Keith Olbermann Fired By Current TV; Replaced By Eliot Spitzer

I think it really is about taking authentic leftwing voices off the air waves. Stifling critics of Obama and other corporate Democrats.  Anything or anyone who challenges the establishment.  

Here's an example from one of the most liberal regions of the nation, San Francisco.  Just in time for the 2012 campaign:

The only progressive AM radio talk station, Green960-KKGN, in one of the nation’s most liberal cities, San Francisco, is being taken off the AM dial by radio behemoth Clear Channel Communications, Inc. — a media conglomerate now owned by Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital, LLC — at the beginning of the 2012 Presidential election year.

Adding insult to injury for progressives in the Bay Area, the 960 slot on the dial is being replaced by Clear Channel with the likes of Glenn Beck, Fox News Radio’s John Gibson and other radical Rightwing talkers. Clear Channel’s San Francisco Director of Operations Don Parker in a press release cites Clear Channel’s “goal of expanding talk radio in San Francisco. We saw the opportunity to expand our footprint in this crucial arena as we head into an election year and a population increasingly engaged in local, state, and national events and activism,”

The expansion will amount to moving Green960′s current schedule of progressive talk shows off the AM band, and on to FM’s HD2 radio ghetto where it will become a largely automated “robo-station,” according to several radio insiders familiar with the station and Clear Channel’s plans for it. The station which was formerly Green 960 will have the catchy new name “FM Progressive Talk 103.7-2″ at its new home, if listeners can find it.

The new Rightwing format taking its place on 960 will be known as KNEW, which is currently at 910 on the AM dial featuring a number of Fox News Radio programs. The 910 position will then be filled with a new talk format being developed by Clear Channel called “San Francisco’s Talk 910 KKSF,” which will also include some Fox News Radio veterans.”

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Keith Olbermann Fired By Current TV; Replaced By Eliot Spitzer

We created Current to give voice to those Americans who refuse to rely on corporate-controlled media and are seeking an authentic progressive outlet. We are more committed to those goals today than ever before.

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Not with Bill Press, Jennifer Granholm, Eliot Spitzer and Stephanie Miller.  All corporate, establishment, DLC Democrats, but then again so are Al Gore and Joel Hyatt.  
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Duggars' Mom, Michelle, Thinks Overpopulation Is A Lie

Bill Clinton comes from there.

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And left there.  

Then Arkansans put Mike Huckabee into the Governor's mansion.

2011 State Education Rankings (Science & Math):  

Arkansas is 41st.  

But it does rank better than Oklahoma, Alabama, West Virginia and Mississippi.

Ironically, Arkansas holds the same place in 'Most Obese' States ranking.  9th fattest, behind, again, Oklahoma, Alabama, West Virginia and Mississippi.  (If Wisconsins are 'Cheese Heads', are Arkansans 'Fat Heads'?)

'Bible Belt' Arkansas.  86% Christian, 1% Jewish, 1% Muslim, 1% Other, 14% Godless Heathens (I know, the math doesn't add up, but it's stats from Arkansas).  

Arkansas, corporate home of Walmart and Tyson 'We Urinate on the Chickens Before We Torture and Kill Them' Foods
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Come on now.
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Raise Minimum Wage By 35 Percent, Peg It To Inflation: Senate Dem

Don't worry, plutocrat; Harkin and his colleagues will get over these populist policy promises as soon as they win reelection.  

(Living wages -- Oh, what a horror!)
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Duggars' Mom, Michelle, Thinks Overpopulation Is A Lie

I would wager that Michelle Duggar has never been to Manila, Philippines (world's most populated city at 111,576.0 people per square mile).

Or Delhi, India (75,512.0 people per square mile).

Or Beijing, China (population has increased 700,000 a year since 2000, and is currently 61,000.0 people per square mile).

Or New York City (27,532.0 people per square mile).

Or Portland, Oregon (4,375.2 people per square mile).

Or San Diego, California (3,771.9 people per square mile).

Or beyond the bright lights of Tontitown, Arkansas (population 2,460, population density 134.2 people per square mile), where she and her family live.

Arkansas, people.

'nuff said.
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The Promise of Hope

#6 - Continue the Insanity, meaning we keep doing the same thing* over and over again hoping for a different outcome.

