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Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by - June 11, 2010 at 7:00 am

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MSNBC's Chelsea Comment Angers Clinton

SEATTLE (AP) – a distasteful comment about Chelsea Clinton by an MSNBC anchor Thursday could imperil Hillary Rodham Clinton’s participation in future presidential debates on the network, a Clinton spokesman said.

in a conference call with reporters, Clinton communications director Howard Wolfson Friday excoriated MSNBC’s David Shuster for suggesting the Clinton campaign had “pimped out” 27-year old Chelsea by having her place phone calls to Democratic Party superdelegates on her mother’s behalf. Wolfson called the comment “beneath contempt” and disgusting.

“I, at this point, can’t envision a scenario where we would continue to engage in debates on that network,” he added.

Clinton and Barack Obama are scheduled to participate in an MSNBC debate Feb. 26 from Ohio, which holds its primary March 4. The Clinton campaign has pushed hard for as many debates as possible with Obama, but Wolfson said the Feb. 26 debate could be jeopardized.

Wolfson pointed to what he called a pattern of tasteless comments by MSNBC anchors about the Clinton campaign. Weeks ago, “Hardball” host Chris Matthews apologized to the former first lady after suggesting her political career had been made possible her husband’s philandering.

MSNBC has apologized on-air for Shuster’s remark, but Wolfson said neither Chelsea nor Sen. Clinton had received a phone call offering a personal apology.

An MSNBC spokeswoman did not immediately return a phone call requesting comment.

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Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by - May 5, 2010 at 6:00 am

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Geraldo's (Black) Discovery – Eugene Robinson

On “Fox and Friends” last week, the mustachioed infotainer gave his take on Barack Obama’s borrowing of his campaign chairman’s words: “When I saw that they were the same words that Deval Patrick, the black guy who won as Massachusetts mayor — as Massachusetts governor — had used, I said to myself, it seems so premeditated. It’s almost as if they went to a camp where these black geniuses got together and figured out how to beat the political system. . . . What’s the other formula that they’re going to use?”

Ridiculous? Of course — this is Geraldo, remember. but it’s absurd in a way that’s new and refreshing. if Fox viewers are being invited to entertain the notion of a Black Genius Camp where young Afro-brainiacs are busy plotting world domination, something has changed.

Whether Obama wins or loses, his campaign has made it impossible for anyone so inclined to cling to certain racist assumptions — just as Hillary Clinton has blown some old sexist assumptions to smithereens.

In this day and age, no one can claim to be surprised at encountering an African American man of superior intellect. but whether or not you think Obama would be a good president, his campaign brings the often-overlooked reality of mainstream black America into the nation’s living rooms every day — and into the nation’s subconscious.

We in the media spend a lot of time and energy covering African American dysfunction, with good reason. far too many young black men are in prison (although Obama is wrong when he says more are in jail than college). far too many young black women are single mothers. far too many black communities are marred by drugs, crime and mindless violence.

But that’s just part of the story. Since the great civil rights victories of the 1960s, a huge mainstream African American middle class has risen via the traditional path of hard work and education. This successful black America gets very little coverage, for the obvious reason that good news isn’t really news in the traditional sense. The headline “Family Celebrates Daughter’s Graduation From Princeton” did not greet Michelle Obama when she received her degree.

The Obamas are the real-life version of our first great illustration of black success: “The Cosby Show.” that family, too, was a picture of upper-middle-class rectitude, ambition and achievement. The fictional Huxtables, however, lived in an almost exclusively African American world. The school that both Cliff and Clair attended, and to which they sent their daughter Denise, was the historically black Hillman College. The school that Barack and Michelle Obama have in common is Harvard Law.

The Obama campaign hasn’t had success just on black America’s terms but on white America’s terms. For all the impact of Barack Obama’s soaring rhetoric, he wouldn’t be where he is without a campaign organization that is second to none. He’s the one with more money and more offices. He’s the one who made the better decisions about where to spend resources. Obama has won overwhelming support from black voters, but there’s nothing stereotypically “black” about his campaign. It’s as if a black American is beating white America at its own game.

So when Clinton made an issue of how a passage from a Deval Patrick speech found its way into a Barack Obama speech, Geraldo Rivera imagined some sort of secret conclave of black geniuses who had developed a foolproof formula for winning elections. He didn’t envision a basketball camp, or a prison camp; he saw a genius camp, presumably for African Americans who had figured out just how white America works and just what buttons to push. How diabolically clever.

Hey, if I’m trying to catch a taxi late at night, I’d rather have the cab driver wondering if I’m secretly plotting world domination than thinking I’m about to mug him.

Who else attended Black Genius Camp? will Smith must have spent at least one summer there — he’s the most bankable star in Hollywood right now. And Tiger Woods, who has conquered our whitest sport. Condoleezza Rice enjoys sitting around the campfire, entertaining everyone with corny knock-knock jokes in Russian. And Oprah’s a regular, of course; she even has her own “cabin,” although it looks more like a luxury hotel.

Oops — I think I’ve said too much. Forget I mentioned it. And pay no attention to Geraldo’s paranoid fantasies.

The writer will answer questions at 1 p.m. today athttp://www.washingtonpost.com. His e-mail address iseugenerobinson@washpost.com.

Geraldo's (Black) Discovery – Eugene Robinson


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Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by - April 23, 2010 at 8:00 am

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Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by - April 8, 2010 at 2:00 am

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Career colleges good for economy – Harris N. Miller – POLITICO.com

President Barack Obama has called for the United States to produce more college graduates than any other nation by the year 2020. you can almost hear the skeptics questioning whether our educational system can meet the challenge.

But this goal is essential for the recovery of our struggling work force and battered economy. Unemployment is hovering around 10 percent, and working Americans need new skills to succeed in new and better jobs. Our companies — and our country — are competing in an unforgiving global economy in which increasing the competence of workers and the quality of products and services can mean the difference between recovery and continuing recession.

Though the goal is achievable, we as a nation won’t be able to meet it unless we think imaginatively and act innovatively. According to one study, to graduate a higher percentage of adults with college degrees by 2025 than our economic rivals, the United States will need to graduate an additional 63 million students. under current conditions, according to experts, we will fall short by 16 million.

The nation’s institutions of higher education confront big challenges that undermine their ability to meet this goal. States are slashing funding for higher education, forcing many public colleges and universities to cut programs and staff. The endowments of private liberal-arts colleges are sinking along with the stock market, which pressures the schools to focus on recruiting students from higher-income families. Beset by the same budget cuts as four-year public institutions, community colleges are turning students away or creating multiyear waiting lists for specialized programs.

As a result, more people are looking to private-sector career colleges. Numbering almost 3,000, these colleges currently educate more than 2.75 million students — roughly 10 percent of the nation’s higher education students.

Career colleges good for economy – Harris N. Miller – POLITICO.com


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Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by - March 12, 2010 at 11:00 am

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