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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008A guest post from Inés:
Archive for the ‘politics’ Category
why can’t The West Wing be real?
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008I came upon this link while taking my daily fill of trash on http://election.twitter.com:
“the fact is”
Sunday, September 14th, 2008Reading through my daily news, I was struck by how many times political candidates (and John McCain in particular) use the phrase, “the fact is…”. If you have to explicitly state that something is a fact, it probably isn’t. For a nice list of all those crappy weasel words/phrases, wikipedia has a good page for why and how to avoid them in wikipedia articles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_weasel_words.
popular == authoritarian??
Friday, July 25th, 2008I just read this article on Media Matters about a interview between Glenn Beck of CNN and Ben Stein. Ben Stein has been kinda on the crazy side recently, with the whole Expelled (documentary) thing.
