Cable News Ratings for Tuesday, August 28, 2012

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1. Coffee Steve

   Posted August 30, 2012 at 11:30 AM

   I found this funny when I read this story awhile ago from 1979

   Carter, after winning the Democratic nomination, attacked Reagan as a dangerous right-wing radical. For his part, Reagan, the former Governor of California, repeatedly ridiculed Carter, and won a decisive victory; in the simultaneous Congressional elections, Republicans won control of the United States Senate for the first time in 28 years. This election marked the beginning of what is popularly called the “Reagan Revolution

   attacked Reagan as a dangerous right-wing radical

2. Jeff

   Posted August 30, 2012 at 11:30 AM

   Crickets??

   That was actually snoring, cause you both are boring!

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   Speaking of boring, this woke me up!!

   Romney’s fatal car accident: This could be huge (Update: Photo evidence suggests Team Romney lied to reporters)
   This investigation could alter the election.

   A while back, I published a story about a fatal 1968 car crash in which a young Mitt Romney, driving a car carrying other Mormon missionaries, smashed headlong into a vehicle driven by a Catholic cleric. Romney claims that the other driver — a priest named Albert Marie — was at fault (possibly due to drunkeness) and that the priest died from his injuries.

   One of the missionaries in Romney’s car, Leola Anderson, also died.

   In more recent times, a Daily Kos researcher (along with a few other bloggers) claimed that Romney was the one at fault, that “Albert Marie” is fictional, and that the man driving the other car was actually Bishop Jean-Félix-Albert-Marie Vilnet, a beloved French cleric who is still alive. (He’s now in his 90s.) The allegation is that in 1968, Romney’s “protectors” put together a false story — one designed to avert any potential scandal that might involve the son of George Romney, who was widely considered a likely future Republican presidential nominee. Allegedly, this cover-up necessitated telling a false story to the family of Leola Anderson.

   The first version of my post told the “Vilnet” story, as published by Daily Kos and other liberal-ish venues. In an update to that story, I backtracked on my original account — at least to a certain degree — because a reader brought to my attention a New York Times investigative piece published in 2008. Here’s the relevant section from that piece:

3. Coffee Steve

   Posted August 30, 2012 at 11:33 AM

   Afternoon Jeff, you got the quakes, were about to get whats left of Issac over the weekend

4. Jeff

   Posted August 30, 2012 at 11:35 AM

   I think that the public would forgive Mitt Romney if he were the driver at fault back in 1968. Everyone understands that young drivers make mistakes. I even think the public might forgive a 1968 effort by George Romney loyalists to keep a lid on the story. Conceivably, the cover story was put in place during the period when Mitt was lying in a coma in that hospital. Conceivably, Mitt Romney may sincerely believe a false story.

   But most of the American public would never forgive the creation and distribution of a fake newsclip in the 2007/2008 period.

5. Ratboy

   Posted August 30, 2012 at 11:40 AM

   @ Speaking of boring, this woke me up!!

   Romney’s fatal car accident: This could be huge

   The Cannonfire blogspot????? Daily Kos?????

6. Coffee Steve

   Posted August 30, 2012 at 11:46 AM

   Coffee Steve’s Newshound Flashes

   *O’Reilly On Christie’s RNC Speech: ‘Maybe He Should’ve Worn A Romney T-Shirt’

   *Al Gore: Bush-Era Was So Bad, Can’t Blame Him For Everything

   *NBC’s Chuck Todd: ‘Democrats Wish They Had The Diversity’ Of The GOP shock: shock: shock:

   *Chris Matthews Claims to Live in ‘Black Majority’ DC, Resides in Md. Village Less Than 1% Black (Mathhews Nose grew 6 feet overnight)

   *AP’s Wagner Sees ‘Slow Improvement in the Job Market’ in ‘Unchanged’ Initial Jobless Claims “hmmm..Un-changed now means slow improvment huh?”

7. Coffee Steve

   Posted August 30, 2012 at 11:59 AM

   @d.d. I just read a report from Fitch, they are getting real serious again about some warnings

   *New Fitch Warning: Credit downgrade looming if Congress fails to act, says Fitch

   *Hillary Clinton to leave the hemisphere during Democratic convention
   (Clinton will visit the tiny Cook Islands, skip DNC)

   BBL…

8. d.d.

