Tag Archives: Greg Sargent

Wall Street Journal editor-in-chief Gerard Baker on why his paper won’t be calling Trump’s lies “lies”

By Mark | January 4, 2017

Continuing our conversation from before Christmas about how the press intends to cover the lies of President Trump, I wanted to share the following quote from this past weekend’s episode of the Meet the Press. This is how Wall Street Journal editor-in-chief Gerard Baker responded to a question posed by Chuck Todd about how aggressively, […]

Posted in Media, Uncategorized | Also tagged birther, coal mining, conspiracy theories, Dan Rather, Donald Trump, drain the swamp, future of journalism, Gerard Baker, Glenn Kessler, journalism, lies, Meet the Press, normalization, pizzagate, PolitiFact, post-truth, racism, the future of journalism, the press, the sad state of journalism, truth, Wall Street Journal | 5 Comments

The truth behind the fiction of the Republican National Convention

By Mark | August 30, 2012

I’m tempted to focus tonight on the xenophobic outbursts and the racist attacks that were witnessed yesterday at the Republican National Convention, but, instead, I thought that I’d share a few observations that others have made concerning the “We Built It” theme, which has been so central to this week’s proceedings in Tampa. (As you’ll […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Medicare, national debt, Obama, Paul Ryan, political ads, Reince Priebus, Republican lies, Republican National Committee, RNC, Romney, welfare, work requirement | 20 Comments

What does Scott Walker’s victory in Wisconsin mean?

By Mark | June 7, 2012

To all of my friends in Wisconsin who didn’t vote yesterday, I hate you. Not only are you responsible for keeping the unabashed corporate shill Scott Walker in office, but, more importantly, you’re responsible for ruining my first Netroots Nation conference. OK, maybe I’m overstating things a bit. I’m sure the conference will be just […]