Fox rejects ad against DADT

Fox News rejects DADT repeal ad
The GOP Propaganda channel Fox “News” has rejected an ad the highlights various allied Generals in support of Gays and Lesbians serving in the United States Armed Forces. Fox “News” the Unfair and Unbalanced” Propaganda channel that features several contributors and hosts who are clearly Unbalanced, said no to the ad because it does not fit the GOP "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell" agenda. The United States Secretary of Defense Bill Gates, and the Chairman of th...

FOX News sucks, so support FOX News
Here's an ad submitted by the Palm Center, a Santa Barbara-based research center that produces research and conferences on Don't Ask, Don't Tell: The ad was rejected by Fox News. Here's Palm Center Director Aaron Belkin: "I am surprised that Fox News would reject an ad featuring allied Generals, given that host Bill O'Reilly and guest contributor Liz Cheney have both expressed support for open gay service. This is an important time for input from all sides on this issue, and I hope Fox will ...

Fox News Rejects Ad On Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal (VIDEO)
WASHINGTON -- Fox News has rejected an advocacy group's ad on repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell (DADT), in which generals from around the world say that allowing Gay men and women to serve openly is no Big Deal. "I am surprised that Fox News would reject an ad featuring allied Generals, given that both host Bill O'Reilly and guest contributor Liz Cheney have expressed support for open Gay service," said Palm Center director Aaron Belkin in a statement. "This is an important time for input from ...

Breaking: Keith Olbermann Is Still Not A Fan Of Fox News
Here’s a shocker for you: Keith Olbermann is taking issue with Bill O’Reilly’s proclamation that Fox News “is the Most Powerful media agency in the world.” On Countdown tonight, the MSNBC host took a few minutes to dissect that claim—though his comments didn’t exactly have the effect he intended them to have. Here’s what Olbermann had to say in response to a clip of O’Reilly’s FOX boast: “Interestingly, the thing O’Reilly think...

Simpsons has Fox News #1 with racists
From David's earlier post at Crooks and Liars, here is the Simpsons' scene that got Bill O'Reilly's knickers in a knot. BillO buys knickers with a knot made in them at the factory. See, he has all the problems in the world already solved so he gets pissy about a cartoon show ribbing Fox News. I wonder how much noise he raised about the Muslim people getting riled over a cartoon in a newspaper? Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean. We're unbalanced. It's unfair! Very funny...

Talk Box: Cable-News Prefers Profiling to Pat-Downs in TSA Debate
A new poll showing that most adults in the U.S. support profiling airline passengers based on nationality and looks was all the cable-news pundits needed to keep floating the idea of importing Israeli style "behavioral profiling" to airports as a way to stop all the junk-touching going on between TSA employees and American travelers. Fox News' Bill O'Reilly said he thinks efficiency trumps civil liberties, while over at Morning Joe, TMP's Josh Marshall declared that he believes profiling works...

Fox News refuses to run ad about gay troops
Fox News doesn't want you to know that the result of Lesbian & gay Soldiers serving openly in other countries is... business as usual. That's according to Generals from allied militaries, who say that gay Troops do not undermine combat effectiveness. Here's The Palm Center's 30-second advertisement that Fox News refuses to run. Voiceover: As the millitary prepares to end "Don't Ask, Don't Tell", our NATO allies have told us what to expect... Business as usual. Major General Semianiw: "There i...

Fox News Refuses To Run Ad In Favor Of Ending DADT, Despite Public Support For Repeal
Fox News Refuses To Run Ad In Favor Of Ending DADT, Despite Public Support For Repeal Raw Story’s Sahil Kapur is reporting that FOX News is refusing to air an ad advocating for repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. The 30-second spot, produced by the Palm Center, “includes Testimony from Military leaders of NATO allies arguing that lifting the ban on gay Soldiers is a ‘non-event’ and does not diminish combat effectiveness.” “I am surprised that FOX News...

