Elections Blog

Our good friend Tom Maguire alerts me to a great personal triumph: the “Nutroots®” craze has spread to the NY Times (though, alas, without the proper attribution)…

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Words cannot express the moral depravity behind the decision of ReganBooks and Fox News to provide a forum for O.J. Simpson to confess to the details of the slaying of his wife and Ronald Goldman under the ruse that it is ‘hypothetical’:
Fox will slaughter the competition the final week of the November ratings sweeps when [...]

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And that’s no surprise at all.  You don’t have to go very deep into this Gail Collins special to realize just how morally bankrupt the once-proud Grey Lady has become:
The Democrats will not be able to savor their victory for long. Americans are waiting to hear if they have any good ideas for how to [...]

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…marred only by the appearance of MoDo (transcript here).  Said MoDo:

MR. RUSSERT: Maureen Dowd, here’s the cover of Newsweek magazine. “Father Knows Best.” With Bush 41, Bush 43, and it’s subtitled “With Congress Lost, Iraq in Chaos, Bush Calls In His Dad’s Team. Can James, James Baker and Company Save the Son’s Presidency?” Very similar [...]

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…and is less than enthused:
Apparently and unfortunately, President Bush is right that the Democrats have no “plan for victory.” (Neither does he, of course. Nor, for that matter, do I. But I don’t claim to have one. And I didn’t start it.) For national security in general, the Democrats’ plan is so according-to-type that you [...]

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The headline in the Washington Post: Democrats, On The Offensive, Could Gain Both Houses. And they very well could…yet the article presents no evidence that the Senate will swing the Democrats’ way, and the survey that provided the impetus for the article shows Republican gains in almost every category.
Some examples:
Bush job approval: 43%, up [...]

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Rich Lowry on the internal Republican polling…
Shock of the day: Kos doesn’t like Lieberman, and vice-versa (hilariously, Kos takes offense because Lieberman called DKos the leading left-wing blog; apparently Markos thinks he’s in the mainstream.  Bonus hilarity for complaining about Lieberman’s thuggish tactics (heard any Rape Gurney Joe jokes lately, Markos?))… 
Second shock of the day: massive Democratic [...]

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As our good friend mtl points out, the New York Times is running with a big story on how the “Operation Iraqi Freedom Document Portal” apparently posted very, very detailed nuclear documents for public consumption before being shut down after the Times started asking questions.  This bothers me a great deal, because my regular readers [...]

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…and for those who like a newsmagazine that is a little (well, okay, a LOT) more intellectual than the standard TIME/Newsweek/U.S. News triumvirate…the Economist, now available for free (well, almost - just like Salon, you have to watch an ad first - big whoop!)…

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The Smoking Gun has the documents, and provides this helpful summary:
Air America Radio today filed for bankruptcy, listing liabilities in excess of $20 million and assets of only $4 million. The Chapter 11 filing by Piquant LLC, the radio network’s parent company, was made in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. The list of Air America’s [...]

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…into third place:
CBS’s Katie Couric-anchored newscast has fallen to third place in a three-way race for viewers among the broadcast evening newscasts, triggering an exuberant news release from CBS News marveling at Couric’s unprecedented double-digit, across-the-board gains in her first month and celebrating her victory over the decades-old ratings curse that has plagued new anchors.
Dennis [...]

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He’s done it again; another great interview for the Real Ugly American, this time with Dr. David Perlmutter, the Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research at the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Kansas.  Check it out…

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Just really, really broke:

Liberal and conservative media blogospheres have been rampant this week with reports that fledgling progressive talk radio network Air America is on the verge of filing bankruptcy. Reports also speculate on the possibility of a pull-out by major investors and a revamped lineup.
The network has endured almost constant financial problems since its [...]

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That may be the case, says the Radio Equalizer, who thinks Think Progress may have been taken for a ride:
After consulting with those in the know and considering all of the facts at hand, your Radio Equalizer has come to this conclusion, which can fairly be called an educated guess: an internal faction that is [...]

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Air America is denying bankruptcy rumors (kind of), but Franken says no dough is landing in his wallet:
“I don’t know if that’s true or not,” Franken tells Radar when asked about the bankruptcy report. “We do know that there have been cash-flow problems. I haven’t been paid in a while. Like, there’s no cash flowing [...]

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Air America will declare bankruptcy on Friday. There, there, it’s okay; we’re all devastated. Take a few minutes to compose yourself.
How bad is Air America? So bad that with the opposition party holding both chambers of Congress and the White House (the ideal position for talk radio - being on the opposite side [...]

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You really must read the whole thing in it’s entirety, so no excerpts for you!…

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Uh-oh, not a good start to the week for the New Republic:
A senior editor at The New Republic was suspended and his blog was shut down on Friday after revelations that he was involved in anonymously attacking readers who criticized his posts.
Lee Siegel, creator of the Lee Siegel on Culture blog for tnr.com, was suspended [...]

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Tom Maguire puts the WaPo PlameGate editorial in perspective by looking at how some of the actual participants summed up this affair:
As to why the WaPo might think that Wilson’s “I am hero and victim” story was a load of nonsense, let’s reprise the views of a few of their reporters…:
Bob Woodward, Pulitzer Prize winner [...]

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Wow, I’m absolutely flabbergasted!  The Washington Post editorial board gets PlameGate exactly right - (a) it was not a conspiracy to out Valerie Plame, (b) Plame was responsible for her husband getting the Niger gig,  (c) Wilson lied when he claimed to have ‘debunked’ the charge the Iraq was seeking uranium from Niger, and (d) [...]

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