Month: May 2013

Contra Digby and Emptywheel

I’ve long admired the work Marcy Wheeler does, but she is not writing Gospel and she has a conspiratorial bent that is usually informed but not the same thing as the truth. When it comes to the case of Undiebomb 2.0, as...

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Where’s the Apology?

Tommy Christopher takes Jon Karl to the woodshed. Frankly, I think his critique should be even more brutal. Jon Karl lied about obtaining emails, got conned by the person who paraphrased the emails, prevaricated and rationalized...

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The Tea Party is Not a Social Welfare Org

I have been part of a nascent political awakening. It was the liberal response in Philadelphia to George W. Bush’s decision to invade Iraq. The people who opposed the war found each other first online and then in person....

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Hofheinz Dead

Somebody was wise enough to put this up on YouTube: When I was a teenager, I had a soundboard-quaility version of this show but it was recorded out of time. It played too fast, so that it was out of tune. I still thought it was...

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Ambassador Rice Got Screwed

One thing is certain after looking through 100 emails of the interagency process to come up with Benghazi talking points for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Susan Rice got screwed. Totally screwed. I think...

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