(New York) It’s a made-for-TV face-off with a possible chance of thunder and lightning.
Mayor de Blasio and Al Roker are scheduled to go mano-a-mano on the “Today” show Monday. Hizzonor has been invited to cut the ribbon on the NBC breakfast program’s new and enhanced plaza outside its Rockefeller Center studios.
But show officials announced Sunday that a de Blasio-Roker showdown is in store. (more…)
(Politico) – CNN President Jeff Zucker has decided to bring an end to Piers Morgan’s low-rated primetime show, network sources told POLITICO on Sunday. “Piers Morgan Live” could end as early as next month, though Morgan may stay with the network in another role.
Morgan, a former British tabloid editor, replaced Larry King in the 9 p.m. hour three years ago, prior to Zucker’s tenure as president. His show earned consistently low ratings, registering as few as 50,000 viewers in the 25-to-54 year-old demographic earlier this week.
“CNN confirms that Piers Morgan Live is ending,” Allison Gollust, head of CNN communications, told POLITICO on Sunday after an earlier version of this post was published. (more…)
(Via Newsbusters) In an interview with the black website TheRoot, incoming MSNBC host Joy Reid repeated the usual network mantra that “Everyone at MSNBC has a different, unique perspective,” and she hopes her new 2pm Eastern show will be a “table-setter for prime time.” Translation: whatever “War on Women” or Bridgegate segment I’m doing at 2 will be repeated at 5, 6, 7, 8, 9…..by one “unique perspective” after another.
Reid claimed to lament a political climate that she says has “just become really nasty” and made civilized disagreements few and far between. It’s thanks in part to what she calls a “very virulent strain that is sort of in the underbelly of society.” It’s racism, or the right wing’s horrid tendency to counter-accuse MSNBC of racism, like the accusation is a weapon: (more…)
It would take an entire fleet of whaaaambulances to load up this self-indulgent diatribe.
There simply is no way to summarize the content, save to say Alec Baldwin is declaring to the world he is quitting all aspects of his public life. Within the psychology of such a declaration he obviously feels the need to tell the world about his intentions.
In Austin Texas a woman was jogging. Police claim she J-walked while jogging so they forcibly stopped her, handcuffed her and demanded id.
She did not have id in her skimpy jogging outfit, so they arrested her for “failure to identify”.
The Texas cops put her in a police car, took her to jail, booked her, mug shot, finger-prints etc., for J-walking and jogging without identification.
A guy across the street saw the whole thing and thought it was ridiculous. He recorded the incident and took pictures.
Then the general public began using social media to express their outrage.
A growing national database containing school students names, addresses, test scores, learning disabilities, attendance records, disciplinary actions, extracurricular activities, vocational and technical training…. [household income, parental political affiliations, voting records, gun registrations, criminal histories, regulatory and compliance activity, IRS tax records, Obamacare medical records, known affiliations, religious beliefs, car registration, purchasing habits, energy consumption, carbon footprint compliance, etc.] ….for contractual and/or employment review, dontchaknow… Gee, what could possibly go wrong ?
RFID Tracking chips on school ID’s. Take home laptops with GPS and spy-cam functions. And… Oh yeah, and those pesky ALPR (automatic license plate readers) are for what use again?
NEW YORK – In an unprecedented move, education officials will hand over personal student data to a new private company to create a national database for businesses that contract with public schools.
Working with the city, state education officials are already uploading private information about students — their names, addresses, test scores, learning disabilities, attendance and disciplinary records — into a $100 million database called inBloom. (more…)
Protesta indescriptible en Caracas. pic.twitter.com/qHyBV8Dcwm
— CastoOcando.com (@cocando) February 22, 2014
Protesters fill the streets of Merida, #Venezuela. pic.twitter.com/SSuJgNjR6W via @machixblue
— Jim Roberts (@nycjim) February 22, 2014
RT @mrgarciafrank #BreakingNews More than 1 million people manifest in Caracas Venezuela against dictatorship Maduro http://t.co/pAwEGlljzi
— SaloumehZ (@SaloumehZ) February 22, 2014
Project Veritas – In one of our most recent videos a Battleground Texas volunteer talks about forging signatures on official voting documents (which is voter fraud) nonchalantly saying, “It happens all the time.”
She’s right it, it does. And Project Veritas proves it in this latest video.
The YouTube ID of gXKwQI_0kDI?feature=player_embedded is invalid.Battleground Texas Field Organizer Jennifer Longoria was caught on camera multiple times making statements such as, “So every time we register someone to vote we keep their name and number.”
Doing so however, is illegal. According to the Secretary of State, it is unlawful to transcribe, copy, or otherwise record a telephone number furnished on a voter registration application. (read more)
The FCC claims on second thought it “may not have been appropriate” to question the media and monitor newsrooms. Gee, ya think ?WASHINGTON DC – The Federal Communications Commission announced Friday that it was putting on hold a controversial study of American newsrooms, after complaints from Republican lawmakers and media groups that the project was too intrusive.
FCC spokeswoman Shannon Gilson said Chairman Tom Wheeler agreed with critics that some of the study’s proposed questions for reporters and news directors “may not have been appropriate.” (more…)
The real ‘war on women’ is a war of hatred against little boys and little girls…
NEW YORK CITY – In 2012, there were more black babies killed by abortion (31,328) in New York City than were born there (24,758), and the black children killed comprised 42.4% of the total number of abortions in the Big Apple, according to a report by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
The report is entitled, Summary of Vital Statistics 2012 The City of New York, Pregnancy Outcomes, and was prepared by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Office of Vital Statistics. (See Pregnancy Outcomes NYC Health 2012.pdf)