• Yeah, the MSM takes the new media real seriously now: “The Blogs Are Alive With the Sound of Angry Democrats “[NYT]
• Who’s the metrosexual now? “Mr. Edwards’s total fell short of the $767,676 that Mr. Giuliani received from ‘the gayest ZIP Codes,’ the Blade said.” And other excerpts from the Gay Agenda. [WSJ]
• Altercation’s …
Shorter Jay: The next time I’m on the sidewalk outside a party and someone comes up and points a camera at me, the only question I’m answering is, “Who are you wearing?”
I’ve read the comments and some postings elsewhere about my appearance on that YearlyKos panel and an interview I did later for TPMtv. A couple of points. First, one commenter reads too much into a statement I made on the panel to the effect that “Time will always have conservative columnists”. I was asked about columnists like Bill …
I hope this means I get to write them off now. (Thanks, James!)
Fascinating post over at Threat Level about a philosopher, Sandro Gaycken, trying to construct arguments against surveillance that are as tangible as those used to justify it:
Many anti-surveillance arguments are based on vaguely emotional concerns, or appeals to abstract values, as opposed to the hard facts of suicide bombers or
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That’s the title of a new book, written by my supremely talented colleagues Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy, about Billy Graham and his relationships with Presidents of both parties, going back to Dwight Eisenhower. It’s coming out this week, and we’ll be publishing excerpts in the dead-tree TIME that comes out on Friday. That same day, …
In the sense that his words are appearing here:
Sadly, the video does not include the comments made by our Fearless Leader (Jay) on the same panel. Sorry I missed it.
UPDATE: Sorry, the embedding code seems broken. So my small joke of a headline is another MSM lie. But you can watch the video here.
• Just because you’re paranoid… New York will release “nearly 2,000 pages of raw intelligence reports and other documents detailing the Police Department’s covert surveillance of protest groups and individual activists before the Republican National Convention in 2004.” [NYT]
• Romney says his “sons are showing support for our …
In the ArenaUncategorized
Somehow I missed this terrific op-ed piece in yesterday’s Washington Post, in which Gian Gentile, who is apparently a Lt. Colonel on active duty in Baghdad (If so, he is one courageous fellow–to speak out like this and, of course, to do the work he does), describes the situation on the ground as what it is: a civil war.
Perhaps the …
Dems debate. Ish.
7:03 PM Hello, welcome to “one giant job interview.”
7:04 They are all sweating. A lot.
7:05 PM I don’t think they can hear Olbermann. There is no proof positive that Dodd heard a single word. He took a question about the infrastructure and, you know, talked about Iraq.
7:07 PM HRC hearts Chicago sports teams! And …
Ana: As it happens, I was in the audience when Rudy made his “surprise” comment yesterday, and I don’t think it’s such a surprise at all. He’s suddenly making a very serious move in Iowa, after many people figured he would ignore it. One of the reasons he senses opportunity: McCain’s fall, which puts potential independent-minded voters …
At a campaign stop in Iowa, Rudy took a question on repealing McCain-Feingold and turned it into one of the strangest endorsements of the cycle, saying of John McCain, “If I weren’t running for president, I’d be here supporting him… If for some reason I made a decision not to run, he’d be my candidate.”
Weird that Rudy would …
• What’s a reluctant union-buster to do? HRC pollster Mark Penn did not have labor relations with that firm: Penn said “he was avoiding a role in overseeing the part of the company’s practice that involved management-labor issues.” [LAT]
• Threat Level reports that the new FISA bill “gives the Bush Administration a six-month window …
