Blog Archive: May, 2008

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Did Stephen Colbert Really Call Me Che Guevara?

By David Sirota
May 31st, 2008

Here is a link to the video from my appearance on The Colbert Report. It's hard to come up with exactly the right word to describe what it feels like to be on Stephen's show. It's somewhere between fun and excruciating - and really, it's both at the same time (does saying that make me a masochist?). read more »

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Weekend Watchdog

By Bill Scher
May 30th, 2008

Will Scott McClellan be asked something that actually could help the public resist propaganda in the future? Will anyone be asked anything about the pending global warming bill? read more »

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BOB DOLE!

By Rick Perlstein
May 30th, 2008

On Scott McClellan in 2008 (via Politico):

Bob Dole yesterday sent a scalding email to Scott McClellan, excoriating the former White House spokesman as a "miserable creature" who greedily betrayed his former patron for a fast buck. read more »

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Open Thread: Weekend Watchdog

By Bill Scher
May 30th, 2008

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As the weekend approaches, it's time for the Weekend Watchdog to resume patrol! read more »

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What Ailes Us

By Rick Perlstein
May 30th, 2008

In interviews during my book tour, I was delighted to be constantly asked about something I thought everyone already knew about: Roger Ailes' work, long before he went on to found Fox News, as bamboozler-in-chief for Richard Nixon's 1968 presidential campaign, specifically his role in inventing the fake candidate "town meeting" staged for TV but closed to the press. read more »

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They Shoot Horses in Mesopotamia, Don't They?

By Rick Perlstein
May 30th, 2008

Catching up on my back-blogging, I didn't want to miss recognizing the passing of the great director Sidney Pollack (and actor: no progressive film-lover should miss his performance in the read more »

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Flying High

By Rick Perlstein
May 29th, 2008

private-jet-120px.gifYou can learn a lot in a chauffeured limousine—like how a tax break spawned by conservatives after 9/11 is subsidizing the jet set. Here's a revealing window on how Washington's malefactors of great wealth work. read more »

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Making Sense of the Rising Cost of College

By Alex Carter
May 29th, 2008

As college students celebrate graduation this May, their joy is combined with the harsh reality they face post-graduation--many of these students will graduate with unmanageable levels of loan debt that they can not afford basic necessities. read more »

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Vouching for Veterans?

By Rick Perlstein
May 28th, 2008

We've said it before and we'll say it again. And again, and again, and again, and again: P.J. O'Rourke's joke that "The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it"? read more »

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"Taser Tuesday"

By Rick Perlstein
May 28th, 2008

Over at TPM Cafe, I kick off a discussion of NIXONLAND with an argument that liberals are no longer, as they were during the period I write about in the book, knee-jerk snobs on the subject of conservative ideas, and argue further that today's conservatives have been strikingly deficient in recognizing th read more »

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