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Last week, Newsbusters brought you "Stumped," as April Ryan struggled to cite a single foreign policy success by her super-fave, President Obama. In the best Hollywood tradition, this morning we bring you a sequel--Stumped II: Syria! On today's Morning Joe, lugubrious lefty Eric Alterman of The Nation mag was stumped when Joe Scarborough asked him what the US should do about Syria. After humming, hawing and a couple of false starts, Alterman asked how much time they had. Right, as if if only he had more time to expand on the nothing he had to say. Shades of that SNL...

Sure, your heart is in that lovely liberal place. Even so, you'd like to get away from the "Occupy" hoi-poloi soiling the streets. No problem! Just join the luxury-liner liberals of The Nation magazine on their upcoming cruise--assuming you have up several thousand bucks [alcohol not included] for you and the lefty you love to share a cabin! Was watching MSNBC last night, when up popped a Nation commercial. After the standard stuff ragging on the "toxic nonsense from the right," suddenly a Caribbean cruise commercial broke out. Yes, you can sail with Katrina vanden Heuvel, Van Jones and other...

It's good to see the modern Left still maintains the intellectual dexterity it exhibited when it hewed to the ever-changing Stalinist party line in the 1930s. On MSNBC's The Ed Show, Nation magazine editor Katrina vanden Heuvel took the bold position that Senate Democrats must "bust the filibuster," ending the right of the minority party to stall important legislation -- a position totally at odds with that of...Katrina vanden Heuvel. Katrina told Ed: We need the president to take a stand that is bold, honest, courageous, clear, forceful, unequivocal, to tell those senators on the Democratic side they have...

by Mark Finkelstein August 2, 2006 - 09:47 A wave of New Testament fever seems to be gripping liberal media types. As reported here, during a recent Good Morning America, Chris Cuomo noted that the Gospel of John denotes Qana as the place where Jesus turned water into wine. Who would have thought that Adam Shatz - of the far-left Nation magazine - would be a New Testament maven? But, saints alive, he leads his op-ed in today's LA Times with the very same story. What could account for this new-found interest in the New Testament? You don't suppose it...

by Mark Finkelstein June 15, 2006 I'd call Jim Pinkerton's Newsday column - 'Movimiento' Aims to Take Back America - today's must-read. Pinkerton reports on his brief foray inside the belly of the 'immigrant rights' beast. He chillingly reports that far from an echo of the black civil rights movement of the '60s based on non-violence, it's a radical 'movimiento' animated by dreams of 'reconquista.' Pinkerton explains that earlier this week he attended a panel discussion entitled "The New Immigrants Movement," part of a "Take Back America" conference convened in Washington, D.C., by the left-wing Campaign for America's Future. Writes...

The left-leaning Nation magazine laid out a case for impeaching President Bush. In an article in the latest issue of the magazine, Elizabeth Holtzman listed the “high crimes and misdemeanors” that form the foundation of the case. “The crimes of George Bush are legion,” wrote Holtzman. “He has stolen two elections, deposed the legitimate governments of two foreign nations, violated the privacy of international terrorists, appointed conservative judges, repeatedly used bad grammar, and has a smirking face we just can’t stand.” A survey of Nation subscribers showed a majority favor impeaching the president. “There is no way Bush can stand...

by Mark Finkelstein December 22, 2005 - 07:50 Who would have thought the peaceful Quakers would be used as a spearhead? Yet ironically, in the debate over national security and surveillance, liberals are attempting to beat the Quakers' plowshares into swords. This morning's Today show offered a prime example. In to debate was elegant lefty Katrina vanden Heuvel of The Nation and that most unreliable of Bush defenders, Pat Buchanan. Credit Katie for at least identifying The Nation as a 'liberal' magazine. Needless to say she labeled Buchanan "conservative." And in fairness, Couric hit vanden Heuvel with a tough first...

column left by Robert ScheerFree Rush Limbaugh! [posted online on October 14, 2003] Sorry to betray such a low level of lust for revenge, but as a card-carrying member of the American Civil Liberties Union, I am duty-bound to defend the rights of even those I loathe. Not that Limbaugh, the talk-show bully, has been charged with a crime or sentenced to jail time. However, as an admitted addict who allegedly purchased drugs illegally, his freedom, were he an ordinary guy on the street, would be very much in jeopardy. In Florida, where Limbaugh allegedly committed his felony, the...