Krugman succinctly states the obvious:
the Graeme Frost case is a perfect illustration of the modern right-wing political machine at work, and in particular its routine reliance on character assassination in place of honest debate.
If service members oppose a Republican war, they’re “phony soldiers”;
if Michael J. Fox opposes Bush policy on stem cells, he’s [...]
In a remarkably weak post on Huffington Post entitled: Scrubbed: Edwards Filmmakers Deleted Website Raises Questions author Sam Stein (de)posits on the controversy he apparently invented specifically for himself regarding a “mystery website” that *gasp* disappeared from the internet, inferring some vaguely nefarious but entirely unspecified conspiracy about presidential candidate John Edwards and the non-political, [...]
Ezra Klein posted this video which could not point out any more lucidly the staggeringly craven hypocrisy of the Frost Family/S-CHIP “outrage” currently dominating the blogosphere.
As Ezra rightly points out, no one staked out their house to verify the story; nobody questioned the family’s qualifications for their suffering; no one smeared this poor girl who’s [...]
Cute as a bug White House spokesperson Dana Perino insists Congress was “fully briefed” on secret torture opinion.
However, Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman John Rockefeller (D-WV) was more than a little pissed about discovering, from the New York Times, that the WH gave the CIA secret approval in 2005.
Now, Rockefeller is demanding copies of all [...]