I just watched the 60 Minutes “correction”/apology tonight and thought was pretty amazing for its brevity, lack of substance and general obfuscation. If you didn’t watch 60 Minutes tonight, it won’t take long. It only lasted 90s or so. And you can see it here.
In what was apparently his final interview, Lou Reed (a notoriously catenkerous, sometimes nasty interview subject) took an opportunity to f*&k with one last interviewer. But not just that, some screwing with the interview. But also some powerful moments. The health decline in the final month is also apparent. Video after the jump …
As Josh Levy writes, for communities of color, mass surveillance is nothing new.
Over at the Hive, we’re discussing and speculating whether the Benghazi debacle will lead to the kind of (fairly warranted) blood-letting that happened in the wake of 2004’s epic Bush National Guard segment disaster. What do you think?
You might have heard that last month that the famous British street artist Banksy stealthily gave one of his paintings — an image of a Nazi officer enjoying a serene mountain landscape — to a charity in New York City that fights homelessness and AIDS. It was a nice gesture and a celebrated move, and the charity immediately auctioned off the painting to help its cause. The winning bid came in at $615,000.
Well, now there’s been a twist — or two. I won’t spoil it, but suffice to say the auction fell apart, and then the situation got even stranger. Check out this exclusive report from TPM’s Catherine Thompson.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) was hogwild about the now-discredited 60 Minutes blockbuster in which fabricator-security contractor Dylan Davies recounted his nonexistent exploits the night of the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi more than a year ago. But after CBS finally retracted the story this morning (after dragging its collective heels for a week), Graham is now declining to discuss the story or the retraction.
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Here’s a great data visualization of an ugly truth: the Supreme Court’s and Republican governors attempts to sabotage and claw back Obamacare has led to additional millions of Americans – over a million people left uninsured just in Texas. This has tended to be thought of as a sidenote in the sprawling Obamacare story. But look at this chart and see the numbers. It’s powerful.
Lest we think of Mayor Rob Ford as only a murderous crackhead, there’s another more human side of the man.
Not one to get out over his skis, Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) has not been one of the rabble-rousers about nuking the filibuster, especially not for judicial nominees. But continued GOP intransigence, including the blockade of any more nominations to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, has even Leahy making noises about weakening the filibuster rules.