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No apologies: Limbaugh fantasizes a socialist Barry Obama at Columbia

By | 10.23.09 | 3:39 pm

Rush Limbaugh fell for a blog post Friday that quoted from a ridiculous fake ten-page excerpt of a “thesis” alleged to have been written by Pres. Obama at Columbia. The excerpt was designed to mock the right’s socialism panic but…

Rather calls on Obama to form White House commission on public media

By | 07.29.09 | 11:53 am

Iconic former CBS anchorman Dan Rather in Aspen called on President Obama to bail out the news industry by forming a special White House commission, according to the Aspen Daily News.

Speaking at times tearfully to members of the…

The convention gospel according to Lehrer and Rather

By | 09.03.08 | 1:07 pm

A lot has changed since the tumultuous conventions of 1968. Maverick journalists Dan Rather and Jim Lehrer lament the old days when political conventions were spontaneous and less immune to corporate influence. Both are searching for substance behind the spectacle.

Traditional media needs a spine, Dan Rather says

By | 08.26.08 | 3:34 pm

In a scathing rebuke of America’s mainstream media, former CBS anchor Dan Rather bemoaned the state of political coverage Tuesday afternoon, in the midst of this week’s Democratic National Convention.