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Rep. Michelle Bachmann’s crazy ass claim that there are anti-American members of Congress, raving lunatics claiming Obama is Satan’s candidate for President, raving right wing loonies assuring us that the economic crash is the fault of poor people who want to own houses, right wing columnist claiming in all apparent seriousness that Barack Obama is [...]

Last night, “60 Minutes” reported on the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan. One soldier explained, “I thought it was gonna be a little bit quieter here. But we landed in a hornet’s nest when we got here.” Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Schlosser said bluntly, “I need more resources, more soldiers, and more assets.”
Lara Logan’s 13-minute report is [...]

For what it’s worth their big complaint against McCain:
. . . out of nowhere, and without proper vetting, the impetuous McCain picked Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate. She quickly proved grievously underequipped to step into the presidency should McCain, at 72 and with a history of health problems, die in office. More [...]

Conservatives are already preparing a post-election narrative (no surprise here - as 2004 starting looking like Kerry couldn’t pull it off, progressives began preparing a post-election narrative).
By all indications - the presidential race aside - this is shaping up to be a bad year for Republicans and conservatives. Current polling suggest Dems could emerge [...]

So I’m at the gym last night and Larry King actually asked “Does McCain need to win tomorrow night’s debate?”
Why does this man have a nightly show on CNN?
At several points, he forced himself to do that faux sensitive thing he does and asked insightful questions like, “So do you think McCain can [...]

Two interesting points:
Ezra Klein:
The template is broken. One striking lesson of the campaign has been the reduced salience of the culture war stuff. Rove and Bush could gesture towards identity politics. They could hide behind issues like abortion and guns and the role of the church. McCain has had to state it all explicitly. He’s [...]

Welcome to an America of your (Republicans) choosing.

I’ve touched on this topic before. Offit, literally, wrote the book on the subject. What he has to say:
There is no known cause or cure for autism [snip]
The reason that I wrote the book is because of what happened after the studies exonerating vaccines had been performed and published. The media, using the [...]

The Fox News Ethos Summarized In Thirty Seconds
A nearly unanimous vote for Obama unapologetically called a “split” on FOX

On any given day, one can visit Media Matters and see physical proof of a conservative bias in the media.  The right-wing mantra claiming the opposite can at best produce only anecdotal evidence to support their lie.
Print media reported McCain attacks on Obama for purported ties to Freddie and Fannie, but not McCain aides’ lobbying [...]

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After the election of 2004, voting rights activists everywhere were wondering why the exit polls, which had been clearly favoring John Kerry all day, puzzlingly flipped 180 degrees, and ultimately reflected the official voting results. If you haven’t heard about this, you are definitely not alone. Although the organization that ran the exit polls still [...]

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Linda Carter, a noted evangelical Christian who used to play Wonder Woman on television, was asked by a reporter for a magazine in Philadelphia how she felt about the media calling VP candidate Sarah Palin the “new Wonder Woman.” Carter didn’t just have an opinion, she “WENT OFF!”
Don’t get me started. She’s the anti-Wonder Woman. [...]