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Fox News host Greg Jarrett discusses with Bonnie Erbe the Edwards affair even though his guest insists there are way more important issues to talk about. His persistence on covering the tabloid story about John Edwards, a camera women and her child instead of the Russia-Georgia war in which people are actually dying by thousands is sad and laughable. Jarrett could at least be more subtle going through ALL of his talking points before letting her guest talk about real developments affecting the ... more

One day after the Edwards revelation, the escalation of the conflict in Georgia and 2008 Summer Olympics opening ceremony, the mainstream media seem to focus more and more on the Edwards story. No surprise there. Fox News has just announced that John Edwards may even face jail time. An hour before that Fox News claimed that the only victim of “the affair” is Mrs. Edwards, even though Elizabeth Edwards definitely doesn’t consider herself a victim judging by her Daily Kos state... more

The Young Turks expose the hypocrisy of the news media by showing how the McCain campaign’s mistakes, “juveniliaâ€� and blunders get minimalized and trivialized by the press. The best example of how the media can totally skew a political story is the fact that the full interview with Bill Clinton and the most vital and important words that he said to an ABC reporter – “Live in the moment and move forwardâ€� and “Obama should win, and I think he will winâ€� — were “kept secretâ... more

“The Iraqi government now has tens of billions of dollars at its disposal to fund large-scale reconstruction projects,” Sen. Carl Levin said in a statement . Should they fund themselves from now on? Of course they should — at last — after all, no other nation has cost US taxpayers as much as Iraq over the recent years: the Iraqi-Kuwait conflict, W’s Iraq war, oil we have been buying from them (as George Bush says, “we’re addicted to it” so it... more