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DC Sucks
Washington Post Fires Token Liberal
The Washington Post, which pays money to opinion writers such as Bill Kristol (smarmy) and Richard Cohen (smarmier), has fired blogger Dan Froomkin, one of the only WaPo opinion writers who pointed out that the Bush White House was crooked. More »
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Comment by Astigmatism: Only in DailyKos idiotland are E.J. Dionne, Harold Meyerson and Eugene Robinson somehow "conservative." 5 Responses | Other threads
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scandal
CBS Hires Big Jerk
CBS just hired some guy with the improbable name of Jeff Ballabon to be their Senior Vice President of Communications. Boooring! But wait, outrage: he's a Republican! More »
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By PareeneComment by friend_of_a_friend: Let me get this straight: Odious = Democrats are inherently bad people and Republicans are fundamentally good people. Acceptable = Republicans are... 4 Responses | Other threads
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how things work
Liberal Media Elite Spent Weekend Partying With McCain Staffers
As we all know, John McCain lost the election because the media was biased against him. So his former staffers got wasted with journalists this weekend because they all missed each other so much! More »
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By PareeneComment by if_i_only_had_a_heart: it's hard to know which is scarier ... the lies and distortions or mccain's tiny cocktail weenie fingers 4 Responses | Other threads
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oppression
Ann Coulter: Professional Victim
Skeletal oddity Ann Coulter was "BANNED BY NBC," but now she's making the rounds of the fair networks to bleat about her own victimhood: More »
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Comment by SinisterRouge: Fucking idiot. Yes, caring for the welfare of your fellow humans is being a victim. As is acknowledging that there... 22 Responses | Other threads
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feuds
Today Offers Coulter Wednesday Slot
After hilariously bumping Ann Coulter from Tuesday's show for Perez Hilton, NBC's Today asked the conservative simpleton on the next day, an olive branch she accepted with grace and wit. Hahahahahahaaa. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by saintjim: Ann Coulter is not important. And trying to rebut anything she says is like booing the bad guy on TV... 7 Responses | Other threads
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bias
Liberal Media Won't Help Poor Ann Coulter Plug Her Book
Ann Coulter has a new book out called GLORBAHLF: LIBERAL TERROR DEATH and she was going to go sell this book on Today but then NBC woke up and remembered that its not 2002. More »
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By PareeneComment by blooker68: Actually, Coulter is one of today's better writers. 10 Responses | Other threads
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bias
Preemptive Complaints of Media Bias Watch
Over at The Corner, Victor Davis Hanson is positive that now that Patrick Fitzgerald has arrested Democratic governor Rod Blagojevich and is looking at Tony Rezko, "Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is just about on the verge on losing his near mythic status among the Washington-New York media." The fact that this hasn't happened yet, and that there is no evidence that this will happen, and the fact that a large number of the "Washington-New York media" (as opposed to liberal bloggers) were outraged at Fitz for trying to get journalists to reveal their sources in the Plamegate case? None of that changes the fact that the elite liberal media will refuse to report on ths thing they're already going nuts over. (Attached: another classic example of the preemptive bias complaint, from your day editor's inbox. It arrived shortly after the second of today's predicted 500 Blago posts ran. Keep 'em coming, America!) [The Corner]
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By PareeneComment by katastic: Oh, that eagle-eyed Brian G. Miller. Always on the watch. 2 Responses | Other threads
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bias
Palin Won't Visit Noted Tough Interviewer Oprah
Back when we were all convinced for some reason that it mattered, it was big news that Oprah Winfrey, the most powerful woman on television, refused to let Sarah Palin, the governor of Culture Warkansas, on her popular television program. Because Oprah is a liberal elitist who supported Barack Obama, you see. Also because Oprah didn't have any candidates on her show after her endorsement of Barack Obama. "I would love to have her on after the campaign is over," Oprah said. Conservatives would surely have jumped all over her if she'd continued to refuse to invite Sarah Palin on, so we're happy to announce that Sarah Palin has herself refused to do Oprah. More »
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By PareeneComment by Lonely Goatherd: That picture of Oprah is hilarious. It looks like she either just ate some extremely sour candy, or overheard a... 3 Responses | Other threads
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bias
Kurtz: McCain's Constant TV Appearances Prove Liberal Bias
