Politics
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Blast from the past: Joe Wilson was John Kerry’s idea of “honest”
Now that Joe Wilson is back in the news (part of it his own doing), I thought it would be both quite timely and at least somewhat hilarious to dig up this relic from exactly one year ago today: July 15th of good ole summer 2004: Click the image for a full-size view. Trust me,…
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Prediction a la Rove
A prediction: Karl Rove is not Judith Miller’s source. Think about it: if Rove was Miller’s source, don’t you think the NYT would be pressuring Miller to reveal Rove with some kind of damning evidence, thereby effectively ensuring his almost immediate public demise?
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Congrats, Jeff
One of the media/tech gurus I look up to, Jeff Jarvis, has quit his big-media job at Advance.net to strike out on his own as Buzzmachine, LLC. Among other things, Jeff will consult for The NY Times Company and is working on a “stealth-mode” citizen’s media startup. I first became a fan of Jeff’s when…
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BlogPulse reports on Election 2004
BlogPulse has posted a fascinating study examining the effects of the blogosphere on the mainstream media during the 2004 Presidential election.
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TiVo alert: Bob Cox on MSNBC tonight
TiVo alert: Network Landscape friend and Media Bloggers Assocation founder Robert Cox is set to appear on MSNBC’s Connected Coast to Coast tonight between 5 and 6pm EST to talk about organizing bloggers.
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the *real* blue state/red state quiz
The truth…hurts.
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Is NPR the bastion of the marginal fringe?
This is so overwhelmingly stupid, so intellectually lazy, yet so brazenly self-confident, you really have to wonder how far off the deep end NPR has gone in recent years.
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In Memory
“When the Lord calls me home, whenever that may be, I will leave with the greatest love for this country of ours and eternal optimism for its future… I know that for America, there will always be a bright dawn ahead.” –President Ronald Reagan
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More NBC News sloppiness
Cori Dauber of Rantingprofs is all over sloppy reporting at NBC.
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Keepin’ it in perspective
Andrew Sullivan: If someone had said in February 2003, that by June 2004, Saddam Hussein would have been removed from power and captured; that a diverse new government, including Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds, would be installed; that elections would be scheduled for January 2005; and that the liberation of a devastated country of 25 million…