tnr.com - 10/26/2009
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Sorry I’ve been silent (again) for so long. In addition to teaching two writing seminars at Penn, I’ve been busy with book revisions. Those are now done, so I should be back (again) to more regular blogging.
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mediamatters.org - 10/24/2009
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Right-wing media figures trumpeted a blogger's fake report
that in a college thesis -- which the post's...
author claimed was obtained by Time 's Joe Klein -- President Obama attacked the Founders and the Constitution. Lou Dobbs ran with the claim even ...
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Right-wing smear machine falls for fake Obama quote ...
voices.washingtonpost.com - 10/29/2009
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Seattle: So what exactly did the House put
out this morning? Is it the Robust opt-out Public...
Option that Sen. Reid talked about? Ezra Klein: No. So to do a bit on defining terms here: Robust refers to a public option that can use Medicare's ...
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A 55,000-Word Blog Post
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Damon Linker questions the quality of books written within over the course of a few months: What Beast Books is proposing, and what Klein is promoting, is (in
Truman Capote’s words) the reduction of writing to typing. The typing
might be clever, and witty, and informed, and politically useful. But
in most cases, it will also be hurried and harried, merely echoing or
negating the conventional wisdom of the moment, not placing it in a
wider context or viewing it from a broader perspective. And that will
be a incalculable loss to our culture. ...
Tab dump
Ezra Klein —
1) Myths of murder and multiple regression: A critique of the original Freakonomics.
2) If you build a coverage mandate, will people use it?
3) Behind the public option: The subsidies fight.
4) Damon Linker angrily misreads an old post of mine.
5) Peter Orszag takes aim at Fred Hiatt.
Recipe of the day: Chinese-style beets.
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