Fuck its silent in here.......

[J. Walter Weatherman]

Aren't you the same guys that are ignoring the Black Panter/Eric Holder scandal? And don't you employ Journolist founder Ezra Klein?

There was a quote at the end of the movie "Tears of the Sun": "The only thing Black Panters and people who use email to communicate privately need to prosper is for the massive debt liabilities of a dying newsweekly to be taken on by a billionaire industrialist who isn't a Republican."

Maybe Dem's should stop and think about that for a moment.

[Gilgamesh]

Here is one of those moments in time where you can stick your head in the sand and say liberals don't control the media, its all conservatives all the time in charge....

http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/13852

A deal to sell Newsweek to a 91-year-old stereo equipment magnate will be announced later this afternoon, a move that will signal the end of a half-century of ownership by the Washington Post Company....

According to several people who have been briefed on the process, Mr. Harman's bid appealed to Mr. Graham and the Post Company because Mr. Harman has said he would retain a significant number of the magazine's 325 employees. The financial details of the sale were not known, though one person with knowledge of Mr. Harman's bid said last week that he would pay $1 in exchange for absorbing Newsweek's considerable financial liabilities.

So let's be fair, $1.00 isn't exactly the market value, it's actually much less than that since apparently Mr. Harman is going to take on significant financial liabilities in exchange for the right to lose money from here to eternity on this white elephant. The Washington Post is quite literally giving the entire operation away just to be out from under the obligations – and that tells you all you need to know about what they think the future holds for Newsweek.

But in a fascinating twist, the Post appears to have several offers that were much better than this, offers which would have given their own shareholders a much better return on these assets and on all the money that's been wasted this past year.   So why did they turn down those offers and instead, make their own shareholders take a beating by giving Newsweek away for free?  Because those nasty high bidders might have actually fired some employees and <gasp> CHANGED the editorial direction of the Magazine!  We can't have that, oh heaven forbid, we can't have that!  So better to take a huge loss and  auger this entire operation into the dirt before even considering whether maybe, just maybe, they've been doing things wrong.

Harmon's wife is Jane Harmon a Democrat congresswoman from California.........yep better to give it away and keep it in the DNC family. I bet it was some nasty evil Republicans trying to monopolize even more of the media. Way to stick it to them Wash Post. Aren't you the same guys that are ignoring the Black Panter/Eric Holder scandal? And don't you employ Journolist founder Ezra Klein? Wait he writes columns for NewsWeek as well.

I am sure its all just a coincidence........glad to know shareholders took it in the ass to have liberals keep a job. Would that be saving or creating a job? Stimulus works!

I'm shocked, shocked, to find out that the media isn't covering the latest manufactured issue coming from the Right.  SHOCKED, I TELLS YA!!!

This should be issue number one, seeing as we've solved that jobs thingy, the oil spill, the national debt, two wars, and everything else that matters more than these silly non-issues.

[Quality Start Machine]

Forget it, the real issue us the WaPo's advancing of the Liberal agenda by known Lefties like Charles Krauthammer.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

Forget it, the real issue us the WaPo's advancing of the Liberal agenda by known Lefties like Charles Krauthammer.

You laugh, but the man spent the better part of the last decade providing cover for American Trotskyism.

[SKO]

Aren't you the same guys that are ignoring the Black Panter/Eric Holder scandal? And don't you employ Journolist founder Ezra Klein?

There was a quote at the end of the movie "Tears of the Sun": "The only thing Black Panters and people who use email to communicate privately need to prosper is for the massive debt liabilities of a dying newsweekly to be taken on by a billionaire industrialist who isn't a Republican."

Maybe Dem's should stop and think about that for a moment.

Was it cool to like that movie? Because I liked that movie.

Oh and nice job on the American Trotskyism. TEC and his cabal of neo-conservatives had us all fooled.

[Internet Apex]

Aren't you the same guys that are ignoring the Black Panter/Eric Holder scandal? And don't you employ Journolist founder Ezra Klein?

There was a quote at the end of the movie "Tears of the Sun": "The only thing Black Panters and people who use email to communicate privately need to prosper is for the massive debt liabilities of a dying newsweekly to be taken on by a billionaire industrialist who isn't a Republican."

Maybe Dem's should stop and think about that for a moment.

Was it cool to like that movie? Because I liked that movie.

Oh and nice job on the American Trotskyism. TEC and his cabal of neo-conservatives had us all fooled.

