Intelligent Discontent

Judge Him By the Company He Keeps, Indeed

It looks like Conrad Burns’ friends and political allies continue to have legal and ethical problems. This time? Pat Davison, Burns’s state finance director, has been charged with securities fraud by the State Auditor’s office. I’m just looking through the documents here and here, but it doesn’t look good. It’s funny how indicted and/or alleged lawbreakers [...]

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Judge Him By the Company He Keeps

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Conrad Thinks Farmers Are Lazy, Too

Shane and Matt have already mentioned this, but I think it’s important to note again: Conrad Burns, champion of agriculture, thinks that farmers are lazy: The Burns campaign declined NEWSWEEK’S request for an interview. When we told them that you had agreed to chat, Burns’ campaign spokesperson said, “He has time to talk, because he’s just [...]

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An Excellent Cartoon About the State of the Media

John de Rosier succintly expresses what’s wrong with the American media here.

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Singer, Coobs and Klindt Collide: The Tribune on Montana Blogging

Gwen Florio’s story today about Montana blogs was a little disappointing, repeating a lot of the Republican nonsense about the connection between Kos and Tester, and because it featured a look at the semi-official mouthpiece of the GOP without making the connection obvious. Florio prints the same inane Klindt allegations that somehow suggests that Jon Tester agrees [...]

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Don’t Let Them Define You, Jon.

I have to agree with David Crisp on this issue: Jon Tester should have filled out the Project Vote Smart survey. Jackie Corr reports in the Tribune that the Tester campaign chose not to complete the survey because “answering the questionnaire…provides opponents with fodder for attacking the candidates.” It’s a misguided rationale. The intellectual thugs in [...]

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The Missoulian’s Editors on Holiday

Here. Oh, and once again, journalists should keep all of their rights. Bold (and accidentally, mostly right) when it comes to the rights of journalists and their sources, cowards for the rest of us.

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