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Gov Sanford Explains Disappearance and Admits Affair

Why am I not at all surprised by the news that Governor Mark Sanford, whose strange dissapearance for a few days was the talk of the press and the blogosphere, is (or was?) having an affair.
Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina said Wednesday that he had been having an extramarital affair with a woman in [...]

Americans Want Inquiry Into Anti-terror Tactics

A new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds a majority “in favor of investigating some of the thorniest unfinished business from the Bush administration: Whether its tactics in the “war on terror” broke the law.”
Close to two-thirds of those surveyed said there should be investigations into allegations that the Bush team used torture to interrogate terrorism suspects and its [...]

Not as Smart as a Third Grader

On Monday, in Colorado, during an interview with NBC affiliate KUSA, Palin was asked a question submitted by a third grader: “What does the vice president do?”
In response, Palin said it was a question her daughter Piper, a second grader, would ask her. And then proceeded to get it wrong: “They’re in charge of the [...]

More on the Angry Man and His Tin-eared Boss

Joan Walsh weighed in on the piece in the New Yorker about Keith Olberman, that I wrote about earlier today. Walsh took offense as I did to what MSNBC head Phil Griffin told the New Yorker Hillary supporters who will “come back” because there’s “nowhere else to go”:
I have some advice for Phil Griffin, not that [...]

Tucker Carlson insults women of New Orleans

Tucker Carlson insulted the women of a whole city on July 13th, in the process of defending Senator David Vitter. According to Tucker, one out of three women in New Orleans resturants are for sale.
In the process of defending David Vitter’s right to keep his seat in the U.S. Senate, Carlson took a swipe at [...]

Olbermann: Lessons from the Vietnam War

This is IMHO one of the most powerful Special Comments Keith Olbermann has put out lately.
Watch the Video here:

The transcript is as follows:

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Memo to Rachelle G. Cohen

Rachelle G. Cohen is “editor of the editorial pages” of the right wing biased Boston Herald. In an OP/ED today she compares John Kerry’s recent speech at Brown University to Donna Brazile’s recent OP/ED in the Washington Post.
I’m not sure what, other than the fact that Brazile’s hometown is New Orleans, could have motivated her [...]