"Refudiate" Her Use of "Squirmish"

The Foreign-Owned, Saudi-Financed Fox Channel's star news analyst makes up yet another word. Jon Stewart from Comedy Central shows the clip:

Palm Trees in Wisconsin

A month of peaceful protests from over 100,000 pro-union workers in Wisconsin didn't sit well with the anti-union management at the Foreign-Owned, Saudi-Financed Fox Channel. Nope. What they wanted was footage showing angry, hostile crowds. So while talking about the Wisconsin protests, they decided to show footage from some other protest that had nothing to do with Wisconsin. Notice the palm trees in the background.


Savvy protesters decided to mock the phony news channel by actually bringing plastic palm trees to some of their demonstrations:
Comedy Central's Colbert Report and msnbc's Chris Matthews caught the lie and had some fun with it:

Newt Running Yet Again?!

The disgraced former Speaker of the House, who had to resign in shame amidst a half million dollars of ethics violations, and who was cheating on his second wife with what would become his third wife, while leading the charge against President Clinton for a similar personal matter, is making the usual noises about running for president again. This political cartoon is from the South Florida Sun Sentinel's Chan Lowe.

Unemployment Falls to a 2-Year Low

from msnbc.com:

WASHINGTON — The U.S. economy posted a second straight month of solid gains in March as the nation’s jobless rate fell to a two-year low of 8.8 percent, marking a decisive shift in the labor market that should help to underpin the economic recovery.

Businesses created 216,000 jobs last month, according to the Labor Department’s latest employment report, after adding 192,000 jobs in February. The past two months mark the fastest two-month pace of job creation since before the recession began. Factories, retailers, education, health care and an array of professional and financial services expanded payrolls.

Another month of brisk hiring provided the latest sign that the economy is strengthening nearly two years after the recession ended.Click on graph to enlarge. The low point at the center of the graph marks the end of the Bush administration and the beginning of the Obama administration.

CNN Rips Fox for Lying

CNN's Nic Robertson blasts the foreign-owned, Saudi-financed Fox channel for lying about US journalists allegedly being used as "human shields" by Khadaffi.

Americans Overwhelmingly Behind Wisconsin Protesters

The headline reads, "NBC / Wall Street Journal Poll Shows 62% Against Stripping Public Employees' Bargaining Rights."

From msnbc.com:

In the poll, 68 percent find it acceptable requiring public employees to contribute more of their pay for retirement benefits; 63 percent are fine with requiring these employees to pay more for their health-care benefits; and 58 percent are OK with freezing public employees' salaries for one year.

But just 33 percent say it's acceptable -- and 62 percent say it's unacceptable -- to eliminate these employees' collective-bargaining rights as way to deal with state budget deficits.

In addition, 77 percent believe that public employees have the same collective-bargaining rights (when it comes to health care, pensions, and other benefits) that union employees who work for private companies have.

Polls within Wisconsin show similar results. Apparently Regressive Governor Scott Walker didn't expect the first day's crowd of 3,000 peaceful protesters to grow to 15,000 the next day and over 100,000 by the end of the first week. He didn't expect Democratic legislators to stand their ground and refuse to allow teachers and firefighters to have their basic rights stripped away by letting this controversial issue come to a vote, even if it meant 14 of them had to leave the state and their families for two weeks on principle.

He didn't expect such a reaction to his War on American Workers.Regressives have always hated the middle class and done everything in their power to destroy as much of it as possible, favoring the richest 1% (their financial supporters) and huge corporations (their financial supporters).

The 3 week old controversy in Wisconsin can be summarized easily: the American teachers, firefighters, cops, snowplow drivers, etc, who make between $30k and $50k have already agreed to pay cuts and benefit cuts; Governor Walker insists they also give up their right to collective union bargaining.

Notice the obvious hypocrisy? Just a few weeks ago, Regressives screamed that we shouldn't dare raise taxes on the top-earning 2% who could easily afford it, to reduce the national debt.

The hypocrisy is claiming people making over $250k "cannot be considered rich" and therefore should not be burdened with a small tax hike, yet teachers making 45k are spoiled whiners who should have to bite the bullet and enjoy salary cuts, benefit cuts and GIVE UP THEIR RIGHT to bargain.

250k -- don't touch their money;

45k -- shut up and bite the bullet and take a cut.

In the world of Twisted Republican Logic, somehow this makes sense. And this makes Regressive Governor Scott Walker the REPUBLICAN JACKASS OF THE WEEK.

