Liberal Talk Radio

Matt Yglesias has a great post on the progressive movement in America vis a vis the Sinclair affair. It’s something I’ve thought about for a while: the Right Wing in America has always been better organized than the left, but the left has come back in a big way in the past few years. Key [...]

Through all of these long months since 9/11/01, we’ve been bombarded with grim visions of a war without end. Our “leader” insists that this current war will be a long slog. Failing to articulate a vision of victory, Bush frames this war as no less than the ultimate struggle between good and evil — truly [...]

The Sinclair Broadcasting Group, whom you may remember for their refusal to air the episode of Nightline where they read the names of the Iraq war dead, is back at it again. Sinclair reaches about 1/4 of American households, and their blatantly conservative agenda has been well documented by the Center for American Progress. Their [...]

What to make of what’s going on over at Deskjockeys? This venerable blog, a long-standing B&P supporter, has gone off the deep end in the last week! First, we have chief jockey Scott’s surprise endorsement of John Kerry (carefully guised as a not-so-subtle jab at B&P and our ilk), followed by a series of somewhat [...]

This audio clip of Democratic congressman Tim Ryan indicting the failures of the Bush administration is good stuff. The House was debating the draft bill, written by congressman Charlie Rangel in the run-up to the war and now being resurrected by the Republicans as an effor to quash draft rumors. Of course, that depends on [...]

Dick Cheney has left the building. Here’s my take on this report, and as I’ve said so many times: If the goal was to prevent Saddam from aquiring WMD, then why deep-six a program that was working – sanctions – in favor of an imperialist adventure? Truly, anyone who votes for Monkey/Dick must need immediate [...]

Vote “No” on I-83. As an outsider with some very recent experience in Seattle property development, Matski can tell you definitively that, yes, Seattle, you’re a beautiful place, but you’re f*cked in some serious ways. You’re just like many of my exes — that’s probably why I love you. Time to grow up and be [...]

Quick one. I sent this essay to my dad — a perpetual swing voter, in a swing state. Dad is one of those I’ve talked about recently who lost faith in the Democratic brand a while back — “welfare mothers with crack babies” and all that propaganda crap. Dad and I got into it recently [...]

Ah, John Kerry! Thank you, thank you, thank you for demonstrating the courage, leadership, and vision to the American people that our president so sorely lacks. If you didn’t see last night’s debate, check it out. While the President stumbled and fumbled his way to a defensive posture that my grandpa would be proud of [...]

Well, it’s getting late and I’ve had a few cocktails, but I’ll wade into the post-debate wrap-up. Everyone is convinced Kerry won, and I can’t disagree. But it seems a bit simplistic to play it like that. Bush refused to answer any question, instead returning to an attack on Kerry’s alleged flip-flops every time. He [...]