BRAZENLY LIBERAL — a fact-based initiative

What’s all the sturm und drang? Have half the liberal bloggers - and more than one rightwingblognut - on the internet lost their minds? Does anyone with an IQ over 90 look at this cover and think for a nanosecond the New Yorker is taking a cheap shot at Barack and Michelle Obama? [...]

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This morning on the CBS Early Show, anchors from the three networks came together to promote a transnetwork effort to raise money to fight cancer.
As the segment came to a close, they briefly discussed Scotty McClellan’s tasty new book book and his assertion that the journalists were complicit in the quashing of inconvenient information in [...]

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Dirty words are in the news this week. Why? Isn’t there a war or something to write about?
First up: The Decider
“See the irony is what they need to do is get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this shit and it’s over.”
Virtually every news outlet fell all over itself reporting [...]

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on a farm outside Sven’s Finger, Minnesota.
Podfisk
Gotta be something like lutefisk, no? Apparently not.
Living out in the wilds of Shit-To-Do, Illinois, ourselves, we are limited to dialup service and can’t verify for ourselves that it is

a podcast version of a fisking. A fisking - a term derived from the many times bloggers have dissected [...]

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Sometimes patriotism means supporting the government. Sometimes it means defending the country against those who would destroy it during their brief tenure.
In refusing to be bullied into silence, Wired has shown true patriotism.
A file detailing aspects of AT&T’s alleged participation in the National Security Agency’s warrantless domestic wiretap operation is sitting in a San [...]

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Last week, we posted a blog linking to this article at Truthout. Karl Rove had been indicted, they said, and had 24 hours to get his affairs in order before an announcement was made.
Since then, there has been a lot of debate around the blogosphere as to the veracity of this story. As [...]

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How conservative is the Chicago Tribune? Well, the last Democrat they endorsed for President was Horace Greeley in 1872. We don’t know if it was the mortification of losing to the scandalous Ulysses S. Grant or what, but the only Democrat who has gained their presidential endorsement in the intervening 134 years was [...]

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Of course, the fact is the man was damn funny. Not only that, he displayed brass ones so big you have to wonder how he manages to sit down.
Stephen Colbert’s performance at the White House Correspondents Dinner nine days ago has already created a debate over politics, the press and humor. Now, a commercial [...]

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Tony Snow, the presumptive heir to Scotty McClellan’s job is a man in love with the sound of his own voice. And apparently, too, with the sound of his keyboard clacking away. He’s been quite the prolific little poster on rightwingnut sites like Freak Republic and TownDrunkHall.
Now it’s going to come back to [...]

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Yes, because this is such a serious news organization. hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If Mark Suppelsa, Robin Robinson and the rest of the folks who covered Tuesday’s primary on WFLD-Channel 32 looked a bit more colorful than usual last night, that was no accident.Believe it or not, the news anchors and reporters at the Fox-owned station were ordered by [...]

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She grills him. He implodes. Stuttering, stammering, dodging the question, going off on a tangent. It’s a sad thing when an 85 year old woman has more balls than the President of the United States.
NEW YORK Unlike several of his predecessors, going back decades, President Bush has largely avoided calling on veteran reporter [...]

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I accidentally watched Chris Matthews yesterday. Ok, more lazily than accidentally. To reach the remote, I would have had to sit up and move to the other end of the sofa.
And what to my wondering eyes should appear
but a non-suckup Chris twisting GOP ear!
So now we know what it takes to make him [...]

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