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Fox News: "Historians Pretty Much Agree" That FDR Prolonged the Great Depression
I appeared on Fox News yesterday to discuss both the Blagojevich flap and the imminent economic recovery package from the Obama administration. You can watch the clip here. As you'll see, on that latter issue, Fox News is starting...
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Let Them Die a Painful Death
I am deep into my next book proposal(s) and am therefore struggling mightily with the English language. Writing is a death match between the writer and the word - and the trick is to not let your own laziness get...
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The Braindead Megaphone Meets Presidentialism Meets Celebrification
Millions of Americans are on the brink of economic ruin, there's a health care crisis, two wars rage overseas, and here's what the Washington Post opts to put on its front page this week: During his political rise, Obama safeguarded...
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Study Shows "Center-Right Nation" Narrative Spiked Immediately After Election Day
When I wrote my first column about the "center-right nation" and subsequently launched the "Center-Right Nation Watch" series on this blog I predicted that the news media would actually increase its usage of this term after Obama won. I...
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Newsweek & The Media's Own Innocent Bystander Fable
As anyone who has read my columns, blog posts or book knows, I have a mild obsession with the Innocent Bystander Fable - the one whereby political actors pretend they have no power or even minor role in the arenas...
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"Team of Rivals" Or Rival Team?
A quick lexicographic note: Seems to me the term "Team of Rivals" is the new euphemism for "bipartisanship," which unto itself has always been a synonym for "buypartisanship" (ie. bipartisan corporatism) and "Broderism" (the principle, championed by Washington Post columnist...
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Is This Really the Purpose of "Progressive" Media?
I, like some other progressives, tend to find the American Prospect a good magazine, but one that, of late, seems to take a wee bit too much pleasure in needling the progressive movement outside of Washington, D.C. In that way,...
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Elite Media Voices Begin Making Our Arguments
Having been one of millions of progressives who have been out in the wilderness for so long, it's hard to believe I can write this, but I can: It seems the demands for rejecting the "center-right nation" meme, accepting the...
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"Center-Right Nation" Watch - Obama Was Elected Specifically to Stop the Left From Ruining America
Digby, in her incisive way, shows how the media are creating the myth that Barack Obama was elected specifically to stop the Left from ruining America. That's his mandate - and if you and 65 million other Obama voters don't...
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"Center-Right Nation" Watch - Doug Schoen Edition
Doug Schoen is the DLC-affiliated pollster for Republicans like Mike Bloomberg - the guy who bashes progressive organizations from the right, the genius strategist who makes his name on perpetually telling Democrats to capitulate to Republicans on major issues (Think...
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"Center-Right Nation" Watch
In my newspaper column this week, I noted that the term "center-right nation" is now the word du jour for the elite media and Punditburo. We are being told that no matter how big a progressive landslide Tuesday may bring,...
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Howard Fineman Joins the Village Freakout
Surprise, surprise - Howard Fineman joins fellow Newsweeker John Meacham, Wall Street Journal sycophant Peggy Noonan and other elders of the Elite Media Village in freaking out about an Obama presidency and how it might actually mean real change: This...
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The Village Freakout Continues
Last week, Newsweek's John Meacham sounded the alarm for the media/political Village, insisting that even if Barack Obama wins in a landslide over while being tarred and feathered as a socialist, America is still a country whose electorate is to...
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Discussing Media Bias and Media Elitism
I was on a panel about media bias and media elitism at the CNN Time-Warner Political Summit today with, among others, CNN's Howie Kurtz and former CBS anchor Dan Rather. Watch it here: Live video by Ustream...
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Memo to ABC News...
Here's a screen shot of ABC News' front page today. Memo to producers over there: You may want to have more than one woman on your panel of five commentators when talking about "The Female Vote."...
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What Does Presidentialism Look Like?
I've gotten some email today about my column in the Denver Post about the concept of "presidentialism" - ie. the obsession with presidential election politics to the exclusion of all else. People are asking me whether presidentialism is as...
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We're All Part of the Problem
If the Founding Fathers could see us all now, they would be appalled. As America has been trained to treat the presidency as a royal throne, we have stomped all over the very anti-royalist revolution that brought this nation into...
