thinkprogress

    NYT WILL NOT BUDGE on Issa’s golf course visibility!

    By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  August 28th at 02:30 PM  | 

    It is adamant that you can see a golf course from the Representative’s San Diego office! Adamant! The Time has a third-party ad and everything! So there! But what about the allegations that Rep. Issa used his influence and position to make significant profits on both a mutual fund purchase and a real estate sale? Which is to say, two of three allegations* that the | Read More »

    NYT – trusted?/ripped off?/betrayed by? – ThinkProgress over Darrell Issa?

    By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  August 20th at 01:00 PM  | 

    Let me just executive summary this ThinkProgress/New York Times trainwreck, because Powerline has a very good detailed takedown of it already: ThinkProgress wrote some sloppy, badly researched hit pieces on House Oversight Chair Darrell Issa (R); Eric Litchblau of the New York Times apparently turned them – without attribution – into a extremely sloppy, badly researched hit article on House Oversight Chair Darrell Issa (R); | Read More »

    BREAKING: ThinkProgress pig-ignorant about military.

    By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  May 8th at 05:00 PM  | 

    Legal Insurrection tipped me to this one: apparently, ThinkProgress (link available via Legal Insurrection) got itself in a bit of a tizzy over a story in the Mexican press that one of the Navy SEALs that killed Osama bin Laden was the son of Mexican immigrants, which apparently means (according to TP) that we need to pass the DREAM Act* and that the military is | Read More »