A former "60 Minutes" producer who was fired over a 2004 story about then-President George W. Bush's service in the Air National Guard said Friday that CBS' now retracted story detailing the attack in Benghazi, Libya was done to appeal to conservatives.
"My concern is that the story was done very pointedly to appeal to a more conservative audience's beliefs about what happened at Benghazi," Mary Mapes told Media Matters. "They appear to have done that story to appeal specifically to a politically conservative audience that is obsessed with Benghazi and believes that Benghazi was much more than a tragedy." Former CBS News anchor Dan Rather, who is also widely believed to have left the network as a result of the 2004 flap, declined to comment on the discredited Benghazi story when reached byTPM through a spokesperson on Friday. The chairman of CBS News and executive producer of "60 Minutes" on Friday apologized for airing the story, telling Variety that the network would now "own it." CBS said it was misled by the source who provided the account, and publication has been halted for a book about the night on Sept. 11, 2012.
Former New Jersey Gov. Christie Todd Whitman (R) said Mitt Romney must do a better job of standing up to the radical elements of the Republican party and criticized her party’s nominee for not speaking out when an audience jeered a gay soldier during a September debate.
“Sister Souljah moment, you’re looking for,” Whitman explained Tuesday morning on CNN’s Starting Point. “President [Clinton] had that with Sister Souljah. Mitt Romney needs that.” Watch it:
Indeed, Romney has repeatedly refused to criticize the right-wing, ducking opportunities to condemn Rep. Michele Bachmann’s (R-MN) Islamophobic witch hunt against a Hillary Clinton aide and refusing to directly repudiate Donald Trump’s claims that President Obama was born in Kenya. He also wouldn’t decry Rush Limbaugh for calling Sandra Fluke a “slut” or speak outagainst social conservatives who opposed his decision to hire an openly-gay national security spokesperson.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney had some kind words for the influential conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh on Thursday during an interview with Time‘s Mark Halperin.
During the interview, Romney was asked if he thought the often controversial radio host had too much influence on the Republican Party.
“You know, Rush Limbaugh has an audience that speaks a very important voice [sic],” Romney said. “I don’t begrudge him the great success he’s had and the influence he has. Sometimes he’s agreed with me; sometimes disagreed with me. And, so I can only look with him, at him and say, ‘Congratulations, well done. You’ve built quite a following.’”
Limbaugh has accused Romney of not being a conservative because he supported an individual mandate for health care while governor of Massachusetts. Romney had also indicated he believed man-made climate change was a problem. He has since disavowed both positions.
Romney told Halperin people had the right to listen to whomever they wished.
“It doesn’t mean that I agree with those voices but I’m certainly not going to suggest to the American people that they turn off their radio and not listen to someone who I may or may not agree with,” he added. “By in large, Rush Limbaugh speaks a number of conservative principles that a lot of us agree with.”
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) — who previously said that he was open to considering DADT repeal if the military carefully studied the consequences of such a policy change — is nevertheless vocally opposed to lifting the ban after the military released its study indicating support for repeal. From the very first DADT hearing in February 2010 to today’s session, McCain has grumpily refused to consider the views of the witnesses before him. This morning — after reviewing the overwhelming positive DADT report and listening to the pleas of the leaders to end the policy in the lame duck session — McCain went further, openly implying that Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mike Mullen was not living up to the expectations of leadership because he did not ask the troops if they favored repealing the policy. Watch it:
The Wonk Room points out that all of the leaders in front of the commission — Mullen, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, and Working Group chairmen Defense Department General Counsel Jeh C. Johnson and Army Gen. Carter F. Ham — disagreed with McCain’s approach of polling the troops about the policy.
This past weekend, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) addressed a tea party rally in Arizona. Recall, during his primary campaign, many tea partiers opposed McCain and favored his opponent J.D. Hayworth. Speaking at the 2nd annual Tucson Tea Party rally Saturday, McCain was greeted with a warm reception. And he proceeded to compliment the right-wing base for “changing America.”
