tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-284898932012-01-20T20:58:36.107-05:00Peter Daouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04534872927021759429noreply@blogger.comBlogger831100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28489893.post-1151609888965031032006-06-29T14:46:00.001-04:002007-04-04T03:51:46.786-04:00

The Grit is on hiatus.

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On the Daou Report

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Greg Sargent: "CNN has now picked up today's Times's story saying that the top commander of forces in Iraq projects troop drawdowns through 2007 -- in stark contrast to the GOP's stay-the-course position. And guess what? In the CNN story there is no mention whatsoever of the fact that the primary message of the Republican Party over the past week, delivered by party leaders and elected

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From Media Matters:"On June 20 and 21, right-wing pundit Ann Coulter refused to explain -- and even expanded upon -- her recent claim that Rep. John P. Murtha (D-PA) is "the reason soldiers invented fragging," military slang meaning the intentional killing of a member of one's own unit. On the June 20 broadcast of the Mike Rosen Show on Denver's Newsradio 850 KOA, Coulter referred to her fragging

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The notion that "we're fighting them there so we don't have to fight them here" has been nullified by the news that "a federal indictment against seven men revealed Friday details of what the government said was a plan to "kill all the devils we can" by blowing up Chicago's Sears Tower."Apparently, they are here. Whether or not we're fighting them there.Reporters are busy pushing the "cut and run

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Carlson almost gets it:"Cut and run'' denotes cowardice and has most often been used to describe a soldier leaving a comrade to die on the battlefield. A despicable charge has been rendered merely deplorable by mindless repetition from note cards by members of Congress and talk-show hosts."She leaves out the most important player in the process of legitimizing an extremist rightwing talking point

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The war between bloggers and the establishment media continues unabated, with David Broder, "dean" of the Washington press corps, pushing the lamest of lame blog canards:"Judging from the amount of publicity they gleaned, the liberal bloggers who gathered in Las Vegas recently for the first annual YearlyKos convention represent the cutting edge of thinking in the Democratic Party.But the blogs I

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Oliver Willis

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The Howler:"Unfortunately, Digby is right every step of the way in this unfortunate post. Like Digby, we’re “against delving into people's private lives” too; we think it’s a childish and ludicrous way to select an American president. But Digby asks the seminal question of the past fifteen years: Will the Clinton Rules apply to Hillary Clinton in 2008—and to no one else? We’d guess that the

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Media Matters:"A day after interviewing Howard Dean, MSNBC's Norah O'Donnell sat down with his Republican counterpart, Ken Mehlman, affording Media Matters for America the opportunity to make a direct comparison of the two interviews....In contrast with Dean's interview, during which O'Donnell adopted misleading Republican talking points and attacks on Democrats -- even going so far as to

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Read it:"The first thing you notice about The Note is that it sounds like it's written by high school students. Smart high school students--really smart students, even--but nevertheless teenagers who crack themselves up with their wit, rely on hard-to-decipher references to up their hip insider quotient, and have a penchant for words like "ginormous" and multiple exclamation points. Cutesy,

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"Mentioning Jesus in a speech is small government, doing what Jesus would want you to do is big government."

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A great post over at Unclaimed Territory:"Not too long ago a friend of mine told me she was trying to become more politically informed. To do so, she continued, she had begun reading Ann Coulter's How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must). Think about that for a moment. This was an individual who did not know much about politics, was a non-ideological independent and the first person she could think

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Greg Sargent: "A couple of minutes ago I came across this Associated Press story saying that the uncle of Kristian Menchaca -- one of the U.S. soldiers who was missing and is now said to be dead -- criticized the United States for Menchaca's disappearance and death. My first thought was to do a post asking how long it would take before the wingnuts started smearing the grief-stricken uncle.

