"Media Issues" archive
Thursday 2 August
- I dunno, I saw six sprinters... (14:38) - ...but I can see where some might see six black guys bowing down to massa. Gizmodo says it best: One of Intel's latest ad's shows six athletic black dudes bowing down before a dorky white guy in khaki pants. Lousy,...
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Friday 27 July
- conservative intellectual dishonesty pisses me off. (11:09) - I'm not talking about the outright make-shit-up mode that people like OReally and "William the Bloody" Kristol use regularly, but when a conservative uses classic propaganda tactics. I was pointed to this Michael Gerson column in WaPo from Atrios and... | 0 Trackbacks
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Friday 20 July
- I definitely have a new fetish... (09:33) - NPR on-air reporters: Margot Adler: (and yes, that's the Drawing Down The Moon Margot Adler) Korva Coleman: Mandalit del Barco Lourdes Garcia-Navarro Lakshmi Singh: *sigh* isn't she just a doll! and let's not forget my all-time favorite, Susan Stamberg: I... | 0 Trackbacks
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Tuesday 17 July
- I would never feel bad for Wolf Blitzer... (10:53) - and I can't imagine why Michael Moore does: I have to admit, though, I do feel kinda bad taking it all out on Wolf Blitzer. It's not like he's the official representative of the mainstream media. (via MediaBistro) Actually, Mr.... | 0 Trackbacks
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Thursday 12 July
- gay schmay... (20:24) - As a dad who's been to "bat night," "ball night," "hat night," and goddess-knows-what-else night, I can safely say that O'Really has no idea what he's talking about here. O'Reilly: To "cluster" gays near children is "insane" and "inappropriate" On... | 0 Trackbacks
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Wednesday 27 June
- Maybe someone should rape Dennis Prager (16:06) - World O'Crap gave a great smackdown to Townhall asshole Dennis Prager's contention that name-rape is as bad as real rape: The rape of a name can be as vicious a crime and as destructive an act as the rape of... | 0 Trackbacks
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- I <3 Elizabeth Edwards some more! (15:48) - Crooks and Liars has the video of EE calling into yesterday's "Hardball" show, challenging AnnThrax. It was a thing of beauty, listen to it. There's a gal in pink standing behind AnnThrax whose nipples are getting hard as EE asks... | 0 Trackbacks
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Friday 8 June
- Too Cool for Words! (16:26) - Speed Racer's Mach 5 comes to life Filed under: Transportation Sorry K.I.T.T., you had a nice run there, but we're pretty certain the newly created Mach 5 could destroy you in the quarter mile. As the crew readies for the... | 0 Trackbacks
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Tuesday 5 June
- If Conyers is truly pissed off... (18:17) - ...and it sounds like he is here...will he advocate that the CBC withdraw its sponsorship of a Democratic Presidential Debate on Faux? Yesterday, Fox News Channel broke the story of Rep. William Jefferson’s indictment with video of Judiciary Committee Chairman... | 0 Trackbacks
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Monday 14 May
- Dear National Public Radio (14:19) - Don't y'all get just a little embarassed when one of your reporters goes on Fox Noise Channel and simply makes shit up? Ignoring polling, Liasson claimed on Fox News Sunday that all Republicans beat Clinton On the May 13 edition... | 0 Trackbacks
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- Sunshine is not always the solution (12:59) - To: Mr. Tom Grubisich Subj: Your article in today's Washington Post entitled, "Sunshine for the Virtual Town Hall" Your article fails to make a case for eliminating anonymity on-line because you use only present a very narrow use of pseudonyms.... | 0 Trackbacks
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Wednesday 9 May
- quote of the day... (15:14) - ...from Swampland commentor "tockyhockey," remarking on a post from Wonkette about Jay Carney meeting Elizabeth Edwards: Whenever I feel like my life isn't going as planned, I can always be thankful that I don't get paid to tell people with... | 0 Trackbacks
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Thursday 26 April
- Broder... (13:17) - Everyone's going ballistic over Broder's latest insults of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and Atrios points out an excellent article by Paul Begala today over at HuffPo. I agree with Begala that he should apologize to self-respecting gasbags for including... | 0 Trackbacks
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Tuesday 17 April
- a 9mm is sexy? (21:10) - OK, this is why i shouldn't watch the boobtoob. These idiots on "48 Hours" claim the 9mm is sexy. Fucking assholes. The 9mm is so commonly used because it's... repeat after me... NATO STANDARD. US ARMY STANDARD. There's nothing sexy... | 0 Trackbacks
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Sunday 15 April
