Scarborough: Don’t let Gingrich and ‘the voices of hate’ win, The Raw Story, August 23, 2010, by Daniel Tencer, used with permission, quoted verbatim:

Republicans are going to be embarrassed at the way they’ve opposed a mosque — known as Cordoba House or Park51 — that’s planned near Ground Zero, according to one conservative host.

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough told Republicans Monday that they should “speak out against Newt Gingrich and the voices of hate.” While he was at it, Scarborough threatened to leave the GOP for a party “that actually believes in small government.”

Last week, Gingrich compared supporters of the mosque to Nazis. Appearing on Fox & Friends, Gingrich said, “Nazis don’t have the right to put up a sign next to the Holocaust museum in Washington.”

Prior to that, Gingrich argued that the mosque shouldn’t be built near Ground Zero until churches and synagogues are allowed in Saudi Arabia.

“This is demagoguery of the first order,” Scarborough, a former Republican congressman, said Monday. “And people in the Republican Party need to separate themselves from these voices.”

“And I talk to you, my Republican brethren,” he said into the camera. “I don’t know how much longer you’ll be my brethren. I’ll be honest. I’m looking for a conservative party that actually believes in small government and not engaging in Wilsonian wars but that’s another discussion.”

“I’m just talking, you know, as a friend,” Scarborough continued. “I promise you this. You’re going to be embarrassed. You’re going to look back two, three, four years from now and this is going to be dark blot on your record if you don’t speak out against New Gingrich and the voices of hate.”

“This is an embarrassment and you need to speak out against it,” he said.

Opponents of the mosque protested in lower Manhattan Sunday. Daisy Khan, the wife of the controversial imam backing the Islamic center, said Sunday that opposition was “like a metastasized anti-Semitism.”

MSNBC’s Willie Geist told Scarborough that the opposition is proof that anti-Muslim sentiment is worse now than after Sept. 11, 2001.

“It shows us that we are probably farther backward that we were maybe even nine years ago in our interfaith relations,” said Geist.

Scarborough Argues Against Gingrich, GOP Bigoted Demagoguery on MSNBC:

"Deplorable, It Is Sick Politics:" Joe Scarborough, appearing on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, discusses Newt Gringrich’s ‘Nazi’ comments about the ground zero mosque. — 4:51

Newt Gingrich is the new Joe McCarthy in American Politics:

For those of you who don’t remember, from the Wikipedia article on “demagoguery”: “Joseph McCarthy (was a) U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 to 1957. A poor orator, he rose to national prominence during the early 1950’s by accusing a number of politicians and other individuals of being either communists or communist sympathizers. He presented himself as being above reproach while anyone who questioned or disagreed with him he branded as disloyal to the US government. Ultimately his inability to substantiate his claims led him to be censured by the United States Senate in 1954 and to fall from popularity.”

Comment by Evans Liberal Politics owner Paul Evans: Newt, I never thought very highly of you, but how low you’ve sunk! According to my friend Linda, the concensus on MSNBC’s Morning Joe is that Newt is mainly out to turn a buck selling his books and this is publicity. There was discussion that (of course) he has been prominently mentioned as a Republican Presidential candidate, but if were doing that, he’s alienating too many Reagan Democrats, Independents and fiscal Republicans with this grandstand act on the ground zero mosque. And he just finished a similar grandstand act on "family values" and homosexuality back at the beginning of August. No, Mr. Gingrich apparently is just shamelessly trying to make a buck. And think of the forces he has loosed in America, he and his cohort in bigotry Sarah Palin! Freakin’ idiots! ~ Paul Evans

JUICY: See Serial Adulterer Newt Gingrich Makes Mistake of Leaving Comments Open on his “Defense of Marriage” Post, AlterNet on Evans Liberal Politics, August 6, 2010, by Joshua Holland.

See Muslim center dispute sparks New York rallies, Reuters, August 22, 2010, by Edith Honan and Chris Michaud.

See Imam’s wife: Mosque opposition like ‘metastasized anti-Semitism, The Raw Story, August 22, 2010, by Daniel Tencer, excerpt quoted verbatim:

Lower Manhattan mosque part of ‘Americanization’ of Islam, Daisy Khan says

The wife of the imam behind the Cordoba House Muslim community center in Manhattan says the opposition to its construction goes “beyond Islamophobia,” likening it to a “metastasized anti-Semitism.”