I thought it was a great film. So to answer your question, it is decidedly uncool to like that movie. Wait, I was thinking of Empire of the Sun. No idea what Tears is about but I assume it offers a healthy dose of Bruce Willis looking all like Bruce Willis and shit.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

Oh and nice job on the American Trotskyism.

To be fair, the Trotskyite charge is probably a bit tendentious. (And possibly a hair's breadth away from just calling them all "Jews.")

That said, Red-baiting is never not fun.

[SKO]

Oh and nice job on the American Trotskyism.

To be fair, the Trotskyite charge is probably a bit tendentious. (And possibly a hair's breadth away from just calling them all "Jews.")

That said, Red-baiting is never not fun.

We've got to eradicate Goldsteinism.

[Eli]

Now that Prop 8 has been overturned, I'd like to point how threatened my two-month-old marriage seems, seeing all of these happy gay couples together.

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/08/same-sex_marriage.html

I don't even know why I bothered.  Shut it down!

[Yeti]

Now that Prop 8 has been overturned, I'd like to point how threatened my two-month-old marriage seems, seeing all of these happy gay couples together.

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/08/same-sex_marriage.html

I don't even know why I bothered.  Shut it down!

Thanks for rubbing it in.

[Oleg]

Now that Prop 8 has been overturned, I'd like to point how threatened my two-month-old marriage seems, seeing all of these happy gay couples together.

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/08/same-sex_marriage.html

I don't even know why I bothered.  Shut it down!

Thanks for rubbing it in.

Gay.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

Now that Prop 8 has been overturned, I'd like to point how threatened my two-month-old marriage seems, seeing all of these happy gay couples together.

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/08/same-sex_marriage.html

I don't even know why I bothered.  Shut it down!

I'm curious what Mike C.'s position on the issue of gay marriage rights is.

And how does he feel its importance compares to that of issues we already know he cares about?

Is it more or less important than holding our Black President's and Black Attorney General's black feet to the fire because a black member of a marginal wacko black hate group, who showed up at a polling place in a black neighborhood once and failed to intimidate any voters with his police baton before being escorted away by police, wasn't given the death penalty or something?

More or less important than the scandal of people he doesn't like carrying on like "private citizens" over electronic mail and having the temerity to not make every word that they ever write, every thought that they ever share and every argument that they ever have publicly available for the scrutiny of ideologues who disagree with them?

[CT III]

Now that Prop 8 has been overturned, I'd like to point how threatened my two-month-old marriage seems, seeing all of these happy gay couples together.

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/08/same-sex_marriage.html

I don't even know why I bothered.  Shut it down!

I'm curious what Mike C.'s position on the issue of gay marriage rights is.

And how does he feel its importance compares to that of issues we already know he cares about?

Is it more or less important than holding our Black President's and Black Attorney General's black feet to the fire because a black member of a marginal wacko black hate group, who showed up at a polling place in a black neighborhood once and failed to intimidate any voters with his police baton before being escorted away by police, wasn't given the death penalty or something?

More or less important than the scandal of people he doesn't like carrying on like "private citizens" over electronic mail and having the temerity to not make every word that they ever write, every thought that they ever share and every argument that they ever have publicly available for the scrutiny of ideologues who disagree with them?

What are you, readin' this right out of your playbook?

[J. Walter Weatherman]

I guess someone forgot to tell the Mayor of New York City to "never forget"...

http://www.observer.com/2010/politics/bloombergs-speech-ground-zero-mosque
http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2010/08/bloomberg-stands-up-for-mosque.html

Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been a basic question: Should government attempt to deny private citizens the right to build a house of worship on private property based on their particular religion? That may happen in other countries, but we should never allow it to happen here.

This nation was founded on the principle that the government must never choose between religions or favor one over another. The World Trade Center site will forever hold a special place in our city, in our hearts. But we would be untrue to the best part of ourselves and who we are as New Yorkers and Americans if we said no to a mosque in lower Manhattan.

Let us not forget that Muslims were among those murdered on 9/11, and that our Muslim neighbors grieved with us as New Yorkers and as Americans. We would betray our values and play into our enemies' hands if we were to treat Muslims differently than anyone else. In fact, to cave to popular sentiment would be to hand a victory to the terrorists, and we should not stand for that.

For that reason, I believe that this is an important test of the separation of church and state as we may see in our lifetimes, as important a test. And it is critically important that we get it right.

