Category: media
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Questions for Kavanaugh that are not pathetic.
The Democrats are bound to waste the Kavanough hearings asking him to admit he’s already made up his mind to destroy reproductive choice – something he will fend off with airy nonsense about hypotheticals and open minds. Instead, maybe they could ask hard questions You were a core member of…
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America’s “liberal” newspaper on economics in “unleashed” Germany.
The @nytimes is well known for its “liberal” bias despite its role pushing the Iraq War, suppression of stories on Trump/Russia while engaging in hysterical attacks on Hillary Clinton, its sad role in hyping the Whitewater non-scandal, its suppression of a story on Bush’s domestic spying before the 2004 election…
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How the New York Times helps elect Republicans
[from 2016] The NYTimes will, most likely, endorse the Democratic nominee for President but their News Desk is and has always been working full time to elect the Republican mostly by reinforcing the Republican brand. Most people do not vote based on issues papers, but on their impressions of the…
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The New York Times love for Jeb!
Everyone “knows” the New York Times is liberal so when they call Jeb Bush a “cerebral policy maven” despite his apparent lack of any ideas and ignore his record of sleaze and incompetence, their puffery is taken as “reporting”. The same goes for the Times hostility to Hillary Clinton – and…
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Bundy,Chait, and Ryan and America’s cowardly media
Let’s do this step by step, in five simple steps. 1. Respectable Republican Leader Paul Ryan: ““Your buddy Charles Murray or Bob Putnam over at Harvard, those guys have written books on this. Which is, we have got this tailspin of culture in our inner cities in particular of men…
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Johnathan Chait’s insane denial of Republican racism
Just a week or so ago, Paul Ryan, the Budget Guru of the Republican Party, went on Bill Bennet’s radio show and said: “We have got this tailspin of culture, in our inner cities in particular, of men not working and just generations of men not even thinking about working…
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The politics of Matt Tabbi’s big con
Aside from racism, the most important source of political power for the far right in the United States is apathy and despair. The same political forces that murdered people for registering to vote in Mississippi just a few decades back and that are still desperately working on voter suppression tactics…
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Can Matt Taibbi really be that naive?
Bring out my fainting couch, Matt Taibbi has just revealed that in America, in AMERICA!, people who make a lot of money via corporate chicanery can often get away with it. Of course, it’s President Obama’s fault too. Indeed, the shocking pattern of nonenforcement with regard to Wall Street is…