Well, that was quick. Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) is holding up proceedings with the argument that he be entitled to counsel. He just asked to withdraw from the proceedings, but before he could, Rep. G. K. Butterfield (D-N.C.) had made a “motion to continue,” effectively questioning whether the trial should proceed, More…
I’m a little late, but the Republican Governors Association (RGA) was the beneficiary of some big time contributions the other month — one from News Corp., the parent company for a number of media companies, including Fox News and the New York Post, and the other from libertarian billionaire More…
Michael Calderone gets a mostly denial from the New York Post on Sandra Guzman’s claims of bigotry and bias inside the paper. There’s even some pushback on Guzman’s allegation that Charles Hurt, the paper’s D.C. bureau chief, considers it their mission to “destroy Barack Obama.” I don’t see why: More…
It’s worth taking some time to read Sam Stein’s piece on the New York Post and its disgruntled ex-employee Sandra Guzman. Her story, and her complaint against the paper, cast a harsh light on how one of the most popular conservative media outlets works inside. One detail that’s enlightening, More…
The Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid doesn’t have many subscribers in New York’s 23rd Congressional District, the far upstate district where Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman is rallying support from the right. But days after giving Hoffman prime op-ed space, it endorsed him today. Most of the endorsement is an indictment More…
The overblown “100 Days of the Obama Presidency” stories will, for the most part, be terrible. But some special honor must be paid to the dippy “100 Mistakes” list featured in the New York Post (which endorsed Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) for president, if that matters). There are some More…
In trying to figure out whether Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s plan to subsidize investors buying toxic assets from banks makes any difference in the lives of people living in blighted communities, I’ve been talking to housing advocates and economists.
Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, More…
Chock full of LOLs is the latest offering from Ralph Peters, a troglodytic New York Post columnist who manages to be wrong about everything. This time, he writes this funny-ha-ha column about the inhumanity of the people of Afghanistan:
These humanoid forms with which we must deal don’t all
As I mentioned earlier, the economy is in trouble not just because major banks aren’t lending all that government bailout money out to business and consumers. It’s also that the lending actually decreased in the last quarter, despite the billions of dollars the banks received under the Troubled Assets More…
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