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Blog Entries by Brian Ross from 10/2010

Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert to Turn the Tide on the Tea Party Tehranization of America

| Posted 10.04.2010 | Politics
Read More: George Bush, News Corp, Gop, The Colbert Report, President Obama, Entertainment News, Entertainment, 2010 Elections, George W. Bush, March to Keep Fear Alive, The Daily Show, Roger Ailes, Guinness Book of World Records, Barack Obama, Stephen Colbert, Rally to Restore Sanity, Viacom, Jon Stewart, Comedy Central, Sumner Redstone, Rupert Murdoch, Fox News, Political Satire, Republicans, Comedy, Tea Party Movement, Tea Party, Rush Limbaugh, Right Wing, Right Wing Extremism, Elections 2010, Politics News

Thank you Jon and Stephen, and Viacom, if only for the shear delight that Sumner Redstone seems to get in using their loud, clear voices to stick it to Rupert Murdoch.

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The (Other) Palm Beach Story: Feds & States Tinkering with Education Get Unplanned Results

| Posted 10.07.2010 | Huffington Post
Read More: Florida, Department of Education, Florida Educational Reform, Elementary School, Educational Funding, Palm Beach County School District, Florida Department of Education, Community Schools, Barack Obama, Florida Legislature, Palm Beach County School Board, Charlie Crist, Magnet Education, Fcat, Educational Reform, Business Week Top Public High Schools, School District of Palm Beach County, High Schools, Magnet Schools, School Accountability, Middle School, Arthur Johnson, A.W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts, Public Education, Arthur Johnson Ph.D, DROP Program, Huffington Post News

WARNING: Severe Reality Curve! This cautionary tale may be unsuitable for the Obama Administration's Department of Education and state legislatures en...

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Springerized America: How Reality & Tabloid TV Corrupts Our Politics & Media

| Posted 10.12.2010 | Media
Read More: Reality Television, House of Representatives, Gop, Reality TV, The Real Housewives of Orange Country, The Real World, George W. Bush, Anderson Cooper, Fox and Friends, The Jerry Springer Show, Keith Olbermann, Roger Ailes, The Real Housewives of New Jersey, Tea Party Movement, Richard Blumenthal, Rupert Murdoch, Mtv, Tea Party, Republican Party, Jerry Springer, Rand Paul, Punditocracy, Edwin Newman, Chris Coons, All in the Family, Barack Obama, Charles Kuralt, Christine O'donnell, Yale, Rich Iott, Archie Bunker, Sean Hannity, Jon Stewart, Walter Cronkite, Fox News, Tabloid TV, Republicans, Rachel Maddo, Bill O'Reilly, Libertarian Party, Linda McMahon, Eat the Press, Cnn, Maury Povich, Maury, Countdown With Keith Olbermann, The Daily Show, Countdown, Norman Lear, Tmz, USA Today, George Bush, Media News

Reality and tabloid television are a social virus that has infected the American body politic. In the 1980s, "I'm with Stupid" was a put-down. In 20...

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HuffPo Movie Review: It's Kind of a Funny Story (Really Is)

| Posted 10.16.2010 | Entertainment
Read More: It's Kind of a Funny Story, Anna Boden, Keir Gilchrist, Movie, Ryan Fleck, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Comedy, Focus Features, Movies, Zach Galifianakis, Entertainment News

Lost in the slog of fright flicks, and masochist movies in 3D, comes an Oscar-worthy little gem that delivers Zach Galifianakis into the pantheon of m...

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Big Brothers Are Watching You

| Posted 10.21.2010 | Politics
Read More: David Koch, Koch Brothers, Charles Koch, 1984, Supreme Court, Gop, George Orwell, Antonin Scalia, Kate Zirnicke, Libertarians, Citizens United, Clarence Thomas, New York Times, Fox News, Glenn Beck, 2010 Elections, Tea Parties, Elections 2010, Politics News

Orwell's "1984" was twenty-six years off target, and picked the wrong side of the capitalistic coin. The Koch brothers are Big Brother, and the millio...

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Tea Party Hypocrisy: The New Taxation Without Representation

| Posted 10.23.2010 | Politics
Read More: Taxes, Gop, Think Tanks, Wall Street Reform, Taxation Without Representation, Citizens United, Democrats, Corporatocracy, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, Msnbc, Tea Party Movement, Right Wing Think Tanks, Labor Unions, Koch Brothers, Wall Street, Nancy Pelosi, Rupert Murdoch, Communication Act of 1934, Fox News, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Pacs, Taxation, Tea Party, 2010 Elections, Elections 2010, Politics News

If the right wins in the kind of blood bath that is predicted for the House in November, welcome to the United States of the Koch Brothers.

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Change the Punditocracy Doesn't Want to Believe In

| Posted 10.29.2010 | Politics
Read More: Opinion Shows, Political Opinion, President Obama, The Daily Show, Jon Stewart, George Bush, Social Security, Health Care Reform Act, Politics, Eat the Press, Larry Summers, Chris Matthews, Andy Ostroy, Health Care, Fox News, Washington Post, Medicare, Health Care Reform, Dana Milbank, Politics News

The national news media and the punditocracy had its hat handed to them by President Obama in 2008 when he leveraged public opinion on the Internet to...

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