Posts tagged “ThinkProgress”
Comings And Goings In the Liberal Blogosphere
Amanda Terkel used to be Deputy Research Director at the Center for American Progress and Managing Editor for ThinkProgress. Two weeks ago, she left them for The Hufffington Post. Today, someone at ThinkProgress finally decided that they should probably wish her a fond farewell (and that Friday afternoon on a holiday weekend was the perfect [...]
Fast And Loose Times At ThinkProgress
Suppose you read a post titled “Dick Armey Lays Out Proposal To End Social Security And Medicare ‘As You Know It’”. And let’s suppose — purely for the sake of argument — that you read it in a blog you know and trust. For example, it might be a blog whose name consists entirely of [...]
Gratuitous Vilification By ThinkProgress
Even for ThinkProgress — which is intermittently capable of fairly mind-numbing stupidity — this is pretty bizarre: At the same time in March, Boehner himself appeared to be encouraging the anger behind the violence: “Violence and threats are unacceptable. That is not the American way… I know there’s anger, but let’s take that anger and [...]
Rebroadcasting Wild Exaggerations
Last week, I wrote about ThinkProgress‘s wild exaggeration about the number of states contemplating anti-immigrant legislation in the wake of the draconian new Arizona law. This morning, TPMMuckraker picks up the story — with “a major hat tip to ThinkProgress” — and rebroadcasts it, with an update. ThinkProgress‘s seven states are now up to ten. [...]
Monkey See, Monkey Do, Take Two
So now Texas is messing with Arizona-style immigration “reform”: A Republican Texas lawmaker plans to introduce a tough immigration measure similar to the new law in Arizona, a move state Democrats say would be a mistake. Rep. Debbie Riddle of Tomball said she will push for the law in the January legislative session, according to [...]
ThinkProgress Embraces The Fox News Style Of Reporting
Why would ThinkProgress deliberately misrepresent the words of Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenshit? (Oh, dear me, I seem to have a typo in the last word there.) Here’s what they quote him as saying: But I also know — I also know Washington and state politicians have no idea how to improve miner safety. The [...]
Oh-Oh!
This has got to be embarrassing. On ThinkProgress yesterday, Zaid Jilani wrote: Costa Rica’s system of universal coverage is so effective that it actually ranks one slot above the United States in the World Health Organization’s ranking of health systems worldwide while actually spending less per capita than we do. When you click on that [...]
Carried Away By His Own Hyperbole
Lee Fang of ThinkProgress: If the Senate bill is signed into law, Brown and his GOP allies fear that the country will act like Massachusetts — where an astounding 79% of people support the healthcare system and millions of previously uninsured people now have health care. The Massachusetts universal health system is credited with reducing [...]
Don’t Write About Stocks If You Don’t Understand the Market
In a post titled “Health Insurance Industry Registers Its Disapproval Of Senate Health Care Bill”, Faiz Shakir of Think Progress writes: In the New York Times today, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman writes in defense of the Senate health care bill. “[F]or all its flaws and limitations, it’s a great achievement,” he says. “It will [...]
Telling It Like It Ain’t
(1) Marcus Baram has a story in The Huffington Post where he compares the growth in “the average annual salary for all workers across the country” and “the average financial industry employee’s annual bonus” between 1985 and 2008. A well-conceived comparison, and the numbers are pretty telling. The average worker’s salary increased from $19,000 to [...]