McCain also proudly celebrated the Republican accomplishments of obstructionism, borrowing a line from his former running mate Sarah Palin. “You know the President says that, quote, we’re the party of no,” McCain told the tea partiers. “ No, we’re not the ‘party of no.’ We’re the ‘party of hell no.’” In his opening remarks, McCain also thanked Fox News for its strong support of Republican causes, endorsing Fox as “the best place to get your news.” Watch it:
The Republican Party has a vested interest in the success of Fox News. The right-wing network has carried the party’s message for them and several of their commentators, and hosts are helping Republican candidates get elected. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) recently credited Fox for many of the tea party victories against establishment candidates. Republicans owe it to Fox to legitimize and perpetuate the tea party, so why not make a commercial for the network while you’re at it.
Each day, more and more high-profile Republicans are speaking out in support of repealing part of 14th amendment to prevent anyone who is born in the U.S. from automatically becoming a U.S. citizen. Sens. Lindsey Graham (SC), Jon Kyl (AZ), John McCain (AZ), Mitch McConnell (KY), Chuck Grassley (IA) and Jeff Sessions (AL) have all said they back hearings on the issue. However, Media Matters’ Jamison Foser noticed that on GOP.com, the website of the Republican National Committee, the Party brags about the passage of the 14th amendment in its “accomplishments” section:
By Andrea Nill
First Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), then Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ), now Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) is calling for congressional hearings on rescinding part of the 14th amendment to prevent anyone who is born in the U.S. from automatically becoming a U.S. citizen. The intention of such a radical move is to
block the American-born children of undocumented immigrants from becoming citizens. Politico reports:
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said Tuesday he supports GOP calls for congressional hearings into altering the Constitution’s 14th Amendment, which grants citizenship to children of illegal immigrants who are born in the United States.
“I support the concept of holding hearings,” McCain told reporters in the Capitol. [...] McCain, who helped lead the charge in 2007 for a comprehensive immigration bill with a pathway to citizenship for illegals, has taken an increasingly hard-line position on the issue as he faces a conservative primary challenger in a state that has become ground zero for the nation’s battle over immigration reform.
As Think Progress has repeatedly noted, the movement to repeal “birthright citizenship” was once limited to members of the extreme right-wing fringe of the Republican Party such as former Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO). In recent weeks, however, the idea has taken fire. In Arizona, SB-1070 sponsor and state Sen. Russell Pearce (R-AZ) plans to make legislation denying “birthright citizenship” to the children of immigrants his next pet project.
McCain’s own tacit endorsement is bridled with hypocrisy. McCain once fought for a path to legalization for undocumented immigrants, reasoning that we “will never be able to please the political extremists on either side of this issue [immigration].” In 2006, McCain even worried about would happen to the U.S. citizen children of undocumented immigrants if their parents were deported, stating:
What shall we do with these Americans — and they are Americans by virtue of their birth here — when we deport their parents? Shall we build a lot of new orphanages? Find adoptive parents for them? Deny their citizenship and ship them back, too? No, Mr. President, we’ll do none of these things.
Last week, McCain was still skirting questions on the 14th amendment, telling John King, “[m]y focus my right now is to get the surveillance, the people and the fences in there to get the border secure.” Apparently now, McCain is willing to embrace what he described as “the dislocation and agonizing moral dilemmas” presented by an enforcement-only policy that he once advocated against.
As sheriff of Oakland County, he has cut millions of dollars from his budget in the last three years, leading to disagreements with some of his unionized employees.
Still, they say, he has their respect.
Since joining the race for governor a year ago, he has advocated creating a part-time Legislature and bringing salaries and benefits of state employees in line with those of the private sector. He wants to privatize many state services to save money.
Those principles remain mainstays of his campaign speeches.
But there have been new wrinkles to his message as he has courted Tea Party activists: He wants an Arizona-style crackdown on illegal immigration and says he opposed federal rescues of General Motors and Chrysler.
"I think the Tea Party is your neighbor," he said.
Ask Bouchard what job he loves the most, and he answers quickly: "The one I have right now."
Law enforcement has been a touchstone of his professional life, from his days as a rookie cop with the Beverly Hills Police Department to his years in the 1990s as a state legislator focused on public-safety issues to his current job: Oakland County sheriff.
But for the second time in four years, Bouchard, 54, wants to try something else. He lost a U.S. Senate race in 2006, and this year is running for governor, believing he can help right Michigan's economy.