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Proof That Good Things Can Happen to Good People
MSNBC just announced that Rachel Maddow is getting her own cable show. This is proof that even in today's cynical world, good things can happen to good people. Rachel Maddow is good people, and she deserves it....
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Fortune Magazine's Cover Model As "Enduring Voice for Working-Class Americans"
Despite long advocacy for job-killing trade policies, voting for the bankruptcy bill, surrounding herself with Wall Street insiders, and appearing on the cover of Fortune magazine as Big Business's candidate, Hillary Clinton is now being refashioned by our elite media...
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"Reporting"
This dispatch from the Chicago Sun-Times Lynn Sweet should be printed out and posted in every journalism school in America as proof positive that the craft once known as "reporting" is about as obsolete as the horse and buggy. When...
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Is It Really So Difficult to Do Actual Reporting?
Michael Gerson's column suggesting Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter for vice-president is the latest example of someone paid to report the facts actually refusing to do 5 minutes of work to, ya know, report the facts. The basis for Gerson's support...
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Lou Dobbs & the Double-Edged Sword of Populism
Last week, I appeared on CNN's Lou Dobbs tonight to discuss the economic meltdown and the political fallout that will come from it. You can watch the clip here: This clip shows the good side of Dobbs - the side...
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The Mustache of Incoherence
Tom Friedman is known as the Mustache of Understanding for his pedantic, arrogant style - but, when you read Glenn Greenwald's piece this morning, you realize that's a misnomer. Tom Friedman is not the Mustache of Understanding - he is...
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Wealthy Fox News Pundits Laugh At Working Class America
You have to see this to believe it....
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The State of American Journalism, Part II
So yesterday the Associated Press tells us that Barack Obama's basketball habits are an important national issue, and now we find out that Fox News is telling folks that Abe Lincoln debated an emancipated slave....
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The State of American Political Journalism
A war raging, an economy collapsing and the Associated Press's lead political reporter thinks the big story of the day is Barack Obama's jump shot. There really are no words to describe how out of touch the national political press...
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Chris Matthews vs. Jimmy McNulty
The "controversy" over Barack Obama's "bitter" comments was a media creation from start to finish - a brouhaha manufactured by very wealthy reporters and pundits who do anything they can to ignore, reject or otherwise downplay the very real...
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The Two Most Out of Touch Human Beings In America
I submit to you that the two most out of touch elitists in America are Chris Matthews and Hillary Clinton. Here's Matthews in the New York Times profile about him: "I don't think people look at me as the establishment,...
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"Middle America"
Here's Hugh Hewitt's definition of "middle America."...
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Chris Matthews Says Blacks Aren't "Regular People"
On Hardball, Chris Matthews said black people aren't "regular people. This is absolutely unbelievable. More unbelievable is that this man continues to be given a regular nightly slot on television....
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Does the Wright Controversy Prove Wright's Underlying Thesis?
The controversy over Barack Obama's former pastor, Jeremiah Wright, is one about racism, and the question about whether racism really is pervasive in this country anymore. Beyond the tone and caustic phrasing of Wright's words (which, like Obama, I find...
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The "Expertise" of Fareed Zakaria - And the Idiocy of Elite Propaganda
Fareed Zakaria, as his Newsweek biography is happy to tell you, is a Very Important Person looked to as an "expert" on international issues. Somehow, he retains this billing despite advocating for the worst foreign policy disaster in a generation,...
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Time Magazine Urges McCain to Label Obama a "Manchurian Candidate"
I don't care who you are for in this race - this is simply sickening. For those who don't feel like clicking the link, Time magazine's top political analyst Mark Halperin has posted a piece giving his advice to John...
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Story About Pundits Tells the Real Story
It's always funny when a media story about the media tells the story the media doesn't want told. Exhibit A this morning is this piece from the Washington Post, cheering on network news bureau decisions to substitute more punditry for...
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Wash Post Attacks Fair Traders
Dean Baker has the scoop on the extremist editorial page of the Washington Post....
