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Editorblog by Mark Karlin

Oh, Rush, just shut your pie hole — you and Dick Cheney and the whole Chickenhawk wing of whiners.

So Wanda Sykes nailed you with a sardonic joke at the normally servile, dowdy (except for the landmark Stephen Colbert lashing of Bush and the D.C. media a couple years back) White House Correspondents’ Association dinner.

You avoided the Vietnam draft because of an anal cyst; you’ve been everything but convicted of illegal addiction to drugs; you’ve been discovered on a hedonist trip to the Dominican Republic (engaging in sex with women, girls or boys); and you make tens of millions of dollars with hate talk radio that thrives on phrases like “feminazis” and “Barack the Magic Negro.”

As usual, The Daily Show brilliantly mocked the faux demand of the usual winger amen chorus accusing Sykes – and Obama by association – of being politically incorrect.

Well, if you dish it out, you better be able to take it. Otherwise, you look like the bully on the playground who just got the sh*t kicked out of him by the girl with thick bottle glasses – or in this case, even more embarrassing to the GOP joke police - by a black female lesbian comic.

Read article here: http://blog.buzzflash.com/editorblog/207

From Alternet:

Even for a pancaked industry like radio broadcasting, which has become somewhat numb to years’ worth of mass layoffs triggered by hyper, corporate consolidation, and more recently by an over-the-cliff advertising recession, last week’s HR wave of mutilation unleashed by industry giant Clear Channel Communications must have felt like a pile-on.

Drowning under massive debt and desperate to cut more costs, Clear Channel took an ax to its payroll — again — and hacked hundreds of radio pros out the door. Program directors, morning show hosts, production pros, news anchors — all of them tossed over the side. A “bloodbath,” one newspaper called it. (In Albany, New York, the entire on-air staff at a Clear Channel music station was sacked; same with a radio outpost in Exeter, New Hampshire)

The most recent blizzard of pink slips (one industry report pegged it at “nearly 1,000″) came in the wake of a January purge, in which 1,850 Clear Channel employees were let go. So already this year the company has shed nearly 3,000 employees, or 12 percent of its workforce. Also, last week, Clear Channel’s parent company announced it was suspending its matching contributions to employee 401(k) retirement programs.

See article: http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/139891/limbaugh%27s_%24400_million_contract_is_an_even_match_for_clear_channel%27s_layoffs/

Over a Thousand changes on Palin’s Wikipedia “history” in the last 24 hours! The Ministry of Truth is Alive and Well. HERE is the latest bullshit entry, same link of course, but just LOOK at the difference in this Story ALONE. See the Original post below for what was found on Wiki this morning. This does not bode well for McCain’s “Hail Mary” pass, his poor judgement has forced a podunk into the limelight, and meanwhile Talking Points Memo for one is One the Troopergate case, which has been scrubbed too. Excuse me, but WHAT are they trying to HIDE if they have to do this?

When on June 6, 2007, the Alaska Creamery Board recommended closing Matanuska Maid Dairy, an unprofitable state-owned business, Palin objected, citing concern for the impact on dairy farmers and the fact that the dairy had just received $600,000 in state money. When Palin found out that the Board of Agriculture and Conservation appoints Creamery Board members, she replaced the entire membership of the Board of Agriculture and Conservation.^[22][53] The new board reversed the decision to close the dairy, but later in 2007, with Palin’s support, the unprofitable business was put up for sale. There were no offers in December 2007, when the minimum bid was set at $3.35 million,^[54][55] and the dairy was closed that month. In August 2008, the Anchorage plant was purchased for $1.5 million, the new minimum bid; the purchaser plans to convert it into heated storage units.

More news about the Matanuska Milk Maid (Palin). She ran on a “clear and transparent” Govt platform?Does this remind you of anyone? Bush, Cheney, Rove et al. Another bizarre and irresponsible decision by Insane in the Membrane McCain.

“In what has quickly become one of the most costly and poorly thought out decisions since former Governor Murkowski bought the ill fated jet, Governor Palin’s decision to keep open the failing Matanuska Maid Dairy has culminated in her ordering a gag on employees from sharing public information about Mat Maid’s  questionable business practices.
Has being open and transparent gone out of style?”

http://www.andrewhalcro.com/nov_19_no_spilling_the_milk_a_gag_order_on_the_matanuska_maid_fiasco

The Matanuska Milk Maid can’t even run a Dairy Farm.. do you want this person negotiating with Terrorists?

Please…

Matanuska Maid Dairy closure
When the Alaska Creamery Board recommended closing Matanuska Maid Dairy, an unprofitable state-owned business, Palin objected, citing concern for the impact on dairy farmers and the fact that the dairy had just received $600,000 in state money. When Palin learned that only the Board of Agriculture and Conservation could appoint Creamery Board members, she simply replaced the entire membership of the Board of Agriculture and Conservation.<12><32> The new board, led by businesswoman Kristan Cole, reversed the decision to close the dairy.<32> The new board approved milk price increases offered by the dairy in an attempt to control fiscal losses, even though milk from Washington was already offered in Alaskan stores at lower prices.<33> In the end, the dairy was forced to close, and the state tried to sell the assets to pay off its debts but received no bids.<[br />

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin

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