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PARTIAL TRANSCRIPT OF MSNBC COVERAGE IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING MCCAIN’S SPEECH AT THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION:
Chris Matthews: “This man has launched himself, I believe he will be ahead in the polls next week, they see a winner here, Americans like a winner, even though he, uh, had to do it the hard way.”
David Gregory: “He said, ‘Make no [...]
It should come as no surprise that John McCain’s running mate has an unmarried pregnant teenage daughter. In a campaign that is solely about narrative, with characters and scene-by-scene conflicts that are crafted only to arouse sympathy, anger and ultimately the biggest audiences, what better twist could there be than to include a teenage pregnancy [...]
I have been completely unable to write a single sentence for most of the summer, and I’ve barely been able to read anything anyone else has written either. The sheer inanity of the public discourse and the crushing disappointments that are the Democratic Nominee and the Democratic-led Congress, have dealt a serious blow to the [...]
Tim Russert died today, which is front page news on all the networks and papers. My condolences to his family for the loss of a loved one. For the rest of us, I can only hope that his removal will allow a real journalist to occupy the position that he wasted for so [...]
The New York Times is breathlessly covering the latest mysterious disappearance in the animal kingdom with an article entitled “Bats Perish and No One Knows Why.” Regular readers of the Times will have also noted that just two weeks ago, the Chinook Salmon Disappear[ed] Without a Trace as well. And of course, everyone [...]
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