Month: January 2007
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Hagel joins third party hype
Hotline On Call notes Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, the latest subject of third party presidential hype, floated the idea during an interview with the Washington Post: Hagel said in a wide-ranging interview this week that he is discussing his options with his family and other confidants and will make a decision in the next six
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The pilotless drone rant
Via the Freakonomics blog, here’s a hilarious recording (MP3 audio) of a reader ranting about redundant language in a San Francisco Chronicle subhed. Definitely worth a listen — I’ve already played it twice. Update 1/30 6:51 AM: Don’t miss the remix.
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Beck denounces NPR report
Glenn Beck denounced the NPR report I criticized last night as “a hatchet piece” on his syndicated radio show this morning and claimed his comments were taken out of context. The NPR story suggested Beck was criticizing Limbaugh without explaining his own controversial statements — and now Beck is alleging that it did so under
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NYT repeats error on Kerry’s botched joke
Yesterday, the New York Times made the same silly error in describing John Kerry’s notorious botched joke about Iraq that it made back in November, even using the same exact language. In turn, the editors ran a correction that mirrors the last one almost word for word: NYT article by Kate Zernike, 11/2 (now corrected
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NPR whitewashes Glenn Beck’s extremism
David Folkenflik, a usually excellent media reporter, aired a story today on NPR about Rush Limbaugh that bizarrely juxtaposed Limbaugh’s rhetorical extremism with the putative moderation of Glenn Beck: LIMBAUGH: There’s a whole psychology of doing a program the way I do it. FOLKENFLIK: And that often involves barbs aimed directly at liberals. Some feminist
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Social mobility isn’t a matter of faith
Prof. Arthur C. Brooks of Sycracuse has an annoying op-ed in the Wall Street Journal today that frames different beliefs in social mobility as a matter of values: While just about everybody — left and right — agrees that poverty is unacceptable … conservatives do not share liberals’ concern about income inequality. According to the
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CW recognizing Bush is weak
Conventional wisdom is finally catching up with political reality — here’s today’s Hotline: Dems (with the glaring exception of Jim Webb) appeared to sense they gained little ground by kicking the spectacularly weak president while he was already flat on his back. Tell us what you really think!
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Kerry won’t run for president
Kerry isn’t running: Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, the Democrats’ losing presidential candidate in 2004, does not intend to run again in 2008, a Democratic official said Wednesday. This official said Kerry intends to seek a new six-year term in the Senate. Kerry plans to disclose his political plans in remarks on the Senate floor
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Shales doesn’t listen to Bush
Shouldn’t critics listen to the president’s words? One of my fellow grad students here at Duke alerted me to Tom Shales’ column on the speech in the Washington Post, which states that Bush “congratulated ‘the Democratic majority’ that he was facing en masse for the first time.” But as Josh Marshall noted last night, Bush
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More ethics charges in Duke lacrosse case
The hammer comes down again on the Durham DA: Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong has been charged with new ethics violations for his conduct on the Duke Lacrosse sex assault case. The North Carolina Bar today filed an amended complaint accusing Nifong of withholding DNA evidence from the defense and making misrepresentations to the