Month: April 2007
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White House: We don’t question patriotism
Via Josh Marshall, White House spokesperson Dana Perino claimed during today’s White House briefing that no one in the administration has questioned Democrats’ patriotism: Q Can the President say both that he does not question the patriotism of Democrats, but their actions aid the enemy? MS. PERINO: I think that I want to take a
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Jerry Bowyer’s misleading media bias claim
Time for what Brad DeLong calls “intellectual garbage pickup” at National Review Online. In a column today on NRO Financial, Jerry Bowyer, a conservative columnist/radio host/investment adviser, blames media bias for the lack of coverage of current levels of black unemployment under President Bush: Each year the National Urban League releases a report called “The
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Treason rhetoric roundup
In the last few days, there have been a slew of accusations or insinuations of treason in the debate over US foreign policy and the war in Iraq, continuing the pattern of attacks on dissent since 9/11. Rush Limbaugh, who once accused former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle of having “chosen to align himself with
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TAP touts Kos endorsement
Back in September, I wrote this about the leverage that liberal blogs have over opinion magazines like The American Prospect, which pressured me to only criticize conservatives: One important factor shaping TAP’s decision may have been the popularity of Democratic bloggers like Atrios, who pump out a stream of pre-filtered news and commentary. Before the
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The Cheney approval fallacy
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who has been in a war of words with Vice President Cheney over his statement that the war in Iraq is “lost,” recently made this crack: Mr. Reid said he was not going to engage in a tit-for-tat with the vice president. “I’m not going to get into a name-calling
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Frontline’s “News War”
I was sent the DVD and transcript to Frontline’s “News War” series. I have to say I was underwhelmed reading the transcripts. If you’ve followed the news closely over the last few years, there are few revelations. But it might still be worth watching if you want an overview. Here’s a summary of the four
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Reviewing NYT coverage of Duke lacrosse
Sadly (but not surprisingly), the Duke Chronicle has done a better job than Times public editor Byron Calame of explaining what went wrong with the NYT’s coverage of the case. Like most of his Calame’s work, his criticisms are narrow, guarded, and often pedantic. How long until this guy retires again? (See Slate’s Jack Shafer
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My disembodied voice at Dartmouth panel
Ann Althouse posted video from the Dartmouth blog panel shot with her laptop camera — you can hear (but not see) what I said about the Tim Kaine/eyebrow story being picked up by the Columbus Dispatch starting at 0:41 of the clip:
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The ironic Center for American Progress
The Progress Report subject line in today’s email (PDF): “Credebility Lost” (sic). Yes indeed.
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Rodgers pregnancy story a sign of progress
It’s kind of neat that the AP story the New York Times ran yesterday about the pregnancy of Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), who will become just the fifth woman to give birth while serving in Congress, pays no heed to the timeline of when, exactly, she got pregnant. Rogers married in August and her