart shopping, god’s creation hating, under educated, wasteful, redneck, war-mongering, poverty-stricken-capitalist who wanders on to this site looking to leave a big flawed radical right-wing talking point…
to watch John Stewart’s latest assessment of your beloved, low-standards, gossip source a.k.a. the Fox (so-called) News Channel. I dare ya, I double-dare ya!
I bet you don’t have the cojanes to watch it!
CLICK HERE TO SEE THE VIDEOS.
The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cFox News: The New Liberalswww.thedailyshow.com…
John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods, decided he has the perfect solution for health care reform: A series of tax breaks, less regulation of the insurance industry and a series of other idiotic ideas including Health Savings Accounts (you know those 401k styled bank accounts that pay for health services). He said as much in a Wall Street Journal OpEd piece that takes aim at the Public Option and Obama’s health care reform efforts in general.
Mackey, whose clientele and demographic, tends to skew to the Left, decided to come out of the closet and declare himself a conservative Republican who dislikes socialism (his article starts out with a quote from ultra-conservative Margret Thatcher) and even has the nerve to say that health-care IS a privilege! Amazing.
I for one will never shop at Whole Foods again. To think that my money goes into this CEOs happy-go-lucky pocket and all the while is behind and in front of the scenes pushing conservative policies on ignorant Americans.
I decided to leave a rather long comment on his CEO blog as well.
__ UPDATE: While many Comments were allowed that were critical. Mine was rejected, and I …
Notorious Right-Wing fanatic Glenn Beck has gone so far off the edge recently in his criticisms of Obama that he very well may be fired from the Radical Right Fox News. Could we be witnessing a backlash to the Conservative’s attempts to derail health-care?
You may have heard Beck’s name a lot in the news lately. He has been the loudest, most obnoxious cheerleader against Obama’s health care attempts. His unabashed criticism of those who wish to change what he calls, “the best health care system in the world” has garnered him footnotes in major media news stories while his support for the disruption of town-hall meetings has earned him open criticism from all across the gambit even in the town-hall meetings themselves. Congressman Rick Larson (D-WA), responded to criticism of health care at his town-hall meeting by saying “I’ve got the facts on my side, you’ve [criticisers] got Glen Beck on your side!”
Where Beck stepped over the line however, was when he went so far as to call Obama a racist who doesn’t like White people, among many other disturbing criticisms, on an episode of Fox and Friends. Co-host Brian Kilmeade actually …
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