Oct 20 2009

Maddow Finally Apologizes for Saying Limbaugh Wanted MLK’s Assassin to Get Medal of Honor

On June 3, Rachel Maddow said during her TV show that Rush Limbaugh is the “guy who says the assassin of Martin Luther King, Jr. should get the Medal of Honor.”
On Saturday, Sunday, and again Monday, I emailed MSNBC spokespersons asking if Maddow had ever apologized and retracted the remark. (A Nexis search didn’t indicate [...]

Oct 6 2009

SEIU Divorces ACORN?

The Service Employees International Union’s Anna Burger
shocked political observers last week when she told a
congressional hearing that her union “cut all ties to
ACORN.”

Burger’s statement came days before Louisiana Attorney
General Buddy Caldwell
announced yesterday that former ACORN official Dale Rathke
allegedly [...]

Sep 5 2009

What Van Jones signifies

Not that we’re inclined to do so, but it would be a mistake to write off Van Jones as a one-off nutjob in the Obama administration. He signifies. The Obama team sought him out and signed him up for his job as green jobs commissar precisely because he is who he is. [...]