I'm doing it so you don't have to. To say that Mr. Hewitt has a huge right wing agenda is to simplify the issue, but here goes a few examples.

Pg. 108: on Atrios, Hugh says: Hard left, incoherent, actually. But big traffic.

On Daily Kos: (brief history).... He is also an off the wall lefty, willing to say anything.

Pg. 113: A final word on ideology and the blogosphere: there is currently a talent gap. The political left is seriously behind in the promotion and development of bloggers with insight and good humor. It maybe that the early entrants such as DailyKos, Atrios, and Joshua Micah Marshall's Talking Points Memo have set a tone of self importance combined with coarseness that has repelled would-be bloggers, or that Peter Principle bloggers with energy but not enough talent have taken up valuable shelf space.
I guess he never read Ornicus, James Wolcott, Digby, Talk Left, Tbogg, World O' Crap(inappropriate title for a blog), Jesus General, Rude Pundit (oppps, he uses naughty words so Hewitt would disqualify him), Juan Cole and Altercation just to name a few. I find it outrageously hypocritical (I'm not really outraged) to read a guy that stands on his soap box, preaching about the aspects of "liberal bias" when he's as guilty as "sin" in promoting his own version of right wing propaganda.

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Go have a bit of fun seeing people smack Tim Graham around over his ridiculous complaining about the media coverage of the Armstrong Williams affair.

Frankly, this story hasn't gotten enough coverage -- and for some reason no one seems too concerned about the Bush administration's clear violation of federal law.

Media Matters for America inventoried all guests who appeared on FOX News, CNN, and MSNBC during the channels' January 20 inauguration coverage. Between 7 a.m. and 5 p.m. ET, Republican and conservative guests and commentators outnumbered Democrats and progressives 19 to 7 on FOX*, 10 to 1 on CNN (not including a Republican-skewed panel featuring Ohio voters), and 13 to 2 on MSNBC. Moreover, the rare Democrat or progressive guest usually appeared opposite conservatives, whereas most Republican and conservative guests and commentators appeared solo or alongside fellow conservatives. see the graph here

U.S. Maintains Close Ties With Repressive Nations

President Bush's soaring rhetoric yesterday that the United States will promote the growth of democratic movements and institutions worldwide is at odds with the administration's increasingly close relations with repressive governments in every corner of the world. Some of the administration's allies in the war against terrorism -- including Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Uzbekistan -- are ranked by the State Department as among the worst human rights abusers. The president has proudly proclaimed his friendship with Russian President Vladimir Putin while remaining largely silent about Putin's dismantling of democratic institutions in the past four years. The administration, eager to enlist China as an ally in the effort to restrain North Korea's nuclear ambitions, has played down human rights concerns there, as well...read on

The State Department, in its annual human rights report, has cited Uzbekistan for its "very poor" human rights record, including the torture and killing of citizens in custody for political reasons. There is virtually no freedom of speech or of the press.

Yet Bush met with Uzbekistan's president in 2002 and signed a declaration of "strategic partnership," and senior officials such as Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld have visited the country. The United States "values Uzbekistan as a stable, moderate force in a turbulent region," the State Department said late last year. ...

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Peggy Noonan, former Reagan speechwriter and wingnut, surprised Sean Hannity and myself when she had this to say about President Bush's speech today.

Noonan: I'll be frank, I think some of it went over the top a little bit....

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Noonan: I found it a little grating

Hannity: A little what?

Noonan: A little grating in some respects.

In her column: Way Too Much God
Was the president's speech a case of "mission inebriation"?

The inaugural address itself was startling. It left me with a bad feeling, and reluctant dislike.

Ending tyranny in the world? Well that's an ambition, and if you're going to have an ambition it might as well be a big one. But this declaration, which is not wrong by any means, seemed to me to land somewhere between dreamy and disturbing. Tyranny is a very bad thing and quite wicked, but one doesn't expect we're going to eradicate it any time soon. Again, this is not heaven, it's earth.

And yet such promising moments were followed by this, the ending of the speech. "Renewed in our strength--tested, but not weary--we are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom."

One wonders if they shouldn't ease up, calm down, breathe deep, get more securely grounded. The most moving speeches summon us to the cause of what is actually possible. Perfection in the life of man on earth is not.

I never thought that I would agree with her, but let's face it; if the President's speech left her with a "bad felling" what did the rest of us feel?

This was on NBC.

I wonder if Fox showed any of the demonstrators?

I'm sure they did. Was Carl Cameron the commentator? Oh, that's right. He got a promotion.

Please email us at crooksandliars@gmail.com, or use the comments section with any tips from today's proceeding worth posting in video.

We are sick and haven't been able to view much of it today so far.

A chilling story by Richard A. Clarke on "Then the second wave of al-Qaeda attacks hit America" that appears in the Atlantic Monthly

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If you're as turned off by the Inauguration as we are, there is relief at Air America Radio. You can listen on the Internet it doesn't broadcast in your area. And the good news to report is that Air America Radio has turned itself into a success.

The Wall Street Journal reports: In New York, Ms. Rhodes is tied with conservative Sean Hannity for the talk-show host that listeners spent the most time with each week in the fall season, according to Arbitron. Ms. Rhodes points out that she reached that level after just a few months of national exposure, and without the television show and book Mr. Hannity has to boost his public profile.

While the article says that Air America isn't profitable yet, remember that it took FNC three years and the Monica affair to finally help them get out of the red also.

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Allan Colmes who has been criticized often by liberals for being too soft when matched up against Sean Hannity's zealousness; however the other night he called Sen. Norm Coleman on Condi and the administration's bloated Iraqi training figures of 125,000.

Colmes: I'm trying to understand why she's promising a certain number which a month before had reported just could not be true?

Coleman:Well again, I met with (General)Patraeus just(stammering) this week. I believe he uses the same number.

Coleman's backpedaling responses lead him to quickly turn to the race card.