Edward S. Herman (co-author with Noam Chomsky of “Manufacturing Consent’): All the problems of the propaganda media model we talked about in the book have grown worse; new media like Real News show potential but need funding for more investigative journalism … Read More
Elmo voice actor Kevin Clash hit with fifth allegation of sexual abuse
Another man has sued Kevin Clash over allegations of child sexual abuse, making it the fifth allegation and fourth lawsuit against the disgraced Elmo voice actor. The case is being handled by lawyer Jeff Herman, who represents the other cases against Clash, and says the details of the accusation “follow the same pattern” as the others. More on the lawsuit, from the New York Daily News:”In papers filed in Manhattan federal court, Kevin Kiadii said he met Clash, who’s 27 years Kiadii’s senior, in 2004. Kiadii, who was just 16 at the time, says he ‘went on a gay telephone chat line to meet friends who were also gay,’ and wound up meeting Clash, his suit says. ‘Clash invited Kiadii to come to his apartment in Manhattan,’ and sent a luxury car service to pick the teen up in Brooklyn, the filing says. When he got to Clash’s pad, the puppeteer plied him with ‘alcohol and groomed him with attention and affection,’ the suit says. They then ‘engaged in sexual contact,’ the suit says. Clash’s lawyer responded in a statement, calling the lawsuit “meritless” and “barred by the statute of limitations.” Continue Reading… … Read More
Truth Is Offensive
In Greek mythology, Cassandra was the prophetess who no one believed despite her 100 percent record of being right. Telling the truth to Americans or to Europeans is just as expensive as telling the truth to the Greeks in ancient mythology. … Read More
Herman Cain insists most Americans have ‘a severe ignorance problem’
Appearing Tuesday night on “The O’Reilly Factor,” former presidential candidate and newly hired Fox News contributor Herman Cain summarized the 2012 election’s results as an expression of America’s “severe ignorance problem.” “The guy [Obama]…
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Obama’s White House: Still white, overwhelmingly male
January has brought a wave of Republicans gleefully calling out Democrats for the Obama administration’s maleness and whiteness. They’re hypocrites, still stung by the “war on women” and “binders full of women” and the fact that Herman Cain and Michele Bachmann didn’t constitute a special diversity shield. But even hypocrites can be right sometimes, as a recent New York Times number-crunch backs up.Diversity in any sense is something that doesn’t really happen unless you try, and if the Obama administration is trying with its top-level appointments, other priorities have clearly trumped it. This doesn’t have to be because of a conspiracy: A lifetime of seeing almost exclusively white men as authority figures has a way of perpetuating itself, and without much self-examination or effort, people tend to go with a certain comfortable framework. (This is true despite the president being a black man; as anyone who has worked for a woman or a person of color who was the first to stake out a spot on hostile turf can tell you, racism and sexism aren’t exclusively white male phenomena.) But it’s a still problem that needs to be talked about, over and over again, until something changes.Continue Reading… … Read More
The Next Civil War: Obama’s Entitlements Versus Everyone
(Arthur Herman) The New Year has started with a monstrosity of a budget deal, one that proves that neither political party, Democrats or Republicans, is really serious about controlling the growth of big government. But soap opera dramatics about fiscal “cliffs” and sequestration shouldn’t deflect from where President Obama is really taking this country. Consider [...]
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