CBS’ Lara Logan today on her 60 Minutes report on Benghazi: “The truth is that we made a mistake.” Watch.
The harshest blow the Republican anti-Obamacare jihad has delivered is this one.
Following in our series of moving for politics, TPM Reader TA explains why he’s stayed put in his native South …
This is a subject I’ve been fascinated by for a long time.
I’m a liberal who has chosen to stay in his native South, despite having lived in New York City for a while, and having very close friends in California who frequently encourage me to move out there, where I will fit in better. And once upon a time I did go as far as interviewing for jobs in, you guessed it, Portland. But I stayed.
Staying in the South doesn’t make me any kind of hero, or even a pioneer, like JR. I grew up in this culture, so I know how it works and I know how to function within it and maintain my sanity . . . more or less (there’s a lot of silent swearing and gallows humor involved). And I don’t have kids, so I don’t have some of JM’s concerns; on the other hand, that’s also more and more true of liberals in general.
After days of denial CBS and 60 Minutes seem to be considering coming clean about building a blockbuster segment around an apparent fabricator. The account is that of Dylan Davies, the British security contractor who provided a swashbuckling and heroic account of his role trying to defend the US consulate in Benghazi on the night a year ago when four Americans including the US Ambassador were killed.
Only Davies, who’s also got a book coming out, appears to have made the whole thing up.
As we discuss moving for politics, Portland turns out to be a pretty frequent destination. From TPM Reader GP …
I’m actually kind of surprised by this. (I suspect some of his ardent Jewish supporters are too.) George W. Bush is the keynote speaker at a Texas fundraiser for a group that works to convince Jews to accept Jesus as the Messiah in order to bring about the Second Coming.
Earlier we heard from TPM Reader JM who moved with his wife from Florida to Oregon to find a politics and culture more to their liking. Now we hear from TPM Reader JR with his story, but there’s a twist, which I get to below …
My piece from yesterday about how states are one of the few things keeping politics functional in the USA today was inspired by the Colorado secession movement, whose leader we interviewed today. But that post got into the question of how much people today are self-selecting into increasingly homogenous states.
TPM Reader JM gives us his story …
After 6 weeks of bungled rollout and a month of horrific press, public support of and opposition to Obamacare remains exactly where it was the day before rollout.
Leader of Colorado’s secessionist movement says the problem they’re fighting is the “urbanization of America.”