Okay for me but not for thee
During political campaigns I’ve often heard one side imply that his or her opponent’s spin is an out-and-out lie, but when his own side does it it’s just a different way of looking at things. It’s a...
View ArticleDon’t believe the spin
Jonathan Chait: In recent days, the vibe emanating from Mitt Romney’s campaign has grown downright giddy. Despite a lack of any evident positive momentum over the last week — indeed, in the face of a...
View ArticleWaiting room TV etiquette
I went down to a local tire emporium this afternoon to get the car inspected and price RunFlat tires for the Mini. I think I’ve got a slow leak in one of these tires, and if they ever were under...
View ArticleIn case you missed it
Rachel Maddow’s closing monologue from her Wednesday night program, the one that begins: Ohio really did go to the president last night. And he really did win. And he really was born in Hawaii. And he...
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Despite all the adulation heaped on generals and admirals by a press corps which knows next-to-nothing about the military, ask anyone who’s spent any time in the service or working for the service as a...
View ArticleCri de coeur?
Oh boy, does this ever ring true. It’s an epistle to the Corinthians political press from one of their own. Mainstream media outlets don’t want to look partisan, so they ignore the BS hidden in plain...
View ArticleThe Republican Party in all its splendor
So the Prez is gonna give his State of the Union address this evening, and in the audience as an invited guest of a crazed Republican legislator named Steve Stockman, who hails from the Houston...
View Article“Call me . . . irresponsible”
The Huffington Post commits journalism; world applauds. It’s done several video mashups of national Republicans scorning the effects of the sequester and local TV news outlets detailing just what the...
View ArticleNew opinions, now improved!
What’s happened to all those media hawks who beat the drums for the Iraq War ten years ago? Mostly, they’re still gainfully employed and, most annoyingly to me, still trotted out as though they have...
View ArticleI can tell you why!
Every Sunday CNN’s “Your Money” airs at 9:00AM HST, and it fits a hole in our TV-watching schedule (I think Mom likes Ali Velshi’s sense of humor, too). Today the host was talking to a panel of guests...
View ArticleWhat the ever-loving hell?
Sometimes I am so shocked and dismayed about a US Government policy that I feel I should write long essays chastising the President, Congress, the courts, or whoever formulated the policy. What usually...
View ArticleMSM journalist sees truth, speaks it
It’s a rare day when a well-regarded network journalist points out that the Republican party and its elected members of Congress have gone beyond opposing the party in power and have deliberately...
View ArticleOh come on, ABC, think of the children
Barbara Walters’ program “The View” has just hired former Playmate of the Year and failed TV comedian Jenny McCarthy to replace the departing Elizabeth Hasselbeck. This is a terrible choice, not so...
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On the cover of the Rolling Stone
There are times I think many of this country’s citizens need to grow up, and this outcry toward Rolling Stone for putting a photo of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on its cover which...
View ArticleNothing important today
Lessee, other than Major League Baseball suspending thirteen players for performance-enhancing drugs and one of them appealing, Jeff Bezos of Amazon buying The Washington Post, nineteen embassies and...
View ArticleMedia sellouts?
Charlie Pierce notices this little item in Politico: Sponsored by TransCanada, who sees North America’s whole energy picture.TransCanada invests billions in renewables, and is ready to build the...
View ArticleThe unasked question
During the 1:42 this segment lasts, neither Bob Schieffer nor John Miller asked the obvious question: What right did the British security agency have to detain Glenn Greenwald’s partner David Miranda...
View ArticleAn honest opinion
From “This Week” on ABC yesterday during a discussion of the March on Washington comes the following exchange: DONNA BRAZILE: And to have witnessed the amount of change I’ve seen in my 50 plus years,...
View ArticleWould this work?
If you go back to newspapers from the early years of the 20th century and read the sports pages, you’ll often find the local team’s opponents referred to as representatives of the city in which they...
View ArticleShorter “60 Minutes”
“How dare that man tell us a story we didn’t bother to corroborate with his employers? Instead, we went with his story and it’s now blown up in our faces. “We been done wrong!” Well, no. You did wrong....
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