Month: October 2007
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Marshall/TPM mislead on Thompson & WMD
Continuing a troubling pattern of unsupported claims, Josh Marshall and his burgeoning media empire are falsely accusing GOP presidential candidate Fred Thompson of suggesting Iraq had WMD at the time of the US invasion. In an October 1 post on his main blog, Talking Points Memo, Marshall touted a new post on TPM Election Central:
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Ron Fournier watch: Obama’s leadership
The AP’s Ron Fournier has returned from his failed Hotsoup venture to write strange “analysis” articles for the news service, including one titled “Is Edwards Real or a Phony?” and another titled “Obama Presidency a ‘Stretch’ for Voters.” The latest installment in the “Do Democrats Suck?” series is titled “Obama a ‘Courageous Leader’?” Nobody can
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Deborah Solomon is harsh… and misleading
I’ve blogged several times about Deborah Solomon’s uncomfortably harsh questions for interview subjects in the New York Times Magazine. It turns out that some of those questions were never asked — indeed, public editor Clark Hoyt reveals today that the print version of the interview is fundamentally misleading: WHEN you read Deborah Solomon’s “Questions For”
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The Klein-Sullivan fight
The squabble taking place between Ezra Klein and Andrew Sullivan is truly bizarre. In his latest post, Sullivan bashes Klein for writing the following about NYT/IHT columnist Roger Cohen: Roger Cohen may feel like he is a liberal hawk, and thus distinct. But what Roger Cohen feels does not matter, because Roger Cohen does not
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The Gail Collins quiz
Yes, the former editor of the Times editorial page wasted an entire column on a wacky campaign quiz. Hilarious stuff.
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WSJ throws Frost mob overboard
How misguided was the Internet mob that smeared the Frost family, whose 12-year-old son delivered the Democratic radio address on SCHIP, as undeserving? Even the Wall Street Journal editorial board calls the Frosts “just the sort of family that a modest Schip is supposed to help”: Unfortunately, that narrative was bolstered this week by some
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Hillary brings back stem cell “ban” rhetoric
My friend Chris Mooney is right to praise Hillary Clinton for promising to stop the politicization of science if she’s elected president. But as Chris points out, the document promoting her plan repeatedly uses the misleading phrase “ban” to describe President Bush’s stem cell policy before clarifying that Bush’s policy only limits federally funded research.
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Hillary’s mythical “centrist… coalition”
From the Department of Implausible Claims: Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton pushed back against criticism from fellow Democrats that she is too polarizing to unite the country as president, arguing that the political battles she has been through make her uniquely equipped to bring the nation together and build a centrist governing coalition. By this logic,
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The “Bush boom” in full swing
The “Bush boom” touted by National Review Online “expert” Jerry Bowyer is kicking in: New data shows that after adjusting for inflation, 95 percent of Americans reported smaller incomes to the tax man in 2005 than in 2000. Despite this, all Americans had more in their pockets as a result of the Bush tax cuts,
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The wages of moderation
Angry liberals frequently suggest that I criticize both sides to make money. For instance, Eric Alterman published a letter in which a reader said my “pox-on-both-your-housesism … pays the rent.” Tell that to my bank account! The truth is almost exactly the opposite. If Spinsanity had been partisan, we might have gotten Media Matters dollars.