While the Repubs whine about Gwen Ifill...Guess who!

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Wednesday October 01, 2008 · 10:17 PM PDT

2008/10/01 · 22:17

Republicans are waxing wrathful because Thursday's V.P. debate is being moderated by Gwen Ifill--author of a planned book, "The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama." (Here's a N.Y. Time article on it.)

But guess who's moderating the third Presidential debate? Hints: His family has close ties to the Bush's; he is a Bush golf crony; and Bush appointed his brother ambassador to Australia, and Japan.

daulton

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Friday September 12, 2008 · 8:57 PM PDT

2008/09/12 · 20:57

That was the message of cognitive linguist George Lakoff’s excellent diary yesterday. He advised Obama’s message crafters (e.g., us) to watch word association.

BAD: McCain is no MAVERICK.
BETTER: McCain is a WEATHER VANE.

BAD: McCain offers no MEANINGFUL CHANGE.
BETTER: McCain means more of the SAME FAILURE.

BAD: McCain is not telling the TRUTH.
BETTER: McCain is a McFIBBER.

What’s wrong with the BADs?

Your mind associates words despite the "not"s and "no"s. (After all--your brain says--if there was no "Maverick" quality to McCain...why do I always hear "Maverick" and "McCain" together?) Ditto "MEANINGFUL CHANGE" and "TRUTH."

(Do you have any of your own BAD’s and BETTERs to offer? The BAD's are not hard to spot; but finding the right BETTER is a challenge.)

daulton

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Friday August 29, 2008 · 9:11 PM PDT

2008/08/29 · 21:11

I would like to ask the organizers to mention our local progressive radio station during the event warm-up.

It’s virtually the only progressive station in the state (smack in the center), and a little boost to our ratings right now can help keep us on the air--at least through the election.

From this diary I see that Obama recently kicked back at the media (finally a candidate who feels our anger). So maybe they will help.

I know this is last minute, which is why I am posting it to DKOS.

daulton

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Tuesday July 29, 2008 · 8:48 PM PDT

2008/07/29 · 20:48

...Peter B. Collins, Donna Halper, Roger Libby, John Nichols , John Quinlan, Lee Rayburn, Brian Turany, and Cenk Uygur will be participating in a symposium August 1–3, 2008, at the Exhibition Hall of the Alliant Energy Center in Madison, WI.

Please come, or send a donation, at NonStopRadio.com

A week after an O'Reilly/Hannity/Savage fan murdered two at a Unitarian Unversalist church, it is fitting to take a hard look at American Radio--AND WHAT WE CAN DO ABOUT IT.

Too often we treat it like the weather--as if it is inevitable that 91% of radio is right-wing, and the 45% of Americans with no high-speed web access are to be surrendered to the big-drum-big-lies of Republican media.

But you CAN do something. I'm proof, as is the organizer of this event. My testimonial (and event details), below.

daulton

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Sunday June 29, 2008 · 8:01 PM PDT

2008/06/29 · 20:01

I a new low for meat puppetry, CNN spokes model Rick Sanchez just now said Gen. Wesley Clark "swiftboated" McCain when Clark said getting shot down does not qualify someone to be President.

(Hey! Maybe it's true! Even the little words at the bottom of the screen said so!)

I guess Sanchez missed the day in main-stream-steno-pool class when they explained that SWIFTBOATING MEANS TELLING A LIE.

Got that Sanchez? Okay, let's check. Here's the quiz:

daulton

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Sunday June 08, 2008 · 2:10 PM PDT

2008/06/08 · 14:10

Yesterday someone posted a diary about how they responded to anti-Obama hate emails by asking to be taken off mailing lists.

I decided to respond with a more Obama-esque tac--responding politely, and raising the ante, just as Obama has done with McCain. My email is below.

Yes, it takes a little courage to stand up to flat out misinformation (and it would be so much easier to just ignore the emails), but if Obama can do it, it's the least I can do.

And better to "REPLY" one candle, than to "DELETE" the darkness.

(By the way, ever notice how right-wingers don't seem to be able to master the concept of "BCC". All the better for responding to everyone in the forwards!)

daulton

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Friday May 09, 2008 · 12:06 AM PDT

2008/05/09 · 00:06

Yes you have (and your contributions are why he may win).

Yes, if you gave to Hillary or Obama, you have already paid for ads on Clear Channel, Sinclair, and even Fox. And your contributed dollars will flood in that direction in the fall.