“We are deeply concerned, because this is like a metastasized anti-Semitism,” Daisy Khan, executive director of the American Society for Muslim Advancement, told ABC’s Christiane Amanpour. “It’s not even Islamophobia. It’s beyond Islamophobia, it’s hate of Muslims.”

The interview took place as supporters and opponents of the mosque protested in lower Manhattan on Sunday, with police keeping the two groups blocks apart.

Khan was joined on ABC’s This Week by Rabbi Joy Levitt, head of the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan. Levitt said that “some part” of the opposition to the mosque “feels very familiar.”

Watch and Read on Politico: Newt Gingrich compares mosque to Nazis, (with Fox News Video) – 20 seconds.

Older but Important: Stewart: Gingrich wants US to descend to Saudi Arabia’s standards of tolerance, The Raw Story, August 11, 2010, by David Edwards.

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See Republicans hot, cold on Constitution, depending on what’s at stake, AP on The Raw Story, August 23, 2010, by Associated Press, excerpt quoted verbatim:

Republican Rep. Paul Broun of Georgia won his seat in Congress campaigning as a strict defender of the Constitution. He carries a copy in his pocket and is particularly fond of invoking the Second Amendment right to bear arms.

But it turns out there are parts of the document he doesn’t care for — lots of them. He wants to get rid of the language about birthright citizenship, federal income taxes and direct election of senators, among others. He would add plenty of stuff, including explicitly authorizing castration as punishment for child rapists.

This hot-and-cold take on the Constitution is surprisingly common within the GOP, particularly among those like Broun who portray themselves as strict Constitutionalists and who frequently accuse Democrats of twisting the document to serve political aims.

Republicans have proposed at least 42 Constitutional amendments in the current Congress, including one that has gained favor recently to eliminate the automatic grant of citizenship to anyone born in the United States.

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OMG!! Turn on MSNBC RIGHT NOW!!, Daily Kos, August 18, 2010, by Granny Doc, with apologies to the lady, who had no way to contact her, we’re posting this verbatim:

In an exclusive, Richard Engle is riding a Stryker 15 minutes from the border with the last combat brigade to leave Iraq!!  Iraqi Freedom is over.

Two weeks early!!

That shitty do nothing Barack Obama…  He had promised to get ‘em out by the end of August.  Just another promise kept.

Here is the link to the exclusive story from MSNBC.

UPDATE:  They are at the border crossing!

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Robot to expose hidden secrets of pyramid, MSNBC, August 13, 2010, by Stuart Fox, photo from Wikipedia, excerpt quoted verbatim:

Device will unlock Egyptian room that has been sealed for 4,500 years

Following in the footsteps of Howard Carter and Abbot and Costello, a specialized robot will penetrate deeper into the Great Pyramid of Giza than ever before. The robot, part of a years long exploration called the Djedi Project, will explore a shaft inaccessible to a previous robot, unlocking a room that has remain sealed for 4,500 years.

The robot explorer, built by researchers at the Leeds University, England, in collaboration with French aviation company Dessault and British robotics company Scoutek, will incorporate a small fiber optic camera for looking around corners, an ultrasonic probe for testing the quality of the rock and a releasable mini-robot that can fit through spaces as small as 0.7 inches in diameter. Additionally, the robot uses special nylon and carbon fiber wheels that won’t deface the pyramid’s sensitive rock.

…SNIP….

The robot will travel down a shaft located in the tomb of the Queen. Unlike the King’s tomb, where shafts lead to the outside of the Great Pyramid so his soul could escape into the afterlife, the shafts leading from the Queen’s tomb borrow deeper into the pyramid.

This is the third time a robot has tried to find the end of the Queen’s tomb shaft. The first expedition found that a giant stone door blocked the tunnel, and the second robot discovered another door behind that one. With it’s microbot and drill, the Leeds University researchers designed this new robot specifically to breach those obstacles.

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Comment by Evans Liberal Politics owner Paul Evans: Imagine if you will: these are the oldest man-made objects in existence. They were made with simple tools 2,000 years before Pythagoreas came up with his theorems. Secrets of the pyramids are still there to be learned! Watch a video about the Secrets of the Pyramids and the Great Pyramid of Giza of King Cheops or Kheops.

