I’m tired of talking about the debt ceiling. Reader F sent me a link to an interesting profile of the Daily Caller, which says pretty much what I already thought: that the Caller sucks but not as badly as most similar right-wing outlets, and that it’s losing money but not as much as you might …
Grifters Gonna Grift
Adam Green and Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) Rip Off Stephen Colbert
High Plains Grifters Adam Green is desperate for your money. So desperate that he is willing to lie, cheat, and steal to get it. You see, a couple weeks ago, Adam Green (PCCC’s Treasurer and Grifter-in-Chief) registered the domain name “ColberSuperPAC” in an attempt to bleed donations and membership from Colbert’s Super PAC, Americans for …
What’s the frequency, Kenneth?
What are they saying on Fox, Rush, etc. about the debt ceiling? I would guess that Murdoch doesn’t want to see a default, for sure, and I’d guess that Rush is rich enough that he doesn’t want one either.
In the bag
Is any US outlet other than the Times doing original reporting on the News Corp. scandal? The Times has it wrapped like a mummy, and I can’t help but wonder if WaPo and other outlets have ties to News Corp. (for example, Charles Lane of the WaPo Editorial Board is a regular on Bret Baier’s …
How To Be a Hack
Douthat: For months, I had assumed that the Republican leadership would be able to find support within its caucus for option No. 2. Based on John Boehner’s brief flirtation with a “grand bargain” that would have included tax reform, the speaker of the House thought so as well. But based on how quickly he abandoned …
Hackgate: Rabid Weasels All the Way Down
(Jeff Danziger’s website) H/t commentor PeakVT for the link to Reuter’s report that Rebekah Brooks was not a nice person to work for: When Brooks became editor, at age 31, she had a brief to broaden the paper’s appeal by intensifying the focus on celebrity and showbusiness news and publishing fewer of the harder stories …
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Elected conservatives outsource all their work to corporations, leaving me wondering what they do all day
Excellent all-in-one-place piece on ALEC in ProPublica: This week, both the Los Angeles Times and The Nation put the spotlight on a little-known but influential conservative nonprofit that creates “model” state legislation that often make its way into law. The organization has helped craft some of the most controversial—and industry-friendly—legislation of recent years. The American …