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More false equivalency

Monday, October 27, 2008

From the Times: With heavy voter turnout expected on Election Day, both parties are amassing thousands and thousands of lawyers to keep an eye on the polls. Senator Barack Obama’s campaign is expected to send at least 5,000 lawyers to Florida alone. The first recruitment e-mail message the campaign sent out nationally received 6,000 responses […]

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Apparently I was wrong

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

This would be embarrassing, if it was not so satisfying. Yesterday, I opined that the Sarah Palin wardrobe story would sink from sight. Apparently, I was wrong, as I am reliably informed that it dominated the morning talk shows, at least. That means, if I understand the rules of cable news at all, that it […]

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Shorter Maureen Dowd

Monday, September 29, 2008

Barack Obama lost the debate because he didn’t spew snark like I would have done. Except, Maureen, he won.

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Brutal

Friday, September 26, 2008

McClatchy is the successor to the Knight Ridder papers, which was the only major news organization with an ounce of skepticism toward the Iraq War when it was being marketed. In fact, its skepticism could be measured in pounds, while the major papers were enabling the propaganda effort. Given that background, I’m not terribly surprised […]

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Upside down

Thursday, September 11, 2008

This is not the way it’s supposed to work. Local newspeople are supposed to be in awe of presidential candidates and are supposed to toss softballs. National newspeople are supposed to be the fearsome interlocutors. Check out John McCain’s lame responses to fairly aggressive questions from a newsman on WCSH in Portland, Maine. Note, by […]

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Contrast and compare

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Over at Americablog, John Aravosis writes (I quote in full): It’s time for someone in the media to ask who this cynical liar is running for president under John McCain’s name, because he’s not John McCain. Actually, it is John McCain. He is now, and never has, been any different than any other Republican. In […]

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Divided?

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

The press has been playing up “divisions” in a Democratic Party that has, perhaps, never been more united. The idea that there is a vast reservoir of former Clinton supporters that will support McCain has always been somewhat ludicrous. The number of Clintonites who vote for McCain will likely be swamped by the number of […]

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The Times notices Suskind

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

It is only fair that I note after two posts on the subject (here and here) that the New York Times has finally covered Ron Suskind’s book, The Way of the World. Not on the news page, but in the form of a book review. If the Times news department had doubts about the book’s […]

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Video Press Releases

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

More from your liberal media. I don’t watch much television, and of course we’re not in a swing state, so I haven’t seen this in action, but this post at The Washington Monthly is entirely and depressingly believable. John McCain doesn’t actually have to pay to run his ads on television. The networks take care […]

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A brief follow up

Sunday, August 24, 2008

Just before I left for Vermont I noted in a post that the New York Times had failed to even mention Ron Suskind’s book, The Way of the World, or his charges that, among other things, the Bush-Cheneyites ordered the CIA to forge documents implicating Iraq in the events of 9/11. While perusing the Times […]

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