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Via Right Wing Watch:

Roger Schlafly, son of Eagle Forum founder Phyllis Schlafly, today mourned on the Eagle Forum Blog a Census Bureau report showing that non-white births have now exceeded white births in the U.S. “It is not a good thing,” Schlafly said, warning that “immigrants do not share American values” and therefore “will not be voting Republican when they start voting in large numbers.” He went on to claim that “NY Times liberals seek to destroy the American family of the 1950s,” saying that immigrants “do not share” American values like working hard and self-sufficiency, and instead “will vote Democrat when the Democrats promise them more food stamps.”

To which I think aloud, "Perhaps we should lower the voting age to around 12?" Just kidding, but still, the idea that these not-white children will not be voting Republican when they start voting in large numbers just makes my heart sing.

Perhaps the funniest part of Roger's post is the update, where he wonders why on earth liberal blogs like Right Wing Watch and Daily Kos do not care for Ozzie and Harriet. Ahem, Roger. The pearls are screaming. Tend to them.

FiveThirtyEight: A recent poll shows that most people don't know what the "public option" is - including pollsters

Empire Burlesque: Bait and Switch: Using diversity to disguise inequality

Lean Left: Shorter David Brooks: We need to slow down the liberals so more people can die in misery

pourmecoffee: Fightin' words

Democracy Now!: As Obama golfs with UBS CEO days after the firm avoids criminal prosecution, UBS whistleblower is given a 40 month jail term

marmel: Utah says it's okay to fire someone for being gay. Time to boycott Sundance

So many people can look at this First Family and see themselves. That's a great thing:

WASHINGTON — The president’s elderly stepgrandmother brought him an oxtail fly whisk, a mark of power at home in Kenya. Cousins journeyed from the South Carolina town where the first lady’s great-great-grandfather was born into slavery, while the rabbi in the family came from the synagogue where he had been commemorating Martin Luther King’s Birthday. The president and first lady’s siblings were there, too, of course: his Indonesian-American half-sister, who brought her Chinese-Canadian husband, and her brother, a black man with a white wife.

When President Barack Obama was sworn in on Tuesday, he was surrounded by an extended clan that would have shocked past generations of Americans and instantly redrew the image of a first family for future ones.

As they convened to take their family’s final step in its journey from Africa and into the White House, the group seemed as if it had stepped out of the pages of Mr. Obama’s memoir — no longer the disparate kin of a young man wondering how he fit in, but the embodiment of a new president’s promise of change.

For well over two centuries, the United States has been vastly more diverse than its ruling families. Now the Obama family has flipped that around, with a Technicolor cast that looks almost nothing like their overwhelmingly white, overwhelmingly Protestant predecessors in the role. The family that produced Barack and Michelle Obama is black and white and Asian, Christian, Muslim and Jewish. They speak English; Indonesian; French; Cantonese; German; Hebrew; African languages including Swahili, Luo and Igbo; and even a few phrases of Gullah, the Creole dialect of the South Carolina Lowcountry. Very few are wealthy, and some — like Sarah Obama, the stepgrandmother who only recently got electricity and running water in her metal-roofed shack — are quite poor.

“Our family is new in terms of the White House, but I don’t think it’s new in terms of the country,” Maya Soetoro-Ng, the president’s younger half-sister, said last week. “I don’t think the White House has always reflected the textures and flavors of this country.”

Yeah, that would be just horrible, wouldn't it? {{shudder}} I mean, who would want to live in a cosmopolitan place full of art, culture, diversity and some of the best restaurants in the country if it means that your neighbors might be, you know, homosexual??? The bald faced bigotry that people feel comfortable expressing in this day and age never fails to horrify me. PageOneQ:

The town of Eureka Springs is turning into the "San Francisco of Arkansas," warns the American Family Association, and it can happen in your town too.

The presentation in the AFA trailer [available at PageOneQ], "They're Coming to Your Town," tells the tale of an uncharacteristically diverse resort town's government infiltrated by "a handful of homosexual activists" and bent to their will through the enactment of the town's domestic partner registry on June 22, 2007.

"Watch, and learn," says the trailer, "how to fight a well-organized gay agenda to take over the cities of America, one city at a time."

Eureka Springs, most recently, has gotten an honorable mention from unlikely celebrity and Oklahoma House Rep. Sally Kern, who propped it up as an example of the "gay agenda" that she has called a "death knell" and a larger threat than international terrorism, in addition to comparing such an "agenda" to cancer.

Do be sure to see the video that AFA created over at PageOneQ.

Okay, Ron Paul fans, PBS's NOW is devoting this week's episode to Ron Paul and how the internet is rewriting political campaigns.

And Bill Moyers will have Keith Olbermann as guest to discuss politics and the media as well as how media ownership is making diversity a thing of the past.

For those of you without TVs, both shows will be available online starting Saturday.

