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GRITtv: Kate Clinton: Drones, Crones and Oscars
It's drones, crones, Toyota, the Super Bowl, and one-line summaries of the ten (yes, ten!) Best Picture nominees for this year's Oscars in Kate Clinton's latest commentary.
GRITtv: Feb. 4, 2010
CBS has changed its longstanding policy of not allowing issue ads during the Super Bowl to accept an anti-choice advertisement from Focus on the Family, and women's groups are furious at the double standard: CBS still rejected an ad from a gay dating service. Jehmu Greene and the Women's Media Center are calling for CBS to pull the ad, and other groups have joined the protest. Meanwhile, Nona Willis Aronowitz has a new book, Girldrive: Criss-Crossing America, Redefining Feminism, aiming to find out what kind of feminism women around the country, and Shelby Knox came from a southern conservative background to become an activist for sex education. We ask them what feminism means now and whether we should be focused on women in the media or other issues. "Would President Obama speak at a prayer breakfast organized by the KKK? Would Jim Wallis and other 'progressive' Christians attend?" That's what Frank Schaeffer wants to know, asking why Obama can't seem to break with the tradition of the White House National Prayer Breakfast. Bill Withers is responsible for so many songs you know and love. ?Ain?t No Sunshine,? ?Lean On Me,? ?Lovely Day,? ?Grandma?s Hands,? and ?Just the Two of Us" are just some of his familiar recordings. Filmmakers Damani Baker and Alex Vlack created an intimate portrait of Withers years after fame transformed him from a working-class guy with a family to a star. In Still Bill, they talk to Withers and his friends and family, and they joined us in studio to tell the story behind the film. It's drones, crones, Toyota, the Super Bowl, and one-line summaries of the ten (yes, ten!) Best Picture nominees for this year's Oscars in Kate Clinton's latest commentary. South Florida's Raging Grannies have a little message for CBS over its Super Bowl ad policy. Tim Tebow isn't the only male pro athlete with an opinion on women's reproductive choices, it seems. Former Minnesota Vikings football player Sean James and former Olympic Gold Medalist Al Joyner (brother of Olympic track star Jackie Joyner-Kersee) speak up for women's choices in this video from our friends at RH Reality Check. New media and new technology are going to save the world, or at least the media, right? Well, our friends at Yo! TV headed down to the Girls in Tech Conference to talk to some of the women who are shaping tech now.
