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OPINION

Fey's Inner Conservative Gets Out in 30 Rock's Drift Right

Show often presents conservative viewpoint as inevitable

May 7, 09 1:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - 30 Rock will wrap its third season next week, with a ratings boost propelled by creator Tina Fey’s notorious Saturday Night Live impersonations of Sarah Palin. Yet for a show that owes some of its success to the takedown of a Republican politician, 30 Rock often sides with its... More »

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Saturday Night Live • Barack Obama • Republican • Alec Baldwin • conservative • Tina Fey • Tracy Morgan • 30 Rock • liberal • Sarah Palin

OPINION

 For Rush's 
 Cousin, 
 It's All 
 Relative 

Life as a Limbaugh

Apr 1, 09 8:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - Almost all her life, people have been asking Julie Limbaugh if she’s related to Rush. It’s a vexing problem for a teacher at a very liberal high school, but she doesn’t deny the connection. “He's the relative you don't see much,” she writes for Salon.... More »

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Rush Limbaugh • conservative • family • liberal • Julie Limbaugh

Dem Groups 
Loyal to Obama 
Despite Snubs 

Prez won't kiss up
to activists, but pushes
liberal agenda

Mar 21, 09 5:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama is publicly ignoring and even criticizing the liberal interest groups feverishly courted by past presidents. He has chastised the teachers’ union, skipped the State of the Black Union (again), and eschewed fanfare when restoring funding to groups that promote abortion. But activists remain loyal anyway, Politico reports, because... More »

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Barack Obama • labor movement • special interests • liberal • activists • pro-choice activists • Obama administration • political strategy

analysis

Clarence Thomas
Strays From Righty Line

Slams Bush team, backs consumer protection in recent case

Mar 9, 09 9:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - Clarence Thomas might be the Supreme Court’s rightmost justice, but he’s “never been shy about breaking with conventional wisdom,” writes David G. Savage in the Los Angeles Times. In the latest such instance, he upheld injured patients’ right to sue drug companies, arguing that “agency... More »

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Antonin Scalia • Samuel Alito • John Roberts • medical marijuana • conservative • Clarence Thomas • US Supreme Court • liberal • justices • decision • Bill Maher Grid

OPINION

 Moore: I'm Not Dems' Limbaugh 

People agree with me

Mar 6, 09 11:56 AM CST
(Newser) - Just as Democrats are gleefully strapping Rush Limbaugh to the Republican Party, President Bush’s team once hatched a plan to tie filmmaker Michael Moore to Democrats. But, Moore writes for the Huffington Post, there’s one crucial difference between him and Rush: “The American people agree with me,... More »

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Democrats • Rush Limbaugh • conservative • Michael Moore • liberal • George W. Bush • Republicans • Bill Maher Grid

Bloggers, Unions Team Up
to Push Dems to the Left

Liberal coalition will fund competition for centrist incumbents

Feb 26, 09 1:38 PM CST
(Newser) - A new political action committee backed by liberal bloggers and labor unions aims to push the Obama administration and Democratic establishment to embrace more progressive politics, the New York Times reports. Called “Accountability Now” the group will recruit and promote liberal candidates to challenge centrists in Congress. Their goal... More »

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union • blogger • MoveOn.org • congressional Democrats • liberal • Service Employees International Union • Congressional incumbents • Democratic candidates • incumbents

(Newser) - Rush Limbaugh today complained on his radio show that Democrats have morphed into "liberal socialists" and "must be stopped." That was the routine part. But he then "pushed the envelope," writes Sam Stein in the Huffington Post, with a rant that linked liberal ideas to... More »

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radio • Rush Limbaugh • conservative • talk show • liberal

OPINION

 Krugman Is Top Media Liberal

Krugman tops Forbes' list

Jan 24, 09 1:36 AM CST
(Newser) - Washington is beginning a new liberal era, and Forbes lists the 25 media lefties likely to be the most influential in the coming years. The top 5:
  1. Paul Krugman. The Nobel Prize-winner's "prose is as pungent as his academic credentials are impeccable."
  2. Arianna Huffington:
... More »

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media • list • Jon Stewart • Thomas Friedman • Paul Krugman • Arianna Huffington • liberal

(Newser) - Barack Obama's cabinet picks may have elicited howls from the left, but he won't sell out his progressive supporters, E.J. Dionne, Jr. writes in The New Republic. For starters, Obama never was a true economic lefty—that was John Edwards' role. Like John F. Kennedy 45 years ago, Obama... More »

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Barack Obama • lefties • Barack Obama supporters • liberal

Justice Stevens Is 88, and Not Looking to Play More Bridge

Lefty judge shows no signs of stepping down

Nov 18, 08 10:04 AM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama can’t make his much-anticipated mark on the Supreme Court until a justice retires—and at 88, his most likely candidate, John Paul Stevens, has shown no mind to leave, the Washington Post reports. The second-oldest justice in Court history is in great shape, the Post notes, telecommuting... More »

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John Paul Stevens • US Supreme Court • liberal • President Obama

analysis

 Has Obama 
 Tipped Murdoch Left? 

