Harry Shearer,
12.23.2008
The Nation's investigative piece on the unsolved shootings in Algiers Point in the days after Katrina is a lengthy, painstaking piece of work. And, just like much of the media coverage of the disaster three-plus years ago, it lies.
Linda Bergthold,
12.24.2008
Health Policy Expert; Working Group Leader in Hillary Clinton’s '93 Health Care Reform Task Force
The Obamas are in Hawaii for a brief period of respite before the president-elect takes on the problems of the world. Most everyone here understands that, but the intense curiosity persists.
Harvey Fierstein,
12.23.2008
Multiple Tony Award-Winning Actor
Obama can call the placing of a hate monger like Rick Warren on the world dais political healing or inclusiveness or any other nicety he'd like, but I call it pandering to the lowest instinct of the worst kind of politics.
Robert Scheer,
12.24.2008
Veteran Journalist and Editor of TruthDig.com
In the end, the shame of Vice President Dick Cheney was total: unmitigated by any notion of a graceful departure, let alone the slightest obligation of honest accounting.