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Bill Bennett and the Lack of Media Ethics
More proof that Bill Bennett has a flexible relationship with basic media ethics....
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MLK III and Caroline Kennedy: Why the Different Treatment?
I was watching CNN on Saturday and the broadcast was broken into by a "breaking news" graphic letting the world know that Caroline Kennedy was going to write an op-ed saying nice things about Barack Obama. This "breaking news" was...
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Wrong Again, Bill
Bill O'Reilly once again makes himself look like an insensitive and inaccurate ass....
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Our Rigged Media
Watch this YouTube video, and then read this AP story. John Edwards gets literally shut out of media coverage, while Hillary Clinton can get onto the national AP wire for talking into an airplane microphone....
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The Difference Between Reporting & Vapid Punditry
We've got a good example this morning of how there really is a difference between good political analysis and empty punditry....
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Establishment Attacks Obama For Being "Establishment" Candidate
This Associated Press story, and the attack by Bill Clinton, is truly hard to read without laughing. Bill Clinton - the face of the Establishment - is claiming Barack Obama is the Establishment candidate. He is further claiming that his...
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Wash Post's Gerson Exposes His Uglier Biases
Here's former Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson writing about Barack Obama in the Washington Post: Obama also defended the use of inspiring words and rhetoric against Clinton's charge that words matter little in comparison to experience...Obama is an impressive carrier of...
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Olbermann Asks Precisely the Correct Question
As usual, Keith Olbermann asks exactly the right question to indict the media: Olbermann: Again, specifically to your campaign, with all respects to my colleagues on our coverage last night, and I said this a couple of times during it,...
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The Unethical "Entrance Polls"
Watching CNN tonight, I am struck by how journalistically unethical it is for this network to be trumpeting so-called "entrance polls" (aka. scattered polls of people walking into the caucuses) - at the very moment the Iowa caucus voting is...
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Gauging the Fear Inside the Palace Walls
A pretty reliable gauge of Establishment fear is how far away from factual reality its chief spokesmen stray at election time. With economic populism now driving both the Democratic and Republican presidential contests, professional political pontificators in Washington are attacking...
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Sky Is Blue...Joe Klein Lies Again...News At 11
Joe Klein - who Glenn Greenwald has shown to be one of the most irresponsible journalists in contemporary American history - lays another egg: "NAFTA has been a wash, creating as many jobs as have been lost." According to government...
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Does C-SPAN Give the Right Disproportionate Air Time?
That's what the Center on Economic and Policy Research says....
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Imitation Is the Sincerest Form of Flattery
When I read a column like E.J. Dionne's today, I have to remind myself that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Dionne basically rewrites my column from a few weeks ago - deciding to address the Huckabee/populism issue now...
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Can We Restore the Public's Confidence In Government?
In my new nationally syndicated column out today, I explore the root cause of America's anger at our federal government and the growing embrace of conspiracy theories - trends displayed in recent Scripps Howard/Ohio University studies. It is not just...
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Cillizza on Lieberman: Telling Moments In Punditry
The Washington Post's Chris Cillizza makes this claim about Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman: While Lieberman has grown less and less popular within Democratic ranks, he remains a respected figure among moderate and unaligned voters. Cillizza, true to form, offers not...
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Peter Beinart As Cautionary Tale In Journalism History
Just eight months ago, PBS's Bill Moyers aired perhaps the single most devastating indictment of the Washington press corps that I have ever seen. In his documentary, which looked at how the media cheered on President Bush's push for a...
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Brooks, Beinart & the Propaganda Machine Exposed
Editor & Publisher shows how neocons David Brooks and Peter Beinart are - once again - trying to spin all things Iraq. How these two buffoons are still published by major newspapers is truly difficult to fathom....
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"Exhibit A For What's Wrong With the Craft Today"
Glenn Greenwald has the ugly details. Journalist Dan Gilmor of the University of California at Berkeley calls Klein's behavior "one of the most amazing episodes in modern American journalism" and says the Time columnist "may become Exhibit A for what's...
