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Nothing fly or flashy over here but I think Common and Nas “Ghetto Dreams” video comes at a great time. The Throne is great but it’s about balance. Check out two of rap’s most poetic together for a mostly black and white visual. Common’s forthcoming album The Dreamer The Believer drops this fall. Related: Nas Says Amy Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : MissInfo.tv Discovery Date : 11/08/2011 20:56 Number of articles : 3
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Republican Congressional candidate Bob Turner is making us feel like it’s summer 2010 all over again with his ad attacking Assemblyman David Weprin on the Park51 project. Here’s the 30-second spot, with the footnoted script below: It’s been ten short years. Everyone remembers. Some, though, want to commemorate the tragedy by building a mosque on Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Capitol confidential Discovery Date : 11/08/2011 22:48 Number of articles : 2
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infoMania's Sergo Cilli demands that Soulja Boy take a break from buying Gucci bandanas and flossing his pretty boy swag to actually write good songs. Soulja Boy claims to have a million of them, so why do all of his tracks sound like the same repetitive crap? Even Ice-T has something to say about it. It takes a real friend to call an intervention to help you realize you might have a problem. This also applies to music. Except Sergio is not your friend but he still wants you to stop. For more Music Intervention visit: http://current.com/shows/infomania/music-intervention/ and Current TV. infoMania is a half-hour satirical news show that airs on Current TV. The show puts a comedic spin on the 24-hour chaos and information overload brought about by the constant bombardment of the media. Hosted by Conor Knighton and co-starring Brett Erlich, Erin Gibson, Ben Hoffman, Bryan Safi and Sergio Cilli, the show airs on Thursdays at 10/9c on Current TV. Go to http://current.com/infomania for more, and make sure to check out our Facebook profile for special features at http://facebook.com/infomania . added by: Sergio_Cilli
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“A few photos of stuff the same distance from the World Trade Center as the “Ground Zero Mosque” (click on the picture to access the photos) “What’s my point? A month ago, I wrote about my support for a group of Muslim New Yorkers—whom I consider my neighbors—and their right to put a religious building on a piece of private property in Lower Manhattan. Since then, the debate over the Park51 community center, inaccurately nicknamed the “Ground Zero Mosque,” has jumped from talk radio to mainstream conversation, and turned nasty in the process. Sarah Palin wrote that, “it would be an intolerable and tragic mistake to allow such a project sponsored by such an individual to go forward on such hallowed ground.” “Look at the photos. This neighborhood is not hallowed. The people who live and work here are not obsessed with 9/11. The blocks around Ground Zero are like every other hard-working neighborhood in New York, where Muslims are just another thread of the city fabric. “”At this point the only argument against this project is fear, specifically fear of Muslims, and that’s a bigoted, cowardly and completely indefensible position. “Update: Read some samples of reader feedback on this post.” added by: Vierotchka
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NBC’s Matt Lauer, invited on former House Majority Leader Dick Armey and Freedom Works’ Matt Kibbe to discuss the Ground Zero mosque controversy and claimed that since the group behind the mosque existed in Manhattan before the World Trade Center attack, questioned: “So because of 9/11, do they have to move further away? Do they have to go elsewhere?” Armey, who was on with Kibbe to promote their new book Give Us Liberty: A Tea Party Manifesto, responded to the Today show co-anchor “that because you have the right to do something doesn’t make it the right thing to do” and pointed out to Lauer that those behind the mosque should be more “responsive to the concerns that are being raised.” The following is the full interview with Armey and Kibbe as it was aired on the August 17 Today show: MATT LAUER: Dick Armey is a former Republican congressman from Texas, who served as House Majority Leader. Matt Kibbe is CEO and president of Freedom Works, a conservative non-profit grassroots organization. Together they’ve written a new book called Give Us Liberty: A Tea Party Manifesto. Guys, good morning. Nice to see you again. [On screen headline: “Tea Party Manifesto, How Can The GOP Win The Midterm Elections?”] MATT KIBBE: Good morning. DICK ARMEY: Good morning. LAUER: Congressman, good to see you. ARMEY: Nice to see you. LAUER: Before I get to the book, I gotta ask you your take on this whole mosque controversy. The President seems to have turned it into a national debate with his comments over the weekend and it seems it’s getting more and more emotional. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich compared building a mosque on that site to the Nazis putting up a sign at the Holocaust Museum. Do you agree with that analogy? ARMEY: Well that’s a pretty harsh analogy, but this is an extremely important issue and it’s heart felt, as you can see, across the nation. I personally would prefer they build it someplace else, I think it would be a more respectful position for them to take. I was fascinated by the President, though. He’s obviously trying to change the subject away from his failed economic policies, but I think he really picked the wrong choice. LAUER: When you say it’s a tough analogy that Newt Gingrich came up with, I mean, you know, he’s comparing it the Nazis. We were at war against the Nazis. We are not at war against Islam. Never have been, are not now. Al Qaeda, yes, but not Islam. So do comments like that inform or inflame? ARMEY: Well it’s always, they are always difficult in both cases. I, that’s an analogy that I think is drawn a bit further than it needed to have been. Still, on the other hand, the stated purpose they give for the mosque – and in politics, you understand, I always say politics is like a dysfunctional marriage, every fight’s really about something else. The stated purpose for the mosque would be better served if out of respect for the strong feelings there, they said we want to continue with our program to enhance intercultural understanding, cross religious understandings and we’ll build it someplace else out of respect for these, these strong feelings. LAUER: So, so they have every right to build it at that site, but you think it’s, it’s in better taste to build it somewhere else? I’m, I’ll look at the title of your book, Give Us Liberty: A Tea Party Manifesto. Liberty, by definition, is the condition of being free from restriction or control. That applies to religious freedom as well, doesn’t it? KIBBE: It sure does, but you know this community that we talk about, you find that there are people from, from all walks of life, all religions and what binds the community together is economic freedom. And we would argue about other things when we got into those issues, but it’s, it’s really, that’s what makes America great. It’s this, it’s this combination of all these different cultures and opinions. LAUER: When, when you talk about this particular group, though, this, this group has been in lower Manhattan for years and years. They were there before 9/11. So because of 9/11, do they have to move further away? Do they have to go elsewhere? ARMEY: No, there’s an old saying, that because you have the right to do something doesn’t make it the right thing to do. And I would again take this group back to their own stated purposes for the mosque. What do they hope to achieve with it? Which is greater cross cultural understandings. If that is the case, then let them be responsive to the concerns that are being raised and these concerns are legitimate heartfelt concerns. And the gracious thing to do becomes the right thing to do. And the right thing to do is to say, “I’m going to be deferential to your strong feelings because my greater cause, which I stated at the outset of this debate, will be better served by my being that generously responsive to you. And it now becomes a question of sort of a stubborn, refusal to be responsive to people’s legitimate concerns. And then you get what I call the hardening of the attitudes and now you got a national issue. LAUER: Let me move on, we’ll leave it at that. In the book you talk about the roots to of the new Republican revolution. This is a guy who led the last Republican revolution back in 1994. A revolution that in the book you read, or you write that “It did not live up to its potential because it devolved into an embarrassing gap between rhetoric and fiscal policy.” Why will the new revolution be different? KIBBE: Because this is a revolution from the bottom-up. This is real people saying politics is too important to leave it to the politicians. 1994 was an inside job of a, of a few true believers that sort of took over the Republican caucus. These folks are saying, “We don’t trust the Republicans or the Democrats to fix the economic problems we have in this country. We’re gonna do it for ourselves.” LAUER: In just a couple of seconds I have left a recent poll that I saw, NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, for the first time more people have a negative view of the Tea Party than a positive view. What is the main misconception that you think people have about the Tea Party movement? ARMEY: Well, obviously the misconception is being fostered by everybody who’s afraid of this massive big movement. Misconception that it is some place to the right extreme. This is right smack down the middle, standing on those issues that are most greatly of concern to the American people. There’s nothing violent about this. These, these are mostly grandparents. And the fact is the, the issue, the, this group of sincere, concerned Americans that are devoted to this preservation of this country as it is, are being mischaracterized every day. But I can guarantee you, if you read our book and if you walk among these folks, the first thing you’re gonna say is, “These folks are just like me and, and I got the same worries they got. And I don’t blame ’em for being here upset and trying to inform this government. You ought to listen to us for a change.” LAUER: Former Congressman Dick Armey and Matt Kibbe. Guys, thanks very much. We appreciate you being here. KIBBE: Thanks Matt. ARMEY: Thank you.
