And to continue the all-day TNR bashing, let’s also not forget that Jamie Kirchick, who recently penned a noxious piece asserting that only liberals are interested in Obama’s birth certificate. He might want to watch this: Again, he’s carved out a pretty nice little niche there as the “lefty” that Republicans just love, because he …
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Even the liberal New Republic
John noted the Marty Peretz/Betsy McCaughey connection. Betsy McCaughey’s dishonest smear piece, titled “No Exit” on Hillarycare, published in The New Republic while Sully was editor, was perhaps the lowest moment in the magazine’s history, and that’s saying a great deal. The wiki on Betsy McCaughey is pretty thorough: here’s a summary of her smear …
I’m not a teabagger but….
Chuck Lane’s piece on the end-of-life counseling provisions in the House health care bill is such pitch perfect contrarian, on-the-other-hand wankery that it ought to be put in a time capsule. Lane, you may recall, is the TNR editor who oversaw the Stephen Glass fiasco; he’s now a member of the Washington Post editorial board. …
Give me all your health care reform or I will kill you
BriWi’s Pulitzer nominee, Nooners, salutes the teabaggers: We have entered uncharted territory in the fight over national health care. There’s a new tone in the debate, and it’s ugly. At the moment the Democrats are looking like something they haven’t looked like in years, and that is: desperate. They must know at this point they …
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Tell it like it is
The title of Steve Pearlstein’s piece on health care reform says it all “Republicans Propagating Falsehoods in Attacks on Health-Care Reform“: There are lots of valid criticisms that can be made against the health reform plans moving through Congress — I’ve made a few myself. But there is no credible way to look at what …
The dirty Sanchez
I give Rich Sanchez a ton of credit for his smackdown of Conservatives for Patients’ Rights founder Rick Scott. But there was nothing dirty about it, aside from Scott’s smarmy answers. It’s nice to see an anchor do his job properly. Sanchez did a terrific segment on reactions to Sotomayor a few weeks ago as …
When Do I Get to Grade Wolf?
So I turned on CNN for two minutes, and apparently they are now grading the second hundred days of the Obama Presidency. Are they going to grade him every hundred days for the next four years?