Last week, we noted the odd happenings in Ohio’s second district, where Democratic leaders are attacking David Krikorian, a candidate in this week’s Democratic primary, over racist remarks he allegedly made against his primary opponent, an Indian American named Surya Yalamanchili.
But the episode didn’t stop More…
TWI’s David Weigel appeared on MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann last night, discussing the strange story of an RNC-funded outing at a Los Angeles strip club and its implications for Michael Steele’s chairmanship and the relationship between the Republican Party and the Tea Party movement. Video after the jump:
Michael Calderone recaps an amusing spat between MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann and Mediaite.com, after the gossipy website ran an item about the Dallas Tea Party’s video knocking MSNBC for its all-white line-up of hosts. The headline is Olbermann’s criticism of Dan Abrams; the part that interests me is just More…
At a briefing for conservative bloggers at the Heritage Foundation today, Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-Minn.) dismissed MSNBC as a network neither she nor “most of the American people” paid attention to.
“Quite honestly I don’t even know anything about MSNBC,” said Bachmann. “It’s not a network that I watch, More…
If you happened to catch The Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC last night, you saw TWI Legal Correspondent Daphne Eviatar breaking down the pros and cons of Sen. Patrick Leahy’s (D-Vt.) proposed “truth commission” to investigate the Bush administration’s alleged crimes. Daphne also talked about the problem More…
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) has really started something.
He reportedly brought his idea for a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to the White House Tuesday, talking with President Obama’s new White House Counsel Greg Craig about the proposal. “I went over some of the parameters of it More…
During a radio interview Thursday on WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show, I was asked the question that’s popping up more and more these days, now that Obama has pledged to close the notorious Guantanamo Bay prison: aren’t all those dangerous terrorists just going to go back to where they came More…
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