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John Nichols: Obama Strikes Right Note in Arizona
January 14, 2011"Candidates and politicians who are at their best do not touch our brain, they touch our hearts. It's in our heart that our attitudes are shifted," notes John Nichols of The Nation, and that's what Barack Obama did last night, with his speech on the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 18 others in Tucson, Arizona last week. He also provided, Nichols notes, a striking contrast to Sarah Palin's response to the shooting, which made it all about her.John Nichols, Fighting for Public Workers, and Martin Luther King
January 13, 2011"Candidates and politicians who are at their best do not touch our brain, they touch our hearts. It's in our heart that our attitudes are shifted," notes John Nichols of The Nation, and that's what Barack Obama did last night, with his speech on the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 18 others in Tucson, Arizona last week. He also provided, Nichols notes, a striking contrast to Sarah Palin's response to the shooting, which made it all about her.Rep. Raul Grijalva: Despite Threats, Shooting Unexpected
January 11, 2011"In a very human way you just don't ever think something like this can happen," says Tucson Representative Raul Grijalva, whose district is near that of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, shot on Saturday at a community event. Six people died in the shootout, which left Rep. Giffords and others in critical condition.Laura Flanders on The Ed Show, 12/7
December 8, 2010Laura on MSNBC's Ed Show discussing Obama, the Republican prospects for 2012, and more.Rebecca Traister & Hendrik Hertzberg: Pain & Politics
July 16, 2010Every day, the story changes. Sarah Palin's the leader of the Republican party--except that she can't raise money. Eliot Spitzer is a disgrace (but has a TV show), and David Vitter can run for reelection on a "family values" platform. The NAACP wants the Tea Party movement to declare itself not racist, and suddenly the NAACP is racist. And we can't even get started on the BP disaster--mostly because BP won't let reporters near the scene of the crime.Jeff Biggers, Rebecca Traister & Hendrik Hertzberg, and Hoarders
July 15, 2010Yet another coal miner was killed on the job this week, and journalist and author Jeff Biggers says that the situation has reached crisis level--that it's a war on miners. He also notes that abuse of the land and abuse of the people who work on it has always gone hand in hand, so as pressure for mountaintop removal and new coal mines mounts, so do safety violations--the latest being a story broken by NPR, that a methane gas monitor at the Little Big Branch mine, where 29 workers died in an explosion in April, had been deliberately shut down.David Roberts: Drill, Baby, Drill
April 2, 2010The announcement this week that Barack Obama would open up space along the Atlantic coast for offshore oil drilling wasn't a cruel April Fool's joke, sadly. The president who pledged not to "drill, baby, drill" our way out of energy and climate issues seems to be going back on his word.Drill, Baby, Drill, Palestine Land Day, and the iPad
April 1, 2010The announcement this week that Barack Obama would open up space along the Atlantic coast for offshore oil drilling wasn't a cruel April Fool's joke, sadly. The president who pledged not to "drill, baby, drill" our way out of energy and climate issues seems to be going back on his word.Sensationalism, CNN and Sarah Palin
April 1, 2010GRITtv's media panel returns! This week, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Karen Hunter and Newsweek's Karen Fragala Smith join us once again to break down the good, bad, and ugly in this week's media--in this case, CNN's Haiti coverage and failing ratings, Sarah Palin's possible TV stardom, and Karl Rove's inability to handle anyone's disagreement with him.Katrina vanden Heuvel, the Media, and Green Jobs
March 31, 2010This Monday, suicide bombings rocked two stations in the Moscow Metro, killing 39 people. This is only the latest in a series of attacks on Russian civilians, stemming from the conflict over the Russian occupation of Chechnya.
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