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14101 [lbo-talk] whom do you trust? Beeb, Al Jazeera, & Fox! -- rank: 1000

Fox, BBC, Al Jazeera most trusted: poll By Jeffrey Goldfarb 1 hour, 18 minutes ago LONDON (Reuters) - One-quarter of consumers abandoned a news source over the past year because they lost trust in its reporting, according to a new survey that also found the BBC, Fox News and Al Jazeera the most trusted brands in their respective home regions. Results of a poll of more than 10,000 adults in 10 countries by the British Broadcasting Corporation, Reuters Group Plc and The Media Center were released ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 2 21:20:26 PDT 2006

14102 [lbo-talk] favorite lines -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >I couldn't believe a Julianna Margolies giving it up to Tony Soprano. Must be kinda sexy to think of fucking a big mobster, don't you think? Doug

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Date:	Tue May 2 21:13:59 PDT 2006

14103 [lbo-talk] Wrong-Way Ben? -- rank: 1000

Alex wrote: >Why is it important that the Fed operate secretly? They used to operate very secretly. But under Greenspan - thanks in no small part to subpoena threats from former House Banking Committee chair Henry Gonzalez - they started operating a lot more openly. They now issue press releases after policy meetings and generally make their intentions pretty clear in speeches and interviews. But in the financial markets everyone wants to be at least one step ahead of the other guy, so trying ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 2 15:52:48 PDT 2006

14104 [lbo-talk] Re: Albright on Iraq/The Dems & the Divine -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: > Clinton, who wasn't particularly a >killer, or at least not a very zealous one, was an >intellectual -- a former law professor! -- and >actually smart, but probably the deep fried accent and >the trailer park manner lowered his IQ 25 points in >the public mind, thu s compensating. But Teddy Roosevelt wrote some serious books; Bill Clinton wrote his memoirs. Doug

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Date:	Tue May 2 15:34:32 PDT 2006

14105 [lbo-talk] Wrong-Way Ben? -- rank: 1000

Jim Devine wrote: >does anyone in the business world know how this kind of response to a >few words makes business look totally irrational, silly? Yes and no. The Fed is enormously influential, and trying to figure out what their plans are understandably occupies a lot of minds. Under Greenspan, the markets got used to a very clear telegraphing of Fed policy - there were few surprises. Bernanke is a new guy and no one knows how he thinks or how to interpret what he says. Over the last few ...

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Date:	Tue May 2 15:32:26 PDT 2006

14106 [lbo-talk] Wrong-Way Ben? -- rank: 1000

CNBC report seen denting Bernanke's credibility By Tim Ahmann and Mark Felsenthal 1 hour, 25 minutes ago WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fledgling Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke may have a hard time recouping his credibility after off-the-cuff remarks over the weekend made it onto the airwaves on Monday, roiling financial markets. CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo waited until late afternoon Monday to report that Bernanke had told her at a journalists' dinner on Saturday that traders had misread his con ...

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Date:	Tue May 2 14:39:56 PDT 2006

14107 [lbo-talk] favorite lines -- rank: 1000

Dennis Claxton wrote: >Some of this week's Sopranos lines: > >http://www.hbo.com/sopranos/favoritelines/episode73.shtml Ah, these overlook the tasty subtheme about how chainification is putting the mob out of business (though the "juice"/"Jews" confusion comes close). When the boys try to shakedown a Starbucks-like store for protection money, the manager explains that "every bean is in the computer," and there's no way he could reach into the till to pay th ...

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Date:	Tue May 2 14:27:19 PDT 2006

14108 [lbo-talk] Reuters on the rallies -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: > >>will these immigrants be like those of the earliest 20th century >>who brought radical politics with them and shook up the natives' >>torpor? > > >Did that happen? It seems more like the immigrants' radical politics >in the early 20th century pushed the natives into white >identity-politics and anti-communism. Then, by the second or third >generation, the immigrants themselves had become aspiring homeowners & ...

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Date:	Tue May 2 13:26:51 PDT 2006

14109 [lbo-talk] Re: Albright on Iraq/The Dems & the Divine -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >Seems to me the Dems ought to be able to turn up a >semi-progressive evangelist The Pew data I just posted look like white evangelicals are a lost cause. They're now the base of the Republican Party, and it doesn't make any sense to go after them if you risk alienating your own base by doing so. Fuck 'em. Doug

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Date:	Tue May 2 12:36:54 PDT 2006

14110 [lbo-talk] Re: Albright on Iraq/The Dems & the Divine -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >Gore is pious, I believe, but he may have >Kerry's problems, he's wooden in public (though quite >good when he loosens up), an intellectual (how can >anyone who says that his favorite writer is Stendhal >hope to be Prez?) Follow the Teddy Roosevelt model: if you're going to be an intellectual in American public life, you've got to make sure you've killed a bunch of the "enemy" all on your own to prove your manliness. Maybe Gore killed some peo ...

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Date:	Tue May 2 12:35:42 PDT 2006

14111 [lbo-talk] white evangelicals: souring on Bush, but still deeply Republican -- rank: 1000

<http://pewresearch.org/obdeck/?ObDeckID=22> Poll Analysis Will White Evangelicals Desert the GOP? So Far, This Most Republican of Groups is Staying Loyal by Scott Keeter Pew Research Center for the People & the Press May 2, 2006 President Bush's job approval rating has fallen, and his personal favorability is down significantly as well, leading many Republicans to worry about the impact a weakened president will have on his party's showing in the fall mid-term elections. Even among on ...

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Date:	Tue May 2 12:12:36 PDT 2006

14112 [lbo-talk] Colbert on Daily Show yesterday, post-Bush bashing -- rank: 1000

Sean Johnson Andrews wrote: >I think O'Reilly a pretty big wuss himself when he's off his own >plantation. He's only tough when he can tell people to shut up and >if they don't listen he can cut their mike. He's tough in the same >way that the president is tough--lots of institutional instruments >at his disposal which mean that he never really has to defend >himself--physically or rhetorically. Of course, but he comes across on TV as bubbling over with aggression. Style meshe ...

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Date:	Tue May 2 11:54:54 PDT 2006

14113 [lbo-talk] Re: Albright on Iraq -- rank: 1000

Joel Schalit wrote: >>I'm wondering if the message they took away from What's The Matter >>With Kansas is that they need to ape the Reps on the cultural >>issues - not that they should adopt a populist economic agenda. > >Yes - I do think this is the lesson the Dems took away from this. A few years ago, Hilllary summoned Tom Frank for a meeting. Tom was charmed by her. Doug

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Date:	Tue May 2 11:53:56 PDT 2006

14114 [lbo-talk] Re: Albright on Iraq/The Dems & the Divine -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >AT the same time, it is a bit cynical to say that the >Dems can't really be pious; this is a very religious >country and probably most Dems, like most Americans, >are religious to some extent. Introducing Albright, ex-Columbia U president George Rupp divided the U.S. into conservative religious and secular liberal camps; Albright identified herself, despite her fondness for God and associated stuff, as a secular liberal, like everyone else in the room. Dou ...

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Date:	Tue May 2 10:00:09 PDT 2006

14115 [lbo-talk] Re: Albright on Iraq -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >As Stephen Colbert would say: we're a Christian country! It says it >right there on the dollar bill! > >(except it's largely true) Yup, but it's more secular than it has been since the 18th century now - 14% self-identify as having no religion. Doug

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Date:	Tue May 2 09:55:07 PDT 2006