Hold Fast

The Scotsman:
“She is a monster, too – that is off the record – she is stooping to anything,” Ms Power said, hastily trying to withdraw her remark.
“Interestingly, the people in her innermost circle seem to not mind her; I think they really love her.”
But she added: “There is this middle circle – they are really […]

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Eric Boehlert of Media Matters has a great piece about how progressive blogs, lead by FireDogLake, orchestrated a massive push back on an Associated Press story by Nedra Pickler of Republican smear attacks on Barack Obama.
What prompted the organized outpouring of angst last week against the AP was when the website Firedoglake took action, embraced […]

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ArchPundit:
Timmeh took his cue from Richard Cohen in the Washington Post column:
Barack Obama is a member of Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ. Its minister, and Obama’s spiritual adviser, is the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. In 1982, the church launched Trumpet Newsmagazine; Wright’s daughters serve as publisher and executive editor. Every year, the magazine […]

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I’ll pull the transcript when I can, but the line of questions on Louis Farrakhan and Libya was beyond the pale. What would Obama’s jewish supporters think if…?
The questioning of Clinton on her personal finances and her public schedule was equally badgering, though on a somewhat less explosive issue.
The last 10 minutes of the debate […]

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This is great. Comedian Lee Camp, a mainstay with Laughing Liberally and a good friend of the progressive blogging community, does a great Cliff Schecter impersonation on Fox News and makes everyone uncomfortable in the process. Really, this is how Democratic guests need to behave on Fox News.

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Ralph Nader announced that he’s running for President today. On Meet The Press.
Say what you will about how progressive or populist Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are or are not, at least they didn’t announce their candidacies on the most Beltway Insider, elitist media outlet in America.

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Today’s Wall Street Journal includes an editorial attacking Senate Democrats like Barack Obama and Chris Dodd for their work to stop retroactive immunity and pass legislation that includes congressional and judicial oversight of domestic surveillance. Not surprisingly, a paper that has cheered every rollback of rights under the Bush administration doesn’t miss this opportunity to […]

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Carl Hulse of the New York Times has an update on this week’s FISA debate in the Senate. Not surprisingly, the piece appears on the NYT Blog and not the actual print edition of the paper.
The article is solely a rehashing of what political narratives each party will try to use to shape the debate. […]

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Back to back posts bashing the NY Times Opinion section!
Molly Ivors takes down the latest Maureen Dowd column. Here’s the rub:

My point all along has been that MoDo, in focusing on the most meaningless and shallow terms, makes all the candidates unelectable. And look where she’s focusing her eyes. Don’t let her do it to […]

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Glenn Greenwald explains that the word does not mean what you think it means.

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