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Disappointed Bloggers Redo ABC Debate And Obama Responds

Christine Escobar | Posted 04.30.2008 | Home

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The Democratic debate in Philadelphia was a farce. So Democratic bloggers at MOMocrats asked Obama to answer a series of real questions online. And he did.

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Is This the Best They Can Do?

Daniella Gibbs Leger | Posted 04.23.2008 | Politics

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Giving the issues the Gossip Girl treatment and boiling things down to "he said, she said, he said," fails us all.

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Flag Pins: Who Wears 'Em?

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 04.23.2008 | Media

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Who hates America? You can tell just by looking at their lapel.

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A Paroxysm of Voterly Rage

Jeff Dorchen | Posted 04.22.2008 | Politics

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I apologize for the following. It was written in anger brought on by listening to All Things Considered for three whole minutes, a mistake I shall no...

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The Toxic Thinking of the Right Infects the Body Politic

Arianna Huffington | Posted 04.22.2008 | Politics

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The Neanderthal wing of the GOP has dragged the political debate so far to the right that even Democrats find themselves getting cozy with ideas that not so long ago would have been the exclusive domain of arch-conservatives.

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Debate Backlash: ABC Feels It In The Ratings

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 04.22.2008 | Media

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The ratings for last week's evening newscasts are in — and it appears that the angry viewers claiming that they would no longer watch ABC after ...

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The Latest Proof that the Karl Rove Playbook Has Become the MSM's Bible

Arianna Huffington | Posted 04.21.2008 | Media

The mainstream media seems intent on confirming that it has so internalized the Right's framing and messages they have now become part of its DNA. The first of the latest round of exhibits proving this was offered into evidence during last week's ABC debate. This was followed by the New York Times' epic revelation of the unseemly complicity between the Pentagon and the media in delivering the Bush administration's talking points on Iraq via "a kind of Trojan media horse" -- Pentagon-approved, prepped, and financially-enriched "military analysts" dutifully parroting the Bush party line, with nary a raised eyebrow from the TV stations and newspapers offering these highly-decorated sock puppets their prestigious platforms. And it's not just the media. Witness Hillary Clinton repeating the Rove-promoted lie that MoveOn was against intervention in Afghanistan after 9/11.

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Barack's Whining Over Debate Shows Why Hillary Is Best to Beat McCain

Larry Hirsch | Posted 04.21.2008 | Politics

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The unaccustomed pressure of the last couple of weeks has already caused Obama to shed his image as a "new" type of politician.

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The ABC Debate: Enough Capital Gains Tax Nonsense

Jeff Madrick | Posted 04.21.2008 | Business

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Capital gains tax cuts are not magic. Over time, cuts in taxes on profits made by investing do not raise total tax revenues.

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ABC's Fire Brigade

August J. Pollak | Posted 04.21.2008 | Politics

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Russert v. ABC: Steel Cage Stupidity Death Match

Stephen Kaus | Posted 04.21.2008 | Media

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Why did Russert ask David Axelrod about the Pledge of Allegiance on Meet the Press on Sunday?

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Pentagon Propaganda & Antiwar Analysts (Updated)

Ari Melber | Posted 04.21.2008 | Media

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While the Times exposed a sophisticated propaganda campaign, the flip-side is harder to document -- but antiwar perspectives are routinely marginalized or scrubbed from televised debate.

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Frank Rich: Shoddy! Tawdry! A Televised Train Wreck!

New York Times | Frank Rich | Posted 04.20.2008 | Media

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"THE crowd is turning on me," said Charles Gibson, the ABC anchor, when the audience jeered him in the final moments of Wednesday night's face-off bet...

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7 Days: Teflon-Obama? w/ Dorgan, Huffington, Green & Bender

Mark Green | Posted 04.20.2008 | Politics

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Obama had a bad month and week. The combination of a poor debate performance and answering questions about his "bitter" comments put his campaign on the defensive. So why haven't the polls moved?

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Debate Analysis: ABC Asked Most Scandal Questions, Obama Was Clear Target

HuffingtonPost.com | Nico Pitney | Posted 04.20.2008 | Politics

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Obama has received the overwhelming majority of scandal questions over the course of the four debates, by a margin of 17 to 4. Clinton has received only four such questions.

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The Leak: John McCain's Stopover In New Orleans

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 04.19.2008 | Home

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The scandal this time is that there's no scandal. The leak John McCain should be addressing in New Orleans is the one at the 17th Street Canal Floodwall, the same one that was leaking before Katrina.

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Sunday Roundup

Arianna Huffington | Posted 04.19.2008 | Politics

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In my new book, Right Is Wrong, I show how the lunatic fringe of the right has hijacked the media (along with our democracy) -- not via Fox News and the blowhards of talk radio, but through the complicity of high-profile enablers in the mainstream media. This week's disgraceful debate on ABC was further evidence. The slime parade was straight out of the Rovian playbook. For much of the night, I wasn't sure if I was watching Gibson and Stephanopoulos or O'Reilly and Hannity. In fact, Stephanopoulos' ludicrous question about 60s radical Bill Ayers had been suggested to him by Hannity the day before the debate on Hannity's radio show. After Hannity made his Ayers pitch, Stephanopoulos revealed the hijacking in process, saying: "I'm taking notes right now." And indeed he was.

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The 23/6 Network News Apology-o-Tron

236.com | Posted 04.19.2008 | Media

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China has angrily rejected an attempted apology from CNN for their commentator Jack Cafferty saying the Chinese were "goons" and that their products w...

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The Torture Memo and the Flag in the Lapel

David Bromwich | Posted 04.19.2008 | Politics

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Something sickish happened on Wednesday night. A lesson of our time is that respectable culture now embraces the bread and circuses. The two have become one.

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NYT Editorial: ABC Debate "Roundly Panned, And Rightfully So"

New York Times | Charles M. Blow | Posted 04.19.2008 | Media

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The questioning at Wednesday's Democratic presidential debate has been roundly panned, and rightfully so. The moderators spent about 40 minutes on a t...

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Jon Stewart Rips ABC Debate

Huffington Post | Posted 04.19.2008 | Media

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With just about every media critic weighing in on ABC's much derided Democratic debate, it's no surprise that Jon Stewart would take his turn. On Thur...

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Friday Talking Points [28] -- It's Debatable...

Chris Weigant | Posted 04.18.2008 | Politics

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The twenty-first debate of the Democratic presidential nomination race happened this week. Much fulminating in the blogosphere immediately followed. ...

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Watch the Zany New ABC Laff-Fest, Distracting America, with Hillary Clinton and Charlie Gibson -- Featuring Redd Foxx as The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and Introducing "Little Georgie" Stephanopoulos as Joe McCarthy

John Eskow | Posted 04.18.2008 | Politics

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In the pilot episode, forced to team up with her doddering Republican opponent, Hillary decides to stage a mock TV "debate", in which she will magically turn her fortunes around.

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Obama Took a Potty Break During the Pledge of Allegiance Once (and Several Other Important Issues ABC Missed)

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 04.18.2008 | Media

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Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos did an outstanding job questioning Senator Obama during the PA debate. But even though they spent the first h...

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Obama's Ayers Issue

John Ridley | Posted 04.18.2008 | Politics

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What someone did forty years ago should not damn them forever. But that's assuming the offending individual pays their debt to society and repents. Bill Ayers has done neither.

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