Archives for the 'media' Category
Earth Treason
Published on 30 Jun 2009 at 9:39 am.
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Filed under media, warmalism, western civilization.
They have betrayed the planet, and they must suffer the fate of traitors!
Paul Krugman at NYT, on warmalism deniers:
So the House passed the Waxman-Markey climate-change bill. In political terms, it was a remarkable achievement.
But 212 representatives voted no. A handful of these no votes came from representatives who considered the bill too weak, but most rejected the [...]
It’s All About The O
Published on 30 May 2009 at 8:05 am.
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Filed under Obama, media, military, sex.
Hate to say I told you so. Here’s Rolling Stone’s “Hot” love for Small Wars Journal. via SWJ:
Hot Intelligence: ‘Small Wars Journal’
The Military’s New Must Read
Want to know how Obama is going to fight the war in Afghanistan? Then check out Small Wars Journal, an online magazine that provides a crash course on asymmetric warfare. [...]
Greatest Generation Chic
Published on 29 May 2009 at 11:18 am.
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Filed under Germans, Obama, history, media, mockery.
Or just making the most of dead Jews and old uncles? Obama’s using Buchenwald for political purposes, says beloved Great-Uncle Charles Payne, via Der Spiegel:
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Strawman Straw Slam
Published on 24 May 2009 at 8:53 am.
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Filed under Obama, media.
Fascinating “Washington Memo” by NYT’s Helene Cooper slams Obama’s growing use of bogus strawmen, when he goes after people who want to “do nothing,” about economic woes, health care, climate change. (I’d like to raise my straw hand on the climate change one. Do nothing, please. That global case of Von Munchausen Syndrome needs a [...]
Cripplehawk
Published on 20 May 2009 at 11:31 am.
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Filed under bigotry, media.
Myself and some others were admonished recently for taking a blind pol at face value, when we mocked Kareem Dale, Obama’s special assistant for arts and culture, for admitting the White House’s feelings of love for MSNBC.
But that was actually treating the handicapped like human beings who are no different from the rest of us. This [...]
See More Hersh
Published on 19 May 2009 at 8:50 am.
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Filed under Cheney, Intel, media, moronocy.
I would be hesitant to run with this, given that it only emerged in a couple of Pakistani papers, but it has the ring of truth. Pakistan’s The Nation:
NEW YORK (Online) – Former prime minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto was assassinated on the orders of the special death squad formed by former US vice-president Dick [...]
Cheap Date
Published on 17 May 2009 at 10:35 pm.
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Filed under blogs, hacks, media.
Maureen Dowd rips off Josh Marshall. Pretty lame. She apparently claims inadvertence, but it looks kinda … I dunno … advertent. Advertently lame, that is. She claims didn’t know she was ripping off the Talking Points Memo blogger. She thought she was just letting a pal do the heavy lifting while she phoned it in. [...]
Getting Cheney
Published on 17 May 2009 at 8:42 am.
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Filed under Cheney, ancient mysteries, media, pols.
The first thing you need to understand about him is his strange power to induce irrationality in his opponents, even greater possibly than the similar power wielded by Bush. It will be the stuff academic careers are built on. For now, we have to make do with the media and punditry, their descriptions of the raw [...]
Metaphor Wanted
Published on 15 May 2009 at 11:26 am.
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Filed under media, pols.
Smells like blood in the water, as people start to notice the House Speaker’s come unhinged. Dan Balz at the Washington Post delicately analyzes the situation:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s extraordinary accusation that the Bush administration lied to Congress about the use of harsh interrogation techniques dramatically raised the stakes in the growing debate over the Bush administration’s anti-terrorism [...]
Tut Tut
Published on 11 May 2009 at 7:42 am.
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Filed under Obama, media.
ABC’s Tapper with the squawking about Wanda Sykes’s Limbaugh bashing, that prompted guffaws from Obama at the Washington press dinner. Rush hopes Obama’s policies fail, Sykes hopes Rush’s kidneys fail. Rush should be waterboarded, etc. Yeah, OK, ho hum, some lefty Rush-bashing. Who cares? Never mind that you could spend all day getting indignant about what comedians and talk show hosts and [...]
