Last year, the Radio & Television Correspondents Dinner featured the comedian John Hodgman. This year it featured the comedian Joe Biden, probably best known for his role as the Vice President of America. He bombed.
Yes, Joe "Wild and Crazy Guy" Biden delivered his unique brand of brain damaged-Toastmaster humor in a two-to-five hour monologue in front of the assembled radio and television correspondents.
American-born Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki is calling for jihad against America, claiming "America is evil" in a new audio message obtained by CNN.
"With the American invasion of Iraq and continued U.S. aggression against Muslims, I could not reconcile between living in the U.S. and being a Muslim, and I eventually came to the conclusion that jihad against America is binding upon myself just as it is binding on every other Muslim," he says in the recording that runs more than 12 minutes.
Real Time with Bill Maher aired 11 April 2008 satellite guest Richard Dawkins: Oxford evolutionary biologist, Charles Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science, atheist.
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Lady Gaga’s 9-minute video featuring Beyoncé is steeped in weirdness and shock value. Behind the strange aesthetic, however, lies a deeper meaning, another level of interpretation. The video refers to mind control and, more specifically, Monarch Programming, a covert technique profusely used in the entertainment industry. We’ll look at the occult meaning of the video “Telephone”.
At the Treason in America Conference on 3/6/2010, ABC News decided to drop by and "cover" the event.
The daily right-wing "talking points" distributed to the Limbaughs, Hannitys et al. of the conservative media are, by now, so well understood that they've become material for the political humor of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. One has come to expect such wording from the likes of the Fox Channel. When one hears an unlikely phrase like "going rogue" coming out of half a dozen rightist mouths within a the space of a few hours, it's no longer surprising. Just another "fair and balanced" day.
The fact that such slanderous language as "lunatic fringe" (Bury repeated it in his ABC report with another interviewee) is now coming from such major "mainstream" sources when referencing the 9/11 Truth Movement is more worrisome, because it indicates a rising level of concern within politically powerful elements for an issue based on such a collective of lies that it is simply not going away. Regarding the journalistic objectivity demonstrated in ABC's edited Nightline report, you can judge for yourself:
Health care reform advocates inched closer to victory Wednesday as a high-profile liberal Democrat switched his position and announced his intention to vote for a sweeping $875 billion plan under consideration in the House of Representatives.
Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, said he believes "health care is a civil right." He had previously characterized the bill, which cleared the Senate in December, as little more than a boondoggle for private insurers.
Kucinich was publicly lobbied for his vote by President Barack Obama during the president's visit this week to Kucinich's congressional district in Ohio. He told reporters he's had four meetings with Obama to discuss the bill.
Jose Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, tells journalists that he likes to compare the European Union to a "non-imperial empire." (C) 2007 EUX.TV
A bill currently awaiting Gov. Gary Herbert's signature would allow Rocky Mountain Power to automatically enroll customers in its Cool Keeper program.
Rather than agreeing to participate in the program, customers would need to notify the company if they want to opt out instead.
With the Cool Keeper program, a switch would be installed on your air compressor, allowing Rocky Mountain Power to turn it off for 15 minutes per half hour on the hottest days of summer. Rocky Mountain Power says it results in no more than a few degrees' difference in temperature.
