AP Video: NBC Suspends Countdown Host Keith Olbermann for Undeclared Campaign Donations

As much as I love Keith Olbermann (pause), I can’t say tNBC were really wrong for coming to that decision. Or are they? That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t sign the petition asking for his reinstatement though.

Police Officer Johannes Mehserle Only Receives a 2-Year Sentence for Killing Oscar Grant!

As Shake at 2dopeboyz opined, “So you’re telling me a officer (who is meant to “protect and serve”) who shoots and kills an unarmed man in the back will serve the same amount of time as Tip (who only had guns, but didn’t use them)?”

What else is there to say? Total travesty….

Read more:

– New York Times

– The San Fransisco Chronicle on the post-sentence announcement protests in Oakland.

– The Root

– TheLoop21.com

Call to action:

– Sign a petition asking US Attorney General, Eric Holder to Prosecute Mehserle in Federal Court.

Read the background on the murder of Oscar Grant by the BART Police on Different Kitchen 1.0 HERE.

George Bush Says Kanye West Calling Him A Racist Was The Lowest Point of His Presidency!

Fast forward to the 2:05 mark and also CLICK HERE.

Bush was being interviewed by Matt Lauer on NBC to promote his upcoming biography, Decision Points. Not sure I can be arsed to read it though. I tried reading his stooge, Tony Blair’s A Journey biography and it was just terrible: 600+ pages of tortured prose and it took me three weeks to get even 70 pages in (i.e. nowhere close to the part that anyone cares about which is why he backed Bush on the lunacy of starting the Iraq War to depose Saddam Hussein and find his ‘secret’ stash of WMD’s). I gave up and returned it to the library and haven’t been motivated to borrow it again and try and finish it.

CLICK HERE for more (text-only) snippets from Lauer’s Bush NBC interview.

AP News: Jerry Brown Beats Meg Whitman in the Calif. Governor’s Race

Well that was $140 million down the drain!

Not a good day for California Republican former female business executives-turned-aspiring-politicians all around yesterday. Hit the jump for a video on the news that Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer fended off a challenge from former HP CEO Carly Fiorina to hold her Senate seat for a fourth term. (more…)

Rep. John Boehner: The American People Have ‘Sent an Unmistakable Message’

All evidence to the contrary, ‘unmistakable message’ my ass, Mr. Boehner! I’m sick over this though! After catching a bit of Rand Paul’s smug victory speech on CNN last night, I couldn’t bear to watch any more of the election results. Depressing….