The local news anchor who made waves for an epic blunder at the White House this week has released yet another statement changing her story about whether reporters are asked to submit questions to press secretary in advance.
Today at TPM Cafe, Emily Martin of the National Women’s Law Center and Jennifer C. Pizer of Lambda Legal take on the contraception cases before the Supreme Court — and how they could expand the idea of Arizona’s anti-LGBT bill: “the owners of these corporations are asking the Supreme Court to interpret federal law so that it provides a key aspect of what the Arizona bill would have provided.”
What Unions No Longer Do author Jake Rosenfeld takes a look at the complex interplay between immigration and unions: “The history of the American labor movement is at once a story of inclusion and upward assimilation of previously marginalized groups, and of xenophobic and discriminatory tendencies.”
Labor writer and thinker Rich Yeselson responds: “In the last 15 years, however, unions, even many of the most parochial, have increasingly supported immigration reform in large part because, like SEIU, they view Mexican, Caribbean, and Central American immigrants as good organizing possibilities.”
Join Rosenfeld and Yeselson, as well as Sarah Jafee and MSNBC’s Ned Resnikoff for a live chat (sub. req.) today at noon.
Not to pile on with the Princeton Mom — who advised young women to focus less on their careers and more on getting married — but Shannon Kelley has an excellent point about her at TPM Cafe: “She didn’t follow her own advice, and is perfectly happy.”
Conservative news sites were quick to pounce when a local news anchor claimed earlier this week that White House reporters submit their questions to press secretary Jay Carney in advance. They’ve been slower to correct the record now that the anchor has retracted her story (multiple times.)
CNN’s coverage of the missing Malaysian airplane this week has been obviously embarrassing, what with its speculation of black holes and “the supernatural” and all that. But it’s really nothing compared to what’s been going on at its sister network HLN.
On last night’s episode of “Dr. Drew On Call” — yes, I know — the hosts brought on a woman who describes herself as a psychic to discuss where the missing plane might be. What came next is about as low as it gets in the news business.
CNN: Hey, everybody else’s coverage of the missing Malaysian airplane has been awful, too!
In Colorado, which has been ground zero in the gun control debate, a middle school sent students on a field trip to a firing range this week.
So I have a confession. When I first saw a few weeks ago that the NRA was opposing President Obama’s nominee for surgeon general, I didn’t take it all that seriously. After all, the job has so little if anything to do with guns. I dismissed it as little more than a fundraising pitch for the organization.
By now, it’s clear the NRA has at least damaged if not destroyed the President’s chances of getting his nominee confirmed by the Senate. But as TPM’s Sahil Kapur points out, the nation’s largest gun lobby isn’t going satisfied with merely a win on this one. After more than a year of fighting tooth-and-nail at both the federal and state levels, it wants a win so massive that no one will doubt its prowess, no matter the issue.
This email comes from reader SM on North Carolina Senate candidate and state House Speaker Thom Tillis (R) and the recent discovery of inconsistency in his college credentials:
Although I’m not a native North Carolinian, I moved to NC 10 years ago following law school. My impression, FWIW…