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RIGHT-WING BIAS OF THE “MAINSTREAM” MEDIA
Not only did it egregiously skew the debates this week, it’s driven their post-debate coverage. Why are they insisting that Obama was attacked at the debates? Jhect at Daily Kos tells us why: “Well, first off, they didn’t want to … Continue reading
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THIS IS WHY THE DEMS NEED PRIMARY CHALLENGERS
Mckayla Wilkes, who’s challenging Steny Hoyer in the primaries, calls out Liz Cheney’s apocalyptic insanity. Steny Hoyer doesn’t. At least, not yet. The Dem establishment still doesn’t get that someone as dangerous as Cheney needs to be hammered on a … Continue reading
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LIZ CHENEY USES TRUMPIAN PROJECTION TO DEFLECT FROM HER ELEKTRA COMPLEX
You can’t make this up: Rep. Cheney accuses Bernie Sanders of “Daddy issues.” She’s a Trumpster all right; as well as a Cheney. The combo spells absolute disaster for a country that cedes her any power or influence.
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CNN GOT TRUMP ELECTED
And this week we saw again why and how: the moderators, undoubtedly on the orders, as Lawrence O’Donnell pointed out last night, of their paymasters, did everything they could to discourage serious debate. They also employed Republican talking points, used … Continue reading
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TRIBUTE TO DIANA SANDS
Diana would have turned eighty-five this month. If she were alive she would undoubtedly be speaking out against the grotesquerie in the White House, while maintaining a full schedule of acting, producing, and probably directing and teaching as well. Tomorrow … Continue reading
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DIDN’T THAT GO OUT W/HILLARY’S BID?
I refer to the exhausted spectacle of Democratic candidates telling the public what they don’t deserve, what they don’t want to do for them. Last night showed that that treadmill to oblivion still functions, albeit with rusty bolts and wheels. … Continue reading
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BENEDICT McCONNELL’S FIT OF MANUFACTURED OUTRAGE
This is the Republican normal: work against the interests of the country, then howl that you’ve been victimized when you’re found out. If McConnell doesn’t want to be called a Russian asset, then he shouldn’t perform as one. Now, of … Continue reading
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I WANTED TO SEE JAKE GYLLENHAAL & I WANTED TO BE IN THE HUDSON THEATER
I’ve never seen him live, and I’ve always wanted to see what that beautiful theater with the,by Broadway standards, huge lobby is really like! Both delivered big time last night on West 44th Street in Sea Wall/A Life. As Zubkovskaya … Continue reading
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ALL THE DEMS HAVE TO DO TO TAKE BACK THE SENATE
is to remind the commonweal how GOP senators voted to confirm the freakiest, most seditious, most sociopathic, most corrupt, most disreputable in every way Cabinet in our country’s history. And btw–William Barr is a depraved criminal, as he proved once … Continue reading
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ON STAGE, IN PRINT & IN HAWAII
Robert Barnett’s memoir, On stage at the Ballet: My Life as Dancer and Artistic Director, has just been published by McFarland, while Barnett in person is in Hawaii doing more staging for Ballet Hawaii!
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