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Filed at 6:10 pm, Thursday January 28th 2010
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
Major hat tip to Oliver Willis.
Does the Huffington Post have no editorial guidelines?
Filed at 3:02 pm, Sunday January 24th 2010
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
For an article about childhood obesity and how the first lady is stepping up to urge mayors across the country to combat it in their communities, the Huffington Post gives this us headline:
Pathetic.
What Scott Brown’s win in Massachusetts means for health care reform
Filed at 8:34 pm, Tuesday January 19th 2010
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
Hopefully little or nothing.
The AP just called the special election in Massachusetts about a minute ago and Coakley (D) has just conceded. Well, that was pathetic, no matter what the final tally turns out to be. Unbelievably pathetic. A Republican won Ted Kennedy’s seat in the bluest state in the country by campaigning against the […]
Yep, that pretty much sums it up.
Filed at 6:19 pm, Tuesday January 19th 2010
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
Jon Stewart brings it. Nothing much more to say here.
Really, MoveOn.org? Really?
Filed at 6:01 pm, Thursday January 14th 2010
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
So, with as many as 50,000 people dead in Haiti right now due to a terrible natural disaster the scope of which is very rare, MoveOn.org sent out this very important message to its members:
To be fair, a day later they sent out another, much shorter email with links to charities to donate to. But […]
Established fact: Republicans have bad memories
Filed at 8:50 pm, Saturday January 09th 2010
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
You would think that of all people, Rudy “a noun, a verb and 9/11” Giuliani would not make a statement as stupid as this one.
The HuffPost also helpfully recounts:
“Um, really?” wrote ABC News reporter Rick Klein on Twitter. Later he added, “even if Rudy MEANT to say post-9/11, what makes this incident different than [shoe […]
Our press is stupid, stupid, stupid when it comes to reporting on Iran
Filed at 1:40 pm, Friday January 01st 2010
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
Unfortunately, bad reporting doesn’t take a vacation even when most people do. The Wall Street Journal reports:
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry has filed a formal request to visit Iran, according to the Iranian-based Fars News Agency.
A spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry confirmed the request today. “Since it [the request] is for a […]
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