Dumb and Dumber (and Dumber Still) Dumb and Dumber (and Dumber Still)
One problem with trying to write critically about this year's election coverage is that by choosing any single aspect of its manifold failures, one automatically does an injustic...
Sep 30, 2004 / Column / Eric Alterman
Bush’s Useful Idiot Bush’s Useful Idiot
Four years ago, Ralph Nader justified his third-party campaign on the grounds that the two parties represented nothing more than "Tweedledum and Tweedledee." As Americans die by ...
Sep 16, 2004 / Column / Eric Alterman
‘We Lie. We Decide.’ ‘We Lie. We Decide.’
TIM RUSSERT: But, Senator, when you testified before the Senate, you talked about some of the hearings you had observed at the Winter Soldiers meeting, and you said that peop
Sep 2, 2004 / Column / Eric Alterman
PBS Adds Insult to Injury PBS Adds Insult to Injury
Click here to ask PBS CEO Patricia Mitchell to reconsider the network's new conservative slant. CORRECTION: The Dow Jones Corporation's total revenue (not profit) topped $1.5 bil...
Aug 12, 2004 / Column / Eric Alterman