- They Both Have It Wrong (22:19) - Atrios and Drum both get it wrong: The Worst Drum writes: Matthews' audience is probably mostly liberal and centrist liberal, and he convinces them that liberal politics is an idiotic clown show.This certainly isn't who Matthews thinks his target audience... | 0 Trackbacks
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Wednesday 28 March
- "bitch" = racial overtones??? (12:23) - The principle of Occam's Razor is very simple: entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity. When analyzing an event, it's a good idea to keep Occam's Razor in mind. Sometimes an outburst is really very simple. Last week, Dr. Ralph... | 0 Trackbacks
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Monday 26 March
- Insensitive... (15:11) - I can't agree with Sirota more, Katie Couric should be ashamed of herself. This about sums it up: I wonder how Katie Couric would have reacted back in 1997 if people started interrogating her about why she was working during... | 0 Trackbacks
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Friday 17 November
- the ride gets bumpier... (10:36) - Excellent observation from Digby: For some reason, when Democrats are in power the press corps immediately goes from being merely shallow to insufferable, sophomoric assholes. Indeed. The difference between now and the Clinton Wars is that we have a much... | 0 Trackbacks
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Monday 13 November
- NYT Premium... (14:39) - one of the nice things about not paying for the NYT Select is that this inside reference by Alterman really doesn't matter to me: Who will take away his license to kill? Things upon which I don't have time to... | 0 Trackbacks
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Tuesday 17 October
- Frank Rich... (00:39) - so, Stewart puts him on the "seat of heat," asking him to do a "slug-line" for the Bush Administration, since Rich had been the theater critic for the Gray Old Lady for years. His answer: "The most senesless play I've... | 0 Trackbacks
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Friday 6 October
- Shorter David Broder... (19:53) - did I mention that the Democratic Party has BLACK candidates running for office? If the Dems take over, it's going to be hard to put them BLACK people in their place...... | 0 Trackbacks
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Monday 2 October
- ABC News... (12:01) - it's interesting that ABC News is so far out in front on the Foley scandal. OK, I know sex sells, and the "common man" loves to see the mighty fall. Still, for all the trouble that Disney/ABC went through to... | 0 Trackbacks
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Sunday 1 October
- Don Riegle kicks ass! (09:40) - Former Senator Don Riegle (D-MI) just spanked some female "Republican Strategist" on Faux News. His tactic? Give her NO time to get in the last word. The bubble-headed bleach-blonde on FNC was trying to shift back to the republican, but... | 0 Trackbacks
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Monday 11 September
- Will Olbermann be next? (11:24) - Alterman has heard rumors that GE/NBC is tightening the political controls on MSNBC, hence his firing. Interesting. I guess Olbermann and Alterman were just getting too effective. Your Liberal Media Alterman fired from msnbc.com, though he will have a... | 0 Trackbacks
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- Crackhead Cokie... (09:32) - I really just can't take listening to this nutball anymore. I usually listen to NPR's "Morning Edition" via their website, so I can at least just fast-forward through her.... | 0 Trackbacks
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Thursday 31 August
- lies and the lying liars... (09:14) - Somtimes Colorado really scares me: Congressman Bob Beauprez was denounced by state legislators today for comments he made in a recent radio interview about black pregnancies and abortion. "In some of our ethnic communities, we're seeing very, very high percentages... | 0 Trackbacks
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Sunday 27 August
- "Tough Questions for Louisiana's Democratic Senator" (21:29) - That was CNN's lede into the 10pmEDT hour. That's like saying "tough questions for my 12-year old son while his 18-year old brother sits on him and beats the crap out of him." Oh, and then they're going to have... | 0 Trackbacks
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Monday 14 August
- Still smokin' (08:18) - We don't get Showtime, so I haven't watched "Weeds," but based on this review, I think I'll get it on DVD when it gets to that point. Salon previews the show's second season: This is what "Weeds" does best: It... | 0 Trackbacks
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Tuesday 8 August
- my latest letter to the NPR ombudsman (11:21) - To: NPR Ombudsman Re: Juan Williams' latest comments on FNC I'm writing to direct your attention to remarks made by your "senior correspondent" Juan Williams in his role as pundit on Fox News Channel. On the 5-August edition of the... | 0 Trackbacks
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- They-Eat-Their-Own: Winger Pundit Edition... (09:09) - I love when wingnut pundits fight. From Crooks and Liars, we get a segment from Scarborough defending himself and his position on Mel Gibson against Laura Ingraham: SCARBOROUGH: ...In this case, I turned from being one of Mel Gibson‘s biggest... | 0 Trackbacks