"I'm like many Michigan citizens who feel that somebody needs to step up and fix this with a sense of urgency," he said. "I know state policy and budgeting and the process, and it's broken."
Searching for his niche
Along with the urgency, Bouchard has personal charm, a blueprint on how to cut the state budget by millions of dollars and serious money for the race, according to campaign finance reports filed in January.
Still, in virtually every poll, Bouchard ranks third or fourth -- though still within striking distance -- among the five Republicans in the race.
"He's got to find a niche to break into this race," said Lansing political consultant Tom Shields.
Joe Schwarz, a colleague and fellow Republican when Bouchard served in the state Senate, said the Oakland County sheriff was well-liked by Republicans and Democrats. Schwarz is now an Independent.
Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson, another Republican, said Bouchard gets his support because he cut millions from his sheriff's budget without complaint.
"He has been a team player. I gave him a hell of a hit on his budget, and he didn't cry, he didn't squeal," Patterson said.
County Commissioner David Coulter, D-Ferndale, said he had to applaud the sheriff for the tough choices he made to cut his budget. Since 2008, the department has gone from 1,136 employees to 1,048 without layoffs, and the budget has been cut more than $13 million.
"He's very personable and more of a hands-on type sheriff," said Deputy Arnie Terrell, vice president of the county's Deputy Sheriff's Association. "He loves to hop on a Harley and ride with the guys."
Harsh words about Bouchard did come from Wolfgang Mueller, a Berkley attorney who represented a deputy fired from the department. The federal civil trial in March painted a picture of an out-of-control department, sprinkled with drunken deputies, scofflaws and sexual deviants.
"What I saw was atrocious. It would appear from the outside that it is a good old boys network," Mueller said.
Bouchard noted that the deputy lost her case, and in a department of more than 1,000 employees, the 1% who act inappropriately get all the attention.
"I'd fire them all, but the courts bring them back over our objections," he said.
Appealing to the Tea Party
Bouchard's strategy to win the Republican primary might make some longtime friends uncomfortable with its unapologetic appeal to the Tea Party movement.
He even joined a group of Tea Party supporters protesting the government's rescue of General Motors and Chrysler -- the only candidate for governor to show up for the event.
"I'm not a big believer of the government taking over business," he said. "I still don't like the way the bailout was structured. And whether it was successful remains to be seen."
Bouchard also wants Michigan to adopt a law similar to one passed this year in Arizona that is considered the nation's toughest on illegal immigration, giving law enforcement officials new authority to stop and demand papers from suspected illegal immigrants.
"We have 150,000 illegal immigrants in Michigan and more and more people on terror watch lists coming across the border," he said during a recent town hall gathering in Brooklyn, near Jackson. He listed three crimes committed by illegal immigrants since 1999. "We can pull you over on the street for just about anything and arrest you, unless you're an illegal," he said.
He rails against the federal health care reform bill and promises to fight federal mandates. He doesn't believe in mandatory seat-belt laws or the recently enacted state ban on smoking in workplaces, restaurants and bars.
"They've stepped on our basic freedoms," he told the small crowd in Brooklyn. "It's a real dumbing down of society."
He revels in those thorny views, saying it shows he won't kowtow to anyone.
"In the end, I walk the line of what I think is the right thing to do," he said.
Looking for an edge
And yet, Bouchard couldn't convince the group that he was their best choice.
"Give me a solid proposal that someone from the Tea Party would say, 'That's my guy,' " asked one audience member who declined to give his name.
Bouchard listed plans, but the man still hadn't made up his mind by the end of the forum.
Neither had Bob Elrod, Columbia Township supervisor.
"He's a task-oriented person who doesn't seem to be afraid of tackling the really tough issues," Elrod said. "I liked what I heard tonight, but I haven't made up my mind yet."
Shields, the political consultant, said Republicans move far to the right during the primary season.
"There's a contingent out there that is going to vote in a Republican primary for whoever is the most conservative person," he said. "And he's looking to get an edge with that voter."
So Bouchard keeps plugging away. Expect, he says, a flood of TV advertising as the primary approaches.
He predicts this headline on Aug. 4: "Bouchard wins in a close one."
