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1. Campaign Desk

   Above the Fold: Barack’s Bold Budget

   February 27, 2009 11:00 AM

   Barack Obama's budget proves he was serious when he promised fundamental change if he became president. Everyone in the MSM seems to agree that the president’s budget is the most radical document of its kind since Ronald Reagan’s first year... Continue reading

2. Campaign Desk

   Winners & Sinners

   February 19, 2009 01:51 PM

   Sinner: Sean Delonas. The New York Post contributor drew a cartoon yesterday depicting two policemen shooting a chimpanzee, with this caption: “They’ll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill.” Delonas’s work accomplished something which FCP would... Continue reading

3. Campaign Desk

   Above the Fold: Cruel Intentions?

   February 19, 2009 10:36 AM

   Charlie Savage’s piece in yesterday’s New York Times about the Obama administration’s preliminary attitudes toward torture, rendition, and government secrecy is thorough, sophisticated, and balanced. In other words, it has all of the qualities lacking in the <a... Continue reading

4. Campaign Desk

   Above the Fold: “The Thrill Is Gone”

   February 10, 2009 12:28 PM

   LONDON-- From the other side of the Atlantic, Washington's myopia seems even more exaggerated than usual. Two days ago in the Sunday Times of London, I learned from Lary Sabato, a professor of politics at the University of... Continue reading

5. Campaign Desk

   Winners & Sinners

   February 5, 2009 12:02 PM

   Winners: Barack Obama, and the American people, for not getting Tom Daschle as their new Secretary of Health and Human Services. Like many advocates of national health insurance, FCP was initially enthusiastic about Tom Daschle's appointment as HHS secretary, and... Continue reading

6. Campaign Desk

   Above the Fold: This Land Is Our Land

   January 21, 2009 11:35 AM

   “You sing it with us: we’ll give you the words.” –Pete Seeger, Washington, D.C., January 18, 2009 "The answer is to rely on youth—not a time of life, but a state of mind: a temper of the will, a quality... Continue reading

7. Full-Court Press

   Above the Fold: More Tortured Logic

   January 19, 2009 09:48 AM

   All nationalists have the power of not seeing resemblances between similar sets of facts....Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them, and there is almost no kind of outrage--torture,... Continue reading

8. Full-Court Press

   Above the Fold: What Would Dick Do?

   January 12, 2009 02:31 PM

   With just seven days left in our eight-year-long national nightmare, nearly everyone is holding their breath while praying to their favorite gods, hoping against hope that after two disastrous wars and the worst economic devastation since the Depression, the most... Continue reading

9. Full-Court Press

   Above the Fold: What Would Dick Do?

   January 12, 2009 09:50 AM

   With just seven days left in our eight-year-long national nightmare, nearly everyone is holding their breath while praying to their favorite gods, hoping against hope that after two disastrous wars and the worst economic devastation since the Depression, the most... Continue reading

10. Full-Court Press

    Winners & Sinners

    January 6, 2009 10:58 AM

    Winners: Benoit Denizet-Lewis and Jeffrey Toobin. The second best political news for America after Barack Obama’s election as president is that Massachusetts congressman Barney Frank is now one of the most powerful men in Washington. Last fall, House Speaker... Continue reading

11. Full-Court Press

    Winners & Sinners

    December 23, 2008 05:47 PM

    Sinner: When Lesley Stahl profiled House Financial Services chairman Barney Frank for 60 Minutes earlier this month, she seemed shocked that the politician didn’t show more deference to such a famous television correspondent. Continue reading

12. Full-Court Press

    Above the Fold: Bailout Buyer’s Remorse

    December 15, 2008 05:32 PM

    "On the executive compensation thing, it went to the core of their being. It was like asking the chief rabbi of Jerusalem to eat bacon on Yom Kippur. It was the most unthinkable thing they could think of." -- House... Continue reading

13. Full-Court Press

    Winners & Sinners

    December 11, 2008 06:30 AM

    Here is everything U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald said at his news conference Tuesday about any possible involvement Barack Obama might have had with the alleged attempt of Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich to sell Obama's newly vacant Senate seat... Continue reading

14. Full-Court Press

    Winners & Sinners

    December 5, 2008 05:44 PM

    Winner: Janet Maslin for her spot-on review of The Man Who Owns The News, in which she dissects Michael Wolff's "supercilious yet star-struck portrait of Rupert Murdoch." FCP has always regarded Wolff's specialty as contemptuous envy, but "supercilious... Continue reading

15. Full-Court Press

    Winners & Sinners

    November 25, 2008 09:06 AM

    Sinner: Michelle Cottle, for wasting the first 2,515 words of a 3,253-word piece about Barney Frank in The New Republic with overheated prose describing the Democratic congressman's bad grooming, brusque demeanor, and involvement in a nineteen-year-old sex scandal—before... Continue reading

16. Campaign Desk

    Above the Fold: Ross, Kiriakou, and Waterboarding

    December 17, 2007 10:41 AM

    This article originally appeared on December 17, 2007, at radaronline.com. It is reposted here with the permission of the rightsholder, Charles Kaiser. One night last week, ABC's World News Tonight with Charles Gibson led with what seemed, at first, to... Continue reading

17. Full Court Press

    Winners & Sinners

    December 23, 2008 05:47 PM

    Sinner: When Lesley Stahl profiled House Financial Services chairman Barney Frank for 60 Minutes earlier this month, she seemed shocked that the politician didn’t show more deference to such a famous television correspondent. Continue reading

18. Full Court Press

    Above the Fold: Times Tongue Tied on Torture

    December 19, 2008 04:53 PM

    There are times when news judgment is so bad that it seems to come close to criminal negligence. That is the case with the recent coverage of torture by the news department of The New York Times. This week, Vice... Continue reading

19. Full Court Press

    Above the Fold: Bailout Buyer’s Remorse

    December 15, 2008 05:32 PM

    "On the executive compensation thing, it went to the core of their being. It was like asking the chief rabbi of Jerusalem to eat bacon on Yom Kippur. It was the most unthinkable thing they could think of." -- House... Continue reading

20. Full Court Press

    Winners & Sinners

    December 11, 2008 06:30 AM

    Here is everything U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald said at his news conference Tuesday about any possible involvement Barack Obama might have had with the alleged attempt of Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich to sell Obama's newly vacant Senate seat... Continue reading

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