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Boston’s Wild, Unnerving, Topsy Turvy Day
Beantown is even more on edge two days after the bombing
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski Stepping Down After Contentious Term
Genachowski infuriated public interest groups for compromising on net neutrality and allowing Comcast to purchase NBCUniversal.
Why Republicans Can’t Stay Mad at Fox News
Surprise! Despite Fox fallout, Republicans are still more likely to trust the “fair and balanced” network over competitors.
The Anti-Defamation League’s House of Cards
House of Cards appropriately called out the Anti-Defamation League for devaluing the currency of Anti-Semitism. (UPDATE)
Piers Morgan v. Alex Jones
A debate on gun control quickly becomes heated
The Hagel Nomination
Andrew Sullivan discovers that Bill Kristol once favored the “anti-Israel” appeaser as George W. Bush’s vice president. Gak!
Hagel Nomination Outcry
Conservative groups took to the media even before former Republican Sen. Hagel was officially nominated for Defense Secretary.
Election Watch: Karl Rove Vs. the Arithmetic
It was, as Bill Clinton told us at the Democratic convention, about the arithmetic. And last night, the arithmetic won.
PolitiFact, Harry Reid’s Pants, and the Limits of Fact-Checking
Fact: I do not know whether Mitt Romney paid federal income taxes, when, or how much, in any year before 2010, for which he publicly released his tax returns. Fact: You probably do not either, unless you are among the small army of spreadsheet-slinging professionals it must take to shepherd his wealth, or—possibly—if you are Mitt …
Hey, Aaron Sorkin: Your Lame Show Got the BP Spill Backward
Like a knight with my banners now bravely unfurled, I hurl down my gauntlet to thee, Aaron Sorkin, and your preposterous, sanctimonious, Man of La Mancha–quoting HBO drama Newsroom. And I basically agree with the show’s basic …
Why There Aren’t Supermarket Scanner Moments Anymore
Everybody knows the story. Another sad impostor in the long line of presidential candidates who try to emulate the Normals, George H.W. Bush walked into a grocery store one day in 1992 and blew his Joe Sixpack cover story by marveling at the futuristic wonder that was the store’s decade-old bar code scanning technology. Everybody knows …
Let Us Now Praise Ed Gillespie, Super Surrogate
UPDATED with a response from Ed Gillespie
There needs to be an Academy Awards for Televised Political News, a Golden Babbler Bobble-Head statuette that could be awarded on a special joint airing of Morning Joe, Meet the Press …
