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Daily Archives: April 29th, 2008

Distractions continue

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

I mentioned a couple of days ago that my kids were visiting this weekend, so I wasn’t paying attention to the Jeremiah Wright 24/7 coverage. Apparently a Clinton supporter unleashed the man onto the national stage and the press, as is its wont, dutifully engaged in the pack journalism that is the hallmark of our […]

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AP accepts Republican spin as gospel

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

We liberals are often frustrated by the refusal of the press to call the Republicans or the right when they out and out lie. No claim they make is absurd enough to warrant anything other than “on the one hand, on the other hand” type of coverage. Not to worry, that type of coverage is […]

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Vote suppressors vindicate vote suppressors

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Eight years ago the Supreme Court ruled that one man’s right to equal protection was more important than the votes of the mass of voters in Florida, or at least the ones that weren’t counted. They would claim, I’m sure, that the fact that the man in question was George Bush was purely coincidental. Since […]

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