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The Inquirer Get More Irrelevant Every Day

Posted by Brendan on January 16th, 2009 filed in calling bullshit, hack, media, nincompoopery

Is this really news?

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Karen Heller to Philadelphia: Drop Dead

Posted by Brendan on January 6th, 2009 filed in DemocRAT, Philadelphia, calling bullshit, hack, hypocrisy, media

Via ellen in comments, just what we need: the irrelevant Karen Heller in the irrelevant Philadelphia Inquirer defending the Mayor:
Now, what if the problem is critical? Immediately, you would cut spending.
This is precisely what Mayor Nutter is trying to do. In November, he announced that the city faced a $1 billion shortfall over the [...]

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Reuters Rides the Tire Swing

Posted by Brendan on December 12th, 2008 filed in calling bullshit, hack, media

Via TPM, the stenographers intrepid reporters at

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Shorter Christine Flowers, Annotated

Posted by Brendan on October 24th, 2008 filed in Philadelphia, abortion, calling bullshit, elections, hack, media, meta, politics, right wing dingalings

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Bada Bing, Bada Boom

Bada Bing: email sent at 2:25 today to Booman:
Speaking with my old man this AM about the Palin appearance. He suggested perhaps the mckkkain campaign deliberately put the pit bull in front of what they knew would be a hostile crowd in order to mitigate the damage from this week’s rallies. It not [...]

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Jonathan Martin

Posted by Brendan on October 12th, 2008 filed in calling bullshit, elections, hack, lying republican filth, media, politics

The best part is that the picture describes both what Jonathan Martin is eating and Jonathan Martin himself:
Tim Griffin has long been one of Karl Rove’s closest “protégés” and has been at the epicenter of many of the most significant episodes of Republican sleaze over the last decade — in particular, he has been a [...]

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Shorter Christine Flowers: Obama is Black. Boogedy Boogedy.

Another steaming pile from Philadelphia’s own Wicked Witch of the West:
I’M WHITE, and I’m not voting for Barack Obama.
So what? Who cares who you vote for? And who cares what color you are either?
To some people, that makes me a racist. Doesn’t matter that I would never have voted for Hillary Clinton or John [...]

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The New York Times Makes a BIIIIIG Scoop: Joe Biden, Like Everyone Else in Congress, Is Rich. Also, Sun Rises in East.

Posted by Brendan on October 2nd, 2008 filed in calling bullshit, hack, media

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Matthews Eviscerates Some GOP Clown

Posted by Brendan on September 18th, 2008 filed in gop crime, hack, media, politics, youtube

Great stuff, and I don’t even LIKE Chris Matthews. (h/t Susie Madrak.)

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Network News Stories

Posted by Brendan on September 18th, 2008 filed in hack, media

Writing at Media Matters, Eric Boehlert points out the consequences of a media that concentrates more on making up stories than on actual reporting:
I think when journalists wallow in that nonsense for so long and pretend it’s newsworthy and important, the coverage of a truly important story (e.g. what the media have now identified [...]

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