CNN is labeled a liberal network by conservatives who prefer Fox, a conservative network by liberals who prefer MSNBC, and an inane network by tripartisan wonks who prefer PBS or C-Span.
But now there is a CNN descriptor that can unify us all. Gutless.
In the last few days, CNN has refused [...]
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This has been on my to-do list for a while but it keeps getting pushed downstream by other, more pressing issues. The volume of whining – along with the complaints about the whining – has gotten so loud, though, I figured I’d better take an hour or two and get it done:
“#23: Fix newspaper business.”
Pay [...]
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I’ve now watched the debate twice and if the audience had been a panel of debate judges, it would have been a knock-down for Senator Biden. His 36 years in the Senate plus a week of intense debate prep gave him the base to range freely across the questions and demonstrate his experience in both [...]
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Governor Palin’s trip to New York …where she is posing for “grip-and-grins” with a group of world leaders (all of whom are somewhat beholden to the continued goodwill of the U.S.) plus Henry Kissinger…. has always struck me as a mistake by Team McCain as it simply highlights her foreign policy inexperience.
In the last few [...]
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