Tweety apologizes

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MSNBC blabber Chris “Tweety” Matthews, about whom I’ve written HERE and HERE and HERE (and elsewhere), issued an apology of sorts today.

The video is available HERE.

Ex-Freeporter apologizes to Obama

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A couple of days ago, I told you HERE that Bob Johnson, a billionaire media mogul who grew up in Freeport, had slurred Barack Obama on the subject of youthful indiscretions.

Today, Johnson APOLOGIZED.

The coming recession, even if mild, is going to look bad on the political balance sheet

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Even if the looming recession turns out to be not so bad as to make electoral prospects for Republican candidates a lot worse in November, it’s not going to improve the historical record regarding the performance of the U.S. economy under Republican  administrations.

There’s a durable myth in our society that Republicans are better than Democrats at handling the economy. It stems from the false stereotypes of Republicans as business types and Democrats as welfare statists.

The truth, as THESE TWO GUYS noted last summer in a piece full of statistics, is something else.

POSTSCRIPT: Here’s ANOTHER ARTICLE from a couple of years ago that makes much the same point.

We’ll be watchin’ you

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Fed Chief Ben Bernanke testified on Capitol Hill today about congressional efforts to stimulate the economy in the face of a looming recession.

Reactions have included THIS and THIS and THIS.

And then there’s this:

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McCain getting swift-boated again

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John McCain is not my choice for president, not by a long shot, but I can’t help feeling sorry for the guy in the face of the SLIMING he’s getting from a little band of extremists in South Carolina.

Reagan the patron saint of rightists?

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THIS GUY says Ronald Reagan was not the model conservative he’s made out to have been by today’s crop of Republican presidential candidates.

POSTSCRIPT: Which of this year’s presidential candidates said this the other day?: “… I think Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that Richard Nixon did not and in a way that Bill Clinton did not. He put us on a fundamentally different path because the country was ready for it. I think they felt like with all the excesses of the 1960s and 1970s and government had grown and grown but there wasn’t much sense of accountability in terms of how it was operating. …”

Give up? It was Barack Obama.