Glenn Greenwald points out why the use of unnamed sources is so misleading to the public: In order to assuage concerns among progressives that the Obama administration intends to follow in the Bush administration's footsteps by trying to cut Social Security benefits, high-level Obama officials have ...

To the displeasure of many on both sides of aisle, President Obama on today is hosting the so-called Fiscal Responsibility Summit at the White House. While some Democrats question the timing of Obama's expenditure of political capital on Social Security, Medicare and other entitlement reform, obstru...

Download | Play    Download | Play I've had this incredible video of John Bolton getting grilled on the BBC over the Iraq war sitting on my servers for a while now and after the holiday I was quickly reminded of it by his new article with John Yoo. He flails away about how bad Saddam ...

If anyone were betting on it, I would happily wager that the right-wing talking point that "this is still a center-right nation" was being ginned up and distributed to every conservative talking head on the planet within 24 hours of Barack Obama's election victory, if not before. I mean, it's coming...

Download | Play    Download | Play (h/t Heather) FSM bless Sarah Palin; she is the gift that keeps on giving to progressive America. Now that she is no longer kept sequestered by the McCain campaign, she bursting out into the media, showing us exactly the results of 25 years of conser...

In a segment ending with the disclosure that “Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace is brought to you by “The People of America’s Oil and Natural Gas Industry” and immediately followed by the American Petroleum Institute (API) front group’s misleading ad, the Fox News host...

After lauding Oliver North for his new book that apparently has more pictures than it does pages (No doubt North’s picture-book tells a much different story than the truth-laid-bare photos and accounts from an award-winning unembedded photojournalist like Dahr Jamail, but I digress), Sean Hann...

The Politico is reporting that Fran Townsend, former Homeland Security Adviser, is joining her buddy Tony Snow as a contributer to CNN.   PERRspectives: Politico is reporting that President Bush’s former homeland security adviser and current intelligence advisory board member Fran Townsen...

 Download | Play   Download | Play  (h/t Heather) I’ve said it before: Democrats need to stay the hell off FOX.  Not because we should be afraid of their questions, but because it legitimizes a clear and overt propaganda unit of the RNC.   And ...

Hannity’s laughing at you, George, for making him the only clear winner of last Wednesday’s debate.  Download | Play  Download | Play Hannity: The liberal blogs are losing their minds today in part because I suggested the question to George Stephanopoulos Tu...