It was never intended to be a cease-fire. The best that the men who run two of the nation's media giants were hoping to achieve was a ratcheting down of the rhetoric between their warring commentators.

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Obama's mistake was falling for a culture war diversion.

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Good breakdown on how commentators will often argue the importance of scoring the first goal and often suggest that a team improves its chances of winning considerably by scoring it.

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I received this in an email.

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In the weeks since President Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, one question has consumed the news media, particularly conservatives in the media: Imagine what would happen if a white man had said the reverse of Sotomayor's famous (and famously distorted) "wise …

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"In their mad dash to ensure that no one in the Bush administration is held accountable for torture, the media are putting the blame on all Americans. "

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Following a nearly two-month absence from the airwaves, Progressive radio talker Randi Rhodes is set to return, according to an announcement this afternoon from John Scott of San Francisco's Green960 (KKGN).

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Sure, as a cub reporter, I used to die a thousand deaths every time a letter to the editor appeared in my newspaper that took issue with something I'd written. But it wasn't long before I learned two things:

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Top Five Conservative Ass Bags - in ranked order

Ok, I was hoping to get some traffic with the title. What I really want is *your* top five political assbags, ranked in order, with your reasons for including them on the list.

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Right-wing politicians and pundits have already begun attacking the Obama administration, even though Inauguration Day is still more than two months away.

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Nicholas Kristof and William Kristol both write regular columns about politics and policy for the New York Times op-ed page.

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Jerusalem , it seems your name, reputation and history raise emotional and irrational sentimental thinking to the highest level. At least that's the impression when reading many statements by our political community as well as the commentary in the op-ed sections of our news …

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Your Most or Least Favorite Personality: TV pundit or Columnist?

Who is your favorite and/or least favorite commentator/columnist in the news? Use the poll, to the right, to register your vote, then drop down to the comments to explain your vote. The list is way too short, I know; but add your personality below if they are not found here.

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The so-called "Three Tenors" of talk radio — conservatives Michael Medved, Hugh Hewitt and Dennis Prager — spoke before a crowd of 3,000 at Minneapolis' Orchestra Hall in an event attended by Republican candidates Michele Bachmann, Norm Coleman and Erik Paulsen, as well …

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Football viewers in the D.C. area (like myself) have been stuck listening to FOX's "B" announcing team of Kenny Albert, Daryl Johnston and Tony Siragusa an inordinate amount of times in the past six seasons.

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Activist filmmaker Michael Moore returns to talk about the broken election system and the first ten things the Obama Administration should do if elected. Joining Mike will be national syndicated author and blogger David Sirota, as well as Cheryl Contee of Jack & Jill Politics.

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A Cuban Olympic tae kwon do athlete who deliberately kicked a referee in the face after being disqualified now faces a permanent ban from his sport. Watch the video now. See more irresistible headlines

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The Beijing Opening Ceremony...and why it made me Sick

The Opening Ceremony of the Twenty Ninth Olympiad was not proof of China's political prowess, military might, intellectual superiority, or technological advancement (as it may or may not have been intended to be).

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It's not just that world events are ignored in favour of celebrity gossip. News anchors skew the facts to provoke debate.

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Race And The Election Of 2008

To much is being made of race, gender and religion in this election cycle by the media. I often listen to the pundits who all earn exorbitant sums of money by telling us what we think, how we feel, even what we believe or who we trust.

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How big a story was it? John Stauber of the Center for Media and Democracy called it the Pentagon Papers of the Iraq war.

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As you can imagine, after yesterday's blockbuster New York Times report on the massive propaganda program put into place by the White House more than five years ago, the media up in arms.

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The Right Turns Obama into a [Insert Racial Epithet Here]

After nearly a lifetime of Republican dirty tricks and negative propaganda, you'd think you would have seen it all.

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Here's an old rule of thumb I just made up: Never write a critical column about NFL announcers when you're in an ugly mood because every little annoyance will be magnified beyond reasonable proportions.

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DAVOS, Switzerland — To look at the reams of coverage in newspapers outside the United States or to follow the hours of television news broadcasts, you might conclude that foreigners had a vote in selecting an American presidential candidate — or, at least, deserved one, so g …

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