sad state of affairs

Word from the Future: ABC News Destroys All Credibility

by Bob Brigham [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

All reports indicate that when the ABC News Democratic Party Debate airs in the Pacific Time zone at 8 PM that you are better off doing pretty much anything other than watching it. There are reviews are already in and there seems to be a clear consensus on Charles Gibson and George Stephanopoulos and ABC News and the parent company Disney.

"Looking around other sites, I guess I'm not the only one that thought this debate was unmitigated travesty," Josh Marshall noted. "Maybe the embargo on debate rebroadcast was a pro-human rights stand."
"The debate is over, and I feel like I need a shower. [...] The crowd here is starting to boo Gibson. Like, a lot. Hilarious and well-deserved."

-Chris Bowers

"No Charlie. It hasn't been a "fascinating debate." It's been genuinely awful."

-Josh Marshall

"What matters to this network is money, and that is where we need to go.  Starting tomorrow, my spare time, meager as it is, will be dedicated to revealing the advertisers of this network, for the purpose of organized boycotts."

-Dartagnan (top Recommended Diary on Dailykos)

"Light'Em Up

Complain about this atrocity.

Main ABC switchboard: 212-456-7777

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Dam Facts, Dam Lies, and Statistics

[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

There's talk swirling again in Sacramento about a deal with the Governor on a water bond. I ran across this post from the Friends of the River that puts things in perspective:

By Steve Evans
FOR Conservation Director

It’s a sad state of affairs when good public policy takes a back seat to sound bites that have no basis in reality. So here is a selection of pithy-sounding but less-than-factual sound bites of dam proponents compared to the real facts of the matter (complete with footnotes).

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