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Obama Is Right About Fox News

Thomas Frank | Posted 10.28.2009 | Media

Read More: Pentagon Papers, G. Gordon Liddy, Fox News, Washington Post, Anita Dunn, Barack Obama, Richard Nixon, Enemies List, Spiro Agnew, Media News
Thomas Frank

Persecution fantasy is Fox News's lifeblood; give it the faintest whiff of the real thing and look out for a gale-force hissy fit -- as the Obama administration has discovered by now.

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Cheney: A Tortured Soul

Lance Simmens | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Libby, Cheney, Valerie Plame, Warrantless Wiretapping, Bush Administration, National Security, Spiro Agnew, Wiretap, Guantanamo, Constitution, Vice President Cheney, Politics News
Lance Simmens

Mr. Vice-President, you and your President had eight full years to chart a direction for this nation. That direction was soundly rejected by the voters in the most recent national election.

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Friday Talking Points [96] -- The Impressiveness of Alan Grayson

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.03.2009 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

First, let's get rid of the distractions this week. Chicago will not be getting the Olympics in 2016, even after President Obama went over to Copenha...

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William Safire: Wars Made Out of Words

David Bromwich | Posted 11.15.2009 | Media

Read More: Bill Clinton, Thomas Friedman, Joe Mccarthy, Wen Ho Lee, Rush Limbaugh, Ronald Reagan, Spiro Agnew, Maureen Dowd, Lebanon, Bob Woodward, Mohamed ElBaradei, William Safire, Richard Nixon, Vietnam, Ariel Sharon, Jimmy Carter, New York Times, Hillary Clinton, James Reston, Kenneth Starr, Baltimore, Media News
David Bromwich

William Safire's career took him from public relations to propaganda to column-writing in a single seamless progression.

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In Defense Of Sarah Palin

Martin Lewis | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Richard Nixon, Spiro Agnew, Sarah Palin, Politics News
Martin Lewis

If other GOP members who are elected to office follow her example and quit after serving approximately 60% of their first elected terms -- just think how much better for the nation.

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How Journalism Plays Twister...To the Right

Will Bunch | Posted 05.16.2009 | Media

Read More: Journalists, Cynthia Tucker, Ronald Reagan, Ethics in Journalism, Richard Nixon, Spiro Agnew, Fair and Balanced, New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Journalism, Atlanta Journal Constitution, Tear Down This Myth, Media News
Will Bunch

It's so true that freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose -- and so our brush here with terminal illness is occasionally truly liberating for America's newsrooms.

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Palin Blasts Bloggers. Spiro Agnew Redux?

Erica Heller | Posted 02.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Media, 2008 Election, Sarah Palin, Spiro Agnew, Alaska, John McCain, Palin Media, Sarah Palin Bloggers, Palin Trigg, Palin Baby, Politics News, Palin Esquire, Palin Journalists, Palin Video, Palin Bloggers, Palin Press, Politics News
Erica Heller

"Bored, anonymous, pathetic bloggers who lie annoy me," says Sarah Appalling. Is she channeling Spiro Agnew? Or trying to? That's some goal. Remembe...

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"New America" = Gone OLD Party

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 12.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Election Reaction, Richard Nixon, Spiro Agnew, President Obama, Donald Rumsfeld, New America, Gone Old Party, Old America, Republican Future, Southern Strategy, Republican Party, Patrick Buchanan, Sarah Palin, Politics News
Robert S. McElvaine

Prior to the start of the war in Iraq in 2003, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld made a distinction between "Old Europe" that opposed the America...

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McCain's 'Life On Mars' Is The Real Thing -- And Much More Scary

Art Brodsky | Posted 11.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: William Ayers, John McCain, Richard Nixon, 1970s, Barack Obama, Spiro Agnew, Politics News
Art Brodsky

The 1970s mindset is spreading beyond simply the presidential campaign in truly scary ways. As a result of the McCain/Palin campaign, the chicken academicians politicians have been been brought back.

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The Sad Fate of Sarah Palin

David Wallechinsky | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Vice President, John McCain, Republicans, Spiro Agnew, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin Vp, Katherine Harris, Sarah Palin Vice President, 2008 Election, Politics News
David Wallechinsky

If McCain loses, Palin, will be dumped by the Party and turned into a laughing stock, the butt of jokes about an ambitious female politician more concerned with her appearance than with real issues.

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Ballsy Politics, Literally

Lea Lane | Posted 10.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bill Nelson, University of Florida, Antisemitism, Dan Quayle, Ku Klux Klan, Sarah Palin, Spiro Agnew, Politics News
Lea Lane

I know, I know: dismissing Sarah Palin and all her baggage seems like a -- excuse-the-expression -- no-brainer. But if you think dubious distinctio...

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Dick-less

Sam Greenfield | Posted 09.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Dick Cheney, Spiro Agnew, Vice President Dick Cheney, Cheney Convention, Politics News
Sam Greenfield

The Dems should be praying Cheney will show up and make a speech. It could be his "Pat Buchanan in '92" kind of speech, telling people exactly what he believes, and in the process handing the election to the opponent.

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Aloha, Anderson! Jeff Toobin Calls In From Hawaii Via Web-Cam

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Cnn, Video, Lisa Bloom, Spiro Agnew, Alan Dershowitz, Anderson Cooper, Jeff Toobin, Toobin Spitzer, Eliot Spitzer, Media News

The 24-hour news cycle doesn't take a vaction — and neither do the hardest-working correspondents in the biz. CNN Senior Legal Analyst Jeffrey T...

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