Media
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Obama in Beltway MSM Echo Chamber
Greenwald (see 1st update) today about Joe Klein’s post about honeymoon being over for Obama . We’ll see if Obama will be more resistant to becoming what the punditocracy says he is no matter what he really is. Obama’s vocal opposition to the rotted cynicism that plagues our political discourse and drives our dysfunctional Beltway
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Inquiring Minds Want to Know
Robert Parry: When historians sort out what happened to the United States at the start of the 21st Century, one of the mysteries may be why the national press corps ganged up like school-yard bullies against a well-qualified Democratic presidential candidate while giving his dimwitted Republican opponent virtually a free pass. How could major news
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Repudiation of the American Right
It ain’t gonna happen so long as MSM outlets like Time prop up the fantasy that Ronald Reagan was an admirable president. Americans who buy into this fantasy fail to understand that the mess we’re in now is the direct result of movement conservatives in the Reagan mold having taken over the levers of power
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The Clintons and the Truth
Bob Somerby at The Daily Howler is doing a very important job of pointing out how the Beltway courtiers, otherwise known as the media, give Americans a profoundly distorted picture of the historical truth. He’s done a convincing job of showing how most of what we think we know about Al Gore is just wrong
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The Case of Andrew Sullivan
I was interested to see Slate’s Robert Wright and Andrew Sullivan in this diavlog. The formerly hawkish Sullivan recants his previous support of the war. Apparently he explains why in some detail in his book, The Conservative Soul: How We Lost It, How to Get It Back, which I have only read the reviews of.
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Greenfield: It Was Just a Joke
Lighten up. No, I don’t think so. Digby explains why better than I: We have found, among many other things, that there is an obsession among the press corps with a very peculiar form of gender stereotypes which they affix to the political parties. This may be a function of what seems to be their
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Obama Getting Gored
Have you seen this? It’s Jeff Greenfield reporting on the Blitzer show: . . . But, in the case of Obama, he may be walking around with a sartorial time bomb. Ask yourself, is there any other major public figure who dresses the way he does? Why, yes. It is Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who,
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What You Won’t Read in the Liberal Media
Terror Arrests Bolster Democratic Case Against Bush Democrats seized yesterday on the arrests of terrorism suspects in England to bolster their case against the Bush administration and the GOP leadership in Congress heading into the midterm elections, arguing that the terror plot showed that the administration’s homeland security policies were woefully inadequate and that the
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Keeping the Media in Line
I’ve been amused by the right wing campaign to vilify the now stodgy NY Times for its "treasonous" act of disclosing the Bush administration’s secret bank records monitoring program. "We’re in a war against terrorists, goddam it. How dare the NY Times undermine the war effort," goes this line of thinking. Since terrorists will be