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Stuck in the muck: Mudlslinging isn’t new. Here’s the messy truth.
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Monday, October 13, 2008RFK Jr: The Last Refuge of a Scoundrel
go to story"In 2004, America's malleable mainstream media allowed itself to be manipulated by artful Republican operatives into devoting weeks of broadcast attention and drums of ink to unfairly desecrating John Kerry's genuine Vietnam heroics while obligingly muzzling serious discussion of George W. Bush's shameful wartime record of evasion and cowardice. Last week found the American media once again boarding Republican swift boats" - RFK Jr
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Sunday, October 12, 2008
NYT Op-Eds (6)
"The McCain campaign has crossed the line between tough negative campaigning and inciting vigilantism, and each day the mob howls louder" (Rich); "The decline and fall of the American Empire echoes the experience of the Romans, who also tumbled into the trap of becoming overleveraged empire hussies" (Dowd); "The market is re-evaluating and re-pricing every asset in the world, without mercy. It is going to do whatever it’s going to do — whichever way greed and fear tug it" (Friedman); "How financial panic influenced the philosophies of Ralph Waldo Emerson" (Bloom); "How the philosophies of a physicist, a wizard and a serial killer warned us of this financial crisis" (Guest Op-Ed); "I can speak with authority: Gov. Sarah Palin’s mocked claim that Alaska’s proximity to Russia gives one a leg up on matters of national security was, in effect, official United States policy. Consider Operation Moosehorn" (Navasky)Posted by Ian Alterman, Sunday, October 12, 2008
Going negative: Pathetic, but it works
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Sunday, October 12, 2008What honeymoon? The proposals that could bind Obama
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Sunday, October 12, 2008Voter election guide to human rights and civil liberties
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Sunday, October 12, 2008t r u t h o u t | Marilou Johanek | Financial Crisis Buries DoJ Bombshell
Posted by Michael Butler, Saturday, October 11, 2008Alaska probe finds Palin ‘abused her power’
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Saturday, October 11, 2008Will McCain do anything to win?
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Saturday, October 11, 2008Troopergate investigator: Palin ‘unlawfully abused her authority’
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Saturday, October 11, 2008What don’t they know?
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Friday, October 10, 2008Hoover vs. Roosevelt?
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Friday, October 10, 200812 New stomach-turning revelations about Sarah Palin
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Friday, October 10, 2008Reality intrudes and McCain buckles
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Thursday, October 9, 2008Running from reality
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Thursday, October 9, 2008How low will Palin go in her mudslinging?
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Thursday, October 9, 2008Now who doesn’t get it?
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Wednesday, October 8, 2008Debate II: Who is John McCain?
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Wednesday, October 8, 2008Obama vs. McCain: Who won?
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Wednesday, October 8, 2008NYT (3): International News
Georgia's "culture of censorship"; the indigenous Yanomamis claim that religion was doing better than politics in helping them; and Muslims gain power in Indonesia.Posted by Ian Alterman, Tuesday, October 7, 2008