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From HuffPo's Eat the Press:"The mainstream media's incessant, excited chatter about a looming Bush Bounce represented just the latest embarrassment in an endless parade of journalism missteps during the Bush years. The depressing puppet show--senior White House aides announce things are great, conservative 'news' outlets echo the spin and then MSM journalists gamely play along--has become

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From The Nation:"If President Bush had stood on the steps of the White House with a megaphone when he set out to sell the Iraq War, he might have convinced a few people about the imminent threat posed by Saddam Hussein. But he had something far more powerful that convinced far more people: He had a compliant press corps ready to amplify his lies. This was the same press corps that investigated

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Gloria Borger and Howard Kurtz: "KURTZ: Gloria Borger, are journalists suckers for this kind of secret trip to Baghdad stuff? Bush was there in less than six hours but got an avalanche of mostly positive coverage.GLORIA BORGER, "U.S. NEWS AND WORLD REPORT": I think we are suckers. Particularly if you are the one that gets on go on the pool, Howie, and gets to travel with the president on the

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A sobering article about the lack of adequate body armor for the troops in Iraq. My only qualm is this sentence: "The Harts couldn't have been prouder of their only son for answering the president's call to fight the war against terror in Iraq."

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Under the banner They Can Give It, But They Can't Take It, Matt Margolis at Blogs for Bush follows the lead of other rightwingers and makes an apples to oranges comparison about Ann Coulter:"Peter Daou seems rather upset with what's going with Ann Coulter.NBC, a major U.S. media outlet, has given Coulter extended play in recent days. They have knowingly given a public forum to a woman who

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Media Matters's Jamison Foser has completed the final installment in his four-part series on the media problem. These are must-reads for anyone who cares about the progressive agenda:"Three weeks ago, we began what has now turned into a four-part series: The defining issue of our time is not the Iraq war. It is not the "global war on terror." It is not our inability (or unwillingness) to ensure

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As media narratives go, "bloggers are angry Bush-haters" is at the top of the list. MSNBC's Tom Curry (one of the establishment reporters who attended the YearlyKos convention) reinforces it with this bizarre question:Does Warner detest Bush enough?But does Warner hate Bush and Lieberman enough (or at all?), does he sound outraged enough to satisfy the passionately anti-Bush, anti-Lieberman and

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Push those narratives:"There is no way that White House reporters will Note a return of the President's swagger and political chops on this swing. JUST KIDDING. And for the sake of fairness, it's nice to see the Democrats in the House and Senate finally coming up with a unified position on Iraq that is a political winner and expresses their heartfelt views about American policy. JUST KIDDING."

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From News Unfiltered: "Rove answered the attacks from the left-wing blogosphere: "The Internet for the Left of the Democratic Party has served as a way to mobilize hate and anger -- hate and anger, first and foremost, at this President and Conservatives, but then also at people within their own party whom they consider to be less than completely loyal to this very narrow, very

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I posted an extended guest entry on Crooks and Liars earlier today explaining why I think Ann Coulter should not be ignored by the online community. Since Coulter-fatigue is setting in, I'm posting the entire essay below to reiterate why I believe it's premature to drop the issue and why the media should be held accountable for giving her a platform.First this (via QandO), from an interview on

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I'm not sure what to say in response to John Cole, a blogger with whom I've exchanged many friendly emails and to whom I've spoken on the phone about a variety of issues. I always considered Cole one of the more respectful and judicious bloggers on the right. But something I wrote seems to have sent him over the top:"[I]t does appear that some people (in this case, Daou), are deranged when it

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When pro-Bush and anti-Dem narratives need pushing, look no further than ABC's The Note:"For the Democrats, there is: the Biden view on Iraq; the Murtha view on Iraq; the Kerry views on Iraq; the Senate caucus's ever-dynamic debate about what the party should stand for; the mass conspiracy of silence over taxes and health care, taxes and the rich, and taxes and taxes; Together, We Can Do Better;

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Media Matters adds new perspective to the Bush recovery narrative I described yesterday: "Numerous media figures have declared that the Bush administration is experiencing "a surge of momentum" as of late, due to the recent death of Al Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the news that White House senior adviser Karl Rove would not be indicted in the CIA leak case, the Republicans' recent victory

