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Living in the Past: What Candidates Believed in College Isn’t Relevant Today
What, exactly, is gained by digging through the garbage can of the past? Aren’t people allowed to grow and learn?
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The Hayes Code
When we look back on the Trump administration—and if the Kennedy administration was Camelot, what we’re suffering under now is most definitely Scamalot—we’ll give a round of applause to those journalists and media figures who disputed the disinformation and challenged the covfefe. However, some of these Fourth Estate figures deserve their props now—especially when they’ve […]
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Are Mona Charen and Michael Steele “Woke” Now? No.
They’re probably shocked, shocked to find out that gambling is going on in here, too. It’s tough to have sympathy for ultraconservative syndicated columnist Mona Charen (whose columns could knock an insomniac out) in the wake of the rude treatment she received from the cretins at CPAC this weekend, when she condemned Donald Trump’s disrespectful […]
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A Golden Age for Progressive Media?
30 years after the contamination of our public airwaves via the national syndication of Rush Limbaugh’s radio program–and five years after the unfortunate demise of Al Gore’s Current TV–it’s good to see some progress in the fight to ensure that the non-wingnut perspective has a solid platform in American media. Last year, the New York […]
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Matthews’s Sexism Needs to Be Canceled
What the hell was he thinking? MSNBC’s “Hardball” host Chris Matthews joked about drugging then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton before sitting down with her for an interview in early 2016, according to exclusive outtake footage published by New York magazine’s The Cut Friday. “Where’s that Bill Cosby pill I brought with me?” he asked. The joke […]
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Get Out: Time for Republicans Horrified by Charlottesville to Leave the GOP
I’m far more concerned about the bloodshed on the streets of Charlottesville than I am about the crocodile tears of “anti-Trump Republicans” like Bush White House ethics lawyer Richard Painter. You have to listen to his comments in full on MSNBC’s AM Joy yesterday to appreciate just how blind to recent GOP history he seems […]
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Obama’s Lesson for Patrick, Booker, Harris and Cuomo: Running for President Isn’t Worth It
Remember a decade ago, when the right-wingers were complaining about “Rudy McRomney,” i.e., the prospect of the supposedly insufficiently conservative Rudy Giuliani, John McCain or Mitt Romney becoming the 2008 GOP nominee? The “Rudy McRomney” stuff didn’t make a lick of sense–Giuliani, McCain or Romney would have had to answer to the GOP’s right-wing base […]
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You Can’t Get What You Want (‘Til You Know What You Want)
No man can serve two masters, and no party can serve two masters, either. So who will the Democrats serve? I had all but given up on Bill Maher after he brought another Breitbart lackey on his show a few weeks back (to say nothing of the recent “house” controversy involving Nebraska GOP Sen. Ben […]
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Healthy Criticism from–and Unhealthy Criticism of–Bernie Sanders
For all the lingering controversies surrounding his 2016 presidential campaign, one cannot deny the fact that Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders generated so much momentum during that effort because of his clear moral vision concerning such issues as universal health coverage. That clear moral vision was on display this morning, during his appearance on CNN’s State […]
