It really is amazing to see how defensive our corporate news divisions have been to the excellent Media Matters for America report that shows just how far to the right the dicussions on the Sunday news programs have tilted. Eric Alterman writes about the controversy and explains: Indeed, as far as critical commentary goes, with [...]
Eric Alterman makes an extremely important point today: The U.S. media keeps the country in the dark about things everybody else in the world knows, then Americans, in their ignorance, vote for people who promise to do things that make no sense whatever, except in the context of their own (understandably) confused notions about what [...]
MSNBC has a Baltimore Business Journal profile of Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R-Md.). A conservative on most issues, Rep. Bartlett has been making news as a Member of Congress who is worried about peak oil and our nation’s energy future. As Alan Zibel quotes Bartlett: “Unless we have a program that has kind of the breadth [...]
Via Editor and Publisher, here’s a question the White House should be forced to answer about Vice President Dick Cheney’s accidential shooting of a hunting partner on Saturday: While E&P was first to raise the question about the delay Sunday afternoon, Frank James, reporter in the Chicago Tribune’s Washington bureau, put his [own] spin on [...]
Oh. Oh. This is going to put a dent in the “state and local” conservative talking point. The Washington Post’s Spencer S. Hsu writes about an upcoming report concerning the response to Hurricane Katrina: The 600-plus-page report lays primary fault with the passive reaction and misjudgments of top Bush aides, singling out Homeland Security Secretary [...]
Over at Crooks and Liars, Glenn Greenwald has made an important observation about today’s Republican Party and all-too-much of the conservative movement. Former Representative Bob Barr is undeniably a conservative. He was a House Manager of the Clinton impeachment. Sponsor of the Defense of Marriage Act. You’d think that he could go to the Conservative [...]
Former CIA agenda Larry Johnson wonders about CIA Director Porter Goss’ rather selective outrage over national security leaks. As Johnson writes: If Porter Goss is serious about going after unauthorized disclosures then he should start with Dick Cheney. The Vice President’s access to classified material should be suspended. That’s what should happen if Goss were [...]
National Journal columnist Stuart Taylor Jr. now has problems with the Bush Administration’s Guantanamo prison camp. Taylor describes how the Bushies have lied about the people we are holding there. That’s nice. About time. But, alas, the story must not end there. You see, Taylor has supported the Guantanamo camp in the past. Yet, he [...]
Glenn Greenwald is live blogging the Senate NSA hearings today, and he makes spot-on observation at the beginning: Of course Gonzales begins his Opening Statement by quoting Osama bin Laden and Zawahri. We used to quote Madison, Jefferson and Lincoln to decide what the principles of our Government are going to be. Now we quote [...]
This probably won’t matter to the fact-free pundits from our nation’s conservative side, but here’s yet another story outlining the conclusion that Valerie Plame was indeed a covert agent when Scotter Libby and Karl Rove decided to out her identity in a cheap trick of political retaliation. Also, count me with John from Americablog in [...]