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From the AP: "Half a million times a year - about once every minute - an ambulance carrying a sick patient is turned away from a full emergency room and sent to another one farther away. It's a sobering symptom of how the nation's emergency-care system is overcrowded and overwhelmed, "at its breaking point," concludes a major investigation by the influential Institute of Medicine."Question: how

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New York Observer: "Actually, it’s the media—not the prosecutor’s office—that [Robert Luskin] is angry at, and especially the bloggers. Mr. Luskin was eager to portray the suffering of his client as a function of media attention and speculation, rather than real danger of a conviction.Mr. Rove, Mr. Luskin said, had fallen victim to partisans and—more importantly—the bloggers who

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Reporters are tripping over themselves proclaiming Bush's 'recovery' and the Dems' confusion. This, after a 48 hour p.r. blitz from the White House:White House Flying HigherClinton and Kerry Show Democratic Divide on Troop Withdrawal (written by our favorite anti-Dem narrative pusher, Adam Nagourney)Spate of Good News Gives White House a Chance to RegroupDemocrats are still divided over the war

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Think Progress has the details.... Context here.

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Rove Lives to Slime Again Another Day1. Candy Crowley positively giddy on CNN - laughing and calling him 'Karl' instead of Rove. (Update: Crowley calls Rove the "happiest man in America")2. Big media outlets insert gratuitous mentions of the Jason Leopold fiasco in their coverage: here, here. Expect more of the same. And expect rightwing bloggers to have a field day with the Leopold angle.3.

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The Note: "President Bush departed the White House for Camp David at 8:15 am ET. At 9:30 am and again at 2:00 pm ET, he meets with top military and civilian advisers to discuss military strategy in Iraq. On Tuesday, the sessions conclude with a joint meeting via videoconference with Bush's Cabinet and top ministers in al-Maliki's new government."By helping them succeed, we succeed, we get out,"

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Jamison Foser continues his excellent series of Media Matters roundups with a third must-read post on why the media matters... previous installments here and here.Excerpt:"That's why conservative misinformation in the media is the most significant issue of our time: Because the media shape our understanding of every other issue. Because the world's greatest democracy made a decision to go to war,

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If you judge by traditional media accounts of the 2006 YearlyKos convention, it's about the anti-establishment netroots (the outsiders) going 'mainstream' and becoming the establishment.Adam Nagourney and Maureen Dowd each take that approach, as do other reporters covering the gathering.Nagourney: "There were the bloggers — nearly a thousand of them, many of them familiar names by now — emerging

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First, for those who argue that Ann Coulter should be ignored, here's my stated view:"This race to the bottom by the establishment media leaves the progressive netroots in a quandary: if the only thing these so-called 'journalists' want is to create an uproar, how do we respond? Some bloggers advocate ignoring slime-traffickers like Coulter and Glenn Beck, others attack them for the scum they

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This is good news: "Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi Killed in Air Raid"- it's good because from all acounts this man was responsible for the slaughter of innocents and the killing of American troops. It's good because a bad guy was taken out.Considering that hours later two car bombs killed 19 and injured 40 and that the Iraqi violence is largely sectarian in nature and that the insurgency seems

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The outcry over Ann Coulter's freak show culminated in a segment on NBC Nightly News acknowledging the fact that she went "over the line." Excuse me, but she's crossed the line dozens of times before. Yet, as Media Matters informs us, "Coulter has a long history of engaging in hateful rhetoric and misinformation, and yet Today still hosted her, giving her book free publicity and a degree of

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Garrison Keillor: "People who want to take a swing at San Francisco should think twice. Yes, the Irish coffee at Fisherman's Wharf is overpriced, and the bus tour of Haight-Ashbury is disappointing (Where are the hippies?), but the Bay Area is the cradle of the computer and software industry, which continues to create jobs for our children. The iPod was not developed by Baptists in Waco, Texas.

