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Validating bin Laden

May 14th, 2009 | By shep | Category: Torture

 If you like this post, please subscribe to read more content on this topic.In yet another miserable Joe Klein essay validating the morally depraved, inside-the-beltway establishment consensus that on government torture and war crimes, we should all just move along people nothing to see here, one of the regular right-wing commenters, in the usual right-wing-total-lack-of-awareness-of-anything-style, [...]



Head Games

Apr 24th, 2009 | By shep | Category: Republicans

Watch and pay attention to certain tricks of diversion as Republicans try to muddy the water on torture.



Left-Wing Authoritarians

Apr 22nd, 2009 | By shep | Category: Media, Torture

Let’s drive a stake through the heart of the right-wing meme that says releasing the CIA torture memos was Obama’s choice.



Cop Killers

Apr 4th, 2009 | By shep | Category: crime

The NRA announced it will spend $40 million during this year’s elections, including $15 million to portray Sen. Barack Obama as a threat to gun rights.



Jeff Zucker, Modest to a Fault

Mar 18th, 2009 | By shep | Category: Entertainment

We had a certifiable psychopath and ignoramus as president for eight years and no one at NBC seemed to notice.



Stephen Pearlstein Suffers Tragic Abacus Accident

Mar 11th, 2009 | By shep | Category: Lead Article

Another concrete lesson, as if we needed any, that those whom we entrusted to inform and lead us, were never even half up to the job.



Still Punked

Feb 24th, 2009 | By shep | Category: Lead Article

Joe Klein has been an interesting study in liberal journalism gone wrong, even while it struggles to right itself. In today’s column, State of the Union he makes a strong case against the current dead-end Republican obstructionism, while making the case for “Burkean conservatism–and against the innate optimism of liberals” and hopes for some sort of responsible Republicanism (with which we are recently unfamiliar)…



Working the Refs

Feb 13th, 2009 | By shep | Category: Barack Obama

I sure hope that all this “what did he get out of it” rhetoric is about keeping the leftward pressure on Obama and not because they really don’t understand why he’s done what he’s done or what he’s gotten from it.



Bipolar Press

Feb 4th, 2009 | By shep | Category: Politics

The corporate press, from the NY Times and Washington Post to Chris Matthews and Brian Williams, treats both Democratic rationality and Republican insanity with exactly equal credulity.



The Rules of Corporatist Journalism (2000 – Present)

Feb 3rd, 2009 | By shep | Category: Lead Article

Rule #2: For every policy position taken by a public official, a contrary position must be presented.