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Getting a little help from some creative cropping. You know that it has to be difficult to get good, front page photos to run for your newspaper when about every sign and banner carries a "F*ck Bush" or some other...

The last few songs I've downloaded on iTunes: Heard It In a Love Song -- The Marshall Tucker Band. Black Water -- The Doobie Brothers. Sloop John B -- The Beach Boys. A Pirate Looks at Forty -- Jack Johnson,...

The Rapid City Journal has a brief piece by Celeste Calvitto on Johnson's decision to support John Roberts.The individual he (Roberts) is going to replace was a very conservative member of the court, so his confirmation does not change the...

From TBND blog:This has to make Senator Conrad's collar a bit tight. Survey USA has released a new surveyout on the approval rating of all 49 governor's and the one governator.John Hoeven is NOW tied for the most popular governor...

Sheehan Arrested During Anti-War Protest

Cindy Sheehan, the California mother who became a leader of the anti-war movement after her son died in Iraq, was arrested Monday along with hundreds of others protesting outside the White House.

Obviously an example of the NYT's "news that's fit to print". Hey - she had to do SOMETHING to get back on the MSM front pages after the hurricanes!

The whole Sheehan thing has gone beyond outrageousness, passed absurdity, and has now entered the realm of Cartoonville.

F.H.T.E. On second thought, NO! Just T.E.

UPDATE:
This coverage in the D.C. Times seems to offer some confirmation - if - as noted in the piece - C.S. is actually crying around on the Kos site.

Media, blushing, takes a second look at Katrina

First was the priceless moment when General Honore told the assembled press "You're stuck on stupid!".

Later on, inaccuracy, sensationalism, and in effect rumor-mongering has been noted to be endemic in the coverage of the gulf coast hurricanes.

Several media organizations have examined, sometimes harshly, the work of newspapers and particularly cable-TV news networks. The New Orleans Times-Picayune published a lengthy account Monday of errors, misrepresentations and wildly exaggerated claims of murder, rape and abuse of children at the New Orleans Superdome. The newspaper cited publication of "scores of myths about the dome and Convention Center treated as fact by evacuees, the media and even some of New Orleans' top officials."

Meanwhile, what's that bit again about the alternative media such as the blogosphere not having responsible editorial and organizational control to insure factual reportage? Like the cases with the NYT reporters fabricating stories, and the TV networks doing the same, when not reporting forged information as fact, apparently they regard themselves as having transcended the standards they would impose on others.

A slight issue with hypocrisy here? Shocking behavior by elements of the (self)esteemed 4th estate!

Larry Sabato handicaps next year's Senate and gubernatorial races. I sniff a good Democratic year coming, but I still put the Democrat's chanced of reclaiming the Senate below 50%. Hat Tip to No Left Turns....

John Thune is being nominated to chair the NRSC, which is a key Senate leadership position:Celeste Calvitto: Pollster says Thune should lead GOP committee Will Sen. John Thune be the next chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee? He ought...

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