Memphis own Sun Studios is known as the birthplace of Rock and Roll where many legends such as Elvis, Johnny Cash, Howlin’ Wolf, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis among others recorded their first hits. Sun shines on at their very best as you will see in tonight’s videos from Eli ‘Paperboy’ Reed and the True Loves followed by Grace Potter and The Nocturnals.

Mr. Tedisco, the Republican who’s trying to get Sen. Gillibrand’s old seat, has a small problem. Not only is he polling way behind the Republican registration advantage in his district, it’s starting to look as if national Republicans want him to lose.

Yes, it’s another Stewart vs. Cramer post, and I apologize. I know that watching a witty, passionate guy call out the media for its feckless corporate cheerleading gets old real fast, but this was a revealing moment. Not just for what it said about CNBC and the financial news media, but for what it said about the Village of mainstream, conventional-wisdom-spouting, cocktail-weenie-gobbling reporters and pundits.

A number of people have pointed to EO 12333 in their discussions of whether or not Cheney’s assassination squads are legal. But that’s precisely the EO that we have reason to suspect got pixie dusted–or changed, without any public record of the change.

In the same way that political blogs push back against bad TradMed political reporting, financial blogs are beginning to do the same with regard to TradMed financial reporting. It make me wonder: will CNBC learn anything from their dissection last night?

Franken got to call his last witness yesterday, and tie up a few loose ends. Coleman got to squirm as a growing number of news outlets called into question his campaign’s data-handling practices. (Ironically, if Coleman’s people had still followed their old policy with regard to credit-card data, there wouldn’t have been any problems.)

Maybe you’re already sick of reading about Jon Stewart’s posterizing of CNBC’s Jim Cramer — but in case you’re not, Matt Yglesias makes a point that deserves echoing about the TV personalities GE Corp.-owned news media defend, and the ones they fire.

It’s worth thinking a bit about the General Electric Corporations news media properties more generally. They hired Phil Donahue, and then fired him when he had the highest ratings on the network because they didn’t like that he was against invading Iraq.

Thomas Clarke, who has been CEO of financial news website The Street has announced his departure “effective immediately.”

Clarke’s abrupt departure comes less than a day after The Daily Show aired tape of The Street’s co-founder, Jim Cramer, explaining in a Street.com webcast how he, as a hedge fund manager, manipulated value to serve some publicly traded companies and investors at the expense of others.

If you have just crawled out from

Citigroup analyst Deborah Weinswig was euphoric on February 19 about the future of WalMart stock, appearing on CNBC to say that it was the perfect stock for the economy right now. And indeed, she may be right. Sales for all stores open a year doubled analyst’s estimates and rose 5.1% in February.

The myth of the free market as distinct from the government has just crashed and imploded. So has the myth of Horatio Alger that one can ward off fear by just putting your head down and keeping government out of your hair. Government has not, even now, erected adequate boundaries vis a vis taxpayer money for the financial sector and the excesses of the financial sector have exploded Horatio Alger.