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Monday 24 July
- Top 7 things Errol Laborde misses... (12:17) - Interesting article from Laborde in this month's New Orleans Magazine. We lost a lot because of the storm, and this is his top list. I'll leave you to look back at the article itself for his comments and reasoning: 7.... | 0 Trackbacks
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Saturday 22 July
- Wolcott on Limbaugh (12:08) - yeah, I know that posting about the Vulgar Pigboy these days is like shooting fish in a barrel, but James Wolcott has such a great way with words. Here he's commenting on Rush's recent on-air shout-outs to Debbie Schlussel and... | 0 Trackbacks
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Friday 21 July
- Beck is such a douchebag (20:28) - This moron has obviously never been to Tipitina's: Beck: different races "afraid to hang out with each other ... because we're afraid ... somebody's gonna sic the NAACP on us" On the July 21 edition of his nationally syndicated radio... | 0 Trackbacks
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Monday 17 July
- AnnThrax backlash (22:55) - couldn't happen to a nicer crackwhore... On the July 14 edition of MSNBC's Countdown, host Keith Olbermann reported that right-wing pundit "Ann Coulter has been knocked off the pages of one of the heartland's better newspapers because of complaints by... | 0 Trackbacks
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Tuesday 11 July
- Coulter's employers support her... (06:37) - big surprise: NEW YORK - The syndicator of Ann Coulter's newspaper columns rejected allegations that she had lifted material from other sources, saying a review of the work in question turned up nothing that merited concern. "There are only so... | 0 Trackbacks
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Thursday 6 July
- AnnThrax busted for plagiarism... (11:26) - This is just a hoot. That Coulter is a liar and a cheat is not a huge surprise, of course. I truly do feel for Barrie, though, having to read through her crap: It didn't take long to find evidence... | 0 Trackbacks
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Wednesday 5 July
- The "legitimizing" of The Daily Show (10:58) - A community discussion veered off onto TDS, and LiveJournal user josephwaldman made this comment: I do wish they came across less as East-Coast elitists and just focused on satire and snottiness, whatever the subject. Anyway, for Chrissake, it's still just... | 0 Trackbacks
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Thursday 22 June
- Letter to the "Dean" (17:09) - Mr. Broder: I take great exception to your characterization of Ms. Donna Brazile in your column of 22-June. As I'm sure you're well aware, Ms. Brazile is a 30-year veteran of presidential campaigns, most notably serving as one of the... | 0 Trackbacks
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Friday 12 May
- There's something to be said for McPaper... (10:37) - People have slammed USA Today for twenty years now, but Salon.com points out this morning that somethings the lowest common denominator is the best option. Salon's War Room listed the paper's Q&A on the NSA wiretapping: Q: Does the NSA's... | 0 Trackbacks
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- Question for the Hardball Staff. (10:27) - to: hardball@msnbc.com re Media Matters' latest on Matthews' statements on Hardball: When research organizations like Media Matters for America expose your inaccuracies, I figure it's for one of the following reasons: 1. You're not very good at briefing Matthews before... | 0 Trackbacks
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Tuesday 9 May
- Letter to NPR Ombudsman (08:57) - Mr. Jeffery A. Dvorkin Ombudsman National Public Radio ombudsman@npr.org Dear Mr. Dvorkin: As has been widely reported via various Internet outlets in the last few days, Ms. Liasson has yet again falsely mis-characterized Harry Reid's relationship with disgraced lobbyist Jack... | 0 Trackbacks
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Thursday 16 February
- Well, we knew this already... (10:59) - Wolcott's figured out that Douglas Brinkley is pretty much just an asshole: But it still pissed me off, his eagerness to play the spin game before we actually know what transpired. As one of the most powerful eyewitnesses to the... | 0 Trackbacks
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Friday 30 December
- Local Public Radio... (10:55) - good article in Da Gambit on local community radio stations. It's good to see that things are moving forward to get WWNO, WTUL, and 'OZ back home. Technical shout-out to Da Gambit's website staff: Thanks for putting the permalinks to... | 0 Trackbacks
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Monday 12 December
- Richard Pryor memories... (08:41) - Juan Williams' segment this morning on NPR's "Morning Edition" was not bad, right up to his conclusion. Williams feels that the current generation of comics' use of the word nigger is, unlike Pryor's, "shopworn and offensive." Mr. Williams, what's "shopworn... | 0 Trackbacks
