After Jobs Speech, We Ask—Yet Again—’Where’s This Obama Been?’ After Jobs Speech, We Ask—Yet Again—’Where’s This Obama Been?’
We keep asking the same question about the president as if for the first time, in a sort of liberal’s version of 50 First Dates.
Sep 12, 2011 / Leslie Savan
Jon Stewart Does Obama’s Job for Him Jon Stewart Does Obama’s Job for Him
Dismantling the right’s “class warfare” hysteria, Jon Stewart dares to speak the “p” word.
Aug 19, 2011 / Leslie Savan
More on the Tea Party Downgrade’s Default-Deniers More on the Tea Party Downgrade’s Default-Deniers
TPM keeps tabs on “Who’s Really Responsible for U.S. Debt Downgrade.”
Aug 12, 2011 / Leslie Savan
Yes We Can Keep Repeating the Buzz Phrase ‘Tea Party Downgrade’! Yes We Can Keep Repeating the Buzz Phrase ‘Tea Party Downgrade’!
Now that Democrats have finally found a killer catchphrase, will they be afraid to use it?
Aug 11, 2011 / Leslie Savan
The Media Deficit: MSM Ignores Debt Deal’s Effect on Real People The Media Deficit: MSM Ignores Debt Deal’s Effect on Real People
By letting the GOP set the terms of the debate (just like in Iraq!), Beltway media can overlook reality.
Aug 4, 2011 / Leslie Savan
Tiny Tea Party Rally vs. Large Progressive Rally: Which Gets More Beltway Ink? Tiny Tea Party Rally vs. Large Progressive Rally: Which Gets More Beltway Ink?
Corporate media help manufacture the Tea Party’s power every bit as much as the tea party manufactured our current debt “crisis.”
Jul 29, 2011 / Leslie Savan
Murdoch’s First-Responder Rescue Hero Wasn’t ‘Tiger Wife’ Wendi Murdoch’s First-Responder Rescue Hero Wasn’t ‘Tiger Wife’ Wendi
It was a whole other person, but such details don’t fit the narrative.
Jul 22, 2011 / Leslie Savan
Really?! Fox News’s ‘Journalistic Transgressions Are Entirely Legal’? Really?! Fox News’s ‘Journalistic Transgressions Are Entirely Legal’?
NY Mag writer preemptively gives Ailes & Company a clean legal bill of health.
Jul 15, 2011 / Leslie Savan
Has Roger Ailes Hacked American Phones for Fox News? Has Roger Ailes Hacked American Phones for Fox News?
An incident from the ’90s suggests that possibility.
Jul 13, 2011 / Leslie Savan
Mark Halperin Gets the Weiner Treatment Mark Halperin Gets the Weiner Treatment
The suspension of the Morning Joe regular for slurring Obama only hints at political media’s hackery.
Jul 1, 2011 / Leslie Savan