FDIC Chairman Shelia Bair Is Out Of Control

In a sad twist of irony Shelia Bair is accusing blogs of being "out of control".

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"The FDIC also plans to begin airing public service announcements as part of a public education campaign on the nation's deposit insurance program."

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There will be no mention of points 24 and 25 of You Know The ( Read more... )

Live From Netroots - Nancy Pelosi

By Blue Texan Saturday July 19, 2008

Day Three of TraitorFest '08 starts with a visit from Nancy Pelosi.

I'm sitting here waiting for the "Ask The Speaker" session to start. Exhibit Hall 4 of the Austin Convention Center is totally packed and buzzing and Code Pink is in the house. Already I've heard several people ( Read more... )

JOHN MCCAIN: “Now we’ve got the cables. We’ve got talk radio. We’ve got the bloggers. I hate the bloggers. We’ve got all kinds of sources of information.”

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By Warner Todd Huston | June 29, 2008 - 15:22 ET

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It looks like Google has officially joined the Barack Obama campaign and decided that its contribution would be to shut down any blog on the Google owned Blogspot.com blogging system that has an anti-Obama message. Yes, it sure seems that Google has begun to go through its many ( Read more... )

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Barack Obama's support of a government surveillance bill that offers retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies - a bill that he vowed last year to filibuster - has ended his honeymoon with the progressive ( Read more... )

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Tomorrow's TIME Magazine: Are Bloggers 'Killing' Old Media in Campaign Coverage?

Posted June 19, 2008 | 12:36 PM (EST)

In this week's issue of TIME magazine, arriving in print and online tomorrow, columnist James Poniewozik uses the passing of Tim Russert to highlight the decline of the Old Media and the rise of the New Media, described as " ( Read more... )

I’m not normally one to subscribe to conspiracy theories, but something is just plain rotten in this whole New York Times/Associated Press/Media Bloggers Association love fest.

June 18, 2008

Something Is Rotten In Denmark: The A.P., NYTimes and MBA Love Triangle

Michael Arrington


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I use a firefox browser which was "updated" to a new version today, going  from a very good browser to a total piece of shit. Consequently no hotlinks are available. I am now switching to that notorious piece of kaka -IE7. The links will be functioning soon.