 From my Twitter feed (9/22-9/28)Sep 28, 2011 at 1:03 PM | |
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 | MT @TheAtlanticLIFE: 11,000 students just entered CA elementary schools without "required" vaccinations: http://t.co/geEPqj8A (via @phlu) |
 11,000 Students Enter California Schools Without Required Vaccines Despite an outbreak of whooping cough last year, more parents are using a personal belief exemption to get out of vaccinating children Last year, 10 babies died and more than 9,000 people were s... | |
| Sep 27, 2011 at 5:30 PM | |
| .@jbplainblog: soon concern re "'weak field' will be gone, replaced by...how...Romney or Perry has dramatically improved" http://j.mp/o3GWwF |
| A plain blog about politics: Christie My post over at Plum Line today is about why Republicans have spent the year pining for better candidates , with Chris Christie being the flavor-of-the-month right now. Basically, I say that it'... | |
| Sep 27, 2011 at 5:29 PM | |
| RT @ed_kilgore: New CNN Poll: Obama "renominate" number: 72%. One month ago, before jobs speech and supposed "shift to left": 72%. http://t.co/mNQGuBaO |
| http://t.co/mNQGuBaO | |
| Sep 27, 2011 at 2:39 AM | |
| RT @christiangrose: Obama campaign uses social pressure to raise funds. Text sounds like pol. scientists Gerber, Green, & Larimer in APSR. http://t.co/KsZcBtAX |
 Passive-aggressive Obama campaign guilts small donors - Ben Smith Whatever works: -----Original Message----- From: Jim Messina, BarackObama.com [mailto:info@barackobama.com] Sent: Mon 9/26/2011 5:38 PM To: Ben Smith Subject: 2,685 people in Arlington, VA Ben -... | |
| Sep 27, 2011 at 12:29 AM | |
| I love the Voice of San Diego new reporter guidelines http://j.mp/qowpY3 Wish more media approached things this way. |
| If “he said, she said” journalism is irretrievably lame, what’s better? » Pressthink For the background, see: We Have No Idea Who's Right: Criticizing "he said, she said" journalism at NPR. This post is a continuation of that one. First item: the NPR ombudsman, Edward Schumacher... | |
| Sep 26, 2011 at 8:53 PM | |
| Important @jbplainblog reminder: Obama support is down across the board http://j.mp/mYMpE4 Only news if subgroup is *different* from trend |
| A plain blog about politics: Hey, Reporters! Here's the thing. Barack Obama isn't as popular now as he was in January 2009. This is not exactly a little-known fact; indeed, we fortunately have some really good indicators of exactly how pop... | |
| Sep 26, 2011 at 7:02 PM | |
| New Kaiser poll shows awareness of key HCR provisions down ~10 points since summer '10 http://j.mp/r50STL (Q4 of PDF). Memories are short. |
| http://www.kff.org/kaiserpolls /upload/8230-T.pdf | |
| Sep 26, 2011 at 2:49 PM | |
| RT @jpodhoretz: Rick Perry releases his inner Jew. At 4:45. As Jeff Goldberg says, the greatest video ever. http://t.co/66W1kGWD |
 Rick Perry Dances the Hora Around a Menorah Without a Torah Jeffrey Goldberg - Jeffrey Goldberg is a national correspondent for The Atlantic. Author of the book Prisoners: A Story of Friendship and Terror, he has reported from the Middle East and Africa.... | |
| Sep 26, 2011 at 2:10 PM | |
| Contagion: 21st mention of Romney's dog by Gail Collins since 8/07 http://j.mp/piQUaQ Dowd then references it next day http://j.mp/ncEsNk |
 Perry’s Bad Night - NYTimes.com It was impossible to watch this week’s Republican debate without realizing that Rick Perry is not presidential timber, or even presidential polyurethane. | |
 Fed Up With the Author of ‘Fed Up!’? - NYTimes.com Mitt Romney shows the real value of inauthenticity. | |
| Sep 26, 2011 at 12:54 PM | |
| PS Scott Huffmon, a Winthrop political scientist, "called the anti-Obama views a sign of the 'kick-a-puppy syndrome'" http://j.mp/ny2Vfn |
 36 percent of SC Republicans think Obama was likely not born in US COLUMBIA - Two years ago, U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson called President Barack Obama a liar. Today, the assessment of many of Wilson's fellow Republicans in South Carolina is much the same, a poll of S.... | |
| Sep 26, 2011 at 12:57 PM | |
| RT @smotus: Despite what Confessore says, no evidence that Obama's small donors are abandoning him. http://t.co/2p0RrdSl |
