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Another White House crime. Will the pundits yawn again?

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Remember Travelgate? It was a big scandal in the Clinton years. The Clinton’s were accused of having done something to members of the White House travel office. It was never quite clear what they had done, but it provided endless grist for the media mill and a thorough Congressional investigation. What a difference a few […]

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Typical

Sunday, January 13, 2008

Today the Public Editor of the Times does what he does best, cover for the Times, if only half heartedly. This time for it’s choice of Bill Kristol as a columnist. Subtitle on the RSS Feed: Is hiring William Kristol the worst idea ever? I can think of many worse. So could I. The overriding […]

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Your liberal Media

Saturday, January 12, 2008

Must reading at Media Matters. Chris Matthews has serious problems.

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Hillary, take 2

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

As I’ve said before, I am not a Hillary fan, but my problem is her policy positions, not her personality. But despite the fact that I’d probably prefer Obama or Edwards, I must say I’m taking mucho satisfaction from her surprise victory Tuesday. There are many ways to interpret it, but at least one, which […]

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New Hampshire

Tuesday, January 8, 2008

As I write this, Hillary appears to be ahead in New Hampshire, with enough precincts reporting to make it look like she may win the whole thing. Talk about being of two minds about something. She’s not my choice for president, but I do think she’s been done dirty by the press, and it should […]

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Chris Powell: Excepting Chris, Joe’s critics are bigots

Tuesday, January 1, 2008

This morning’s Day ran a very curious column by Chris Powell, entitled Hatred of Jews Poisons Criticism of Lieberman. The argument in a nutshell is as follows. Lieberman is indeed a slimy liar who, among other sins Powell enumerates, misled the electorate in the last campaign. However, many of those (but apparently not Powell) who […]

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The New York Times wonders how we got to this point

Monday, December 31, 2007

The New York Times takes the White House to task this morning for its systematic assault on the Constitution: There are too many moments these days when we cannot recognize our country. Sunday was one of them, as we read the account in The Times of how men in some of the most trusted posts […]

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I demand a column in the New York Times

Friday, December 28, 2007

The newspaper of record is about to hire Bill Kristol to regularly ooze political poison on its op-ed page.. Is it too much to ask that the Times at least try to hire people who know what they’re talking about? Here, I set Maureen Dowd to the side, as her columns are all really about […]

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A moral dilemma

Friday, December 21, 2007

My wife and I watch almost no television. We have replaced the Daily Show/Colbert with Keith Olbermann since the writer’s strike. The Simpsons completes our weekly viewing. The TV itself is almost never turned on- I use my Mac as a Tivo, and I edit out the commercials. Since we are rapidly approaching old geezerdom, […]

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Fact free zones

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

According to the press no politician, particularly a Democratic politician, ever does something because it’s the right thing to do. Many of us believe that Chris Dodd saved the Constitution, at least temporarily, yesterday, but the AP knows best: While his Democratic rivals campaigned in Iowa and New Hampshire, Sen. Christopher Dodd took to the […]

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