The Four-Year College Graduation Myth
Newsweek Education: Kiyan Rajabi, 19, a pharmacology major at University of California, Santa Barbara, was excited about his study-abroad program in Spain this fall. His plans were foiled, however, when earlier this year he realized that a basic biochemistry course he needed as a prerequisite for higher-level science classes was offered only in the fall. If Rajabi didn't stay put in Santa Barbara, he was likely looking at an extra year of college. Barcelona and the Sagrada Familia...

Man, 88, fatally shoots wife, 86, at nursing home, police say
LOS Angeles — Through seven decades of marriage, Roy Charles Laird was by his wife’s side. After Clara got sick and started showing signs of dementia, he refused to hire nursing aides to help Care for her. He insisted on doing everything himself — from washing her laundry to cooking her meals. He was there nearly every day, a pained witness to her steady decline over the last five years. He was also there at the end, according to Seal Beach Police, who say that on Sunday around...

Fox News said to reject ad on dont ask, dont tell
Stumble This! Fox News has declined to air an ad advocating for Repeal of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy that bans gays from serving openly in the Military, a source at the Public Policy Think Tank Palm Center informs Raw Story. The 30-second spot by the Center, called "Business As Usual," includes Testimony from military leaders of NATO allies arguing that lifting the ban on gay Soldiers is a "non-event" and does not diminish combat effectiveness. "Fox's 'reason' was that the policy is 'on...

No Discharges Under DADT in Over A Month
While pressure still needs to be put on the US Senate to pass a Repeal of DADT, some good news has arrived for folks who believe you shouldn't face Discrimination just because of who you love. There hasn't been anyone dismissed from the Armed Forces due to their Sexual Orientation in a month. Although the Pentagon isn't ready to admit this is the reason, public support for Repeal and an Oct. 21 decision from Secretary Gates to only allow the secretaries of the various Military branches sign off ...

DADT Discharges: Pentagon Says Nobody Dismissed For Being Gay In Past Month
San Francisco — No U.S. service members have been discharged for being Openly Gay in the month since the Defense Department adopted new rules surrounding the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, a Pentagon spokeswoman said Monday. Under new rules adopted Oct. 21, Defense Secretary Robert Gates put authority for signing off on dismissals in the hands of the three service secretaries. Before then, any commanding officer at a rank equivalent to a one-star general could discharge Gay enlisted per...

Fox News Solution For The Deficit: Tax The Poor More
Talk about class warfare! Forbes on Fox not only argued on Saturday (11/20/10) that if only the poor would pay more federal taxes, they wouldn’t want so many government services, but it would be good for them to “have a stake” in government. Host David Asman’s intro said it all: “The Forbes team says, ‘Forget the families making more than $250,000. America needs to start taxing those who don’t pay any federal Income Tax at all.’” Four out ...

UCLA Researcher Gets Package With 'AIDS Infected' Razor Blades
Los Angeles — An official says a primate researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles, has received a package containing razor blades and threatening messages. UCLA spokesman Phil Hampton said Tuesday the package was sent earlier this month to David Jentsch, a psychologist and neuroscientist who does research on rodents and primates. The Animal Liberation Front on Tuesday released a statement saying it had sent razor blades covered in AIDS-infected blood to Jentsch and one of ...

Ultrathin Alternative to Silicon for Future Electronics
Related News Election Projections for Science Investments Turning Waste Heat Into Power Designing Efficient Microscale Flying Machine Teaching Medical Robots 'Vertical Farm' Envisions Tall Future for Farming There’s good news in the search for the next generation of semiconductors. Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) Berkeley, have successfully integrated ultra-thin layers o...

Climate change brings bad news for polar bears
Polar bears aren't suited for southern diets and their numbers are likely to dwindle as Climate Change forces them south, a new study has found. Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) compared Polar Bears and Grizzly Bears because, as Global Warming shrinks the polar bear habitat, Polar Bears will be forced southward for alternative food sources, where they will be forced to compete with grizzlies. The researchers studied the skulls of Polar Bears to see how they compare...

