Blog: TAPPED

BLAME IMUS. On his way to arbitrate a meeting between Don Imus and the Rutgers women�s basketball team last night, the car carrying New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine was hit by an out of control (drunk?) motorist, leaving the governor with a broken leg, sternum, collarbone, 12 ribs, and one lower vertebra. It could be […]

APPARENTLY SERIOUS… The Navy appears to be serious about challenging cost overrruns on the Littoral Combat Ship project: The LCS program manager was canned; the admiral in charge of ship-building was reassigned; work on the ship was suspended. Winter demanded that the second LCS contract be renegotiated. The old one was a “cost-plus” deal that […]

JUST POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: SWITCHING CHANNELS. Mike calls on liberal multi-millionaires to get with it and start a cable news channel. –The Editors

REMEMBER THE VALUES VOTERS? Was it really only two years ago that Democrats were beating themselves up over “values voters,” those working class Americans who voted against their own economic interests because they were so grossed out by gay people and in love with fetuses? Back then, many progressives believed we could never again rise […]

IMUS IS GONE. RIGHT THING DONE. Last night, Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone promised that CBS News honcho Les Moonves would “do the right thing” with regard to the future of Don Imus‘s program on the CBS radio network, but would not say exactly what that right thing is. Today we learned Imus has been fired […]

GILMORE BOY. Yesterday, The Politico wrote about former Virginia governor Jim Gilmore who is billing himself as the “true conservative candidate” for president. As the Washington Times reports “polls show that few voters outside Virginia ever heard of him” in their Metro section. Things sure seem to be tough for the true conservative Republicans these […]

APPLES AND ORANGES. To add to Garance‘s earlier post about Markos‘s comments on the Kathy Sierra case: Markos is talking about oranges while the Sierra case and Web-misogyny are all about apples (a few rotten ones?). Markos writes: Look, if you blog, and blog about controversial shit, you’ll get idiotic emails. Most of the time, […]

MORE ON IMUS. Geoffrey Nunberg has a smart take over at Open University. UPDATE: CBS drops his morning radio show, as well. –Garance Franke-Ruta

JUST POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: COST COUNTS. Ezra makes the progressive case for cost-sharing in health care. –The Editors

GIULIANI ON RACE: The New York Times was right to condemn, in an editorial today, Rudy Giuliani‘s recent statement in Alabama that it should be up to the state’s voters whether to fly the confederate flag over their capitol. But I think they are making quite a leap in automatically accusing Giuliani of pandering to […]