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Whoopi Goldberg to Ground Zero Mosque Protesters: ‘Kiss My Butt’

The View’s resident political sage Whoopi Goldberg offered her usual degree of intellectualism on Wednesaday’s show, when she told people protesting against the Ground Zero mosque to “kiss my butt” and “get out of here.” Apparently fed up with Americans voicing their collective discontent with individuals and actions they find highly offensive, Whoopi stated (video below the fold): The fact that there were protests on 9/11 really also irritated me. You know what, I don’t have time to listen to your side or your side. This is about the people that lost their lives. That’s why we’re coming together. And the fact that y’all are fighting in the streets – kiss my butt, get out of here. In a show of ostensible political neutrality, Whoopi did not single out either side of the debate, and made a point of claiming that she objected to demonstrations on both sides of the issue. But if there were no opposition to the mosque’s construction, there would be no protests in the first place. So in a sense, Whoopi was singling out and condemning Americans’s objections to this mosque. Apparently she’d rather the mosque be built, and everyone just stop complaining about it. We’ll keep her position in mind the next time the View crew weighs in on some left-wing protest.

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Wretched Excess Dept: The Interiors of Private Jets

We do go on that flying is dying , and have complained before about the carbon footprint of private jets . We often complain about ostentatious monster homes. But I have never seen anything like a slideshow in the Telegraph of the interiors of the Monster Houses of the sky, the private jets of African dictators and other heads of state. They are a… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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The Gentle Art of Community Bike Maintenance (Video)

Image credit: The Journey TV From bike co-ops in LA , to this massive stash of recycled bikes somewhere in the UK, one of the most encouraging things about bike transportation is how egalitarian it is. Almost anyone can learn the art of bike mechanics. And there are plenty of community-based organizations willing to teach you. Check out the video below the fold to see how a free bike workshop helps bring a community… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Noel Sheppard Live-blogging Troopathon 2010

Today is Move America Forward’s third annual Troopathon. NB’s own Noel Sheppard will be live-blogging the events, which will include talks by Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Mark Levin, Laura Schlessinger. Over its first two years, MAF’s Troopathon has raised over $2 million for our men and women in uniform. According to its website , MAF “is the largest grassroots pro-troop organization in the United States, committed to supporting the brave men and women of our military and their efforts to defeat terrorism.” Please join NewsBusters in saluting all of our men and women in uniform, and check out the live video stream of Troopathon and Noel’s live coverage of the event all below the fold. <a href="http://www.coveritlive.com/mobile.php/option=com_mobile/task=viewaltcast/altcast_code=510cd9ed60" >Noel Sheppard at Troopathon</a>

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What’s Real and What’s Imagined in NYT’s Stunning Product-Placement Survey?

On the front page of the New York Times today—for those of you still buying newspapers, it’s below the fold—an article hilariously titled “Before Hiring Actors, Filmmakers Cast Products” (online it appears with the more benign headline: “Branding Deals Come First in the Filmmaking Process”) tries to get to the bottom of all that pesky product placement appearing in movies these days. And while conspiracy theorists will be disappointed that it makes no mention of the Modern Family iPad episode , they’ll be the only ones. This thing reads like an Onion article as written by Michael Tolkin. Even the main focus, a lawyer who specializes in branding deals by the name of Jordan Yospe, feels conjured out of the deep recesses of a screenwriter’s mind. After the jump, play along and try to figure out which portions are real and which are fake. (Hint: Think real.)

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