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Thursday's Media Penalties...and Goals

Published on: April 3, 2008
Published by: karlos schmieder

 

Today's Media Penalties, free kicks and goals. 

Yellow Cards:

 

SF Chron headline writers: Hey, the "minority" designation just doesn't work in CA anymore.  The headline should have read People of Color doctors short in supply in state. 

SF Chron: Minority doctors short in supply in state 

Rush Limbaugh for comments about women in politics...

http://m-pyre.blogspot.com/why-i-hate-rush

Free Kick:

Goes to SF city officials' $83,000 "sanctuary city" ad campaign  

Gooooooaaaal!

Van Jones, of Greenforall.org and the Bay's Ella Baker Center, scores a goal by staying on message during a Colbert interview.

Colbert:  ...Green-collar, blue-collar, white-collar – why the collar bubble?  Is there a boom in the “collar” economy?

Van Jones: “…Green collar jobs are good for the environment and your pocketbook... Jobs that don''t subtract from you health while they add to your wealth.” 

Colbert: How do we know this is going to happen?  I hear a lot about it, ok, this is going to be a booming economy…. But when I was a kid they promised me a jetpack.  Where’s my jetpack?  I don’t understand.

Van Jones: “If we’re going give you a jetpack, it needs to be a solar jetpack.”

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