Author: BooMan

Broderistic Solutions

A lot of people are criticizing David Broder’s column today. No big surprise there. But his column in actually much less Broderistic than normal. It seems to fall into the sane wing of typical Higher Broderism. He’s...

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Fox, Imus, and the Crumblin’ Walls

History is complex, but cable news executives are not. One of the problems created by the sudden meteoric rise of FOX News was that it influenced the people at CNN and MSNBC that were hemorrhaging market share to them. It was...

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Don Imus and the Gang of 500 Wankers

Media Matters documents recent racist, misogynistic, and anti-Semitic comments from the Imus in the Morning radio program that is simulcast on MSNBC. I’ll use just one sample: On the March 6 edition of MSNBC’s Imus...

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Iraq, For Beginners

Americans, including our President, didn’t know a lot about Iraq or Islam when planes crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. They knew a little more, but nowhere near enough, when the United States launched...

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