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If you haven't seen it yet, it's worth seeing, just for the Tara Reid reference alone: But making this more than the usual Fun thread around here is an amazing story of the most courageous voter today, down in Florida.  In Escambia County, Florida’s westernmost county on the Panhandle, there was a report of a woman falling in the parking lot. She broke her leg, but she still voted.  She was carried into the polling place by her husband so she could vote and then was transported to the hospital,” Detzner said. “We’re grateful for her interest and passion to vote.” Don't know if she voted for Romney, Obama, Rocky Anderson, or Mickey Mouse, but you will find it a difficult task to locate a tougher voter than this lady in America today. More great election stories and coverage from TWD later, stay tuned. UPDATED: Okay, that broken leg lady has competition: At 21, Galicia Malone of Dolton is eligible to vote for the first time in a presidential election.  ...

Proud Maryland native and House member Elijah Cummings (D) really was annoyed this morning with Mo(u)rning Jo(k)e laughing off voter suppression efforts throughout the country from Republicans yesterday. And he certainly expressed that quite candidly to them face to face. Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news , world news , and news about the economy "This thing, I listen to you all Joe yesterday, y'all were kind of laughing about it. It's a very serious issue.   It's an emotional (issue) . I predicted a very long time ago that African-american people would come out in record numbers, and that is already happening in my district. They are coming out in records numbers because they do not like the idea that there seems to be a concerted effort to stop them for voting."   Scarborough blamed David Gregory, who is even worse of course, with his silence on the issue on Meet The Press all throughout the election season despite supposedly being...

This election has featured desperation by our centrist, corporate media to make this as much of a horserace as possible. Every chance of a poll showing a tight race has been ushered onto TV producer's laps with their hosts so happy to get the news of a race being so close. Chuck Todd, Andrea Mitchell, the Morning Joe crew, and all the folks at CNN are always desperate for a nail-bitter, and have gladly mentioned any poll from any source to push that idea. But try as they might, with barely acknowledging Republican voter suppression efforts to not mess up their dream 2000 or 2004 narrative, it looks like it will not work whatsoever. And it will be incumbent (no pun intended) on many people requesting that polling organizations begin a fundamental overhaul of conducting their polls immediately. The obsession over highlighting racially excursionist "Likely Voter" models has been antiquated since 2008. Now you can apply that to mid-term election years, but with...

King Mike and one of his many wealthy buddies in Road Runners queen Mary Wittenberg were full stream ahead with having their marathon go as planned today all throughout Friday, until regular New Yorkers, especially in the marathon's starting point in Staten Island, gave their thoughts on how idiotic and immoral their out of touch plutocratic thoughts were. One Staten Island native putting it clear as day how angry they were (and still are) at Bloomberg was Maryanne Alessio on Fox News' Neil Cavuto, a network that certainly felt the need to rip Bloomberg constantly after he tepidly endorsed Obama the day before. It was one of the rare times when Fox News and Cavuto actually produced something meaningful and worth a damn (Apologies for the audio being low and not having the equipment to get it properly off TV yet, but if you are in a quiet location and turn the volume up to its highest, you will hear it all). "I think the marathon is a disgrace and shame on Blo...

In America, a lack of accountability leads to shameless clowns like this royal clown to continue to say clownish things with t heir clownish personalities. "One thing he's gonna be asked is, why did he jump on this so quickly and go back to D.C. so quickly when in...Benghazi, he went to Las Vegas?" Brown says. "Why was this so quick?... At some point, somebody's going to ask that question.... This is like the inverse of Benghazi." Thankfully, Kate Sheppard is the opposite of a clown One has to wonder why Brown even bothers. He would be better off if he just stayed quiet and stopped reminding everyone of his past.  But the fact that someone even thought he was worth listening to at all shows how much of a clown profession our overall journalism is in sometimes occasionally clown America. 

And it is from CBS' Bill Plante, who really embarrassed himself with this question today, "How will this effect the election?" (Go right to mark 5: 38 to the end). Our centrist media, vapid culture, embarrassing itself and thinking about its desperate horserace desires instead of being real journalists focusing on real details. So sad, as always. Plante acted like a Fox News personality today. He ought to be ashamed of himself. (EDIT: New, much more smaller video here). 

So brilliantly dumb, and proud of it: In a sane US journalism world, where forced and desperate centrism for ratings would not be tolerated, this would be the lead story of the day and the entire rest of the week. Instead, it's just swept under the rug by the David Gregory's and Chuck Todd's of the world. It really is wonderful to see Romney's 8th grade study night on Sunday evening produce one of many idiotic lines like this on Monday, October 22, 2012. I guess John Bolton, Dan Senor, Donald Rumsfeld and Sir Cheney from afar and his other neocon advisers most have gotten their Halliburton maps mixed up. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A flashback to yesterday.......It's Twister, the hot spot! A Fun Thread at The Whole Delivery.

I remember yesterday some condemning that "ridiculous, inane idea" that a moderator should fact-check during a debate. Well, look what happened last night. Now although Crowley really didn't want to do it (her facial reaction said it all as she tried to keep her glorified centrist self out of real journalism), she was forced into doing it by the obvious lie and misinformation Romney was throwing. Even more telling is how President Obama said, "Say it louder Candy." I remember most thinking fact checking was something a moderator shouldn't do. Thankfully, Candy Crowley left centrist journalism for one rare moment and did her job before returning to her usual centrist form. And at least in that moment of many humiliating moments for Mitt Romney last night, this is one where an undecided voter cannot say that she or he was not properly informed by the moderator. If only that could be prevalent more times than just one rare moment. It, along ...

  This man really is so elitist weird :   President Barack Obama wooed Americans not yet old enough to vote Monday in a unique children’s television news special that his rival Mitt Romney opted to avoid.  Obama fielded pre-recorded questions from under-18s on topics as varied as the economy, gun control, gay marriage and heartbreak during the half-hour program titled   “Kids Pick the President: The Candidates.” Television news veteran Linda Ellerbee, who hosted the show on the Nickelodeon children’s     channel, told viewers that Romney had been asked since April to participate in the show. But his team replied they were “unable to fit it in” to his schedule — leaving producers to put together a mash-up of Romney sound bites from the campaign trail in the interest of equal time. “I don’t know if it’s a bad thing for the Romney campaign (not to participate), but it is a bad thing for the Nickelodeon audience,” Ellerbee told AFP a few hours be...