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Playing on racial fears
Let’s see how many media outlets report on the speaker who angrily referred to President Obama as “Barack Hussein” (not even the typical “Barack Hussein Obama”) at this morning’s tea-party rally on the...
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Poll illuminates tea-partiers’ views on race
Thanks to Greg Mitchell’s Twitter feed, I know far more about the New York Times/CBS News poll of tea-party supporters than I would have if I’d relied solely on the Times’ polite take. (The Times does...
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The politics of white backlash
In my latest for the Guardian, I take a look at the tea party, the Republicans and the politics of white backlash. Thursday update: Glenn Beck had some fun with my Guardian column yesterday on Fox...
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Who needs the T-word when you’ve got the H-word?
Mitch McConnell Thanks to intemperate remarks by pundits such as Tom Friedman and Joe Nocera, and to an anonymously sourced item in Politico about Vice President Joe Biden, liberals have been on the...
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How Kennedy and Obama are alike, for good and for ill
Kennedy with Nikita Khrushchev in 1961 I’m most of the way through Robert Caro’s “The Passage of Power,” the latest in his series of Lyndon Johnson biographies. And I’ve been struck by his description...
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Tierney, Tisei and a defense of party-line voting
John Tierney We all live in Nate Silver’s world, so there were no real surprises on Election Day. Except one: Republican congressional candidate Richard Tisei’s failure to topple U.S. Rep. John...
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The missing context in the IRS scandal
Here’s an assignment for some enterprising journalist: Try to find out how many conservative 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) groups were formed in, say, 2009 through 2011 and compare that to the number of...
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How the IRS is killing nonprofit media
This article appeared earlier at The Huffington Post. Outrage over the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of Tea Party and other right-wing groups continues to boil — yet a potentially more...
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How the Post explained Cantor’s defeat before it happened
Robert Costa (left) and Ralph Hallow of The Washington Times at the CPAC 2013 conference. Published previously at WGBHNews.org. The political press today is engorged with analysis that attempts to...
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New York Times sanitizes Bachmann on immigration
Michele Bachmann The New York Times today sanitizes U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minnesota, in a story on immigration. Times reporter Jonathan Weisman writes that the Republican Party is starting to...
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