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Moore To CNN: "I Ain't Ever Going Away"

On Saturday, Micheal Moore posted an open letter to CNN, blasting the network: "still no apology, no retraction, no correction of your glaring mistakes." Warning CNN that "I ain't ever going away," Moore pledged to "start looking into the veracity of other reports you...

Weekend Watchdog Wrap-Up

Surge advocates were not held to account on the Sunday shows yesterday, as called for by the Watchdog. On NBC's Meet The Press, Sen. Lindsey Graham was not reminded by Tim Russert of his December claim that the surge would bring stability and political compromise in...

Weekend Watchdog

Every Friday in our Weekend Watchdog feature, we post suggested questions for scheduled Sunday guests. You can add your own questions in the comment thread. We'll also include contact information for the shows, so we can let them know what their viewers want asked....

Arbitrary Justice, Hidden Truth

Purely by chance, I was in the middle of reading Katharine Graham’s autobiography when President Bush commuted I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby’s sentence. I had just reached the part where Graham, the publisher of The Washington Post during the Watergate era, was despairing...

A Climate Crisis Message That Works

Yesterday, MoveOn.org announced that former Sen. John Edwards won the straw poll following its Virtual Town Hall Meeting on the Climate Crisis (co-sponsored by Campaign for America's Future and others). And by a considerable margin. Edwards won 33% of the vote, while...

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