NY Post coverage trumpets president-elect

Nov 17, 08 9:35 AM CST
(Newser) - Media watchers have been tracking the post-election New York Post with particular interest: Instead of being dyspeptic over the Democratic presidential win, Rupert Murdoch's gleefully right-wing tabloid has treated Barack Obama to coverage ranging, as the New York Times puts it, "from warm and fuzzy to downright heroic."... More »

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Barack Obama • Rupert Murdoch • New York Post • News Corp • liberal • Michael Wolff • President Obama

 Fake NYT Declares War Over 

Among other liberal fantasies like, 'Universities free!' and 'Thomas Friedman to resign'

Nov 12, 08 11:33 AM CST
(Newser) - “IRAQ WAR ENDS” declares the New York Times—or at least, an amazingly realistic imitation. A group of pranksters blanketed New York City with a fake edition of the paper of record this morning, reports Gawker. Dated July 4, 2009, the paper sports other headlines spun from liberal... More »

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New York Times • prank • Thomas Friedman • liberal • Iraq war

Opinion

Election Really Does Signal
a Move to the Left

Dems have built a new coalition of professionals, minorities, women

Nov 5, 08 6:00 PM CST
(Newser) - Don’t believe the voices warning Barack Obama to go slow and stick to the center because America remains conservative. There’s every reason to believe we’ve undergone a fundamental realignment, writes John B. Judis in the New Republic. The long shift toward a post-industrial economy has rearranged the... More »

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Barack Obama • liberal • Election 2008 • coalition

OPINION

Liberals, Don't Be Afraid if This Guy Wins: Kristol

A McCain win isn't the worst thing for liberalism

Nov 3, 08 7:56 AM CST
(Newser) - OK, so John McCain isn't likely to win, admits Bill Kristol in the New York Times. But if he does, here are things liberals could cheer (if they're not heading for the Canadian border).
  • Shouldn’t liberals love it when the underdog pulls it off? “A McCain upset
... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • liberal • Election 2008 • William Kristol

OPINION

Obama Court Would Threaten Foundation of US Democracy

'Left-wing ideologue' threatens representative governance if elected

Oct 29, 08 4:17 PM CDT
(Newser) - Before electing a “left-wing ideologue,” Americans should reconsider who “moderate-posing” Barack Obama would put on the Supreme Court, Edward Whelan writes in the National Review. The Democrat will select ultra-liberals for a bench already “markedly to the left of the American public,” he cautions: “... More »

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Barack Obama • Democrat • Obama 2008 • US Supreme Court • liberal • judges

GOP Closes Wallet on NC Rep. Hayes

Remark that 'liberals hate real Americans' bites back in close race

Oct 24, 08 4:38 PM CDT
(Newser) - Rep. Robin Hayes is still struggling to get out from under a comment he made last weekend that “liberals hate real Americans,” and the Republican National Committee has cancelled plans to help in a tight re-election fight with an ad buy in his North Carolina district, the Charlotte ... More »

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Congress • North Carolina • liberals • gaffe • liberal • re-election • Robin Hayes • Larry Kissell

'Rupert Murdoch Is Becoming
a Liberal'

Mogul held secret meeting with Obama to negotiate a truce: Wolff

Sep 2, 08 9:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Rupert Murdoch isn't what you've been told, Michael Wolff writes in Vanity Fair. He's not a destroyer of journalism—he is perhaps the last great lover of newspapers. And he’s actually turning liberal. Yes, he’s still a free-marketeer, but Murdoch has been seduced by his second wife’s... More »

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Barack Obama • newspaper • Rupert Murdoch • Wall Street Journal • Fox • Roger Ailes • News Corp • liberal

OPINION

 Dems Should
 Fear 'Sarah
 Barracuda'

If McCain lets veep pick be herself, a 'mold-breaking example' will be born

Aug 30, 08 2:52 PM CDT
(Newser) - Democrats will launch one patronizing strike after another on Sarah Palin in the coming weeks, but make no mistake: Liberals are—and should be—terrified of the GOP veep pick, William Kristol writes in the Weekly Standard. Palin is “a compelling and mold-breaking example for lots of Americans,... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Joe Biden • conservative • liberal • Election 2008 • Sarah Palin • vice presidential candidate • William Kristol

OPINION

 Lefty Ticket a Boon to McCain

US still leans center-right

Aug 25, 08 9:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama has taken a big risk by choosing a VP almost as liberal as he is, writes Fred Barnes in the Wall Street Journal. In the past, Democrats have found success in politically balanced tickets: centrist Jimmy Carter and lefty Walter Mondale, moderate Bill Clinton and more liberal Al... More »

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Barack Obama • Joe Biden • liberal • running mate • vice presidential candidate

ANALYSIS

Left Breaks News; Right Can't Fix It

Liberals add reporting
to arsenal; pro-GOP sites mainly comment

Jul 24, 08 7:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - The left is using the Internet far more effectively than the right, Jonathan Martin writes on Politico. While conservative political sites are principally opinion, lefty destinations like the Huffington Post and Talking Points Memo tread the line between reportage and commentary, breaking stories ignored by the mainstream media that advance... More »

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John McCain • Internet • GOP • conservative • McCain 2008 • liberal • Huffington Post • Talking Points Memo

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