M.C.L Comment: I rather be caught campaigning with George W. Bush than pandering to the bunch of misinformed old, fat,white and racist for a extra couple of votes.
By Alex Seitz-Wald
When Florida Gov. Charlie Crist (I) announced that he would leave the Republican party to run for the Senate as an independent, he indicated that he would be more free to support “ideas that I believe are good ideas for the people,” instead of just following “one club’s decision.” Indeed, after long supporting “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” Crist has announced that he is now in favor of the new comprise legislation, which would repeal the policy but allow the Pentagon to complete its study before the repeal is implemented. In a statement, Crist said the compromise will ensure that the new policy is “what is best for our military“:
“Ultimately, as in all military matters I defer to the Pentagon and to the Generals and what the Senate is doing today is giving them the ultimate authority to do what is best for our military. So, I would be inclined to support the Senate’s action on this.“
Crist has maintained a traditionally conservative record on LGBT issues, though there is some evidence to suggest he may adopt a more progressive stance now that he has been liberated from the Republican Party. He has said he is “fine” with civil unions, and in 2007, he asked the GOP to stop spending money promoting “a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage in Florida” in 2007.
M.C.L Comment: See what happens when you stop pandering to the nuts on the right..
By Amanda Terkel
If you’re straight and your husband or wife dies, you have the power to decide what to do with your loved one’s body and how to carry out their wishes. However, if you are a gay man or woman in Minnesota — a state that doesn’t recognize marriage equality — you won’t have that option, thanks to Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R). Explaining his veto of the bill, Pawlenty simply said there “is no actual need” to give same-sex couples equal end-of-life rights. From his official statement on Saturday:
The bill addresses the categories of individuals who under the law shall be given priority for purposes of determining the disposition of the remains of a deceased person. Currently a person can, by executing a will, designate who shall be empowered to control final disposition of his or her remains. The bill therefore addresses a nonexistent problem.
Marriage — defined as between a man and a woman — should remain elevated in our society a special level, as it traditionally has been. I oppose efforts to treat domestic relationships as the equivalent of traditional marriage. Accordingly, I am opposed to this bill.
Ann Kaner-Roth, executive director of LGBT advocacy group Project 515, responded that Pawlenty’s “comment that the proposed legislation is unnecessary shows he is out of step with the experiences of real Minnesotans. … The language in this bill reflects closely language already used by Minnesota’s leading businesses.” Additionally, a person in a heterosexual marriage is not required to have a living will in order for his or her spouse to carry out end-of-life wishes, so it’s unclear why one should be necessary for same-sex partners. The bill would also have given “surviving partners the right to sue those responsible should their partner be killed.”
As a new Center for American Progress report on the needs of LGBT elders finds, Minnesota is considered a “legal stranger” state, where “same-sex partners (or members of families of choice) in these states effectively have no chance to be designated as surrogate medical decision makers for their incapacitated partners/loved ones.” LGBT elders therefore generally need an advanced health care directive (AHD), which includes a living will and a health care power of attorney:
In practice, to protect themselves, LGBT elders must remember to carry their AHDs with them at all times — if an individual is rushed to the hospital without these documents, a loved one can still legally be denied access (see sidebar on page 40). Finally, problems may arise when an elder travels out of state, as one state may not always recognize the health care directive of another state.
Additionally, obtaining an AHD can be difficult, since many elders are unaware or do not have the means to secure one, and “medical providers and long-term care facilities often ignore or challenge the AHDs of LGBT people.” (HT: Joe Sudbay at AMERICAblog)
Update In Rhode Island last year, Gov. Donald Carcieri (R) vetoed a similar bill.
By Matt Corley
In the wake of President Obama’s nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan for the Supreme Court, one of the central lines of attack by conservatives has been to falsely claim that Kagan “banned” military recruiters from Harvard Law School when she was dean. In fact, Kagan briefly continued an existing policy of preventing the military from using the school’s Office of Career (OCS), but never barred recruiters from campus, allowing them to operate through the school’s Veterans Association during her entire tenure.
