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		<title>&#8216;Narrative&#8217; Meant Nuthin When Nominees Weren&#8217;t Liberals</title>
		<link>http://finkelblog.com/index.php/2009/05/27/narrative-meant-nuthin-when-nominees-werent-liberals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 12:24:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Finkelstein</dc:creator>
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Between now and the final confirmation vote, how many times will we hear of Sonia Sotomayor&#8217;s &#8220;moving personal narrative&#8221;?  But as Pat Buchanan, Joe Scarborough and Ann Coulter pointed out this morning, touching personal tales meant nada to Dems when the minority judicial nominee wasn&#8217;t a liberal.
Clarence Thomas and Miguel Estrada each had moving stories [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NOW Prez Admits: Sotomayor &#8216;Very Progressive&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://finkelblog.com/index.php/2009/05/26/now-prez-sotomayor-very-progressive/</link>
		<comments>http://finkelblog.com/index.php/2009/05/26/now-prez-sotomayor-very-progressive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 01:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Finkelstein</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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Don&#8217;t take a conservative&#8217;s word for it.  No less a left-wing authority than Kim Gandy of NOW has let Sonia Sotomayor&#8217;s liberal cat out of the bag . . .
Gandy today described PBO&#8217;s pick for the Supreme Court as &#8220;very progressive.&#8221; The NOW honcho was a guest on this evening&#8217;s Ed Show.  She was preceded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fineman Calls Michael Steele &#8216;Lazy&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://finkelblog.com/index.php/2009/05/20/fineman-calls-michael-steele-lazy/</link>
		<comments>http://finkelblog.com/index.php/2009/05/20/fineman-calls-michael-steele-lazy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 21:26:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Finkelstein</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chris Matthews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[double standards]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Howard Fineman]]></category>
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Well, at least he didn&#8217;t call him shiftless . . .
On this afternoon&#8217;s Hardball, Howard Fineman twice called RNC Chairman Michael Steele &#8220;lazy,&#8221; adding &#8220;he doesn&#8217;t work that hard.&#8221;
Now, I don&#8217;t in fact believe there was any racial overtone involved.  I am explicitly not accusing Fineman of racism.  But I mention the incident to illustrate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Claim To Contessa Obama&#8217;s Weak!</title>
		<link>http://finkelblog.com/index.php/2009/05/20/dont-claim-to-contessa-obamas-weak/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 16:23:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Finkelstein</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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Talk about standing by your man!  When a foreign policy expert explained the timing of today&#8217;s Iranian missile launch in terms of a Persian perception of Pres. Obama&#8217;s weakness, MSNBC&#8217;s Contessa Brewer leapt to PBO&#8217;s defense, throwing in an invidious comparison with Pres. Bush for good measure.
Nile Gardiner, Director of the Heritage Foundation&#8217;s Margaret Thatcher [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Schultz: Cheneys &#8216;Not American, Don&#8217;t Love The Country&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://finkelblog.com/index.php/2009/05/13/schultz-cheneys-not-american-dont-love-the-country/</link>
		<comments>http://finkelblog.com/index.php/2009/05/13/schultz-cheneys-not-american-dont-love-the-country/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 23:37:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Finkelstein</dc:creator>
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I&#8217;ve been wondering why all those &#8220;Dissent Is Patriotic&#8221; bumper stickers that abounded here in the liberal haven of Ithaca, NY during the Bush era disappeared once Barack Obama came to office.   Now I think I know why: Ed Schultz must have come to town and torn them off.
On his MSNBC show this evening, reacting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mika Mocks Mike Allen&#8217;s Obama-Love</title>
		<link>http://finkelblog.com/index.php/2009/05/12/mika-mocks-mike-allens-obama-love/</link>
		<comments>http://finkelblog.com/index.php/2009/05/12/mika-mocks-mike-allens-obama-love/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 10:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Finkelstein</dc:creator>
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Is a new Mika Brzezinski emerging: a more fair-&#8217;n-balanced one?  Signs point to yes.
Yesterday on Morning Joe, as noted here, Joe Scarborough described the members of the White House press corps as being &#8220;in love&#8221; with Pres. Obama to the extent that at the big dinner this past Saturday night that PBO attended, they were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fiery Echo Of Canoegate?</title>
		<link>http://finkelblog.com/index.php/2009/05/07/the-fire-the-next-time/</link>
		<comments>http://finkelblog.com/index.php/2009/05/07/the-fire-the-next-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 10:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Finkelstein</dc:creator>
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For a blogger, heaven is having an item linked at Drudge, where it is sure to generate tens if not hundreds of thousands of hits. The first time it happened to me was a NewsBusters item that came to be known as &#8220;Canoegate.&#8221; On the Today show, NBC&#8217;s Michelle Kosinski was dramatically reporting on flooding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Ransom of Red Chief Arlen Specter</title>
		<link>http://finkelblog.com/index.php/2009/05/06/the-ransom-of-red-chief-arlen-specter/</link>
		<comments>http://finkelblog.com/index.php/2009/05/06/the-ransom-of-red-chief-arlen-specter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 23:27:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Finkelstein</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Arlen Specter]]></category>
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Remember O. Henry&#8217;s tale, The Ransom Of Red Chief? A couple of con men kidnap a rich banker&#8217;s son.  The boy turns out to be a hellion who makes the kidnappers&#8217; lives a living hell.   By the end of the story, rather than paying a ransom, the boy&#8217;s father demands money to take the rascal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Biden: I Wouldn&#8217;t Take A Plane Or A Train</title>
		<link>http://finkelblog.com/index.php/2009/04/30/biden-i-wouldnt-take-a-plane-or-a-train/</link>
		<comments>http://finkelblog.com/index.php/2009/04/30/biden-i-wouldnt-take-a-plane-or-a-train/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:07:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Finkelstein</dc:creator>
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Was Joe Biden giving solid advice . . . or sowing the seeds of panic?  Asked on Today this morning how he&#8217;d counsel family members in light of the swine flu, the Veep said he wouldn&#8217;t take a plane, a subway train, or be in any other confined space.
Just minutes later, the Morning Joe crew [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome To Our Party, Arlen, You Bum</title>
		<link>http://finkelblog.com/index.php/2009/04/28/welcome-to-our-party-arlen-you-bum/</link>
		<comments>http://finkelblog.com/index.php/2009/04/28/welcome-to-our-party-arlen-you-bum/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:37:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Finkelstein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arlen Specter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ed Schultz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Sestak]]></category>
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Let&#8217;s just say that Arlen Specter has not been unanimously embraced by his new-found fellow Democrats today. Notice was served on Ed Schultz&#8217;s MSNBC show this evening that it might be far from smooth sailing to the PA Dem Senate nomination for the quondam Republican.
Joe Sestak, a Dem PA congressman who has been preparing for [...]]]></description>
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