Americans love to believe in the idea of the athlete recognized for his skills and rising out of poverty to be a superstar. (Let’s face it, most of the time when we talk about this dream, it’s male athletes that get to live it. Female athletes tend to see athletics as a path to higher education rather than wealth.) Unfortunately, that that American dream is mostly a lie.
Okay, so while it looked like a troop of militia types showed up to menace a group of gun control supporting moms, a new photo provided by the militia types themselves shows a friendly enough group of crazy people with paramilitary weaponry in a strip mall parking lot for some reason. Which is pretty much normal behavior.
What the hell is wrong with Richard Cohen? In the course of sorta explaining the GOP’s problem with race, Cohen notes that “people with conventional views must repress a gag reflex when considering the mayor-elect of New York — a white man married to a black woman and with two biracial children.”
I think that was true maybe 50 years ago, in the sense that “conventional views” were considerably more retrograde, though ‘gag reflex’ is still pretty extreme. But these days we call those people ‘racists’.
Yet another reason the Christie thing ain’t happening. With the glow of reelection, endless media love and before the intra-party savaging has even begun, he tops all 2016 Republicans in the Northeast but in no other region in the country.
Several times since September I’ve mentioned the new publishing platform we’ve built at TPM. In tech-speak that’s a ‘CMS’, a content management system, though the way we’ve approached it is dramatically different from a traditional CMS. Lighter, more modular, more adaptable to changing editorial needs. It’s the culmination of about four years of planning, strategizing and finally coding what a system that is purpose built for a modern digital news operation, with all the emphasis on speed, adaptability and share-ability that implies.
Sen. Inhofe (R-OK): I hold Christie responsible for Obama’s reelection.
This is one of the many reasons why I believe the Christie thing is just not ever going to happen.
A small meeting for the group Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America was disrupted Saturday by the arrival of dozens of armed pro-gun advocates brandishing their weapons, including some with semi-automatic rifles. The meeting was at the Blue Mesa Grill in Dallas and the men had apparently learned of the moms’ group meeting on Facebook.
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Peter Dreier looks at a host of progressive wins across the country last Tuesday.
Great couple sentences (whether straightfaced or unironic) from Brian Stelter’s piece on the 60 Minutes “correction” this evening. On why CBS staff thinks the show will weather the storm …
One reason is the deep reserve of good will the program has built up both with viewers and in journalistic circles. But the staff members also agreed that the program would be helped by that absence of a cause to inflame right-wing media voices, as well as by the belated effort to apologize.