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    Psst…Outside the Convention is Where the Action Is

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    Although I am enforcing a news blackout on what is happening inside the DNC in Denver, Glenn Greenwald and Jane Hamsher are doing a good job of showing us a little bit of how the corporate oligopoly runs our legally bribed government over at Salon.com from outside of the convention:

    Armed with full-scale Convention press credentials issued by the DNC, I [...]



    it doesn’t end here – though it sure as hell feels like it

    You weren’t using that 4th Amendment, were you?

    Because Obama and a bunch of other cowardly Dems just sold us out for a little telecom cash and a kited check from the MSM that will bounce somewhere around October 1.

    Final vote: 69-28. So, a hearty FUCK YOU to Alexander (R-TN), Allard (R-CO), Barrasso (R-WY), Baucus (D-MT), Bayh (D-IN), Bennett (R-UT), Bond (R-MO), [...]



    glenzilla v. olbermann

    We don’t have cable, so I only get to read about these things afterwards, but Olbermann has truly come to this duel with Glenn Greenwald unarmed:

    …Olbermann — just as he has done on his show repeatedly ever since Obama announced his support for the [FISA] bill — also suggested that Obama is harboring a Secret Benevolent Plan that he isn’t telling anyone [...]