by Paul F. Villarreal
The 10-month-old moratorium on Jewish settlement construction in the West Bank has ended, and some Israeli settlers and their allies decided to throw a party to mark the occasion:
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Barack Obama’s polling free fall continues as he hits a new all-time low in the current USA Today/Gallup poll.
Only 41% of respondents approve of the job Barack Obama is doing as President of the United States. CNM discusses this dramatic turn of events in the following video:
With these incredibly low polling figures, Barack Obama faces the real potential of wandering into the zone of political impotence known as “lame duck” status. The president has already told concerned Democrats that he will distance himself from them as they campaign this fall so as to not bring down their polling numbers with his own low approval ratings.
It is clear that both Barack Obama and his Democrat Party have lost a substantial amount of trust and support with the American public. It remains to be seen how damaging those losses will prove come the 2010 elections in November.
by Paul F. Villarreal
Big Government has the full story.
The synopsis: Chris Matthews justly defended internet entrepreneur Andrew Breitbart during the first taping of Matthews’ Hardball which aired at 5pm ET on Thursday, July 30, 2010.
Matthews told guests Howard Dean and Salon.com’s Joan Walsh that Breitbart had kept exculpatory parts of Sherrod’s speech in the original two video clips which Breitbart posted on his blog. Breitbart has said he received those two video segments pre-edited and has not altered them since:
Apparently, though, for the MSNBC brass and possibly the station’s viewers, Matthews’ defense of Breitbart did not go over so well.
Thus, for perhaps the first instance in Hardball‘s history, Matthews actually re-taped the Sherrod spot and his entire show instead of MSNBC simply re-airing the 5pm ET tape again at 7pm ET.
This time , Matthews wasn’t as kind towards Breitbart:
You’ll note that Walsh incorrectly identifies Roger Spooner twice as a black farmer at the beginning of this re-done segment (the first misidentification coming at approximately the 1:22 mark of the video).
Spooner, of course, is white.
So, as BigGovernment.com asks, who got to Chris Matthews? Why did he feel the need to re-tape his Shirley Sherrod segment and why did his tone towards Breitbart change in the later version of Hardball?
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