Filed under: global justice, world | Tags: iran, maddow, moussavi, protest, soccer, world cup
Rachel Maddow provides an insightful overview of the people’s protest in Iran: the brave political rebellion of the undenibaly recognizable Iranian soccer players competing in the World Cup (the world’s largest sporting event, rivaling the Olympics); the division among top cleric leaders; and the importance of today’s Day of Mourning events.
Opposition leaders including Mir Hossein Moussavi will convene the hundreds of thousand civilians in a national Day of Mourning today–the sixth straing day of protests–in an attempt to martyr those who have been killed in suppression by the Iranian government. Interesting to note that these leaders are attempting the same strategy that they used successfully in the 1979 overthrow of the Shah.
Let’s hope that today’s actions make an impact.
Filed under: economy, politics | Tags: GOP, maddow, obama, tax, taxation without representation, teabag
Last night, whip-smart (and comedienne-in-training?) Rachel Maddow reported on the new conservative movement to teabag Washington on April 15.
Ostensibly, the goal of the GOP loyalists seems to be to rail against taxation without representation. After all, it’s been a whole ten weeks since the Democrats have been in the majority. The solution?
Teabag.
Teabag Obama! Teabag the White House! Teabag the liberal dems before they teabag you!
As Maddow implies, with all this “non-consensual teabagging action,” the conservatives seem to have no idea about the many meanings of the term “teabag”. Later in the segment, Ana Marie Cox of Air America Radio, asks, “Well who wouldn’t want to teabag John McCain?” and “You know, it’s gonna be teabagging 24/7 when it comes to midterm [elections].”
Enough said.
Filed under: government, politics | Tags: geithner, hillary clinton, maddow, obama, treasury
The best one-liner of the day–a funny stab at the Bush administration–comes from The Economist in this article praising President-Elect Obama’s nomination of New York Fed president Timothy Geithner as Treasury secretary. After eight years of failed policies that got us into this economic mess, Geithner represents strong international experience, working with economies in Brazil and Thailand, for example, more than “any other policymaker in office today.”
In contrast to the Treasury secretary appointment, however, comes a note of irony from Rachel Maddow on The Conan O’Brien Show, when she points out that Hillary Clinton’s appointment to Secretary of State may not exactly represent the change that Obama hoped for (I love Rachel Maddow, and not only because we own the similar black glasses).