| Enik Rising: Trends that are not actually occurring, Obama donor edition Over at the New York Times , Nicholas Confessore has a piece up claiming that Obama's small donors, who were such a major part of his support in 2008, are not showing up for him during this elec... | |
| Sep 25, 2011 at 8:47 PM | |
| RT @kwcollins: Re NYT article on small dollar donors (http://t.co/HQRg3F3G), I predict fundraising will pick up once Rep. cand. emerges and can be attacked |
| Sep 26, 2011 at 1:37 PM | |
| Poll: 30% of SC GOP think Obama is Muslim, 36% probably/definitely born outside US http://j.mp/qrZyKc (via John Pitney http://j.mp/noFNjY ) |
 Winthrop University: Winthrop Poll - Current Findings Download a high resolution version of the Winthrop Poll logo (576KB, 2028x1351). | |
| Bessette Pitney Text: Birthers Still Believe | |
| Sep 26, 2011 at 12:45 PM | |
| After long form BC release, birther beliefs only down from 41% (April) to 36% (now). See http://j.mp/qWh8Fk (PDF) for more on this problem |
| http://www.dartmouth.edu/~nyha n/nyhan-reifler.pdf | |
| Sep 26, 2011 at 12:49 PM | |
| RT @tofias: Shorter Friedman: Obama can end failure to comprise by summoning & telling GOP to adopt liberal policies. All hail the power of Camp David! |
| Sep 25, 2011 at 9:05 PM | |
| Kristol: "no front-runner... has ever ... had as weak a showing as Rick Perry. It was close to a disqualifying 2 hours" http://j.mp/pgbsDv |
 Special Editorial: Yikes | The Weekly Standard THE WEEKLY STANDARD's official reaction to last night's Republican presidential debate: Yikes. Reading the reactions of thoughtful commentators after the stage emptied, talking with conservative... | |
| Sep 23, 2011 at 5:22 PM | |
| Context from '99: "Bush came across...as uncertain...rehearsed responses & ... stilted talking points" RT @markzbarabak http://t.co/x2SXmVAO |
 Bush's Winning Glow Dims After Poor Debate Reviews After his less-than-commanding performance in two presidential debates, George W. Bush faces a tougher race than expected amid growing signs of Republican discontent--including a new poll that s... | |
| Sep 23, 2011 at 5:28 PM | |
| Perry's struggles should remind us of the skill required to be a top-tier national politician. Wesley Clark is feeling his pain right now. |
| Sep 23, 2011 at 12:41 PM | |
| Stony Brook's Norpoth: "Comfort for Obama: History Is on His Side in 2012" - rare for party to lose pres. after 1 term http://j.mp/o0YNY6 |
 Comfort for Obama: History Is on His Side in 2012 Nearly all the usual suspects that predict presidential elections point to a rough road ahead for Obama: His job approval rating, which has sunk to the low 40's; an economy with anemic growth, a... | |
| Sep 23, 2011 at 1:43 PM | |
| Still early, but CSM notes "[n]o one w/[approval] as low as Obama’s at this point in time has gone on to win reelection" http://j.mp/qpS0Em |
 What history says about President Obama's approval rating now President Obama's approval rating hovers around 40 percent. Will he get reelected? It doesn't look good in the light of other presidents (since 1947) at this same point. By Liz Marlantes, DCDeco... | |
| Sep 23, 2011 at 1:37 PM | |
| NYT runs brutal verbatim transcription of Perry stammering about Romney flip flops: http://j.mp/mV06pN Video here: http://j.mp/pWrXSJ |
 Republican Presidential Candidates Debate - NYTimes.com With Gov. Rick Perry of Texas and Mitt Romney well out in front, the other candidates sought to break through in the Republicans’ third presidential debate in 15 days. | |
 Michelle Malkin » Video: Perry’s cringe-worthiest debate moment By Michelle Malkin • September 23, 2011 12:08 AM I mentioned Rick Perry's DREAM Act debate blunder in my round-up post. The cringe-worthiest moment, by a hair, was when Perry botched what should... | |
| Sep 23, 2011 at 11:40 AM | |
| Perry's struggles should remind us of the skill required to be a top-tier national politician. Wesley Clark is feeling his pain right now. |
| Sep 23, 2011 at 12:41 PM | |
| RT @SteveKornacki: Really good post from @ThePlumLineGS correcting Matt Bai on public opinion & taxes http://t.co/jeSIelyU |
