On the Right: Spittle and Spite
I’ve been watching Tom Tancredo on The Ed Show claiming that SCOTUS nominee Sonia Sonia Sotomayor is a racist. This claim is made based on this quote from Judge Sotomayor: “I would hope that a wise...
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Just Like Old Times
G. Gordon Liddy used the “M” word. It’s like the past 40 years of feminist activism never happened. Of course, for Pat “that woman” Buchanan, they really didn’t happen. You’d think there’d never been a...
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Obama Derangement Syndrome
The President and Mrs. Obama went to New York City for a “date night,” dinner and a Broadway show. And the wingnuts are having a fit about it. The Republican National Committee slammed the outing in an...
View ArticleSome Things Snark Themselves
I wasn’t going to comment on Todd Purdum’s Vanity Fair piece on Sarah Palin, but then I caught this quote from the Purdum article from Michael Tomasky: More than once in my travels in Alaska, people...
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The Drama Queen Exits, Stage Right
Speculative reasons why Sarah Palin is resigning as governor of Alaska: She wants to concentrate on a 2012 presidential bid. She’s tired of being crucified by the liberal media. She hates seeing...
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The Default Norm
I’ve used the phrase “default norm” a number of times, so it was nice to see Michael Tomasky (or at least, the headline writer at Comment Is Free) pick it up. Maybe somebody’s reading The Mahablog?...
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Conserving Rightie Cognitive Resources
I remember many years ago being required to copyedit a study of white racists for a social-psychology journal. We’re talking out-and-out, unreconstructed racists, the kind of people who think...
View ArticleKatrina in Slow Motion
Steven Pearlstein, business columnist for the New York Times Washington Post, writes, Among the range of options for health-care reform, there’s one that is sure to raise your taxes, increase your...
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Astroturf Mobs Disrupting Town Hall Meetings
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Here’s the memo that Wolffe and Axelrod discuss in the video. It was leaked by a volunteer for FreedomWorks. Essentially, it’s...
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