Your Favorite Political Weblogs?

worm eater would like to know: "As the mainstream media is coming under closer scrutiny from the 'blogosphere,' and is having to actually respond to these journalists in pajamas, I thought I'd ask Slashdot: what are your favorite political blogs? Lately I've been reading Talking Points Memo, a liberal weblog by Joshua Micah Marshall, and a blog by Andrew Sullivan, a conservative writer. Where do you go when you want to see the mainstream media dissected and poked at?"

Comments

Re:DailyKos

[Moridineas]

Barnes a democrat says he got Bush into the guard, however, as I'm sure you know, his story has changed over the years. His daughter says that he is lying to promote his new book. He himself never claimed that a Bush family member asked him to do it. I see no wrongdoing here.

I'll trust your sources on the national guard stuff--don't have time ATM to fully research.

Bush has had a long-established pattern of not taking responsibility for his actions.

Yes, when he was young. However we see a marked change in Bush years ago. It takes a signifigant amount of willpower to stop drinking alcohol completely the way Bush did after being, by all accounts, a virtual alcoholic. I won't excuse any of Bush's youth--he did many bad things..but I'm happy with the Bush of today.

That's a scary thought. Anything a politician mentions is fair game for lies? As the New York Times concluded, "on close examination, the accounts of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth' prove to be riddled with inconsistencies. In many cases, material offered as proof by these veterans is undercut by official Navy records and the men's own statements."

I made no comment on the Swift Boat Vet's case. They were heavily attacked by the media in fact (possibly not Fox News). I simply said that Kerry made Vietnam an issue...if he had campaigned on his beliefs, on his senate career etc, the Swift Vets would have had no power. I blame Kerry for making this race ridiculously about 30 years ago.

Yes, pretenses he used are NOW shown to be false, but who cares? CIA reports, british intelligence, pentagon sources, etc believed Iraq was a threat and had WMD's.

Does anyone else find it distasteful when a draft dodger calls into question the medals of a war hero?

That makes you a troll, tried and true.

Re:The most arrested President and VP in history.

[Quinn]

The DUI arrests happened a quarter century ago, and Bush is now alarmingly clean and sober, not even touching a drop of alcohol. He's certainly not proud of his past indiscretions, whereas Kerry continues to tout his career as an admitted war criminal as somehow making him worthy of office.

Via time travel?

[PapayaSF]

Ben Barnes, then Lt. Governor of Texas, admitted he got Bush into the National Guard

Ummm, except Bush joined the National Guard in May 1968, and Barnes wasn't Lt. Governor until 1969. Perhaps the fact that Barnes is a disgraced Democratic politician and major Kerry fundraiser has something to do with his confusion about dates?