Brendan Nyhan

Twitter roundup

From my Twitter feed:
Congressional oversimplification alert: “We could cut unemployment in half… by reclaiming the jobs taken by illegal workers”
-New version of Fox News junk chart — Edward Tufte sheds another tear (part one in the series)
-Newsmax ruled out of Newsweek bidding — good news for journalism
-Bob Herbert goes Green Lantern in a column claiming Obama could have achieved vast liberal agenda if he’d only tried harder
-A new low: report on John Edwards dancing to Wreckx-N-Effect’s “Rump Shaker” with grad students
-Larry King’s TV show is ending, but he’s best via Twitter. Who can forget this? “Of all the muffins, corn is my favorite”
-See Mark Blumenthal and Charles Franklin on the desperate need for more transparency in polling