| October 1 |
- Salon Radio: David Cay Johnston on the bailout
- The Pulitzer Prize-winning NYT reporter discusses the uncritical panic created around the financial crisis and the role journalists have played in that.
- Wash Post's Pearlstein: Anyone opposing the bailout is ignorant
- "Thank God there is a mainstream media out there that actually does reporting and has people who understand things."
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| October 2 |
- The right's two-pronged religion of rage and self-pity
- The group with the most power persuades itself that it is weak, oppressed and treated with great unfairness.
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| October 3 |
- The death of GOP electoral tactics on the war
- Contrary to what the political establishment claimed all year, Americans still hate the war and hate the GOP position on it.
- Salon Radio: L.A. Times' Tim Rutten on Ahmadinejad
- Is the U.S. failing to take the "Iranian threat" seriously enough, or is that threat being exaggerated and distorted?
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| October 4 |
- A country in shambles, under GOP rule
- Efforts to blame Democrats for the country's deep woes assume deep stupidity on the part of the glorified Regular Voter.
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| October 5 |
- Porn producer invokes the Bush/Yoo defense -- unsuccessfully
- Citizens who produce fictitious films depicting "humiliation" and "degradation" will be sent to prison. Government officials who do that in reality will be immunized.
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| October 6 |
- Salon Radio: Jane Hamsher & Markos Moulitsas
- A new campaign to recruit and support primary challengers to Congressional incumbents, supported by a vast coalition, is unveiled today.
- John McCain's unprecedentedly ugly speech today
- The increasingly petty and ugly attacks on Barack Obama by a desperate, dying movement are a microcosm of the last eight years.
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| October 7 |
- Dick Morris: A sign of the times
- Two weeks ago, the Fox News pundit hailed McCain's campaign suspension as "brilliant." Today, he blames it for McCain's plummeting poll numbers.
- Sarah Palin's museum of trite right-wing tactics: 1980-2008
- The attacks on Obama grow more unhinged and more counter-productive in direct proportion.
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| October 8 |
- Sean Hannity, Robert Gibbs and anti-Semitism: How to go on Fox News
- Over the weekend, Sean Hannity hosted a "documentary" on Obama in reliance on a notorious, deranged Jew hater -- a fact that an Obama spokesman puts to good use.
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| October 9 |
- Major shock: Eavesdropping powers abused without oversight
- Two NSA linguists disclose that hundreds of innocent Americans had their private, intimate telephone calls recorded and transcribed by Bush's illegal spying program.
- Dan Balz's corrupted journalistic "balance"
- The attempt to equate "character attacks" as coming from "both sides" in the campaign is not "balance"; it's just false.
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| October 10 |
- Salon Radio: ACLU's Jonathan Hafetz on Guantanamo cases
- Why is the Bush administration continuing to imprison 17 detainees in Guantánamo who it acknowledges are innocent? And what is the latest on the president's power to imprison U.S. citizens as "enemy combatants"?
- The Right and mainstream America: a universe apart
- New polls conclusively show that the desperate smears of Obama -- along with increased exposure to Sarah Palin -- are backfiring on John McCain.
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| October 11 |
- TNR's Michael Crowley: McCain lynch mobs are no different than Bush critics
- The modern Beltway journalist compulsively asserts equivalencies between each side without regard to whether they are actually the same.
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| October 12 |
- Boys' night out: "The Politico guys," Rove's top disciple and how our press corps works
- The relationship between Politico's Jonathan Martin and Tim Griffin burgeons into a close and mutually beneficial friendship.
- Virginia GOP Chairman claims "connection between Obama and bin Laden"
- Reporters who are minimizing and dismissing the McCain campaign's uniquely dangerous smears are aiding and abetting those efforts.
- Bill Kristol in a nutshell
- Last week, the NYT columnist urged the McCain campaign to attack Obama's character. With Obama rising, today he called the campaign "stupid" and "pathetic" for doing just that.
- Rick Davis: The last 8 years encapsulated
- McCain's campaign manager: Troopergate report found "no violations of any kinds of laws or ethics rules." The report: Palin "abused her power by violating" Alaska law
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| October 13 |
- "Great American Hypocrites": The paperback
- The GOP has only one tactic it uses to win elections -- tribal warfare combined with character smears -- and one sees that this year as vividly as ever.
- The Goldberg Theorem: Dow skyrockets due to likely Obama victory
- Last week, several right-wing geniuses claimed that the Dow was plummeting due to investor fears of an Obama win.
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| October 14 |
- Steve Pearlstein's strange attempt to glorify Hank Paulson and himself
- The Washington Post columnist claims that the U.S. led the world to economic salvation when the truth is actually the exact opposite.
