Early Morning Swim: Rachel Maddow Asks Nancy Pelosi about Holding BushCo Accountable for Torture, Iraq

Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on March 12th, 2010 5:52 am by HL

Early Morning Swim: Rachel Maddow Asks Nancy Pelosi about Holding BushCo Accountable for Torture, Iraq
While Democrats fret over whether we should investigate BushCo torture, Republicans move to investigate teh gay.

While Democrats fret over whether we should investigate BushCo torture, Republicans move to investigate teh gay.

The scandal around disgraced ex-Rep. Eric Massa rocked Capitol Hill again Thursday as Republicans forced ethics officials to take another look at sordid charges of sexual harassment – and how they were handled. […]

“Speaker Pelosi once promised the American people ‘the most open and ethical’ Congress in history, but she has broken that promise,” Boehner said.

And so it goes.

News is presented between 2:03 and 2:09 p.m. Eastern
Someone in the Washington Post criticizes FoxNews as a propoganda outfit…this will not stand with Howard Kurtz.

Today, the Washington Post — apparently because there were no members of the Kagan family available — has an Op-Ed from Howell Raines castigating journalists for not calling FoxNews what it is, a right-wing propaganda operation 23:54/7.

This will not set well with alleged media critic Howard Kurtz as it will take away from his Tiger Woods/Eric Massa-related twitter time.

…some say a distinction must be made between Fox’s opinion shows (O’Reilly, Beck, Hannity) and its news programming.

Well, I say this Mr. or Ms. “Some” is a real asshole, which must be why Kurtz respects their opinion.

A distinction between the opinion shows as O’Reilly, Beck, and Hannity and the news programming?

Which is what?

Fox & Friends, where every morning is three hours of agenda setting on right-wing talking points? Where it is a legitimate for interviewees to appear as pimps for faked news stories (no correction for that yet, right?).

Or perhaps it’s just the rest of the “fair” and “balanced” “news” programming, like Megyn Kelly’s finding a broad swath of the public constituted by four white people at a retirement community?

Late Late Night FDL: Dirty Lowdown and Bad
Keb’ Mo’ — Dirty Lowdown and Bad.

Keb’ Mo’ — Dirty Lowdown and Bad.

What’s on your mind?

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