 Our surreal debate over taxing the rich One of the most bizarre things about our current debate on taxes is the constant tendency of commentators to predict widespread public rejection of Obama's tax hike proposals without even bother... | |
| Sep 22, 2011 at 5:31 PM | |
| News from the world of postmodern grammar RT @jonathanchait: New post: WSJ scare quote update http://t.co/NM3kgmPJ |
 Scare Quotes Continue to Plague Journal Editorial Writers I have a long-standing fascination with The Wall Street Journal editorial page in general, and specifically with its inexplicable habit of placing scare quotes around any noun that the author ha... | |
| Sep 22, 2011 at 5:27 PM | |
| Scary to see it could be much worse MT @crampell how aftermath of financial crisis compares w/others in Reinhart/Rogoff http://t.co/6CGjNsy5 |
 This Time is Different, An Update The following provides an update on the great research that Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff conducted regarding the build-up and subsequent bust of historical financial crises. While their wo... | |
| Sep 22, 2011 at 12:59 PM | |
| Good @jamestaranto critique of AP fact-checks of subjective language ("moral equivalency"/"thrown... under the bus") http://j.mp/qK6LoD |
 Best of the Web Today: The Five Million Dollar Man In his Labor Day speech in Detroit, Barack Obama issued a ringing endorsement of government employee unions: From the president's hometown comes an example of what he is actually supporting. The... | |
| Sep 22, 2011 at 12:51 PM | |
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I am an assistant professor in the Department of Government at Dartmouth College. I received my Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science at Duke University in 2009 and served as a RWJ Scholar in Health Policy Research at the University of Michigan from 2009-2011. I also tweet at @BrendanNyhan and serve as a media critic for Columbia Journalism Review. Previously, I co-edited Spinsanity, a non-partisan watchdog of political spin, and co-authored All the President's Spin. For more, see my bio or academic website.
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RE: Scare Quotes Continue to Plague Journal Editorial WritersS
Chait simple-mindedly writes:
A nice example can be found in Daniel Henninger's column today:
Barack Obama and his perpetually angry Democratic "base" are the outliers on comprehensive tax reform.
To a normal English speaker, this formulation would signify that Henninger disputes the existence of a Democratic base. In Journal-ese, he's just saying he doesn't like Democrats.
I can't read the whole WSJ story since it is behind a pay-wall, but it's seems more likely a "normal English speaker" would understand Henninger uses scare-quotes to indicate he disagrees with the implied definition of "base" than to imply it doesn't exist.
I am always puzzled when you link to Chait, Brendan, as he has a greater propensity than most writers to be-clown himself.
Posted by: MartyB | September 28, 2011 at 05:15 PM
I'm glad to see Brendan point out an example of bad fact-checking. However, sometimes fact-checkers get it right. Glenn Kessler at WaPo, accurately debunked what he calls "a bogus chart on Obama and the debt." Brendan linked to a version of this chart some time ago.
Kessler writes:
...a chart, purporting to show how Republican presidents — Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush — had increased the debt by a significantly greater percentage than either Bill Clinton or President Obama. Pretty impressive chart, “liked” by at least 7,000 people on a posting by the liberal group MoveOn.org.
But this chart, originally created by the office of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, is as phony as a three-dollar bill. Our friends at PolitiFact did a pretty thorough takedown of it in May, giving it their worst rating: “pants on fire.” They even caught the Pelosi people in a bad mathematical error, based on the fact that the Democrats calculated the numbers as if Obama took office a year later than he did.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2011/01/judges_letter_on_health_care.html
Posted by: David in Cal | September 29, 2011 at 08:42 PM