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Embarrassed By Beck? | Andrew Sullivan

Compared with Sean Hannity, for example, Beck seems to me to be a relative innocent. Hannity is a cynical liar and cool propagandist. You can trust nothing he says and although I find it hard to diagnose the motives behind Beck’s enthusiasms (money? fame? emotional instability? misplaced patriotism?), he is, compared with Hannity, a model of genuineness.

I can imagine that there are people on Fox that are genuine and believe that they are in the news business and they inform their audiences in an honest way.

I can not imagine that Beck is such a person.

The fact the some people at Fox can see this makes me hopeful.

Baba-bedbugs or Bababooeybugs?

The office where shock jock Howard Stern airs his show has joined the ever-growing list of New York City buildings hit by bedbugs.

Italian Town Has Wind at Its Back

More than 800 Italian communities now make more energy than they use because of the recent addition of renewable energy plants

It’s sad when Italy’s government is better able to create a functional energy policy than the US. The Italian government is less incompetent than ours.

Why liberals will be glad to see Rahm Emanuel go. – By David Weigel – Slate Magazine

Emanuel’s arrival at the White House was, for progressives, an original sin. It was compounded by the way he made sure that Dean would stay outside of the White House. “There was never any intention to hire Dean,” says one Democrat who talked to Berman, “and in fact there was a great deal of satisfaction in dissing him.” That, according to the professional left, just proved what they thought about Emanuel. He thought the left was so overzealous and useless that he relished in ignoring it. Proving the left wrong was synonymous with having the right policy.

Both the GOP and the Dems are afraid of their bases. How they react to those fears is what distinguishes the policy arms of the parties.

The Tea Kettle Movement – NYTimes.com

And how can you take seriously a movement that sat largely silent while the Bush administration launched two wars and a new entitlement, Medicare prescription drugs — while cutting taxes — but is now, suddenly, mad as hell about the deficit and won’t take it anymore from President Obama

Colbert, on the Republican “Pledge To America”

Colbert, on the Republican “Pledge To America”: “Yes, everything’s going to be different – except anything.” http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Talking-Points-Memo/~3/WEcM8_ph-34/plus_ca_change_1.php

Who You Gonna Believe?

Suppose you had spent the last five years actually believing what you read from the usual suspects the WSJ opinion pages, National Review, right-wing economists, etc.. Heres what would have happened: In 2006 you would have believed that there was no housing bubble. In 2007 you would have believed that the troubles of subprime… Continue reading Who You Gonna Believe?

spookypeople » Friday Oct 29th is Don’t Pray for Hitchens Day

I’m declaring Friday Oct 29th to be Don’t Pray for Hitchens Day. I am calling on non-believers and believers alike to not pray for him.

Tea Party or Whiskey Rebellion?

The movement chose the wrong historical precedent when it selected the Boston Tea Party of 1773, a genuinely revolutionary event, as its symbol. Todays Tea Party movement is much more like the misguided and ill-fated Whiskey Rebellion of the early 1790s, during the first term of Americas first president, George Washington. … When Congress in… Continue reading Tea Party or Whiskey Rebellion?

Tea Party Cylons?

A reader writes: The Tea Partiers were created by Republicans. They devolved. They rebelled. They look and feel like Republicans. There are many copies. And they have a plan. (Maybe) From Quote For The Day Too good not to share