a screaming headline on drudge and a new zogby poll showing mccain pulling ahead of obama by five points means one thing only media meltdown. barring an obama vp pick this poll is certain to lead tonight on chris matthews cnn and the rest of cable news even though its just one single data point that for now contradicts other polls and even though zogbys methods and accuracy are controversial at a...
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theres nothing better to grab a nations attention than a good oldfashioned sex story. it seems every few months politician weve never heard of and some we have has his personal indiscretions exposed across the national media. when it comes to covering sex scandals the press is so consumed about coming to the party too soon under the guise of concerns about privacy or propriety that they never ...
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ann althouse links to a late december edition of bloggingheads.tv featuring mickey kaus discussing this strange story circling john edwards much to the chagrin of an extremely skeptical robert wright. as ann notes the only thing interesting to me about the story at this point is how mickey kaus will act when he gets back on bloggingheads. for a more recent kausian take on the story in its late u...
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the undernews finally floats over the top as abc news reports edwards admits to sexual affair lied as presidential candidate lionel hutz a liar say it aint so homerjohn edwards repeatedly lied during his presidential campaign about an extramarital affair with a novice filmmaker the former senator admitted to abc news today. in an interview for broadcast tonight on nightline edwards told abc news...
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mickey kauss ongoing victory lap takes him to the virtual studios of pjm political this week. trackback 0......
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in that orwellian l.a. times sense of the word of course. last night when i was wading through background material about john edwards for my interview today with mickey kaus for this weeks pjm political on xm satellite radio i noticed something odd about edwards wikipedia profiletheres no mention of a rather highprofile scandal thats orbiting directly above him which seems pretty odd wikipedia pa...
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roger l. simonjohn edwardshe of constructing a 28000 square foot home while preaching about the two americas and remonstrating about the environmentis one of the most reprehensible schmucks to appear on the american political scene in some time. and thats saying something. that he played this game while his wife had cancer makes it contemptible beyond words. now we know why he was always primping ...
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a movie news and reviews website named latino review has a pretty interesting lead article on the front page right now titled why both variety and the hollywood reporter totally suck heres an extended excerpt although there is much more in the full piece a little over a week ago on may 14 2008 we exclusively broke the news that jason reitman the director of juno was adapting the book up in the ai...
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by kathy g. its ironic that this james surowiecki piece about toyotas success came out this week given the fact that the the latest financial report from toyota via megan mcardle shows a substantial decline in profits. the decline is being blamed on a stronger yen and soaring rawmaterials costs. truck sales in the u.s. have also been down. whatever problems toyota is currently having surowieck...
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this piece of clear thinking from marc andreessen is currently making the rounds fueled by its own naked good sense and links from the kind of entrepreneurial new media successes instapundit kausfiles the articles ideas foreshadow . dependin g on their industry im sure others here at the narrowest tip of the long tail who like me are also chatting it up are saying substitute architecture for holly...
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