Go Read C&L Today

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Must reading at Crooks and Liars this Monday morning.


On Joe Miller, Shades of Gordon Kahl or Tim McVeigh goes to Washington....

And on the cheapidute/greeditude of Ben Stein properly smacked down.
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The Press Played Dumb....

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Four words succinctly indict the media hypocrisy covering left and right as latest shown in tea party coverage.
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John Amato at Crooks & Liars sums up the situation of media hypocrisy in covering the tea party convention perfectly:

He cites Eric Boehlert at Media Matters for the deconstruction that distills to:

The press played dumb

It's how they roll.... all of 'em.

Expect more of same when fearmonger in chief "Dick" Chee-knee has his newest closeup moment on This Week Sunday morning.
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crossposted at firedoglake's Seminal

Crook. And Liar.

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What John Amato says. And I agree:

Roger Maris. 61 in 61.

Earned.

Mark McGwire.

Roided.

The Steroid Era of baseball cannot be spun away. Peel back the layers and they were all in on it. Owners, managers, players, media.

All the same ones who are trying the disgraceful campaign to rehabilitate Mark McGwire today.

And if the public gets bamboozled on this, well, there's a certain former Texas Rangers owner who'll just be lookin' forward to walkin' you through his liberry of rehabilitation soon. And the same way ....
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Pass It On....

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A scathingly brilliant idea to solve the healthcare reform debacle, courtesy Susie Madrak over at Crooks and Liars.
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And More on the NeoConJob

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David Niewirt over at C&L gives a pointed reality check to the NeoConGamers who are stirring up the rabble rubes on Tax Day. As David Niewirt points out, it's all about them...except when it's not.


Taxes are the admission fee to the greatest country on earth for me, and I'd just as soon keep paying to finance roads, and bridges, and education, and medical research, and food safety inspectors, and our military and cops on the beat, and, oh, yeah...dikes and sandbags.
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Seeing Red

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Just keep in mind, Republicans pride themselves on being the party of the red states.

And red coats.

And red ink.

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Insurgents? Not so much.
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Flashback: Republican Solution: Total Taliban Carnage
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Basking in the Nod

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We confess, we're proud to be the morning feature up at Crooks and Liars.

First question...Helen Thomas.
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Hey, we all need our warm fuzzies when it's 27 frackin' below.
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UPDATE: Helen Thomas column "History Cannot Save Him"
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Prairie's Reading: “I Am a Unitarian”

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If you find time to read nothing else today, please, please, read this powerful posting by nonnymouse over at Crooks and Liars.

nonnymouse finds compassion and forgiveness for the man who gunned down innocents in the Unitarian Church. And says the right wing hate machine have blood on their hands for their part in propelling this act of terrorism.

Today, let us all say "I Am a Unitarian."
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Confront the Crapola

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It happened again.

Yesterday, Joe Lieberman spun merrily on his way with his pro-McCain self-facts and his Obama mud spatters on Snuffalufagous' show. Link here to the C&L site where I commented briefly already [#27].

Why don’t Dems call bullshit on this stuff in the moment? Where was Reed’s rebuttal? No, he just let Joe-Lie’s crapola stand. Where is the passion in Democratic speakers? It’s like watching Dukakis give his kitty rape response.

Joe’s going to keep lying.
The media’s going to keep giving him the venue to lie.

We need to have spokespeople who call this stuff. We’re supposed to be the party of the people, the party of empathy…where is it?

Jon Stewart didn’t kill Crossfire…it’s morphed into the modus operandi of the media today. We must deal with it…with tactics that work. It’s not going away.

This one just keeps gnawing at me: when are Democratic spokesmen going to confront directly in real time the Republicans who still continue to ride roughshod ... over facts, reality, truth ... and their Democratic opponents. They come to these programs prepared with their talking points. But those talking points get lost in the heat of Rethugs' ranting.

Let me say again:

Jon Stewart didn’t kill Crossfire…it’s morphed into the modus operandi of the media today. We must deal with it…with tactics that work. It’s not going away.

Yeah, we've all heard the speculation that there are special super-secret training schools for rightwing pundits to teach them how to lie with impunity, and we see firsthand the tactics of talk louder, talk over....

But c'mon, folks, it's been eight years. Isn't it about time we figured out how to shut this strategy down?

I was so rooting for Laura Flanders to turn to the Rethuglican over-talker this morning on CNN's American Morning and say, if you don't shut up while I'm talking, I'm going to smack you...
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Ralphie Parker had a solution for dealing with bully tactics. Ya gotta confront the bullies and toadies directly...and call bullshit.
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