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Media Matters' Boehlert goes head-to-head with Tancredo over Sotomayor on CNN
Media Matters’ Eric Boehlert goes head-to-head with Tancredo on CNN to discuss conservatives attacks on Judge Sotomayor as “racist” “bigot.” During the show Tancredo called La Raza “a Latino KKK without the hoods or the nooses.”
Now that you have seen the video clip for yourself what are your thoughts ? How do you feel about the conservative criticism in this case? Do you feel it is valid or not? Please share your thoughts below …
President Obama in Detroit: The Fight for America’s Workers
President Barack Obama delivers remarks at General Motors Auto Plant in Hamtramck, Michigan. The Hamtramck GM plant is one of nine that GM recently kept open during a scheduled summer shutdown in production.
Today the President was in Detroit visiting workers at a Chrysler plant and a GM plant that have not only survived, but found success after critics looking to score political points claimed there was no hope for them. For those critics the President offered a lesson: "Don’t bet against the American worker."
During the two years since the economy took its hard downward turn, millions of Americans have had to fight with everything they had to stay afloat, to keep food on the table, to keep their businesses in business – and nowhere has that been more true than in Detroit.
The President has also been fighting alongside America’s workers – from the Recovery Act that’s saved or created about 3 million jobs, to the fight today over small business lending – and of course for the workers in Detroit and across America who contribute to the decades-old craft of American cars. When political opponents said that helping the American auto industry survive was a lost cause, and tried to turn public frustration against the President, he stepped in and made the hard choices anyway. There couldn’t necessarily be a life raft for everybody, but he was not going to let a million American jobs fall by the wayside simply because it opened him up for cheap political attacks.
Weekly Address: Good News on Autos, Obstruction on Small Business
President Obama praises the successes of the auto industry restructuring as good news for our economy, and calls on Republican leaders in the Senate to “stop holding America’s small businesses hostage to politics” by blocking a vote to help them create jobs.
Rachel Maddow Show Round Up July 19, 2010
Below is MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show Round-Up of Last Night’s Show of Politics in America.
Rachel Maddow Show Round Up July 13, 2010
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Iowa Tea Party’s Billboard Puts Obama and Hitler Together
A billboard ordered and paid for by the North Iowa Tea Party shows President Barack Obama, Adolf Hitler, left and Vladimir Lenin. Image Credits : Deb Nicklay / AP
DES MOINES, Iowa — A billboard created by an Iowa tea party group comparing President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Lenin is being condemned by other tea party activists.
The North Iowa Tea Party began displaying the sign in Mason City last week.
The sign includes photos of Obama, Nazi leader Hitler and communist leader Lenin with the statement: “Radical leaders prey on the fearful & naive.”
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