On his Fox News show last night, Sean Hannity repeated the myth, saying that Kagan tried to “kick off military recruiters from a college campus in this case Harvard.” When Hannity asked Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) for his reaction, McCain added a new falsehood to the right wing’s false Kagan narrative, suggesting that Harvard’s general policy on ROTC was a result of Kagan’s efforts:
HANNITY: Your reaction to her? Are you likely at this point to support, not support?
MCCAIN: Well, I’ll give the process a chance to work its way through. But I am still outraged. You know the members of the ROTC at Harvard had to go to MIT to do their training. Now here’s a school — the Harvard Law School can produce all of our Supreme Court justices, but Harvard will not allow recruiters to help young men and women serve their country in uniform.
Later in the interview, McCain repeated the contention that Kagan is somehow responsible for ROTC members at Harvard training at MIT. “I am deeply offended that a school that models itself as the finest in the nation, at least they claim that, would not allow recruiters to come on their campus and ROTC to be conducted on their campus,” said McCain. Watch it:
In 1969, Harvard did ask ROTC to leave campus, primarily out of opposition to the Vietnam war. But starting in 1971, “Harvard students have been allowed to enroll in the MIT ROTC program” and “Harvard course credit is given for ROTC-related courses that receive MIT credit.” The policy has changed over the years and Harvard “now allows the small number of its students who participate in the program at nearby MIT to be commissioned as officers in Harvard Yard upon graduation” and “allows cadets to include their ROTC affiliation in yearbooks.”
As part of the confirmation process for solicitor general, Kagan explained in response to a question by Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) that she had no input on Harvard’s ROTC policy:
• As dean of Harvard Law School, your decision to restrict military recruiters’ access to students was limited to career services. Does your personal opposition to the Solomon Amendment mean that you also support barring the ROTC from college campuses?
• As dean of the law school, did you ever express objection to the exclusion of the ROTC from Harvard?
Answer: As dean of Harvard Law School, I felt a responsibility to apply and defend the School’s longstanding nondiscrimination policy, which prohibits our Office of Career Services from assisting any organization (not just the military) that discriminates in employment. At the same time, I worked to ensure that military recruiters in fact had available an alternative and effective method of access to our students. My statements and actions defending the Law School’s general nondiscrimination policy did not sweep more broadly. The position I took does not entail a view on the exclusion of ROTC from college campuses, and I never expressed a position on the exclusion of ROTC from Harvard.
In a Wall Street Journal op-ed pushing back against right-wing claims that Kagan is “anti-military,” former Harvard Law School dean Robert Clark writes that “Outside observers may disagree with the moral and policy judgments made by those at Harvard Law School. But it would be very wrong to portray Elena Kagan as hostile to the U.S. military. Quite the opposite is true.” It’s even more wrong to use a policy with which she had nothing to do to paint her as anti-military, but that’s what McCain did on Hannity’s show last night.
By Amanda Terkel
In his attempt to portray himself as more right-wing than his far-right senatorial competitor J.D. Hayworth, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) put out a new ad this past weekend called “Complete The Danged Fence.” In it the ad, McCain is walking along the border in the southern Arizona town of Nogales, telling Sheriff Paul Babeu about his 10-point border security plan:
BABEU: We’re out-manned. Of all the illegals in America, more than half come through Arizona.
MCCAIN: Do we have the right plan?
BABEU: Plan’s perfect. You bring troops, state, county, and local law enforcement together.
MCCAIN: And complete the danged fence.
BABEU: It’ll work this time. Senator, you’re one of us.
Watch it:
There’s something wrong with McCain’s video: Nogales is in Santa Cruz County. Babeu, however, is from Pinal County, which is 115 miles north in central Arizona:
As Andrea Nill explains on the Wonk Room, “Chances are McCain didn’t feature a local border town police chief because that person probably would’ve told him his ten-point plan is a waste of manpower and resources.” Indeed, the assistant police chief in Nogales has said that they have not “witnessed any spillover violence from Mexico.” The Santa Cruz County sheriff has also said that the state’s new anti-immigration law — which McCain called a “good tool” — is downright racist.
Glenn Beck makes a habit out of shocking people... but not usually his colleagues at Fox News.
Following the arrest of a suspect in the failed Times Square bombing, Beck surprised the hosts of Fox & Friends Tuesday by saying, as a U.S. citizen, Faisal Shahzad should be Mirandized.
