Who are the tangible funny people in American politics?

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My Salon colleague, Mark Benjamin, writes about last nights LarryKingShow -- featuring a discuss in in between Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson and GOPRep. Michelle Bachmann -- and does so by regularly branding Grayson as "crazy" in the same approach that Bachmann is. Beginning with the articles headline("Bachmann and Grayson: A diary of crazy") to his spiteful outline of "these dual soaring intellects"to his explain that Grayson and Bachmann are "the Candy Stripers of Crazy of their parties,"Benjamin denigrates Graysons genius and mental health by depicting him -- with probably no cited basement -- as the Democratic counterpart picture of Bachmanns rabid, out-of-touch extremism. This perspective of Grayson has turn a practical Washington platitude, no longer soft by The New York Times" DavidHerszenhorns exclusion of Grayson as "the ultimate incarnation of what in the American domestic jargon is well known as a wing nut."

There are so most things wrong this analysis. To proceed with, the a classical box of fake journalistic objectivity:the constraint of reporters to predicate equivalencies in in between the "two sides" in any case of either they are essentially equal(since I"m job a GOPmember of...

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Harold Ford Not Running For Senate In New York

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Rep. Harold Ford (D-TN), who had been mulling a run for Senate in New York opposite allocated Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, has motionless not to run.

The story was initial reported by the New York Post. Afterwards, the New York Times expelled portions of an perspective square that Ford wrote for the paper, to be run in the whole tomorrow. (Late update: The op-ed is right away up in the entirety.)

"I"ve carefully thought about this competition in each probable way, and I keep returning to the same elemental conclusion: If I run, the expected outcome would be a heartless and rarely disastrous Democratic first -- a first where the leader emerges enervated and the Republican strengthened," Ford wrote. He continued: "I exclude to do anything that would assistance Republicans win a Senate chair in New York, and give the Senate infancy to the Republicans."

Fords mouthpiece Tammy Sun declined to criticism to TPM.

Assemblyman Vito Lopez, who had formerly indicated that he could have upheld Ford, told the New York Post: "After giving it substantial thought and articulate it over with his wife, he reached the end that he would not be running, nonetheless he pronounced he would similar to to sojourn active in the...

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Is the Future Bright for Progressive Media? Media and Culture

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Feb 25, 2010

While the journalistic establishment, and even progressives similar to Bob McChesney and John Nichols draw out their hands over the passing of advertising-driven corporate journalism, activists and reporters Tracy Van Slyke and Jessica Clark have selected to discuss it a different, some-more certain story about the destiny of media in America.

In their book Beyond the Echo Chamber: Reshaping Politics Through Networked Progressive Media (New Press), the authors take us on a celebratory tour by the comparatively new (over the past eight years) surge of independent, on-going media. The end they reach is undeniable: by each measure, what we know as the on-going media and the netroots, reaches far incomparable audiences -- millions of people each day -- and is decidedly some-more successful than ever before.

In the old days, it was deliberate a big success when a on-going repository had 200,000 monthly subscribers. But today, there are a dozen or some-more blogs, magazines and online headlines sites that have enjoyed some-more than a million singular readers in a month. A not prolonged ago shaped Ad Progress Network, founded by AlterNet, The Nation, and Mother Jones, and assimilated by American Prospect, The New Republic and others, reaches over 4 million people. And by the way, on-going media is not in crisis, essentially since it is not contingent on one source of income -- promotion -- as corporate media is, but rather is mostly upheld by a brew of grants, reader donations, promotion sales and list partnerships with the large non-profit advocacy sector.

Led by assertive beautiful media makers similar to Robert Greenwald of Brave New Films, Markos Moulitsas of the Daily Kos, Jane Hamsher of FireDogLake, John Byrne of Raw Story, and Mark Karlin of BuzzFlash, the new on-going media have make use of a range of strategies and strategy that are far some-more hard-hitting and activist-oriented than the not as big imitation repository star that dominated on-going media for a prolonged time. (Heck, the Nation repository is 145 years old.)

But prior to the on-going media investiture gets as well cocky about the role, there are still vital weaknesses and a little dim clouds on the horizon. Clark and Van Slyke dont avoid the obstacles, spending the improved half of the book weaving the hurdles of the destiny with the success stories and compelling models of amicable networking and partnership they feel can enlarge the on-going medias new-found influence.

What Are Progressive Media?

Progressive media are done up of a large pick up of entities of all sizes and smoothness systems. But by far, their largest assembly is online.

Progressive media are ideologically diverse, trimming from magnanimous to radical. Roughly speaking, the thousands of people who have on-going media occur in all to hold in creation the universe a improved place by their media efforts. They are fighting for a some-more satisfactory and only society; the democratization of information; vocalization law to energy and holding amicable systems and inaugurated officials under obligation (to name a couple of the values progressives support). Many on-going media outfits make use of perspectiveing and inquisitive reporting, whilst others are far some-more peaceful to have make use of agit column and rarely successful organizing strategy for sketch courtesy to issues and causes.

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The Unemployed Now Have Their Own Union and Its Catching on Quickly Economy

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Its been usually a month that a kinship for the impoverished has come in to life by an inventive grassroots organizing campaign. In box you havent listened about it, the unions name is UR Union of the Unemployed or the nickname, UCubed, since of the singular process of organizing.

UCubed is the contrivance of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM), whose leaders feel that the millions of impoverished workers need a kinship of their own to stick on in the onslaught for large jobs programs.

The thought is that if millions of jobless stick on together and action as an organization, they are some-more expected to get Congress and the White House to yield the jobs that are urgently needed. They can additionally request vigour for health word coverage, stagnation word and COBRA benefits and food stamps. An impoverished workman is probably infirm if he or she has to action alone.

