One channel, that is - really, when you come right down to it, one personality (though Dan Abrams is following in the footsteps).
That would be Keith Olbermann, and some “insiders” are apparently P.O.’d that he’d dare do the Fox News thing, from the other side:
“Every Tuesday night Keith is up there as the face of […]

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McClellan goes on Olbermann last night to talk about his book and says something destined to outrage the 28 pecenters, but which makes perfect, unfortunate sense for everyone else:
I think that you would need to take [the administration’s] comments [on Iran] very seriously and be skeptical.

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Via Glenn Greenwald: Did you know Scott McClellan, former Bush press secretary, has a book coming out? In which, he says:
If anything, the national press corps was probably too deferential to the White House and to the administration in regard to the most important decision facing the nation during my years in Washington, the choice […]

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The Poor Man has a new comic up, which you might find amusing…

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You know, why must we over-analyze everything?
So here we have a Reuters piece about how Hillary’s gas tax holiday business was a big gift to Obama in Indiana and N.C. - which it undoubtedly was. The trouble begins when Reuters attempts to tell us why:
The fight, which dominated the final days before the North Carolina and […]

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Josh Marshall on how the right can just take a vacation, Charlie and George got ‘em covered:
Organized campaigns of falsehoods, distortions and smears used to be something most people thought of as a bad thing, if not something that’s ever been too far removed from American politics. Now, however, members of the prestige press appear […]

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NSFW language so I won’t post it here, but go see Pastor Dan for the tragic(ly funny) goods.

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Too funny. Or maybe too sad to be funny:
LINCOLN: Ahem, I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect slavery will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other…
STEPHANOPOULOS: Do you love America this much […]

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But now, maybe Stephanopolous can redeem himself. John Aravosis over at Americablog tells us that John McCain is going to be a guest on George’s Sunday morning teevee news show; Aravosis offers a few questions Stephanopolous might, but of course won’t, ask. They’re pretty rough. Then again, as Aravosis notes, “ABC just asked a presidential […]

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In which George Stephanopolous defends the indefensible:
When I asked whether questions about flag pins or Bosnia are actually relevant to voters, he replied: “Absolutely.”
“The vote for the president,” Stephanopoulos said, “is one of the most personal” decisions that someone makes. 
“When people make that choice, they take into account how candidates stand on the issues,” he […]

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Glenn Greenwald:
My favorite (unintentionally revealing) media commentary about the debate is from The Washington Post’s Anne Kornblut and Dan Balz, who devoted paragraph after paragraph to describing the substance-free “issues” that consumed most of the debate — Obama’s “remarks about small-town values, questions about his patriotism and the incendiary sermons of his former pastor . […]

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Looks like the Lancaster Post is up, print version rumored to be out on the street, or soon. Permalink down to the right. Go say hello, because competition is always a good thing.

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Absolutely agree with this:
After the first forty minutes of last night’s Democratic debate, it was clear we were watching something historic. Not historic in a good way, mind you, but historic in the sense of being something so deeply embarrassing to the nation that it will be pointed to, in future books and documentary works, […]

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Ah, and here we have David Brooks saying he thought Gibson and Stephanopolous were just substantive as hell:
We may not like it, but issues like Jeremiah Wright, flag lapels and the Tuzla airport will be important in the fall. Remember how George H.W. Bush toured flag factories to expose Michael Dukakis. It’s legitimate to see […]

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I’m still fuming. Just got into the office and went into an extended rant. I just can’t believe it; I’ve never seen a more complete and abject failure on the part of a major news organization. But it’s of a piece, isn’t it? Doesn’t it go hand-in-hand with the Maureen Dowd business I linked yesterday? This […]

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I turned it off after the last entry.
I don’t think I’ve ever been more ashamed of my profession than tonight.
Virtually every corner of the blogosphere is saying the same thing. For God’s sake, Jonah Goldberg is saying it:
I’m no leftwing blogger, but I can only imagine how furious they must be with the debate […]

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Something a little lighter in a heavy news cycle. Maybe Janelle Stelson needs combat pay.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYIi1xsxn8o

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Owtch. Gore Vidal, whose writing is some of the sharpest I’ve ever read, skewers his old and now dead foe William F. Buckley - using not the rapier but the chainsaw:
Parenthetically, I should note that, back in 1968, ABC TV had asked me and Buckley to “debate” each other at the Democratic and Republican conventions. […]

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So Marv (my boss) forwards me an e-mail, and apparently we’ve gotten quite a few of these this week:
I find the implication that someone who has dedicated his or her life to serving America lacks patriotism utterly unpalatable. But reading Nedra Pickler of the AP’s Sunday smear piece against Senator Barack Obama, it appears that […]

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New link blogrolled over to the right, if you care, which of course you don’t. Nevertheless: Deux Ex Malcontent is the work of one Chez Pazienza, whom I should’ve blogrolled for his name alone; but he also happens to be a producer who was just you-know-whatcanned by CNN because he blogged. Which he writes about […]

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