Media Overexposes ‘Obama Is Overexposed’ Complaint Media Overexposes ‘Obama Is Overexposed’ Complaint
To push health care reform, President Obama will appear on five Sunday talk shows (on ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, and Univision) and on Letterman Monday; this, after last week's speech to ...
Sep 19, 2009 / The Notion / Leslie Savan
Take the Obama Conspiracy-Theory Challenge! Take the Obama Conspiracy-Theory Challenge!
Now that President Obama's speech to school kids has proved not to be the Maoist indoctrination tool that the right absolutely knew it would be, it's time for the rest of us to sta...
Sep 10, 2009 / The Notion / Leslie Savan
Joe Scarborough Is Shocked, Yet Awed by Single-Payer Logic Joe Scarborough Is Shocked, Yet Awed by Single-Payer Logic
Something rather remarkable happened on Tuesday's Morning Joe. Rep. Anthony Weiner of New York pointed out that the health insurance industry has no clothes, and Joe Scarborough, a...
Aug 20, 2009 / The Notion / Leslie Savan
BREAKING: Rush, Newt, and Sarah Supported Death Panels, Too! BREAKING: Rush, Newt, and Sarah Supported Death Panels, Too!
Attention, townhall protesters: Guess who else wants to pull the plug on granny and kill Sarah Palin's baby? In some knock-out reporting, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow showed Thursday nigh...
Aug 14, 2009 / The Notion / Leslie Savan
Lou Dobbs: Secret Single-Payer Socialist? Lou Dobbs: Secret Single-Payer Socialist?
Lou Dobbs is a strange man. One day he's railing against "Obamacare," stoking the birther and deather paranoia that an illegitimate president's health care plan will mand...
Aug 12, 2009 / The Notion / Leslie Savan
Race, Lies, and Health Scares Race, Lies, and Health Scares
It'd be nice to think that the recent surge in overtly racist rhetoric on the right has been a case of random opportunism, provoked by the coincidence of a wealthy black Harvard pr...
Aug 2, 2009 / The Notion / Leslie Savan
The Birthers of a Nation The Birthers of a Nation
The long hunt for the new leader of the Republican Party has at last come to an end, and the winner isn't Rush Limbaugh, Mitt Romney, or even Sarah Palin, but this woman in a red T...
Jul 24, 2009 / The Notion / Leslie Savan
Healthcare Debate Is Sicko Healthcare Debate Is Sicko
What are you doing tonight, Max Baucus, Kent Conrad, Ben Nelson, and other Blue Dog Dems blocking real healthcare reform? If you can spare two hours, you ought to catch Michael Moo...
Jul 16, 2009 / The Notion / Leslie Savan
Media Moonwalks Through Political Change Media Moonwalks Through Political Change
In the summer of wall-to-wall Michael-Jackson-is-still-dead coverage, the job of White House correspondent for a major network is easy as 1-2-3: mention the place where the preside...
Jul 13, 2009 / The Notion / Leslie Savan
Destroying America to Save It Destroying America to Save It
It's not only neocons who desperately need enemies, like Ahmadinejad, to succeed so that they'll have an excuse to bomb bomb bomb Iran, or any place they damn well please. It's als...
Jul 2, 2009 / The Notion / Leslie Savan