Joining a Cube is as elementary as it is important. (Please check the kinship web site: www.unionofunemployed.com). Six people who live in the same zip formula residence can form a Ucube. Nine such UCubes have a neighborhood. Three area UCubes form a energy retard that cntains 162 activists. Politicians cannot simply omit a crowd of energy blocks, nor can merchants equivocate them.

The kinship is built from the belligerent up. Cube activists will name their own care in each cube, neighborhood, retard and higher organisation as well.

Jobless Unions Encouraging Progress in One Month

The UR Union of Unemployed (or UCubed) already has members in over 300 zip formula addresses and 43 states, reports Rick Sloan, behaving senior manager executive of the union. Seventy-five cubes are up and running. For the initial month, 19,998 people visited the site and noticed over 138,000 pages of content.

The unions Op-Ed essay appeared in 62 newspapers, trimming from the Black News to the Mexican American Sun, and from the Las Vegas Tribune to the Senior Life of Northern Indiana. Total dissemination exceeded twelve million readers,

UCubed put out 3 press releases last month, informing politicians in Washington that the kinship of impoverished will be watching--and reacting--to their opinion on the ultimate pursuit proposals of the Obama administration.

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It is to the value of the AFL-CIO and Change to Win to inspire their impoverished members to experience in the UCubed organizing campaign. It is critical for orderly work to arrangement suggestive magnetism and oneness with those who have been but a compensate check for most months. A large kinship of impoverished workers can be an critical fan in domestic campaigns and a source of legions of volunteers. When those impoverished workers eventually get behind to their jobs, we wish them to have a auspicious mental recall of how unions stood by their side.

Lets give the impoverished the await they need to be in effect in their own defense.

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Dump Your Palin Stock?

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That is, if you think shes going to be a presidential contender in 2012. MSNBCs First Read newsletter assesses of Palins stream on all sides in the domestic firmamentand the design doesnt bode well for those who"d similar to one day to call her Madam President:

The Palin question: After giving at slightest 4 high-profile speeches in the last integrate of weeks -- for John McCains re-election, in Searchlight, NV, at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference, and yesterday in Boston -- we once again lift this subject about Sarah Palin: Is she some-more successful with the media than she is with Republicans? For example, she placed third at the SRLC straw check (a unsatisfactory finish when you cruise that the winner, Mitt Romney, didnt show up and that Ron Paul was second). In addition, a New York Times/CBS check finds that a comparison of self-identified Tea Party members dont think shes competent to be president. And right away Kentucky Senate claimant Trey Grayson (R)&says Palin isnt competent for the White House. No disbelief that shes a domestic celebrity, but that isnt indispensably translating in to GOP support. There is flourishing justification that she is not the domestic force a little would similar to to hold (indeed, if she...

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Can a Funding Boost From the Obama Administration Save the Great Lakes? Water

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Feb 24, 2010 &

When I was vital in Chicago as a youngster, I never went swimming in Lake Michigan. There were regularly rumors about poisonous containing alkali levels in the lake and torpedo carp that had filthy the the greatest name in the Great Lakes. I competence shift my mind subsequent time I go home if the Obama administrations $2 billion plan comes to delight to purify up the Great Lakes by expelling poisonous decay and invasive species.

The plan sets in reserve $2.2 billion over five years and is minute in a 41-page plan expelled yesterday. It calls for a zero-tolerance process for invasive species, together with the Asian carp, the feared fish of my youth.

From the NY Times:

The plan envisions spending some-more than $2.2 billion for long-awaited repairs after a century of repairs to the lakes, that hold twenty percent of the worlds freshwater.

Lisa Jackson, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator, expelled the plans at a headlines discussion on Sunday in Washington.

Among the goals is receiving a zero-tolerance process toward destiny invasions by unfamiliar species, together with the Asian carp, a voracious fish that has overshoot tools of the Mississippi River complement and is melancholy to come in Lake Michigan.

Others embody cleaning up the regions majority heavily soiled sites, restoring wetlands and alternative consequential habitat, and mending H2O peculiarity in shoal areas, where runoff from cities and farms has led to unsightly algae blooms and beach closings.

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The appropriation comes on tip of $475 million that Congress appropriated last year for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative. President Obama affianced during the debate to outlay $5 billion on the Great Lakes over 10 years. Hes half approach there.

The plan additionally stoked hopes for a quip of the lake sturgeon, that can reach 8 feet and 200 pounds. If they get off the involved class list I"m receiving my pops, who still calls Chicago home, fishing.

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The Stunningly Persistent & Fact-Free Propaganda of Tom Friedman

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Look, the roughly purposeless to write about how honestly low Tom Friedman is. Its same to wailing that a stable animal cant do elementary arithmetic. But I have to dwindle this column, since it captures so most shibboleths fundamental in his attribution brew of irrationality and elitism:

To lead right away is to trim, to glow or to downsize services, programs or personnel. We"ve left from the age of supervision handouts to the age of adult givebacks...

Mr. Obama won the choosing since he was means to "rent" a poignant series of eccentric electorate - together with Republican commercial operation sorts who had never voted for a Democrat in their lives - since they knew in their courage that the nation was on the wrong track...

They thought that Mr. Obama, notwithstanding his magnanimous credentials, had the singular skills, temperament, voice and values to lift the nation together for this new Apollo module - not to take us to the moon, but in to the 21st century. (emphasis added)

First of all, the age of "government handouts" is over? Really? What about the bank bailouts around TARP and the Federal Reserve?

Well, to Friedman those possibly dont count, or are only officious awesome. This is a man who tied together in to super-wealth and who hangs out and quotes roughly exclusively...

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