Let's check in with famous and successful media critic Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post. What is Mr. Kurtz writing about today? The Monday after John McCain's much-discussed appearance on Saturday Night Live, his second of the general election campaign and coming just weeks after his running mate Sarah Palin's well-publicized cameo, Kurtz's column is, of course, about how Obama is on TV all the time, and all the television talk shows are In The Tank for Barack Obama. More »
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By PareeneComment by Preopsician: Biden talks to local press because they are notoriously soft. That's how all the candidates did it in the primaries.... 5 Responses | Other threads
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howard kurtz
Howard Kurtz Explores Fantasy World Of Imagination
It's probably safe to say that Howard Kurtz is the most prominent member of his disreputable clan, the media critics. He analyzes the press full-time for the Washington Post, one of the few national papers left, while the Times has no one regular press critic. Kurtz also has a tv show of his very own! How did he swing such a cushy job? By regularly producing the kind of trenchant media analysis on display in today's column, about a magical fantasy world in which Barack Obama is losing. In this bizarro universe, the Obama campaign is poorly managed, beset by gaffes, and the candidate is a national joke. It's really useful thought exercise, if you're into thinking about things that don't relate to reality. This is his thesis: More »
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By PareeneComment by Truculent: So Howard, what if every single atom in our fingertips were another complete universe. And we're all living in the... 3 Responses | Other threads
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bias
Jack Shafer Voting For Nutcase
Did you wonder who your favorite Slate contributor is voting for? Good news: now you know! Michael Kinsley instituted the quadrennial endorsement list in 2000—go back and read how wrong all the Bush people were!—and it's been a beloved feature ever since, the two more times they've done it, because everyone cares how a Slate copy-editor is voting (spoiler alert: for Obama). There is one McCain vote, a half-hearted endorsement from the conservative editor and Slate lady-blog contributor Rachael Larimore. But there are fewer third-party votes and abstentions than in either of the two previous iterations of the feature, even in divided anyone-but-Bush 2004. Because, duh, people like Obama more than Kerry. But one man, press critic Jack Shafer, remains relentlessly devoted to his utterly wrong-headed principles. Shafer, once again, is voting for the Libertarians! More »
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By PareeneComment by Baroness: Libertarians are Republicans who have the good sense to be ashamed of the jackanapes dominating their party. They're... 8 Responses | Other threads
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Campbell Brown Won't Call Tucker Bounds Stupid
Former NBC news correspondent and possible "Next Katie" Campbell Brown somehow ended up a serious anchor on CNN, and... she's quite good? Brown (married to GOP strategist Dan Senor, because lol DC media) has become a convert to the popular new "hey, we are allowed to call bullshit" school of television reporting, which is quite heartening and will probably last until the Republicans reorganize and mount another offensive against the media. Anyway! She was on The Daily Show. They talked about Tucker Bounds, the poor McCain surrogate abused by Campbell, starting a national trend. She's had a good election!
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By PareeneComment by Beausoleil: I don't think anyone with a "functioning cerebral cortex" could deny that the media (Fox exempted) were all in the... 6 Responses | Other threads
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Study: 'Excellent' Journalism Apparently Nice to Everyone
Dear Project For Excellence in Journalism: please just stop. Stop doing these studies or just stop releasing your so-called "empirical" findings to the press. Because Howard Kurtz "reporting" that the press is so mean to John McCain and so nice to Barack Obama all the time is not "excellent journalism." It is more like "the Project for No Context and More Bullshit in Journalism." Christ, PEJ, how does it further excellent journalism, learning this factoid: More »
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By PareeneComment by Aaron Altman: But Pareene, even if McCain reads the study, or news of the study, chances are Palin won't. 8 Responses | Other threads
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Liberal Bias Exposed!
Hey, here's one of the many fundamental secrets of LIBERAL MEDIA BIAS: you know what plays on television? Novelty and conflict. If you're a Democrat who likes McCain, you get to be on CNN! If you're a Republican who's turned against his party, you get to be on Colbert! The corollary is if you're a staunch party line conservative, you'll always have a seat at a table that also features a staunch party line Democrat. So the National Review twits currently experiencing head trauma trying to figure out why their colleagues who dislike Sarah Palin keep getting on TV should probably make note of Ramesh Ponnuru's startling claim that some producers cut him from their roundtables for not being conservative enough. (And if we were a bit crankier we might note that the spectrum of opinions regularly entertained as serious on television ranges from Pat Buchanan's to, representing the left, Paul Begala. But Olbermann has that smug guy from The Nation on every so often so it's all ok and the world is fair.)
