I'm not sure how many times the NYT will invite him to write the same asinine column with similar basic errors and misunderstandings. And, yes, there's no actual evidence whatsoever that the mythical deal Obama made to kill the public option actually happened. Although since...
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Shorter Verbatim Patrick Pexton: "I spent a couple of days last week talking to Social Security experts across the ideological spectrum. Some, mainly those on the left, didn’t like the.
Amazingly, there's a certain class of wingnut that remains obsessed with Journolist. Because, apparently, the fact that liberal opinion journalists express liberal opinions in emails as well as public (and.
Shorter Jeffrey Lord: Accusations that a conservative African-American engaged in sexual harassment is lynching, whether or not he is guilty. Extralegal killings of African-Americans, of course, are not lynchings. One thing to add is that the "high-tech lynching" nonsense implies that Thomas was innocent. While...
Shorter Bobo: "'Stagnant social mobility' and the concentration of wealth within a self-perpetuating plutocracy are completely separate problems. And people without college degrees would magically become more prosperous if they.
I have a piece up at Alternet about the myth of Robert Bork. Nocera's representative whining notwithstanding, the defeat of Bork wasn't unprecedented, it wasn't obstructionist, it was justified, and.
Isn't his clever, elaborate satire of George W. Bush beginning to lack subtlety? See also this instance of him saying the quiet part loudly. Look, most of us understand that birtherism among Republican elites is about 1)demonstrating your asshole bona fides and 2)fleecing rubes, but...
Shorter Patrick Pexton: "Our perfectly accurate story about the Koch Brothers did not include enough Koch press releases recycled by conservative hacks." More here.
Nice catch by Katha Polllitt. It's nice that Benjamin Barber has published a trite but unobjectionable piece urging liberals to fight. But this isn't really the week to be taking.
You know how Tom Freidman or Matt Miller submits the same column about how we need a "radical centrist" pain caucus third party daddy to save us about twice a month? Not to be outdone, Joe Nocera is approximately the eight millionth pundit to write...
Trainwreck Media has been pure and inevitable comedy gold from before its inception. And, yet, in its own way it's an impressive achievement, in that Reynolds and Simon seem to.
Anderson Cooper.