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Tuesday 6 December
- The Vulgar Pigboy is too lazy to come to New Orleans (10:42) - WWL-AM's Diane Newman can try all she wants to get that lying bastard to come to New Orleans, but it's just not going to happen. The Vulgar Pigboy lives in his own reality, and it's really sad that it takes... | 0 Trackbacks
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- Landrieu, shrill? (10:13) - Harry Shearer is right: Saturday, the LAT did a long piece about the diminishing chances for a comprehensive Louisiana recovery program in Congress, premised parrtly on Sen. Mary Landrieu's alleged "shrillness" (would a male senator be described that way?) and... | 0 Trackbacks
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Monday 5 December
- It's even more nauseating when they hit close to home... (15:10) - Media Matters hammers the NYT on a Louisiana story. Maybe I'm too harsh on Da Paper for phoning in their stories on the state legislature when the NYT reporters can't even look back at what they wrote two months earlier.... | 0 Trackbacks
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Sunday 4 December
- Air America's Morning Sedition... (08:55) - Via Wolcott, (who I hope gets to continue his off-and-on gig mornings on AAR) comes an insider's view of why Morning Sedition, the morning show on Air America Radio, is no more. Jonathan Larsen was a producer for AAR, specifically... | 0 Trackbacks
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Tuesday 29 November
- Letter to US News and World Report (16:56) - To: letters@usnews.com From: YatPundit Subject: Mr. Zuckerman's column in your 05-December-2005 issue Mr. Mortimer Zuckerman should have exhibited some of that "trusteeship" he says is missing in blogs on his own column. By not disclosing that bloggers joined other journalists...
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Wednesday 23 November
- 60 Minutes... (09:13) - OK, that show was too stupid to even bother trying to refute. Next time Ed Bradley comes to town and tries to be a New Orleanian, every club in town should show him the door....
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Saturday 19 November
- Conason on Woodward (12:15) - Joe makes the case for never buying another book by Woodward: Sadly, Woodward not only served as a silent accomplice of the Bush White House in its attack on Plame and her husband, Joseph Wilson, but went much further by...
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- King Kaufman on Bob Edwards... (11:38) - I'm listening to XM-Public Radio (channel 133), to Bob Edwards' show. Many of you will remember Bob as the founding host of NPR's "Morning Edition." He was canned by NPR for being "too old," and XM jumped at the opportunity...
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Tuesday 8 November
- Subpoenaing Reporters... (09:12) - Atrios is right, this is a thoughtful column. One section really sticks with me, though: A yellow sheet of paper marked "official business" changed that. It was a subpoena from the public defender’s office. I was being summoned to testify...
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Monday 7 November
- I'd find it more amusing than annoying... (11:12) - ...if this happened to me: Jeff man sues TP over photograph A Jefferson Parish man is suing The Times-Picayune for publishing his photograph with a caption incorrectly identifying him as a murder suspect. Mark J. Cambre's suit says the newspaper...
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Thursday 25 August
- Lie on TV, Apologize on the Web (09:05) - Robertson apologizes for assassination remark Responding to a growing chorus of denunciation, religious broadcaster Pat Robertson apologized Wednesday for suggesting on his television show that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez should be assassinated. "Is it right to call for an assassination?"...
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- new google bomb... (08:44) - Vacation President post it in your blog to increase the size of the bomb......
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Saturday 20 August
- BugMeNot and newspaper registrations (09:40) - Agreed with TechDirt here, the newspapers just don't get it. I know that the on-line advertising pitch does not mention the fact that there is strong resistance to registering for every newspaper in the world. The papers and TV stations...
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Monday 8 August
- Minutemen rally in SoCal (14:16) - I have no patience for Nazis at all, and wouldn't usually write about a skinhead gathering, but this particular protest in Los Angeles is significant for several reasons. For openers, there's these two flags: Don't let the Confederate apologists tell...
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Thursday 4 August
- Best. Daily Show. Ever. (23:07) - Between Novakula, the plane crash in Toronto, Stephen Colbert and the Dukes of Hazard bit, and Miles O'Brien...what a show. Quote of the week -- Stewart, to Miles O'Brien: "You're way too white to say 'schmutzy'" and you gotta love...