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By PareeneComment by dantebenuto: I'm going to go "anti-world-peace" and "anti-solve-world-hunger". I tried to get my 15 minutes many other ways and its not... 4 Responses | Other threads
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Shock: Andrea Mitchell In Bed With Greenspan!
NBC political correspondent Andrea Mitchell is one of the network's news stars, so it's only natural that we've been seeing a lot of her lately. Even when the topic turns to the government's and the candidates' responses to the current financial crisis. But you will not see her, supposedly, when the discussion turns to "past economic decisions" that led up to the crisis. Because Mitchell is married to Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve Chairman who many say is basically responsible for the housing bubble. And that is their conflict of interest compromise: Mitchell will report as usual until the reasons we got to this point are discussed, at which point she'll quietly disappear from your television without explanation. Unethical! Or, you know, the standard way of doing business in political journalism. More »
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By PareeneComment by Truculent: Close your eyes.....and imagine....the sex. 2 Responses | Other threads
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journalismism
Tom Brokaw: Boring For NBC, Boring For America
So Tom Brokaw is still chugging over at Meet the Press. The NBC Sunday morning institution has been hosted by the former nightly news anchor since the untimely and unexpected death of Tim Russert earlier this year. The network is probably going to permanently hand off the show to smart analyst Chuck Todd and serviceable anchor David Gregory, but Brokaw will remain at NBC News, by necessity, for a long time. Because he is now their resident grown-up. Which is why he's so irritating.
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By PareeneComment by wonky-tonk: On last Sunday's Meet the Press, Brokaw interviewed Bill Clinton and never bothered to get his opinion on Sarah Palin's... 15 Responses | Other threads
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media
Is Fox Panicking?
You'd think Fox News would be thrilled with the idea of an Obama presidency! Though they made their most important mark as the propaganda arm of the post-9/11 Bush presidency, they began as a channel in opposition to the status quo. Remember Clinton? The one who was president? The modern conservative movement is built around aggrieved victimhood, and Obama in the White House should mean the return of great Fox television. But they seem more concerned, right now, about getting that John McCain guy (who they never even really liked!) elected. They're actually maybe scared that their moment is over? That Rachel Maddow really is the future? How else to explain dumb stunts like erasing an AP report on Sarah Palin from their website after it showed up in search engines. More »
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By PareeneComment by ADismalScience: Conservatism is built on aggrieved victimhood? Seriously? As opposed to what, a Democratic party whose entire campaign is based on... 10 Responses | Other threads
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new york times
Why No One Noticed the McCain Gambling Expose
The New York Times ran a huge (huge!) A1 investigative piece on John McCain and his weird gambling obsession and ties to the Indian Casino industry and Vegas and lobbyists and ten thousand other things yesterday. It was well-reported, historical in focus, and fair. It ran on the front page of the Sunday edition, which reaches almost half a million more readers than the weekday edition. But, you know, no one is talking about it. It didn't really stick! Did anyone read the whole thing? Were there bombshells? Who knows! What happened? The Times sabotaged itself, either intentionally or through ineptitude. Allow us to explain.
