Raw Story Picked This Up On The Sunday talkers (I missed this one)

It appears that the Fox News network is an “arm of the Republican Party.” Gee, who knew?

Here’s the clip:

clipped from rawstory.com The White House’s communications director says that Fox News is little more than a wing of the Republican Party. “The reality of it is that Fox News often operates as either the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party,” Anita Dunn told CNN’s Howard Kurtz on Sunday. “And it’s not ideological. I mean, obviously there are many commentators who are conservative, liberal, centrist, and everybody understands that. What I think is fair to say about Fox is — and certainly the way we view it — is that it really is more of a wing of the Republican Party.” Dunn was responding to Kurtz’s question about her appearance in a Time magazine article, published Thursday, in which she described Fox News as “opinion journalism masquerading as news.” “They are boosting their audience,” Time quoted her as saying. “But that doesn’t mean we are going to sit back.” Time described Dunn as “the general” in the White House’s war against Fox News:

George Soros is my kind of Rich Guy.

Although we know, according to the radical right, that George Soros is a Socialist or worse, I was very happy to see this announcement on Bloomberg today: Soros to Invest $1 Billion in Clean Energy, Form Advisory Group.

Read on, friends:

clipped from www.bloomberg.com Billionaire George Soros, looking to address the “political problem” of climate change, said he will invest $1 billion in clean-energy technology and create an organization to advise policy makers on environmental issues. Soros, the founder of hedge fund Soros Fund Management LLC, announced the investment in Copenhagen yesterday at a meeting on climate change sponsored by Project Syndicate. The group is an international association made up of 430 newspapers from 150 countries. “I want to apply rather stringent criteria to the investments,” said Soros in an e-mailed message. “They should be profitable but should also actually make a contribution to solving the problem.” Soros, 79, also will establish the Climate Policy Initiative, a San Francisco-based organization to which he will donate $10 million a year for 10 years. “It will be part advisory service, part policy developer and part watchdog,” said Thomas Heller, who is heading the initiative.

Harkin says that the Bill that goes to the President WILL HAVE A PUBLIC OPTION…

OK… I’m listening to C-SPAN and they play a preview of an interview they are doing with Iowa Senator Tom Harkin. In it he says: “Make no mistake about it, the bill that we send to the President WILL have a Public Option.”

Now I trust the Senator from Iowa (at least I trust this one… the other one, Chuck Grassley, I wouldn’t trust in the least), so what he says implies that he has more inside knowledge of who will vote for what. He is not a part of the Finance Committee, which has kept the Public Option well outside its boundaries (albeit with the Olympia Snowe’s suggestion of a “trigger” mechanism which may or may not ever get pulled) and which seems to have the President’s eye right now.

So what does Harkin know that Baucus doesn’t. We’ll find out, maybe this week.

The C-Span interview is today at 6:00 PM.

Sarah Silverman: Sell the Vatican, End World Hunger

WARNING: Contains some language and perhaps an image that you might find offensive. If this is the kind of thing that bothers you, don’t run this video. For everyone else, this is both funny and, if you really think about it, right on the mark. It COULD END WORLD HUNGER!

…and a Quote for Sunday Morning:

“The right in the U.S. objected to Obama getting the Peace Prize on the alleged grounds that he had not yet done anything to deserve it. But the right in the United States is to peace as velociraptors were to vegetarianism.”

– Juan Cole in Salon

Thanks for the post, Juan. This was a very good view of Rupert Murdoch and his coterie of true anti-Americans. And why we are letting an Australian hatemonger run an entire aspect of American politics in order to make big bucks is beyond me.