Karl Rove and the Media-Politico Revolving Door: It Goes Further Back than Stephanopoulos
The New York Times traces the trend as far back as George Stephanopoulos's switch from the Clinton White House to ABC News, but it goes much further back.
It's been a few weeks since the nation has pointedly moved on from the Wright matter, so I guess it's time for the pendulum to swing back to the Obama-as-secret-Muslim argument.
The New York Times traces the trend as far back as George Stephanopoulos's switch from the Clinton White House to ABC News, but it goes much further back.
What's a Sunday morning show to do when it specializes in political prophecy and the expectation is a foregone conclusion? Bring some players on, ask them routine questions, register their spin, try to trip them up when the spin is ridiculous, and move on.
The anchors I feel most sympathy for are the teams on Headline News. Repeating the same stories over and over and trying to keep them sounding as if it is the first time has to be harder than Madonna trying to pretend to be a virgin.
There are some hard questions from the green movement -- especially on his disingenuous touting of "clean coal" -- that Thomas Friedman has been ducking for too long.
Senator Clinton will get the last word on this. Once she officially loses the nomination, she can make the Poehler sketch look ridiculous. Or she can make it look like prophecy.
In the UK, the Muslim smears come from the ultra-right BNP party. Great to see that the New York Times has followed suit. Let's call this what it really is: smearing immigrants.
Bush has been a guest on Limbaugh's show, as has Cheney and countless Republican politicians. Shouldn't they have to explain why they would be the guest of such a racist, sexist, hate-filled liar?
Lebanese journalists marched in solidarity with Future media whose news channel was unplugged, TV station archives burned and daily newspaper targeted by Hezbollah rockets.
To my great astonishment, The Art of Racing in the Rain is told by a dog. (I'm not a pet-lover). It contains many insights about car racing. (I have no interest in car racing).
So great was my sense of outrage at what happened to this innocent man who was detained for 5 years at Guantanamo, that I immediately sought ways to help those still trapped there.
My guess is that the social network that we will all be building on in the coming years is already out there. It could be Twitter, after it's federated, or it could be what FriendFeed is teasing about.
Cindy McCain's pain in this interview makes it much harder to believe that the attacks against her daughter and her 2000 vote could be that exclusive of one another.