Diane Rehm

Our brilliant press: this would be funny if it weren’t so sad

neo-neocon (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008

Just when you think the anti-Palin press has covered itself with enough shame, it sinks still lower. James Taranto has found a real howler: A hilarious example of press bias against Palin occurred last Friday on “The Diane Rehm Show,” a production of Washington’s WAMU-FM. The exchange between hostess Rehm, caller Tom of Norwich, Vt., [...]

Fail: Washington Post Writer Mocks Palin For Getting Name Of Iraqi Politician Right

Say Anything (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008

Check out E.J. Dionne mocking Sarah Palin on “The Diane Rehm Show” in Washington DC for her “superficial” knowledge of middle eastern issues because she said “Talabani” was working with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. A caller named Tom calls in and notes that Palin said Talabani was working with Maliki and chastises her for saying that our enemy in Afghanistan, the Taliban, is...

STOPPING VOTER SUPPRESSION; THREATS TO THE INTERNET; ADIOS

News Dissector Blog (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008

... still on the run,” Faddis said in a telephone interview Tuesday, following his appearance on NPR’s Diane Rehm Show to promote a new book, Operation Hotel California: The Clandestine War Inside Iraq. “The site was physically destroyed … but certainly the research wasn’t destroyed.” Coming on the heels of similar revelations by a former Delta Force operative about scuttled missions...

Palin Says Talibani, Dionne Say Taliban

Anorak News (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008

A BIASED media. Of course. Sarah Palin says Talibani. WPost hack EJ Dionne saya Taliban. Palin. Palini. Dionne. Donadoni. Let’s call the whole thing off …: Just when you think the anti-Palin press has covered itself with enough shame, it sinks still lower. James Taranto has found a real howler : A hilarious example of press bias against Palin occurred last Friday on “The Diane Rehm Show,”...

• Our brilliant press: this would be funny if it weren’t so sad - neo-neocon
• POLITICS: In a Just World, This Would Be The End of EJ Dionne - Baseball Crank

POLITICS: In a Just World, This Would Be The End of EJ Dionne

Baseball Crank (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008

| October 7, 2008 POLITICS: In a Just World, This Would Be The End of EJ DionneFrom , one of the classic examples of replacement-level, conventional wisdom-spouting liberal punditry makes a complete fool of himself in his rush to pronounce himself superior to Sarah Palin:A hilarious example of press bias against Palin occurred last Friday on "The Diane Rehm Show," a production of Washington's...

Taleban/Talabani: There's a difference?

Just World News (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008

... recognized in the US as the "bad guy", now resurging, pro-Qaeda, former rulers of Afghanistan.2. Diane Rehm made no attempt to correct the caller's misunderstanding but passed the question directly on to E.J. Dionne. E.J. also did not correct the caller's mistake but said something like, "Goodness, yes, that was a terrible mistake Sarah Palin made."3. Neither of the other, supposedly...