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Local grifter suffers another setback

Sunday, March 6, 2016

Local Grifter John Scott, who has represented John Scott in the legislature for the past year or so, suffered yet another setback recently. I reported back in January of 2015 that John, an insurance agent who had a contract with UConn to sell health insurance to students, had selflessly (or is that selfishly?) proposed a […]

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Say, what?!?!

Tuesday, March 1, 2016

I have been getting most of my news for more than 15 years now by cruising the net, rather than relying on newspapers. I remember reading Matt Yglesias in those very early days, and he always seemed like a guy who had his head screwed on right. Not so much, anymore, at least judging by […]

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The limits of our discourse

Monday, January 25, 2016

One of the better news sources out there is Consortium News, which gives an informed but dissenting view on current affairs, primarily focusing on foreign policy. The reporters know their stuff. When I read their pieces, I call to mind the few voices that dissented from the Iraq invasion that were allowed on traditional media; […]

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Bernie should count his blessings

Friday, December 11, 2015

An analysis of network television news coverage reveals what supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders have long suspected; the three broadcast television networks are intentionally ignoring the Sanders campaign. Eric Boehlert of Media Matters has the revealing details: So in terms of stand-alone campaign stories this year, it’s been 234 minutes for Trump, compared to 10 […]

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Lindsey won’t be silenced, more’s the pity

Thursday, November 12, 2015

There are times when I feel like beating dead horses, mostly because there are very few live horses left to beat. So, let us return to a recurring theme: media “balance”. If future historians ever spend time watching old television news shows, they will surely wonder why so much TV time was devoted to getting […]

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Lying liars, but IOKIYAR

Thursday, October 29, 2015

Those of us who survived the 2000 election recall the determined efforts of the media to paint Al Gore as a serial liar. Although he never said he invented the internet, they repeatedly claimed that he had, and cast him as a liar. There were other examples, most of them equally specious. But it became […]

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A simple question goes unasked

Friday, September 4, 2015

As I write, so far as I know, Kim Davis continues to rot in jail, and deservedly so. Throughout the debate over her claim that she gets to opt out of doing her job, and in the process impose her religious views on others, one salient point, has gone largely unremarked, so far as I […]

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Village to Trump: You’re not welcome here

Friday, September 4, 2015

This brings back memories: Megyn Kelly might be getting a bit of a break from being Donald Trump’s main nemesis, because he was just kind of roasted by a bunch of foreign policy questions from conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt. At one point, Hewitt asked Trump if he was familiar with “General  Soleimani” and the […]

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A case for Obviousman

Sunday, July 19, 2015

If you read the comic strip Non Sequitur you are no doubt familiar with the Superhero who makes occasional appearances in the strip. Obviousman’s super power consists in the ability to spot the obvious. This may not seem like much of a superpower, but he’s got something over today’s media, that’s for sure. He could […]

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Asymmetrical false equivalency

Thursday, May 28, 2015

Today, at Hullabaloo, digby posts perhaps the 1 billionth blog post by a leftish blogger pointing out that the mainstream media (by which I mainly mean the Beltway media) has sacrificed truth to a false objectivity by claiming, against all the evidence, that the parties share equal blame for the dysfunction of the present American […]

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