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Weekend Watchdog Wrap-Up
Fox News Sunday fails in the eyes of the Watchdog, going 0-for-3 in its interview of McCain adviser and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina. There were no questions about McCain's health care plan, no questions about Fiorina belief that offshoring American jobs...
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....
"Hard Questions" Needed on McCain's "Radical" Health Plan
After Time Magazine's Swampland blog slapped fellow journalists on the wrist for understating the "radical" nature of Sen. John McCain's health care plan, Trudy Lieberman at the Columbia Journalism Review is also struck at McCain's "radical" plan. Furthermore, she...
A Little Love for Big Oil
Oil companies report record profits. Gas is headed towards $4 a gallon. A caravan of more than 100 truckers rallied in Washington Monday to protest diesel fuel prices already over that mark. Across the country, Americans are getting pinched by rising fuel and food...
Time Magazine: McCain's "Radical" Health Care Plan
On Monday, Bernie Horn warned us that Sen. John McCain's health care plan is a "radical scheme." Yesterday, Roger Hickey set up a test for the media: "The reality is, McCain’s proposals would greatly increase the number of uninsured Americans, while also doing nothing...
Blogs React To McCain's Sick Health Care Plan
Since you probably didn't find much substantive analysis of McCain's health care plan in the traditional media, bloggers have taken up the task. And it isn't pretty. Obsidian Wings: It's easy to make health policy when you don't allow little things like facts to...
Jeremiah Wright: What (Else) Is Going On
Jeremiah Wright is everywhere this week -- and the media doesn't quite know what to make of it. Mostly, they're stuck so hard in the election horse-race narrative that they only question they can think to ask is: Does having Wright out there hurt Obama, or help him?...
No Choice At All
Today in Tampa, Sen. John McCain, as conservatives often do, tried to claim the "choice" mantle when describing his "health" care plan: You simply choose the insurance provider that suits you best ... The health plan you choose would be as good as any that an employer...
Way Past Time To Lock Up Guilt-By-Association Politics
Whether or not you are a supporter of Sen. Barack Obama, if you are a politician interested in having your substantive arguments be heard, or if you're a citizen that wants your government responding to your needs, you'll stand against ridiculous guilt-by-association...
My Father's Eyes
This weekend, we attended a local conference for LGBT parents and families, and I spoke on a panel about interracial couples and inter-cultural families. At some point, I found myself speaking less as a gay dad and more as a Black man raising two Black sons, and...
