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Early Morning Swim: Keith Olbermann Talks BP Politics with Howard Fineman
Stop playing the ‘blame game’ people!

But…but…accidents happen.

Almost two-thirds of Americans agree “strongly” or “somewhat” that the federal government should pursue criminal charges against BP and other companies involved in the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, according to a new Washington Post/ABC News poll.

The poll, conducted Thursday through Sunday, found that 73 percent of the country feels that the nation’s greatest oil spill is a “disaster” with an additional 25 percent ranking it a “serious problem.”

“Public complaints against BP are twofold: Most give poor ratings to its reaction to the massive spill, and most blame the company and its drilling partners for taking unnecessary risks that could have caused the spill,” the poll reported.

Stop playing the ‘blame game’ people!

[/Rand Paul]

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What constitutes Journalism…
Funny how journalism works nowadays.

That certainly isn’t a question.

I’m not going to defend Helen Thomas’ offensive remarks — any more than I spend any time defending Pat Buchanan’s offensive remarks…

…that there are too many Jews on the Supreme Court
…that Hitler has been poorly served by historians.
…that Half of the survivors of the Holocaust overstate their suffering and are unreliable witnesses.
…about how a Latino woman couldn’t possibly have graduated top of her class at Princeton.
…that gays are bent on “satanism” and “suicide“.
…that the massacre of 67 black South Africans was just a bit of whites mistreating a couple of black people.
…that Martin Luther King was a “fraud” and a “demagogue”
…that women are just not endowed with the capability to compete in a capitalist economy.

But guess what? Pat is still a member of the Village in good standing — able to pontificate at will, whenever MSNBC breaks open his glass booth.

But 90 year old Helen Thomas gets the boot…because she’s just not practicing in the proper village way, whatever that is. But apparently, below this is the proper way to commit journalism!

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Late Late Night FDL: Wild Thing
Jimi Hendrix — Wild Thing, Monterey Pop Festival, 1967.

Jimi Hendrix — Wild Thing, Monterey Pop Festival, 1967.

Jimi Hendrix – vocals guitar
Noel Redding – bass backing vocals
Mitch Mitchell- drums

What’s on your mind?

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Israel Kills Four Palestinian Divers
It’s been a week since the now-infamous flotilla raid, and on Monday, Israeli-Palestinian tensions flared again after the Israeli military killed four men who sources from both sides are claiming were Palestinian militants wearing diving gear and readying an attack from the waters off the Gaza coast.  —KA ABC News: The Israeli military claims the men were preparing an attack on Israeli targets from the Gaza Strip. Palestinian sources in Gaza claimed the men were members of the Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade, a radical offshoot of the mainstream Fatah organization which is affiliated with Mahmoud Abbas, the head of the moderate regime that governs the West Bank. The divers were training about 150 yards off shore when they were … attacked by a Israeli patrol. Read more

It’s been a week since the now-infamous flotilla raid, and on Monday, Israeli-Palestinian tensions flared again after the Israeli military killed four men who sources from both sides are claiming were Palestinian militants wearing diving gear and readying an attack from the waters off the Gaza coast.? —KA

ABC News:

The Israeli military claims the men were preparing an attack on Israeli targets from the Gaza Strip.

Palestinian sources in Gaza claimed the men were members of the Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade, a radical offshoot of the mainstream Fatah organization which is affiliated with Mahmoud Abbas, the head of the moderate regime that governs the West Bank.

The divers were training about 150 yards off shore when they were … attacked by a Israeli patrol.

Read more

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On RedState.com, CNN contributor Erick Erickson falsely suggested that President Obama “never addressed [Nashville, Tennessee] after its horrific floods.” In fact, Obama acted swiftly to provide federal aid to the area and won praise from Tennessee Governor (and former Mayor of Nashville) Phil Bredesen. 

Erickson alleged that President Obama “never addressed” the floods in Tennessee 

Erickson: “Barack Obama never addressed [Nashville] after its horrific floods.” From a June 7 edition of Premiere Radio Networks’ The Rush Limbaugh Show: 

RICH: Like you said, nobody’s hardly talking about it in the media. I find it ironic that our President will go on and make a special speech about everything under the sun every other minute, but hasn’t come on to talk about Tennessee.

LIMBAUGH: He hasn’t. Well he knows he doesn’t have any constituents there to speak of.

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Support for Incumbents Hits All Time Low
A new Washington Post/ABC News poll shows that just 29% of Americans “now say they are inclined to support their House representative in November, even lower than in 1994, when voters swept the Democrats out of power in the that chamber after 40 years in the majority.”

Similarly, a new Gallup poll finds that by 60% to 32%, registered voters say they would rather vote for a candidate for the U.S. House who has never served in Congress than for a candidate who has been in Congress. Additionally, a historically low 50% of voters say their member of Congress deserves re-election.

Poll Closings
Voters head to the polls in 11 states today. Here are the poll closings:

7:00 p.m. — South Carolina, Virginia and special election run off in Georgia
8:00 p.m. — Maine and New Jersey
8:30 p.m. — Arkansas run off
9:00 p.m. — North Dakota and South Dakota
10:00 p.m. — Nevada and Montana
11:00 p.m. — California

Quote of the Day
“I had a lot of hope for Obama, but it’s not panning out.”

-Artist Shepard Fairey, in an interview with Angeleno magazine. Fairey created the famous “Hope” image of Obama during the 2008 campaign.

Hedges: The Christian Fascists Are Growing Stronger
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