Where is the media coverage on the Wisconsin shooting??

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Monday August 06, 2012 · 5:10 PM PDT

2012/08/06 · 17:10

This is gonna be a short diary, because I'm not sure I can bring myself to type much about this without losing it. Two weeks ago the Aurora shooting took over media coverage in this country for at least 4 days. Yesterday, a similar massacre took place, and as far as I can tell, the story is pretty much over. Why??

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Sunday August 05, 2012 · 5:26 PM PDT

2012/08/05 · 17:26

I'm not a believer and don't visit a church on Sunday mornings. But there is certainly something about Sunday morning rituals that make people feel safe, secure, maybe even a way to shield them from whatever they are going to experience in the week ahead. Maybe it's the same reason people go to movies on Friday and Saturday nights, which is, as we now know, tragically ironic.

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Saturday August 04, 2012 · 8:20 AM PDT

2012/08/04 · 08:20

It's been beat over the head by the national media that this race is fluid, close, and going down to the wire. While national polls may tell one story, I simply don't believe that's the case.

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Tuesday November 22, 2011 · 12:48 PM PST

2011/11/22 · 12:48

I don't know why this isn't getting more attention......maybe we are so used to it that it doesn't phase anyone anymore. But in a career that is based on saying something horrible at least once every 45 seconds, his recent reaction to Michelle Obama being booed at a Nascar event has to take the prize.

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Monday December 20, 2010 · 6:22 PM PST

2010/12/20 · 18:22

We have all heard the rumors. We all hope they aren't true. But everything in my gut tells me he will do this, and I am writing this to ask if it is the line in the sand that liberals won't cross. That if President Obama does this, we can no longer support him.

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Monday December 06, 2010 · 5:54 PM PST

2010/12/06 · 17:54

The President we all had such high hopes for has given in AGAIN. Gave up AGAIN. Didn't even take the field AGAIN. One of my favorite lines from the West Wing was when Toby told Leo, "It isn't the fights we lose that bother me, it's the ones we don't suit up for."

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Thursday November 04, 2010 · 1:08 PM PDT

2010/11/04 · 13:08

This is going to be a very glass half-empty diary, so if you not up for that right now, no offense taken if you find it defeatist. But the next two years are gonna make the last two seem like a cakewalk.

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Wednesday January 20, 2010 · 2:30 PM PST

2010/01/20 · 14:30

Many of you are no doubt acquainted with the greatest television show ever produced "The Wire" a mixture of Dickens-like narratives that hits as hard as great investigative journalism. Watching it's full five season run will give you a pretty good idea of what this country faces, why it is broken, and why it probably can't be fixed.

In a episode in the fourth season, there is a unforgettable moment that takes place between one of the main characters, a police detective, and a young low level drug runner. These two have had run-ins the entire series, and their relationship has progressed from loathing and contempt for each other to a real respect and admiration.

Now both of these characters are just cogs in machines that will run with or without them, they are, in fact, just pawns and they realize this. The detective is in a police department that will never focus on the real problems because it is obsessed with stats, and the drug dealer is now forced to follow the whims of a drug lord who has started killing innocents for no reason. Any attempts to change the way things work is without question futile. The young drug dealer remarks, "This game is rigged, man."

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Tuesday January 19, 2010 · 6:28 PM PST

2010/01/19 · 18:28

Are the Democrats spineless and weak? Yes. Did they blow the health care debate by caving in to every Republican and Blue Dog Demand? You bet. Did they blow the Mass. Senate race in epic fashion by running a weak canidate who had no idea what she was doing? Obviously. But that is not our biggest problem.

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Thursday September 03, 2009 · 9:14 PM PDT

2009/09/03 · 21:14

I have to figure out a way to stop being surprised by what is happening in this country. The 8 months since Obama's election should have made me numb to what is going on. Every day a right-wing lunatic does or says something even more stupid or hateful than the day before, and every day I shake my head.

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Friday August 14, 2009 · 2:47 PM PDT

2009/08/14 · 14:47

For some reason on the way to work I tuned in to Rush Limbaugh today, just to see what kind of vile rants he could come up with today. He spent the first 20 minutes of his show doing nothing but trying to discredit a ABC News report about increased threats on Obama's life.

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Wednesday June 10, 2009 · 9:23 PM PDT

2009/06/10 · 21:23

In light of yet another terrorist act committed by a right-wing psychopath, can we for a second examine what people like him and Dr. Tiller's killer are likely listening to all day long.

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