Month: August 2006
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My Time.com column on Nazi analogies
I have a new column up on Time.com about Nazi appeasement analogies, which I wrote about on The Horse’s Mouth earlier this week. Here’s how it begins: A well-known rule of Internet discourse is Godwin’s law, which states that, as an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches
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Horse’s Mouth posts for 8/31
Here are today’s posts on The Horse’s Mouth: –A “stay the course” timeline — how the White House bamboozled the Post; –RNC: It’s the media’s fault we’re losing — a GOP official blames the media for his party’s poor showing in the polls.
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Horse’s Mouth posts for 8/30
Here are yesterday’s posts on The Horse’s Mouth: –Krauthammer’s hack appeasement rhetoric — the Washington Post columnist compares a series of foreign policy crises over the last 17 years to appeasing Hitler; –George Allen’s post-“macaca” problem — how the Virginia senator’s comments set off a dynamic that may kill his presidential candidacy.
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Republican War on Science paperback
The paperback edition of Chris Mooney’s excellent book The Republican War on Science is out — go buy it! Here’s a quote from my review: “TRWOS takes a deeply reported and researched look at how conservatives are using PR to confuse debate over science and science policy on issues ranging from evolution to global warming
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Pence and Matthews elevate the discourse
Can our discourse really be this stupid? From the New York Times (via Henry Farrell): [Congressman Mike] Pence argued that tax cuts help the poor by revving the economy. That may eventually prove true, but despite large tax cuts the poverty rate has risen in each of the last four years. “That’s anecdotal,” Mr. Pence
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George Allen’s neo-Confederate ties
The Nation is on the case. And don’t miss my new Horse’s Mouth post about how he is in big trouble — “macaca” has set off a dynamic that may kill his presidential campaign…
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Horse’s Mouth posts for 8/29
Here are today’s Horse’s Mouth posts: –The strange economics of money-losing opinion magazines — a TNR reader survey designed to sell ads to lobbyists; –A turning point in coverage of Iraq-9/11 suggestions? — a Reuters story suggests that the press may start covering White House suggestions of an Iraq-9/11 link more critically.
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New post-“macaca” poll puts Allen behind
The latest Zogby/Wall Street Journal poll shows George Allen down a point to James Webb — yet another sign of the shifting post-“macaca” landscape in Virginia. The futures markets have bumped the probability of an Allen victory against Webb down from 85+ to around 75 percent: However, Allen ’08 futures are holding steady in the
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Horse’s Mouth posts for 8/28
Here are the two posts I put up today over at The Horse’s Mouth: –The state of progressive media criticism — the failures of FAIR, why Media Matters is better, and why we need a conservative counterpart to it –Time promotes outlier poll on Hillary — why the magazine’s poll showing her only two points
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Guest-blogging starts today
A reminder — my guest-blogging at The Horse’s Mouth begins today. Greg Sargent just put up a post introducing me. I’ll try to post links to my THM posts each night, but I hope you’ll read the site directly while I’m over there.