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April 20, 2008

American politics was rough 200 years ago.

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: April 20, 2008 · Comments (6)

This according to Mary McNamara LA Times television critic. George Washington so quickly tired of the infighting among his Cabinet and vagaries of public opinion that he stepped down from the presidency after a single term.Those of us who don't get our history from television melodramas, know that President Washington... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.8/5 (10 votes cast)

May 4, 2007

LA Times Writes (Stupid) Smear Piece on Fred Thompson

Posted by Kim Priestap · Published: May 4, 2007 · Comments (41)

Nineteen years ago, Fred Thompson played a really bad guy on a made-for-TV movie, and Tina Daunt at the LA Times is trying to smear him with it. This is really pathetic: Ronald Reagan became president even though he worked with chimps in B movies. Arnold Schwarzenegger played a murderous... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (11 votes cast)

June 27, 2006

The LA Times' McManus and Baquet Need to Get Their Stories Straight

Posted by Kim Priestap · Published: June 27, 2006 · Comments (9)

The LA Times' editors are now on the defense trying to explain why they published their article on the classified terrorist finance records program. Yesterday Doyle McManus appeared on Hugh Hewitt's radio show for an interview and Dean Baquet published his own defense today. There's one problem: their explanations don't... [Full Story]

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December 29, 2005

LA Times Burned By Fake Press Release

Posted by Kevin · Published: December 29, 2005 · Comments (8)

Newspapers are filled with carpal-tunneled wretches, overworked and underpaid, who suffer near-pathological allegiance to getting it right. * Tuesday's cover story in The Los Angeles Times, by Times Staff Writer Julie Cart, on the on the plight of federally protected Canadian gray wolves contains a bombshell quote from Wyoming Gov.... [Full Story]

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Coulter: "Now the Times won't even publish McCain's op-ed. I wouldn't have published it either -- I've read it twice and I still can't remember what it says -- but I also wouldn't have published McCain's seven op-eds in The New York Times since 1996."

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Wizbang Blue: Bob Novak, Republican Chump of the Week

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Wizbang Pop!: Sienna Miller Sues Tabloid Over Topless Balthazar Getty Pics

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