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MEDIA CRITTERS WATCH— January 19, 2010 'Hardball' & Dumbed-Down US Politics By Robert Parry From Consortium News

This past week, grappling with the twin top stories of Haiti's earthquake tragedy and the Massachusetts Senate race, MSNBC's Chris Matthews personified the strange mix of puffed-up self-importance and total lack of self-awareness that has come to define America's media punditocracy. During "Hardball" programs of recent days, Matthews has ...

There is no home for progressives in the Democratic Party. January 19, 2010 Mass. Mayhem: The Democrats' Debacle and the Perfect Moment for Party Progressives By Dave Lindorff By Dave Lindorff The media punditry, corn-fed on conventional wisdom, are all atwitter about Tuesday's Democratic debacle in Massachusetts, saying the trouncing of the Democratic candidate for the late Sen. Edward Kennedy's seat, state Attorney General Martha ...

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The American ruling class 6 February 2009 On Wednesday President Barack Obama announced measures that purport to restrict executive compensation to $500,000 at financial institutions receiving billions in government assistance. The figure does not include stock options, which could be redeemed after financial firms pay back loans from the federal government. Nor does it apply to the original recipients of tens of billions in TARP ...

Fabricated fears will end up eroding all that's left of our real liberties. http://www.countercurrents.org/roberts120110.htm 12 January, 2010 Insouciant Americans By Paul Craig Roberts The Underwear Bomber case indicates that whoever is behind these bomb scares is laughing at our gullibility. How realistic is it that al-Qaida, an organization that allegedly pulled off the most fantastic terror attack in world history, would in these days of ...

SPECIAL— "Obama, after using Clinton's former chief of staff John Podesta to fill his administration with Clinton administration DLC DINOs, has followed in Clinton's footsteps, failing to prosecute a former president Bush for the horrific crimes he committed." Democratic Presidential Bush Enablers Rehabilitate Criminal Bush By Rob Kall, Editor, OpedNews Obama and Clinton, book-ending the war and constitutional criminal Bush, giving him respectability, even honor ...