Longtime TPM Reader BF respond to my post on Geert Wilders and I reply back …
“By all means, if you were a professional Mohammad cartoonist before this started, stay strong, keep drawing and do not be intimidated by these violent extremists.”
What if you’re a novelist like Salman Rushdie? Or a filmmaker like Theo Van Gogh? Or a schoolgirl like Malala Yousafzai? Or bloggers like Washiqur Rahman or Avijit Roy?
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I’ve been asking everyone to take our annual reader survey. If you haven’t yet, please take a moment to fill it out. I’m going to be sharing various nuggets of information from it. But here’s one that really jumped out at me. We asked two questions on so-called “cord cutters”, in this case people who have ditched cable TV service for streaming services like Netflix, iTunes/AppleTV, Amazon Prime, etc. 83% of our readers say they currently use one of these services – which I don’t find terribly surprising. But this, I did find stunning. 51% of our readers say they either have or are considering canceling their cable services in favor of one or more of those services. Another 16% say they’ve never had cable (I’m going to look at the crosstabs later to see if this ‘never’ group skews young.)
I’m not sure how much you can really credit the Secretary of Defense denying that Jade Helm is cover for a military takeover of Texas.
Some governors are refusing to weigh in on the conspiracy theory that Jade Helm has become. Here’s our list.
If you see local reports where your governor goes on the record with his or her concerns, send us a link.
Secretary of Defense forced to deny that Pentagon is planning military takeover of Texas.
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Top DC-based anti-Islam group says Jade Helm 15 hysteria is distracting attention from threat of imposition of Sharia law and Muslim Brotherhood infiltration of the White House, Ferguson, Missouri, etc.
Chris Christie says he’s ready to move on from Bridgegate and “stop apologizing.”