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Dartmouth panel report
The panel went, well, fine. It was surprisingly non-controversial. Talking about how and why people blog sometimes feels like navel-gazing to me, but the audience seemed interested and my fellow panelists were all very friendly. Most importantly, I did manage to work in one of the highlights of my blog career — a silly post
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Heading to Dartmouth
Tomorrow morning I head north for the panel on blogs at Dartmouth that I mentioned a couple of weeks ago — hope you’ll stop by if you’re in the area: “Mass Communication for the Masses: The Power of Weblogs” THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 2007 4:30 PM – 3 Rockefeller Hall Panelists will share their thoughts on
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Hillary Clinton: Not so electable in 2008
I’ve been blogging about Hillary Clinton’s weak general election prospects for a couple of years. But I never expected her to tank this early. Check out these numbers: As the early stage of the race for president heats up, support for Sen. Hillary Clinton appears to be cooling. A majority of Americans now have an
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Obama’s strained Virginia Tech metaphor
Let me join Mickey Kaus and Isaac Chotiner in hating on Barack Obama’s strained attempt to link the massacre at Virginia Tech to other kinds of “violence” such as Don Imus’s racial slur: Obama said the killings were “the act of a madman on some level,” and later noted “maybe nothing could have been done
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Jon Chait on Ari Fleischer’s latest
Do not miss Jon Chait’s latest takedown of Ari Fleischer, “the world’s most dishonest flack.” It opens beautifully: Ari Fleischer has an op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal. That’s right: It’s the perfect storm of dishonesty–the world’s most dishonest flack meets the world’s most dishonest forum. How long will I have to read through the
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Blog dystopia: Matt Stoller v. Power Line
Here’s an exchange between liberal netroots guru Matt Stoller and Power Line’s Paul Mirengoff that will make reasonable people fear for the future of democracy. In a post on the MyDD blog, Stoller asserts that “if you hate democracy, as the right-wing does, then taxes are the price for paying for something you really don’t
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Ezra Klein gives Fox News a bum rap
Ezra Klein is too smart to be writing posts like this: The new Pew Poll on public knowledge of current affairs includes the sadly routine finding that Fox News is doing a remarkable amount of nothing for its viewing audience. Subjected to 35 questions about the news, regular viewers of Fox scored directly in the
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Imus firing not about “free speech”
The claim that the firing of Don Imus has something to do with “free speech” is making me crazy. Let’s review what the First Amendment actually says: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the
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Tucker Carlson’s new game show
What’s going on with Tucker Carlson? The conservative pundit, who was nice enough to blurb All the President’s Spin, is following up his appearance on “Dancing with the Stars” by hosting a game show: Conservative pundit-turned-MSNBC anchor Tucker Carlson is launching yet another new career: gameshow host. Carlson has been tapped to host “Do You
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Travel day
Just got in to Chicago for the annual conference of the Midwest Political Science Association…