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The Thread For 3/3/14: The (Needed) End of The Phrase 'African-American"

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Of the mini dynamics of blacks winning last night at the 2014 Academy Awards was the always intriguing usage of the phrase "African-American" and how its life span should be in grave condition. Last night, some white controlled media organizations forgot to do their simple two second research and see that Steve McQueen is not an American (thankfully that wasn't the case with Lupita Nyongo from what I have seen). It was such a lazy display that was simply all too predictable and how the term "African-American" has morphed as a second meaning of 'black' in American society. Hey @MSNBC Steve McQueen is not African American. He's British. Really, it's OK to just call him black. — gwen ifill (@gwenifill) March 3, 2014 But... he's British. RT @RollingStone : #12YearsASlave 's #Oscars win makes it the 1st time a film by an African-American has won Best Picture — April (@ReignOfApril) March 3, 2014 MSNBC and Rolling Stones were apa...

The Thread #1 For 11/26/13: That Question You Won't Hear Asked in America.......Heard

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"Is it irrational for Iran to have a nuclear weapon?"  A good friend of this mostly irrelevant site and colleague in Chris Hayes had on his show last night Rep. Eliot Engel with the good sir that is Hooman Majd, and asked that great question above to Engel's pro-AIPAC, pro-Zionist loving self. It was a question that you will never hear anywhere else in American cable or broadcast news unless from a real journalist. You will see Hayes' pertinent question from the mouths of faux-centrist journalists who have hurt this country for so long with their shoddy work. Also, Majd was terrific in not backing down to Engel's usual dismissive, disturbing, and disgraceful pro-Zionist bias. If I were hosting the show, I would have definitely joined in on slamming Engel for calling Rouhini a "hard-liner," when he is certainly not that. More to come from The Whole Delivery, stay tuned. 

The Reel Feel For 11/17/12: Our Failed US Media

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And our one sided storytelling from cable news........ And how it is fairly covered: And let's use a snark photo to highlight the discrepancy:  Another another one: And yet, we always report from our centrists with the Zionists, even reckless fools like Netanyahu, getting all the headlines and treatment first and foremost. It really is embarrassing. 

TWD Election 2012 Closing Thread For 11/6-77/12: The Winning Photos

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Weird lady with the flag More tomorrow on  The Postscript coverage, but really folks, I want to thank you all for just watching and looking at this site during a special election season, as it always is when it comes to this weird, sometimes wonderful, sometimes woeful, American democracy.  It has been another eye opening journey on the road to the voting polls, and hoped someone was facilitated by this page. So until next time, from The Whole Delivery, I am Andrew Jones. So long and congratulations to all of the winners this evening from all parties and non-parties across the board. And most importantly, congratulations to all of you for voting and giving a major slap to the face to many narratives thinking the voting fervor would not be as high as four years ago.  

The Election 2012 Mid-Day Thread #1 For 11/6/12: Voter Suppression Is Not A Joke Joe

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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...

"First Thought I Had Was....Were We In America?"

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The pictures are powerful: Photos from the AJC The story is even more powerful: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news , world news , and news about the economy Reporter Ron Mutt couldn't have asked a more poignant question in the utter insanity that was this today : Thirty thousand people showed up to receive Section 8 housing applications in East Point Wednesday , suffering through hours in the hot sun, angry flare-ups in the crowd and lots of frustration and confusion for a chance to receive a government-subsidized apartment. The massive event sometimes descended into a chaotic mob scene filled with anger and impatience. Some 62 people needed medical attention and 20 of them were transported to a hospital, authorities said. A baby went into a seizure in the heat and was stabilized at a hospital. People were removed on stretchers and when a throng of people who had been waiting hours in a line were told to move to another line, people started pushing, shoving and cursing, witnes...

