Month: September 2006
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Duke lacrosse: NYT on Gottlieb memo
I’ve been remiss in failing to link to Stuart Taylor’s Slate takedown of the recent New York Times article hyping the prosecution’s side of the Duke lacrosse case (which Steve Verdon pointed out in a comment on my post about the article). Here are the money grafs: The Wilson-Glater piece highlights every superficially incriminating piece
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Horse’s Mouth posts for 9/11
Here are my posts on The Horse’s Mouth yesterday: –An experiment in Times corrections –Sloppy New York Times errors
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Horse’s Mouth posts for 9/10
Here are my posts on The Horse’s Mouth yesterday: –Longest disclaimer ever –Twisting criticism of “The Path to 9/11” –David Brooks needs wonk assistance
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Horse’s Mouth posts for 9/7-9/8
Here are my posts from The Horse’s Mouth on Thursday and Friday: –MRC protests changes to inaccurate 9/11 docudrama –Limbaugh calls war critics unpatriotic –The pros and cons of Times Select –Rauch uses Coulter as baseline for partisanship –Typo alert –ABC’s “Path to 9/11” teaching material promotes Iraq WMD misperception
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Why is Duke linking the Iraq war to 9/11?
Duke University (where I’m a graduate student) is holding a series of events commemorating the fifth anniversary of 9/11 that includes two movies about the war in Iraq: The following events, which are all free and open to the public, will be held at Duke University to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11
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Revenue is good
As you may have noticed, I added some revenue-raising features to the site over the weekend in an effort to offset my hosting and service costs. There’s now a tipjar for donations as well as ads from Google and Kanoodle. All contributions and clickthroughs are appreciated!
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Tim Rutten on appeasement rhetoric
I want to note that Los Angeles Times columnist Tim Rutten also wrote a long column on appeasement rhetoric. It’s worth reading, although Rutten reverses the sequence of speeches (Cheney at VFW, Rumsfeld at the American Legion, Bush at the American Legion) by quoting Cheney and Bush and then stating that they “set the board
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Horse’s Mouth posts for 9/6
Here are my posts on The Horse’s Mouth today: –MRC: Accuracy is relative — the conservative watchdog plays off the inaccuracies of “The Path to 9/11” by suggesting that they are less than “Fahrenheit 9/11”; –Bogus tax cut statistics again — the Wall Street Journal exaggerates the benefits of the Bush tax cuts.
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Horse’s Mouth posts for 9/5
Here are my posts on The Horse’s Mouth: –The Bush playbook keeps working — the parallels between a 2001 controversy over a statement by John Ashcroft and the recent controversy over Donald Rumsfeld’s speech to the American Legion; –The launch of Pollster.com — a new site should help to raise the quality of polling information
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Horse’s Mouth post for 9/3
Here’s yesterday’s post at The Horse’s Mouth: –The Post crumples again — for the second time in a week, DC’s paper of record disregards its own reporting and reprints administration spin.