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- Finally, something good comes out of Colorado... (10:42) - Jay Marvin, from 760AM in Boulder, CO, is filling in for Springer while Jerry's on vacation. He's pretty good. I like Springer better, but I'm definitely enjoying the change of pace....
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Saturday 23 July
- And these were licensed facilities... (11:29) - Bobo's World FL edition: JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- The state suspended the licenses of two church-affiliated day care centers where children allegedly were sexually molested, forced to eat worms and pick each other's noses during employee-led games of "Truth or Dare."The...
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Friday 22 July
- Gotta love UK newspapers... (09:10) - headline from The Scotsman this morning: Up to 4 terrorists on run after Londoners cheat death Can you imagine any paper in the US using the phrase "cheat death?" That's so non-fluffy-bunny, warm-and-corporate-fuzzy, buy-stuff-from-our-advertisers....
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Monday 18 July
- Michael Barone lies to TownHall readers... (15:16) - ...not that TownHall readers care much, since it's what they want to hear in the first place. To: Michael Barone, US News and World Report. Subj: Your Column From your column: The Democrats who were so outraged by Plame's outing...
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- Quote of the Day (11:27) - Ed Kilgore: With precious few exceptions, this administration has been characterized by a recklessness and irresponsibility that could barely have been matched if the country had been turned over to actual adolescents. The Irresponsibility Era [via TPMCafe - The Coffee...
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Saturday 16 July
- Prosecutorial tools (15:16) - WaPo reports that Judith Miller may be facing criminal contempt charges for refusing to cooperate with special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's investigation into the Valerie Plame leak. Criminal contempt differs from civil contempt in that the defendant can be actually charged...
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Friday 15 July
- Isikoff, Compton, and the politics of oral sex (part 2) (14:36) - Now for Ann Compton. The long-time ABC corresondent Ann Compton, on NPR's "Morning Edition" earlier today, said that what Clinton did was worse than Rove: Renee Montagne: Do any of these grillings that you’ve covered over three decades in the...
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- Isikoff, Compton, and the politics of oral sex (part 1) (14:01) - I want to talk about Isikoff's remarks last night and Anne Compton's this morning. Most in the blogosphere are lumping these two issues together, because both reporters leave the viewers and listeners with the impression that oral sex is more...
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Tuesday 12 July
- Just because you're paranoid... (06:57) - ...doesn't mean they're not out to get you. We've seen it before. Dems think they've got the high ground, only to have our legs cut out from underneath us. Now is not the time for the frog-march happy dance. That...
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Saturday 9 July
- Jeez, these people are such assholes... (11:52) - Classic Moments on CNN Just now. Miles O'Brien: Let's get started with Jeevan Deol who is a witness to the bombings yesterday and also a Muslim scholar in London and happened to be right near where the double decker bus...
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- Hurricane coverage... (11:05) - I've looked at three sites so far. It's 1125CDT and Nagin was scheduled to brief at 1100CDT. Here's what I see: Da Paper is clear and concise - Jeff Parish, voluntary evac, Nagin's not ordering/suggesting anything for the city Channel...
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Friday 8 July
- Brit Hume = Sick Bastard (19:52) - Another FNC idiot who needs to spend a day with victims of the bombing... Hume's "first thought" on hearing of London attacks: It's "time to buy" futures During Fox News' coverage of the July 7 London bombings, Washington managing editor...
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- Tell it to the families, asshole (14:24) - Fox News' Brian Kilmeade: London terror attack near G8 summit "works to ... Western world's advantage, for people to experience something like this together" The following exchange between Fox News host Brian Kilmeade and Fox News business contributor and substitute...
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- The judges are convinced... (14:03) - ...that Fitzgerald has something and someone should go to jail. But who? Huff Po's O'Donnell: The One Very Good Reason Rove Might Be Indicted... Judge Tatel's opinion has eight blank pages in the middle of it where he discusses the...
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Thursday 7 July
- Ouch! (16:09) - In a related development, Bill Keller, executive editor of The New York Times, described Judith Miller, who has been ushered into incarceration over her refusal to testify in the Valerie Plame leak investigation, as "an honorable journalist." Tell it to...
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- Judith Miller in custody... (16:06) - She's still refusing to give up her source. Interesting that Matt Cooper will give up all his information now. He now says his source has released him. Which begs the question, if the source released Cooper, why did they not...
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Monday 27 June
- send Judith Miller to jail... (12:07) - Now that the Supremes have cleared the way for prosecutors to move forward in the Valerie Plame case, I'm not shedding any tears for the loss of a reporter's right to keep sources anonymous. While many major news outlets sided...
