Oh dear. On Labor Day, the Orange County Register published a column by Mark Whicker that I fear is the odds-on favorite to be the Worst Newspaper Co...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.09.2009 | Media
Over at Time's Swampland today, Joe Klein takes on the public option in a post titled "What The Public Option Actually Does." The actual work of expl...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
McClatchy is reporting today on a new study by the Lewin Group, a health care research organization that purports to be independent but is actually a subsidiary of health insurance giant UnitedHealth.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.09.2009 | Media
In the wake of the Van Jones resignation, an aggrieved Keith Olbermann took to the pages of DailyKos and issued a call for an online witch hunt of Glenn Beck. Cooler heads now prevail.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.08.2009 | Media
With Obama's school address now behind us, the claims made by opponents of the address look more absurd than ever. And yet it should have never come to this point.
Rick Horowitz | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics
Take heart, my friends. Our national leaders and media titans aren't nearly as spineless, as clueless, as paranoid as they appear to be. It's all an act.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics
Driving today's fearful discussion about czars this morning is a Politico article that 's a fine example of what it does best: provide a distillation of political scuttlebutt and press releases into a story.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.20.2009 | Media
I have personally never been to Seattle, Washington, but I am reliably informed that it is a major American city that enjoys many of the technological...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.20.2009 | Media
This past Tuesday, I posted an item on a recent effort launched by the conservative bloggers at The Next Right seeking to challenge WorldNetDaily, an ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.19.2009 | Media
Did you hear about that time a bunch of private security contractors went to Afghanistan to guard State Department facilities in Kabul, and turned it into a non-stop orgy of drunken insanity? Not all of the Morning Joe gang took it seriously.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.19.2009 | Media
Yesterday, the world was appalled anew by Pat Buchanan, as he commemorated the 70th anniversary of Hitler's invasion of Poland by offering up one of h...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.19.2009 | Media
Is David Broder having some sort of internal argument with his own brain, on the pages of the Washington Post? Because I'm totally casting Andy Serkis in the movie version of this column!
John Knefel | Posted 10.18.2009 | Media
The problem with the public's perception of a public option is that many are completely misinformed by the media, who when it isn't actively distorting the debate, is playing the role of lazy stenographer.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics
If you've ever suffered yourself to visit conservative website WorldNetDaily, you've probably despaired at the collection of nonsense and mental deran...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.16.2009 | Media
An Alabama NBC station is reporting that a broom is standing on its own, "unsupported," inside a consignment shop. Yes. That is what is going on in t...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.16.2009 | Media
This morning, on his radio show, Beck told his listeners that "they" -- a word he'll use fourteen times inside a minute and a half -- have staged some sort of coup d'etat, that "they" have cleverly disguised as an election. It's only Monday!
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.16.2009 | Media
The Washington Post has some good news for everyone during these recessionary times: your recovery may be jobless, but more and more, people are buyin...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.28.2009 | Media
Detroit. If you are like most Americans, you haz a sad about Detroit. You ponder Detroit and you think of the hard times that have befallen the auto...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.27.2009 | Media
On the New York Times' op-ed page today, Chiara Volpato offers readers a piece entitled "Italian Women Rise Up," which details the extent to which a n...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.26.2009 | Media
Earlier this year, Dick Cheney called for the declassification of two CIA documents that he said would vindicate the use of torture in the war on terr...
Nathan Robinson | Posted 09.21.2009 | Media
On Sunday, the New York Times Magazine ran an absurdly fluffy interview with Janet Napolitano, the Secretary of Homeland Security.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.20.2009 | Media
Today, on MSNBC, the notion of "moral obligation" was offered both as a central driving principle behind reform -- and as a brickbat against the "angry" left, and their pursuit of a public option.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.19.2009 | Media
I've said for a long time now that the press has long endeavored to diminish the public support for the "public option," characterizing it as one of t...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.19.2009 | Media
Yesterday, I took a look at One Day In The Incoherent Life Of Health Care Co-Ops, as the media endeavored to explain what a health care co-op is, how ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.18.2009 | Media
So! Have you heard about these HEALTH CARE CO-OPS? If you watched any news at all yesterday, the answer is yes! And as you heard people on the teev...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.09.2009 | Media