TWI’s David Weigel sat down with Politico’s Ben Smith yesterday for a wide-ranging Bloggingheads.tv diavlog that covered President Obama and Afghanistan, the declining toxicity of George W. Bush, the liberal media and Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), and, of course, birthers. Video of the full conversation after the jump.
[UPDATE: Quick clarification. This is definitely a conservative media outrage, but Boaz is a libertarian.] I’m reporting out something unrelated, so I’ve almost missed this, but apparently President Obama has made a major error in not going to Germany for the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. More…
So it seems that Robert Gibbs today inelegantly tried to distinguish between al-Qaeda and the Taliban — sigh, that shouldn’t have been too difficult — and in the process of that explanation, used the word “jihadist,” a term that the Obama administration strenuously avoids. Carol E. Lee at Politico More…
Manu Raju talks to Senate Democrats about the Glenn Beck-driven, almost entirely hysterical campaign against “czars.” The fuel: a letter written by Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) about “czars.” I’ve reprinted the letter below the jump, but the key bit is this:
I respectfully urge you to disclose as much
A Politico story co-written by Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen delves into the political ideal “bipartisanship” and includes one source that should cause some double-takes.
The few GOP moderates left confess their deep frustration.
“It seems like moderation in Washington is a vice,” said Rep. Brian Bilbray, a centrist
With an assist from Politico, which has completely bought into Glenn Beck’s campaign against “czars” — on Monday, the publication sketched out a “GOP czar revolt” that consisted of work by Michelle Malkin, a joke by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), and a comment from former House Speaker Newt Gingrich More…
This morning, our Minnesota colleague Paul Schmeltzer noted that a conservative attack line that the coverage of Ted Kennedy’s death would be a “Wellstone memorial on steroids” had “taken off, with pundits on Fox, MSNBC and conservative media piling on.” This afternoon, Ben Smith filed More…
Four months ago, Mike Allen and Josh Gerstein of Politico reported that former Vice President Dick Cheney was “pushing the CIA to declassify files that he claims would vindicate the CIA’s use of coercive interrogation techniques that President Barack Obama has banned.” It was one of many stories that More…
Amid the obstructionists’ claims that health care reform is “socialist” or a means of speeding Grandma towards her deathbed, a large focus of the conservative position on health care reform has been that frivolous lawsuits drive up health care costs and require doctors to practice “defensive medicine” that’s costly and More…
The editor-in-chief of WorldNetDaily left a comment at TWI’s sister site, The Minnesota Independent, taking issue with the statement that the site “has been accused” of publishing hoaxes in the past, such as “poorly written and unauthenticated emails” allegedly between Barack Obama and Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga.
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