Hold Fast

Glenn Greenwald writes: In one important sense, the “tea party” movement is similar to the Obama campaign for “change”:  it stays sufficiently vague and unspecific to enable everyone to read into what they want, so that people with fundamentally irreconcilable views believe they’re part of the same movement. I think this is pretty spot on [...]

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“No witnesses.” This is one of the governing philosophies of the Chinese government when it comes to areas that they occupy during times of unrest. Witnesses can bring photographs, videos, and first-hand accounts of what happens in China and Tibet during unrest. They can account for who initiated violence if it occurs. They can document [...]

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The editors of the New York Times have, as is their wont, again tasked Arts & Leisure reporter Alessandra Stanley to write about President Obama. She’s not very good at it, though, and has been eviscerated by bloggers (myself included) during her last two major endeavors to covering something that she simply does not have [...]

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Senator Chris Dodd has taken a lot of heat over the last year plus about loans he received from Countrywide. After taking a lot of fire from the right over them, the Senate Ethics Committee investigated and cleared Dodd of any wrong doing. Dodd had the circumstances of the loan audited and has released hundreds [...]

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Over at Talking Points Memo, David Kurtz quotes a reader’s email on the outrage espoused by former Bush administration assistant Secretary of State Ellen Sauerbrey at President Obama’s economic policies, comparing them to the fascist economic policies of Hitler and Peron. The reader’s email concludes: I teach Latin American studies and have a pretty deep [...]

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Via Charles Monaco.

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There’s really no other way to describe Time Magazine’s cover story on Glenn Beck than just awful. The writing itself is horrendous, as is the quality of the reporting. For example of the former, see this paragraph: Our hot summer of political combat is turning toward an autumn of showdowns over some of the biggest [...]

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It looks like former president Jimmy Carter has been reading Atrios: “I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he’s African American,” Carter told NBC in an interview. “I live in the South, and I’ve seen the [...]

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Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) was the first Latino Congressman to endorse President Obama in his  campaign. Now that the administration is looking amenable to assuaging the concerns of Joe “You Lie!” Wilson regarding access to health insurance for immigrants, Obama is at risk of losing support from Hispanic members of Congress. Gutierrez is pushing back [...]

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Shorter Russ Douthat: The Teabaggers would be well served to hire Frank Luntz as their pollster. If they don’t, expect Obama to get what he wants on health care reform.

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