An Open Plea to Kos

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Thursday November 04, 2004 · 11:24 AM PST

2004/11/04 · 11:24

Daily Kos: Please Start A 'Political Dating Service'

def: Political Dating Service - A communication center where fired-up, committed young people can discover city, county, and state legislative districts needing a good quality candidate -- and vice versa.

Throughout the long election season Daily Kos did a magnificent job of identifying worthy Senate and Congressional candidates and raising money for them. For me, and others perhaps, this became THE go-to place whenever I had spare change to donate or wanted to act on my political convictions in a tangible way.

Now is the time to start preparing for 2006 and beyond. You can bet Karl Rove is at it already.

Instead of money, for the moment, couldn't Daily Kos do a world of good by helping to identify SPECIFIC locales NOW where a new Democratic candidate might make the difference next time? Not just congressional races (although that, too) but statehouse districts and even lower level county elective offices where the Democrats either fielded a weak candidate or none at all. Read More

What Bush Meant to Say

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Saturday August 07, 2004 · 6:17 PM PDT

2004/08/07 · 18:17

From the Miami Herald
by Robert Steinback | Jun 23 '04

Let's alter history just a little bit, and imagine that President Bush had given us an accurate case for war in Iraq 18 months ago.

"My fellow Americans, I'm appearing before you today to ask for your support as I make the most solemn decision a president can make: Committing our military troops to war.

"We must remove Saddam Hussein from power, although his only known threat to the United States is that he hates us. While we know that Hussein possessed and used weapons of mass destruction in the past, we have no evidence that he has them today or that he's making more. But he hasn't proved that he doesn't have them, and this constitutes an urgent threat to America. Read More

Bob Edwards - The speech that got him fired?

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Thursday March 25, 2004 · 3:44 PM PST

2004/03/25 · 15:44

I am archiving the Edwards speech, below, because web links have disappeared.

Introduction by me

Bob Edwards, a multiple journalism-award winner and for 25 years the host of NPR's "Morning Edition," was fired from his slot March 24, 2004. The immediate culprits apparently are NPR vice-president Ken Stern and CEO Kevin Klose, both re-treads from the Voice of America.

At least one report has it that this is the first step in planning to spend the $200 million Joan Kroc left to NPR. Can anyone doubt that she's now whirling in her grave?

Edwards has been the recipient of two Gabriel Awards; the 1984 Edward R. Murrow Award from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for "outstanding contributions to public radio"; an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for excellence; and the prestigious 1999 George Foster Peabody Award for his hosting duties at Morning Edition. In the past ten years he has doubled the audience of Morning Edition, which is now the most popular morning radio program in the nation.

Some believe Edwards was hatcheted for a commencement speech he gave at the University of Kentucky last year, which was widely reviled among right-wingers. Others see it as part of a larger effort by certain pro-Israeli factions (the ones with the aluminum beenies) who contend NPR is pro-Palestinian in its news coverage. Yet another explanation may lie in his critical public comments (in other speeches) about Michael Powell, son of you-know-who.

Given certain pronounced trends at NPR -- providing a home base for the likes of right-wingers Cokie Roberts and Mara Liasson while they cash in on Faux News and ABC, and the appearance of mostly right-wing think tank guests on ATC as "commentators" -- there is little doubt that whatever the cause, the Bush administration will applaud Edwards' demotion.

Any way you spin it, Bush wins this one.

So here's the 'shot that was heard 'round NPR' -- Read More

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