Hawks and 'Naive' Doves
On Fox News Sunday (11/16/08), NPR reporter Mara Liasson offered her take (which was essentially the same as neo-con co-panelist Bill Kristol) on why picking Hillary Clinton for Secretary of State...
View ArticleMedia Criticism, Homer Simpson-Style
Reading this at the bottom of neo-con William Kristol's column in the New York Times (1/26/09): This is William Kristol's last column. Homer says, "Woohoo!" Then reading this at the Politico:...
View ArticleMore Calls to Bomb (Any) Somalians
Taking the brave position (ScholarsAndRogues.com, 4/20/09) that the National Review Online is so bad that it makes William F. Buckley's print version look "semi-respectable" by comparison, former U.S....
View ArticleWhat Do NPR's Right-Wing Critics Have to Complain About?
David Margolick has an interesting piece about NPR in the new issue of Vanity Fair. He spends much of his time on Juan Williams, but this observation about NPR's right-wing critics is an important...
View ArticleFrisking Bill Kristol
Neocon pundit Bill Kristol was wrong every which way about the Iraq War. So why's he on ABC talking about stop and frisk?
View ArticleFAIR TV: Snowden the 'Spy,' Stop-and-Frisk Factcheck, Student Loan Rates
On FAIR TV this week: CBS tries to call Edward Snowden a "spy," and Bill Kristol makes his ABC comeback with a bogus defense of New York's stop-and-frisk police searches. Plus: Student loan rates are...
View ArticleObamacare as a 'Big Government' Failure
Pundits' discussions of the Affordable Care Act rollout assumes that the law represents some kind of "activist government" intervention to disrupt the normally smooth workings of the private sector....
View ArticleObamacare Website = Iraq War, Now with Bill Kristol
Think the comparisons between the Obamacare website and the Iraq War are done? Think again. Some people still see the connection--like Iraq War booster Bill Kristol.
View ArticleKristol's Funny Obamacare Numbers
Since he left Fox News Channel in 2013, conservative pundit Bill Kristol now gets to play TV expert on a range of outlets. On April 6, he showed up on ABC's This Week to misinform viewers about...
View ArticleRepeal the Bill Kristol Permanent Punditry Act!
The Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel confronted Bill Kristol on ABC about his disastrous Iraq War advocacy. One has to wonder why Kristol was there in the first place.
View Article'Debating' War, Corporate Media Style
Discussions of what the Obama White House should do in Iraq and Syria are dominated by hawks, military officials and former national security insiders.
View ArticlePointless 2016 Election Journalism, 2014 Edition
Trying to cover the 2016 presidential election based on a poll in 2014 is a waste of time.
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