Mother, May We
Published on 10 May 2009 at 8:05 am.
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Filed under Obama, media.
OK, the mom in the house isn’t down yet. Might still sneak one in. Here’s Obama mocking everyone … his secretary of state, his chief of staff, himself and his fawning press corps. Washington Post:
When President Obama made his debut as the nation’s Stand-Up-in-Chief last night — the star attraction at the annual White House [...]
Sounds Like His Heart Was In The Right Place
Published on 9 May 2009 at 9:04 am.
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Filed under al qaeda, media, military, pols.
But it doesn’t sound like he knows the troops as well as he thinks he does. The Hill:
CBS Sports commentator David Feherty drew criticism Friday for suggesting any U.S. soldier would murder House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) if given the chance.
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Newspaper Narcissism
Published on 7 May 2009 at 8:39 pm.
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Filed under media.
Walter Pincus at CJR gets off to a good start in a piece with that title, criticizing editors who built Pulitzer shops and were not really focused on much in the way of news that mattered, or was even readable. He sidetracks into the usual, predictable Bush-lied-people-died, failing to notice that the Saddam-as-dire-threat theme predated Bush and that [...]
Propaganda Victory!
Published on 7 May 2009 at 11:51 am.
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Filed under Afghanistan, media, military.
As a career newsman, I can assure the last thing any reporter worth his salt wants to do is let sticky, unresolved questions and facts mess up the story line. That’s why a professional sometimes employs the time-honored device known as “burying” them. Much as the evidence was buried in Afghanistan. AP:
All You Need Is Love
Published on 5 May 2009 at 8:41 am.
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Filed under Obama, media.
Yesterday we saw mapped out the well from which the president of the United States draws his deep thot on foreign policy. An aging fat whiny Brit of weak vertebral constitution with an unhealthy Palin obsession, also known as Andrew Sullivan. We’ve also seen this week the instruments of his wrath: The attack foo-foo dogs of the White House Press [...]
Bush Lied, People Were Waterboarded
Published on 22 Apr 2009 at 9:21 am.
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Filed under Iraq, al qaeda, media, pols.
Great hit for the left! McClatchy-Tribune has the details … some of them, anyway … that among other things, Khalid Sheikh Muhammed and Abu Zubaydah were asked about Saddam-al-Qaeda operational ties during their dunkings. McClatchy and Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., are delighted to report no evidence of operational ties emerged from the sessions. But this is the [...]
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NYT Combat Embed
Published on 20 Apr 2009 at 9:45 am.
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Filed under Afghanistan, media, military.
In the Korengal Valley. An account of combat, loss, and some of the complicating factors in this corner of the Afghan war. More like this, please. Great photo gallery at the link.
This is a relatively tight focus on a single incident, that doesn’t in itself offer extensive insight. But combat embeds give reporters, media organizations and the public [...]
Beloved Competition
Published on 17 Apr 2009 at 9:56 am.
9 Comments.
Filed under Boston, media.
Recently, my newspaper’s reporters forced the Boston Globe to acknowledge what it had not told its rank-and-file employees, and what Globe union leaders had neglected to tell their members, that the New York Times had demanded that the unions at its vassal property come up with $20 million in cuts or face closure within a month. I took the [...]
Stop Making (AP) Sense
Published on 12 Apr 2009 at 9:24 am.
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Filed under media, money.
AP Chairman Dean Singleton squawks tough about going after the Internet. Politico mulls the issue, reports the speculation is they want to shake down Google and Huffpo, other search engines and news aggregators. Politico reports some confusion over this among observers, as the engines and aggregators already have licensing deals, and anyway, are just using headlines [...]
Re The Power Of Being Dead Already
Published on 12 Apr 2009 at 8:43 am.
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Filed under Iraq, media, military.
April 12-15 and after:
But I told my buddy Mike Kirsch, a CBS Miami reporter who would know what I meant, that I was losing the power of being dead already, and I hated it.
