Killing the False Equivalency Both Sides Meme
Yesterday, Senator Jim DeMint, from the politically loopy state of South Carolina, announced that he intends to summarily block any senate legislation that he finds personally objectionable, regardless...
View ArticleArianna To Progressives Middle Class Obamas Not That Into You
Arianna appeared on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” Wednesday night to discuss Democrats running from their own party and platform in their reelection campaigns. President Barack Obama’s choice to...
View ArticleThe F Word Its the Economy Not the Bloggers
It seems odd to quote Bill Clinton when it’s Obama’s recycling of Clintonite politicians that has helped get us into this mess, but there it is. “It’s the economy, stupid.” Americans are angry with the...
View ArticleSoros Lewis and Other Big Donors Abandon Democrats for Progressives and Weed
Privately, the closed wallets of Democratic billionaires like George Soros and Peter Lewis is all that the poobahs of the DC fundraising world have been talking about for weeks. But now it’s hit the...
View ArticleWhy Liberals Dont Stand a Chance in the Corporate Media
Last March, when President Obama announced he was fast-tracking a bunch of deepwater oil leases mainstream media commentators told us what a politically sophisticated move it was. He was showing the...
View ArticleRepubs Winning Dems Whining
One day back when record stores still towered above the Earth, I was browsing at Virgin and ran into someone I’d fired from a company I used to run. Figuring bygones were by now bygones, I smiled and...
View ArticleJuan Williams Should Have Been Given a Choice NPR or Fox
As Juan Williams and the far right decry “censorship” and attempt to elevate his firing a campaign issue, the public should remember several key contexts: *First, it did seem abrupt and unfair that he...
View ArticleAlaskas Joe Miller I was an ass I was beyond stupid
U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller was at times stressed, paranoid and deceitful during his employment with the Fairbanks North Star Borough, according to records released under court order Tuesday...
View ArticleWHEN CUTTING OFF YOUR ARM IS THE SOLUTION
Vanity Fair sure knows how to mark an occasion. The magazine recently hosted an event at New York’s Museum of Modern Art to celebrate the film “127 Hours” starring James Franco and helmed by Danny...
View ArticleObama Restored Honor and Dignity to the White House Hes the Real Thing
Watching President Obama on Jon Stewart’s Daily Show last night reminded me of why I think so highly of him. In no particular order, my incomplete list of reasons includes the following: He takes the...
View ArticleMemo to the politicians cutting corporate taxes wont create jobs
To listen to the rhetoric that has stained so much of the 2010 campaign season, you’d think the biggest problems facing our nation are excessive government spending, workers’ pensions, and inadequate...
View ArticleWould you like an ODonnell with that Obama
bobster855</center Stop whining about the wildly eclectic nature of Tuesday's elections. This is all part of a design, intelligent or otherwise. When you open the cultural door to possibilities, you...
View ArticleToday Is the Day
This letter contains (almost) no criticisms of how the Democrats have brought this day of reckoning upon themselves. That — and where to go from here — will be the subject of tomorrow’s letter. Today,...
View ArticleOffice Holders Are Desperate 180 Years Before HuffPo Anne Royalls Wicked...
“Let no man sleep at his post. Remember, the office holders are desperate, wakeful and urgent.”-Anne Royall, Paul Pry, 1836 She would have skewered the rising Tea Party phenomenon with her...
View ArticleReporters for Sale Bring Back The Fairness Doctrine
The word that begins with “W” and ends with “E,” has been tossed around in this past unlamented campaign, as if prostitution was no longer one of the oldest and honorable endeavors. One such epithet...
View ArticleWho Will Head MSNBC if Comcast Takes Over
And Why That Poses an Even Bigger Threat to Keith Olbermann Keith Olbermann is back, and for his many fans, including the 300,000 who petitioned MSNBC to reinstate him, it would seem a return to form....
View ArticleCNNs Sanjay Gupta A Disturbing Conflict of Interest
FOX News compensated Juan Williams for guest appearances while he was still under the employ of NPR. I was impressed by how slick Williams orchestrated a double dip as guest commentator on a Republican...
View ArticleDefending Olbermann and Hannity
Is it possible to defend Keith Olbermann and Sean Hannity at the same time? Yes, if they agree on a common principle. And in this case, though they both may deny it, they should agree on this...
View ArticleIts Only Unethical When Its Called News
Imagine an entire 24-hour cable news network devoted to political causes. Many of their employees are future and former candidates for president, giving them a national platform to reach potential...
View ArticleHow Will We Know When American Television News Hits Rock Bottom
From the “Rally to Restore Sanity/Fear” to the hyperbolic ranting of Fox News to the MSNBC suspension of Keith Olbermann and its aftermath, American media have been in the midst of a maelstrom lately –...
View ArticleTop 10 List for 2010 Infrastructure
1. Top Huffington Post Blog Chris Matthews: “Infrastructure as Monument” 2. Top Presidential Speech President Obama: “Our Generation’s Sputnik Moment is Now” 3. Top Infrastructure Journalist Rachel...
View ArticleSatire is Very Serious
People understand comedy like they understand electricity. They utilize it, enjoy it, know it comes from somewhere – but fundamentally don’t know much about it. And judging by the reaction to The Daily...
View ArticleObamas Critics Owe Him a New Years FactBased Apology
The left of the left — at least as represented by some of its commentators hovering around the Democratic Party — has a choice: make a New Years’ resolution to rejoin the reality-based community, or...
View ArticleSam Stein Obama May Pick Bill Daley With An Eye Toward 2012 VIDEO
Sam Stein dropped by the “Rachel Maddow” show on Tuesday to talk with guest host Chris Hayes about a hot prospect for Barack Obama’s next chief of staff. According to Stein, Bill Daley could be the...
View ArticleWhy Roger Ailes Watches Fox News on Mute
“There are no parties that I want to go to, and I didn’t go to Columbia journalism school.” Those are Roger Ailes’ qualifications to be one of the most important people in media, according to Roger...
View ArticleLife Without Olbermann Feeling Left Out
I admit that I’ve been a fan of Keith Olbermann from his SportsCenter days on ESPN. I found his unique brand of sardonic humor a nice change from the rah-rah breathless blah, blah inane chat that used...
View ArticleSmall Government vs the Big A of Abortion
While Egyptian citizens are in the streets demanding more democracy, we — who apparently have all the democracy we need — are protesting not at all, as Republicans attempt to force radical...
View ArticleWisconsin Is Front Line of GOP War on Democrats So Where Are the National...
I wrote two weeks ago about how Gov. Scott Walker’s so-called budget repair bill was part of a larger Republican war on the working class. And the events of the last two weeks have backed that up....
View ArticleGov Walker and Charlie Sheen Let Us Now Praise Martin Sheen and His Work for...
Do the reckless anti-union machinations by Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker make him the Charlie Sheen of politics? If only celebrated actor Martin Sheen received the same media exposure as his troubled son...
View ArticleHuffPosts Amanda Terkel Discusses GOP Efforts To Restrict Union Rights On...
Amanda Terkel, Senior Politics Reporter at The Huffington Post, appeared Monday on ‘The Rachel Maddow Show’ to discuss new anti-union measures being proposed by Republicans in Congress. “They’re going...
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