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9/11 Health Bill: Who Deserves More Credit, Jon Stewart or Shep Smith?
By Nathaniel Jones - AOL NewsGiving government health benefits to the 9/11 first responders may have seemed like a no-brainer to everyone from Barack Obama to Rudy Giuliani, but it took the efforts of two talking heads to push it through Congress. After months of debate, one compromise that included billions of dollars in benefits cuts and one extended act of public shaming for the opposition, the Senate unanimously passed a $4 billion bill giving health benefits to 9/11 workers today. In part, the public shaming of Republican members of Congress by Comedy Central's Jon Stewart and Fox News' Shepard Smith can be ...
Obama on 'The Daily Show' -- or Was It 'House of Wax'?
By Robert and Donna Trussell - Politics DailyFollow the Trussell cartoons on Twitter at ChaosTheoryPD ...
Rick Sanchez and the All-Time-Greatest Jon Stewart Apologies [VIDEO]
By David Knowles - AOL News(Oct. 6) -- That wasn't so hard, was it? On Wednesday, former CNN anchor Rick Sanchez issued a formal apology to Comedy Central's Jon Stewart for calling "The Daily Show" host a bigot and implying that Jews control the media. "On October 4th, I had a very good conversation with Jon Stewart," Sanchez's statement began, "and I had the opportunity to apologize for my inartful comments from last week. I sincerely extend this apology to anyone else whom I may have offended." Sanchez, however, is by no means the first news personality to offer the fake newsman such a gesture. Surge Desk travels ...
Kernel of Truthiness Behind Rick Sanchez's Ugly Rant
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No, not the anti-Semitic part, no word of which deserves defending. But there is a sad, circular pattern to the bigotry that Sanchez obviously experienced and was scarred by, embittered to the point that even as a successful cable anchor, it escaped his lips one day and blew up his career. That's why racism, and every form of discrimination, is so insidious: It can make you crazy, and is very, very hard to make a clean break from. ...
The Kernel of Truthiness Behind Rick Sanchez's Ugly Rant
By Melinda Henneberger - Politics DailyNo, not the anti-Semitic part, no word of which deserves defending. But there is a sad, circular pattern to the bigotry that Sanchez obviously experienced and was scarred by, embittered to the point that even as a successful cable anchor, it escaped his lips one day and blew up his career. That's why racism, and every form of discrimination, is so insidious: It can make you crazy, and is very, very hard to make a clean break from. For those who missed the story, Sanchez was fired from CNN on Friday after an Oh-My-Lord Sirius/XM radio interview in which he may have made his new book, ...
Jon Stewart: 'Ground Zero Mosque' Funding Source 'Owns' Fox News
By David Knowles - AOL News(Aug. 24) -- A case of "do as they say, not as they do"? For the Fox News cable television network, opposition to Park51 (the Cordoba House), the proposed Islamic cultural center slated to be built just blocks from the site of the 9/11 terror attacks in lower Manhattan, has been something of a shared cause among the station's hosts and commentators. In particular, on Monday morning, the program "Fox & Friends" ran a segment in which the hosts, Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade, interviewed former Bush administration spokespeople Dan Senor and Dana Perino regarding the funding sources for ...
Jon Stewart and 'The Daily Show': They're Just Not That Into Lame Female Comics
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyMeritocracies are brutal. You should know, since you yourself practiced a kind of meritocracy. As a child, you were bigger than the bug. Splat! Too bad for you, bug. How dare you exist. In the adult world, however, distinguishing between a true meritocracy and a prejudicial pattern of hiring is not so clear cut. In the last couple of weeks the Internet has been rippling with controversy over "The Daily Show's" lack of women -- "The Daily Show's Woman Problem," by Irin Carmon on jezebel.com, "Outrage World: How Feminist Blogs Like Jezebel Gin Up Page Views by Exploiting Women's Worst ...
Elizabeth Warren: Bank Watchdog Who Belongs on Supreme Court
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyOn Monday CNN reported that Elizabeth Warren, Harvard law professor and chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel for the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP), made the short list of nominees to replace Justice John Paul Stevens. What a difference a year makes. I called it here on Politics Daily last May, but back then I was dreaming more than predicting. ...
Chaos Theory - K Street Memo, Leaked!
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Is Dennis Kucinich Joining the Tea Party Movement?
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyMy time-space continuum warped when I heard that Dennis Kucinich had talked to tea partiers and found common ground. After the Democratic defeat in Massachusetts last month, Kucinich said, "There's nothing liberal about the bailouts. There's nothing liberal about standing by and watching banks use public money to get their executive bonuses. There's nothing liberal about giving insurance companies carte blanche to charge anything they want for health care...Since when did that become liberal?" A lot of citizens who once stumped for Obama – for change and hope, they thought – feel ...
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