That and hanging with the looting party.
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Statue Toppled
Published on 9 Apr 2009 at 10:28 am.
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Filed under Iraq, media, military.
April 9, 2003:
Late in the afternoon, I called up the Boston Herald to dictate the day’s story. Deputy Managing Editor James MacLaughlin told me there was big news on CNN. The Marines had just liberated Baghdad. They were in front of the Palestine Hotel, where they pulled down a statue of Saddam. Did I know [...]
200 Of These Things Look A Lot Like The Others
Published on 9 Apr 2009 at 10:26 am.
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Filed under media.
Never mind the lefty bloggers. This advocacy group has the newspapers shilling for them. Director Blue on the curious case of the echoing headlines. 200 across the nation virtually same-same, a universal health insurance shill pushed by the “progressive” advocacy group Families USA.
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“A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood”
Published on 8 Apr 2009 at 1:09 am.
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Filed under Iraq, media, military.
That went badly wrong. April 8, 2003:
The Gold Platoon Bradleys advanced up Haifa Street, engaging the bunkers in the park and snipers in surrounding buildings heavily with their 25 mm cannons and machine guns.
“I love you, Gold,” Wolford said over the radio. “I love you, baby! I love you, Gold!”
…
The Gold Bradleys dropped their ramps [...]
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“Peace Be With You” Seemed Like A Good Start …
Published on 7 Apr 2009 at 12:56 am.
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Filed under Iraq, media, military.
April 7, 2003:
… We could still hear a lot of gunfire in several directions, but none of it was in our vicinity and we ignored it. By early afternoon, we were getting comfortable in the intersection by the big melodramatic July 14th memorial – a bronze statue depicting one Iraqi soldier slumped dead, two looking [...]
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Double Personal Jinx
Published on 6 Apr 2009 at 11:18 am.
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Filed under Bush, Islam, Obama, media.
On Obama, in Turkey, for repeating Bush again. AP:
“Let me say this as clearly as I can,” Obama said. “The United States is not and never will be at war with Islam. In fact, our partnership with the Muslim world is critical … in rolling back a fringe ideology that people of all faiths reject.”
The [...]
On Getting Killed And Not Getting Killed
Published on 6 Apr 2009 at 8:49 am.
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Filed under Iraq, media, military.
Memory Lane takes a pit stop south of Baghdad. April 6, 2003:
The Bradley would be carrying a Psyops soldier who would play pre-recorded Arabic messages from loudspeakers mounted on top of the armored vehicle. When I got back, the Bradley crew was watching as a Psyops team sergeant addressed three or four of his men. He [...]
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Many Years of Tabloid Happiness
Published on 6 Apr 2009 at 8:36 am.
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Filed under celeb, guns, media.
I dunno how much of a career either of these people has left, but they may have, for tabloid purposes, transcended the need for one. I have a feeling the tabloids of America and the world could be happily selling papers off this lovely celeb couple for years to come. They may, in their own small [...]
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Achtung Baby
Published on 4 Apr 2009 at 1:00 am.
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Filed under Iraq, media, military.
April 4, 2003:
Baxter and I were sitting on my cot, backs against the Bradley’s skirt plate, eating MREs for breakfast and talking about Sgt. Lustig. He was the tough platoon sergeant who didn’t talk much and always meant exactly what he said. He was the one with “ACHTUNG BABY” stenciled on his tank’s gun tube. His [...]
“This War Is Gay!”
Published on 3 Apr 2009 at 12:30 pm.
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Filed under Iraq, media, military.
Re the sexual orientation of war. April 3, 2003:
We crossed the Euphrates around noon. I was asleep in the back and missed it. Another brigade, bounding ahead of us, was responsible for all the wreckage around the bridge.
Baxter was bored and annoyed that someone else was getting all this action. He began bitching about the [...]
Whither Print
Published on 3 Apr 2009 at 10:14 am.
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Filed under media.