[* - Same thing = Continue to refuse to believe our own 'lyin' eyes', keep doing what we've been doing for the past 20 years, continue voting for DLC-controlled Democrats, vote again for Obama in the hopes that he's a closet liberal playing 12-dimensional chess, believing that he's got a plan, a strategy, that nobody can see or figure out, but because he's the smartest, grown-uppiest in the room, in all of Washington (on the whole planet, even) his scheme eludes and confounds us, so we just need to be like Republican voters and have blind faith in our political leaders.

Clue: There aren't any grown-ups to save us; we're 'it'.]

What happens when millions are out of work, no jobs, no money, no hope.  London, Philadelphia, where next?

"Quickly Brad, there are thousands of lives at stake... Brad any answer..." - Roy Neary, 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind
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#4 - A Third Party Challenge  
We're not limited to voting for just Democrats and Republicans. There are other alternatives besides sitting out the election or voting for Republicans. There are other candidates running as independents, from Green to Libertarian, in just about every race.  If for no other reason than to get the 5 percent that is necessary for getting a seat at the table, I think that may be enough for great numbers of Democratic voters this time around.

#5 - The "Oh, F R I C K  it, let's get it over with - Vote for Republicans"-plan

The horse is out of the barn and we should just let the radical right have its way.  It's not like Obama and the gutless Dems are going to stop them.

It would be carnage for a few years, people eating other people (though that really only happens in the southern tier of states), old people dying (why are we so eager to keep them alive, anyway?) and cats and dogs living together...

Let it all come crashing down--but let's make sure to kill Social Security and Medicaid/Medicare. These Tea Partiers should be allowed to pay what the market will bear, right?

By the way, while our Tea-Party/Real Men (or whatever those guys who wouldn't pay taxes a few years ago are called) friends talk about how they'd like to keep more of their hard earned money and give less to the idiots who "gave us Vietnam and Iraq," perhaps they'd like to pick up the bill for the grading and paving of the road that leads from their home to their office--can't be what, more than $60K a year.

While they're at it, maybe they'd like to cut a check for the police and fire people they'd have to employ to protect their home and valuables from damage. If they could get one guy for another $30K, they'd be lucky. Oh, and then there's that water and waste service, if you've got that.

Really, just let these frickers get what they want.

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#3 - Primary Obama
Two powerful arguments for challenging Obama from the left: 

MichaelLerner's very powerful case for primarying Obama.

RalphNader's very powerful case for primarying Obama (and no, he's not running again).

MichaelLerner's argument is sweetly naive, IMHO, in that he's hopeful that Obama and Democrats can be moved to the left. I don't think that's true anymore. I think the party and the culture of Washington, what's happened to our government in the last 40 years (both parties), has been thoroughly corrupted.

Up until recently I was saying that, to begin with, no one in the DemocraticParty would do it.  Due to the hierarchical system of party government, it would be suicide for any professional politician in the DemocraticParty to run against the party's sitting president.  

Liberals/progressives within the DemocraticParty, no matter what their rhetoric, no matter what they say, they march to Obama's/Reid's/Pelosi's tune.  They vote as they're told to from up top or else they risk the full weight and power and tools of the office of the president, the DNC and the CorporateMasters controlling them.  The Party will cover them as best it can, get as many votes as it needs from Democrats in safe districts first, and will only call upon liberals/progressives to betray their constituents from safe districts if it needs them, accompanied by threats/promises of national party help when it comes time for their reelection bid (AlanGrayson, DennisKucinich, 2 examples).

The DLC has gotten too powerful, what with a Democrat in the WhiteHouse and a Democratically-controlled Senate overseeing an NSA with today's eavesdropping abilities (I say that somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but it's really impossible to deny in light of things like this).  

As I said, that was up until a few months ago. Word has it that a challenge is coming, but it's really not a serious one, not intended for anyone to get the nomination from Obama.  But that would only happen if Obama's numbers went down, and like the idea of the Republicans having a brokered convention, Obama's 'most ardent supporters' would have to wake up and realize that he's sold the people out again and has made more deals with corporations in order to keep any 'normal', moderate Republican from getting into the election.

So unless Obama drops out (in which case another corporate tool will take his place), the only legitimate challenges to him will come from outside the Democratic Party (Republicans or Independents).  And the most likely way that Obama would drop out is if his numbers plummet.

So what's left?

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