Digby:
We bloggers didn’t make this toxic, fetid environment, we just live in it. And toxic and fetid it is. At some point the prim and proper MSM are going to have to put down the smelling salts over the uncivil blogosphere and deal with the fact that the world they enabled with their convivial chuckling […]

Tom of TheBlueState.com has created a chopped video of the 60 Minutes interview of John and Elizabeth Edwards by Katie Couric. The video now only consists of Couric’s question — John and Elizabeth’s answers have been removed. The result is truly disgraceful. Couric was resoundingly criticized for using straw man arguments to attack the Edwardses […]

Here’s today’s Hartford Courant editorial lede on the decision by the Edwards family to continue John’s presidential campaign after learning Elizabeth’s cancer has metastasized.
The blogosphere wasted no time attacking John Edwards as heartless for continuing his presidential campaign as his wife struggles with a new bout of cancer.
Um, what? And more importantly, who?
Despite […]

Colin McEnroe is one of my favorite political commentators. He understood the Connecticut senate primary as well, if not better, than any other Connecticut journalists. Throughout the campaign and since it has been clear that he understands the power of blogs for political change. I found it disappointing, then, to see this critique of the […]

Adam Nagourney of the New York Times was in attendance at CPAC yesterday. His article on the conference completely whitewashes the content of Ann Coulter’s attacks on the Democratic presidential field. Nagourney writes:
The conference drew thousands of attendees, many of whom waited in a long line out the door for a late-afternoon appearance by Ann […]

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I recently finished reading Joe Conason’s new book, It Can Happen Here: Authoritarian Peril In The Age of Bush. I, like many bloggers and blog readers, read pretty much every book I can get my hands on that offers to explain our current political epoch and place daily events in the […]

Despite protestations and pleas about people not getting the joke, I’ll remind the editors of CCSU’s The Recorder that rape actually isn’t funny. Stop defending an indefensible article.

From their press release:
New York Times, AP fail to disclose Bill Donohue’s own ‘credibility problem’ as a critic of Edwards’ campaign bloggers

Media outlets reporting on this conservative attack have a responsibility to disclose hypocrisy of Donohue and conservative bloggers pushing this story

Washington, DC - Today, The New York Times and Associated Press have both reported […]

The reason that I think it’s critically important to push back against the Right’s efforts to have veto-power on John Edwards’ personnel decisions is that failing to do so gives the Right a Get Out Of Jail Free card for their own dubious hires.
The Catholic League, a right wing pressure group, has taken up the […]

I think I need to declare a fatwah on the “Hagel is a maverick” meme.
Speaking of silly coverage of Chuck Hagel, Chris Cillizza follows up his argument for Chuck Hagel with an argument against Chuck Hagel. Cillizza writes:
Primaries — especially presidential primaries — are about appealing to base voters. For Republicans, that means emphasizing a […]