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By PareeneComment by What I Meant (not what I said): If only someone had a picture of an Indian in a tank, then this story would have legs. 5 Responses | Other threads
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Buried: McCain Lobs Ultimate Insult At 'Times'
Haha we were going to write about this and then John McCain flew back to Washington DC to solve this economic crisis himself. Before that happened? People were talking about how either John McCain lied to us about his campaign manager's link to Freddie Mac, or that campaign manager lied to John McCain about those ties, or both. How to respond to that charge? Hah. They didn't really know! More »
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By PareeneComment by American Dreamer: I think that before people start criticizing McCain they should try walking around in a wet pair of Depends and... 4 Responses | Other threads
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Financial Press Ignoring Sad McCain
Whenever the media say anything about John McCain that isn't "he is the coolest hero ever and sooo dreamy" his campaign accuses every journalist in the country of being "in the tank" for Barack Obama. And whenever the press goes a day or two without talking exclusively about John McCain, the McCain campaign accuses the media of ignoring him. Kind of a biased-if-you-do, biased-if-you-don't situation. But we'll give the McCain campaign credit: they're consistent. In their attacks on the media, anyway. The enemy seems to shift a bit. Like, this week, apparently the media is ignoring John McCain in favor of... the rapidly growing financial crisis and the government's unprecedented plan to end it. Seriously, the McCain campaign is totally upset that no one will write about his "commission of technicians" but they all find time to talk about Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson! More »
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By PareeneComment by M. Pompadour: One should refrain from making old jokes, because, hey! many of us will be there one day. But,... 3 Responses | Other threads
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Subtle Media Sarcasm Watch
So the press was entirely shut out of Sarah Palin's magical journey through the UN today. They are making up for it by being quietly bitchy. The headlines: "Palin meets her first world leaders in New York." (You know, from first world countries like Afghanistan!) And here is the most sarcastic Associated Press lead sentence ever: More »
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By PareeneComment by Heneage: It's a good lead, but my favorite AP lead is still "Giant dog turd wreaks havoc at Swiss museum." ... 4 Responses | Other threads
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Coward McCain Pathetically Losing War on Media
When John McCain goes to war, he goes to war to win. When he got shot down in Nam it was because he went back to make goddamn sure that civilian power plant got bombed. Even after the war, he was pretty sure that a few thousand more bombs would've defeated those commies. So when he went to war against the New York Times and every single major network, we were confident he wouldn't rest until 30 Rock was reduced to rubble and CNN renounced their anti-American ways. But no, he's cutting and running. Before, it was was reported that not a single reporter was going to be allowed to cover Sarah Palin's crazy UN meetings. Now, though? Oh look, CNN gets to send in one producer for a pool report. That's not change we can believe in! What's next, cooperating with the hated New York Times? Funny you should ask! More »
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By PareeneComment by bringmemyTofu: People have to be reading this stuff, right??!! They have to understand that this crap McCain has been talking about,... 10 Responses | Other threads
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All the Sad Young Journalists Who Used to Love John McCain
On the whole, the journalists who've TURNED AGAINST their former boyfriend John McCain are some of our least favorite journalists in the nation, embodying as they do everything insular and adolescent about the Washington Press Corps. They loved John McCain when he could convince them that he was only bullshitting to the voters, not to them. Now, he won't speak to them! And hey, he's lying about shit, too, but whatever. Today, another media person handed McCain back his class ring and ran home, weeping. Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, explain yourself!
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By PareeneComment by Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate: Are there any pictures of McCain where he doesn't look like he's inwardly panicking? Or just happy? 7 Responses | Other threads
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Can We Stop With the 'AP In the Tank For McCain' Thing?
Ron Fournier, the new Associated Press Washington Bureau Chief? Definitely a tool, possibly a Republican. Some of the AP campaign coverage this season? Annoying at best, misleading at worst. But recently liberals (led by the usually serious Talking Points Memo) have all but declared the Associated Press an arm of the John McCain communications office. Well we can seek out and link to only the AP dispatches that fit our preferred spin too, guys! More »
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By PareeneComment by SidAndFinancy: Another headline from AP, when you go to Chuck Babington's piece: "Obama returns to cult comedy show" That "cult" program? Saturday... 4 Responses | Other threads
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telling anecdotes
This Quote Sums Up Everything About John McCain and the Press
"Back in 2000, after John McCain lost his mostly honorable campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, he went about apologizing to journalists—including me—for his most obvious mis-step: his support for keeping the confederate flag on the state house." That is Joe Klein, an exceptionally annoying Time columnist. He sorta gets why that is ridiculous, now, but in case he isn't all the way there, let's try to break it down for him: More »
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By PareeneComment by SinisterRouge: This whole honor thing and McCain is a crock of shit. Even as he was getting attacked by Bush in... 7 Responses | Other threads
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how things work
Lipstick On the Fundamental Failure of the Democratic Process
Do you ever have one of those days where you just want to pack it in because everyone else in the world is so patently, transparently intellectually dishonest and/or un-self-aware as to defy any and all stabs at serious criticism or even derisive mockery? Do those days ever last for the entire month of September? Are you outraged over Obama's lipstick remark or outraged over the outrage over it? Either way you are part of the problem! How does this shit happen? It's very simple.
