Did you guys see that Clint Eastwood speech at the RNC last night?
Michael Moore’s take on that creepy old man who yelled at a chair last night.
UPDATE: Photoshopped headline!
Reblogged from Ned Hepburn
Adam Peck at ThinkProgress writes:
Thousands of Republicans from around the country will descend upon Tampa, Florida next week for the Republican National Convention, and if recent history is any guide, so too will hundreds of protesters.
To prepare, Hillsborough County Sheriff David Gee has ordered the Orient Road Jail, a 1,700 bed prison in Tampa, emptied, relocating some inmates to another nearby prison and releasing others on bond. The entire facility has been transformed into a one-stop booking, detention, and bond-issuance center capable of handling large numbers of arrests, which begs the question: will Tampa police keep demonstrators on a short leash?
Will they? Yes.
Is that right? No.
As Peck and others have pointed out, excessive use of force is a persistent problem, particularly at the GOP convention in Minnesota in 2008 and New York in 2004. As an attendee of the GOP convention, it will be bizarre to be on the other side of the “free speech zone” — which, by its very existence, demonstrates the almost Orwellian Newspeak surrounding security measures.
Truthfully, I’m more worried about Hurricane Isaac than any potential violence inflicted by demonstrators. But I fear violence may be inflicted upon them. I encourage demonstrators to download the ACLU Police Tape app, encourage them to write the numbers for ACLU and National Lawyers Guild on their person in Sharpie, and to know their rights as demonstrators and when dealing with law enforcement.
Yes, the GOP has the right to have a convention — no one will dispute that. But protesters have the right to be free of police harassment, intrusive surveillance, and brutality. I hope the mistakes of Minnesota and New York will not be repeated.
- Meg
Whoa.
Reblogged from election
Frontpage: Wednesday, April 25th
- RNC Officially Backs Romney: Reince Priebus has made it official with Mitt Romney. The Republican National Committee chair said Wednesday that the party will put all of its resources behind Romney as the presumptive Republican nominee for president.
- U.K. Culture Secretary’s Aide Resigns: Adam Smith, special adviser to U.K. Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt, has resigned over advice he gave to News Corp. executives while the company tried to take over BSkyB. Hunt was charged with overseeing News Corp.’s bid in a “quasi-judicial role.”
- Rupert Murdoch: Never Courted P.M.s: First the son, now the father. It’s Rupert Murdoch’s turn before the Leveson Inquiry on media ethics, where he’s being questioned about his use of political clout. Murdoch denied asking for or being offered favors by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher when they had lunch in 1981, before he took over the Times newspapers, saying, “I have never asked a prime minister for anything.”
- CNN: Newt to Drop Out Next Week: Mitt Romney’s five-way win Tuesday made Newt Gingrich realize something: “It’s pretty clear Governor Romney is going to be the nominee. I think you have to at some point be honest with what’s happening in the real world, as opposed to what you’d like to have happen,” he said. But then he said he’s going to continue his campaign in North Carolina—“as a citizen.” What does this all mean?
- Madeleine McCann May Be Alive: British police said Wednesday that they want to reopen the Madeline McCann case, since new evidence indicates the missing girl may still be alive. McCann, whose ninth birthday is May 12, disappeared when she was 4 years old while her family vacationed in Portugal in May 2007.
Photo: A Sudanese soldier stood atop a destroyed tank left behind by Southern forces when they withdrew from Heglig. (Ashraf Shazly, AFP / Getty Images). See more photos from Sudan’s bombing of South Sudan.
If a process isn’t working for you, maybe it says something about your candidate. Don’t hate the game; hate the player.
Former RNC chairman Michael Steele on the GOP’s relatively new proportional delegate system.
Reblogged from RNC Research
Michael Steele fires back about his media image of hapless profligacy—private jets and limousines, a convention trip to Hawaii and a night of partying at a West Hollywood strip club—all charged to the RNC.
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