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- Gambit's website... (10:51) - Have you seen www.bestofneworleans.com lately? They've given it a very nice facelift. The old yellow color theme was not the most pleasant. I like the soft-blue look they've chosen. Not to mention that Gambit Weekly is usually some of the...
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Sunday 26 June
- JROTC Programs (19:01) - Elaine Supkis writes an excellent outrage post in her blog on a young lady who was killed in Iraq, but she misses a huge point about Junior ROTC programs. Citing this WaPo article on JROTC, she comments: The kids playing...
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Thursday 16 June
- Bayou Buzz, Catholics, and da Cops... (07:32) - I was asked yesterday if I knew who/what the Bayou Buzz website was. Before going there, I was pretty sure it was Jeff Crouere's website. Crouere has been a tertiary-to-secondary radio/tv commentator with a conservative bent here in New Orleans...
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Thursday 2 June
- This is why lying can be problematic (15:59) - When you have to constantly remember the lies you tell to keep the story consistent: Seelye Slips In today's print New York Times, Seelye delivers a wee bombshell: Former President Bill Clinton was cautious. He had been furious when Kenneth...
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Wednesday 4 May
- oh, this is going to be a hoot! (09:29) - Stephen Colbert is getting his own show: Comedy Central said yesterday that it was giving Mr. Colbert his own show: a half-hour that is expected to follow "The Daily Show" on weeknights and will lampoon those cable-news shows that are...
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Saturday 30 April
- Army Recruiters (11:52) - Recruitment: How Far Will The Army Go? Last month the U.S. Army failed to meet its goal of 6,800 new troops. Aware of this trend, David McSwane, a local high school student, decided he wanted to find out to what...
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- the "kidnapped" wife-to-be (11:46) - This comment by Atrios is illustrative of just how screwed up cable news is: ... and, what must the families of the "4 soldiers killed in Iraq today" think of this being CNN's "top story of the day" and every...
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Tuesday 19 April
- AnnThrax on Time (09:44) - I'm not going to comment other than to post the magazine's e-mail address: letters@time.com If you are a regular reader, tell them how you enjoyed seeing a photo of someone who wanted Tim McVeigh to do a New York City...
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Friday 8 April
- Springer on the Radio (09:57) - I'm listening to, of all people, Jerry Springer. Springer has taken over the 9-12 show on Air America Radio, the segment between Morning Sedition and Franken. This was where "Unfiltered" aired until the one-year anniversery of AAR on 1-April. I...
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Thursday 31 March
- "unfiltered" this morning (08:51) - Rachel Maddaux is ranting on and on this morning about Bill Clinton. She cited a report from (I think) CBS that claims Clinton advised John Kerry to position himself in favor of the various anti-gay-marriage initiatives that popped up. She...
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Friday 25 March
- Terri Schiavo's soul has long since fled her body. (18:24) - Terri Schiavo's soul has long since fled her body. That's what tends to happen when your cortex gets filled with cerebro-spinal fluid, and all your neurons go. So, can we please stop the hysterical coverage that she's dying when, in...
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- I read the Nagourney piece in Da Paper this morning... (10:46) - ...and it was as nasty as Wolcott claims. Puppy Licks Master's Face Have an airsick bag handy should you embark upon Adam Nagourney's lipsmacking love letter to Jeb Bush on page one of today's NY Times. Nagourney, who once boasted...
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Wednesday 23 March
- ummm...wrong Hornets, guys... (19:02) - you guys know by now that I'm a soccer fan and referee, I'm sure. When I saw the title, "Hornets axe boss Lewington," that didn't quite make sense, because the "boss" of the New Orleans Hornets is head coach Byron...
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Wednesday 9 March
- overzealous prosecutors (23:46) - This comment to a blog post on Wampum in reference to CNN's Nancy Grace caught my eye: There's no safety from the likes of a lying, scheming prosecutor hell bent with a moral indignation to bring you down, no matter...
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Monday 7 March
- this sounds improbable at first glance... (21:25) - Given that we have digital cable service, I can't see how screwing this thing into the cable itself will stop fox, but I do wish it would work......
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Wednesday 2 March
- The Death of the Op-Ed (08:19) - Yglesias makes a very salient point this morning, in discussing the influence of blogs: The short-format column, however, is the journalistic product that the weblog comes closest to approximating and is one that I really think is being rendered obsolete...
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