Posts Tagged ‘ Columnists ’

The publisher of the Advocate and Out magazines--Here Media--has sent a letter threatening legal action to a former employee of its skin magazines for making negative comments about the company on his Facebook page.
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I'm afraid I must agree with the learned, now-facially hirsute Jon Stewart: Nothing President Obama does will ever make his critics happy. In an appearance on The View, President Obama spoke with rare honesty about the issue of race, but got "Breitbarted" for his trouble. The media have gone into...
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Retailers Target and Best Buy are under fire from gay rights groups, who are organizing boycotts over both companies' corporate donations to support Republican Minnesota gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer, who they say is virulently anti-gay. The donations of $150,000 and $100,000, respectively, were made possible by the Supreme Court's hotly debated...
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After initial reporting on US diplomat Richard LeBaron's letter to the Scottish government regarding the release of convicted Pan-Am Flight 103 bomber Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi turned out to be utterly false, a fallback criticism emerged. Since administration opponents could no longer claim they favored al-Megrahi's release, they say the administration shouldn't have given the...
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Former Governor Howard Dean drew a characteristic rebuke from Fox News' Michael Clemente when he accused the network of "absolutely racist" coverage of the Shirley Sherrod story. Clemente called Dean a "failed candidate" who "blame(s) Fox for almost anything."Speaking to Dylan Ratigan fill-in and Young Turks...
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Shortly after my interview with New Black Panther Chairman Malik Zulu Shabazz, during which I confronted him about a number of inflammatory statements by NBPP members, a video surfaced of Shabazz praising Osama bin Laden. I never got the chance, then, to ask him about it, but Alan Colmes remedied that situation...
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The Washington Post may be ignoring Salon's stories on the Arlington Cemetery mismanagement saga, but they will have a hard time ignoring Joan Walsh who launched a Twitter attack last night to air her grievances over WaPo's alleged snub.
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Defying the advice that it's better to look for a job while employed, David Weigel is adding Slate to his growing list of jobs after resigning from the Washington Post at the beginning of the Journolist scandal.

In addition to his already announced work for MSNBC, Weigel is now under a one-year...
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A video of Tennessee gubernatorial hopeful Rod Ramsey has gotten him into a bit of trouble. The video was shows Ramsey being asked by a man how he will defend constituents from the “threat that’s invading our country from the Muslims.” Ramsey then calmly looks the man in the face and tells him...
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Glynnis MacNicol noted that yesterday's daily Daily Caller Journolist leak deviated from previous entries, in that it was simply a "dump" of emails on the subject of Trig Palin, with no accompanying editorial content. While the posting drew a sharp rebuke from Sarah Palin, it made me wonder why Daily Caller...
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