Les Moonves is the CEO of CBS. In the clip above he explains why the media giants have been egging on Herr Trumpf on to make increasingly destructive statements that shred U.S. social cohesion. Obviously it's all about the bottom line, his company's bottom line, and the bottom lines of all the media conglomerates. If Trumpf were to wake up and decide to call on his fans to rise up and firebomb mosques, would CBS and the other media giants cover it as news?
This year-- after an 8 year hiatus, Sleater-Kinney got back together, released a new album, No Cities to Love, and have been touring non-stop (this week New York-- Kings Theater in Brooklyn tonight-- and then off to New Zealand and Australia in February). Thursday night at the House of Blues in Cleveland, they performed a cover of the 1987 Ramones classic "Merry Christmas (I Don't Wanna Fight Tonight)."The original Ramones video is pretty rare too-- and, if I remember correctly, the first one that C.J. was in instead of Dee Dee.
Ted Cruz has gotten most of the blame for making the House Republicans look like a bunch of monkeys in the immigration debate-- and especially in the debate about how to handle the Central American refugees on our southern border. But a House GOP whip gave equal blame to Alabama KKK-sympathizer Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III.
John Birch Society stalwart and former drug addict Paul Broun has widely been considered Congress' most extreme Member. He ran in the May Georgia Republican primary for the open U.S. Senate nomination and lost miserably, failing to even crack 10%. But in his own north central Georgia district, GA-10-- stretching from just east of Atlanta to just west of August and from Athens in the north and Milledgeville in the south-- he's pretty popular. The Democrats didn't bother running anyone against him in 2012. The district has a PVI of R+14 and Obama only managed 36%.
Alan Grayson: "None of the Ramones started as a Ramone. But now we are all Ramones."Yesterday Thomas Erdelyi-- Tommy Ramone-- passed away, age 62, after a struggle with bile duct cancer. He was the band's original manager but by the time they were ready to record their eponymous first album, he was also the drummer. He stayed with the band for their first 3 studio albums, Ramones, Leave Home and Rocket to Russia, as well as their first live album It's Alive and co-produced the latter three.