Once again, the argument over reading suspects their Miranda Rights has been polticized, even though the questioning of Shahzad really isn't so different than how most suspects are treated by the authorities. Until they are charged, police often question suspects before Mirandizing, and very few Republicans are actually advancing the notion that terrorist suspects should never be given lawyers.
However, on Tuesday, even John McCain seemed to disagree with Beck. "Don't give this guy his Miranda Rights until we find out what it's all about," the Arizona senator told Don Imus Tuesday. This led Comedy Central's Jon Stewart to note that even Glenn Beck was more "reasonable" than McCain.
Fox News' Brian Kilmeade started the day on Fox & Friends by recalling that the so-called "underwear bomber" was read his rights soon after being apprehended. "Remember the crotch bomber ended up being somebody that was talking immediately but he was injured, he was hurt. He had to be brought to the hospital but when they started sedating him, they said let's read him his rights and get him a lawyer," Kilmeade lamented.
Kilmeade called in to question any decision to afford the same rights to Shahzad. "Do you hold him as an enemy combatant. Do you not read him his rights because he's a naturalized citizen but he's indeed a threat. Clearly, if they got the right guy, clearly a threat to our well being as Americans?" he asked.
"Do you sit there and find a way to put additional pressure on him through our most sophisticated interrogators or do you read him his rights and say well, he's an American citizen, what do we do?" Kilmeade wondered.
"Exactly right," agreed Fox News' Steve Doocy.
Less than an hour later, Glenn Beck and Judge Andrew Napolitano joined Kilmeade and Doocy to discuss the arrest. "Will they spend enough time interrogating him?" asked Doocy. "That's what happened with the crotch bomber. They talk to him for 50 minutes and then they go show's over," said an exasperated Doocy.
"If he hasn't been Mirandized -- and I know this will upset a lot of people -- he will be Mirandized as soon as he sets foot in federal court this morning," Napolitano coolly explained.
"Here's the tension between the two sides. There's the natural desire on the part of the public and the government to know more about him. Are there other plotters out there? Who sent you? Who dispatched you? Who paid for this? There's also the oath to uphold the Constitution and the laws that says you have to give him his Miranda warning the minute he's in custody and the minute you ask him a question. Where they give him the Miranda warning between the moment of incarceration and the time he sets foot in court this morning is something we may never know," said Napolitano.
Beck seemed to agree. "He's a citizen of the United States so I say we uphold the law and the Constitution on citizens," said Beck.
Kilmeade quickly tried to correct Beck. "He's a threat to the country. That's different," he said.
Beck stood his ground. "So are a lot of citizens of the country. If you're a citizen you obey the law and follow the Constitution. He has all of the rights under the Constitution."
At the same time on the Fox Business Network, McCain was telling Don Imus that a Miranda warning would not be appropriate until the interrogation was finished.
"Obviously that would be a serious mistake...at least until we find out as much information we have," McCain said during an appearance on "Imus in the Morning" when asked whether the suspect, 30-year-old Faisal Shahzad, a naturalized American citizen from Pakistan.
"Don't give this guy his Miranda rights until we find out what it's all about," McCain added during an appearance on the Imus show, which is broadcast by the Fox Business Network.
MSNBC's Keith Olbermann blasted McCain Tuesday night. "You shame yourself in the eyes of American patriots," said Olbermann, "and in the eyes of your fellow veterans who sacrificed, and the honored dead who gave their lives to protect the freedoms and the laws you have today suggested should be optional."
Olbermann continued, "We also look back with horror at how a man who thinks America is some kind of brand name, who does not respect the laws and honor of this great nation, could have come so perilously close to becoming its leader."
McCain, once a darling of the media, also took some heat from Jon Stewart.
"I didn't want to do this, Senator, because I do still have a little love for you," said Stewart. "This next clip is going to hurt me as much as it is going to hurt you. Chuck, roll tape of someone being far more reasonable about reading the rights."
The Comedy Central host then sang the Broadway song "Memories" to pay tribute to the "old" McCain, before the 2008 race when he was considered more of a maverick and independent, and was viewed by many as holding more "reasonable" views.
This video is from Comedy Central's The Daily Show, broadcast April 28, 2010.
