Posts tagged “ThinkProgress”
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 [...]
Headline Virus Spreads To ThinkProgress
Earlier this year, I wrote several posts about the merry antics of the headline writer at TPM. There was a disconcerting pattern of headlines that were misleading or inaccurate. That virus seems to have spread to ThinkProgress. Last week, I noticed several headlines that were quite a stretch, but nothing that warranted a post. Yesterday, [...]
ThinkProgress Embarrasses Itself Over Bachmann’s Embarrassing Error
Michele Bachmann outdid herself yesterday. In one breathless burst of anti-Census senselessness, she managed to make two equal and opposite statements: Twenty-eight pages. Sean, you know the one question they don’t ask? They ask, “are you an American citizen?” They don’t ask if you’re here on a visa or when it expires. We have no [...]
Chuck Schumer Lionized For Ox-crap
Close friends who I dearly love regard Chuck Schumer as one of the sleaziest Democrats in the Senate. So I tend to regard everything he says and does with a certain amount of healthy skepticism. Take, for instance, his argument that Republican governors who are unconscionably indifferent to the plight of some of their constituents [...]
Hypocrisy Watch
Think Progress gets all triumphant with regards to this bit from Obama‘s speech: [W]e have lived through an era where too often, short-term gains were prized over long-term prosperity; where we failed to look beyond the next payment, the next quarter, or the next election. A surplus became an excuse to transfer wealth to the [...]
Another Wild Exaggeration From ThinkProgress
ThinkProgress yesterday trumpeted a sensational headline: Bush: I Personally Authorized Torture Of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed That would probably be a major story if it were true. The reason why no one else is trumpeting it (except for a few misguided souls who haven’t yet learned that with ThinkProgress these days you have to be careful [...]