Charles Blow put out a video on his position on the ethics of anonymous sourcing. Continue reading Charles M. Blow on Anonymous Sources & Media Ethics: Right On! | MSM on Blog#42
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As #HillaryClinton Bungles, Angry Pundits Blame #BernieSanders! | #BlackLivesMatter on Blog#42
So, clearly, we’re all angry now. Paul Krugman is seething at Bernie Sanders Continue reading As #HillaryClinton Bungles, Angry Pundits Blame #BernieSanders! | #BlackLivesMatter on Blog#42
The Clinton Game of Race. Gender And Class Divide and Conquer: Same As It Ever Was | Blog#42
In a throwback to a contentious 2008 election fraught with racial innuendo, Continue reading The Clinton Game of Race. Gender And Class Divide and Conquer: Same As It Ever Was | Blog#42
FBI’s Comey on #terrorism label: mostly wrong | #WhiteSupremacy on Blog#42
FBI Director Comey has been receiving a lot of criticism since opining, a mere two days after the Charleston Massacre, that terrorism doesn’t apply in this case. Continue reading FBI’s Comey on #terrorism label: mostly wrong | #WhiteSupremacy on Blog#42
A white mom’s perspective: @Yale’s Report on the January 24 incident
Yale University released, today, its “Ad-Hoc Institutional Advisory Panel’s Review of the Yale Police Department’s Report of the Incident on January 24, 2015.”
This document with a ludicrously long title is fifteen pages long and provides a heavily redacted overview (it’s not an NSA black ops report) of the incident we all know involved an African American Yale police officer drawing a gun on New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow’s son. Continue reading A white mom’s perspective: @Yale’s Report on the January 24 incident
MT: Fireworks on .@AC360: NYT’s @CharlesMBlow vs. Dan Bongino on #NYPD Choking Death
Charles Blow of the New York Times faced off with conservative Dan Bongino on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 on Wednesday over whether an inherent racial “bias” against blacks in American society fed into the controversial case of a NYPD officer choking Eric Garner to death during an arrest. Blow claimed that “society…acculturates us to fear, and…that is how the whole justice system becomes corrupted and biased….we are not always even aware that we have the bias.” Bongino, himself a former NYPD officer, ripped the liberal writer’s claims as “utterly absurd.” Blow cited apparent “social science” supporting his “bias” claims, and blasted the former Secret Service agent’s critique as “offensive,” especially in the wake of a grand jury choosing not to indict the policeman in the Garner case: Continue reading MT: Fireworks on .@AC360: NYT’s @CharlesMBlow vs. Dan Bongino on #NYPD Choking Death
My Comment on: Bigger Than Immigration | NYTimes
NOV. 23, 2014
Don’t let yourself get lost in the weeds. Don’t allow yourself to believe that opposition to President Obama’s executive actions on immigration is only about that issue, the president’s tactics, or his lack of obsequiousness to his detractors.
Continue reading My Comment on: Bigger Than Immigration | NYTimes
Jonathan Capehart’s Moving Statement on MSNBC’s “Up with Steve Kornacki”
The Washington Post and MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart made a very moving personal statement in today’s edition of Up With Steve Kornacki, in the wake of yet another case of curious police-involved shooting of a young black male in Ferguson, Missouri. Continue reading Jonathan Capehart’s Moving Statement on MSNBC’s “Up with Steve Kornacki”