Jobless Rate Falls to 8.9%

Jobless rate keeps falling...

From the Wall Street Journal:

Brisk hiring in February pushed the U.S. unemployment rate below 9% for the first time in nearly two years—a development that reflects a broadening recovery.

Employers rebounded from a harsh winter to add 192,000 jobs to nonfarm payrolls in February as the unemployment rate fell one notch to 8.9%, the lowest level since April 2009, the Labor Department reported Friday.

Including revisions to previous monthly reports, the economy has added an average of 136,000 jobs a month since November, just barely more than the 100,000 a month needed to keep up with typical growth in the labor force.

Since President Obama took office, well over 2,000,000 jobs have been created. Contrast that to the 750,000 jobs being lost every month at the end of the Cheney/Bush administration.

The conference room at the Fox Channel is filled with people right now trying to figure out how to present this as terrible news.

Government Employment Declines

You know how you always hear Orange John Boner and the rest of that Regressive bunch whining about how President Obama and the Democrats keep increasing the size of government? Well guess what -- it's the usual bunch of lies. Look at the stats released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics from an article today on msnbc.com:

Bureau of Labor Statistics data released Friday showed that employment at all levels of government, federal, state and local, dropped in February by 30,000, to 22,217,000.

The BLS data also shows the long-term trend line: government employment has been growing for decades, no matter which political party controls the Congress, the White House or the majority of state legislatures.

What’s most remarkable about the data is where the growth has occurred: in state and local government.

Federal employment over the past six decades peaked back in 1988 (when Ronald Reagan was president!), not including the temporary hires for the 1990 Census. According to BLS data, federal headcount today is about nine percent smaller than in the late 1980s.

In contrast, state and local government has continued to grow for six decades with occasional slowing or plateaus. In 1991 there were about 15.3 million state and local government employees; today there are more than 19 million.

That's right. After all the whining from the Regressives about President Obama, it turns out that their hero, Saint Ronald Reagan Who Could Do No Wrong had the biggest government on a federal level, and it's the state and local governments that have grown government pretty consistently for the last 60 years.

Think you'll hear this factual story on fox?

Fox Lies

Purposely misleading their audience is what it's all about. In this case, they chose to use year-old footage to pretend Ron Paul was booed when he won a straw poll concerning who the Regressive candidate should be. The current year's clip actually shows he received overwhelming cheers. Watch the clip:



Next time one of your rightwing friends/relatives/coworkers needs a little proof of how they are being purposely lied to by a foreign-owned, Saudi-financed organization, send them this link as well as the following links:

• They spliced in footage from a successful Teabag rally to prop up the crowds at a poorly-attended rally:

http://radiovegan.blogspot.com/2009/11/fox-lies-surprised-to-make-protest-seem.html

• Tape of Anderson Cooper was carefully edited to make it sound like a quote he was reading was actually his own opinion presented as news:

http://radiovegan.blogspot.com/2011/04/another-day-another-fox-lie.html

• They lie so much a survey shows how many issues are misunderstood:

http://radiovegan.blogspot.com/2011/02/more-you-watch-less-you-know.html

• Footage of peaceful pro-union protests by 100,000 people in Wisconsin was replaced by hostile, violent crowds at some other event, as you can tell by the palm trees in Wisconsin:

http://radiovegan.blogspot.com/2011/04/palm-trees-in-wisconsin.html

• They claimed CNN, Reuters and other journalists were "used as human shields" by Ghaddafi in Lybia:

http://radiovegan.blogspot.com/2011/03/blog-post_22.html

• Edited clip to pretend President Obama wanted to raise taxes on everyone:

http://radiovegan.blogspot.com/2010/09/another-fox-channel-lie.html

• An internal memo tells staffers which inflammatory words to use to provoke viewers:
  

http://radiovegan.blogspot.com/2010/12/fox-noise-internal-memo.html

• Graphic incorrectly states that a huge majority believes global warming is a hoax:

http://radiovegan.blogspot.com/2009/12/fox-comedy-channel-uses-fraudulent.html

• Careful editing makes Shirley Sherrod say the opposite of what she actually said:

http://radiovegan.blogspot.com/2010/07/fired-because-of-fox-channels-lies.html

• Providing ridiculous, sky-high false figures on a Presidential trip:

http://radiovegan.blogspot.com/2010/11/president-obamas-zillion-dollar-trip.html

• "Fair and balanced", yet donates $1,000,000 to the republican party:

http://radiovegan.blogspot.com/2010/10/fox-gives-another-million-to.html

Pro-Democracy Protesters Oust Egypt's Mubarak

The whole world watched as peaceful protesters refused to give in, and refused to resort to violence for 18 days. Even after the Egyptian police and military used force and attempted to goad the protesters into violence, millions refused to take the bait. The result: a 30 year dictator was forced to resign.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41526422/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa/