David Brock has this cross posted at both MyDD and Daily Kos:

Today, Media Matters for America released an eye-opening report, "Sunday Shutout: The Lack of Gender & Ethnic Diversity on the Sunday Morning Talk Shows." The report, which focused on the important Sunday morning political talk shows, follows last week's study, "Locked Out: The Lack of Gender & Ethnic Diversity on Cable News Continues."

Our findings may surprise you....

The Spy Who Billed Me: An outburst of indifference has greeted the announcement by office of the Director of National Intelligence that the year-long study on the use of industrial contractors by the intelligence community was not going to be released.  The number and use of industrial contractors was suddenly a matter of 'national security.'

raw story: Join the 'REAL ID' Revolt

Locked Out: The lack of gender and ethnic diversity on cable news continues.  Related: Somebody get this woman a writer

KnoxViews: Phony Fred

TomPaine: Montana has recently been the central front in the war on the middle class, and the onslaught Big Sky country experienced shows that this fight could be coming to a town near you.

New and improved Martini Revolution...go look!

I think we all know who all of this administration's fear-mongering is clearly working on.

Gee, Virgil, the first rule of political survival is that if you find you've dug yourself in a hole, you don't keep digging.

ABC News:

Congressman Virgil Goode, R-Va., is not apologizing for writing a letter to constituents warning that "many more Muslims" will be elected unless the country's immigration policies are strengthened.

[..]"We need to stop illegal immigration totally and reduce legal immigration and end the diversity visas policy pushed hard by President Clinton and allowing many persons from the Middle East to come to this country," he wrote.

"I fear that in the next century we will have many more Muslims in the United States if we do not adopt the strict immigration policies that I believe are necessary to preserve the values and beliefs traditional to the United States of America and to prevent our resources from being swamped."

[..]In response to Goode's letter, the Council on American-Islamic Relations issued a statement Wednesday calling for an apology.

"Rep. Goode's Islamophobic remarks send a message of intolerance that is unworthy of anyone elected to public office," CAIR National Legislative Director Corey Saylor said.

However, there is no indication Goode will apologize anytime soon.

"The only statement the congressman has is that he stands by the letter," a Goode spokesman said.

Responding directly to the C-Ville Weekly, Goode said through his press secretary, "I wrote that letter. I think it speaks for itself."

It sure does, Virgil.

FAIR:

The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, PBS's flagship news program, touts its "signature style-low-key, evenhanded, inclusive of all perspectives"; Corporation for Public Broadcasting ombud Ken Bode called it "the mother ship of balance." But a new FAIR study finds that the NewsHour fails to provide either balance or diversity of perspectives-or a true public-minded alternative to its corporate competition.

• Public interest groups accounted for just 4 percent of total sources. General public-"person in the street," workers, students- accounted for only 14 percent, while current and former government and military officials totaled 50 percent of all sources.
• Male sources outnumbered women by more than 4-to-1 (82 percent to 18 percent). Moreover, 72 percent of U.S. guests were white males, while just 6 percent were women of color.
• People of color made up only 15 percent of U.S. sources. African-Americans made up 9 percent, Latinos 2 percent, and Asian- Americans and people of Mideastern descent made up one percent each. Alberto Gonzales accounted for more than 30 percent of Latino sources, while Condoleeza Rice accounted for nearly 13 percent of African-American sources.
• Among partisan sources, Republicans outnumbered Democrats on the NewsHour by 2-to-1 (66 percent vs. 33 percent). Only one representative of a third party appeared during the study period.
• At a time when a large proportion of the U.S. public already favored withdrawal from Iraq, "stay the course" sources outnumbered pro-withdrawal sources more than 5-to-1. In the entire six months studied, not a single peace activist was heard on the NewsHour on the subject of Iraq.
• Segments on Hurricane Katrina accounted for less than 10 percent of all sources, but provided nearly half (46 percent) of all African-American sources during the study period. Those African-Americans were largely presented as victims rather than leaders or experts: In segments on the human impact of the storm, African-Americans made up 51 percent of sources, but in reconstruction segments, whites dominated with 72 percent of sources; 59 percent of all African-American sources across Katrina segments were general public sources.

The Opinion Mill: If David Broder were a horse....on the other hand, he's this blogger's inspiration...Shakespeare's Sister provides a treatise on another brave media soldier, Bill O'Reilly...MediaBloodhound interviews Dr. Ben Marble of "Go f**k yourself Mr. Cheney" fame...and let me just say, Hooray for Hollywood!!

PERRspectives Blog: Thailand and the Bush "Democracy" promotion fraud...all of this bunch's policies invite ridicule and chaos.

The Whole American Hog: Mark Twain on the immorality of imperialist wars and the idiocy of 'staying the course'...could've been penned last night if there was anybody around who wrote this well.

Bloggasm: Mapping the diversity of the blogosphere...

Domestic Spying Center: Our friend "Brett" has super-security clearance and writes: "I can assure you that this device uses the exact same technology that we do down here at the Pentagon to screen data and prepare our findings for Vice President Cheney. This is why we haven't been hit here at home since 9/11...And speaking of 9/11, this
also is useful in Iraq which as you know, is the central front in the war on terror."

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