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This humble, and somewhat obscure blog, if known, might not always be a favorite of Maureen Dowd’s. Here’s a very recent, but we think fair, example.
Today, Dowd wrote a column in the NY Times very space limited op ed pages, essentially saying that 3d movies are cool, or might be cool, or that people [...]

We’re all for keeping government small where appropriate, which is, ideally, most places.
But we’re not all for the blatant pattern of subjective misrepresentation that goes on, virtually unchecked, all over the Internet — including by sites that are routinely, well, cited.
In this Post, a Biggovernment.com writer starts blatantly spinning in the second sentence (emphasis added):
…basis [...]

“When Democrats Attack,” according to the dictionary of far right wing blogging, is whenever they open their mouths, and say something that the far right wing does not like.
Obama makes a point about the Supreme Court. A good point, too, since it will be impossible to disentangle the pure nationality of many large [...]

Fox, most trusted name in news, largely because it’s ridiculously trusted by ideological conservatives.
It couldn’t possibly be because this heavily ideological “news” station, with the thinnest of obscuring veneers of “fair and balanced” over its persistent and cleverly veiled advocacy, tells some people what they want to hear (while convincing them of how fair and balanced they [...]

Dowd seemingly loves stereotypes, hypocrisy, and playing right into the worse kind of media “false balance” creation.  Here is an example where Dowd chastises Republican “caricatures” of Hillary Clinton (mean, and unfair ones, too) and then later engages in similar caricatures herself, in the exact same column:
Notice the irony:
The Alaskan [Palin] who shot to stardom a year [...]

Timothy Egan, in a NY Times column online:
Of course, Martha Coakley, the Democrat who lost in a state where only 13 percent of voters identified as Republicans, ran a campaign that should be a mandatory lesson for all her supporters in Cambridge.
Among other great sins, she belittled the retail politics of her opponent, who stood [...]

…as we just did in the previous post, one Democrat who is absolutely not a Donkey is Rep. Alay Grayson.  Whether we agree (sometimes) or disagree (other times), Grayson takes control of the conversation, and frames as well as his political opponents do — something that can not be said for most Democrats.
Here is a [...]

Wang, from Brussels, asks:
One final point: why does the “Green Room” never give space to articles from “global warming sceptics”? Where is the platform for these views on the BBC? The odd reader’s comment sneaked at the bottom of the usual “warmist” article is not enough. Wang, brussels, belgium
Exactly.
And another question [...]

Six minutes to midnight refers to the time on the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ “doomsday clock.”
If six minutes to midnight sounds bad, consider that until just recently, it was five minutes to midnight.
The scientist give two reasons for this.  One seems reasonable, the other does not.
The first has to do with efforts to reduce [...]

Whether or not one agrees with his position on health care reform, Alan Grayson made a heck of a case on the floor of the House yesterday; He also played Republican games with Republicans, by pointing out a Harvard Study that supports the idea that over 40,000 Americans die each year becuase of lack of [...]