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AP Carries GOP's Water Again: Palin's "Star Performance""Reminiscent of Reagan"
The AP doesn't even pretend to offer objective reporting, does it?
View ArticleTownhall smears Obama/Daily Kos on "Chicago Tonight" (PBS)
So, as I channel-surfed a short while ago, I came across "Chicago Tonight," a nightly current events and local guide program on WTTW, Channel 11, the local PBS station here in Chicago. Lo and behold,...
View ArticleMcCain Campaign Claimed Credit for Passage of Bailout Bill . . . Right Before...
McCain's absurd political posturing -- his claim that he was "suspending" his campaign -- is well-documented. We can now add Chapter 2 to McCain's absurdist tale, as now comes word that the McCain...
View ArticleAP still desperately peddling "McCain has tightened race" theme
At a time when virtually every reputable poll gives Obama a double-digit national lead, leave it to the AP, and Liz Sodoti in particular (she of bringing-donuts-for-McCain and gushing-over-Palin fame),...
View ArticleLet's have some GOOD news: Enthusiasm and turnout high even in the...
Greetings from an early Obama voter in the village of Oak Park, Illinois, back home after a vote date with my lovely Obama-voting wife on a blustery, snowy -- yes, SNOWY -- evening in the Chicago area....
View ArticleCorrupt to the end, Bush stripping pollution controls
With all eyes on the final push toward the election, the Bush Administration is quietly attempting to give massive anti-regulatory parting gifts to its industry friends. Not content with nearly 8...
View ArticlePandering McCain, who opposed MLK Day, backs pardon for Jack Johnson
Well, will wonders never cease -- John McCain, who opposed instituting MLK Day in 1983, fancies himself as quite the champion of righting old racial injustices, as he is pushing a pardon of boxing...
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There Will Be Puppy Blood: AP, Reuters Ramp Up the Puppy Fear
Oh, sure, there has been endless debate, and numerous diaries have been posted, discussing whether Bo, the Obama's new Portuguese Water Dog, should have been passed over for one of his less fortunate,...
View ArticleNorm Coleman vs. The Egg Terrorist
So, I'm not sure if it would be funnier if this were true or if it were a hoax, but Minnesota Seabiscuit, a/k/a Former Senator Norm Coleman, claims he was attacked by a foul-mouthed, egg-hurling...
View ArticleWhere are the conservative Catholic bishops now?
"Save the fetus -- so we can remain silent when you torture it years later!"Is this the motto of conservative Catholic bishops?Oh, yes, good Catholics, our Bishops are outraged -- OUTRAGED, I tells ya'...
View ArticleWhen headlines attack: Obama to renew Patriot Act, says AP
So, I pull up the Yahoo! homepage to do a search, and there, prominently displayed at the top of the page, in bold print no less, is a headline which shocked me:"Obama supports extending Patriot Act...
View ArticleFraming the Headlines: Nation's Healthcare System Can Be Fixed For Less...
Breaking News!: "For less just 2.5% of the budget per year, we can fix healthcare in this country and save billions of doillars!"Did you miss that headline? Yeah, me too -- because no one is...
View ArticleGOPharaoh: A Passover Tale
Anyone who has attended a Passover Seder will be familiar with the repetitive singing of Diyehnu ("It should have been enough") in thanks for God's works in leading the Israelites out of bondage. Most...
View ArticleArmchair Quarterbacking the Zimmerman Trial: Where did the Prosecution Go Wrong?
Let me begin with a couple caveats: First, with any trial, there are no guarantees, no matter how compelling the facts or the law may be. Second, we may never know exactly what went into the...
View ArticleArmchair Quarterbacking the Zimmerman Trial, Part 2: The Defense's Fairy-Tale
Without re-hashing the many other missteps made by the prosecution, I think it's important to review one critical element of the trial -- the alternate version of events presented by Zimmerman's...
View ArticleNot at all making himself the story, Greenwald to make shocking NSA...
