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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
With apologies to Kevin Drum, who was pretty damn clever to try to name that phenomenon after himself, I still prefer the term "nutpicking" for boosting anonymous comments up to the level of "the views of the left".
As to Howie Kurtz, there is no bigger "useful idiot" in the media today. He is utterly incapable of finding the important point of any story he covers. Also, he's the right wing's dream columnist, in that he repeats every smear job the put forward with such neutral and brief commentary that he carries water for people even when claiming their attacks aren't exactly fair, per se.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