On Sept. 11, 2001, thousands of first responders heroically rushed to the scene and saved tens of thousands of lives. More than 400 of those first responders did not make it out alive. In rushing into those burning buildings, not one of them asked, "What God do you pray to? What beliefs do you hold?"

The attack was an act of war, and our first responders defended not only our city, but our country and our constitution. We do not honor their lives by denying the very constitutional rights they died protecting. We honor their lives by defending those rights and the freedoms that the terrorists attacked.

Bloomberg is totally gay for terrorists.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

Que an aggrieved mick...

http://www.standardnewswire.com/news/41855445.html

Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's remarks yesterday endorsing the building of a mosque near Ground Zero:

Never have we heard Mayor Bloomberg more eloquent in his defense of religious liberty. Too bad it took the proposed building of a mosque at a spot where Islamic fanatics declared war on America to do so.

Regrettably, Mayor Bloomberg's record in dealing with issues affecting Catholics has not been so robust. Just last month, he was almost alone in his refusal to criticize Empire State Building owner Anthony Malkin's decision not to honor Mother Teresa on August 26; he simply said it was Malkin's call. Over the last few years, when the Catholic League and New York City Councilman Tony Avella sought to get his support for putting a nativity scene alongside a menorah in the public schools, he refused to cooperate.

Our Next Republican Presidents...

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=38282

Apologists for radical Islamist hypocrisy are trying to argue that we have to allow the construction of this mosque in order to prove America's commitment to religious liberty. They say this despite the fact that there are already over 100 mosques in New York City.

In fact, they're partially correct—this is a test of our commitment to religious liberty. It is a test to see if we have the resolve to face down an ideology that aims to destroy religious liberty in America, and every other freedom we hold dear.

http://gothamist.com/2010/07/19/just_what_the_ground_zero_mosque_fi.php

Worried that the debate over the proposed mosque/community center two blocks from the World Trade Center site isn't hysterical enough? Here comes Sarah Palin to stick her oar in. Yesterday the former beauty pageant contestant weighed in on the mosque via Twitter, writing, "Ground Zero Mosque supporters: doesn't it stab you in the heart, as it does ours throughout the heartland? Peaceful Muslims, pls refudiate." But that was just Palin's first draft...

When East Coast liberal elites snickered that "refudiate" is not a word, Palin deleted her tweet, changing it to, "Peaceful New Yorkers, pls refute the Ground Zero mosque plan if you believe catastrophic pain caused @ Twin Towers site is too raw, too real." Of course, as Little Green Footballs points out, while "refute" has the virtue of being an actual word, it doesn't really make sense here.

Wait... Alaska is the "heartland"?

Some other nut...

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=38400

Enough is enough Mr. President. Peaceful Muslims can build mosques anywhere they want -- but to allow a million dollar mosque to be erected where American blood was spilled in the name of Allah is pledging allegiance to the wrong country.

History is written by the victors, and we are losing.

That tea**gger who recently declared the NAACP the real racists...

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/05/tea_party_leader_allah_is_monkey_god.php

The animals of allah for whom any day is a great day for a massacre are drooling over the positive response that they are getting from New York City officials over a proposal to build a 13 story monument to the 9/11 Muslims who hijacked those 4 airliners.

The monument would consist of a Mosque for the worship of the terrorists' monkey-god and a "cultural center" to propagandize for the extermination of all things not approved by their cult.

A TV ad the liberal media doesn't want you to see...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjGJPPRD3u0

On Sept 11, they declared war against us. And to celebrate that murder of three thousand Americans, they want to build a monstrous thirteen story mosque at Ground Zero. This ground is sacred. Where we weep, they rejoice. That mosque is a monument to their victory and an invitation to more. A mosque at Ground Zero must not stand. The political class says nothing. The politicians are doing nothing to stop it. But we Americans will be heard. Join the fight to kill the Ground Zero Mosque. Go to www.goptrust.com.

"An invitation to more"?

Here's potential RSVP...

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/05/28/mosque-bombing-ny/

And I'll tell you this: If you do build a mosque, I hope somebody blows it up. ... I hope the mosque isn't built, and if it is, I hope it's blown up. And I mean that. ... It's right-wing radicals like me that are going to keep this country safe for you and everyone else from the people who are flying the planes from the country you fled from. If you want to identify with those people, go live with them.