Dylan Ratigan Lets Michelle Bernard Advocate "Abolishing Teacher's Unions"

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I'm sort of in the middle to leaning "he does more to not annoy me" than he does "to annoy me" on Dylan Ratigan. Though he was nowhere to be found yelling about the perils of what the out of control trading on Wall Street when he was on CNBC the last few years, Ratigan has been nothing but a relentless critic on the "rich and powerful" almost every single day in his tenure as a highlighted MSNBC host. Some days has led to just awesome rants on the likes of Geithner, Rubin, or even tea bagging nutcases like Mark Williams and "The only nan who could hate Shirley Sherrod in this world," Mr. Breitbart. But Ratigan still pays this silly homage and respect to the Right and some conservatives daily, thinking that their perspective, if it comes from the honest heart, is just as commendable as the progressive wing in the Democratic Party. Giving attention to those at the Washington Examiner and feeling like people of the Ron Paul nature truly ...

The Sunday 1st Thread (Late Edition) For 7/25/10: Dancing Dave Thinks The NAACP Is Ideologically Fringe!

The latest embodiment of our sad media news culture. This happen almost 48 hours ago as of this post, but I had to just see it and think about it again to believe it. Oy: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news , world news , and news about the economy The NAACP is the left equivalent to the Tea Party because the Tea Party is mostly white and the NAACP is mostly black. Aha, both are fringes then too!!! That is the thought and mind of most in our "State of Jokenalism 2010." Because it sure isn't journalism. Other Little Deliveries: The Orange sure would led the House so bad, you will wish for Newt Gingrich . The sad story of Abdul Naji and how rendition still goes freely on under Obama . From the great Political Carnival, video of Howard Dean calling Fox News "racist." A solar powered process could reduce carbon dioxide to pre-industrial levels . And a free marketed raided : Federal agents on Saturday raided a Houston flea market and arrested 18 susp...

The 2nd Thread For 7/22/10: Hell, They Were All Good

Because it wasn't just Keith who had something that you needed to see last night . Visit msnbc.com for breaking news , world news , and news about the economy Ed should not be forgotten about as well, for he has struck an important needed tone of late: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news , world news , and news about the economy And MLH raised it to another level, and really got at the NAACP and even Crash, making it even sweeter: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news , world news , and news about the economy "My gosh, just Google." All is just needed to be seen instead of all the other crap in the media.

The 1st Thread For 5/22/10: A Classic Special Comment

It was a classic, and a needed one: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news , world news , and news about the economy

Our Liberal Media, Double The Pleasure, Double The Fun!

As most know the story by now, Phil Griffin banned Kos today from MSNBC because Joe Scarborough runs his world . Greg Sargent brings up a great point of how hypocritical and utterly gutless Griffin's decision was. Griffin, trying his best Jeff Zucker/Dick Ebersol impersonation, put out the anathema on Kos as soon as possible once Scarborough whined to him. But Griffin and his no stringent attitude was nowhere to be found when Liz Cheney happily smeared two of his night time hosts Keith Olbermann and Ed Schultz when she had her wonderful ad calling them virtually "cowards" towards her. And Sargent makes sure that everyone remembers that : It's funny. I don't recall the chief of MSNBC publicly banning Liz Cheney from appearing on the network when she cut an entire Web video "publicly antagonizing" Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews for allegedly being too frightened to debate her about terrorism: It really is disheartening, as a fledging journalis...

The Olbermann/Maddow Live Thread For 6/29/10: The Angle Primetime Interview

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Apologizing To His Masters

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And basically leading to a great political day for all Democrats : That is what you do for your masters . The White House and Democrats have gone right away at seizing on Barton's unbelievable stupidity . "What is shameful is that Joe Barton seems to have more concern for big corporations that caused this disaster than the fishermen, small business owners and communities whose lives have been devastated by the destruction. Congressman Barton may think that a fund to compensate these Americans is a 'tragedy', but most Americans know that the real tragedy is what the men and women of the Gulf Coast are going through right now. Members from both parties should repudiate his comments." And how did the TV people cover it?? Update 4 -- CNN and MSNBC both replayed Barton's apology to BP at the top of the hour. Fox completely ignored it. Go figure. CNN also played Markey's response. I guess Barton's other masters at Fox didn't want to see their ...