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How’s this for “creating dialogue”? Yesterday, organizers of the Ground Zero mosque project took to Twitter to slam Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz, after the paper incorrectly reported that plans for the controversial Islamic prayer center were being abandoned. But some say the mosque’s organizers went too far by mocking Ha’aretz with references to Jewish culture. ” On a side note, if Haaretz likes publishing fables, perhaps they could go back to the Yiddish ones with parables #welikethosebetter ,” Tweeted Park51 , which calls itself the “official Twitter account” of the Ground Zero mosque project. Yiddish is a language that originated with and was used primarily by the Ashkenazi Jewish community in Eastern Europe. After the Tweet caused a small outcry with some calling it “anti-semitic,” Park51 appeared to remove the comment from its Twitter page, though there is still a link available to the original statement . ” Fine lemme retract the yiddish one and restate – the intent was that Haaretz published an unsubstantiated fable not a fact,” Park51 Tweeted, in an attempt to backtrack on statement. ” Apparently we can take a bashing all day but we can’t make a jab about fables. :(” Later, Park51 attempted to explain the reasoning behind the Yiddish dig. ” I meant it as a joke as my cousin’s mother used to tell us Yiddish stories as kids (she’s Jewish) ,” Park51 Tweeted. Ah, the Ground Zero mosque project. Building bridges between cultures, one Jewish joke at a time.
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On Tuesday morning’s Laura Ingraham radio show, Newsweek reporter Howard Fineman pleaded “no contest” in Latin to the conservative host’s lecture that Newsweek was too busy celebrifying Barack and Michelle Obama to weigh whether Obama would succeed as president. (Audio here. ) He insisted the magazine was “mesmerized” by a “brilliantly run campaign,” as if it wasn’t also about their liberal wishes and dreams: INGRAHAM: How is it though with all these smart people at Newsweek – I went around the block with Evan Thomas about this as well. How did you all think that a guy who basically went from the Harvard Law Review, to some community leafleting, organizing, whatever you want to call it, to a short stint, a few lectures about constitutional law at [the University of] Chicago, very short stopover in the state Senate, and a very short stopover in the U.S. Senate. How does that add up to experience to run the biggest economy and the biggest military in the world? And why wasn’t Newsweek, instead of doing these celebrified covers of Michelle and Barack as historic, and celebrity culture, and all this love-love-love-love-love, why wasn’t – Why weren’t those questions asked before this election took place? Because to me, those were the questions to ask. . It wasn’t about personality. It was about experience and outlook. FINEMAN: Well, uh, first, I’ll plead nolo [ contendere ] on a lot of this. But – INGRAHAM: That’s what he did, in the U.S. Senate. He voted present. So you’re voting present for Newsweek. FINEMAN: No, no. Part of the problem is, or part of the reason is that we – as political reporters, we become enamored with the mechanics of the campaign, and I would still insist that – Ingraham saw right through the admire-your-mechanics trope: INGRAHAM: You’re gonna do that if Paul Ryan is the nominee, for the Republicans? You’re gonna celebrify him? I don’t think so. FINEMAN: No, no. Let me back up for a second. That was – Whatever you say about Barack Obama and David Axelrod in your diaries and everything — INGRAHAM: Yeah. FINEMAN – It was a brilliantly run campaign. And I have come to despair of the notion of the relationship between the quality and shrewdness of a campaign that someone runs and the kind of presidency that they have. When Ingraham joked that Lady Gaga is good at branding, too, Fineman added; “We were mystified and mesmerized by the quality of the branding campaign that was Obama’s.” Another word for “mystified and mesmerized” would be that Newsweek was “suckered,” or “bamboozled,” or to use an Ingraham