Bipartisanship, MSM-Style

Via Josh Marshall, behold: a video of MSNBC’s Chuck Todd asking Robert Gibb at today’s presser whether Pres. Obama will veto any stimulus bill that does not have Republican...

Obama Revokes Global Gag Rule

On his third day in office, Pres. Obama has revoked the global gag rule, which was first implemented by Ronald Reagan and then was reversed by Pres. Clinton and subsequently reinstated by Bush 43. The global gag rule — also known as the “Mexico City policy” because Reagan put it into force...

Like I.F. Stone, Only, um, Not.

If there’s one thing the corporate media marketplace needs, it’s more lazy, arm-chair psychoanalytic trolling masquerading as muckraking (snicker) via the conflict-starved (and unrelentingly trivial) beltway press corps, especially from our friends at the new Capitol Hill Blue, aka...

Questions on questions

Here’s the cover of the latest issue of Foreign Policy magazine, featuring a darkened photo of Obama looking distressed with the caption “Yes, he did — But what if he can’t?” I just checked Foreign Policy’s archive to see if their covers from November 2000 – January...

This Man Needs Help

I’m not angry at Rod Blagojevich anymore. I’m worried about him. This is a man who seriously, seriously, seriously needs to be in psychotherapy. Illinois’ embattled but defiant governor turned to the history books to describe the emotional strain on him and his family, comparing his arrest...