newsbusters.org - 1/8/2009
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Reuters ran a little flak for Barack Obama trying to help dull the outrageous expectations placed on The One by his irrationally exuberant adherents in theirs headlined " Congress faces historic challenges " -- As if no other Congress has faced "historic challenges" before? Reuters assures us, ...
crookedtimber.org - 1/11/2009
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crookedtimber.org —
One of the safer predictions I’ve made in
recent years is this (in The American Prospect ):...
[O]nline activists are unlikely to follow Obama if he moves toward a post-ideological politics of citizenship and may even use Obama’s own ...
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Media Pumping Obama: Best Dresser, Breakthrough Election, Tough on Terror
Stop The ACLU —
-By Warner Todd Huston [image] In a like vein as the story I posted a few days ago showing Reuters helping cover for Obama by lowering expectations , a trio of stories — two from McClatchy and one from the AP — prove to be little more than empty Obama boostering with little worth as news, though the AP piece at least comes close to being newsworthy. Unfortunately, this is the sort of empty reporting that has become du jour for the Old Media. It’s the media’s covering for the Clinton’s all over again, yet 10-times more intense. The first story is the most frivolous. It is a ...
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