Month: June 2005
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Tom Tomorrow on a Coulterized world
A week or two ago, I decried what Newsmax described as Bill O’Reilly’s “fantasy” about terrorists beheading Michael Kinsley: This is the Coulter-ization of political discourse. It’s not normal — or acceptable — to “joke” about the murder of your political opponents. When will we cast these people out of public life? The often brilliant
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Why third-party candidates don’t win: Mickey Kaus rebuttal edition
Slate’s Mickey Kaus didn’t like my post criticizing his claim that John McCain can win the presidency as a third-party candidate: Backfill: Ron Brownstein’s made the McCain/Perot point before. I’ve blogged Brownstein before. And Brendan Nyhan’s unconvincingly and condescendingly attacked Brownstein before. Nyhan does it again today. His big argument is Duverger’s Law, which says
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Bill says Hillary shouldn’t make a pledge
Bill Clinton, who broke his pledge to serve a full term as governor in Arkansas so he could run for president, argued on Larry King Wednesday night that Hillary shouldn’t have to make the same type of pledge in her re-election campaign. Why? Well, because she might have to break it: [Mr. Clinton] said Mrs.
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Lazy journalism alert: Laura M. Holson edition
Ben Fritz, my friend and former Spinsanity collaborator, has a great post on his blog about this New York Times article on the alleged decline in the movie business: There are two major problems with this piece: 1. The problem it identifies doesn’t really exist (and to the extend that it does, it hardly matters)