And the little 30-second ads you are paying for are maintaining a huge 24/7 barrage of flag-pin, Rev. Wright, global-warming-is-a-hoax, the-surge-worked, "what-recession?" right-wing propaganda.

Great work Democratic Party. It’s like paying to put your very own bumper sticker on the swiftboat that runs you down.

daulton

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Sunday March 23, 2008 · 10:59 PM PDT

2008/03/23 · 22:59

As a former Democrat, Lieberman was used to being held accountable by the media.

So he instinctively reacted when he heard McCain spout a total fabrication--one that McCain had been repeating UNCHALLENGED for weeks.

I’m talking about Lieberman’s whispered correction in McCain’s ear--which, as Rachel Maddow marvelled last week--seems to have legs.

What exquisite irony that turn-coat Lieberman has carried the virus of reality into the Republican camp—and they are coming down with it.

I’m sure by now some Rove-type has pulled Lieberman aside and said "Look, it doesn’t matter if it’s true. We’re Republicans." But the damage is done. It’s indelible (IMHO, because it’s funny).

In short, "Ehhhhhxcellent!!!"

(What possible actions am I leading up to? Go all the way to the bottom.)

daulton

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Saturday March 22, 2008 · 5:19 PM PDT

2008/03/22 · 17:19

I am buying two bumper stickers:

One for Obama, that will go on my car.

One for Hillary, that will go in my glove compartment.

I hereby pledge that if Hillary gets the nomination, that same day, her sticker will cover Obama’s.

Can I get a Hillary supporter out there to reciprocate?

Remember that the sniping between the two candidates is spitballs compared to the barrage they both face hourly from Fox, CNN, Sinclair, Clear Channel, 91% of talk radio, and the insipid American steno-pool excuse-for-media that relentlessly resonates to the right-wing drums.

And the fact is, whichever candidate loses, the loss will be much more due to Rush and O’Reilly than due to the other candidate.

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Will you take the two-bumper-sticker pledge?

94 votes Vote Now!

Will you take the two-bumper-sticker pledge?

Yep, I will support the party.

48 votes

Nope. It's all or nothing for me.

46 votes

A plea from Ohio: Don’t feed the Clear Channel Beast

daulton

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Tuesday February 19, 2008 · 9:22 PM PST

2008/02/19 · 21:22

I am asking both Obama and Hillary: Here in Ohio, please don’t feed the Clear Channel Beast.

We have one progressive station in the whole state: WVKO 1580 AM here in Columbus. If there have been any ads there for Democratic candidates, I have not heard them yet.

But there have already been Democratic Presidential ads on at least two local right-wing Clear Channel stations (that I know of).

Why? Why would you pay for your own swift boat? Why would you fund 30-second ads that then fund 24/7 Democrat-bashing?

daulton

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Sunday January 13, 2008 · 9:13 AM PST

2008/01/13 · 09:13

And a Republican Senator is calling him on it.

In a letter to the White House last week, Republican Senator George Voinovich of Ohio pointed out that Bush’s so-called deficit reducing budget is off by "hundreds of billions, if not trillions, of dollars."

Voinovich said Bush’s 2009 budget proposal is based on keeping the Alternate Minimum Tax as is, and on cuts to Medicare physician reimbursements--neither of which is likely, and both of which Bush opposes.

daulton

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Wednesday January 02, 2008 · 11:02 PM PST

2008/01/02 · 23:02

Whenever I write to my local paper, I imagine I’m writing to those fur-capped Wicked-Witch-of-the-West palace guards.

After all, they must READ their own paper, and news is news, and despite sometimes running those Rameriz cartoons. and stone-age columnists, and twice endorsing His Petulancy for Prez, SURELY they can see the in-frigging-credible mess W has made.

And surely, if anyone ever threw a bucket of water on W, and he melted, there would be involuntary cheers throughout the newsroom/guardhouse.

But for now, they are the guards, and one must speak to them tactfully. So when the Editor of the Columbus Dispatch asked for suggestion for improving the paper, I took the diplomatic route, and decided to make good use of an under-appreciated resource here at DKOS--Jotter’s list of high-impact diaries.

(Maybe some of you could write similar letters to your local newspapers--or otherwise use Jotter's diaries to recruit others to read DKOS.)

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41 votes Vote Now!

Have you ever turned-on someone to DKOS?

Yes. And the world is a better place.

35 votes

No. I don't want people to know I'm a Communist.

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