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It isn't often that one can see two decades of history re-written in under ten minutes.  But such was the occasion on this morning's episode of Morning Joe. Max Blumenthal, author of "Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party," spent his time on the show demonstrating the combined power of cognitive dissonance, wanton ignorance, and a willingness to re-write historical…

Meyerson's complaint that there are two few manufacturing jobs is flawed.

News media covered dust-up over Joe Wilson, but not recent developments that support his claim.

What happens when you have James Carville prodding Larry King to ask a "tough" question of outspoken Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann? You get a glimpse of what is really driving the movement questioning the legitimacy of President Barack Obama's birthplace. On CNN's Oct. 7 "Larry King Live," a persistent Carville would not let it go - that Bachmann was a part of the so-called "birther"…

For the second time in four months, the National Organization for Women has come down on CBS "Late Show" host David Letterman, this time for his extra-marital affairs with staffers.Readers should remember NOW putting Letterman in its Media Hall of Shame back in June for his disgusting remarks about former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and her daughter.  Yet, despite their concern this incident…

What's gotten into New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman lately? In the last month the mustachioed globe-hopper has praised Communist China for getting things done and seen a looming assassination threat to Barack Obama based on tea party rallies and some stray "Birthers."His Wednesday column was on the three bombs allegedly hanging over all of our heads, two of them of the metaphorical…

From Polanski to Letterman to Obama, media help stars take no responsibility.

If it weren't so tragic, the Obama presidency would be hilarious.

There's nothing like a sex scandal to attract television viewers, and David Letterman's mea culpas concerning his extra-marital affairs with staffers have been a ratings bonanza for the "Late Show" host.  In fact, more people saw Letterman's bizarre apology to his wife, his staff, and former Governor Sarah Palin on Monday "than watched anything on NBC in prime-time" that night.As reported by the…

MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer on Wednesday angrily agreed with Democratic claims that the National Republican Congressional Committee made a sexist slam against Nancy Pelosi. Appearing on Morning Meeting, Brewer attacked the critique of the House Speaker as "not good" and a "poor move." [Audio available here.] After recounting how the GOP organization released a statement mocking the Democrat as "…

Adding to Brent Baker’s piece on how AP gushed over the Obamas’ taste in picking art for the White House, Washington Post art critic Blake Gopnik also tried to praise the "discerning eye" of the Obamas in Wednesday’s Style section, but Gopnik’s taste for artistic "affirmative action" came through very clearly: They seem to redress past imbalances in the nation's sense of its own art....But there…

Just moments from now, a resolution to remove Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) as chairman of the powerful Ways and Means committee will be taken to the House floor by Rep. John Carter (R-Tex.).At issue is Rangel's potential tax evasion associated with a rental property he owns in the Dominican Republic that was first reported by the New York Times on September 5, 2008.The following day, the Times…