UPDATE: Boston Globe’s NYT corporate management gives the Globe unions a month to come up with $20 million in giveback, or close. Boston Herald.
I hope this remains a two-newspaper town. I’ve enjoyed the vigorous competition over the past 15 years that I’ve been a part of it. It is an increasingly rare privilege in American journalism. [...]
Events In The Night Sky
Published on 2 Apr 2009 at 1:15 pm.
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Filed under Iraq, media, military.
Remarked upon. April 2, 2003:
Around midnight, a longer stop, again in the desert. We got out, pissed at the side of the track. We decided to do some housecleaning and threw some empty MRE boxes off to one side of the road. Baxter, Smitty and I shared a couple of butts by the track. We [...]
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Cousin Rusty
Published on 31 Mar 2009 at 10:26 pm.
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Filed under media.
Julie Limbaugh on being related. It’s a touching read, though the girl needs to start telling off the rude people she encounters. Nod to allahpundit.
“That Bitch Just Froze!”
Published on 31 Mar 2009 at 8:15 am.
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Filed under Iraq, media, military.
Personal anniversary, March 31, 2003:
We came out of the desert at dawn. The tanks kicked up dust by mud hut farms, their skull-and-crossed-saber guidons whipping in the wind.
“This all looks so ancient … Nothing has changed here in 2,000 years,” said the LT, up in his turret hatch. There were people in the doorways of the [...]
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Afghanistan Made Easy
Published on 25 Mar 2009 at 10:00 am.
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Filed under Afghanistan, Obama, media, military.
To get, not to do. Enough with the hysteria/doom-and-gloom mongering. War correspondent Robert Kaplan, who has been around the block a couple of times in Afghanistan and with the United States military, with a note of reason on the evolving campaign, what that campaign is fundamentally about, why we can win it, and why we have to. Excerpts [...]
Cruel Mockery Of The Day
Published on 22 Mar 2009 at 12:19 pm.
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Filed under Obama, media.
Via Reynolds, who rounds it all up. More from Gateway, Malkin. I dunno, that may be selling Baghdad Bob a little short. Credit where credit is due. Bob was actively denying undeniable facts, which puts him ahead of the American media on this.
Surber: Two protests, guess which got more coverage.
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Special Olympics Presidency
Published on 20 Mar 2009 at 9:34 am.
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Filed under Obama, media.
Tard jokes are in with America’s new “hip” admin. How long before we as a society advance beyond our unhip hangups about ethnic, racial humor? Treacher cruelly explores the possibilities. All I have to say is, good thing it wasn’t a bungled chimp joke. He’d really be in trouble.
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Gorenalists Nabbed By NKs
Published on 19 Mar 2009 at 11:07 pm.
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Filed under Korea, media.
Sounds like something from “Team America: World Police,” but it’s real, and given North Korea’s history of bizarre abductions and holding people for decades, it’s potentially problematic.
AP: Two Americans working for warmal laureate Al Gore’s Current TV seized by Kim Jong Il’s regime. They were ordered to stop shooting on the China-North Korea border and didn’t. [...]
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Echoes Of JournoListism
Published on 19 Mar 2009 at 10:31 pm.
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Filed under media.
Maguire thinks he hears something echoing out of the secret clubhouse: The same dismissive line on AIG bonuses from several guys who know the secret handshake. I liked this bit from New Republic Senior Editor/JLister Noam Scheiber, though:
I have to say, I’m starting to find the obsessive “what did Geithner/Obama know and when did he know it” line of questioning a [...]
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Kindle Afire
Published on 18 Mar 2009 at 10:11 am.
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Filed under Internet, books, geekism, media.
Future of newspapers? Maybe in some form. That’s the Kindle buzz. A variety of reviews follow, including one from a pal who is a reader here. No techno-geek, he’s a crusty old Vietnam vet.
Deference Denounced
Published on 17 Mar 2009 at 10:16 pm.
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Filed under Cheney, media.
The Gumby-like self-adulator also known as Glenn Greenwald has worked himself into a multiply updated state because some media members were taken aback by White House flak Gibbs’ snide remark about Cheney … ”I guess Rush Limbaugh was busy.”
