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Texas’ Gov. Rick Perry was a guest on Fox’s Glenn Beck Show yesterday and the two began with a response to my story on Perry’s record of using hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to subsidize job creation.
My colleague Alex Altman has an entertaining review up today of Glenn Beck’s new “thriller,” The Overton Window. Despite getting panned in the Washington Post and Beck’s own acknowledgment that well, maybe he didn’t exactly write the entire thing, Alex notes that the novel will be a best seller anyway. The entire review is definitely …
You read it here first. Many of the purchases people make from the gold brokers that increasingly clutter the cable news and talk radio streams are horrifically lousy investments. Now comes a report from Congressman Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., expanding on what is already disclosed in the fine print on the websites of firms like
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I am not in the business of giving investment advice, but I do, like many of you, spend way too much time watching cable television. So I know all about “Gold”–that “time tested currency,” that you can “hold in your hand,” blah, blah, blah. Ads for gold brokers, some of whom charge spreads of 30 or 35 percent to gullible viewers for …
A little more than a week ago, Tom Coburn did something fairly courageous by political standards. At a town hall meeting in Oklahoma, the conservative Republican senator referred to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as a “nice lady” and criticized Fox News. (He was briefly booed for the Pelosi comment.) After an audience member mentioned …
Foes of Fox News everywhere would do well to watch Eric Massa’s mesmerizing performance on Glenn Beck last night. The disgraced tickler and former congressman found the news network’s Achilles’ heel. In fact, it’s amazing that the weak spot was not discovered before, what with all the eagle eyes at Media Matters laboring day-in and …
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This is an excellent essay by Kurt Andersen, tying together many of the threads about the ugly and recalcitrant nature of populism that I’ve been posting on in recent days. Anderson makes an important point that is, at once, completely obvious but rarely remarked upon: populism became more a right-wing movement in the 20th century …
Once again, Paul Slansky catches what the rest of us missed this week. Swampland commenters, what made your week?
During his September address to Congress, Barack Obama put his less-than-responsible critics on notice. “If you misrepresent what’s in this plan, we will call you out,” he said. After the wee-weed days of August, this was Obama’s way of saying he and the rest of the White House communications office was sick of playing “Reality Check” …
Obama is down from where he once was in polling. Independents surveyed in the new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll say they disapprove of his job performance by a margin of 46 to 41 percent, a increase in bad feelings from July. But the big takeaway I see in the poll is that all this doom and gloom–the Town Hall terrors of August, and …
On Sunday, Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, who has announced her resignation to run for governor in the Lone Star state, penned a piece in the Washington Post about what she called “Czarist Washington.” Read closely, and you will discover an easily overlooked undercurrent to Hutchison’s concern. She is worried less about the known …
Over at Tuned In, our colleague Jim Poniewozik has a message for Glenn Beck.
In the ArenaUncategorized
Last week I said that it would probably be best for Van Jones–who used to go around saying that he was a communist and then signed a “truther” petition–to resign his job as one of the President’s environmental advisers.
Now, it seems, the Republicans have designated a former birther–that is, one of those paranoid nitwits who …
