Crooks and Liars

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I was a little hesitant to do this post at first because I’m sure I’ll be accused of doing a pro-Hillary post. But stay with me here. Looking at this strictly on the level of media bias–and irrespective of the actual candidates–Dan Abrams asks if the media is creating a horse race that does not really exist by downplaying the lead of one candidate and playing up the rise of another just to create a media narrative. And again, irrespective to the actual candidates, there is some truth to what Abrams says (and Rachel Maddow’s point that Obama is gaining as well, if you look at the trajectory of the polling data), and we can see it in many other ways, such as the death knell of McCain’s campaign four months ago and the presumptive lead of Rudy Giuliani at the same time. Now that actual votes are being counted, who has the delegates and who has gotten out of the race? And let us not forget the media blackout on Edwards and how that impacted his ability to gain traction nor the pundit-declared victory for ...   more »

Crooks and Liars

Poor Hugh Hewitt and the rest of right wing talk radio. They are very upset by McCain and are trying to torpedo his candidacy.

Conservative talk radio is ganging up on presidential candidate John McCain, attacking him for joining Democrats to push liberal legislation and opposing bedrock Republican positions from tax cuts to immigration.

I guess Hewitt was hoping his Mitt book would have landed him the lead position of “The Department of Right Wing Blogger Noise,” in Romney’s administration.

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I just got here and it’s wild outside. Reminds me of a rock concert. People cheering for Hillary and Obama. Impeach Cheney signs…There’s a palpable electricity in the air. They know this is a historic debate. I’m just getting set up….

UPDATE:  (Nicole) Shy, retiring guy that he is, John neglected to remind you to catch him on the Post-Debate Round Up Countdown on MSNBC immediately following the debate.  He’s scheduled to be on around 7:30pm Pacific/10:30pm Eastern.

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The “surge” theory says that Iraq is pacified. The numbers in general don’t bear that out.

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