The Weird Hubris of the Columnist
Wed Nov. 24, 2010 9:17 AM PST In this way, the “Don’t touch my junk” fiasco raises, yet again, what has become the central theme of Mr. Obama’s presidency: America’s faltering confidence in the ability of government to make things work. From stimulus spending and the Health Care law to the federal response to oil in the Gulf of Mexico, Mr. Obama has continually stumbled — blindly, it seems — into some version of the same debate, which is about whether w...

Defunding NPR: the real agenda | Dan Kennedy
Monday afternoon, I wrote an item for my blog, Media Nation, about the Retirement of a local Public Radio executive. I clicked the "publish" button - and was immediately greeted by a banner advertisement proclaiming "Defund NPR: End Taxpayer-Funded Liberal Propaganda", paid for by the rightwing website TownHall.com. Google had found the words "public radio" in my post, served up the anti-NPR ad and made me a few pennies richer. More to the point, though, the ad was evidence that NPR -...

It just gets better
With reports of North Korea increasing their threat potential in the Korean Penninsula, reports from the Fed downgrading the economic future of the nation, and the potential of frauds involved in the Peace Talks in Afghanistan, there is the added news of how the Health Care Reform will "help" business going forward. According to a news report on Fox News at 3:25pm, we now are learning another fact about the Health Care Reform that former Speaker Nancy Pelosi once stated 'we need to pass it to se...

Second Amendment News and Video - FOX News Topics - FOXNews.com
Description Search… Allen West's Chief of Staff. The e-mail said the writer liked that Kaufman had encouraged people to "excercise our Second Amendment rights" and that "something big" would happen at a government building in Broward County, maybe a school. Martinez … Title:Fla. woman accused in school threats arrested Description Search… Allen West's Chief of Staff. The e-mail said the writer liked that Kaufman had encouraged people to "excercise our second amendment rights" an...

Fox News, Bachmann Seize On Park51 Federal Grant Application
Park51, the proposed Islamic Community Center and Mosque in Downtown Manhattan, has applied for federally-funded grants, prompting shrill cries that the "Ground Zero mosque" is looking for a Taxpayer handout. The Daily Beast reported yesterday that Park51 had applied for $5 million worth of grants. The organization, in a statement, acknowledged applying for a grant from the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation. Park51 says it would use the money both for its construction and services it pl...

Sarah Palins Presidential Aspirations Shattered by Bristols Lousy Dancing
Bristol Palin did not triumph in the championship round of So You Think You Can Dance? That’s Funny You Would Think That last night. America’s most favorite Single Mama Grizzly lost to a lady named Jennifer Grey, who apparently danced her pants off even though she had a “ruptured disc.” (Bristol Palin lost to a cripple!) Is Baby Jesus using the rise and fall of this dancing embarrassment as some sort of ominous literary device, to warn Sarah Palin that she will never beco...

PDS Is there a cure?
Elizabeth Wurzel at Atlantic: Sarah Palin, Riot Grrrl To paraphrase Lillian Hellman, I don’t agree with a word that Sarah Palin says, including “and” and “the.” And as a liberal feminist, it drives me absolutely bonkers that Palin is the most visible working mother and female politician in America, that she is the best exemplar of a woman with an equal marriage, that she has put up with less crap from fewer men than those of us who have read The Second Sex and ma...

Glenn Beck On Stewart/Colbert: Thats Not News And It Keeps People As Sheep
The past couple of days, Glenn Beck has been explaining to his audience how they can broach the subject of “what’s really going on” with friends and family members over Thanksgiving. A smart suggestion from today was to begin by asking if anyone’s noticed raising prices. A smarter suggestion from yesterday was to not begin by mentioning the name “Glenn Beck” (Beck is nothing if not self-aware). Today, audience members were complaining about talking to people w...