O’Reilly’s Hypocrisy on Sarah Palin & Joe McGinniss
06/04/2010 by Steve Rendall
Witless commentary and breathtaking hypocrisy are no strangers to Fox News, but Bill O’Reilly was in rare form on June 1.
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Three Must Read Blogs
Saturday, June 5th, 2010ICE Agents in Louisiana Search for Undocumented Immigrant Cleanup Workers Assisting in the Oil Crisis Cleanup
Friday, June 4th, 2010This story was co-produced by Feet in Two Worlds and El Diario/La Prensa.
NEW ORLEANS — Federal immigration officials have been visiting command centers on the Gulf Coast to check the immigration status of response workers hired by BP and its contractors to clean up the immense oil spill.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Louisiana confirmed that its agents had visited two large command centers—which are staging areas for the response efforts and are sealed off to the public—to verify that the workers there were legal residents.
“We visited just to ensure that people who are legally here can compete for those jobs—those people who are having so many problems,” said Temple H. Black, a spokesman for ICE in Louisiana.
After Hurricane Katrina in 2005, thousands of Hispanic workers, many of them undocumented, flocked to the region to help in the reconstruction of Louisiana’s coastal towns. Many stayed, building communities on the outskirts of New Orleans or finding employment outside the city in oil refineries and in the fishing industry.
Must Read Blogs
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010Artur Davis Dissed His Base and Paid the Price
While Congressman Artur Davis’s stunning loss in his quest to win the Alabama Democratic Gubernatorial nomination was a sad turn for one black man, it was a great moment for black voters. It revealed a heightened level of political sophistication among black primary voters who rejected Davis’s “I-don’t-need-to-spend-time-on-them-’cause-I-know-they’ll-be-with-me” approach to campaigning. – By Michael Fauntroy, Huntington Post.
Full blog here.
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Former WORD Writers, Where Are They Now?
Tuesday, June 1st, 2010Maria Rosana Cruz, Project Coordinator, NYC Mayor’s Office of Immigration Affairs
Maria Rosana Cruz
WORD Editor on the Road: Local News, Slim Pickins …
Monday, May 31st, 2010
Outside of Walmart Supercenter, 3300 Iowa Street. A second Walmart, not so super, located at 550 Congressional Drive. A news shot of the day.
… This past Saturday-Sunday in Lawrence, Kansas, Douglas County, population 90,520 (circa July, 2008), up 13 percent from 2000 [U.S. Census] and not including KU student enrollment of an estimated 30,000, with five Zip Codes, according to local Lawrence Journal-World. Online-print (circulation about 75,000 according to Newspaper Association of America), did publish a story, following up on the sports-ticket-crisis-scam-controversy.
Walmart “Low Prices”sums up Saturday-Sunday as seen, that is, perceived to be seen, by the local news media.
The Latest Howard Monath Dispatch From Bangkok
Saturday, May 29th, 2010Via facebook
Pictures by Howard Monath
Q: Want to wrap up?
A: Let me write a wrap-up in a few days (middle of week or so). The curfew ends today, I can start going out to talk to a few people. A lot of ‘experts’ expect this to turn into a series of guerilla attacks , but now there is a very uneasy calm. Also, the Thai government has been arresting foreigners who they say were “outside agitators.” One English bloke is facing a possible death penalty for ‘exhorting’ the crowd to burn down the Central World Mall.
5 hours ago [8:37 a.m. EST]
Edited for style
WORD Editor on the Road – Slow Postings Last Several Days
Friday, May 28th, 2010In Lawrence, Kansas, Visiting Family
Just the typical car fire in a Lawrence, KS, Walmart parking lot.
Bangkok Crisis – About 11:50 A.M. EST
Wednesday, May 19th, 2010By Howard Monath
Via Facebook
[10:47 P.M. Update: “The fires are still burning in Bangkok, things are pretty brazen; a lot of the crowds seem to support the Reds who slip in and out with impunity, This is civil war, people who are on different sides live in the same block. The elderly and children have gone to the Temples which have been declared sanctuaries by the Thai government, but at night the Red Shirt fighters use the temples has havens.”]
Central World. Picture by Howard Monath
“… only the hard core death wish crowd and old women and children without transportation are still there …”
Sunday, May 16th, 2010
By Howard Monath
Via Facebook
Media Advisory: Reporting Israeli Assault Through Israel’s Eyes
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010(more…)
Tags:Israel attacks flotilla, Israel Gaza blockage
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