Did race, gender play a role in GM closings?
Very intriguing. And deeply disturbing, if accurate.
Very intriguing. And deeply disturbing, if accurate.
Wonder how the folks who have tried to turn Shirley Sherrod into a saint will feel after reading this today (via Memeorandum):
Tucker Carlson’s Daily Caller has been on fire this week publishing excerpts and full conversations/debates that were leaked by someone who apparently used to be on the now-defunct JournoList. JournoList, for those of you unfamiliar with it, was started back in Feb. 2007 by liberal opinion writer Ezra Klein as a private place for liberal opinion journalists and mainstream media journalists who happened to be liberal to kick back and have “policy debates” amongst themselves, and to just vent and shoot the breeze. A little over a year ago, when news of the group became public, here’s how Klein – who now has a blog at the Washington Post and who for a brief time worked alongside fellow JournoList member and “conservative” Dave Weigel at the WaPo until Weigel’s duplicity was exposed – described it:
A random list of things we’ve learned/reaffirmed in the aftermath of the Shirley Sherrod/Andrew Breitbart controversy (inspired by Jonah Goldberg):
All that happened to them for a humiliating loss in the World Cup was a trip to the mines. Now, with Pyongyang’s attempts to extort bribes at rapprochement with South Korea in tatters over the sinking of the Cheonan (Come on, what’s an act of war among friends?), the official in charge of negotiations with the South has been shot:
Gonna be a hectic day for me today. Not sure what Anthony’s schedule is like so blogging may be light until afternoon/evening hours. Y’all be good in the meantime and make sure to check in at Memeorandum to see what the hot stories are that have bloggers talking.