Archive for September, 2009
How Not To Cover The News
Law enforcement authorities yesterday released details of the death of 51-year-old Bill Sparkman, a Census worker whose decomposed body was found almost two weeks ago hanging from a tree near a Kentucky cemetery with the word “fed” scrawled on his chest. As of this morning, there is still no reliable news as to the nature [...]
On Print Media Pandering
Yesterday morning, I published a post questioning whether Time was starting to position itself as a print media rival of Fox News, by openly tilting into Fox News-style unfair-and-unbalanced coverage of things political. Yesterday evening I read this post by Jason Linkins on The Huffington Post, roundly ridiculing The Washington Post for the panel of [...]
Unkindest Cut Of All
“Faiz Shakir is the Research Director at the Center for American Progress and serves as Editor-in-Chief of ThinkProgress.org and The Progress Report.” On Monday he wrote: This morning in Richmond, VA, the local newspaper — the Richmond Times-Dispatch — hosted a “public square” discussion on health care reform with Democratic congressman Bobby Scott and Republican [...]
More Catholic Than the Pope
Will The DCeiver suggest President Summer’s Eve do drugs now? Whispers in Albany ABC News (9/22/09): So — following news reports that the White House has been encouraging New York Gov. David Paterson to not run in next year’s gubernatorial race — what did President Obama whisper to Paterson on the tarmac in Albany? A [...]
Tail Chasing
I’m sure The DCeiver will be by any second to encourage me to throw away my eleven years of sobriety because I have the unmitigated gall to question President Massengill’s political strategy, but until then, consider Joe Biden‘s remarks at a recent fundraiser: “It’s not that Republicans are bad guys. This is just the bet [...]
Don’t You Have Your Own Job to Do? Pt 2
Obama jumps into Senate battle before it even starts – The Denver Post (9/19/09) Only 24 hours after former House Speaker Andrew Romanoff launched his campaign, the president bigfooted his way into the primary, issuing a glowing endorsement of current U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, who was appointed by Ritter in January to fill the seat. [...]
Time Magazine’s Survival Strategy?
Time hit a new low in its cover story on Glenn Beck. The opening paragraph describes the 9/12 rally fathered by Glenn Beck as follows: If you get your information from liberal sources, the crowd numbered about 70,000, many of them greedy racists. If you get your information from conservative sources, the crowd was hundreds [...]
Don’t You Have Your Own Job to Do?
Obama Asks Paterson to Quit New York Governor’s Race – NYT (9/20/09) President Obama has sent a request to Gov. David A. Paterson that he withdraw from the New York governor’s race, fearing that Mr. Paterson cannot recover from his dismal political standing, according to two senior administration officials and a New York Democratic operative [...]
Race To The Bottom
Remember when the unofficial leader of the Republican party used to be Rush Limbaugh? Now the DNC, perhaps with malice aforethought, seems to have passed the mantle to Glenn Beck. Here’s a press release the DNC came up with: With apologies to Tom DeLay, and despite the railing you’re hearing from the Republican cloakroom and [...]
Stratospheric ROI
Investment: As his committee has taken center stage in the battle over health-care reform, Chairman Baucus (D-Mont.) has emerged as a leading recipient of Senate campaign contributions from the hospitals, insurers and other medical interest groups hoping to shape the legislation to their advantage. Health-related companies and their employees gave Baucus’s political committees nearly $1.5 [...]