The Note

Multiple Media Outlets Allow Buck to Exaggerate His Role in Starting a Program for Rape Victims

Jason Salzman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jason Salzman

The SANE program would have come to Weld County, with or without Buck, though his office has been supportive of the effort.

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Weekly Audit: Foreclosuregate Hits Home

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Media Consortium

Weekly Audit: Foreclosuregate Hits Homeby Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Earlier this month, Bank of America (BOA), the country's larges...

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Reading The Pictures: Goodbye Hammer, Hello Twinkletoes

Michael Shaw | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Shaw

2009-09-01-shaw_delay_dancing.jpgIf this image seems superfluous, validating how Tom DeLay has found his level as a has-been anchoring a cheap reality show, ABC in fact has afforded him the perfect platform.

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Post-Health Care Politics With The Note's Rick Klein

Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein

A lot of people who helped Obama get elected are going to start to be disappointed, simply because only so much is politically viable. Obama's trying to put together a consensus, but that's not going to happen here.

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Jason Linkins

Shepard Smith Calls Cheney's Gay Marriage Stance A "Cop Out"

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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As I've said, it is a simple fact that former Vice President Dick Cheney has long been willing to provide nominal support for gay marriage. Yet, as m...

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Obama, The Press, And The "Bipartisan" Trap

Eric Boehlert | Posted 05.25.2011

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Eric Boehlert

While addressing the issue of bipartisanship the press holds only one party accountable: the Democrats.

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ABC's "The Note" Embarrasses Itself on Behalf of Beltway Journalism

Eric Boehlert | Posted 05.25.2011

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Eric Boehlert

Doing its best to prop up the beyond soggy Blago/Obama "scandal," The Note worked feverishly to convince fellow journalists that they didn't make fools of themselves hyping the non-story for weeks.

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Hillary Clinton Speaks at Convention, the Press Concocts a Story

Eric Boehlert | Posted 05.25.2011

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Eric Boehlert

The press has portrayed Clinton's planned convention address, as well as the fact that her name is being placed into nomination, as an unprecedented, heavy-handed power grab. It's not.

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