My timeline for May is GONE. I — and other users — have a big blank area where our May activity should be. New tweets won’t import from Twitter. Likes won’t appear. Stories I read and like at Storify aren’t showing. I can’t even post new links from the Timeline page, I have to be on the News Feed page. I have no idea if my subscribers are getting anything I post there.
Not exactly confidence-inspiring behavior on the eve of Facebook’s big IPO.
What, was Drew Barrymore unavailable? Hey, maybe Justin Bieber can play Richard Burton since Lifetime clearly has a thing for casting untalented, callow actors.
Fox Nation’s Self-Debunking Attack On The Chevy Volt
The post excerpts the first four paragraphs of an article from TheStreet about concerns that the Volt’s sales numbers may have been skewed by fleet purchases by GE.
But it doesn’t look like the folks at Fox Nation actually read the linked article — the entire point of the story is that those concerns were off-base and that fleet purchases were only 5 percent of the Volt’s sales…
I suppose the motive here is drawing clicks from the Volt-hating Fox crowd, which has been told that the Volt is worthy of conservative scorn, for some reason.
True effin story.
False effin idea. And a misandrist one, saying that men are incapable of thinking or acting like decent human beings if a woman is dressed in an immodest manner. It’s also implying that women who dress immodestly have only themselves to blame if they’re sexually assaulted because they should know that men can’t think or act like decent human beings, so this graphic is not only misandrist but victim-blames women who’ve been raped. It fails on every level. — Ryking
Whoever edited that piece at NBC should be fired. That’s not some simple mistake, it’s blatantly lying. And how sad that Faux News and Newsbusters had to be the ones to expose this? Of course if anyone knows about selectively editing news to put a slant on it, it’s those two right-wing propaganda outlets.
Update, April 8, 2012: The producer has been fired.
Dear Chris Jansing,
The next time you talk about an atheist issue like the atheist billboard in Pennsylvania you need to include an atheist in the segment. Interviewing right-wing preacher/former Bush official/GOP PR flack Joe Watkins without counterbalancing his presence with an actual atheist was bad journalism.
Storify thinks I’m trying to access it via an iPad and my Firefox browser is now offended. Did the same group of engineers who are always rolling out pointless cosmetic features for Tumblr while ignoring Tumblr’s many, many problems take over Storify? Le sigh.
Update: Fixed!
Breitbart.com editors Ben Shapiro and Joel Pollak said Wednesday on Sean Hannity’s radio show that they would release footage that proved President Barack Obama had “radical intellectual founders” — footage which was covered up by the mainstream media.
But before Breitbart.com released the footage, PBS Frontline published the full unedited video themselves, noting that they had previously included the footage in their election special The Choice 2008.
“There’s nothing new about the clip or Obama’s role in the controversy at Harvard Law School,” PBS said. “It’s been online at our site and on YouTube since [2008].”
GOP highway spending bill ‘the worst,’ Ray LaHood says
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said Thursday the House GOP’s highway spending plan is “the worst transportation bill” he’s seen in decades.
“And it also is the most anti-safety bill I have ever seen. It hollows out our No. 1 priority, which is safety, and frankly, it hollows out the guts of the transportation efforts that we’ve been about for the last three years,” LaHood added. “It’s the worst transportation bill I’ve ever seen during 35 years of public service.”
The $260 billion, five-year House bill would cut Amtrak subsidies and increases truck weight limits, leading safety and environment advocates to assail the legislation.
Keep in mind that LaHood is a Republican who spent fourteen years in the House before joining the Obama administration.
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Jose Guerena Ortiz…
Why is this debunked story — from MAY — being promoted to #Politics, given all the posts from more recent stories that could be promoted? Once again our right-wing libertarian editors blow it. — Ryking
(Source: basedgodtrilla)
It is really, really rich to be lectured by this fatuous little jerk about “drinking my tough medicine” when he was handed the celebrity spokesmodel job he has now without any real qualification or slightest bit of talent beyond doing a bad impression of his father (who also wasn’t that great) for several years now. How much do you think this callow little boy is worth?
I won’t even comment on his inane narrative which is so stultifyingly predictable I think even Cokie Roberts would be embarrassed to deliver it. It speaks for itself.
[Russert] and Ratigan went on to give each other big wet kisses about how great they both are so I’m assuming they are good friends. Which doesn’t say much for Ratigan, who has also fallen into the cheapest trap in political analysis: “they’re all alike so I’ll just rant and rave about what losers they are and won’t bother talking about the details.” In fact, he and Russert said nothing that was real, important or relevant to anyone watching that segment.
The stench of unwarranted moral superiority in that exchange was overpowering.
Digby, on moron extraordinaire Luke Russert. I stopped watching MSNBC more than a year ago; Russert and Ratigan were major factors in my making that decision.
“Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.”