According to the Atlantic, in a shocking development, Glenn Greenwald will pen a book disclosing revelations on the NSA's surveillance program. The book is already set for publication by Metropolitan...
View ArticleIt's Quiz Time! Time to Play "Who Said It: Right-wing Media Hack or GOP...
With all the latest Republican hysteria over matters including Obamacare, gun control, foreign policy (e.g., Egypt and Syria), and the like, I think it's interesting to see, as has been noted here over...
View ArticleJournalist destroys Greenwald's credibility on NSA "revelations"
By now, we are all familiar with the "revelations" from Glenn Greenwald in connection with Edward Snowden's theft of documents related to NSA surveillance and data-collection programs. As Snowden...
View ArticleA Puzzling Question on Snowden Eavesdropping Claim
After waiting another month for the latest installment from Glenn Greenwald, and being disappointed, yet again, to find that the claims made in his latest piece still amount to mere assertions about...
View ArticleMore Greenwald Exaggerations and "Truthiness" Exposed
As I have repeatedly documented over the past several weeks, Glenn Greenwald's reporting on the NSA's surveillance programs has suffered from a severe, chronic case of "truthiness" -- that is, he takes...
View ArticleNot content with wild exaggerations, Glenn Greenwald goes into full...
After making the fantastical claim (but as yet not giving any actual evidence) that the NSA's surveillance programs are easily and commonly abused -- that "any analyst" could spy on any American,...
View ArticleLack of Logic from Greenwald Regarding 2011 FISC Ruling
So, after thus far providing no actual evidence of the claim that the current NSA programs are easily and commonly abused without consequence -- that is (as claimed by Snowden and Greenwald), that "any...
View ArticleReport Indicates Snowden/Greenwald Lied About Key Claims
By now, we are all familiar with the big splash which resulted and continues to ripple from the fantastical claims made by Edward Snowden and his mouthpiece, Glenn Greenwald, about the ease with which...
View ArticleBreaking: Multiple Federal Employees Corroborate Free Access to DOMESTIC...
Call this diary a bit of a mea culpa. It turns out, I was wrong. There apparently have been multiple federal employees with both the authority over and access to DOMESTIC communications, which has...
View ArticleMore "Truthiness" from The Guardian: As Usual, Latest Stunning Claims Prove...
As I have documented over the last few weeks, story after story and claim after claim about the NSA from Glenn Greenwald and The Guardian have proven to be sensationalist tabloid journalism at its...
View ArticleYet Another Knee-Jerk Meme from Team Greenwald Proves False: Clapper is NOT...
As I have documented over the last few weeks, the claims from Team Greenwald regarding the NSA's programs have been filled with gross exaggerations and wild over-reactions designed to push an...
View ArticleAnother NSA "Bombshell" Starts to Fizzle Out, as Greenwald Pushes Government...
Or: How Histrionics and Hysteria Continue to Drive A Misleading NarrativeAs has been discussed in numerous diaries over the last two days, a Washington Post article reported on Thursday that the NSA...
View ArticleGreenwald spins and lies again: Partner was actually detained for carrying...
Wel, well, well. So the board was all aflutter today with the usual hair-on-fire diaries moaning and wailing about the supposed outrage of Glenn Greenwald's partner being detained in the UK for 9...
View ArticleRecap and Predictions for Future "Outrage" From Greenwald
So, after the last couple days have seen so much chagrin, consternation, and yes, outrage over the detention of Glenn Greenwald's husband by British authorities, I thought it might be helpful to recap...
View ArticleOh What a Tangled Web: Latest Guardian "Outrage" Filled With Holes, Possibly...
The 24 Hour Rule: 1) A wild claim is made via a news article, most often The Guardian, about the U.S. government or related entities. 2) The article sparks wild fits of outrage. 3) Then, within 24...
View ArticleShocking! (Not): Latest NSA "Revelations" Just More Hyperbole and Conflation
The 24 Hour Rule: 1) A wild claim is made via a news article, most often The Guardian, about the U.S. government or related entities. 2) The article sparks wild fits of outrage. 3) Then, within 24...
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