MetaFilter posts tagged with Salon and politics

Paglia, all y'all

staggernation — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 21:41:44 -0800

Paglia's back. "I had certainly assumed the Web was surfeited with more than enough material, but evidently many others beside myself find the partisan polarization of the blogosphere numbingly predictable and its prose too often slapdash, fragmentary or drearily prolix." If you like that sentence, you'll love the return of Camille Paglia to Salon.com.

Downgrading the Fourth Estate

digaman — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 12:58:04 -0800

Rollback. Media critic Jay Rosen rises above the McClellan/"shake-up" foofaraw to put several pieces of the puzzle together and show how the Bush administration has significantly altered the long-standing relationship of the press to the White House. (More from Rosen here.) Another piece that fits: Donald Rumsfeld's bold, frequent, and rarely-challenged assertions that the American press is being expertly "manipulated" by Al Qaeda "media committees" in Iraq and Afghanistan.

interview with Satrepi (author of Persepolis)

Tlogmer — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 02:13:46 -0800

Great Salon interview with Marjane Satrapi (author of Persepolis). via

Talking points

four panels — Fri, 08 Oct 2004 13:39:18 -0800

Is Bush wired? Ruthless speculation devoid of issues, considered and explored.

Unger chews Isikoff a new one

troutfishing — Wed, 07 Jul 2004 05:39:29 -0800

The Newsweek-Fahrenheit wars - Michael Isikoff's "seven errors, distortions and selective omissions of crucial information" detailed by Craig Unger, "House of Bush, House of Saud" author (read excerpts of his book at Salon.com, for members or by a "day pass") Isikoff has heavily cited Unger's book but, it seems, not bothered to read Unger's generously provided source files. "Liberal" PBS is not excluded, as credulous (or ignorant) "On the Media" host Bob Garfield's July 2 interview with Isikoff demonstrates. What shall we call such pervasive, ongoing and seemingly willful patterns of inaccuracy, distortion, and selective omission?

No stem cell research

homunculus — Wed, 24 Mar 2004 21:17:35 -0800

Thou shalt not make scientific progress. "Medical research is poised to make a quantum leap that will benefit sufferers from Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, muscular dystrophy, diabetes and other diseases. But George W. Bush's religious convictions stand in its way."

Howard Stern's new found liberalism.

skallas — Fri, 12 Mar 2004 22:00:43 -0800

Howard Stern's new found liberalism. "The potential impact is huge," says Charles Goyette, talk-show host at KFYI in Phoenix. "And it's not just with the 8 million people who tune it, it's that he breaks the spell. Everybody's been enchanted by Bush, that he's a great wartime leader and to criticize him is unpatriotic. Now Stern pounds him every day and it shatters that illusion that the man is invincible and he shouldn't be criticized."

The best PR ends up looking like news. You never know when a PR agency

Eloquence — Tue, 13 Jan 2004 10:03:56 -0800

"The Media vs. Howard Dean." Salon (subscription or Flash ad viewing required) observes that the media have been doing everything in their power to attach negative labels to US presidential candidate Howard Dean. Will the adage that "there's no such thing as bad publicity" prevail? Meanwhile, the Internet is increasing in relevance as a news source, according to a recent survey. Which websites do you peruse for political coverage, if any?

Rumsfeld made his own intelligence

Ignatius J. Reilly — Tue, 15 Jul 2003 20:32:28 -0800

Rumsfeld's personal spy ring The defense secretary couldn't count on the CIA or the State Department to provide a pretext for war in Iraq. So he created a new agency that would tell him what he wanted to hear. Today, Salon also looks into the role played by John Bolton. Is investigative journalism now just relegated to the web? [you have to look at an ad, I believe]

I know I shouldn't, but I can't help it:

aladfar — Tue, 10 Dec 2002 06:43:13 -0800

I know I shouldn't, but I can't help it: If Ann Coulter published children's literature. There's nothing to discuss here, but the article (from Salon, please don't hate me) provided a good laugh.

adnan — Mon, 28 May 2001 21:52:24 -0800

USA's new popular export: Their ignorance. A comedian who specializes in political and cultural satire, Mercer's most popular schtick is "Talking to Americans" -- a "Candid Camera"-esque routine in which he travels the United States asking people ridiculous questions to exploit their ignorance about their northern neighbor.

jpoulos — Thu, 10 May 2001 12:35:40 -0800

We haven't had a Salon link on the front page for a while, so I don't feel bad about posting this one. Conserve energy the Dick Cheney way! [Warning: left-wing, liberal, tree-hugging, granola-eating, pinko, partisan parody. You don't have to click if you don't like such stuff.]

raysmj — Sat, 10 Mar 2001 09:48:06 -0800

Red v. Blue v. . . . Purple? Was America really so divided in the 2000 election? A map created as a retort to Salon's "Red v. Blue" map tells the real story. Any and all Prince references/jokes permitted.

saralovering — Tue, 27 Feb 2001 05:52:59 -0800

The Bush Pardons More pardon fun!... An interesting flip side to the pardon coin.

ethmar — Tue, 05 Dec 2000 06:31:35 -0800

YASL: Yet another Salon link. This could be the smoking gun. Or just smoke. Judgement?

tiaka — Thu, 30 Nov 2000 05:54:21 -0800

A salon link? "It's [Salon] become boring. Way too safe and predictable with its left-leaning bias,"

owillis — Thu, 02 Nov 2000 23:05:10 -0800

Bob Jones 2? Mr. DUI makes another misstep. Regardless of the outcome, the past 24 hours have been satisfying for Democrats

snakey — Mon, 30 Oct 2000 09:36:15 -0800

You gotta love that Tom Tomorrow. . .

gluechunk — Fri, 20 Oct 2000 11:39:01 -0800

Argh, I forgot to watch Letterman vs. Bush last night. (I still don't have my TiVo.)

solistrato — Thu, 05 Oct 2000 07:58:32 -0800

More Hot Nader Action Coming At You. Because you cannot post enough links about Ralph Nader on Metafilter. The curious thing about this article comes at the end, with the analysis of Nader's message. Yeah, Ralph's against a lot of stuff, but what is he for? What are his plans and agendas?

skallas — Mon, 02 Oct 2000 23:18:21 -0800

Salon lists ten questions that won't be asked at the debates and I find them pretty tame, with a few exceptions. Instead of emailing the author with questions you'd like to see I'd rather read what the people here have to say.

Doug — Tue, 12 Sep 2000 08:12:14 -0800

Where Are The Hollywood Conservative? Does a liberal cabal of Hollywood executives destroy the careers of conservative performers? Or, is the conservative philosophy (opposed to change, antiquated morals...) just too boring for artists and performers?

Brilliantcrank — Thu, 07 Sep 2000 21:30:52 -0800

Yo dawg, peep Bush, he be up and on that whitecrib thang. Believe it Yo. My pager goin off when I saw this word scribble...

Bush (shaking his head mournfully): "Dude, dude. You must be loaded, Holmes. You're cut off on the bong, ace. Your lameness is of a sameness. If every time you're sippin' on a 40 you start quoting Grouchy Marx, my man, you can't be hanging at Epsilon House. Major league bummer!"

True. True.

Markb — Fri, 03 Mar 2000 01:25:08 -0800

Camille Paglia in full flow at Salon: "In the three weeks since my last column, Hillary Rodham Clinton has been up hill and down dale, beating the bushes in upstate New York to try to convince someone somewhere that she is a woman of substance rather than a raisin-eyed, carrot-nosed, twig-armed, straw-stuffed mannequin trundled in on a go-cart by the mentally bereft powerbrokers of the state Democratic Party."