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Category Archives: Media

Debate reaction

If nothing else, I had a good time while I watched the VP debate. Groton Democrats gathered to watch at the NY Deli, which is right next door to our headquarters. Once again they remained open so we could watch the debate together. The food is good, by the way, so if you’re in the […]

Both sideism actually seems to favor one side!

I haven’t posted much recently. One of the reasons is that it seems like everything going down is so obvious that anyone with an ounce of intelligence can figure it out for themselves. I could also argue that my duties as the treasurer of the Groton Democrats during this most important election since 1860 take […]

Time to attack

It’s not often that I disagree with digby over at Hullabaloo, but this is one of those times. She has a post recounting the many times the New York Times has committed journalistic malpractice when it comes to Donald Trump. I don’t argue with the main thrust of the post, which is quite good, but […]

Rant of the Day

I don’t have a television, and even if I did I doubt that I’d spend much time watching the television “news” shows, but I think my general impression is correct. The more of a whackjob you are as a Congressperson, the more chance you have of getting yourself on television. Latest example I’ve run across […]

They don’t know much about history, but they still get to write it

Scott Lemieux, over at Lawyers, Guns and Money, notes that some in the media have now started to both sides the insurrection. The headline of the piece to which he links reads: One attack, two interpretations: Biden and Trump both make the Jan. 6 riot a political rallying cry. The text he excerpts from the […]

Dean Baker calls out the media

I’m a big Dean Baker fan, but sometimes he just doesn’t get it. Take this post, in which he complains as follows: It may not qualify as “The Big Lie,” but the media feel the need to constantly claim that young people can no longer afford to buy homes. The latest salvo is the Washington […]

An oft ranted rant in the liberal blogosphere

You can’t spend much time on the left wing blogosphere without running into a rant like that which follows, but I’m going to do it anyway. It has become increasingly obvious that Donald Trump’s mental illness has become more extreme, exacerbated, no doubt, by oncoming senility. I have not kept up a database of the […]

Movie Review

Last Night my wife and I, along with some friends, went to see Barbie. I can honestly say that it was the best movie we’ve gone to in years. I can also honestly say it was the worst move we’ve gone to in years, since it was the first movie we’ve gone to in years. […]

Something missing from the White House cocaine reporting

I should start this by saying that I haven’t read everything out there about the cocaine discovered in the White House, but what I have read leaves me wondering: why isn’t the most obvious possible source of the cocaine being bandied about, rather than focusing on Hunter Biden or Joe? The cocaine was found in […]

Emptywheel documents the atrocities

This is, in my opinion, a must read near diatribe by emptywheel. It is a fact that much of the non-Fox media has been complicit in helping to legitimize Republican propaganda by passing it on without putting it in what should be an obvious context. In the linked post she demonstrates how much of the […]