July 8, 2013
NSA Leak: Former Producer Says MSNBC Won’t Tell You When Obama Is Lying
A former MSNBC producer says the news network is just about as reliable in covering President Obama as Fox News was in covering President Bush.
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June 27, 2013
Immigration Reform Vote: ‘Get A Brain! Morans’
Sometimes the jokes just write themselves.
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June 20, 2013
CHART: The Conservative ‘Big Government’ Lie – U.S. Residents per Public Sector Worker
Conservatives loathe “big government.” I mean, they hate it with a passion. But their antipathy for big government is manufactured from a false pretense that larger government leads to smaller individual liberty. It’s hard to believe something as complex as the United States government, in a country with a population over 300 million, could be boiled down to a zero sum game of government vs. liberty, but that’s conservative logic for ya.
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June 19, 2013
Conservatives Need To Explain Their Contempt For Americans
If there are conservatives in your family, this may sound all-too-familiar.
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June 15, 2013
NSA Leak: Law-Breaking, Civil Disobedience, And Who Do You Trust?
Democrats will need to go above and beyond to be trusted when it comes to their opinion on the NSA leak by Edward Snowden. What do I mean by that? With a Democrat in the White House, I don’t trust Democrats who say Snowden is a traitor. Similarly, I don’t trust Republicans, particularly libertarians, who say Snowden is a patriot or a hero.
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June 5, 2013
IRS Scandal – More Like: Paranoid ‘Persecuted’ Conservative Delusion
Washington Representative Jim McDermott (D) was right to call yesterday’s IRS hearing “political theater.”
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June 4, 2013
Conservatives Resent ‘Other’ People, Liberals Resent Bygone Policy
If there is a fundamental reason to attack false equivalence, it would be the difference between what fuels conservatives and what fuels liberals. There are no shortage of personal attacks lobbed from both sides, but there is one key difference — conservatives resent “other” people; liberals resent bygone policy (usually supported by conservatives).
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June 3, 2013
IRS ‘Line Dancing’ Means We Can’t Have Universal Health Care
It really is silly season in the world of political coverage. Fox News has found it’s smoking gun…or guns. Benghazi, IRS, DOJ, you name it. Fox News and conservative media aren’t interested in actual wrong-doing, they have found their smoking gun, even if they can’t exactly name it.
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June 3, 2013
The Place For Politics: MSNBC Ratings Slip When Breaking News Is Not Political
How about this for breaking news — the news network with the tagline “The Place For Politics” doesn’t shine in the ratings department when the biggest news stories are not political. Is this really a shock to anyone? In May, MSNBC slipped to 4th place behind Fox News, CNN and HLN. This was a time of breaking news like tornadoes, and a murder trial (no, I won’t even mention the name). Usually MSNBC is a distant second to the near worship-like dominance of Fox News. Of course, ratings don’t prove that you are delivering a factually sound product, it just means you are delivering what a fervent audience wants to hear. And when it comes to faux scandals during a democratic administration, the faux news network known as Fox News is definitely your source. When it comes to coverage of non-political breaking news, CNN’s longstanding name recognition wins out. “We’re not the place for that [breaking news],” said MSNBC president Phil Griffin. “Our brand is not that.” Indeed.
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May 31, 2013
Student Loan Interest Rates: Show Some Personal Responsibility, Unless You Are A Bank
Three weeks ago Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren introduced a bill that would give students the same interest rate on their loans that banks get from the Federal Reserve.
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