favorite, “razzle-dazzled.” But they knew he would be an inexperienced president, and make plenty of mistakes. They just calculated that they would cross that bridge when they arrived at it. “History” came first, incompetence afterwards. When the media offers a contender like Obama yards and yards of gauzy press coverage, and when it papers over every inconvenient truth about his hate-preaching minister of two decades, among many contentious fractions of the candidate’s personal history, isn’t it much easier to portray his campaign as “brilliantly run”? Earlier, Fineman played the centrist correspondent who would have advised Obama to be less self-impressed with his own historic importance and seek half a loaf of government activism instead of greedily grabbing for a large socialist combination plate: He consciously at the beginning set himself up as a kind of counterpoint to Reagan. Remember he said he admired Reagan and Hillary got all upset at him admiring Reagan? What Obama admired about Reagan was not his philosophy, or his program, but the fact that Reagan was an inflection point in history, was a big sea change in history. I believe Obama views himself in that way, and that’s why he went for the big health-care bill, and the big stimulus, and all the other big bills to make history, because he felt he would be the anti-Reagan. But I missed – I have to admit I miss half of what I cover when I’m out there. I thought Obama was shrewder than that, and wouldn’t use all of his political capital in the way he did, and it’s hurt him. But if Obama’s in dire political straits now, Newsweek’s over-the-top, ego-stoking coverage comparing him without any real factual foundation to historic presidents like FDR and Lincoln is a part of the problem. So maybe after November, Fineman and his colleagues can also plead “no contest” to unintentionally spurring the Republican wave that may come.
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As we noted in this morning’s Open Thread , Greg Gutfeld is planning on building the first gay bar catered to Muslim men next to the impending “Ground Zero Mosque.” Gutfeld wrote at his blog , the Daily Gut, that he has “already spoken to a number of investors, who have pledged their support in this bipartisan bid for understanding and tolerance.” On Twitter today, Gutfeld and the official twitterers of the Park51 project – the official name of the mosque – duked it out in what was a very telling exchange. See a full graphic of the back and forth below the fold, courtesy of Johnny Dollar (pic at right by way of Jim Treacher ). “He’s got a point,” notes Allahpundit in reference to Park51’s tweet concerning “Muslim sensibilities.” “Construction projects that fail to consider local cultural sensitivities aren’t very conducive to dialogue, are they?” Indeed, the entire exchange seemed to strengthen Gutfeld’s position. He shouldn’t offend Muslim’s sensibilities? Well what about New Yorkers’ sensibilities? How is Park51’s total disregard for those sensibilities any more constructive in building a dialogue than Gutfeld’s? Outrage over Gutfeld’s move only reinforces the point his project is making (whether or not he intends it): yes, everyone has a right to build wherever they like, as long as they do it legally, but that “sensibilities” are a two-way street. Since Park51 has apparently taken a stance against Gutfeld’s bar, will media liberals condemn the mosque’s proprietors as homophobes the same way they condemned mosque opponents has Islamophobes? Individuals who opposed the mosque’s construction have been dubbed ” bellicose ,” ” xenophobic ,” ” Nazis ,” and ” intolerant know-nothings ,” while the mosque itself has been labeled a ” monument to religious tolerance .” The Twitter exchange today demonstrated the double standard espoused by the mosque’s proprietors. Will the media personalities who so vilified the mosque’s opponents endorse that same double standard? Or will they defend Gutfeld’s attempt to promote a dialogue about the treatment of homosexuals in most Muslim nations and communities, even if it means offending a few people?
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