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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
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Joe Biden: Everything is GOP’s fault
Via Jason Zengerle at The Plank, Joe Biden is blaming Republicans for, well, just about everything: I would argue, since 1994 with the Gingrich revolution, just take a look at Iraq, Venezuela, Katrina, what’s gone down at Virginia Tech, Darfur, Imus. Take a look. This didn’t happen accidentally, all these things. You can argue that
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Pete Hoekstra: Not so bright
My nomination for the most inane response to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s statement that he believes the war in Iraq is “lost”: Representative Peter Hoekstra, a Michigan Republican, said: “If Harry Reid believes that this war is lost, where is his plan to win this war?” What part of “lost” does Hoekstra not understand?
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Misleading report on Dartmouth blog panel
I didn’t think what I said during the Dartmouth blog panel was hard to parse, but the Manchester Union-Leader managed to completely screw it up. First, here’s the Dartmouth newspaper’s report, which is accurate: Brendan Nyhan, who started the non-partisan blog Spinsanity, disagreed that much had changed. “There is really a paradox to blogging,” Nyhan
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Fred Thompson: Supply-sider
How do you know Fred Thompson is going to run for president? Like Rudy Giuliani and John McCain, Thompson is endorsing the false claim that tax cuts increase revenue. Check out how many times he hits the talking point in this Wall Street Journal op-ed (italics mine): The results of the experiment that began when
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Rove: Osama started the war in Iraq
Via Ezra Klein and Think Progress, Karl Rove tried to resuscitate the old tactic of associating the Iraq war with 9/11 in Ohio yesterday. Luckily, the Akron Beacon Journal gave him the smackdown: In a question-and-answer period after his speech, Rove was asked whose idea it was to start a pre-emptive war in Iraq. “I
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Giuliani: Divine guidance in Bush election
Did you remember that Rudy Giuliani said in December 2001 that “there was some divine guidance in the president being elected”? I didn’t. Guess it’s time to add him to the long list of people who lost their minds after 9/11…