E.J. Dionne has an excellent piece over at The New Republic. He points out that the New York Times was a little careless in possibly trying to paint a picture that McCain and Iseman had some sort of sexual relationship, but that it still does point out his deep involvement with lobbyists. McCain’s own denials […]
Last week Josh won the George Polk award for legal coverage on their covering the U.S. attorney purge. Today the New York Times follows up with a very nice write up about Talking Points memo.
Not only do we have McCain himself contradicting his defense, now we got another person involved doing so: Broadcaster Lowell “Bud” Paxson yesterday contradicted statements from Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign that the senator did not meet with Paxson or his lobbyist before sending two controversial letters to the Federal Communications Commission on Paxson’s behalf. […]
Last night the rumor was that the New York Times decided to publish the McCain story because The New Republic was pressuring them to do so, or TNR may in fact “scoop” them on it. Today the TNR has published their response to this. It is a very interesting read at how this story has […]
It appears that it just might be: Conservative media outlets rushed with surprising vehemence to defend Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Thursday against a critical article in The New York Times, embracing a maverick they have often attacked. Rush Limbaugh calls it “the drive-by media … trying to take him out.” Laura Ingraham, another influential […]
Yesterday I was wondering why James Carville was on Meet the Press as a pundit and not part of the Clinton campaign. Today the New York Times is wondering the same thing: Both networks are careful about balance: there are equal numbers of Republicans and Democrats. But they are careless about bias: the experts are […]
Tech burst 2.0 for Yahoo: Battered by slow revenue growth and the popularity of social networking Web sites, Yahoo Inc. is poised to lay off hundreds of workers, according to published reports. more stories like this The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal have both reported on the slumping Internet icon’s cost-cutting plans, […]
It looks like Kristol was wrong on his second New York Times piece: Kristol in his column, which hailed the success of the “surge” in Iraq, concluded with this trump card: Now the Iraqi government has agreed on de-Baathification, a key gain that proves his point and pretty much destroys the Democrats’ stand. But now […]
I used to really like Chuck Schumer. Those feelings have changed in recent history. He is not a man of principal – he is a man of covering his own ass. In today’s New York Times, he has authored an Op-Ed explaining his reason for supporting Mukasey: I AM voting today to support Michael B. […]
It’s amazing that there is an apparent leak from the White House that may have just closed a very important back end to al Qaeda. If you have been in a cocoon for the past 24 hours, here is the run down: A small, privately run intelligence analysis company says that a Bush administration leak […]