Hyperventilating highpoints:
Learning Moment
Published on 17 Mar 2009 at 10:15 pm.
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Filed under McCain, Obama, media.
For Obama as McCain declines to engage in an exchange of insults with a talkshow host. Think Progress seems to think it’s a failure on his part.
Lefty Media Kabalists
Published on 17 Mar 2009 at 10:14 pm.
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Filed under media.
Say it’s not a kabal. Though as Goldfarb notes at the link, it sounds creepy. Politico re JournoList, where lefty scribblers, profs, etc., gather virtually to bash the GOP and admire the finer points of Obamism. It’s all off the record but sooner or later someone’s going to get hoisted on that petard.
A Nation’s Loss
Published on 12 Mar 2009 at 12:01 pm.
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Filed under Israel, Obama, media.
Broder: Dissing my Israel-bashing, China-loving breakfast pal was a grievous error. Your loss, America. (With slightly unhinged-looking Freeman art).
Andrew Sullivan likes the part where Broder likes how Freeman understands how our adversaries think. Sullivan tuts:
But some opinions – those that might actually see how the US-Israel alliance looks to all those countries we need to engage diplomatically – [...]
NYT Rite
Published on 12 Mar 2009 at 9:10 am.
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Filed under media.
Ross Douthat gets Kristol’s slot. Ambinder at Douthat’s old gig, The Atlantic, sings his praises:
It’s one step back for the Atlantic, but an order of magnitude forward for the country: my colleagues and I learned today that senior editor Ross Douthat will, in short order, become an opinion columnist for the New York Times.
Ross is [...]
Crazy …
Published on 11 Mar 2009 at 11:58 pm.
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Filed under media, military, moronocy.
Crazy for repeating this guy’s crap. Crazy … Raw Story with more nonsense from Hersh. If you’ve every attended an event where he is speaking, you know that he blathers, gets excited, essentially makes things up, starts saying all kinds of things that will never see ink. Much like this, for example:
Mob Vs. Snob
Published on 10 Mar 2009 at 10:21 pm.
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Filed under media, pols.
Will Collier makes a couple of points, if hurtfully, overstates a couple more, more hurtfully, as he spanks my cousin David in Tea Party Conservatives vs. Dinner Party Conservatives. I’m with the mob re the spendfest, but otherwise staying discreetly neutral in this particular hearts/minds struggle, that exercise in tabloid shorthand up there notwithstanding. Politics and the blogosphere are harsh arenas, [...]
Shark Jumped
Published on 10 Mar 2009 at 11:05 am.
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Filed under media, pols.
I hope, in a stupid fight that essentially serves the Dems, the media, and Rush. Politico: Newt and Rush, now going at it.
There’s a bit of bizarre irony as Rush disparages people in the media who think they’re in politics, but he goes on to explain that his strength comes from his audience, not elections, so I guess that [...]
Rush Judgment
Published on 8 Mar 2009 at 2:27 pm.
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Filed under media, pols.
David Frum* slams Rush at Newsweek. A lot to ponder and dicker over his view of the future of the party and whether Rush is part of it. Basic point, does anyone actually think Rush is going to be the leader of the Republican Party or want him to be, including Rush? Raise your hand if [...]
“Audacity Of Hype”
Published on 5 Mar 2009 at 10:05 am.
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Filed under Obama, media.
It never gets old. Because Hope/Change rhetoric mockery gets a regular refresh in the era of new politics. Amy Holmes at the Corner with an update on Dem storyline preferences and media compliance.
Debate Now!
Published on 5 Mar 2009 at 1:03 am.
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Filed under Obama, media.
Rush to El Heraldo: It ain’t me. But thanks for the attention.
“The Republican Party and the conservative movement are two different things. I have nothing to do with the party,” Limbaugh said yesterday in an e-mail. “Clearly, the GOP has no ‘leader’ right now, and they won’t until a viable presidential candidate surfaces. I have no [...]