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Keith Olbermann: Comcast would make MSNBC ‘more liberal’, The Hill’s “Hillcon Valley Technology Blog, July 23, 2010, by Sara Jerome and assorted neoconservatives, quoted verbatim:

MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann tweeted on Friday that Comcast wants to make his network “more liberal” when it completes its merger with NBC Universall.

The $30 billion merger is currently under review at the Justice Department and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

“Yeah, they want to go more liberal,” Olbermann tweeted in response to a question about the merger.

Evans Liberal Politics has been in a bit of a ratings slump so we thought we would take this interesting story that should be (in the first place) of a lot of interest to every true liberal, and add to it the responses (comments) of ten of the more (neo)-conservative respondents to this story. It really boggles the mind what some of these meatheads are saying about the merger. With the current pro-corporate mindset that the courts are taking these days, it’s likely that this merger will go through. But at any rate, here’s what ten of the nuthatches have to say about it. Who says politics isn’t entertaining?

"DCMOYNIHAN" says: Give Castro his own show. Or maybe regular remote broadcasts from Venezuala…

CommieCast!

"AL" declares: Only Satan deserves Olberman.

"SUNSHINE CONNIE" elaborates: The only way I can think of to make MSNBC more Liberal would be to fire Scarborough and the few less dogmatic Leftists on his show. He’s a small ‘c’ conservative or “slow-pace Progressive” and the closest thing to the other side they have on air. It could become the Donny Deutsch Show or the Eugene O’Donnel Show. Or maybe they could hire that “Randy (something)” from Air America! Or what about that New Black Panther guy who wants to kill “Cracker-Babies?”

"JEFF" reveals: I’m a one man, man and I’m already secretly married to Barney. Hey, wait just a damn minute…. (slipped something subversive in there, right???)

Now "DWAYNE" is just downright mean: Olbermann’s viewers keep wanting to tax us all for their freeloading, maybe he can be added to the PPV channel for left nuts and D-baggers.

"THE CHEESE" takes a rather mean but humorous approach to trashing MSNBC: Olberman and Maddows are the same person. When “Rachel” comes out it’s really Obermann with his tie off and some mousse in his hair. They also kick him in his teabag prior to the show to raise his voice a bit.

(LOL)

"CHUCKH" thinks he is making a serious comment when he states: Good morning caracas, I just love watchin’ msnbc and cnbc as most of us in our 50′s I remember the cartoons in the 60′s Yogi Bear (bwanny fwank), Yosemite Sam (henry waxman) and many more so who needs news we all know how things turned out for italy in the 30′s and 40′s there is nothing we can do but buy Gold, Silver,Water, Food, Laughter and ridicule. God bless AMERICA. Michael G. McDonald

(Jesus, the guy thinks CNBC is very liberal. Oh, well, there’s room in certain hospital wards for these guys, right?)

"FROM WHERE I SIT" doesn’t think the whole arrangement will go very well for Olbermann: Can’t wait till Olbermann meets Comcast chairman Ed Snider. That should be a barrel of laughs. Mr. Snider doesn’t suffer fools lightly, and he’ll fire an @sshat like Olbermann with a snap of his fingers. (And I’m sure a guy using a moniker like that is really in the know. Right.)

"RSSMITH", apparently making an inside comment on our friend Keith, let’s it be known: This is great…First the screamer moans because there is no ketchup for him, then he gets caught with a woman in New York that he thought was a guy and now this…there is a God!!!

(Now that is just a little mean… Interesting, but mean.)

Finally "DORIS," speaking for all true liberals, lets it be known: Wow…from the hard-right (and reality-deficient) tone of the majority of these posts, Keith-O is doing something RIG…er, CORRECT to get under their skins! …bless him…

He brings comfort to the afflicted, and afflicts the self-aggrandizing Wrong-Wingers. Long may he rage!

That last comment would be just about the opinion of this left-winger, anyway. — Evans Liberal Politics owner Paul Evans.

Eight Years of the Bush Presidency, Summarized: Watch Keith Olbermann – 8 years in 8 minutes, YouTube video – actually this is 9:27. Really kind of says it all.

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Tea Party federation expels group over racial writing, MSNBC, July 18, 2010, by msnbc.com staff and news service reports, photo from Med City News, excerpt quoted verbatim: AP contributed to this writing:

WASHINGTON — The Tea Party political movement saw a major split over the weekend, with the National Tea Party Federation expelling a member group after its spokesman wrote an online post satirizing a fictional letter from what he called “Colored People” to President Abraham Lincoln.

