Media Matters Thinks It’s Slamming Glenn Beck, But Possibly Smears Keith Olbermann

January 30, 2008 in Keith Olbermann, Media Matters
Tags: Barack Obama, Glenn Beck

Lord knows, Glenn Beck has said some outrageous stuff in the past. But I’ll be damned if I can find anything to get hysterical about here:
On the January 28 edition of MSNBC’s Countdown, host Keith Olbermann named CNN Headline News’ Glenn Beck the “runner-up” in his “Worst Person in the World” segment for Beck’s recent [...]

Paul Krugman Is A Hack, Pt. MMCXXXIV

January 25, 2008 in Paul Krugman
Tags: Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, E.J. Dionne, Hillary Clinton, Ronald Reagan, Washington Post

It’s been a real pleasure watching the Democrats argue over Reagan’s legacy. Finally it’s not just conservatives talking too much about Reagan, who was great but isn’t coming back or likely to be matched anytime soon.
Republicans are trying in vain to follow up Reagan, but right now it seems Democrats are having a harder time [...]

Andrew Sullivan: It’s About Ideas, Right?

January 24, 2008 in Uncategorized
Tags: John McCain, Rush Limbaugh

Oh, the heart-ache:
No, I don’t agree with McCain on everything. But if it’s a choice between him and Limbaugh, there really is no contest. McCain makes all the right people on the right angry. McCain represents a chance to remake the GOP on reformist lines, just as Obama represents a chance for the Democrats to [...]

John Cole: Why Be Honest When You Can Be Gliberal Instead?

January 24, 2008 in Balloon Juice, Eschaton
Tags: Iraq, John Cole, President Bush

This is a day old, but worth calling attention to:
Yeah. That is why he didn’t address the studies. Anyone with half a brain would not find that even remotely controversial. Hell, perhaps we can ask Mr. Yankee to point us to all those WMD we found. Or maybe he can discuss the Office of Special [...]

Nutroots Favorite Marcy Kaptur Is A Complete Idiot. Think They’ll Say Anything?

January 18, 2008 in Daily Kos
Tags: Kossacks, Marcy Kaptur

Think they’ll say anything about this? From Reuters:
U.S. Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur came to a House committee hearing on Thursday prepared to ask U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson tough questions about his involvement in the subprime mortgage crisis.
Unfortunately, she was questioning the chairman of the Federal Reserve.
SNIP
She then asked: “Seeing as how you were the former [...]

Ezra Klein Apologizes, Or Close Enough, Maybe

January 17, 2008 in American Prospect, Ezra Klein, Fishbowl DC, MSNBC, Wonkette
Tags: Apology, Ezra Klein, Tim Russert

In a comment on this blog’s first post, lo these many hours ago the brilliant young mind Ezra Klein offers a weak defense not far off the one he gave to Wonkette and Fishbowl DC yesterday:
You’re absolutely correct that this was patently offensive. It was a private text message to friends, an inside joke we [...]

Mike Huckabee Tells Amusing Anecdote, Left-Wing Bloggers Ridicule Southerners

January 17, 2008 in MSNBC, Shakesville, Talking Points Memo, The Liberal Journal
Tags: Mike Huckabee, Southerners, Squirrels

There’s really no other way to look at this. So today, Huckabee goes on Morning Joe and like he usually does, tells a goofy story, this one about eating fried squirrel in college. Everybody has a good laugh. Josh Marshall thought it was funny enough to post:

It’s funny, and so is [...]

Ezra Klein Says “F— Tim Russert” And Worse, Should Be Banned From “Hardball”

January 6, 2008 in American Prospect, Ezra Klein, MSNBC
Tags: American Prospect, Chris Matthews, Ezra Klein, MSNBC, Tim Russert

“Big Media Ezra” Klein is well-known to bloggers and some media pundits as a sort of wunderkind — a lowly blogger who quickly rose to a perch at the little-read esteemed American Prospect and to appearances on the little-watched influential “Hardball with Chris Matthews” on MSNBC. He’s half your age, but his book will [...]