Eric Florack on November 24th, 2007

The San Francisco Chronicle has recently activated a devious system by which it deceives commenters on its website, SFGate.com. Here’s how it works:If you make a comment on an article posted at SFGate, and if the site moderators then subsequently

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Eric Florack on November 21st, 2007

After about 24 hours of watching the left trying to make something of a snippet of Scott McClellan’s new book… it turns out out that there wasn’t any ‘there’ there…

WASHINGTON -(AP)- Former White House spokesman Scott McClellan does not

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Eric Florack on November 21st, 2007

An amazing admission from Paul Krugman:

As for what I wrote in 1996: the world looked very different then. On one side, Social Security projections were much more pessimistic than they are now, basically because the projections assumed that the

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Eric Florack on November 20th, 2007

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

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Eric Florack on November 20th, 2007

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

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davidl on November 20th, 2007

Dafna Linzer, Washington Post, reports on the City of Brotherly Love:

PHILADELPHIA — This may be the last free Thanksgiving dinner for the Boy Scouts of Philadelphia.

Citing a local 1982 “fair practices” law, the city solicitor has

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davidl on November 19th, 2007

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.

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davidl on November 18th, 2007

Mr and Mrs Willian ClintnoIn Washington,  if you can’t beat it, spin it.  Sherry Argov, New York Post,  apparently runs into the brick wall that voters refer to Mrs. Clinton as a bitch, because she is a bitch:

 November 18, 2007 — You

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davidl on November 17th, 2007

In response to Dan Rather’s lawsuit filed against the CBS responded, in effect, that Rather was insane.   CBS termed the lawsuit bizarre.

So question for CBS, at what point in Rather’s forty year association with your network  did come

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davidl on November 16th, 2007

Who is asking to to shut down CNN, a.k.a. the Ciinton News Network?

Can We Just Close Down CNN?

Josh Marshall, Talking Points Memo..

Wolf Blltzer, and fellow CNN accomplishs, have enraged the leftosphere by staging a phony debate. 

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Eric Florack on November 16th, 2007

There’s a multilevel discussion going on over at Q&O, on Ron Paul and his Nazi contributors. Paul hasn’t disavowed these contributors, nor has he returned the money.

I’ll use Jon’s lede for the links:

I understand the point McQ has

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davidl on November 16th, 2007

The speculation that Wolf Blitser had suddenly grown a spline,  proved to be unfounded:

CNN debate moderator Wolf Blitzer did an ‘outstanding’ job in Vegas, a senior adviser to the Hillary campaign said early Friday. ‘He was outstanding, and did

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And we see Doctor Krauthammer, this morning;

Doctor Charles KrauthammerWhen the Democratic presidential candidates pause from beating Hillary with a stick, they join in unison to pronounce the Democratic pieties, chief among which is that George Bush has left our alliances in

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Eric Florack on November 15th, 2007

You’ll recall last night I commented on the drooling idiot, Kos and how Newsweek had lowered themselves into hiring the guy, saying, “That’s OK… Newsweek didn’t have any credibility left, anyway.  No loss.”… Well, perhaps… just perhaps… I under-estimated Newsweek.

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davidl on November 14th, 2007

The Seattle Times has her collective head buried in the distal end of her alimentary canal:

Activists protesting military shipments at the Port of Olympia poured cement over railroad tracks to try to block shipments coming out of the Port

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