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| October 15 |
- Patrick Ruffini, the demise of the right and the Democratic alternative
- Destruction of the right will achieve a necessary good, but it is only the first step, not the last, to achieve anything meaningful.
- Salon Radio: Scott Horton
- Did PBS (and Jay Rockefeller's wife) block the broadcast of a documentary linking torture to the Bush administration? And what role did Bill Kristol play in Sarah Palin's selection?
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| October 16 |
- Our diverse and vibrant democracy
- How did a blatant falsehood -- that Russia's attack on Georgia was "unprovoked" -- become unchallenged orthodoxy in the U.S.?
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| October 17 |
- Jim Martin: Principle vs. cowardice
- Despite running in a Deep South red state, the Democratic Senate candidate courageously takes some important positions at odds with the House Democratic leadership.
- Poor John McCain: Forced against his honor to run an ugly campaign
- McCain-loving journalists continue to insist that the Arizona senator is an honorable, unwilling victim of his own campaign.
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| October 18 |
- Dissecting Cindy McCain's private world
- Are there any journalistic standards left for determining whether a political figure's private life should be investigated and disclosed?
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| October 19 |
- Colin Powell condemns the ugliness of the Republican Party
- A potentially critical endorsement of Barack Obama includes a poignant and stinging attack on the vile anti-Muslim tactics of "senior" Republicans.
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| October 21 |
- Those who want Joe Lieberman to remain a Democrat
- Anonymous, cowardly Democratic consultants illustrate why the party has stood for nothing for so long.
- Mark Halperin defends Rush Limbaugh's Powell/race theory
- Why isn't this race-based analysis being applied to white political figures who are endorsing this year outside of their party?
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| October 22 |
- What is happening to GOP electoral tactics?
- Standard GOP patriotism tropes are failing to resonate and are actually backfiring. Why?
- Salon Radio: Eric Boehlert on Drudge's decline
- Is the right-wing gossipmonger finally losing his sway over campaign reporters?
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| October 23 |
- Bipartisanship and threats of war toward Iran
- A new Washington Post Op-Ed from a typical Beltway "bipartisan" group demands that the new president prepare for an attack on Iran.
- Another myth fallen: Obama's "Jewish problem"
- All year long, GOP activists, neocons and pundits claimed Jews would vote in large numbers against Obama. From Gallup today: Jews favor Obama by a 3-1 margin.
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| October 24 |
- Salon Radio: Kenneth Katzman on attacking Iran
- An interview with one of the Beltway's leading Iran experts and advocates of an attack reveals the grotesque indifference and banality of evil of our foreign policy establishment.
- Sarah Palin opposes McCain's spending freeze
- The Vice Presidential candidate calls for substantial spending increases for discretionary programs just two weeks after McCain called for an across-the-board spending freeze.
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| October 25 |
- The Russia/Georgia conflict and the tactics of 2002
- Reason's Cathy Young and other fanatical supporters of Georgia use character smears and "pro-Putin" insults to try to stifle debate.
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| October 27 |
- Ed Whelan's petulant, fact-free right-wing victimhood
- National Review claims that the Washington Post has concealed comments of Joe Biden that, in fact, it has quoted at least six times.
- Salon Radio: ACLU on the U.S. Army's domestic deployment
- Why is a U.S. Army brigade being permanently assigned to the "Homeland," and should anyone care?
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| October 28 |
- Seven-year-olds sing against same-sex marriage
- A Christian ministry in California produces an incomparably creepy ad in support of Proposition 8.
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| October 29 |
- Dick Morris: Obama might still have a small chance to win
- The Fox News genius bravely warns that it is too early to "write Obama off."
- Maeve Reston's unintentional exposure of campaign reporters
- The Los Angeles Times reporter wistfully laments the loss of "intimacy" between McCain and his press corps, and blames herself for the loss.
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| October 30 |
- Various items
- Karl Rove's self-protective amnesia. A personal appeal against Proposition 8. The latest McCarthyite tactic from John McCain and National Review.
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| October 31 |
- Steven Pearlstein and the strange pro-bailout justifications
- As Wall Street hordes its bailout cash rather than using it to unfreeze credit markets, bailout proponents twist themselves into knots to justify their conduct.
- Someone should tell ABC News what "exclusive" means
- Establishment media outlets frequently copy from blogs and other alternative sources and claim credit for the story.
- Defeating McCain: Ending not only neocon policies, but also tactics
- The blatant exploitation of anti-Semitism accusations by the McCain campaign is par for the neocon course, and reason enough to favor his defeat.
- Sarah Palin speaks on the First Amendment
- John McCain's running mate thinks that the Constitution protects political candidates from being criticized by the press.
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