What’s Hot in the Blogosphere

The following are some notable posts from the progressive blogosphere this week. *Markos lays into Joe Biden , calls him a “ patronizing asshole“ or a “historical revisionist asshole.” *Eric Boehlert on Media Matters has a press corrective entitled “The press manufactures John Kerry’s tears.” Boehlert writes that “reporters and pundits went ahead and manufactured the narrative that the ‘emotional’ and ‘choked up’ senator became ‘tearful’ as he publicly ‘let go of his White House dreams.’” Unfortunately, according to Boehlert, “[n]one of that was accurate.” * Matthew Yglesias and Joshua Marshall discuss President Bush’s use of the term “Democrat Party” in his State of the Union speech. Yglesias points out that Frank Luntz, the infamous Republican pollster, long ago focus grouped the term “Democrat Partyâ€� as a slur. *Marcy ...