Scott McClellan’s new kiss and tell memoir is the talk of the town. And it ain’t pretty for poor ole Scott.
You have to admire, at least a little, the fact that he KNEW they were going to ballistic on him the minute this dropped. Maybe I’ve just always pitied the pudgy bastard…
TP has the story… […]

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Josh Silver covers the FCC’S declaration of TMZ and 700 Club as “Bona fide Newscasts” via The Huffington Post
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So this douchey kinda guy on Tucker Carlson’s show (he still has one?) postulates on the air about how he thinks Chelsea Clinton is being “pimped out” for the campaign and all HELL breaks loose…
He’s suspended from all NBC broadcasts except for apologies, which he’s making everywhere over and over again…

Take away lesson: this is […]

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Uh oh. Break out the falafels… Looks like by O’Reilly’s standards, the president has just declared War on Christmas!
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It NEVER fails…
Just walked by CNN regurgitating the latest story about Al-Qaeda coming to the US and stopped for second, wondering out loud, “How long before the Terrorists On Monkey Bars Clip comes on…”
We shit you not, 5 seconds later, there it is… You know the one:

It is the universal Al-Qaeda training camp […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Why do people fall for obvious FUD and manipulation so easily? What is it that causes us to suspend rational and intellectual honesty in favor of the emotional “charge” we get out of propaganda?
The quote below summarizes things quite well:
If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it […]

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Leslee Unruh, president of National Abstinence Clearinghouse calls new birth control pill that eliminates problematic monthly mentrual periods “pesticide”
The entire discussion is so rife with contradiction and FUD that you almost have to laugh, except that people like Unruh are completely serious.
She actually had the temerity to resort to asking, “So, 12, 13-year-old girls taking […]

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John Stossel rips fear mongering in the media
Listening to us, you’d think our growing exposure to pesticides, food additives, and other mysterious chemicals has created America’s “cancer epidemic.” But in truth there is no cancer epidemic — cancer incidence is flat, and death rates have been falling for years. But such good news doesn’t get […]

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