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Ratings: I'm a Celebrity, Jon & Kate, SVU Finale and More
Sunday, June 7, 2009

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Some recent ratings highlights:?

? Monday's two-hour premiere of NBC's I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here! averaged 6.35 million viewers, edging out The Bachelorette (6.34 mil) in both total audience and the demos. I'm a Celebrity then dropped 14 percent (to 5.5 mil) on Tuesday.

? Among finales,?Medium wrapped up its NBC run with an audience of ...

Limbaugh: Sotomayor would bring racism, bigotry to court...but that's okay if she's pro-life

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Limbaugh: Sotomayor would bring racism, bigotry to court...but that's okay if she's pro-life

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You Shouldn't Say That Out Loud

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Oy:

"?SI understand that during her career, [Sotomayor has ] written hundreds and hundreds of opinions,? [Harry] Reid said. ?SI haven?"t read a single one of them, and if I?"m fortunate before we end this, I won?"t have to read one of them.?

(Hat tip: Conor)

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The Party Of Nixon

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Fabio Rojas has a theory:

[C]onservative politics was not ?Sreborn? after the Goldwater campaign in 1964 and cemented by Reagan. Instead, the Nixonites allowed this new ideological trend to be the face of the party, but they retained control over the institutional functions of the party, as evidence by Nixon?"s resurgence. This observation explains a lot of other puzzling feature of Republican politics. This is not the party of small government, it?"s the party of national security. The party of individual liberty and self-reliance is actually the party of ?Senhanced interrogation.? The idea tying it together is national security, with superficial appeals to whatever helps win the election.

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Ratings: I'm a Celebrity, Jon & Kate, SVU Finale and More

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In praise of ... American theatres | Editorial

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Christopher Hitchens says that if you want to give a girl a good night out in Washington you should take her to New York. Barack Obama obviously thinks the same. Having promised his wife Michelle during the election campaign last year that he would take her to a Broadway show when it was all finished, he duly headed north at the weekend for a performance of Joe Turner's Come and Gone, a play by August Wilson about the migration of freed slaves from the deep south. A promise is a promise, so it is perhaps unfair to criticise the president too much for fulfilling his private campaign pledge. Nevertheless, a president who wants to wean Americans off their emissions-heavy travel habits was not setting a good example by taking two helicopter trips and a plane to New York and back, as the Obamas did. Nor, however excellent the Broadway performance, was the trip fair to Washington, whose theatres are one of its own great attractions. A few blocks from the White House, the Shakespeare theatre, under Michael Kahn's direction, is a particularly fine company, but the Arena and the Studio also do excellent innovative work. There are grander theatres at the Kennedy Center, the Warner and the National as well as the delightful small Folger, part of the Shakespeare library on Capitol Hill. Presidential trips to the Washington theatre have a bad history, of course, but the Obamas could have plenty of good nights out in their own city with a fraction of the carbon footprint it took to go to New York.

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posted by tgazw @ 6:06 PM, ,

And New Hampshire makes six: House and Senate pass revised same sex marriage law. Governor Lynch will sign it tonight.

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Major progress today in the quest for equality. A big win in New Hampshire finally comes through:

The New Hampshire House has approved a bill to strengthen legal protections for religious organizations related to same-sex marriage, and the governor says he will sign same-sex marriage into law.

The House approved the measure on a vote of 198-176. Supporters of same-sex marriage erupted in cheers and applause as the total was announced.

Gov. John Lynch announced that he would sign the same-sex marriage bill into law on Wednesday evening.

The House vote followed the Senate approving the bill on a 14-10 party-line vote.

Congrats to everyone who worked so hard and diligently to make this happen.

And, this just give more impetus to our friends at the White House to re-think their out-dated strategy on marriage equality.