Stephen Colbert: 2006 Speech at the White House Correspondents Dinner
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa-4E8ZDj9s
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=8Y97-37xfMo&feature=endscreen
Saturday, April 20, 2013
Thursday, January 17, 2013
With The GOP Bragging About Rigging A House Majority, Is There Any Way To Stop Them?
"Though Mitt Romney lost the popular vote by 4 percent, he carried 227 congressional districts to President Obama’s 208, which is why Republican National Committee chair Reince Preibus is fantasizing about rigging the electoral college by matching electors with districts."
http://www.nationalmemo.com/with-the-gop-bragging-about-rigging-a-house-majority-is-there-any-way-to-stop-them/
http://www.nationalmemo.com/with-the-gop-bragging-about-rigging-a-house-majority-is-there-any-way-to-stop-them/
Saturday, November 17, 2012
Why FOX "News" & the Wall Street Journal REWARD Their "Pundits" for CONSTANTLY Being WRONG!
http://www.alternet.org/media/why-fox-news-and-wall-street-journal-reward-their-pundits-being-wrong-about-everything?akid=9694.153143.YjOzHi&rd=1&src=newsletter746370&t=6&paging=off
"The point being, within the GOP media bubble there's no price for having been consistently wrong about the campaign. There's no shame in announcing all the polls are wrong (biased!), and that Romney was surging to an easy win, even though both claims were pure fantasy.
That no-harm/no-foul rule also extends to the mainstream media. Five days after Romney's defeat, Face the Nation invited Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan to pontificate about the campaign. It was an interesting choice considering Noonan had botched the election, insisting the day before the vote that Romney was marching to victory over the "small and lost" Obama campaign.
Uninterested in polling data, Noonan sensed Romney's looming victory because "all the vibrations" were right. Plus, she saw more Romney/Ryan yard signs while out traveling in Florida."
(There's more so don't stop here.)
Lance
"The point being, within the GOP media bubble there's no price for having been consistently wrong about the campaign. There's no shame in announcing all the polls are wrong (biased!), and that Romney was surging to an easy win, even though both claims were pure fantasy.
That no-harm/no-foul rule also extends to the mainstream media. Five days after Romney's defeat, Face the Nation invited Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan to pontificate about the campaign. It was an interesting choice considering Noonan had botched the election, insisting the day before the vote that Romney was marching to victory over the "small and lost" Obama campaign.
Uninterested in polling data, Noonan sensed Romney's looming victory because "all the vibrations" were right. Plus, she saw more Romney/Ryan yard signs while out traveling in Florida."
(There's more so don't stop here.)
Lance
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Romney, the Auto "Bailout", CHINA & His Tax Dodge
If you watched the final 'Presidential' debate you saw Romney's 'Bamby-like' protestations regarding his DOCUMENTABLE statements and history regarding the COLLAPSE of the U.S. auto industry. His words were something like, "Who ME?!? Why I would NEVER do anything to hurt our auto industry!"
Well, FORTUNATELY, there are people out there who somehow have the time and energy to ACTUALLY DOCUMENT such 'mis'-statements. Greg Palast is one.
"Enjoy" this piece of
Well, FORTUNATELY, there are people out there who somehow have the time and energy to ACTUALLY DOCUMENT such 'mis'-statements. Greg Palast is one.
"Enjoy" this piece of
ROMNEY'S 'BAILOUT' BONANZA
Incestuous D.C.
Corporate Lobbyists Manage Our Presidential Debates
"Three debates have gone by, and to this date, neither a candidate for president or vice president has been asked about some of the biggest issues facing voters this cycle."
Why?
http://truth-out.org/news/item/12278-corporate-lobbyists-manage-our-presidential-debates
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Defeat Romney, Without Illusions about Obama
Advice to progressives in swing states,
vote for reelection
...“a Romney/Ryan administration would be no better -- no different -- on any of the serious offenses I just mentioned or anything else, and it would be much worse, even catastrophically worse, on a number of other important issues: attacking Iran, Supreme Court appointments, the economy, women’s reproductive rights, health coverage, safety net, climate change, green energy, the environment.
I told him: “I don’t ‘support Obama.’ I oppose the current Republican Party. This is not a contest between Barack Obama and a progressive candidate. The voters in a handful or a dozen close-fought swing states are going to determine whether Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are going to wield great political power for four, maybe eight years, or not.”
As Noam Chomsky said recently, “The Republican organization today is extremely dangerous, not just to this country, but to the world. It’s worth expending some effort to prevent their rise to power, without sowing illusions about the Democratic alternatives.”
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Mitt Romney’s Tax Dodge
Just ONE aspect:
"On his 2010 tax return, Romney disclosed that his wife Ann's trust held $3 million in a Swiss bank account at UBS, which had just been busted by the IRS for abetting criminal tax evasion by U.S. citizens. As part of a $780 million settlement, UBS was forced to turn over the names of thousands of its long-secret clients, who were then offered a partial amnesty: disclose their hidden assets, pay penalties and avoid prosecution. Romney – who had omitted the Swiss account on previous financial disclosures – suddenly came clean. Did he reveal his secret account to avoid prosecution for tax evasion? "He's not quite denied that," says Daniel Shaviro, a professor of tax law at NYU. The record of paying an IRS penalty on the Swiss account could explain why Romney has been so determined to keep his 2009 tax return under wraps."
"On his 2010 tax return, Romney disclosed that his wife Ann's trust held $3 million in a Swiss bank account at UBS, which had just been busted by the IRS for abetting criminal tax evasion by U.S. citizens. As part of a $780 million settlement, UBS was forced to turn over the names of thousands of its long-secret clients, who were then offered a partial amnesty: disclose their hidden assets, pay penalties and avoid prosecution. Romney – who had omitted the Swiss account on previous financial disclosures – suddenly came clean. Did he reveal his secret account to avoid prosecution for tax evasion? "He's not quite denied that," says Daniel Shaviro, a professor of tax law at NYU. The record of paying an IRS penalty on the Swiss account could explain why Romney has been so determined to keep his 2009 tax return under wraps."
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