The NY Times Sends A Dittohead To Interview Rush Limbaugh
The Times writer who profiled Limbaugh is pretty much a Dittohead, a Limbaugh devotee. So of course there was no reason to fear a "hit job." The whole...
The Times writer who profiled Limbaugh is pretty much a Dittohead, a Limbaugh devotee. So of course there was no reason to fear a "hit job." The whole...
Talking Points Memo | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics
The "Swift Boaters" from 2004 are back at it. A group of top Republican contributors who financially fueled the famous "Swift Boat" campaign ads that...
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics
More than any other act of rank hypocrisy that we have grown accustomed to expect from McCain his recent embrace of the Swiftboaters to help his presidential campaign is beyond astonishing.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.01.2008 | Media
As the media fanned flames in the direction of General Wesley Clark for the egregious offense of noting that being a prisoner of war did not necessari...
USA Today | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics
Republican John McCain, who four years ago condemned independent ads challenging Democrat John Kerry's military record, has accepted nearly $70,000 fo...
Richard Klass | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics
Wes Clark's remarks remind us what we should have learned from the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth: questioning someone's military record lowers the tone of the campaign and distracts from the real issues.
Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics
A McCain "Truth Squad" is now alleging that Obama's true vulnerability isn't that he didn't see action in Vietnam, but that he did -- on the side of America's enemies.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics
By running to the middle in an attempt to attract undecided swing voters, the Obama campaign is making a very serious mistake. It didn't work for Al Gore in 2000. It didn't work for John Kerry in 2004. And it didn't work when Mark Penn convinced Hillary Clinton to do it in 2008. READ MORE Seven Things Barack Obama Should Do to Keep from Blowing It To counter the conventional wisdom pundits, the cautious campaign advisers, and his own inner cautiousness, I'm offering Obama seven suggestions for staying true to the vision that took him from longshot "unlikely candidate" to presidential frontrunner. READ MORE Watch Arianna Discussing Secretary Rice's "Proud" Comment on CNN's The Situation Room
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics
Sen. John Kerry harshly criticized John McCain on Monday for using a member of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth in his efforts to counteract criticis...
Thomas Lipscomb | Posted 06.29.2008 | Politics
To understand how we got ourselves in the middle of an election with so little information and so much suspicion, we need to review the 2004 election issues that revolved around John Kerry.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics
It is a lesson in just how persistent and irritating smear campaigns can be. Nearly four years after the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth trotted out a s...
Robert Creamer | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics
Our goal shouldn't be to keep money out of politics -- but rather to keep big money out of politics.
Mitchell Bard | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics
I besiege Democrats not to take an Obama win for granted. We can't assume everyone in the country is aware of McCain's weaknesses and fidelity to the Bush agenda.
Think Progress | Posted 06.03.2008 | Life
On Sunday, the Washington Post reported that the National Abstinence Education Association (NAEA) is launching a $1 million "Parents for Truth" campai...
Craig Newmark | Posted 05.02.2008 | Politics
There are already a few groups damaging the election process, but there are also good investigative reporters exposing these groups.
Newsweek | Mark Hosenball and Michael Isikoff | Posted 04.20.2008 | Politics
The Obama campaign is planning to expand its research and rapid-response team in order to repel attacks it anticipates over his ties to 1960s radical ...
Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 04.09.2008 | Politics
The Arizona senator is about to be swiftboated by the same group that attempted to blow away John Kerry's candidacy by launching a kamikaze attack against his military record.
Boston Globe's Political Intelligence | Foon Rhee | Posted 01.23.2008 | Politics
Senator John F. Kerry of Massachusetts, who endorsed Barack Obama earlier this month, is now coming to Obama's aid to rebut what he calls "disgusting ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.07.2008 | Politics
Remember back in 2004, when the Swift Boat Veterans For [Depends On What Terrifying, Sick, Debased Definition You Have For The] Truth attacked preside...
The Nation | Chris Hayes | Posted 01.04.2008 | Politics
More than three years after John Kerry's bitter defeat, at the dawn of what looks like a far more promising campaign cycle for the Democrats, the part...
Craig Newmark | Posted 12.09.2007 | Media
Success without ads? A focus on the useful, if boring?
AP | GLEN JOHNSON | Posted 11.16.2007 | Politics
Sen. John Kerry, whose 2004 presidential campaign was torpedoed by critics of his Vietnam War record, said Friday he has personally accepted a Texas o...
HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Roston | Posted 10.08.2007 | Politics
Freedom's Watch is already being compared with the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, which falsely attacked John Kerry's military credentials in 2004. Bu...
As Barack Obama began his trip to the Middle East and Europe,...
An ABC-TV outlet in Houston, and now the Houston Chronicle,...
The McCain campaign implied on Wednesday that Barack Obama's commitment...
The Bush...
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The New York Times has rejected an op-ed penned by Senator John McCain in response...
BARCELONA, Spain — Christian Bale swept into Barcelona on Wednesday night to attend a...
When Walk Score recently released their ranking of the ten most walkable U.S. cities there was no doubt that folks in places...
Here we go again. Oil prices tumbling "in the steepest four...
According to Psychology Today and referencing the American Journal of Psychiatry,...
Eric Boehlert | Posted 07.09.2008 | Media