Month: October 2009

AP catches up with story about WH attempt to exclude Fox from the news cycle — and the nutroots respond accordingly

Twenty-four hours after the fact, the AP finally figured out that, maybe, just maybe, it’s worth reporting that the White House tried to freeze out a news organization that challenges it, and was stopped only because other news organizations realized that, if they let this one pass, they would forever

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The do-er and the thinker

Apropos Obama’s inability to make a decision regarding Afghanistan, Flopping Aces has a photo essay highlighting the difference between Bush and Obama. Thinking about it, Obama might have benefitted measurably from being in the military.  (And Bush’s stint in the National Guard counts as military service.)  As the Lieutenant to

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What Obama really seeks to destroy by destroying Fox News

Charles Krauthammer identifies the enormous damage the Obami risk doing as they attack and try to destroy national entities associated with conservatives (the Chamber of Commerce, talk radio, Fox news): There’s nothing illegal about such search-and-destroy tactics. Nor unconstitutional. But our politics are defined not just by limits of legality

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