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Bill Quigley
FAIR Study: Media Blackout on Single-Payer Healthcare
11 Mar 2009
The awesome power of corporate media consistently misshapes and disinforms U.S. public opinion. On the question of health care, it conceals obvious solutions, while presenting Americans with false no-win choices. Fairness and Accuracy in Media (FAIR) this week issued this important media advisory…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: When Republicans Attack
11 Mar 2009
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The right wing’s “insidious” attacks on President Obama make the claim “that a president in office for less than two months is more responsible for unemployment, a crashing stock market and the demise of major banks, than the president who…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Economic Crisis Worsens
04 Feb 2009
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley With state and federal governments effectively broke and the new president "about to turn over the next round of bailout money to the financial services industry... Americans are stuck in a morass of apathy and ignorance brought about by…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Black America Surrenders
28 Jan 2009
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The disproportionately Black Washington Mall crowd, their coats covered with Obama buttons, "didn't care what Obama did as president, they just wanted him to become president." These to-the-bone "Obama lovers...don't care that Obama pledged to…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Black Reagan
14 Jan 2009
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley When Barack Obama started praising Ronald Reagan the candidate's apologists claimed he was just paying respect to a dead president. Now it's clear that Obama's affection for the raging old reactionary was heartfelt. With his latest…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Bush Goes Out a Winner
07 Jan 2009
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Bush is leaving office in the popularity basement, but his checklist of accomplishments is full. Bush has "succeeded in radically changing nearly every facet of government, and always with the help of the Democratic Party." Even when at his…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Rick Warren and Barack Obama
31 Dec 2008
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Some folks like to call him "No-Drama Obama," but it appears that the president-elect doesn't care how much drama he stirs up - on his Left. Obama and his handlers should have known that bestowing the invocation honors to "evangelical preacher/…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Gay Rights and Black America
17 Dec 2008
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley "It wasn't possible for black votes to have single handedly provided the margin of victory" for California's ban on gay marriage. "A majority of whites, Latinos and Asians all voted for" Proposition 8, and "those black voters who approved of…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Obama is Not King
10 Dec 2008
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley It is the height of historical distortion to compare President-Elect Barack Obama in any way, shape or form to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. King "is probably the only person in American history who gave up a close relationship with a…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Mumbai and American Terror
03 Dec 2008
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley "Terror is usually the result of unacknowledged grievance. Muslims are mad at the United States, Great Britain and the Indian government." This should be obvious, but "as always, Americans never see a connection between themselves, the acts of…