Obama Accomplishments: The First 2 Years

• Children's Health Insurance covering an additional 4 million kids
• Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
  
• Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Act
• Tobacco Regulation
• Credit Card Reform protecting consumers
• Student Loan Reform
• Stimulus (Stopped the worst recession in 80 years from becoming another Depression; gave Americans the largest tax cut in American history)
• Signed nuclear arms deal with Russia that would diminish nukes on both sides by one third
• Signed non-proliferation initiative to keep nuclear materials out of the hands of terrorists
• Health Care Reform
• Wall Street Reform
• New GI Bill
• Food Safety Modernization Act
• Repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell
• Dismantled the scandal-plagued Minerals Management Service (MMS), so the division collecting revenue from oil leases is not the same division that regulates and inspects the industry
• Cancelled the irrelevant, outdated F22 weapons program
• Passed the 9/11 First Responders Bill
  

Regressives Accomplish Nothing in First Month

They were dancing in the streets. The Regressive Republicans, with the help of the Teabaggers, won back a majority in the House of Representatives. "We're gonna balance the budget! We're gonna create jobs! We're gonna eliminate Obamacare!" they proclaimed.

Mission: Not accomplished.

What DID they do? Essentially nothing.

• The reading of the Constitution (or parts of it). Yes, they took turns reading aloud sections of the US Constitution -- except for the sections they didn't like or were embarrassed by, like that whole "blacks are 3/5 of a person" thing, and that Regressive Prohibition amendment.
• The pledge to have "open rules" allowing Democrats to offer amendments. Well, except for that very first bill trying in vain to repeal health care reform. No amendments were allowed. Whoops.
• The swearing in ceremony. The oath was taken by all Regressives except for 2 who failed to show up on the very first day. Pete Sessions(R) and Mike Fitzpatrick(R), pictured above, decided to go to a FUNDRAISER instead of the swearing-in ceremony. But, get this, they claim they watched on C-Span, raised their hands and took the oath in front of a TV set! As if that counts. If that were the case, anybody who watched on C-Span, raised their hands and took the oath could have instantly become a US congressman! Morons. To make matters worse, they actually voted on issues illegally on subsequent days before being given a second-chance swearing in ceremony.
  

Jobless Claims LOWEST Since 2008

The economic news in the fourth quarter of 2010 was relatively good. From msnbc:

The last two indicators of the year showed a slowly improving job market and a housing market whose wounds are healing, although it remains battered and bruised by the worst real estate slump in decades.

The number of people applying for unemployment benefits fell to its lowest point in nearly two and a half years, a sign that the job market is slowly improving. And the number of Americans who signed contracts to buy homes rose in November, the fourth increase since contract signings hit a low in June.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40850565/ns/business-eye_on_the_economy/


Notice the jobless rate's substantial increase through the final year of Bush/Cheney (2008). The high point comes at the transition from Bush to President Obama. The jobless rate decreases slowly and steadily all through the first two years of President Obama's first term. Source: US Dept of Labor.

The More You Watch, The Less You Know

What channel do you think that describes? Hint: It's foreign-owned and Saudi-financed.

A recent study from the University of Maryland shows that people who watch Rupert Murdoch's "Fox News" channel on a daily basis were more misinformed than people who watched any other source of news. Any other source.

The report shows that, regardless of a person's political party, if they watched a significant amount of Fox Noise, they believed the following FALSE statements:

Most economists estimate the stimulus caused job losses (12 points more likely)

Most economists have estimated the health care law will worsen the deficit (31 points)

The economy is getting worse (26 points)

Most scientists do not agree that climate change is occurring (30 points)

The stimulus legislation did not include any tax cuts (14 points)

Their own income taxes have gone up (14 points)

The auto bailout only occurred under Obama (13 points)

When TARP came up for a vote most Republicans opposed it (12 points)

And that it is not clear that Obama was born in the United States (31 points)

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/study-fox-news-viewers-most-misinformed-of-all-news-consumers/