The Texas Blue: News
Fox News Fires Someone for Open Partisanship
Sun, 05/11/2008 - 11:00am
Truly, these are strange days. The tale of the production assistant who gave John McCain some overwhelmingly positive feedback (A++++ Candidate, Would Vote For Again) on the red carpet at a Time Magazine to-do ends with her being canned by News Corp. If this were to become a trend, how long would it take to empty out the FoxNews studios for blatant bias?
Getting a Little of the old Special Election Fear
Sun, 05/11/2008 - 9:30am
The Republican Party has lost three seats in Congress in special elections since the year turned to 2008, and they face a fourth test in Mississippi on Tuesday. The district has been reliably Republican for years, but that's been no firewall to loss so far, and the GOP leadership has the slightly sick feeling that Tuesday could make the DCCC four-for-four in special elections. The Washington Post has the story.
Obama, Clinton, and Superdelegates
Sun, 05/11/2008 - 8:14am
The current media trend in reporting on national politics is to report that Senator Barack Obama has either caught up to Senator Hillary Clinton on superdelegates or that he is now in the lead. The superdelegate count has always been an ever-shifting sandpile with no foundation, with every media outlet having a unique method of counting and, indeed, their own totals for each candidate.
Alleged Iranian Weapons Not Iranian
Fri, 05/09/2008 - 4:39pm
Stories about Iranian arms and Iranian activity in Iraq have been a periodic staple of the news this past year. The most recent eruption of these stories has proven to be a bit problematic:
Ex-Military Audio
Fri, 05/09/2008 - 2:30pm
TPM Muckraker has some audio excerpts from meetings between former Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld and the retired officers the Pentagon sent to the news networks on domestic psy-ops.
A Friday Challenge
Fri, 05/09/2008 - 2:00pm
Can anyone give me one good reason why increased testing for mad cow disease by meatpackers is a bad idea? I mean, I get how conservatives might argue on behalf of the Bush administration in general, that they're trying to keep regulation down and whatnot, but come on. Increased mad cow disease testing seems like it should be a bi-partisan issue.
Republicans Against Moms
Fri, 05/09/2008 - 1:30pm
Dana Milbank reports that 178 Republican members of the House have voted against American mothers. True story!
McCain's Land Swap
Fri, 05/09/2008 - 1:01pm
It isn't a wife swap. It isn't even a land shark. It's a land swap.
News Roundup, 5/9/08: Strike Two for Cornyn
Fri, 05/09/2008 - 10:47am
For those of you who thought our original reporting on just how close the Texas Senate race may be might have been some sort of fluke: Believe it.