Um, CNN: Desiree Rogers Is Not Karl Rove Or Harriet Miers
(From TWD)CNN further embarrassed itself as a network last night by somehow equating the Obama Administration not having Social Secretary Desiree Rogers testify to Congress to the Bush Administration...
View ArticleObama=Bush! Remember when...? That was awesome
Cross-posted at Eclectablog.This Obamabot finally has to admit it: President Barack H. Obama is exactly like President George W. Bush.
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I got your outrage right here, Arianna
This'll be longWhat. The. F*CK?I get that traditional print media is dead or dying. I get that we're somehow expected to pay $500 for an e-reader and another $100 a year or so for subscriptions to...
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Open Thread for Night Owls: Ridiculous Comparisons
At The Atlantic, where he is a senior editor, Ta-Nehisi Coates takes on a Washington Post columnist: Charles Lane compares the radicalism of white supremacists with the radicalism of escaped slaves:...
View ArticleMaher Takes on False Equivalency in Media
[Cross-posted from my blog.]I stayed home Friday night and watched Real Time, followed by the great little "Overtime" addendum that streams live online immediately after the HBO broadcast.Bill Maher...
View ArticleSanity Means Facing Reality
I love Jon Stewart, but I have to call bullshit on the whole false equivalency shtick he pulled at the rally on Saturday. It needs to be said. When a large portion of the population lives in a fantasy...
View Article"I Don't CARE How Rupert Raises HIS Kids... You're MY Kids and You'll Follow...
OK, I think I’m starting to wrap my head around this whole Keith Olbermann suspension thing. He broke a rule. It was a stupid rule. Everyone KNOWS it was a stupid rule. But he broke it...
View ArticleTucson False Equivalency: FOX Gives Credence to White Supremacists -...
As I was wading through the news reports earlier today, of the gun slaughter in Tuscon that killed 6 and gravely wounded US Rep Giffords, I happened on a FOX news report that had some information that...
View ArticleBoston Globe attacks Dailykos--we're as bad as Palin.
The media's "soul searching" about violent political rhetoric in light of the Arizona tragedy I find gag-inducing, since it almost always includes the SCLM's need to build a false equivalency between...
View ArticleIt's not "the Right" or the Tea Baggers. It's the Republicans
We all know "both sides" do not use violent rhetoric. Notice, though, that most of our ardent defenders in the media, while correctly going after the false-equivalency, mistakingly identify the source...
View ArticleIt is time to profile white male citizens of Arizona
If you follow Sarah Palin's logic that is...June 8, 2011Jared Loughner, the 22-year-old suspect in the shooting of U.S. Rep Gabrielle Giffords and others at a Tucson grocery, railed against the...
View ArticleMSNBC just mentioned someone arrested for making threats to Senator Michael...
This is a breaking story and I haven't found any links yet, but I suspect that web will see lots and lots of arrests in the next few weeks. Every crackpot and fringe loon who has been "watched...
View ArticleCronkite swayed the Nation when he fearlessly said What was True -- and not...
This is another Olbermann diary.I am stunned. I am sad.I feel like another true progressive voice, has been silenced -- talk about First Amendment Remedies!You see Keith Olbermann was is still one of...
View ArticleThe Demise of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart's attempts at appearing non-partisan are becoming more and more pathetic. It's like he tells his writers to include at least one anti-democratic party/liberal joke per episode. Take today's...
View ArticleWisconsin Collective Bargaining Battle is Over - the War Continues
The Wisconsin State Senate Republicans, in a parliamentary maneuver which rivaled their Democratic counterparts’ tactic of leaving the state, took the ban on public union collective bargaining out of...
View ArticleReciprocity Nonexistence Syndrome: Sociopathic GOP Partisanship 2001-2011
A bitterly disputed election. Mass disenfranchisement of voters. An outcome that did not reflect the will of the people. A diabolus ex machina from the Supreme Court ending the counting of votes. A...
View ArticleKrugman: "The Cult That Is Destroying America" Is The Cult of Balance
Paul Krugman names the real cause of many of our problems: the corporate owned tradmed's cult of balance, the cult of false equivalencies:Think about what’s happening right now. We have a crisis in...
View ArticlePiers v Toure & Why CNN is Still Hurting America
A few years back Jon Stewart came onto CNN's Crossfire with Ftucker Carlson and Paul Begala and told them to "Stop. You're hurting America" - with their false equivalency and bogus Left/Right...
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Who is S.E. Cupp and Why Does Alex Wagner Provide Her So Much Space?
Alex Wagner, who has her own show, NOW w/ Alex Wagner at noon ET on MSNBC, is the cable network's newer hipper offering of younger panelists of the political scene. While there isn't a set regular...
View ArticleEugene Robinson nails it
in his Friday column for the Washington Post. Titled Republican rhetoric over the top it totally demolishes the false equivalence some try to offer to avoid confronting how awful some of what spews...
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