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Obituary: The Death Of Facts

Shoq — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:39:02 +0000

In an op-ed today, Rex Huppke discusses a problem any thinking person knows about and discusses, nearly as often as they shrug off any notion that there could be a solution for it. A frequent subtext of many things I write about in this blog is that finding answers to problems like these must

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BREAKING: Rush Limbaugh Charged With Womanslaughter!

Shoq — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 16:39:46 +0000

See important update at the end.

Forgive my link-baited title, but it was just as contrived, gamed, and inaccurate as this one from Paul Farhi in today’s Washington Post:

Limbaugh sees heat over comments turn down to a simmer

That awful bit of non-reporting spawed these (and other) derived items from so-called “journalists” sucking

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COURAGE! Journalist Goldie Taylor outs a predator after 26 years.

Shoq — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:03:49 +0000

See update below

Last night…

journalist and commentator, GoldieTaylor told a remarkable story to @CNN’s Don Lemon. She was inspired to tell it by the grotesque story of accused predator, former Penn State football coach, Jerry Sandusky.

She not only told of the horror of her own abuse, and that of other high school cheerleader

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With Orbitz Doing The Right Thing—Has DropFox Brought Us A New Kind of Activism?

Shoq — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 22:31:05 +0000

Today, my very good friend Angelo Carusone, (a.k.a. @stopbeck), campaign director at Media Matters and currently working on the DropFox effort at Media Matters for America, announced that Orbitz, the travel agency powerhouse, and a significant Fox News sponsor, has agreed to review all of their advertising on Fox News, a clear

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Primer: Wisconsin Union Solidarity Resources & Information

Shoq — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 03:34:51 +0000

"Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected." Samuel Gompers

About

The Wisconsin budget showdown might be the Stonewall moment of this generation. A time when the middle class finally wakes up and decides to take action, trying to save their jobs, their lives, and their nation. This

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Finally, Someone Else Has Questions for Bradley Manning & David House

Shoq — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 01:47:15 +0000

Finally…

A real journalist steps up to knit together the many questions about the Manning story that you probably won't be reading at Firedoglake and Salon.com. But now, thanks to this post, we may finally see some from the rest of the stenographic media. Emphasis on "may."

I'm pleased that some of the work that my friends

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Dear Glenn Greenwald: Get Well Soon

Shoq — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 23:20:58 +0000

Dear Glenn:

Today I posted a blog entry about Jane Hamsher at 1:30 pm, EST. Then I went to the dentist for a 3 hour session. I came back to find Jane Hamsher acting like Jane Hamsher. Rather than respond to anything in my post, she resorted to another round of goofy attacks on me.

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Why Does The Media Let Greenwald and Hamsher Do All The Talking about Bradley Manning?

Shoq — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 01:09:16 +0000

Yesterday, I became another in a distinguished line of critics openly Twitter-flamed by the illustrious Salon.com blogger, Glenn Greenwald. He took time out from the glorious weather in his home town of Rio de janeiro to hector me publicly for posting this tweet on Twitter.

It was addressed to one of my Twitter followers,

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Colorforms History: How George Bush Will Soon Become A Great President

Shoq — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 14:09:24 +0000

"There you go again!"

Once more, as they have so often done, the right wing is going to try to rewrite history, methodically reconstructing 8 horrendous years of the Bush administration, replacing a systemic pattern of crimes, malfeasance, and incompetence with glowing portraits of another unsung American hero who exists only in their minds, and the

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Olbermann Special Comment: If the Teaparty Wins, America Loses

Shoq — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 01:38:04 +0000

Please spend the next few days sending this to everyone you know. Drag people to watch it, if you must. Then drag them to the god damn polls.

We won't get a second chance. It's show time. We either save America this Tuesday, or can just pack it in. They will only grow stronger, and quickly

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