Time’s Michael Scherer wants you to know what he knows, that Barack Obama described the Gates arrest “…as a possible case of “racial profiling.”
But, in point of fact, he didn’t:
“And No 2, the Cambridge Police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was proof they were already in their own home. And No. 3, what [...]
Things we learned today (if we didn’t already know them):
• It is the media – and a very pack-like media at that – which flat-out decides what “the news” is.
• They will never acknowledge fact #1) and will actually pretend that it is untrue.
• “Conservatives” can still successfully manipulate the media to make their meme [...]
Digby points us to the Village marching orders given by “Village Magus” Charlie Cook:
While the Obama White House has always said compromise would be necessary, the cold realities of the state of the economy, budgets and deficits, and, for members of Congress, re-election are going to force a significant scaling down of the health and [...]
Walter Cronkite on his greatest regret.
Time’s Karen Tumulty predicts that we’ll be hearing a lot more about the cost of health care reform from insurance industry lackeys, using statements from CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf.
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, asks the question:
“…if you believe that al-Qaeda and Bin Laden didn’t attack us [...]
Watch and pay attention to certain tricks of diversion as Republicans try to muddy the water on 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.
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.
We had a certifiable psychopath and ignoramus as president for eight years and no one at NBC seemed to notice.
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