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Greg Sargent raises a critical point:"There's something deeply perverse about the fact that AP brass rewarded John Solomon for his unfair reporting on Harry Reid because of the attention from the blogosphere -- after all, the enormous reaction among bloggers to the story was overwhelmingly critical of it. Yet reward Solomon they did, as Josh Marshall showed and Atrios flagged... At bottom, the

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There are two reason Lauer lost the debate with Coulter over her stomach-churning statement about the 9/11 widows. First, as I argued recently, the mere granting of a platform to someone as obviously disturbed as Coulter is already a stain on the media outlet: "When Coulter is invited to spout her putrescence on Larry King Live, the legitimacy granted to her is CNN's fault, not Coulter's. After

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While major media figures and media outlets dizzy themselves trying to rebut factual critiques from the left and to justify unjustifiable reporting, herds of rightwingers wantonly slander them. Case in point: National Review's Rich Lowry uses his platform to write this outlandish statement:"[Haditha] will be treated as the story of the century, or at least the biggest story since Abu Ghraib.

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On Hardball, Howard Fineman and Chris Matthews agree. Nice of them to enlighten us. More on the Clinton rules here.

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ABC's Claire Shipman on Gore: "[J]ust look at his face. I don't think any of us ... could take him at his word"

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This Washington Note post from Brent Budowsky ran on Saturday, but in case you missed it, it's a righteous rant (hat tip: Christy at FDL): "I challenge any honorable conservative to disagree and debate on even one of these points: The George Bush Republican Party is the Party of Big Government, Big Spending, Big Budget Deficits, Big Trade Deficits, Big Current Account Deficits, Big National Debt

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Let's start with Jack Shafer's description of New York Times Public Editor Byron Calame: "Calame possesses a mandate that would allow him to boil the journalistic ocean if he so desired, but he usually elects to merely warm a teapot for his readers and pour out thimblefuls of weak chamomile.... Perhaps Calame spends so much time swinging his club in the weeds because he can't hit the ball when

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From the WaPo:"On Tuesday, the day before the announcement, Rice let U.N. ambassador John R. Bolton -- long a skeptic about dealing with Iran -- in on the secret. Bolton then joined Rice, Hadley and Joseph over dinner -- and was asked to call conservative commentators the next day to explain the decision."As for the rest of the article, it's a brazen attempt to spin the administration's loss of

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In a Solidly Conservative State, a Loyal Core of Support for Bush -- Choice quotes:"When I watch him, I see a man with his heart in the right place," said Delia Randall, a 22-year-old mother from Provo, the hub of a county that gave Senator John Kerry just 11 percent of the presidential vote in 2004. "I like George Bush because he is God-fearing, and that's how a lot of people in this area feel."

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...read this.

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Christy at FDL:"The WaPo reports that the Bush White House has embarked on a strategy which has the President publicly appearing to listen to opposing opinions, and that this may be the same thing as Bushie coming out of his bubble... Bolten’s PR offensive aside, I call bullshit. Unless and until we see some willingness for George Bush to actually consider opinions contrary to his own, discuss

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"From now on, the Old Media and New Media will believe any and all reports about alleged American atrocities in Iraq, until and unless proven false." [link]Implication 1: Gullible Bush-hating "liberal media" and bloggers will believe anythingImplication 2: Don't believe these reports, they'll be "proven false"

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I've argued that the propagation of anti-left and pro-right narratives by the establishment media is more insidious - and thus more dangerous - than the cowardly bleating of people like Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, Bill Bennett, Bill O'Reilly, and Rush Limbaugh. When Coulter is invited to spout her putrescence on Larry King Live, the legitimacy granted to her is CNN's fault, not Coulter's. After

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"The BBC has uncovered new video evidence that US forces may have been responsible for the deliberate killing of 11 innocent Iraqi civilians." LINK(Hat tip: 1115)As I wrote earlier, rightwing bloggers have come unhinged over Haditha:"Michelle Malkin posts an LGF photo of Palestinian children carrying weapons - the implication being? That shooting children is justified?Glenn Reynolds links to a

Peter Daouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04534872927021759429noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28489893.post-1149194981856193462006-06-01T16:00:00.000-04:002006-07-21T11:33:07.000-04:00

As part of a series of media efforts to muddy up the climate change debate, here's a classic headline from MSNBC: "Does cleaner air make hurricanes worse?"

