Media

div class=”dkimg-c”img src=”http://images2.dailykos.com/i/user/1054/RUSH-night-owl-banner3.jpg” alt=”Open Thread for Night Owls” height=”100″ width=”550″ //div At ProPublica, Jesse Eisinger a href=”http://www.propublica.org/article/fed-shrugged-off-warning-let-banks-pay-shareholders-billions”writes/a of how the Fed shrugged off warnings and let banks pay shareholders billions, leaving the financial system, and the rest of the economy, vulnerable to as big a mess as the last crisis put us into.

div class=”dkimg-c” defang_xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”img width=”282″ height=”174″ src=”http://images1.dailykos.com/i/user/1054/Goposaur.jpg” alt=”GOPosaur” / div class=”dkimg-cap”The symbol of a wacko core that wants to impose their wacko views on the country/div /div The Republicans have a a href=”http://www.politico.com/playbook/0212/playbook1699.html”problem/a.

div class=”dkimg-r”img src=”http://images2.dailykos.com/i/user/30549/starbursts.jpg” alt=”starbursts” height=”249″ width=”275″ //div On Monday, it was Rich Lowry at the emNational Review/em a href=”http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/286653/we-dont-have-our-team-field-rich-lowry”whining/a because the Republicans haven’t fielded their “A-team” for the 2012 presidential contest.

div class=”dkimg-r”img src=”http://images2.dailykos.com/i/user/30549/starbursts.jpg” alt=”starbursts” height=”249″ width=”275″ //div On Monday, it was Rich Lowry at the emNational Review/em a href=”http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/286653/we-dont-have-our-team-field-rich-lowry”whining/a because the Republicans haven’t fielded their “A-team” for the 2012 presidential contest.

pimg src=”http://images.dailykos.com/i/user/28416/APR_11_8.jpg” //p pVisual source: a href=”http://newseum.org”Newseum/a/p pa href=”http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/post/cain-on-new-allegations-we-are-taking-this-head-on/2011/11/07/gIQAA9PkyM_blog.html”Nia-Malika Henderson/a:/p blockquote[Sharon] Bialek, a Chicago homemaker and single mother, laid out in graphic detail an alleged encounter with Cain more than a dozen years ago, and her words effectively changed Cain’s strategy.

pConservatives would love for you to believe the myth that the traditional media (which they a href=”http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/08/15/371725/-MSM-vs-Traditional-Media”pejoratively call/a the MSM) is in the tank for Obama, but you don’t need to look far to find out that they are full of it.

div class=”dkimg-c”img src=”http://images2.dailykos.com/images/user/191280/palinipalm.jpg” //div Okay, she’s gone and basically irrelevant, but still a href=”http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/65399.html”quite hilarious/a: blockquoteSarah Palin says Hank Williams Jr. is the victim of the media’s double standard.

pimg src=”http://images.dailykos.com/i/user/426/APR_10_1.jpg” //p psmallVisual source: a href=”http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/”Newseum/a/small/p pa href=”http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/behind-the-numbers/post/pollwatch-perry-down-gop-excited-for-2012-but-not-for-christie-economic-confidence-on-the-brink/2011/09/07/gIQAjMkq7K_blog.html”Behind the numbers/a:/p blockquoteDespite the media hubbub over New Jersey Gov.

div class=”dkimg-c”img src=”http://images2.dailykos.com/i/user/191280/foxdeclaresromneywinner.jpg” alt=”Romney won” height=”180″ width=”550″ //div Mitt Romney won yesterday’s tea party debate—or at least that’s what Fox wants its audience to believe.

pThe most striking part of the first full-blown debate in the Republican primary was the total rejection of science. /ppIn a surreal scene near the night’s end, Gov. Rick Perry likened the people denying global warming science to a href=”http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/09/rick-perry-galileo-and-global-warming/” target=”_hplink”Galileo/a.