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Mark Halperin: All That Is Soulless And Wrong With D.C. Politics
The only thing more absurd than Mark Halperin bemoaning the media's vapid, gossip/horserace culture is Dr. James Naismith complaining that people play basketball. See here for what I mean. To paraphrase Office Space, Halperin really represents all that is soulless...
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Joe Klein As Example of the Rotting Corpse of Journalism
Glenn Greenwald explains....
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"You People Are Really Nuts"
In yet another media-created gossip story that is both factually untrue and pathetically unimportant, our Serious Political Press Corps tried to create a controversy over whether Hillary Clinton left a tip at a restaurant in Iowa (Clinton did, in fact,...
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How Far Will the Media Go to Hide Corruption?
This far....
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Poll: Most Americans Oppose FCC Move to Allow More Consolidation
With the FCC considering a plan to loosen media-ownership rules and allow more media consolidation, we get this from Radio Ink: WASHINGTON -- October 31, 2007: Most people favor keeping the broadcast-newspaper cross-ownership ban, according to a new poll from...
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Endorsing Irresponsible Journalism
David Broder's Washington Post column today about Barack Obama's campaign had this very telling nugget: "The speech that [Obama] delivered at DePaul University here was as serious a discussion of the lessons of Iraq and the future of American foreign...
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Obama Camp Feigns Outrage, Distracting From Obama's Vote to Allow Loan Sharking
The Obama campaign is attacking the Washington Post's Harold Meyerson for saying that Obama voted for the credit card industry-written Bankruptcy Bill in 2005, which is not true. Obama voted against the final bill. However, Obama did, in fact, vote...
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Santorum Becomes Columnist; How Can Newspapers Complain?
Let's see...Newspapers like the Philadelphia Inquirer are complaining that they are losing readership. Philadelphia is an overwhelmingly Democratic city. And yet, here is the announcement from the Philadelphia Inquirer, as reported by Editor & Publisher. The excerpt: Former Sen. Rick...
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Tom Friedman's Chauffered World
I guess it isn't surprising that billionaire Tom Friedman has a hard time understanding that most Americans don't live in the world of chauffered transportation, and that, in fact, most New Yorkers live in the world of public transportation. Yes,...
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"Democratic Pandering to the Middle Class"
George Will complains that Democrats are supposedly "pandering" to the middle class - the vast majority of America. Really, that sounds just awful. How dare Democrats try to please most Americans. The nerve of them......
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Professional Bloviator Attacks Bloviation
This is your daily eipsode of "It Can Only Happen In Washington, D.C."...
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OpenColumnist - Asking for Input From Readers
As many of you know, I have just started writing a nationally syndicated weekly newspaper column through Creators Syndicate. From the beginning, I set out to make this column different from the typical inside-the-Beltway, divorced-from-everyday-reality bromides that fill our media...
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The Biggest Vote You've Never Heard About Is Happening This Sunday
Back in 2005, our Congress trampled the majority of Americans who opposed the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) and passed the pact with the strong backing of K Street lobbyists. This was a victory of the Money Party over...
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Now, Officially, I've Seen It All
Ok, now I really have seen it all. Here is Grand Junction Sentinel political reporter Mike Saccone saying that condemning attacks on American troops will alienate conservative voters. He goes on to say that the best way for a Democrat...
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Jon Stewart Dunks On Chris Matthews
Something to brighten your day - watch the whole thing:...
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"Moderation" = Extremist Refusal to End the War
Roll Call's headline today blares "House Centrists Seek a Little Moderation on Iraq." The story is about "a small band of moderate House Democrats and Republicans is hammering out a bipartisan position on the Iraq War." This story has been...
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The Lessons of Today's Stunning Lieberman Poll
According to a new poll released today by the nonpartisan firm Research 2000, if Connecticut's 2006 Senate general election happened today, Ned Lamont would defeat Sen. Joe Lieberman handily. What is of particular significance in the numbers is that the...
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Does A Line Even Exist?
Apparently, the Los Angeles Times is giving a platform to conservative Doug Bandow. Beyond the "fair and balanced" nature of conservative Bandow "debating" conservative Hugh Hewitt is the question of whether, as a conservative, there is anything at all you...
