Brendan Nyhan

Twitter roundup

From my Twitter feed:
Previous votes on reconciliation by Senate Republicans
-Media Matters catches the Washington Post repeating the “death panel” myth without debunking it
-Ignore the latest edition of the useless Natl. Journal rankings — see my previous posts here,
here, and
here
Via Michael Crowley, US training of Afghan legal officials includes showing them scenes from “My Cousin Vinny” — I expect an APB for “two utes” from Kabul any day now
-Via Henry Farrell, a pie chart you’re unlikely to see in USA Today any time soon
Dispatches from the world’s greatest deliberative body: “[Senator] Bunning … shot the middle finger over his head”
-Birtherism as a factual wedge issue within the GOP