Iowa: Sioux City

Jon Stewart Impersonates Glenn Beck for Entire Segment

Huffingtonpost.com

"You know who else didn't answer medical questions?  Hitler." ~ Jon Stewart

The "Daily Show" host spent an entire segment acting like, talking like, crying like, dancing like, and gesticulating like Glenn Beck. He was inspired by the fact that Beck recently had his appendix removed to create the 11/3 project-taking America back to a time before Beck lost his vestigial organ.

"Apparently the medicine that was good enough for our founding fathers is now considered politically or medically incorrect," Stewart said employing both air quotes and crazy voice registers that left the viewer wondering who and what he was quoting.

Free Seminars for Progressive Iowa Women

Dawn's List and EssentialEstrogen.com

While lunches may never be free, Democratic and progressive women in Iowa do have an opportunity to grab some free technology training in the coming weeks.

Essentialestrogen.com is working with DAWN (Democratic Activist Women's Network) to provide three seminars in three different regions of Iowa starting this Saturday, Nov. 7. Here are the dates, times and locations of the upcoming events:

            Saturday, Nov. 7 - Sioux City
            10 a.m. to Noon
            Mary Treglia Community House, 900 Jennings St.

            Saturday, Nov. 14 - Des Moines
            1:30 to 3:30 p.m.
            AFSCME, 4320 NW 2nd St.

Are Iowans Being Brainwashed by Fox News?

[Brainwash:  subject (a person) to a process by which ideas are implanted in the mind]

Well, it does feel like torture, listening to Fox or right-wing talk radio for any length of time at all.  To listen, you either have to allow yourself to be indoctrinated, or go crazy, or laugh (but it's hard to do that because it really isn't funny), or turn it off and then pretend it isn't there.  And it seems progressives and the unindoctrinated are mostly dealing with it by pretending it just isn't there.  You hear this all the time:  "Where do people get these ideas?"

We really hope Michael Moore's next movie will be about the right wing media.

Glenn Beck Sells Snake Oil to Unsuspecting Iowans

First, there is something being done by citizens nationwide, which you can participate in (see below), but we also need to take responsibility for what goes on here in Iowa, where GB reaches a large audience of unsuspecting natives who, for one dysfunctional reason or another, think he is for real and don't understand that he is merely a TV/Radio personality who is getting filthy rich by convincing his audiences to support ideas and policies which do not benefit them and actually harm them. 

Snake oil salesmen such as Beck have been around for thousands of years, but should they really be allowed free, unchallenged access to the