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NEW REPORT: Major Conservative Slant In Syndicated Columns
As many of you know, my new weekly national Creators Syndicate column will be starting this week (the first one should be out on the web on Thursday - past column samples can be found here). In light of that,...
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The Innocent Bystander Fable Goes Into Overdrive
The Washington Post is the latest Establishment media organ to push what I have called the Innocent Bystander Fable (memorialized in this YouTube video) - the myth that Democrats have no power to stop the war, despite controlling both...
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Angry Conservatives Cry When Progressives Punch Back
T-minus 37 days until my book deadline - but I couldn't help but take a quick second to point this out today. It's just too funny, really. The conservative movement is built on rage and anger - from Sean Hannity's...
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Harsanyi's Public Meltdown: Columnist Resorts to Pretending Republicans Aren't Republicans
Denver Post conservative columnist David Harsanyi is very clearly and very publicly having a severe meltdown. It's pretty hilarious. After having his anti-worker column this week torn to pieces, he first claimed that those who are opposed to the war...
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Time Mag Slams Media For Edwards Coverage; Says Reporters Making "A Dumb Argument"
Two weeks ago, I asked a pretty simple question: What is real-life hypocrisy, and what is faux hypocrisy manufactured by the political Punditburo in lieu of actual reporting? I asked this question in the wake of right-wing Denver Post columnist...
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After All, Stopped Watches Are Right Twice A Day
Is today officially Freaky Friday? Because either I'm still rubbing sand out of my eyes and not seeing straight, or I actually agree with the two Davids (Brooks and Harsanyi) and with the archconservative Club for Growth....
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MCCLATCHY: "No Pattern of Improvement Discernible for Violence During the 5 Months of The Surge"
You may recall that in the run-up to the Iraq invasion, big-time reporters like the New York Times' Elisabeth Bumiller justified the media's refusal to ask substantive questions challenging pre-war assertions by saying that she and her fellow Beltway reporters...
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Ha! Silly Me - I Should Know Michael Barone Is Too Important to Do Actual "Research"
Michael Barone is one of Washington's leading Cadillac Conservatives - a man who married into a billionaire family and who now spends his days attacking blue-collar American workers. This is not news, and his column this week attacking blue-collar workers...
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Lying About Lying About the War
I'm busy working on the book today, but found this old clip from 2004 on my computer and thought I would post it just to reiterate how often the Bush administration lies to us about the Iraq War. There's...
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Fox News Gets Big Tax Subsidies, Then Questions Whether We Should Fund Anti-Poverty Efforts
As you can see from the YouTube clip above, last Saturday (7/28), I appeared on Fox News' business show Bears & Bulls to address the question, "Is one of the government's job to end poverty?" The show was pegged...
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Yawn - Joe Klein Trumpets Salazar Bill While Trampling the Facts
Following up on my last post, here's a shocker - Time Magazine power-worshiper-in-chief Joe Klein says he cannot understand why Democrats aren't supporting Ken Salazar's toothless nothingness designed only to provide cover to career politicians who don't want to deal...
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When Will They Stop?
With our military stretched to the breaking point thanks to the Iraq War, when will Beltway reporters stop equating support for continuing the war indefinitely with support for the military?...
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Someone Get Joe a Doctor...And Get Wolf a Journalism Primer
Quick - someone get the Senate physician. It looks like Joe Lieberman may be suffering from severe and debilitating memory loss or amnesia. And wow, am I glad CNN's Wolf Blitzer has a team of fact-checkers working around the clock...
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Is NBC's Top Political Reporter Giving Cash to Hillary Clinton?
That's the question I had after reading the Denver Post's dispatch today about Sen. Clinton coming to Aspen to rake in big money from a who's who of the the corporate and political Establishment. Here's the excerpt: "Sen. Hillary Clinton...
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America Can Sleep Easy - The Pundits Will Fight For Their "Ocracy" And Save the Universe from the People
There is a story that warms the heart of every Washington-based pundit, liberal or conservative, Republican or Democrat, a story that hearkens back to the heady Boys on the Bus days - the days when the Towering Pundits of Washington...
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Lane Smith Set to Announce Presidential Run?