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Michelle Malkin posts an LGF photo of Palestinian children carrying weapons - the implication being? That shooting children is justified?Glenn Reynolds links to a comment threatening civil war in the US.At RCP, Jed Babbin writes, "If it were up to Cong. John Murtha, Duke University rape case prosecutor Mike Nifong would be transferred to the Haditha case."And those are just the big league

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Part 1. And part 2: "Patrick Healy, the author of a front-page May 23 New York Times article purporting to examine the married life of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) and former President Bill Clinton, acknowledged on CNN on May 31 that the time the Clintons spend together is "pretty similar" to other families that include a member of Congress."

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There's a kernel of truth to Michael Hirsh's Newsweek article about Democratic strategy, the operative word being "kernel". But what Hirsh does is use partial truths to paint a total picture. And the picture he paints reinforces deep-standing false narratives about left and right. Another case of stories vs. storylines.The opening few paragraphs offer a textbook example of the traditional media's

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After dissecting Healy's tabloid-worthy peek into the Clinton bedroom and the subsequent media salivation, Conason digs up a telling Healy quote: "[I]t is reassuring to know that Mr. Healy, at least, is a high-minded professional searching for significance. As the Times reporter told the American Society of Newspaper Editors a few years ago: “The media’s future depends on journalists exercising

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This letter was referenced in the New York Times on Sunday, May 28th, 2006. This is the first time a copy has been posted publicly.Excerpt from the Times:"The president's brother, Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida, sent a letter thanking the "Swifties" for "their willingness to stand up to John Kerry."Excerpt from Jeb Bush's letter: "As someone who truly understands the risk of standing up for something,

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Doesn't it seem like ages ago when we were discussing the rampant corruption at the heart of the Republican Party? DeLay, Abramoff, Frist, Libby, Cunningham, the list goes on. But magically, the only corruption we hear about lately is Democratic. Rep. William Jefferson has dominated recent headlines and WinSmith at dKos reminds us how the word 'Democrat' is strategically placed for maximum

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The New York Times continues on the sophisticated track established last week by Patrick Healy.

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From Midwestern Progressive:"Dear American Armed Forces Personnel: On this Memorial Day, 2006, on behalf of a grateful nation, I thank you for your service. The good and hard work that you and your fellow soldiers are doing on behalf of America’s citizens is deeply appreciated. For your service you’ve earned the gratitude of all our citizens.At the same time, I apologize to you on behalf of our

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Rightwing blog Power Line does our media tracking for us:"Elisabeth Bumiller's New York Times story on the speech includes an interesting variation on the usual allusion to President Bush's low standing in the polls. Referring to Bush's discussion of President Truman, Bumiller states: "He left it unsaid that Truman was deeply unpopular at the end of his two terms in office and that it took a

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Greg Sargent nails it: "The Times has just posted a piece which is simultaneously poignant and infuriating. Apparently the Swift Boat Liars who destroyed John Kerry's 2004 candidacy are still alive and well, and Kerry is still at war with them. A year and a half after his loss, he's going at them more aggressively than ever....One of the key themes of this blog will be that a big problem with

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"The problem with the Bush apologists' reasoning is that using an infinite time horizon - which they are so fond of - virtually any action, no matter how egregious, can be shown to lead to some positive results."

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If Clinton bedroom gossip is fair game, shouldn't this be?

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Flipped on CNN to see William Bennett, moralist extraordinaire, delivering an uninterrupted series of rightwing talking points.Was he challenged? Was his segment balanced by a progressive voice? Of course not.DU has more.

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A jaw-dropping moment occurred in Bush and Blair's Thursday presser: Bush said he regretted saying "bring it on" (precise wording in 2003 was "bring 'em on") and "wanted dead or alive." He admitted he should have been more sophisticated in his use of language.The significance of this shouldn't go unnoticed. Bush has now admitted what the progressive blog community has said all along: Bush's tough

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Is John Snow resigning?Who do you think should replace Kofi Annan?Has Iraq left you politically weakened?What will you miss about each other?Weak.And as far as Bush and Blair's responses, this comment from a dKos thread seems apt: "If you lie loudly, it sounds like truth."

