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Last weekend several of us at the Bigs visited the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California. We toured Reagan’s Air Force One and saw his old school motorcade. Well, it was old school to me; I was in elementary school

It was reported that Alternet, Soros’ Media Matters, and other progressives staged a conference call this afternoon where they mapped strategy to defend Planned Parenthood from the choices Planned Parenthood staffers made on tape. Because apparently there still exist people

It was reported that Alternet, Soros’ Media Matters, and other progressives staged a conference call this afternoon where they mapped strategy to defend Planned Parenthood from the choices Planned Parenthood staffers made on tape. Because apparently there still exist people

So much for objectivity. One of the FCC stipulations of the Comcast – NBCU merger was the incorporation of non-profit journalism centers into NBC newsrooms. They are charged with maintaining and increasing local news coverage, the regulation based on the

The exchange below that Christiane Amanpour has with pro-Mubarak Egyptian protesters is odd. They tell her that they hate America, that they want Mubarak, and then at the end she seemingly ignores an Egyptian with an English accent who politely

I can’t make this up. Inspired by the YMCA when it was founded in 1928, the Muslim Brotherhood has been under a ban since 1948, and its real size is difficult to gauge. The group was brutally repressed by President

A gentle correction. From Mediate: Speaker John Boehner broke one of the rules tenuously keeping the web from descending into anarchy and goatse .gifs by adding his own editorial stance to a re-tweet concerning health care law. […] The “MT”

[youtube mAPir73mydA nolink] “Where Egypt sits in the world .. it has of course the Panama Canal …” Watching the above brings to mind another video. [youtube STeVTzWelns nolink]

I was in elementary school when the Berlin wall fell but the imagery which comprises my mind’s history of it are photos of youths tearing chunks from it and crying when it fell. I had a conversation with a friend

Last week Chris Matthews called Michele Bachmann a “balloon head.” [youtube KTK5t6l8TWE nolink] Suddenly! Virgin ears and sensitive constitutions. [youtube KTK5t6l8TWE nolink] From a network that took part in the fake baby Trig speculation that occurred when Sarah Palin first

I’ve been following media reaction to Michele Bachmann’s SOTU response here and here. I’ve heard many progressive pundits wonder aloud at why anything tea party related was given equal time on any network when our current political structure allows only

***UPDATE: Kate Walsh responds. Er, no, honestly, I don’t. I had to Google her. I may be a rare type of television viewer, but I don’t have a lot of free time to watch TV. (But when I do? “STEVEN

A decline in viewership, too. The president’s State of the Union Address drew 43 million viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research. That’s down 11% from his speech last year, and down 18% from his address in 2009. The networks carrying

Background: In my hometown of St. Louis a controversy is afoot. Bristol Palin was invited to be the keynote speaker February 7th at Washington University during the school’s Sexual Responsibility Week. As part of a four-person panel, Palin is slated

Background: In my hometown of St. Louis a controversy is afoot. Bristol Palin was invited to be the keynote speaker February 7th at Washington University during the school’s Sexual Responsibility Week. As part of a four-person panel, Palin is slated

I felt the same as cartoonist Michael Ramirez (and likely many of you) when congress made a spectacle of themselves with their SOTU prom: I’ve spoken to several legislators who played up to the PR gimmick of reaching across the

I thought MSNBC hated “heavily edited tapes?” The GOP wouldn’t choose Michele Bachmann to be its spokesperson because they have no balls, not because Bachmann isn’t a dynamic speaker. This is why you saw women like Palin out in front

If you watched Rep. Bachmann’s response for the Tea Party Express, you may have noted how she was looking over your left shoulder somewhere. Instead of comparing the Tea Party Express webcast to the pool broadcast and realizing that Bachmann

I’d ask if you remember the story of a Democrat governor being attacked last year, but chances are you’d say “no.” Last year when Missouri Governor – my governor – Jay Nixon had an attempt made on his life the

I love when progressives who’ve stood against Israeli settlements and “zionists” suddenly find compassion for Jewish people, even if it’s manufactured compassion to feign straw man outrage at conservatives. Baby steps! While watching this interview with Frances Fox Piven posted

Frances Fox Piven has a history of flame-throwing. She’s better known as one-half of the infamous Cloward-Piven strategy, wherein she and her husband published a theory detailing how people could overwhelm the system, break the system, and then get higher,

Several weeks ago, Huffington Post writer Lee Stranahan embarked on a multi-state mission through the American south to do what our media won’t do: interview the farmers and lawyers involved with the Pigford case, the most underreported government scandal of

Another progressive who apparently missed the media’s lecturing about the New Tone: St. Louis board of aldermen president Lewis Reed summed up the event when he said “the growth of the tea party is driven by hate. They are trying

Aw, nice to see that silly fraud scandal hasn’t hurt Goldman Sachs’ standing. They still receive ritzy invites. Be the media and spin, spin. Winning captions in an end-of-day update. And the caption goes to: FIRST: Cowboy Logic: … Lloyd

I can’t stand listening to the guy blabber for more than a minute, but I listened for the hilarity of his firearms stereotyping. “That imaginary person thats gonna break into your home and kill you, who does that person look

If Joan Walsh obsessed over the facts of the Tucson shooting case as she does over every word which falls from Sarah Palin’s mouth, one might be able to take her as a credible contributor to general political discourse. As

“Here’s my report on that and guess what it’s not going to take six months and almost 400 pages to say what I have to say.” “The idea that there were not plenty of legitimate reasons for people in the

While praying for the recovery of the Safeway victims all last week, we also documented the media’s attempts to defame the tea party by tying the actions of Jared Loughner to the conservative movement — all of this done while

I don’t care if some folks classify it as a foul-mouthed, left-leaning website. It’s a funny site. Most of us can get over politics enough to appreciate humor. Reader Jordan sent this link to Cracked’s list of “9 Major Stories

[youtube EafaKIoe9n0 nolink] ” … to blame Sarah Palin I think it’s very unfair to her.” An aside: Where was Joy today?

I’ll keep it short. Wherein Weisberg pens a haphazard emotional rant about how guns are bad, mkay? minus fact, statistic, anything that would point out that his piece is somehow separate from what one would find scrawled on the inside

Yesterday evening I was on AC360 to discuss the Arizona Tragedy with David Gergen and Roland Martin. While I personally like Gergen, his knowledge of Arizona’s gun laws and invalid premises on conceal carry were a disservice to our discussion.

Why is the lead investigator opining about a case which he should be investigating instead of using for political spin? [youtube FyJMS16u8uM nolink] It’s irrelevant to me that Dupnik is a Democrat and an elected official; he should not be

Cooler heads. And honesty. Let’s be honest: Journalists often use military terminology in describing campaigns. We talk about the air war, the bombshells, targeting politicians, knocking them off, candidates returning fire or being out of ammunition. So we shouldn’t act

A friend, Rick Tsa’ara, also walking encyclopedia, posted something too good to pass up on Facebook yesterday: Enlarged: And compare: These are crosshairs: And a bullseye: The sort used in the DLC map: The Freepers were all over it in