Oklahoma City
Fairness Doctrine and the Politics of a National Tragedy
Examiner.com - 20hrs 4mins agoThe President, while speaking to the American Association of Community Colleges in Minneapolis, Minnesota, said “…we hear so many loud and angry voices in America today whose sole goal seems to be to try to keep some people as paranoid…
Read more >>It Wasnt Enough
Balloon Juice - 3 days agoHate to get all depressing on a Friday night, but I’m afraid “The Editors” at Esquire correctly assess the chances of civility: ... [T]he most remarkable thing about what happened in Oklahoma City is how little it matters today…
Read more >>David Sirota: In Wake of Arizona Shooting, Media Needs to Find the Forgotten Majority
The Huffington Post - 3 days ago"There is a need for some reflection here: What is too far now? What was too far when Oklahoma City happened is accepted now. There's been a desensitizing. These town halls and cable TV and Talk Radio, everybody's trying to outdo each other." Th…
Read more >>As Obama urged unity, Palin brought division
Washington Post - 4 days agoPresident Obama did not miss the moment. From the generally positive overnight reaction, Obama's Speech in Tucson on Wednesday night struck just the right notes. Amid grief over a senseless tragedy and against a raging debate that threatened to …
Read more >>Mary Fallin Suffers Constitution Oath Fail At Swearing-In Ceremony
The Huffington Post - 4 days agoOklahoma City - Is she or is she not the Governor of Oklahoma? Mary Fallin was sworn in Monday as Oklahoma's first female governor, but in reciting the oath of office she really didn't promise to "support, obey and defend the Constitution." At a…
Read more >>Tucson Reax
Andrew Sullivan - 4 days agoAdam Serwer tweets: This Speech reminds me that the criticism I find most incomprehensible is the idea that the president does not love his country. Fallows: The standard comparisons of the past four days have been to Ronald Reagan after the Cha…
Read more >>Obamas Speech
News Desk - 5 days agoHuman minds, much less the varied sicknesses of the mind, are too complex, too mysterious for psychologists and novelists, much less political pundits on a deadline, to map with any certainty. It’s hard to imagine that any columnist can do w…
Read more >>The Plum Line: The right-wing narrative about Clinton, the Oklahoma bombing, and Obama
Washington Post - 5 days agoPresident Obama is heading to Arizona to commemorate the Victims of Saturday's events in Tucson, and Conservatives are already expressing concern about a replay of Bill Clinton's 1995 Speech denouncing "purveyors of hatred and division"…
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