When last week's story broke about the Clinton campaign's connection to the wretched Richard Mellon-Scaife, I flipped out. I tried to offer a more rational... [More]
April 1, 2008
Getting Ethnic?
I would have thought that at this point nothing that Chris Matthews says would surprise me. I would have thought that, but of course I... [More]
Magazine Covers
Over at Tapped, Dana Goldstein raises an interesting question: Turns out that Esquire's August 2007 cover featuring John Edwards was its worst seller of the... [More]
Praise the Gods!!!
Fafblog is back!!!... [More]
April 4, 2008
Milbank Gets It Right
Whenever Dana Milbank appears on MSNBC's Countdown, I cringe. There's something about the way the guy does analysis that just rubs me the wrong way.... [More]
April 5, 2008
Quote of the Day
Glenn Greenwald: Our nation's coddled, insulated journalist class reaches these conclusions about what Regular Folk think using the most self-referential, self-absorbed thought process imaginable. The... [More]
April 6, 2008
McCain Doesn't Get The Internet Either
20 years ago you could've gotten away with something like this. 20 years ago you were able to say one thing to one audience and... [More]
April 11, 2008
A Brief History of Fox News
Daily Show styled:... [More]
YouTube Sniping
For reasons that no one seems to understand, Bill Clinton decided to bring up Hillary's sniper story not once but twice today. In reaction, its... [More]
April 16, 2008
Elitism
This, from one of Andrew Sullivan's readers, is precisely the point I've been trying to make all week: On the 'elitist' debate: I've been amused... [More]
Tonight's Debate "Nothing But Republican Water-Carrying"
Even Jonah Goldberg recognizes that tonight's debate was ridiculous: I'm no leftwing blogger, but I can only imagine how furious they must be with the... [More]
April 17, 2008
Final Debate Thoughts
Greg Mitchell, editor of the industry trade paper Editor + Publisher, tears into ABC for last night's wretched debate: In perhaps the most embarrassing performance... [More]
April 18, 2008
Electability?
George Stephanopoulos defended his performance last night by suggesting that the questions during the first hour were all about "electability." Ed Kilgore has along reply... [More]
Quote of the Day
Chuck Todd: The left-wing blogosphere is MUCH more powerful than what you see on the right this cycle and it reminds us of the advantage... [More]
April 20, 2008
NYT: The Pentagon's Hidden Hand
When President Eisenhower warned the nation about the growing power of the Military-Industrial Complex, this is what he was talking about. I'm going to include... [More]
Reactions to the NYT Story
I'm going to update this post over the next few days with some of the best and/or most noteworthy responses to today's big NYT story.... [More]
April 22, 2008
Today's Must Read Story
Nice to see people are starting to dig into McCain's record. The Straight Talking, clean legislating myth is just that - a myth - and... [More]
Willie Horton Returns? Hardly.
Floyd Brown, the man who together with Lee Atwater created the infamous 1988 political ad that used race as a weapon against Dukakis, is apparently... [More]
The Blogs Heart Rachel Maddow...
...Because Rachel Maddow hearts the blogs. She just gave a shout out to "a guy named Atrios" in her closing comments on MSNBC. Go Duncan!... [More]
April 24, 2008
Fox News, Souljah Boy, and The Mailroom
Here's the original clip for those who missed it:... [More]
Muddled
Interesting. McCain has promised to bring "every pressure to bear" to stop that anti-Obama ad from running next week in NC, and word was earlier... [More]
Compare and Contrast
Joe Klein: More Bad News for Obama Jeremiah Wright is back, and unrepentant. Here's part of what he has to say for himself: The blowup... [More]
Some People Need To Stop Using Passive Voice
If David Broder truly is the "dean" of the Washington press corps, shouldn't he know better than to use the unattributed passive voice? In an... [More]
April 25, 2008
Headline + Caption of the Day
Dana Milbank: Iraq War Is Everyone Else's Fault, Feith Explains And underneath a photo of Feith giving a speech somewhere in 2002, this caption: Former... [More]
Obama To Take On FoxNews?
When I first read yesterday that Obama was planning a sit down with FoxNews, I have to admit that I was worried Obama had lost... [More]
Limbaugh: "Screw the world! Riot in Denver!"
I expect idiotic statements from the man, but still... calling for riots in a major American city? Isn't that an incitement to violence and therefore,... [More]
Such Honor! Such Virtue!
When the pundits and media pros wax poetic about Sen. McCain's honor and virtue, is this what they mean? Yes, the man would make a... [More]
April 26, 2008
Rev Wright On Bill Moyers' Journal
If you care at all about the intersection of religion and politics, this show was an absolute must-watch. I don't care what you thought about... [More]
April 28, 2008
Obama On Fox News
Lots of talk about Obama's appearance on Fox this weekend. One of Obama's advisors had promised on Friday that he was going there "to take... [More]
Strobe Light Journalism
John Edwards may have for the moment stepped off of the political stage, but his wife Elizabeth has done nothing of the sort. First she... [More]
Bubbles!
Roger Lowenstein's piece in this weekend's NY Times Magazine is one of the single best explanations I've yet read for how our nation's financial service... [More]
April 29, 2008
Obama's Sista Souljah Moment?
Obama: "What Rev. Wright said yesterday directly contradicts everything that I have done during my life. It contradicts how I was raised, and the setting... [More]
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