Over at the Washington Monthly, Steve Benen has published Bruce Bartlett’s response to Atrios’s question about why the media continues to treat Republicans with so much deference. To summarize, Bartlett says that Murdoch media has tilted things far to the right and that the rest of the media used to be liberal (I don’t agree …
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Bizarre love triangle
Via commenter Zach, we find the usual suspects waxing rhapsodic about the political genius of Sarah Palin’s death panel comments. Now, I realize that the death panel craziness did succeed in killing off the end-of-life counseling amendment (put in by right-wing Georgia Republican Johnny Isakson). And it’s probably true that the incident has rebounded to …
More Stories Of The Not Quite Rich Enough
Washington Post once again headlines the most important problems facing America today. I do not doubt that it hurts a parent to tell a little girl that she cannot have a designer cell phone like her friends at school. The problem is that highlighting these stories as preeminently important, which both WaPo and the Times …
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Bartlett’s quotation
Steven Benen publishes a very wise email from Bruce Bartlett: I believe that political parties should do penance for their mistakes and just losing power is not enough. Part of that involves understanding why those mistakes were made and how to prevent them from happening again. Republicans, however, have done no penance. They just pretend …
Out of the past
Everyone should always read Rick Perlstein but especially today: Before the “black helicopters” of the 1990s, there were right-wingers claiming access to secret documents from the 1920s proving that the entire concept of a “civil rights movement” had been hatched in the Soviet Union; when the landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act was introduced, one frequently …
Can We Get This Guy His Own Show
Lawrence O’Donnell: Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Please, please, please, keep calling these people liars. They are simply incapable of being confronted with being called a liar, because they are so used to folks like Candy Crowley running cover for them. Check out this outrageous clip from yesterday …
Lord God have mercy, all crimes are paid
What’s most amazing to me about American politics is how, in many cases, there is absolutely no price to be paid for any misdeeds. Pat Buchanan spews racist rhetoric and even writes admiringly of Hitler, yet he has a regular gig on MSBNC, the same people who peddled the lies that killed health care reform …
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