There's a reason America doesn't trust the mainstream media anymore and it not just one organization:

http://www.gallup.com/poll/157589/distrust-media-hits-new-high.aspx?ref=image

Yes, Fox has an obvious conservative bias and most of the other networks have an obvious liberal bias. If you want proof of a liberal bias, watch the Univision forum interview with President Obama:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/81470.html

Contrasting it to the softball interviews he usually gets, it's amazing to watch the president get grilled like that. Amazing because if you've been relying on the mainstream press for your information, you have forgotten what real journalism looks like. It's also proof positive of the free ride that President Obama has been getting since 2008. Yes Fox News is guilty of the very same thing on the other side of it.

But it's almost criminal when you consider how the mainstream press has been carrying water for President Obamas narrative about the video being the cause of the Libyan embassy attack, when it was obvious from the start it was a terrorist attack. I think they've been suppressing the story so as not to damage his re-election chances. What I mean by that is they didn't want to tread on the campaign narrative of President Obama being some kind of foreign policy giant, and that he had the Muslim problem solved. Obviously he hasn't solved that problem, and killing Osama Bin Laden didn't defeat Al Qeada. His systematic withdrawal of American influence from the region has left a power vacuum that groups like the Muslim brotherhood and Hezbollah have been more than happy to fill. Coupled with the Iranian nuclear threat and the failure of the sanctions to stop them, you have an unmitigated disaster on foreign policy, but out of the mainstream press you hear not a peep. If any of this happened under Bush the press would have murdered him but in this case they are running defense because they want to keep their guy in office. Considering all of this I don't think they have much credibility left.

Apparently one of the foreign service workers killed at the US Embassy in Libya was Sean Smith, known to EVE Online players as "Vile Rat", a very well-respected diplomat for the SomethingAwful "Goonfleet".
He'd posted a least one concerning message earlier that evening to the effect that their police "protection" was taking photos of the compound, and was on messaging client Jabber with other players when the attack began.

It's worth noting that "Innocence of Muslims" is probably not the "cause" of the unrest. The trailers were released back in July. Someone (some group) kept it to use as a tool\weapon and unleashed it in a coordinated manner around the anniversary of Sept 11th.
I'm not usually one to put much heft in conspiracy theories, but this really seems like a masterful stroke of coordinated manipulation. To put it more succinctly: I believe this was a terrorist act. I can't rule out the possibility that this was just an incredibly unfortunate coincidence in a volatile region, but I doubt it.

Unlike 2004 and 2008, this year's DNC Platform committee finally found some brass and removed the statement that "Jerusalem is and will remain the capital of Israel".

UN consensus, UN Resolutions and international customary law state that Jerusalem's status is to be defined through negotiations between native Palenstinians and Israelis. It might become a) the capital of Israel, b) the capital of a Palestinian state, c) an international city or d) whatever they agree on. But it is not to be decided unilaterally.

As far as I can remember, Clinton, Bush and Obama backed down from that statement once they were elected, and for good reason. There was a Jerusalem Embassy Act during Clinton's first term, but as of today, the Embassy remains in Tel Aviv. They know better than to inflame the Middle East even more.>> ^Sagemind:

I'm not sure if I understand the sentiment here. The ratified vote, (although the method was not acceptably democratic,) sounds like a sentiment that accepts multiculturalism and pushes out racism.
Anyone who knows the issues here, please chime in and educate us.

LOL

>> ^rebuilder:

Now the dolphin just needs to get to the nearest Ecuadorian embassy.

Now the dolphin just needs to get to the nearest Ecuadorian embassy.

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It looks so bad because there's a clash between the dimensions of the object being forced by the videosift app and the optimal width of the player. If you make it 416px by 374px it looks a lot better (width="416" height="374")

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Wow - has the CNN embed become the ugliest piece of bloatware ever? Thank god they've got the "Mixx" button there - does that place even still exist?

Edit: nope it doesn't. You guys can't get mad at us for not removing Revver from our accepted hosts list - we've got our shit together more than CNN.

Evil face of the US... Hoookay. One fundamental flaw though, this would require Assange to grow a pair, and lets face facts, a chicken never changes its mile wide yellow streak.

>> ^SevenFingers:

I say he surrenders. I do support his role in trying to get the corporate oligarchy to crash and burn, but we can never know if he is a true rapist unless he faces the courts... Now, if he gets sent to the US and tortured, etc. Then people will know those rape charges were manufactured, and maybe... just maybe something will actually happen to help change the evil face of the USA

I've put a lot of thought into this and here is a way out of the Ecuadorian embassy for Assange : put a trampoline on the roof and jump over to the Colombian embassy accross the street. Voila!

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>> ^radx:

If a distraction is needed, I suggest boobs. Plenty of boobs.
I like it, the Benny Hill approach.

My guess is that any effort to help Assange escape would constitute "aiding and abetting" or "conspiracy to ..." something. At the very least, they would be interfering with police duties, so all those people could get legally arrested on the spot.>> ^seltar:

Hire a flashmob / lookalikes to dress like him and show up outside, let Assange blend in with them, and then disperse in all directions!

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>> ^BoneRemake:

GO FOR THE BOX!~
GO FOR THE BOX ! ! !

They should release dozens of "diplomatic pouches" (actually crates, big enough for a human to fit inside), only 30 seconds or so apart, while at the same time, hundreds of impersonators just walk about in front of the embassy, and surrounding streets, creating a huge confusion for the police. Meanwhile, other impersonators leave the embassy at the same time. Some through the door, others through the windows to pretend they are actually Assange trying to escape.

Previous to all that, Assange would have called a press meeting, to announce his surrender to the british authorities.

In the middle of the confusion, Assange, with black hair, slightly tanned, prosthetic nose and what not, comes out of the embassy pretending to be a reporter, with another person holding a camera pretending to be his camera-man. OR... he was in the first crate all along, and with the confusion he actually manages to escape because the police loses focus. The crate could actually contain a false bottom where he could hide if they actually got around to open it.


Or plan B: Assange, simply strolls out the door at any given minute, as if nothing was wrong, not even trying to be sneaky. He would be like Capt. Speirs in Band of Brothers.