Yesterday's Leftovers For 6/10/10: Your Village Media Idiots, Laughing At Unions Practicing Democracy

Village stupid elitist at it's very worse, courtesy of the Bi-polar one and Alan Greenspan's wife: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news , world news , and news about the economy You get that ladies and gentlemen. "Union leaders were so dumb," and "Blanche Lincoln was running against the establishment." Let me repeat that last sentence for you, because I know it is hard for you to digest and not spit something out on your computer screen when you heard and read it. "Blanche Lincoln was running against the establishment." Only in the Village can the Villagers can say something so extraordinary like that. Only in the Village. What makes this so appalling is that Mitchell and Matthews give the viewer their personal pathetic feelings of love for their Beltway friend Blanche, and how the White House should have protected her at all costs so their friend won't have to leave the "House of Lords", I mean, the Senate. And they don't ...

The One Sentence Thread For 6/8/10: The Ultimate "Back of a Milk Carton" Guy

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Seriously, what happened to this guy, his website , his career, and just..........him?

Something So Important About "Good Journalism"

I can't stress enough how important Keith Olbermann's words here about Campbell Brown's and CNN's continue sad exploitation of the "false equivalency" model. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news , world news , and news about the economy I cannot ameliorate Olbermann's words here. His description of the current crisis of journalism pervading through cable television right now is spot on. I would bet you a lot of money that Campbell Brown, Joe Klein, and the others over at CNN think that Bill Moyers was a partisan ultra liberal commentator instead of one of the few true class journalists remaining on television. It's the indolent thinking, the shoddy effort, at finding the whole truth that CNN has so sadly mired into fully. And it is the same position that frankly all of cable news television outside of Keith, Rachel, and Ed Schultz are currently in as well.

The Smackdown of the Day

Courtesy of Glenn Greenwald screwing Elliot Spitzer a new one and all for his ridiculous and constant defense of Israel : Visit msnbc.com for breaking news , world news , and news about the economy

The 1st Thread For 5/20/10: Apologies Need To Be Given To Blumenthal, PRONTO

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Photo from The New York Times, the place that should apologize the most to Richard Blumenthal After assessing over the situation from a variety of perspectives , it is without a shadow of a doubt time for Richard Blumenthal to be delivered a heap of penitence from a wide variety of people, including myself. Most importantly however (because the campaign of the World Wrestling Entertainment group won't even dare bother to do so), the apologies to this man and the fierce blacklash that he has faced from this highly sensitive issue should come first from Raymond Hernandez , spokesperson Diane McNulty , and the rest of the New York Times . Just from a young fledgling journalist's perspective, seeing the New York Times have another embarrassing moment highlights how much of an utter hell hole journalism has become in America (and continues to diminish by the second), and how mind-numbingly depressing it can get witnessing it. But with how long they took to show any remorse f...

The Tube For 5/19/10: Oh Rand Paul Is Already A Legend

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news , world news , and news about the economy Epic legend.

The 1st Thread For 5/19/10: Dean- "Big Night For Progressives"

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Because it simply was : Former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean said in an interview that Tuesday's elections look like a "pretty big sweep" for progressives. "They are having a big night," he said. "My belief is that progressive Dems are a lot more appealing to mainstream voters than tea party advocates," Dean told me in an interview just after Rep. Joe Sestak was declared the winner over Sen. Arlen Specter in the Pennsylvania Democratic Senate primary. "This is a big night for people who really want Washington to be a change agent," Dean said, adding the results show a "backlash" against both parties in official Washington. Dean, also former governor of Vermont and a 2004 presidential candidate, said he views Jack Conway as the progressive choice in Kentucky and said Lt. Gov. Bill Halter's forcing of a runoff in Arkansas proves that candidates on the left can prevail. Yet so far, the focus is alway...