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Journo-List And The Daily Caller

Ezra Klein addresses the controversy over his list-serv for the last time. It's telling to me that he sets up a straw-man. There was no "conspiracy" on Journolist, so far as I can tell, and I haven't claimed there was. There was a cozy, self-satisfied network of writers, bloggers, and journalists who shared a broad progressive position and supported the Democratic party (but often disagreed as well). The valid criticism is not that this is a conspiracy, but a clique, a clique that at times...

The Self-Destruction Of Andrew Breitbart

So much for an apology. He claims the farmer's wife who backed Sherrod could have been a plant:

Good grief. He's bonkers.

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Dissent Of The Day

A reader writes:

You are a twit sometimes, Andrew. Obama is handling the Sherrod thing
exactly as he handles everything like this. Get the public totally
involved and see if there's enough outrage out there to change anything.
Education by fire . . . . Perhaps we'll get another discourse on race
relations. This is a democracy; it's working. Stop whining.

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Race And Obama's Cowardice

Take it away, TNC. Reinstate Sherrod.
















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"They"

A disgusting ad celebrated by Conservatives4Palin:

"The audacity of jihad." Real subtle. But you see here the neo-fascist, civilization-war rhetoric that Palin will deploy more and more crudely as she moves toward the White House.

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What's The Difference Between Andrew Breitbart And Dan Rather?

Dan Rather made some attempt to get his facts straight. Breitbart made none, in smearing and slandering a black woman. Frum:

When people talk of the "closing of the conservative mind" this is what they mean: not that conservatives are more narrow-minded than other people — everybody can be narrow minded — but that conservatives have a unique capacity to ignore unwelcome fact.
 
When Dan Rather succumbed to the forged Bush war record hoax in 2004, CBS forced him into retirement. Breitbart is...

When Will Breitbart Apologize?

"I think she should get her job back. I think she's owed apologies from pretty much everyone, including my good friend Andrew Breitbart. I generally think Andrew is on the side of the angels and a great champion of the cause. He says he received the video in its edited form and I believe him. But the relevant question is, Would he have done the same thing over again if he had seen the full video from the outset? I'd like to think he wouldn't have. Because to knowingly turn this woman into a r...

The Uber-Theocons And Gibson

Mel Gibson is not a reactionary Catholic like, say, Robbie George or Rick Santorum. He is a supporter of a tiny faction in the church that wants to return totally to pre-Vatican II norms, to restore the notion - mercifully consigned to history by the Second Council - of the Jewish people somehow bearing collective responsibility for the execution of Jesus of Nazareth, of autocratic nineteenth century papal control, and on and on. And in this, he has many supporters, many located at a site...

Chait On The Left "Replicating The Form And Structure Of The Conservative Movement"

Despite the obvious fact that Journolist clearly created a tone of group-think and collective response to right-wing shenanigans - replicating exactly what's so wrong with conservative discourse in Washington - Jon Chait defends it. Yes, it once tried to organize a petition, he notes, but only 41 signed it. Yes, it often conveyed arguments about how to shape the discourse - but these were rebutted by some on the list. Then this:

Now, you could say that Hayes' post was an attempt at message...

Quote For The Day II

"This has ripped away the veil and shown us all that is wrong with politics today. An ideologue injects poison into the internet, other people rush to judgment on camera, and an administration gets stampeded and commits this travesty of justice. The NAACP has at least had the courage to come back and say 'we were wrong' and apologize. Now the administration needs to to the same thing. The president -- tonight -- ought to order the Agriculture Department to reopen this case, give this woman a ...