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It should be noted that the Washington Monthly's demographic consists almost entirely of hardcore Democrats, so Marshall is preaching to the choir and thus had no need to write something that contains any statements close to reality. He's actually a smart guy and capable of much better than this; I hope he just wrote it to get a nice check from the magazine for only a few hours' work, and to perhaps get himself a few new sources inside the party. If he's actually started believing this stuff himself, then the RATS must have a far better brainwashing program than we ever suspected!

Anyway, read it and have a little laugh.

[dead]

The first few sentences of the second paragraph were so screamingly inaccurate I had to bail out early.

I'm done.

[Southack]

"We now know that as CEO, Cheney got snookered into a disastrous merger that has since sent Halliburton's stock price plummeting..."

Once I saw that lie, I quit reading the "article".

If the author won't write that it was a massive abuse by trial lawyers that brought a huge jury award against Haliburton (for asbestos liability of a small firm that Haliburton purchased) that sent HAL's stock price down the drain AFTER Cheney had left the company, then what good is listening to anything else that he/she/it has to say??

[parsifal]

What crap. Bush and GOP have got their problems, but Bill Clinton was a pitiful excuse as a manager. Never on time. Tried to micromanage everything. Was indecisive. Glib. All glitter and no substance. I remember when Clinton was running in 1992, Arkansas had a problem with state DHS and the excuse was "Gee, there are 8,500 employees. How can we manage a dept that size." Naturlich, the GOP was too stupid to piuck up on that and mention that there are places in gov't with 8500 people in ONE BUILDING. parsy.

[small voice in the wilderness]

Reporters understand a Democratic administration's flaws more readily because it's made up of people much like themselves. This is a large part of what made the media's relationship with the Clintonites so toxic.

You guys really should have read further; you would have seen this nugget. I must have missed the deadly mixture that belched forth from his memory bank. I could have sworn, and will to my last dying breath, that is was the media's relationship with the Clintonites that made the country SO toxic. They will never, never, realize just how close we came to the point of no return in this country. And how large a role they played in it.

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[speekinout]

I can't laugh at that. It's a bunch of lies that Liberals are all too ready to believe, and we already know how many Liberal votes there are in this country.
All of clintoon's "great accomplishments" were lies. The good economy was a lie, the stock market bubble was a lie, the "peace process" was a lie. That man must spray himself with truth-repellant every morning!
And still the Liberals believe.

[Cacique]

Bookmark for later read bump

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

MY GOSH they are in their own little world arent they

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Joshua Micah Marshall is a writer...Idiot... living in Washington, DC. Until March 2001 he was Washington Editor of the American Prospect. His articles on politics and culture have appeared in The American Prospect, Blueprint, The Columbia Journalism Review, Feed, The New Republic, The New York Post, The New York Times, Newsday, Salon, The San Francisco Chronicle, Slate, Talk and The Washington Monthly. He has appeared on Hannity and Colmes (FOX), Hardball (MSNBC), O'Reilly Factor (FOX), The Point (CNN), Reliable Sources (CNN), Rivera Live (CNBC), Washington Journal (C-SPAN) and talk radio shows across the United States. He is a graduate of Princeton University and is currently finishing his doctoral dissertation in Colonial American history at Brown University.

[Wondervixen]

In just a few paragraphs I got confused...Who were the confidence (con) men? The Gore camp? Clinton? Jeffords?

[Morgan's Raider]

In a Democratic White House, journalists identify with the administration, whose policies and beliefs tend to mirror their own.

Kinda says it all in a nutshell, doesn't it?

[doug from upland]

I had not heard of this clown before. He is a big time Clinton KoolAide drinker and hater of the vast right wing conspiracy.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Who cares about this chump....so he hates Bush and the Republicans what else are butt-kissing Clinton-loving morons are going to write about?

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afternoon bump