I watched the convention live on YouTube feeds and PBS news. The T.V. news version filtered out most of the chanting and used camera angles to omit the protest signs. In the later days of the convention the DNC made a sheet of chants designed to counter the protesters chants. It worked well. Just watch Leon Pennata's speech to hear the background chants from Sanders states(where there were no microphones) start and be drowned out be the Clinton states where the crowd mics were placed.

The walkout in @notarobot's video was real. Hundreds of Bernie supporters did walkout after the roll call. It was not on the same day as Clinton's speech. Some delegates planed another walkout during Clinton's speech but never went through with it. The Craigslist ads are likely fake.

Alex Jones is a lair. He puts out enough BS to distract from anything real. It is disgusting how he uses his website as 'sources now confirm' while his website is just quoting from his show. It's worse than the propaganda network PBS news has become.

*ban
PBS Kids Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTGf5JWHMVI

Crash Course is awesome. Continuing in the tradition of PBS educational programming, Discovery (before it was all about Bounty Hunters etc.), and History (before it was nonsense about aliens), etc.

Nearly 10 minutes of information that was almost entirely new to me, very entertaining, and *felt* like I was only watching for 2-3 minutes. These guys know their craft!

I'll be voting for the Pity Parties candidate this year. Puddle For President!
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@ChaosEngine.

Yeah. I know. Your last sentence says it all -- he didn't achieve near as much as was hoped for. Hence your disappointment.

From my perspective, I never believed he could do all that was hoped. Because this isn't a dictatorship (thank god, maybe we can survive Trump.) It was clear to me from the beginning that is wasn't possible.

So I wasn't disappointed. I was glad for all that he did manage to get through.

And that is what makes him consequential.

I have my list of things I am pissed at him about for doing -- including the murdering of brown people, including bin Laden. (And I'm pissed at most of the people in this country for cheering state sponsored targeted assassination and ignoring the huge collateral damage of that day and the days that followed.)

History isn't going to judge him on what he promised and couldn't get done. History will judge him on what he actually did. Half-assed heathcare is half an ass more than was managed in over a hundred years. LGBT people aren't disappointed.

And being the first black president -- he'll be in the history books for being that particular breed of person -- the minority who is 10 times better than the ruling majority, who swallows the indignities of prejudice with grace and determination, who rises above the humiliations to become The First. Think Jackie Robinson -- that is what we remember about him, that is the story that has survived. (The recent PBS doc taught me a fuller picture of who he actually was after he survived those brutal first two years in the majors.) That is the story we crave.

He's consequential, all right. Not perfect. Consequential.

"This is your world. You're the creator. Belive that you can do, 'cause you can do it.."

*related=http://videosift.com/video/PBS-Remixes-Bob-Ross-Happy-Little-Clouds

PBS Remixes Bob Ross - Happy Little Clouds has been added as a related post - related requested by notarobot.

This was part of the interview posted here: http://videosift.com/video/John-Oliver-on-making-fun-of-serious-news that PBS posted separately.

Hmmm. Thought I'd added this comment already but...

If you like this, you might also like this NOVA special...

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/secrets-viking-sword.html

Oh, fuck, PBS. What the fuck are you doing?

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Sadly, PBS reporting has been biased as long as I can recall. It's just always been the least biased reporting that takes place in our own news. Sometimes I have to go to other countries news to get an semi-objective viewpoint.

When we can't even count on PBS to be in any way unbiased, we're screwed. As far as I can tell, there is NO unbiased news to be had anywhere today. It's ALL opinion, one sided 'reporting', and pure commercial posing as 'news'. Anyone calling themselves a reporter these days should be ashamed of their profession.
I fear the people wont stand against this. We're too placated by 1/2 truths that fit our narrative, and all too willing to listen to our cheerleaders and ignore the other side's cheerleaders, and not even notice than neither of them are offering facts or specifics.
We're hosed. Incredibly sadly, that means the planet is hosed, as we control so much of the planet's resources.
Where's a black plague when we need one?

"Homey don't play dat."