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wolfowitz on charlie rose now
- bill 5-31-2007 7:05 am [link] [add a comment]

finally he says it. "this was always going to be a permanent war. sorry i didnt mention it sooner."


- bill 5-31-2007 3:12 am [link] [2 comments]



Jeff Cohen, the founder of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, argues that Fox, CNN, and MSNBC often fail to cover the most pressing stories.

In Cable News Confidential he argues that all too often, these major cable news channels fail to cover the most pressing stories.


- bill 5-28-2007 8:29 pm [link] [1 comment]

the cost of the war


- bill 5-23-2007 5:41 pm [link] [1 comment]

The whole article's worth reading, but that's the money shot. Something to think about the next time Ted Koppel (aka discredited Middle East "expert" Kenneth "Threatening Storm" Pollack's father-in-law) appears on your TV screen to tell you why we must bomb Iran.


- dave 5-17-2007 2:54 am [link] [1 comment]

Leading US conservative evangelist Rev Jerry Falwell has died in hospital in Virginia after being found unconscious in his office

- jim 5-15-2007 10:26 pm [link] [5 comments]

american-style freedom is on the march!

- dave 5-14-2007 7:36 pm [link] [add a comment]

gilliard not doing well.

- dave 5-13-2007 7:14 am [link] [add a comment]

somewhat humorous richardson campaign ad. if he were a detergent, i might wash my clothes with him! actually the blasts of music makes me think of a travelocity ad. maybe he needs a troll.
- dave 5-10-2007 4:15 pm [link] [add a comment]

gravelrama

- dave 5-10-2007 3:56 pm [link] [add a comment]

I've been against HIllary from the beginning, so this is no big news or anything, but still it has occured to me that the Republican field is really hurting her chances at getting the Democratic nomination.

Imagine if Bush had a really strong popular VP who was a clear heir apparent (I said "imagine.") Someone the Republican machine and the rank and file were really going to get behind in lock step. If this was the case Hillary might have an advantage in the primaries because she could say (although not this directly,) that she is the only coldly calculating Dem candidate who has the professional (think "hit man") team behind her to take on such a challenger in the general election. Like: "You might think I'm a cold hearted bitch who only cares about getting more power, but at least I can take the fight to them. If you want to get your ass kicked again just nominate some pussy like John Edwards or some pie in the sky big picture guy like Obama and watch what happens when they run up against the Republican juggernaut."

That might have been effective. But because the Republicans have fielded the three (or four, five, or six) stooges I think she has lost a lot of tactical ground.

Not sure that makes sense but thought I'd just blurt it out since I'm a little bored here.
- jim 5-09-2007 10:08 pm [link] [add a comment]

The War Nerd on "Who Won Iraq?"

- tom moody 5-06-2007 6:44 pm [link] [2 comments]

"Hillary Rodham Clinton, in a surprise move, will introduce legislation with Sen. Robert Byrd to revoke the war powers granted to Bush in October of 2002."

- dave 5-05-2007 4:38 am [link] [2 comments]

In a motion made public Thursday, May 3, city attorneys are demanding that the lawyers representing the 1,800 people who claim they were falsely arrested at the Republican National Convention swear under oath that they didn't leak confidential police documents — documents that the New York Times obtained to write a March story about the NYPD spying on political groups in the run-up to the 2004 convention.

Meanwhile, May 3's Wall Street Journal, reporter Judith Miller defends the NYPD after describing the same documents. And now the NYCLU has ripped off a letter to the judge overseeing the RNC-related lawsuits, claiming that the NYPD provided Miller the very documents the city is fighting so hard to keep secret.

- bill 5-04-2007 8:25 pm [link] [add a comment]

The New York Times today named its next public editor, Clark Hoyt, a former Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and editor who oversaw the Knight Ridder newspaper chain's coverage that questioned the Bush administration's case for the Iraq war.

- dave 5-04-2007 12:34 am [link] [add a comment]

yglesias at tnr in a rebuttal to the chait piece mentions the townhouse listserv which serves as a backchannel clearinghouse for the liberal netroots. he downplays its influence but i thought id note it here. as for smackdowns of chait check the usual suspects: digby, atrios, yglesias.

Townhouse is a by-invitation-only liberal listserv begun by blogger and Democratic campaign consultant Matt Stoller.

Participants agree to keep their information exchanges confidential or risk being removed from the private listserv. Townhouse provides the web equivalent of a political backroom where self-selected liberal bloggers including Glenn Greenwald, Markos Moulitsas and Atrios, leaders of liberal think tanks including Campaign for America's Future, liberal journalists and pundits, advocacy groups such as MoveOn, and Democratic campaign and PR consultants can all discuss and debate their common concerns, strategies and tactics.

An article on Salon.com reports "Townhouse began after the disastrous 2004 election, when young Democratic activists began meeting on Sundays for beers at Townhouse Tavern, a subterranean watering hole in Washington's Dupont Circle neighborhood. ... Here was the next generation of would-be D.C. power brokers, kids in their 20s and 30s who planned to mold the political future. At some point, Matt Stoller, the preppy enforcer of liberal blogging, helped organize the group into a formal e-mail list. ... Over time, the e-mail list and the Sunday afternoon boozefests grew. ... Through it all, Stoller controlled the membership. If you stayed in his graces, and met the group's qualifications, you got yourself a ticket to both the electronic and the alcoholic conversations. At all times, the whole enterprise was declared off the record, to be spoken of in hushed tones only with others who knew the proverbial secret handshake. ... the public introduction of Townhouse now presents the big-name bloggers and online activists with a transparency dilemma. On the one hand, bloggers like to talk of themselves as a democratic, grass-roots movement. (Moulitsas often conflates himself with the entire 'people-powered movement' in his blog posts.) On the other hand, the blogosphere boasts an emerging leadership elite, which is increasingly profiting on its insider status in both the Democratic Party and among one another." [1]


- dave 5-02-2007 6:11 pm [link] [2 comments]

this looks interesting but its behind the times select firewall :

In Nixon’s Tricks, Rove’s Roots

David Greenberg on how the Bush presidency grew from the soil of Nixon’s.

- bill 5-02-2007 6:07 pm [link] [2 comments]

they write letters...

- dave 5-02-2007 4:26 am [link] [add a comment]

because being a mormon wasnt creepy enough...

- dave 5-02-2007 2:36 am [link] [add a comment]

no shortage of us engineers, just excess of corporate greed.

- dave 5-01-2007 4:05 pm [link] [3 comments]

Happy Mission Accomplished Day!

Cue Applause!

- mark 5-01-2007 3:44 pm [link] [4 comments]

the scope of their treachery is boundless.

- dave 5-01-2007 7:01 am [link] [1 comment]

Tucked inside Frank Rich's Sunday column in the New York Times is indication that the newspaper will no longer play ball with the annual White House Correspondents Association dinners in Washington, which he calls "a crystallization of the press's failures in the post-9/11 era." He writes that the event "illustrates how easily a propaganda-driven White House can enlist the Washington news media in its shows....

- bill 4-30-2007 4:47 pm [link] [1 comment]






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