{"id":37527,"date":"2019-09-03T09:04:55","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T16:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=37527"},"modified":"2019-09-03T09:04:55","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T16:04:55","slug":"open-thread-9-3-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/09\/03\/open-thread-9-3-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 9\/3\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I don&#8217;t know why, but something woke me up last night, and I could not get back to sleep.&nbsp; I feel very tired.&nbsp; Monday on Tuesday hugs to all.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:37 (average 4:41).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-09-03-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>.&nbsp; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/0903Cartoon.jpg\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UwwymqpS45c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCuDv5p8E-evaRSh542hDV5g\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Robert Reich Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Robert Reich: The 5 Biggest Corporate Lies About Unions<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/UwwymqpS45c\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Of course the Reich on the left, Robert Reich, is right. Support labor! The Reich on the right, the Republican Reich and their super-rich corporate enablers, use the Pinocchio Principle to screw YOU for THEIR benefit. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MUHeLsZkeB0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC1Z1i5ClfrJhyu9z1hlmDkQ\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daily Kos Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Making Progress with Sara Nelson<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/MUHeLsZkeB0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">She has some good ideas. Nay they fly high! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/2019\/09\/sinclair-broadcasting-continues-to-produce-must-run-infomercials-for-nra-and-trump-disguised-as-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>Since the FCC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2018\/8\/9\/1787139\/-Sinclair-Broadcasting-bid-to-take-over-local-airwaves-officially-dead\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shockingly did the right thing<\/a> last year, preventing Sinclair Broadcasting from taking over Tribune Media and with it control over the local broadcast airwaves reaching 72% of the nation\u2019s households, the broadcaster has sort of flown under the radar. That doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s not competing with Fox News to be Trump\u2019s favorite propaganda machine, however.<\/p>\n<p>Media Matters has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/sinclair-broadcast-group\/after-recent-mass-shootings-sinclair-must-run-segment-focuses-violent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">detailed<\/a> another \u201cmust-run\u201d commentary, one of those segments Sinclair requires all of its stations to air. This one came in mid-August in response to ongoing pressure for Congress to do something, anything, about gun violence, after more than 30 people were killed in less than 24 hours in two mass shooting incidents, in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio. It was another segment from chief political commentator Boris Epshteyn, coming straight out of the 1990s. In it, Epshteyn argued that children must not be exposed to the \u201cgratuitous violence\u201d of video games and movies, and that the \u201cimpact of violent media on the psyche of our youth\u201d has to be a part of preventing mass shootings. Media Matters found that the segment has aired on at least 28 stations in 26 states. One of the cities it aired in: El Paso. There is zero evidence that video games or movies have anything to do with gun massacres. As opposed to, you know, guns.  <\/p>\n<p>August was chock-full of Sinclair spewing conservative gun nonsense into viewers\u2019 homes, including another must-run segment from Epshteyn in which he called for \u201cgiving heavy consideration to mandating armed guards in schools.\u201d Sebastian Gorka appeared earlier in the month on the weekly Sinclair show America This Week, on which he compared gun regulation to the Holocaust, because of course he did. And a gun violence \u201cresearcher\u201d called John Lott appeared on a Sinclair station right after the shootings to lie about the one in El Paso, saying it occurred in a gun-free zone where \u201cthe victims weren\u2019t allowed to defend themselves.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Do you have a Sinclair station locally? <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_stations_owned_or_operated_by_Sinclair_Broadcast_Group\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Find out here<\/a>. Boycott their news advertisers, and tell those advertisers why. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold\" color=\"#0000ff\">Vote Blue!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know why, but something woke me up last night, and I could not get back to sleep.&nbsp; I feel very tired.&nbsp; Monday on Tuesday hugs to all. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 3:37 (average 4:41).&nbsp; To do it, click here.&nbsp; How did you do? Cartoon: Short Takes: From YouTube (Robert Reich Channel): <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/09\/03\/open-thread-9-3-2019\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}