we forget where we were, but we know we were on vacation the day that howard dean gave his concession speech in iowa back in 2004, and thusly we missed the media coverage of it all. we left for our weekend getaway secure in the knowledge that gov. dean was doing great in the polls and seemed to be t...

readers of this space may remember our letters to various (three) journalists asking why they forced the "arrogant" narrative onto the story about obama's campaign seal, when mccain's own national republican senatorial committee used the same sort of prototype (the presidential seal) for their own c...

via whiskeyfire, we delight in atta j. turk and other readers' ability to piss off michael scherer over at swampland. skip the boring post itself, and read the comments, wherein readers take scherer and other media pundits to task for not doing their job. now, that in itself is interesting enough. b...

we agree w/john cole at balloon juice: but let’s get something straight- what i am watching right now on the cable news shows is indicative of the problem- no clearer demonstration of the fact that they consider themselves to be players and the insiders and, well, part of the village, is needed. t...

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mediabloodhound thinks chris matthews showed a bit of the journalist he could be when matthews drilled radio host kevin james on the repetition of gop talking points, and mbh wishes matthews would actually practice journalism more often: james had every reason to think he could repeat the words "app...

politicky bitch sends us this youtube to followup on pudentilla's post on the rent-a-generals pimping out to the news networks....

suburbn guerilla thinks rush limbaugh might be subject to federal law for his remarks: rush limbaugh: “we do, hopefully, the right thing for the sake of this country. we’re the only one in charge of our affairs. we don’t farm out our defense if we elect democrats … and riots in denver, at th...

we hate to say it, but tim f. at balloon juice makes good sense about tony snow signing on w/cnn: at least snow is a communications professional, engaging and not obviously retarded. in fact, that is why i think it was a good choice by cnn. i don’t mean that in any ironic snarky way, it just was. ...

will at moue magazine, talking about the mmm's penchant for assuming hillary gets the support of bowlers, gun owners and beer drinkers: the article makes no mention of how they managed to differentiate between these groups; indeed, where i live, bowlers, gun owners, hunters and beer drinkers general...