| May 2 |
- What backroom conniving are Steny Hoyer and the Chris Carney Blue Dogs up to on FISA?
- Emerging reports suggest that House Democrats are on the verge of reversing their only meaningful success since being handed control of Congress.
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| May 3 |
- Fred Hiatt on the noble glories of occupation
- The Washington Post editorialist says that mere airstrikes are bad because they result in civilian deaths, cause displacement and aid al-Qaida recruitment. Therefore, we should invade and occupy countries instead.
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| May 4 |
- The media, the right and 1988: Endless deja vu
- Will the tactics that the GOP perfected in 1988, and to which the media is addicted, work again in 2008 to render actual issues yet again irrelevant?
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| May 5 |
- Who needs Dana Perino when you have the NYT's Michael Gordon?
- Yet again, Judy Miller's former co-reporter mindlessly repeats provocative, war-provoking government claims.
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| May 6 |
- Things that don't exist in Harry Reid's world
- The Democratic Senate leader continually claims that Joe Lieberman "votes with us on everything except the war." What about eavesdropping, habeas corpus, telecom amnesty and torture?
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| May 7 |
- The right's selective political manipulation of Catholicism
- Kathryn Jean Lopez's tawdry politicization of religion knows no bounds.
- McCain embraces Bush's radical views of executive power
- The GOP nominee actually complains that it is judicial power that is excessive and is unduly limiting the powers of the president.
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| May 8 |
- Neocons and the truth: Bitter enemies to the end
- The fact-free extremists who brought us the invasion of Iraq haven't gone anywhere and are busy trying to exert their influence before this administration ends.
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| May 9 |
- CNN, the Pentagon's "military analyst program" and Gitmo
- A detailed look at the documents produced by the Pentagon reveals just how corrupt the media's behavior was and, even more so, continues to be.
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| May 10 |
- How the military analyst program controlled news coverage: in the Pentagon's own words
- "We develop a core group from within our media analyst list of those that we can count on to carry our water. They become the key go to guys for the networks and it begins to weed out the less reliably friendly analysts by the networks themselves."
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| May 12 |
- John McCain's Vietnam-based view of war
- An outdated belief in the unconstrained use of force and less domestic debate is the centerpiece of the GOP candidate's national security worldview.
- Larry Di Rita's responses to questions about the "military analyst" program
- The former top aide to Donald Rumsfeld seeks to explain major discrepancies in his statements.
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| May 13 |
- Was Karl Rove involved in the military analyst program?
- Do DoD e-mails reveal the involvement of the White House, contrary to prior denials?
- Finding Obama guilty of insufficient devotion to Israel
- Has there ever been another country besides Israel to which American politicians are required to vow absolute allegiance?
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| May 14 |
- Tom Friedman's latest declaration of war
- The nation's leading foreign policy pundit finds the new Soviet Union.
- "Actual journalists" as government spokespeople
- New documents obtained by the ACLU shed more light on the U.S. torture regime and how "actual journalism" works.
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| May 15 |
- June Events
- List of upcoming speeches and events
- Joe Galloway blasts Pentagon and Larry Di Rita on "military analyst" claims
- The Bronze Star-winning military journalist points out the dishonesty in the statements made here earlier this week by the former Pentagon spokesman.
- California's marriage ruling -- what it means and what it doesn't mean
- One can easily anticipate the myths and falsehoods soon to be spouted about this landmark ruling.
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| May 17 |
- Ronald Reagan: Chamberlainian appeaser of the 1980s
- The same people who today accuse Obama of "appeasement" hurled the same trite insults at Ronald Reagan for wanting to negotiate with that era's Evil Empire.
- High standards at the Washington Post Op-Ed page
- A white pride advocate is invited to argue that Barack Obama and John Edwards are girly gays.
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| May 19 |
- The NYT's latest Kristol embarrassment
- Their newest Op-Ed writer makes yet another sloppy, factually false claim in service of his trite partisan agenda.
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| May 20 |
- Major new ad campaign -- aimed at Blue Dog Rep. Chris Carney -- begins
- The tidal wave of TV, radio, newspaper and billboard ads in Carney's district arose out of his active support for warrantless eavesdropping and telecom amnesty.
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| May 21 |
- Various items
- The ACLU hosts an online torture symposium. The GOP parodies itself with a new ad campaign featuring dancing San Francisco gays. Joe Lieberman previews the attack he'll launch at the RNC.
- Michael O'Hanlon's defense of his pro-war record
- The Brookings war cheerleader announces: "I believe Ken Pollack and I have been generally proven right by events."
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| May 22 |
- The California marriage decision and basic civics
- The attack on the California court decision by a Brookings "scholar" in the New Republic reveals a profound ignorance of how our system of government is designed to function.
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| May 24 |
- How telecoms are attempting to buy amnesty from Congress
- Lobbyist disclosure forms and campaign contribution records illuminate the sleazy process by which our key laws are written.
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| May 26 |
- The Politico's John Harris admits now what he denied last year
- "Important stories . . . disappear with barely a whisper. Trivial stories . . . can dominate the campaign narrative for days"
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| May 27 |
- Israel imposes a 10-year ban on American critic of Israeli policies
- The denial of entrance to Norman Finkelstein is part of a broader trend of suppressing free debate when it comes to Israel.
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| May 28 |
- Scott McClellan on the "liberal media"
- If Bush's own press secretary mocks the American media as excessively "deferential" disseminators of right-wing government propaganda, isn't it time to retire forever the myth of the "liberal media"?
- Network news anchors praise the job they did in the run-up to the war
- Charlie Gibson says that it's not the job of the media to "debate" with political leaders, merely to pose questions.
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| May 29 |
- CNN/MSNBC reporter: Corporate executives forced pro-Bush, pro-war narrative
- "The higher the president's approval ratings, the more pressure I had from news executives ... to put on positive stories about the president."
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| May 30 |
- The right-wing Politico cesspool
- Mike Allen, its national political correspondent, says that Bush opponents and critics are "left wing haters."
- Interview with former "Donahue" producer and MSNBC pundit Jeff Cohen
- Cohen describes the multiple pressures exerted by NBC executives to amplify pro-government views and suppress antiwar commentary.
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