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The Liberal Avenger

In a sane world, there would no longer be any whiners claiming that the media is hopelessly biased in favor of liberals. If the last eight years taught us nothing else, they should have taught us that the media is anything but liberal. New York Times Paul Krugman was explicitly instructed not to use the word “lie” when describing Bush’s economic plan during the run-up to the 2000 election, while his colleague William Safire regularly called Al Gore a liar. Bill Maher was fired from ‘Politically Incorrect’ when he suggested that suicide attacks are not acts of cowardice, and Phil Donohue was fired for being critical of the Bush administration, even though he had the highest-rated show on MSNBC. And while the Bush administration prepared to take the country to war in Iraq, the lapdog media passed on the 935 lies of the Bush administration, virtually without challenge.

Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan reignited the discussion over this dark chapter in the history of America’s fourth estate when he placed part of the blame for the Iraq War debacle on the shoulders of the uncritical press. And now Capitol Hill correspondent Jessica Yellin tells us ...   more »

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You got that right, Al!

When the state legislatures in Michigan and Florida decided to hold early primaries, they violated the rules of both the Republican and Democratic parties. In order to preserve the integrity of the process, those states had to be penalized. The Republicans decided to strip both states of half of their delegates, while the Democrats decided not to award any delegates to Michigan and Florida.

That didn’t sit well with the Clinton campaign, because Clinton won both states by a wide margin. She won because every other major candidate had withdrawn their names from the ballot, and because her enormous advantage in name recognition was a tremendous advantage, especially because the candidates agreed not to campaign in Michigan and Florida.

On one hand Clinton had agreed, along with all of the other candidates, that the Michigan and Florida delegations would not be seated at the convention. On the other hand, it doesn’t make sense to ignore the fact Clinton is the most popular democrat in those states, albeit by a much smaller margin than the primary votes indicated. So today, party officials met to work out a compromise.

What they came up with ...   more »

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