I don’t expect much more to come of this Diane Rehm/Sanders brouhaha, mainly because Rehm has such profound buy-in and goodwill from media and political figures in Washington; because Sanders himself isn’t making a big deal out of it; and because the people who usually bang the pans loudest about anti-Semitism themselves aren’t fully invested because they don’t share Sanders’ politics (though they’re certainly not ignoring it). But if you’re asking me, Diane Rehm’s explanation is a complete crock.
If you read Rehm’s explanation from her show this morning, a reader on Facebook gave her a ‘list’ and suggested she ask Sanders about it. Her mistake was stating it as a fact and asking him to respond to that fact rather than asking it as a question. Now, even though she mishandled the question, she’s glad she could help put the rumor to rest.
That’s bullshit.
Bernie Sanders on that bizarre line of questioning from Diane Rehm: “I suspect what happens is her staff gives her a list of questions and someone screwed up pretty bad.”
As he readies to run for president and grabs whatever low hanging fruit on the conservative agenda tree he can find, Scott Walker is now planning to strip tenure from professors in the University of Wisconsin higher education system.
This will undoubtedly be portrayed and fought over as a matter of academic freedom. Tenure is among other things in place to protect scholars from the patronage and political demands of the moment and incentivize independent scholarship free of ideological, market or political pressures. That is 100% true. And by and large it is a good system – especially when understood in the larger context of academic life.
But let’s be honest: there’s basically zero way you win a fight in the political realm to defend lifetime job security for relatively high paid professors who do zero manual labor.
Turns out the white woman whose alleged racial slurs touched off the disturbance at the McKinney, Texas pool works for a publicly traded corporation. Or did. The company has placed her on administrative leave pending further investigation.
What’s really behind the onslaught of 20-week abortion bans? Abortion foes are very candid about it with TPM’s Tierney Sneed.
Diane Rehm explains where she found out the (false) information that Sen. Bernie Sanders is a citizen of Israel. “As I Had Read In A Comment On Facebook …”
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Prime Minister Netanyahu meets with Art Garfunkel in Jerusalem.
Where did this come from? Today on the Diane Rehm Show, Rehm pressed Sen. Bernie Sanders on whether or not he is a US-Israeli dual citizen. He’s not. After pressing the point and having him deny it, she shifted gears to “Are there members of Congress who do have dual citizenship or is that part of the fable?”
Duggar family refused to cooperate with a child protective services visit late last month.