If you can’t handle some random interview or debate, you can’t handle the terrorists?

Well then. If you can’t face the North Carolina GOP, how are you going the terrorists, John McCain?
Michelle Malkin qualifies Howard Dean’s call like this:
Dean is now pressing McCain further on the issue–and claiming that if McCain doesn’t succeed in forcing the state party to withdraw its ad, it’s a failure of his “leadership” (read: [...]

Mud throwing alert!

I’ve known for a while that the right dislikes Al Franken. For me, that dislike started with the constant attacks while he was at Air America Radio.
They clearly haven’t stopped. Michelle on a recent Al Franken matter:
More than a month ago, investigative GOP blogger Michael Brodkorb in Minnesota first broke the news that Al Franken [...]

Is that what a “solid shot” at Al Franken looks like?

I was really curious to see what the Al Franken post on Hot Air was all about…
It turns out to be a Norm Coleman ad that Hot Air described as a “solid shot”.
I don’t mind attack ads if they are backed by actual substance, are not misleading, etc.
This ad lacks complete context. Some of those [...]

This dailykos issue is only about starving them…

Hot Air has the clip from OReilly
This jetblue story is ridiculous. There are tons of advertisers that put ads on controversial shows, left and right. For Kirsten to say that corporations should avoid the blogosphere is ridiculous, because they should then avoid every other show like Hannity and Colmes, OReilly Factor, Olbermann, Michael Savage, Thom Hartmann, etc. [...]

Are we not better served by more competition and a broader diversity of opinions?

Regardless of which side of the right-left issue you are coming from, don’t you want our airwaves to be used in a manner than fosters diversity of opinions?
I understand that it’s important to have commercial viability, but if all stations could be profitable by only having Howard Stern or Temptation Island on all day, I [...]