   Posted August 30, 2012 at 12:12 PM

   @Matthew
   Improving schools

   I went to a Catholic grade school which leaned heavily on essay writing . My high school did as well , but, I never had critical thinking until I was in college . Although I did well in the course , I’m a concrete thinker ,& , real innovation comes from abstract thinking. That’s not to say we don’t need both because we do. I will agree with you , but, there is much more that needs to be present in the schools.

   Discipline should not be an old school premise.

   Changing the focus on what is taught would help , i.e, trigonometry isn’t used much, but, statistics is. Some English Lit . courses are giant snores. As a student , I didn’t get much out of Shakespeare.

   Learning is pretty easy if you are making connections to your every day life. When I’ve made associations , I remembered what I wanted to.

   I thank the teacher who told us we couldn’t possibly remember everything , &, gave us the tools to know where to look, for this is a live long skill.

   Students now have so much more information available via the Internet . They need assistance in how to assimilate this into knowledge .

   I’m not in favor of the heavy emphasis on self esteem . While I believe in it, I feel it should be earned & children need to learn to succeed or fail.

   We need longer school hours. We have fewer school hours per year than most western nations. Japan goes to school 243 days a year. We go 180, down near the bottom.

   Of course the usual still apply, like parental involvement , quality teachers, emphasis in the schools on science & math . Math is boring but it can be fun if played like games like the Lure of the Labyrinth tournament.

   There will be fewer teachers in the future due to the interactive process with computers . Who would have thought years ago you could ever take classes from elementary school through post grad. online? Or that there would so many different school options as a way to learn ?

   Personally, I don’t think education should be tied to the Federal government & I don’t think teachers should be required to join a union. Unions serve the teachers , but, I don’t see them doing much for the children.

   Educators need to get busy , put politics aside , & start to work toward our children’s success. If they would do this, we would all win.

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   BBT

9. Ratboy

   Posted August 30, 2012 at 12:18 PM

   Maybe this guy is really FOR Romney so he is acting like an absolute idiot to turn the left off!!…………………Nah, he just really is and idiot or very very sick and disturbed!

   Chris Matthews Ridiculously Asks Condoleezza Rice About Birtherism

   Following Condoleezza Rice’s inspirational convention speech, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews decided to hurl a ridiculous question about birtherism to the former Secretary of State.

   Continuing with the racist narrative on MSNBC, Mr. Matthews decided to ignore the crux of Ms. Rice’s speech and instead drag up an issue that numerous Republicans have disavowed since the beginning.

   Matthews felt that his question was so important that he had to interrupt colleague Andrea Mitchell with his rude question. While Matthews did compliment Rice for her speech, he then immediately began his smear of Republicans by asking, “was it kind of a rejoinder to all the birtherism and the narrowness that she’s heard in her party?”

   Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jeffrey-meyer/2012/08/30/chris-matthews-ridiculously-asks-condoleezza-rice-about-birtherism#ixzz253hV46eT

10. Hillbilly

    Posted August 30, 2012 at 1:20 PM

    FNC wins again. Wheres Steve Perry to tell us cable news is dead?

11. Hillbilly

    Posted August 30, 2012 at 1:30 PM

    Mark – Ok so where did the first set of tax cuts happen? Anyplace I see the terms sequester it’s tied to the Budget Control Act(which is the thing both sides put up something they would find so vile to cut they expected they would find middle ground elsewhere)

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    The Budget Control Act goes something like this. To get the debt ceiling raised the R’s wanted cuts to raise it. (without going to look it was $900+ billion) That’s where the first cuts ($450 billion) comes from. Then they had to agree to the “Super Committee deal.” (another $1.2-$1.5 trillion) If that failed the sequestration deal kicks in. That’s the second round. (another $500-$600 billion) They also had to vote on a balance budget amendment. If you want to base your vote on Nobama wanting more than the $450 billion…then he’s your guy.

12. Hillbilly

    Posted August 30, 2012 at 1:32 PM

    Coffee Steve – All Matthews and other have done is use this word so freely and so often, it is demeaning the word now.

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    Partly agree. Folks who aren’t news junkies will still react IMO.