Greg Sargent

WASHINGTON POST PUBLISHES AN OPINION PIECE BY AN OPERATIVE FOR RIGHT-WING HATE GROUPS. Did anyone else notice this? Over the weekend, Fred Hiatt and other Washington Post editors allowed their paper to be used as a platform for an “opinion” piece written by a GOP operative who gets paid to help right-wing hate groups spread […]

KARL ROVE’S IMMINENT FROG-MARCH? Atrios and Think Progress have both noted that the Plame grand jury met this morning, and a frisson of excitement has rippled through the liberal blogosphere at the prospect that Karl Rove might be indicted. In that regard, a few things are worth keeping in mind: 1) Rove had motive to […]

CLINTON POLLSTER SAYS HILLARY HAS MORE THAN A “50-50 CHANCE” OF BECOMING PRESIDENT. In an appearance that’s sure to get the wheels of will-she-or-won’t-she-in-2008 speculation spinning, Clinton pollster Doug Schoen told a panel discussion last night that Hillary “undeniably” has “a 50-50 chance, at least” of becoming president, according to an account posted at the […]

THE TRUTH ABOUT IRAN MIGHT WORK — BUT WILL DEMS TELL IT? Matt, Ezra, and Garance all give very thoughtful answers to my question below about Iran — no question, arguments about cost and effectiveness should certainly prove more effective this time around. My concern, however, is that some Dems — primarily the presidential contenders […]

MORE ON DEMS AND IRAN. I see that in last night’s post on Iran I inadvertently wrote that Dems should be figuring out how to respond after strikes come. Since the post was meant to make the opposite point — that Dems should be thinking through how politically to approach Iran now — a quick […]

HOW SHOULD DEMS HANDLE IRAN? As depressing as this is, it’s never too early for liberals and Dem thinkers to start figuring out how to prevent Dems from dividing if Bush orders, say, limited strikes on Iran. Al Gore and Howard Dean might oppose them, as perhaps will the new and improved John Edwards. But […]

DEMS ARE EITHER PHONIES OR THEY’RE RADICALS. One of the more devious verbal tricks commentators use on Democrats is to rhetorically box them in: Either Dems are too cautious and scripted, or they’re too radical and hate America. Atrios is right when he says of Joe Klein‘s new book: I’ve got nothing against insiders dishing […]

FRED HIATT REFUSES ACCOUNTABILITY; BILL KELLER ACCEPTS IT. The big news organizations need to come to terms with their role in spreading White House misinformation — and their failure to dig out the truth — in the run-up to the Iraq war. Because if they don’t, they risk making the same catastrophic mistakes again in […]

BILL KELLER AND THE BLOGS. Bill Keller is answering questions at The New York Times‘s site this week, and at one point he offered a somewhat testy view of the blogosphere in responding to a couple of readers who wrote in asking about the Judith Miller affair. Keller responded: Sigh. I can’t imagine that there […]