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ROCKIN' NEW YORK
Remember when WABB-FM came on the air and rocked Mobile with their new AOR format? Well one of the pioneer jocks was a Fairhope lady, Leslie Fram. She went on to Atlanta and then to NYC where she has continued to make "waves". Here's an interview with her.
(PASTE, suggested by LEE ANN WATERSS CAMP)

MOVING ON BEYOND THE RACE ISSUE
While the "real" Joe Wilson may be fodder for debate, here's a reasoned and civil debate about the race issue in general.
(NEWS HOUR)

Joe Wilson's Dixie Partisans - Rasmussen Reports™

JOE AND HIS HOMIES
It is not accidental that Joe Wilson is a client of the Quinn firm. Richard Quinn, has been a central figure in both South Carolina Republican politics and the 'neo-Confederate' movement, notably as editor and publisher of a periodical called The Southern Partisan. Wilson is a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, once a relatively harmless organization of nostalgic Southerners that has been transformed into a virulently racist outfit in recent years.
(RASMUSSEN REPORTS)

The Joe Wilson Story (cont.) - The Hill's Pundits Blog

LET'S MOVE ON
There is a racial element to the Joe Wilson incident, as there is in almost everything in American life. That Wilson is from South Carolina and that Barack Obama is African-American; that Clyburn is a civil-rights warrior and that Wilson is a former Strom Thurmond aide — it all makes it easy to turn this into another racial battle.

PS:

HERE'S THE OFFENDING MAUREEN DOWD PIECE

AND A CRITIQUE OF IT

(THE HILL, suggested by SIXTO MENDEZ)

Today's Best Cartoons

LIAR, LIAR, PANTS ON FIRE
As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words.
(Suggested by Chris Hatch)

21 Million Watch President's Address to Congress on Big Three - mediabistro.com: TVNewser

DANCING BACKWARDS, BUT NOT IN HIGH HEELS
The "numbers" for last night's address to congress are out. Over 21 million folks watched, with the distribution amongst the three major networks at just about even. FOX, the only broadcaster not to carry the speech, drew 6.5M Total Viewers for the premiere of "So You Think You Can Dance?". Enough said.
(MEDIA BISTRO)

'Medi-scare:' Senior-alert from GOP: The Swamp

FOR HALLOWEEN
In political circles, there is a term for the tactic that the Republican National Committee is deploying with a new run of national cable ads and TV ads airing in Florida: "Medi-scare".
(THE SWAMP, suggested by WEST VIRGINIA BLUE)

Orlandoweekly.com - Bloggytown

SOMETHING TO BOO ABOUT
The Orlando Weekly has taken one of its brethren to task for publishing an opinion piece called "The health-care debate deserves an honest forum" under the auspices of its "New Voices" demographic olive branch: "a forum for readers under 30." ...The problem with the piece was that it didn't really appear out of the thin air of youthful concern, but rather out of the the typing fingers of a known Republican operative. Now, that's something to boo about.
(THE ORLANDO WEEKLY, suggested by ALTERNET)

Rachel Maddow:Fighting off the fringe

THEY'RE JUST SAYING
Right-wingers practicing what the Maoists call "criticism/self-criticism"? Well, maybe not. But last night's Rachel Maddow featured a courageous journey into what Che would have called "the belly of the beast" by Jonathan Henke of the conservative blog TheNextRight. Rachel was discussing Henke's "forcebul pushback", against the right's lunatic fringe, what he calls "the fevered swamps". He was there to decry what he fears is the destruction of the "intellectual foundations of the right" by those who "traffic in the paranoid conspiracy theories" and "take away from our abilities to discuss important issues". Sound familiar?

HERE'S THE OFFENDING ORIGINAL STORY BY HENKE

AND HERE'S THE FOLLOW-UP PIECE

(MSNBC)

YouTube - Rammer Jammer-(Give em Hell Alabama) Rap w/some lyrics

YO! ALABAMA!
Here is the Alabama Fight Song as a rap song. This is really good, even if you don't like the genre or (how could you!?!)the school.
(Suggested by JORENE SMITH)

TWO VIEWS ON PUBLIC OPTION
The News Hour has been doing a pretty credible job of exploring the issues. Here are two reports they recently did on the public option:

PRO:

Jacob Hacker of Yale University, one of the key proponents of a public insurance option.

CON:

Robert Laszewski, a former insurance executive and skeptic of a public insurance option.

CREW URGES MSNBC TO PULL MISLEADING AND DELUSIONAL HEALTH CARE AD | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington

PULLING THE PLUG
Watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) has sent a letter to MSNBC urging the network to pull a US Citizens Association-sponsored ad from the air claiming that it was misleading, delusional, and violated Federal Communications Commission and NBC regulations addressing false and misleading ads.
(CREW)

t r u t h o u t | Don't Get Sick!

WHAT THEY SAY UP NORTH
In 2004, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation conducted a poll to determine whom Canadians thought was the greatest Canadian of all time. It was Keifer Sutherland's grandfather, Tommy Douglas, who is credited with making sure that Canadians would have universal, government-funded health care. When Canadians are periodically polled and asked what they are most proud of, in addition to peacekeeping, it is their national health care system.

SEE ALSO
(TRUTHOUT, suggested by WEST VIRGINIA BLUE)

Army used profiles to reject reporters | Stars and Stripes

MILITARY USED PROFILES TO MONITOR REPORTERS
The secret profiles commissioned by the Pentagon to rate the work of journalists reporting from Afghanistan were used by military officials to deny disfavored reporters access to American fighting units or otherwise influence their coverage as recently as 2008, Stars and Stripes reports.
(STARS AND STRIPES, suggested by FREE PRESS MEDIA REFORM DAILY)

HORROR STORIES
We've been going at it back and forth on FaceBook about health care. Here's a response by a local lawyer that I thought was especially poignant:

"I will tell you what concrete thing Senator Kennedy did. He saved my daughter Jessica's life. She was 23, had just graduated college two years ago, has a degree but no job and no health insurance. She was diagnosed with a virulent and rare cancer that was virtually fatal. Thanks to Medicaid and the National Cancer Center (the legislation for creating and funding both were driven through Congress by Teddy), my daughter's $500k treatment saved her life. Ted Kennedy saved my daughter. Plain and simple. He created and implemented federal, public health care plans that were the only reason my daughter got treatment. Before she was approved the hospitals coldly sent her away to die -- literally would not look at her and she was dying right in front of them at 23. So, all you who are ignorant about what Teddy did, I am here to tell you. One day it will be your child. One day the doctors will tell you they are sending her home to die because there is no insurance. Then you'll know..."