On its website, the federation stated it had given the Tea Party Express, through direct contact with one of its leaders, a deadline to rebuke and remove spokesman Mark Williams.

“That leader’s response was clear: they have no intention of taking the action we required for their group to continue as a member of the National Tea Party Federation,” the federation stated.

Therefore, effective immediately the National Tea Party Federation is expelling Tea Party Express from the ranks of our membership.”

Federation spokesman David Webb, interviewed Sunday on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” called the blog post “clearly offensive.”

Williams, who said his letter was satirical, started it like this: “Dear Mr. Lincoln, We Coloreds have taken a vote and decided that we don’t cotton to that whole emancipation thing. Freedom means having to work for real, think for ourselves, and take consequences along with the rewards. That is just far too much to ask of us Colored People and we demand that it stop!”

“Bailouts are just big money welfare and isn’t that what we want all Coloreds to strive for?” he added. “What kind of racist would want to end big money welfare? What they need to do is start handing the bail outs directly to us Coloreds!”

A conservative talk radio host, Williams later removed the post as criticism grew.

Williams’ post was a reply to a resolution by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) earlier this month that called on Tea Party leaders to “repudiate the racist element and activities” within the political movement.

Immediately after the resolution, Williams said it was unfortunate that the NAACP had chosen to “profiteer off race-baiting and fear mongering” when it could be doing so much to help the black community.

He also questioned the motives of African-American leaders, suggesting they were taking advantage of the publicity the resolution generated.

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MSNBC’s Ratigan: Stock market an ‘obviously corrupt’ fraud, The Raw Story, June 30, 2010, by Daniel Tencer, used with permission, quoted verbatim:

On his afternoon show Tuesday, MSNBC host Dylan Ratigan explained why he believes the usual explanations given in the media for why the stock market went up or down on a given day are nonsense.

“Seventy percent of the volume [of trades on the stock market] is computers that are run by the banks playing ping pong with stocks for 10 seconds at at time,” Ratigan said.

“The stock market at this point, which used to be a reflection of the future value of actual businesses in this country, has been turned by our government and our banks into little more than a paper shredding facility [about which] we can make up reasons why it goes up and down,” Ratigan said. “But when the computers … at the banks are controlling the action, most everything else is kind of silly.”

Ratigan concluded that it’s time to create an “alternative investment structure” that would allow people to invest their money without putting it “into the obviously corrupt stock market in this country.”

Ratigan was referring to the relatively new phenomenon known as high-frequency trading: High-speed computer programs that are able to “peek” at stock trades less than a second before the trades are made. If the computer sees that a trade about to be made will raise the price of a particular stock, it can purchase the stock in the split-second before that trade is made.

Many market observers say this “games” the entire stock market in favor of the large banks that practice high-frequency trading. Indeed, there is evidence that HFT has made the large investment banks much more profitable. As Ratigan mentioned, HFT is estimated to account for 70 percent of all the trading on the New York Stock Exchange.

Mike Konczal at the Atlantic offers an analogy for high-frequency trading:

Imagine if eBay had a rule where you could cancel your bid within 1 second. I put up some stuff on ebay, and you place a bid for it. Then I place a bid that is higher than the current bid to see if that becomes the new highest bid. If it is, I cancel it within milliseconds. Remember, I don’t want to buy the product — I just want to drive the price higher! This is similar to what critics of HFT think is going on; HFT is able to ping prices with bids that exist for only milliseconds to see how much other buyers are willing to pay to squeeze out the maximum profit.

On May 6, 2010, when the Dow Jones unexpectedly plunged nearly 1,000 points, some observers blamed the sudden collapse — which saw some companies’ shares plummet to nearly zero within seconds — on high-frequency trading. Among those advocating that theory was Larry Leibowitz, COO of NYSE Euronext. But some other observers argued that the HFT programs had nothing to do with it, because they were shut down when the market panic set in.

Among the leading voices opposing HFT is Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), who last year called for restrictions on the practice.

“The hallmark of our markets are that they are open and above board and the little guy has as much of a chance as the big guy,” Schumer told the New York Times. “This takes a dagger to the heart of that concept.”

Earlier this month, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced that it’s looking into placing restrictions on high-frequency trading.

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The following video was broadcast on MSNBC’s The Dylan Ratigan Show, June 29, 2010, and was uploaded to YouTube by MoxNews.

DJ Stock Market Drops Below 10,000

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