If only last Tuesday’s Las Vegas Democratic “debate” had, as the saying goes, stayed in Vegas instead of being broadcast nationwide.
It was terribly boring. Why? Because rather than debate, Obama, Clinton and Edwards quite calculatedly sat back and held their fire, letting each other repeat their familiar position statements. At this point they sounded like […]

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The day the New York Times hired William Kristol as a columnist – yeah, THAT William Kristol — the promoter of, and shameless apologist, propagandist and cheerleader for the Iraq War — it was a bad day for journalism and American culture.
Likewise, Tuesday, January 15, was a bad day for journalism and for The News […]

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Big media flexes its muscles and interferes with the democratic process once again.
The Dennis Kucinich campaign reports that the Ohio congressman met the criteria to participate in the Jan. 15 debate and was issued an official invitation from NBC to participate in that debate. Less than 44 hours later, the network redefined its criteria for […]

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Former senators Sam Nunn and David Boren have invited at least 17 prominent political figures, many of them former office holders, to meet in Norman, Okla., on Monday, Jan. 7.
This story appears to have attracted less attention than most straight-to-video movies. (I found it as a subheadline from the Atlanta Constitution on news.google.com, and the […]

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