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By PareeneComment by mimilove: "Except for Palin who is a media sensation! So everything Palin-related will make headlines." Now you are intimately familiar with how... 7 Responses | Other threads
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horse race
Liberals: "Facts" No Match For Sarah Palin
Democratic strategist Peter Feld, who recently warned Radar readers that the polls are indeed bad news, checks in occasionally to rain on your parade. Today he explains the visceral appeal of Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
I wouldn't have counted on Maureen Dowd to illustrate the cluelessness of the liberal media who are losing the election for Obama. But she did. More »
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By Peter FeldComment by bernann m.: Did anyone else notice that Obama gave that lipstick on a pig speech from Virginia a state where he is... 53 Responses | Other threads
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New MSNBC Strategy: "Be Boring"
As we more or less said, before, MSNBC's switch from all-crazy-pundit all-the-time (their two most unbalanced talking heads anchoring convention coverage? what can possibly go wrong!) to the more traditional "boring old guy who'll accept your bullshit with a smile" approach is a cowardly retreat by MSNBC president Phil Griffin, giving in to the outdated old methods of NBC News head Stave Capus and NBC head Jeff Zucker. It's a return to the "beat CNN at their game" idea, only that "game" is boring and they'll never beat them at it. Today's Observer explores the decision to kick Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews back down to their pundit kids table. It's a victory for the "serious" journalists of Washington, DC, and a terrible defeat for people who enjoy television. More »
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By PareeneComment by KarenUhOh: How long have I been hearing that the MSNBC engine's been thriving on the measured, stentorian hysteria of KO (say.... 3 Responses | Other threads
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Why MSNBC Should Stay Crazy
So MSNBC going back to more "traditional" election coverage? Looks like that David Gregory ascendancy everyone predicted back before the Rachel Maddow ascendancy is finally happening! All because Tom Brokaw and Brian Williams are embarrassed by those loud shouty people and Jeff Zucker's in serious trouble with the rest of the Illuminati. Well it's a stupid, stupid idea, for many reasons. Reasons which we'll explain below. More »
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By PareeneComment by SinisterRouge: Hackery from any side is disgusting and does nothing to actually push the issues you want pushed. It just makes... 14 Responses | Other threads
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calling bullshit
How to Plant Bullshit
The Oprah story on Drudge was maybe a bit of a stretch! Does it matter? No! The "damage" is done. It's proof that we've finally reached the most maddening 2004-throwback part of the campaign: the bit where they (let us just say "campaign operatives") throw out absolute bullshit to the friendliest of sources and wait for it to bubble up. We didn't think this would work anymore, in this brave new bloggy future—but it does! More »
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By PareeneComment by cockfightbarmitzvah: @EssEffGirl: Did you just fall off the dumb-ass truck?Yeah Oprah never has strong, powerful women on. I mean Laura Bush,... 2 Responses | Other threads
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RNC Report: Attack Dog Sarah Goes After Media
This video basically sums up everything you missed in St. Paul this week. Liz Glover, DC-based videographer to the internet stars, sneaks into the CNN Grill while Sarah Palin's rant against community organizing distracts everyone. She tries to interview John Oliver but apparently he needs "approval" from "Comedy Central" or something. Then she meets a dog. The dog's name is "Sarah" and it is "panting" over all the "red meat" while literally attacking the media. McCain/Dog '08!!! [Wonkette]
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By PareeneComment by They Live: "Partisan rancor"? I don't even know her! 4 Responses | Other threads
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McCain's War on Media Begins in Earnest
Finally, it's come to this: McCain is pulling out of an interview with professional softballer Larry King, because King's CNN peer Campbell Brown accidentally asked McCain proxy Tucker Bounds some tough questions about Sarah Palin's readiness to be commander in chief. (As we said before! The media forgives everything besides violating your own narrative!) This will teach Larry to keep everyone else at the network in line! Here are some of the many many lies John McCain's increasingly whiny campaign is accusing the liberal media of spreading: More »
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By PareeneComment by lionel-mandrake: For Christ's sake, it Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! (stick it to the man!) who got arrested. The woman is... 21 Responses | Other threads
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shouting heads
Lou Dobbs: The Last Unbiased Journalist in America
Here's Lou Dobbs, CNN immigrant-hater, complaining about how the entirety of the press—besides him!—is totally, completely in bed with Barack Obama. He's right, of course. Except that the media attention is so self-defeating, twisted, and unhelpful that it's facile to paint it as a neat little example of liberal bias. Also what the hell is he still doing on CNN? Everyone else on the network seems embarrassed to be associated with him. Him and Jack Cafferty should have a show together. A Broadway show! Because then we would never see it. -
