On Thursday’s Hardball, MSNBC host Chris Matthews and former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown performed a postmortem on Wednesday night’s presidential debate which most political observers agreed President Barack Obama lost. Matthews was confused how, “objectively,” a man with such “scope,” “relevance,” and an “I.Q. in the hundred and whatever range” lost the debate. Brown… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Scope
Open thread for night owls: Scope of cellphone surveillance still not known
At The Nation, Nancy Goldstein writes, Congress Is Still in the Dark About the Extent of Electronic Snooping: Here’s the only marginally good news about Congressman Edward Markey’s bombshell revelations last week about government prying into personal cellphone use: the American public and the US Congress now have our very first inkling of the scope… Read more »
AP Report on Student Loans Exaggerates Potential Scope of Just-Averted Rate Hike
From the headlines to the verbiage in many establishment press write-ups, it would be easy to believe that the just-resolved controversy over interest rates on student loans affects virtually everyone in college who has borrowed money and anyone who graduated (or didn't) who borrowed and is still owes Uncle Sam. That isn't so. To cite… Read more »