BitsBlog Echo Syndrome

I doubt Tony Blankley reads Bitsblog, but he acts as if he did.   In the Washington Times, Blankley questions Mrs. Clinton’s experience:  

Having spent much of my adult life in politics, it would be silly at this late date

So, today… Just today… we find out that Edwards and Kerry never really got along during their campaign in ’04. And this from the New York Times, no less:

To the end of their disappointing run, the two men

The evidence says no.    Mrs. Clinton was asked how she would protect the privacy of our service personnel.   Patrick Healy, New York Times:  

She drew another ovation, too, with her response to an Air Force major, a 20-year veteran

In the irony challenged story the day, Mrs. Clinton cites the need for experience to mend an ailing economy, but offers none.

KNOXVILLE, Iowa (AP) — The economy needs help and fast, Hillary Rodham Clinton declared Monday, claiming

Jonah Goldberg in today’s LA TIMES:

As the hopeless but energetic presidential campaign of Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) builds momentum in name recognition, fundraising and cross-ideology appeal, media conservatives are beginning to attack Paul in earnest

You’re usually more on

The Washington Post:

Maryland lawmakers early this morning passed about $1.4 billion in annual tax increases and a public referendum on legalizing 15,000 slot machines as a far-reaching special session of the General Assembly hurtled to a close.

Passage of

Michael van der Galiën:

Of course, the problem isn’t that Fox News is biased, it’s that the bias isn’t liberal / Laborite. No, the real problem is that Fox News has a conservative bias. If the news network was

The Confederate Yankee is reporting that The New Republic has canned its head fact checker.:

Interesting (my bold):

The New Republic is looking for an assistant editor to fill an immediate opening in our Washington, DC office. The assistant editor

Headline:

Obama: Takes Terrorism ‘Deadly Serious’

Well, as I gather it, so do the terrorists.  They’ve been at it a bit longer. Somehow, I suspect that your level of “serious” doesn’t rise to that of theirs…. particularly since yours has

I’m starting to see an awful lot in the way of back channel chatter about Sybil Edmonds again.  In the last several weeks I’ve had at least three different people writing me, saying that I had to be delighted to

Since this news came out that Hillary Clinton supposedly has some dirt to throw at Barack Obama, the apologists for the Clinton campaign have been coming out in force.  No surprise then one of the to find the chief chief

Bryan Preston, Hot Air, deconstructions, CNN(Clinton News Network) and Wolf Blitzer’s phony debate.    Note Barack Obama’s reply.

Time to pull the plug on CNN and send Wolf Blitzer to Peter Arnett land.

Hat Tip:  Memeorandum.

The figures are in:

DETROIT (AP) — In another blow to the Motor City’s tarnished image, Detroit pushed past St. Louis to become the nation’s most dangerous city, according to a private research group’s controversial analysis, released Sunday, of annual

Glenda Brawley whose daughter was not raped twenty years ago, is petitioning New York State governor and attorney general, Eliot Spizter and Andrew Cuomo to “reopen” the case.

NEW YORK (AP) — Twenty years after her allegations of

McQ over at O&O made a trip to an oil platform, and relates his experiences here.

There’s a lot going on in that post, but I do want to point up something  that relates to a discussion we had the