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New to CNN Team: Three Republicans, One Dem, Milbank
CNN press release: "CNN Recruits Key Political Experts for Campaign Coverage." Exciting! "Building upon its winning coverage of the U.S. presidential campaign and other political contests, CNN has added five more top political reporters and commentators to its deep bench of political contributors and analysts." Great! So who exactly are these five new additions to the best political team on whatever? One Dem strategist, one Washington Post columnist, and these three: More » -
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BBC Has Laziest Photo Editors Ever
Since 2000, every time BBC news writes a story on China, their online editors slap up this stock photo of a Chinese police officer looking at a computer. Probably censoring something! Or cracking down on freedom! Or, like, updating his MySpace. Though since the picture dates back to 2000 he's probably just buying a cup of coffee from Kozmo.com. Regardless, there are at least 14 separate instances of the BBC using this same photo to illustrate a story, which is evidence of their anti-Chinese bias, obviously, repeatedly reinforcing the old "Chinese people sit too close to the monitor" stereotype. Also it's not clear whether the Beeb is actually revealing that the photos are not related to the stories they illustrate, which seems like a sketchy practice. Examples after the jump! More »
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By PareeneComment by backseat_driver10023: Alex Pareene, thank heavens you work in Gawker. Sheila still has to find her inner snark. Hamilton is a so-so... more » | Other threads
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liberal media
Hated Bureau Chief No Longer Acting
This will please Politico. (And our commenters!) Ron Fournier, who got in trouble recently for being too friendly to Karl Rove a couple years ago and also for turning down a job offer a couple years ago is now the official Washington bureau chief for the Associated Press. He was just acting chief before. Now he'll maliciously add pro-McCain bias to AP stories for real. [FishbowlNY] -
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John Edwards' Wikipedia Page Strangely Love Child-Free
After all this Mickey Kaus blathering about MSM gatekeepers censoring the news and preventing the reader from learning "what happened yesterday" (or, at this point, last week), it's wonderful to see the citizen-journalists and crowdsourced new guardians of information acting just as ridiculously about this supposed John Edwards scandal. As you'll recall, the National Enquirer caught John Edwards sneaking into a hotel late one night to visit former staffer Rielle Hunter and her child. When they confronted him on his way out, he hid in a bathroom. Fox News confirmed the visit. But none of this meets Wikipedia's high standards of notability! You won't find Rielle or the Beverly Hilton even mentioned on the Edwards entry.
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Blogging is Ruled By Grubby Stupid Boys
The great big crap-ass democracy of blogs turns out to be just another smelly old boys club. "[W]hen Techcult, a technology Web site, recently listed its top 100 Web celebrities, only 11 of them were women. Last year, Forbes.com ran a similar list, naming 3 women on its list of 25. 'It’s disheartening and frustrating,' said Allison Blass, a BlogHer attendee whose personal blog at www.lemonade-life.com is about living with Type 1 diabetes." More »
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relationships
Angry Candidates and the Journalists Who Love Them
This video of John McCain acting like a petulant teenage girl toward a Wall Street Journal reporter is hilarious (best part: Lindsay Graham's "mee-OW" look at the end). And also telling! (TGIF, guys, we'll get through this.) John McCain's always been a favorite of the press, because of his insane availability. (Read Ana Marie Cox in Radar to learn more!) (Alex, call me!) He's affable and genuinely likes reporters. But we've reached a funny moment in their relationship. More »
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By PareeneComment by Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith: I'm finding it weird how much of the US mainstream media has an outwardly evident bias (or at least appear... more » | Other threads
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House Republicans Demand 'Times' Retroactively Print McCain Editorial
House Republicans "fired off" a strongly-worded letter to the editor of the New York Times today, because that mean and biased newspaper asked John McCain to write a second draft of his stupid editorial. It's hilarious for like ten reasons. Look, regardless of the quality of the work the Times op-ed page prints, you do, as a political candidate, have to aspire to a certain level of pretend-seriousness before you can be printed there. Having a junior staffer throw together old talking points and attack-ad rhetoric is just not acceptable. And so now we have House Republicans crowing about a mythical right of "equal access" to the op-ed page of a privately owned newspaper. Ha ha do they want to bring back the fairness doctrine? Anyway let's all climb the New York Times building and burn it to the ground. Or let's make like the GOP wants to do and buy a full-page ad in the revenue-starved paper. That'll teach 'em! [Politico]
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By PareeneComment by SlickaNicka: @Werrick: Agreed! We don't even have any forbidden love between the warring tribes to keep us interested, like if... more » | Other threads
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