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Jason Linkins

Sanford Adultery Emails Suggested As Cure For Media Economy

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

As many of you know by now, the love that Mark Sanford shared with his Argentinean paramour played out in many, many emails, in which Sanford enumerat...

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Health Care Policy Sparks Squabbling On "Morning Joe" (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

Hoo, boy! Things got crazy caffeinated on the Morning Joe show this morning, when MSNBC's lovable Our Gang of popnewstainment invited irascible old so...

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Dana Milbank Shows Nico Pitney What A Serious Journalist Looks Like

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

As you may have heard, the Washington Post's Dana Milbank is outraged at the White House "staging" a question from our own Nico Pitney at yesterday's ...

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Hal Turner, Internet Radio Host, Arrested For Inciting Violence Against Public Officials...Again

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

Hal Turner, New Jersey's top white-supremacist internet-radio show hosting lunatic is back in the news today, for pretty much the same reason he was i...

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AP Uses The Word 'Torture!' (And The Rest Of Your Scritti Politti)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

So a federal judge has ordered the release of GITMO detainee Abd al Rahim Abdul Rassak, mainly because before he became a prisoner of the United State...

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NYT Poll Indicates Even Republicans Back Public Option

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Allies of health care reform suggest that, if enacted, a public health care option will help make health care affordable, and will get us off the path...

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TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

Good morning, HuffPo readers and welcome to your Sunday Morning Liveblog of the flickering images and grunted sounds issuing forth from your Sunday morning talk shows.

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Dan Froomkin's Firing Leaves Post With Glut Of Neocons

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

So, now that Dan Froomkin's been fired, what's the Washington Post looking like today? I think that Glenn Greenwald neatly sums it up: --Neocon Char...

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Public Strongly Supports Public Health Care Option

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

Yesterday, what prompted CNBC's Jim Cramer to suggest that President Barack Obama needed "to go away for a little bit," was a poll, whose numbers indi...

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Karl Rove, Of All People, Worries That ABC And The White House Are Too Close

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

Fox News has been full of complaints over ABC's plan to air a news special entitled "Questions for the President: Prescription for America," during wh...

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Fox News Complains About ABC's "Unprecedented Access," Ignores Their Own (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

Next week, ABC News plans to air a news special entitled "Questions for the President: Prescription for America," which will afford President Barack O...

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Stephen Colbert Demands To Know Why TPM's Josh Marshall Is Not Wearing Bathrobe (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

Marshall predicted, jokingly, that TPM would eventually "beat [the New York Times] down." In Colbertian terms, the Times is on Marshall's "on notice" board, but not yet on the "dead to me" list.

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WaPo Fires Dan Froomkin, Stalwart Voice On Torture (And The Rest Of Your Scritti Politti)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

I have to say that I greet today's decision by the Washington Post to fire blogger and columnist Dan Froomkin to be both sad and alarming. Froomkin h...

Why Torturing to Prove Torturing is Wrong is Never Okay: A Note to Keith Olbermann

Cynthia Boaz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Cynthia Boaz

Reposted from http://www.commondreams.org on June 9, 2009: Although it has been several weeks since Keith Olbermann has used his MSNBC show as a pla...

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Frank Gaffney: Krugman Censorsing Me For Obama Muslim Column

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

I'm a bit dumbstruck by Gaffney, today, who straight up has the vapors over the fact that Krugman dared to namecheck him.

Framing the Green Revolution in Red

Cynthia Boaz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Cynthia Boaz

The Green Revolution is not just a series of ad hoc protests against a political theft, it is a story of widespread resistance to ongoing oppression.

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Reader Calls Out Milbank For Distorting Health Care Debate

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

On Monday, the Washington Post published a Letter To The Editor from James Floyd, a "a physician and a health researcher for Public Citizen, which sup...

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MSNBC Upset Uighurs Enjoying Themselves After Gitmo Release (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

You know, I've wracked my memory and have largely been unable to come up with one significant example of MSNBC's dayside coverage devoting any real de...

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Fareed Zakaria GPS Redeems CNN's Iran Coverage

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

A couple of years ago, I was at a party, locked deep in conversation with a former producer at CNN. And I recall that one of the things we had talked...

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Glenn Beck: "The Fringe Groups Hate My Guts"

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

If you follow Glenn Beck carefully, you'll see that he's savvy enough to know that it's smart to temper his outsized weirdness to fit his audience. E...

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Menthol Fight Underreported In Landmark Cigarette Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

As the New York Times reports this morning, a bill allowing the Food and Drug Administration to "impose potentially strict new controls" on the tobacc...

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Sarah Palin Defines Socialism Sideways (And The Rest Of Today's Scritti Politti)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

Via Taegan Goddard. PALIN: We are the only state with a negative tax rate where we don't have any income, sales or property tax statewide, and yes we...

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Daily Show Offers 'Correction' To Morning Joe For Mocking "Sarcastic" Product Placement (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

Overshadowed, perhaps, by one of the most hotly anticipated episodes of the Colbert Report in a while, last night also served up a strong and incisive...

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Michael Ware, Marc Thiessen Debate Whether Cairo Speech "Undercut" U.S. Troops (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Via, Crooks And Liars. Last week, Bush speechwriter Marc Thiessen and CNN war correspondent Michael Ware "debated" whether or not President Barack Oba...

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Was AOL Reporter Tommy Christopher Sacked For Criticizing Misogynist Playboy Piece?

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

Earlier this week, we mentioned how Playboy had published a sociopathic, hateful, and unfunny listicle by Guy Cimbalo, listing the ten conservative wo...