Did Wonkette Not Get Ana Marie Cox's Memo Re: Tony Snow
March 27th, 2007 5:20 PM
(h/t Snarking Dawg)From Ana Marie Cox's post to the "Swampland" blog at Time magazine:Let
me say that I did some self-cringing last week, when I choose to
describe Tony as the "most fun" press secretary of the administration.
I was looking for something non-controversial, non-partisan and true to
say about the guy. "Fun" seemed like something he'd appreciate -- he is
fun. The biggest change in…
WashPost Gives Royal Navy Hostage Story Just 51 Words On Day Four of I
March 27th, 2007 11:07 AM
Today marks four days since Iran's Revolutionary Guard captured 15 British servicemen in what they claim are Iranian territorial waters. A similar incident in 2004 lasted just three days.Yet the Washington Post, which has never hesitated to front-page negative developments in the war in Iraq, gave just 51 words on page A8 to the ongoing detention of 15 British servicemen.By contrast, the March…
CNN E-Mail Ignores the Past Week's Strong Stock Market Performance
March 24th, 2007 8:50 AM
From a CNN e-mail I received shortly after the close of Friday's stock markets (this was the entire message):
Wall Street fights off mortgage-risk-induced woes to end the week higher, with small gains Friday.
Anyone reading this e-mail would have thought that this was a net ho-hum week on The Street. After all, the e-mail merely said that the week ended "higher."
"Higher"? More like "way, way…
Behind Kucinich: Will MSM Cover Hillary's Fifth-Place Finish in Dean O
March 23rd, 2007 10:48 AM
At the end of his 2004 campaign, Howard Dean started Democracy for America, billed as a grassroots Democratic political action committee "dedicated to supporting fiscally responsible, socially progressive candidates at all levels of government." Last week, DFA staged an online Dem presidential candidate preference poll. As a proud DFA member [meaning that I joined the email list], I just…
Edwards, Bloggers, and the 'Suspense' of Mysterious Press Conferences
March 22nd, 2007 4:34 PM
Today's Edwards announcement is an object lesson in how easy it is for us in the blogosphere to run with something juicy without double-checking the facts and/or being very, very careful to precisely word our posts so that we don't tell readers to take something to the bank that hasn't been confirmed. It's also a lesson in how to promptly and gracefully face the music and admit error.Earlier…
Media Ignore CNBC Anchor Advising Hedge Funds How to Lie and Cheat to
March 22nd, 2007 1:47 PM
Something rather extraordinary occurred last December which had extremely ominous implications for stock investors around the world, but got totally ignored by the media. In fact, if not for a recent video posting at YouTube, and a March 20 article in the New York Post, these spectacular revelations would still be well under the radar.On December 22, CNBC’s James Cramer did a web interview for…
Newsweek 'Gaggle' Blogger Snarks About Rush Limbaugh Courthouse, U.S
March 22nd, 2007 12:57 PM
Rush H. Limbaugh, Sr., only had a storied legal career, the respect of Missouri Democrats and Republicans, and a stint of service to his country as Eisenhower's ambassador to India. But to Newsweek's Holly Bailey, President Bush signing a bill naming a federal courthouse in honor of Rush Limbaugh's grandfather was a substantial distraction from the real "people's business" in Washington:Never…
Couric Sings Hosannas Following Gore's 'Triumphant' Return to Capitol
March 21st, 2007 6:17 PM
Perhaps channeling her youthful experience as a cheerleader, CBS's Katie Couric pumped her rhetorical pom poms for Al Gore in a "Couric & Co." blog today. Below you can see how she lauded his "triumphant" return to Congress on her "Couric & Co." blog at CBSNews.com, all the while insisting "scientific consensus" is on Gore's side and that Congress should "act boldly" on the issue.…
CBS Blogger Highlights Blogs Agreeing with Iran's Government About
March 21st, 2007 12:30 PM
In time for the Persian New Year, CBS's Melissa McNamara trawled the blogosphere (including MySpace blog entries) and found bloggers who think Iran's Islamic extremist government has a point about "300" being "anti-Persian." In doing she, she produced a handful of blogs that appear to generate light traffic and in at least one case is just a rambling screed.McNamara told readers that the "Islamic…
Never Too Young to Indoctrinate: 'Why Mommy Is a Democrat
March 21st, 2007 9:03 AM
Oy, did Google's algorithims ever misfire. There at the top of my Gmail inbox this morning was an ad, which the Google wizards presumably determined to be geared to my predilections, for a book called . . . "Why Mommy Is a Democrat."I suppose Google was right, in the sense that the ad piqued my interest, though the odds of my buying a copy of the book are as remote as Outer Mongolia. But let'…
