Juxtaposition

This is causing all kinds of swirl in the right-wing punditry circles.  It's nothing that we didn't already suspect but the imbalance is staggering, especially when the majority of Americans support positions which are not in line with the majority of the right wing punditocracy.  Read the linked summary to see just how imbalanced it is (e.g. 91% conservative vs 9% progressive programming)

Think Progress » REPORT: The Right Wing Domination Of Talk Radio And How To End It

The Center for American Progress and Free Press today released the first-of-its-kind statistical analysis of the political make-up of talk radio in the United States. It confirms that talk radio, one of the most widely used media formats in America, is dominated almost exclusively by conservatives.

The new report — entitled “The Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio” — raises serious questions about whether the companies licensed to broadcast over the public radio airwaves are serving the listening needs of all Americans.

Schultz — the host of the most popular progressive radio show in the country — debunked the right-wing myth that conservatives dominate simply because they are winning in a “free market.” Schultz explained that the market is being controlled by a few ownership groups that are forcing conservative talk shows into local markets:

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More good news in restoring constitutional governance to this country.

SANS Institute - SANS NewsBites

A US federal appeals court upheld a lower court ruling that said law
enforcement agents need warrants to seize web-based email. The Sixth
Circuit Court of Appeals said webmail users have a "reasonable
expectation of privacy" regarding the content of messages stored on a
remote host. The original 2006 ruling, unsuccessfully appealed by the
US government, said the Stored Communications Act (SCA) violates the
Fourth Amendment. The SCA had been used for 20 years to access stored
email without a warrant.

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He actually said this:

Think Progress » Snow On Stem Cell Veto: ‘This Is The President Putting Science Before Ideology’

"...critics quite often who make those complaints are, whether deliberately or not, misstating the nature of the president’s commitment to stem cell research and paying little or no heed or giving no credit to the president’s unique and unprecedented role in supporting stem cell research."

“No, that is something — we have never said that.”

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