MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
Lead paragraph: "Some have questioned why the Republican effort to block a bill to fund health care for 9/11 first responders hasn't received more coverage on the cable news networks. And one of the cable news industry's best-known tormentors on the subject -- "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart -- spotlighted the issue on last night's show, interviewing a panel of first responders afflicted with grave health difficulties to flesh out what he sees as the media's blatant disregard for the heroic municipal workers at the center of the controversy."
(story in "The Lookout", described as a Yahoo news blog)
Comments
Stewart even cornered Mike Huckabee into conceding the Senate Republicans were wrong to obstruct this bill.
But Huckabee tried to shift some blame for the impasse to the Democrats, for not making first-responders relief a stand-alone bill. Stewart pointed out that, after failing to get it enacted last week as part of a funding bill, the House had passed it a second time -- as a stand-alone.
Showing why, on the basis of knowledge of current affairs, Jon Stewart is more qualified to be president than Mike Huckabee,
by acanuck on Fri, 12/17/2010 - 6:59pm