Right-Wing Bloggers Leave Their Stain On The Campaign
Last week was a perfect example of how the conservative blogosphere's leading lights have been demoted to ridicule, simply because their efforts have become so thoroughly laughable.
October 11, 2008
Last week was a perfect example of how the conservative blogosphere's leading lights have been demoted to ridicule, simply because their efforts have become so thoroughly laughable.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 09.15.2008 | Politics
The 72-year-old McCain looks weak, anemic, elderly; he's not a dynamic personality. Sarah Palin is giving him everything he lacks.
Jennifer Nix | Posted 08.20.2008 | Media
Obama Nation is a pathetic excuse for a book and is just one more example of how the right effectively moves their lies into the national discourse while the left fails to do so with progressive ideas.
Jay Rosen | Posted 08.04.2008 | Home
ABC News was probably duped on a story of huge importance, putting Iraqi fingerprints on anthrax attacks that actually came from the U.S at a time when the case for war was beginning to get traction.
RJ Eskow | Posted 07.31.2008 | Media
The Right's winning the email war, which could prove decisive. It would be ironic if, after all these innovations, Democrats were beaten by a tool that's so crude yet effective.
Posted 07.29.2008 | Politics
In American politics, exceedingly few positions generate overwhelming agreement across the ideological spectrum. Even propositions that ought to be un...
HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics
The bitter ideological debate over Barack Obama's decision to support to controversial national security wiretapping legislation and other "moves to t...
The Huffington Post | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics
A war of words has broken out between two of the progressive blogosphere's most beloved figures: MSNBC's Keith Olbermann and blogger/author Glenn Gree...
Leonce Gaiter | Posted 06.22.2008 | Home
When other candidates tack left or right between the party primary and election day, it's a form of Kabuki; we all know what they really stand for because they've left legislative paper trails that show us.
Chris Weigant | Posted 06.20.2008 | Media
McCain has joked that the media is "his base" of support. It was a funny line, but there is a truth at its core: the media has been hard on Obama but unbelievably light on McCain. And this has to stop. Now.
Art Levine | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics
The Democratic-led Congress, with the support of key House leaders, is moving quickly to expand unconstitutional spying authority on Americans and reward telecoms for breaking the law.
Jeff Cohen | Posted 06.16.2008 | Media
When I think of today's blunt, fact-based online hell-raisers, my mind quickly flashes on Izzy Stone. You may think of Josh Marshall or Glenn Greenwald or Arianna. I think of Izzy.
Salon | Glenn Greenwald | Posted 05.30.2008 | Media
Politico reporter Mike Allen, formerly of The Washington Post and Time, appeared yesterday on the show of right-wing radio host Mike Gallagher. The tw...
Arianna Huffington | Posted 04.30.2008 | Media
The near-complete blackout on the Pentagon propaganda story, self-imposed by the culpable news organizations, is a despicable abdication of their role as a constitutionally protected check on our government. Read More Probing a Political Paradox: Why the Discredited Right Still Sets the Agenda and Dominates the Debate How is it that the 28 percent of the population that continues to support George W. Bush no matter how many bodies pile up in Iraq, how many jobs disappear overseas, or how high gas prices get, continues to dominate our politics? Read More Watch Arianna On: Good Morning America, 20/20, Charlie Rose, Real Time, The Situation Room, AC 360, CNN's Election Center, and MobLogic TV
RJ Eskow | Posted 04.21.2008 | Media
CNN reporter Richard Quest told police who stopped him last week that he had some meth in his pocket. And guess what? He did have some meth in his pocket.
Robert Davey | Posted 04.09.2008 | Politics
I think I have to eat my own words, because it looks as if I did misread the Protect America Act. But in my defense I must say that the law is very confusing.
Chris Weigant | Posted 03.14.2008 | Politics
As Robert Anton Wilson pointed out (or William S. Burroughs, if you prefer), hexagram 23 of the I Ching is "breaking apart." Anyone who subscribes to...
Matt Browner Hamlin | Posted 03.07.2008 | Politics
This is a complicated, shady process with strong adversaries working against Democratic interests. I hope the leadership has the sense to recognize that "Do No Harm" is the best operating principle.
Jane Hamsher | Posted 03.02.2008 | Home
If Russert is concerned about the endorsement of religious figures that might be of concern to Jewish people, then why is he not pressing John McCain?
Jane Hamsher | Posted 02.29.2008 | Home
Both sides of the political spectrum are in agreement that McCain should be forced to account for this.
RJ Eskow | Posted 01.27.2008 | Politics
I don't know what makes me sadder: The gutter politics we've seen over the last few weeks, or the apparent willingness of some Democrats to tolerate it in hopes of a victory in November.
Salon | Glenn Greenwald | Posted 01.16.2008 | Media
Over the weekend, I wrote about an adulating interview which CNN's John King conducted with John McCain while riding on the storied Straight Talk Expr...
Barry Yourgrau | Posted 12.30.2007 | Entertainment
From 2007 encounters, some of the film, books, art, blogs, etc. that linger in my own mind:
Eric Boehlert | Posted 12.12.2007 | Media
Glenn Greenwald's recent take-down of Time's Joe Klein was a can't-miss media story that raged online for weeks, yet Kurtz at the Washington Post missed it.
Dennis Perrin | Posted 10.03.2007 | Media
Glenn Greenwald is under whacked-out reactionary assault and tactical differences are petty in the face of such rabid fear and ugliness.
David Brooks spoke frankly about the presidential and...
After referring to the various proposals that comprise his domestic policy agenda, John McCain offered...
For the second day in a row, Norm Coleman's Senate campaign tripped all over itself...
I watched the entire debate and mostly yawned. McCain...
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Kudos to Sen. Obama for hard-wiring an empathetic connection to the...
Cindy McCain, who has largely remained soft-spoken and optimistic during public appearances...
Jim VandeHei and John Harris of The Politico have gone and decreed last night's debate "The worst...
In the past week of campaigning, Sarah Palin's famous...
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Eric Boehlert | Posted 10.01.2008 | Media