I've finally put my finger on what fascinates/disturbs me so much about the concept that Republican Fred Thompson is a frontrunner for president, beyond the fact that he has spent a third of his life on the planet as a...
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This Week’s Tom Chambers Award Winner: Bill Moyers
This week's now-regular Tom Chambers Award goes to Bill Moyers. Though Moyers could receive this award every week, this week his video editorial especially honors the legacy of 1990s-era Phoenix Sun forward Tom Chambers' famous and utterly humiliating dunk over...
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Note to Paul Campos: The Medium Is Not the Message
Reading the Colorado papers for the last few years as part of my daily intake of news from the West, I've come to think of law professor Paul Campos as a solid columnist at the Rocky Mountain News. I generally...
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My Visit to the Elite's Fact-Free Fantasy World
When I wrote Hostile Takeover, I envisioned it as something like a Hitchiker's Guide to Wall Street and Washington's Galaxy - a handbook folks could use to see the real truth when they watch television shows about politics and the...
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Howard Fineman Is My Nomination for Worst Writer In America
Newsweek's Howard Fineman really might be the worst writer in America, and that's saying a hell of a lot. For some bizarre reason, I stumbled onto his new piece about Pittsburgh and really - this piece should be Exhibit A...
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Beyond Irresponsible Journalism
I was struck last night by the coverage of the Republican debate and how reporters kept referring obsessively to Fred Thompson, who has refused to appear at the debates. Fox News actually gave Thompson a one-on-one interview right after the...
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CNN Pretends Fred Thompson Wasn’t A Lobbyist
In my ongoing look at how the Beltway media is trying to pretend Fred Thompson hasn't spent one third of his existence on Earth as a corporate lobbyist, please see this CNN profile entitled "Who Is Fred Thompson?" You will...
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Alter Responds
Newsweek's Jon Alter writes me an email in response to my earlier post today. He requested that I post it here, so I have done so in the extended entry. I have also posted my response to him. I should...
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The Innocent Bystander Fable
"There are 232 Democrats in the House of Representatives," House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) tells us in yesterday's Washington Post. "There are 232 Democrats that believed that our policies in Iraq are failing." On this Memorial Day these are...
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How Many Troops Will Die, EJ? Or Did You Just Forget About That?
E.J. Dionne has a piece in the Washington Post saying it's AOK to wait until September to deal with the Iraq War. "See you in September!" he cheerily tells us. What's amazing is that he doesn't take even one line...
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"Losers and Their Labor Bosses Should Not Be Allowed to Dictate Trade Policy"
I know I flagged Cokie and Steve Roberts' column earlier today, but I just can't get over this line: "Losers and their labor bosses should not be allowed to dictate trade policy...Congress should shelve its feelings and renew his authority...
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CNN: $162,100 A Year Is “Modest” Income
Check out this exchange between CNN reporters John Roberts and Jackie Schechner for proof that the Beltway media is totally and completely divorced from economic reality in America: SCHECHNER: What's interesting is Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, report a...
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Broder Gets Caught Lying; Fast Track Argument Debunked
Not only did David Broder attack me personally today, but Media Matters catches him actually lying about the substance of the issue. Particularly notable is how the Media Matters article actually calls into question the whole "we must reauthorize fast...
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Journalism Becomes Stenography: From NAFTA to Iraq to The Secret Trade Deal
This is the third in a series of posts following the announcement of a secret free trade deal this past week between a handful of senior Democrats and the Bush administration. The weekend in Washington is traditionally reserved for the...
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About David Sirota
David Sirota is a political journalist and nationally syndicated newspaper columnist at Creators Syndicate. He is the New York Times bestselling author of Hostile Takeover. He lives in Denver, Colorado. His daily blog can be found at CREDO Action. He contributes regularly to the Denver Post's Web site, is a senior editor at In These Times magazine and is working on his second book. He has been profiled in Newsweek and the Rocky Mountain News and is widely known for his reporting on political corruption, globalization and working-class economic issues often ignored by both of America's political parties. Sirota serves as co-chair of the Progressive States Network, a 501(c)3 organization that supports state legislators and that is a partner of CREDO.
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