The GOP strategy for achieving its already media-trumpeted 2010 landslide is shaping up, and it has to be admired for its sheer audacity, as well as its desperate but hardly unwarranted reliance on the media continuing to be as stupid as it was throughout the Bush years. Richard Cohen, David Broder, and David Gregory are [...]
At the time I wondered why I felt so emotional; why, just because Bush was going to start the second war of his tenure amid unanimous media cheerleading and the flimsiest of rationales for it, I felt as though a line had been crossed. War had become the new national pastime, and all the king’s [...]
UPDATE BELOW: Michael Moore is getting a quite a bad rap today for the open letter he published at Daily Kos in which he had the temerity to publicly call for President Obama not to essentially make the Afghan misadventure a permanent thing. The horrified cries of treachery and America-hating naturally rained down, of course, [...]
Life must be pretty frustrating for third-tier righties these days; for eight long years they dominated the op/ed pages, waxing hawkish and Randian as the country did the same, spreading their tiny wings in the bright dawn of the Permanent Republican Majority. Lack of real world experience or any discernible talent was no obstacle in [...]
UPDATE BELOW: It seems that the only thing that is too indecent and/or inappropriate to be uttered in public discourse these days is, well, the truth. You see, the media have bet all their chips on lies from sea to shining sea ever since Al Gore “invented the internet,” and truth today in the media, [...]
Is there any such thing anymore as a Republican deemed unworthy of opining on the news of the day? Is there any conduct so aberrant, lie so flagrant, hypocrisy so astounding, nor unbroken record of utter failure enough to get these blowhards off the TV and Op/Ed pages once and for all? No, Virginia, there [...]
This morning as I left the house, I grabbed my messenger bag out of the hall closet, and there was an Obama/Biden sign hanging in there, and I decided to take it down. It’s odd, but the John Kerry sign that hung there for four years always kind of cheered me up; not just because [...]
You know, Barbara Woodhouse had a point, and darn it, intrepid journalist Brian Williams of NBC, in his first known foray into the steamy underbelly of investigative journalism, got to know Bo today, and provided the most enlightening words about his time with the Obama administration, in terms of paws. “Sum up this guy,” Williams [...]
Reading the New York Times with unusual thoroughness over the holiday weekend, I found myself annoyed, and a little embarrassed, that so much of it was, well, garbage. Worse, it was garbage of the most common and insulting sort: fawning, shallow interviews, dubious, poorly-sourced claims presented as fact, “balance” in the form of risibly false [...]
To: Paunch Sulzburger, runtofthelitter@NYT.com From: Overpaid Consultant RE: “Talent” Good seeing you the other night, Paunch. The lighting in that restaurant did make you appear taller and less bald. But let’s cut to the chase here. Some of that dead wood on your OP/ED page is so petrified you guys don’t need an iceberg to [...]