Category Archives: Huffington Post

Ratf**kers, Republicans, and Bin Laden

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Emilia1956

Share the post “Ratf**kers, Republicans, and Bin Laden”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail Question: Does anybody see anything wrong with this political advert? Because I don’t. First, it’s politics and it’s an election year. Of course, a President trying for re-election is going to harp … Continue reading →

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Jonathan Chait Puts Bag Over Head, HuffPo Lights It On Fire

Posted on March 21, 2012 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Jonathan Chait Puts Bag Over Head, HuffPo Lights It On Fire”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail Jonathan Chait is not normally given to hyperbole. But it is telling that his New York Magazine essay a few weeks ago on the sources of … Continue reading →

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Archives: Cadillac Plans, Mandates, and the Proletariat

Posted on May 30, 2011 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Archives: Cadillac Plans, Mandates, and the Proletariat”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailThis appeared at Huffington Post on January 3rd, 2010. Editors let it die in obscurity while promoting screeds about the health care bill to the front page; the latter were poorly-argued, … Continue reading →

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Cana-DUH

Posted on May 27, 2011 by MagicLoveHose

Share the post “Cana-DUH”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail By Magic Love Hose One of the things about living in Canada is that you get nearly all US media and all Canadian media as well, so you can look at everything the US media culture … Continue reading →

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Archives: Why Hasn’t There Been a Progressive March on DC?

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Archives: Why Hasn’t There Been a Progressive March on DC?”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailThis appeared at Huffington Post on December 20, 2009. I’ve had my fill of gate-crashers whining about false dialectics. Whether we like it or not, last November was … Continue reading →

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Archives: The Unnatural History of Nontroversy

Posted on May 26, 2011 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Archives: The Unnatural History of Nontroversy”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailThis originally appeared at Huffington Post on December 10, 2009. I am still pondering the reaction I got after my most recent HuffPost piece, Climategate and the Life-Cycle of Nontroversy. The story … Continue reading →

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Archives: Climategate and the Life-Cycle of Nontroversy

Posted on May 25, 2011 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Archives: Climategate and the Life-Cycle of Nontroversy”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailThis originally appeared at Huffington Post on 4 December 2009. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. — Macbeth Nontroversy feeds on empty, … Continue reading →

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Archives: Embarrassed, Jeff Sessions Makes Stupid Excuses

Posted on May 24, 2011 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Archives: Embarrassed, Jeff Sessions Makes Stupid Excuses”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailResuming Operation HuffPoof! This post appeared 11-16-2009 at Arianna’s place. Republican senators are somehow surprised by negative publicity over their vote endorsing Halliburton’s alleged gang rape cover-up. Both of my senators … Continue reading →

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With a Puff, Huffington Posts Go Poof

Posted on May 23, 2011 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “With a Puff, Huffington Posts Go Poof”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailIf you click here, you’ll see that nothing remains of the 39 articles I’ve written for Arianna Huffington. Not a title, sentence, or tag is left. My author bio now reads: … Continue reading →

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Archives: Palin-Bachmann Syndrome™

Posted on April 7, 2011 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Archives: Palin-Bachmann Syndrome™”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailThis appeared 11-12-2009 at Huffington Post. The strange nexus of right-wing Christian identity politics and beauty pageants has produced Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, and Carrie Prejean. What is it about their world that turns toxic … Continue reading →

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Archives: The Media Stovepipe

Posted on April 6, 2011 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Archives: The Media Stovepipe”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailThis appeared at HuffPo on 9 November 2009. We’ve seen this pattern before. A non-sourced, anonymous story enters the right-wing blogosphere and gets picked up by mainstream media, allowing the right to stovepipe their … Continue reading →

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