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"Idiots"

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Boy, they're coming fast and furious lately. You swat one down, two more take their place. I'm referring to 'elite' reporters of course, specifically those who've decided that Bush's poll numbers aren't incentive enough to stop belittling and berating Democrats.Joe Klein, Mark Halperin & co., Elisabeth Bumiller, Patrick Healy, Tim Russert, the list goes on. Joining the crowd is David Broder, who

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Earlier on MSNBC I caught a clip of Bono being interviewed by NBC's Brian Williams. The segment dealt with Bono's commendable Africa aid effort and concluded with Bono praising George Bush."He's been very honest in his business dealings with me," says Bono. "As has Secretary of State (Condoleezza) Rice, and we did an awful lot of work."Last July, Jeanne at Body and Soul addressed the question:"

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Healy under the MM spotlight:"Patrick Healy, the author of a New York Times article purporting to examine the married life of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) and former President Bill Clinton, wondered in a 2004 report whether Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John F. Kerry (MA), was "a bit kooky" and openly questioned "what kind of marriage the Kerrys have"

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Tony Snow: "Now, where was I in this?" -- Helen Thomas: "Still spinning." (Hat tip: DU)

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Bill Frist: A Doctor at Heart ...just what we need, more media fawning. Democracy Guy reacts:"This is the most bizarre story I think I've ever seen in the Washington Post. Wonkette's take is perfect. You must look at the photo gallery, it is absolutely priceless. Gorilla sprawled out on anesthesia, Senate Majority Leader in surgical mask. It's like something out of a Mel Brooks movie. Frist

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How else to interpret this:"As is always the case with the out-of-power party, Democrats have to root root root for bad news. And no bad news source is better for the Democrats' election prospects than the bad news from Iraq."Halperin et al have been at this game for a while. Eric Boehlert's new book, Lapdogs, has a compelling chapter devoted to DC's favorite Bush-propping tip sheet. Media

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It seems Pat Healy, the king of Kerry-bashing, has set his sights on Hillary Clinton. And it also appears Mr. Healy has decided to enter the world of blogging.Please extend a friendly welcome and let him know what you think about his new home and his new mission.

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A couple of weeks ago, the Sunday morning shows seemed to be reading from the same script: there's a "bipartisan culture of corruption" in Washington. Russert and Stephanopoulos pushed it as did Mara Liasson on Fox.Now the New York Times gets into the act. Avedon spells it out:"For Democrats, a Scandal of Their Own" in the NYT this morning [is] the tale of how a single Democrat's alleged

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You know something's fishy when a prominent rightwing blogger offers a better defense of the progressive blogosphere than a senior Washington Post reporter. Captain's Quarters acknowledges what Howard Kurtz fails to mention in Kurtz's takedown of Jason Leopold and Truthout's Marc Ash:"The Daily Kos has already outed Leopold for some sock-puppetry, and it doesn't take much imagination to think

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Matt Yglesias writes about something I noticed in a New York Times article on Al Gore:"[A]long comes Mark Leibovich in The New York Times with a piece on Gore arguing that if he runs, he'll be "deeply stigmatized" in the eyes of many Democrats because of his loss in 2000. The curious thing is that he can't seem to find anyone who actually feels that way."The title of Leibovich's piece is also

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We hear a lot about "angry" bloggers, but very little about the disturbingly lobotomized demeanor of certain administration officials (and ex-officials) -- Cheney, Powell, Gonzales, and Rice come to mind. There's something exceedingly peculiar about their ultracalm delivery and Mona Lisa-like permasmirk, especially when discussing issues like the Iraq war, a bloodbath they helped instigate.And

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Richard A. Viguerie: "I've never seen conservatives so downright fed up as they are today. The current relationship between Washington Republicans and the nation's conservatives makes me think of a cheating husband whose wife catches him, and forgives him, time and time again. Then one day he comes home to discover that she has packed her bags and called a cab -- and a divorce lawyer.As the

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Link via IraqPundit: Iraq Index (pdf)

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