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Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 06, 2012 52 Comments
Fake: Real: Fake fake fake fake, but a real problem, don’t you think?  People still think Sarah Palin said she could see Russia from her backyard. Elsewhere: Happy Birthday, Mr. President. Who Castrated Ann Coulter? Well, he does have a nice healthy smile. Why is...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 16, 2012 17 Comments
The inflammatory Newsweek cover, and the heaping of praise on Obama by Andrew Sullivan, distract from the most important point of Sullivan’s article at The Daily Beast, quoted in the title above. Obama has accomplished a lot for the Left in America.  He wants to accomplish a lot...

Posted by Matthew Knee on July 22, 2011 4 Comments
Mickey Kaus is tearing into Carl Bernstein for his hypocritical comments on the News of the World hacking scandal, noting that Bernstein used the 1970’s equivalent of phone hacking to crack the Watergate scandal, using connections at the phone company to access phone private records,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 25, 2011 9 Comments
Impecable timing and sources, that’s what makes Newsweek a powerhouse in the news business: But all jokes aside, this was a bad day for the MSM.  Oh how they wanted Republicans to nominate someone from Mississippi with a heavy southern accent. Sorry, you’ll have to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 19, 2010 4 Comments
Instead, use the terms: “Nearly Worthless AP” or “Almost Worthless AP” Because AP is not literally Worthless.  Hell, even Newsweek sold for a buck. For consistency of message, here is a succinct summary of President Obama’s position on AP: Obama has said he believes AP has the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 03, 2010 3 Comments
This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain: I was going to take tonight off, since tomorrow is Independence Day. But then I saw this column at Newsweek online, Your Dog Isn’t Racist, on the pressing...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 15, 2010 18 Comments
Good news. The NY Times is reporting that the second in command of the Afghan Taliban, Mullah Baradar, has been captured in Pakistan. The capture was undertaken by the Pakistanis with help from the CIA: Details of the raid remain murky, but officials said that...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 07, 2010 41 Comments
Writing-on-hand-gate reminds me of one of the reasons Sarah Palin was put on this earth: To bring out and expose the worst misogynistic impulses in the hard core of the Democratic base. I’m not talking about criticism or mockery of the handwritten notes. That’s fair...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 30, 2010 7 Comments
The conspiracy to undermine the Constitution has taken an interesting turn. A career prosecutor at the Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) has determined that John Yoo and Jay Bybee did not violate their professional obligations in analyzing whether certain enhanced interrogation techniques constituted...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 03, 2010 2 Comments
Martha Coakley refuses to debate Scott Brown one-on-one. Coakley is the front-runner with better name recognition, so she has much to lose from debating Brown one-on-one. But Coakley has even more to lose from not having the courage to take on Brown. Put together with...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 02, 2010 11 Comments
Unlike the plurality of Democrats who as recently as 2007 believed George W. Bush knew of the 9/11 attacks in advance, there is no traction among conservatives for the theory that Barack Obama or his administration had actual knowledge of the Undie-bomber plot beforehand. But...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 25, 2009 1 Comment
Media Matters is watching everything that FoxNews, and conservative commentators such as Rush Limbaugh, say or do waiting to pounce on any sentence, or clause in a sentence, or word in a clause, which can be twisted out of context and blown up into a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 18, 2009 3 Comments
The Newsweek cover of Sarah Palin in fitness clothing is becoming the teachable moment of the year. Because liberal women are beginning — just beginning — to acknowledge that liberals of both genders are so driven by hatred of Sarah Palin that their worst instincts...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 18, 2009 4 Comments
TBogg, who blogs at Firedoglake, doesn’t want to miss an excuse to take a dig at Trig Palin, Sarah Palin’s son who was born with Down Syndrome. The excuse this time is the Newsweek cover showing what even Media Matters calls a sexist portrayal of...
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