October 2006

An Open Letter to Charles Johnson

October 21, 2006

Dear Chuck: Look, I feel badly for Senator Burns, too. No matter how despicable his politics have been and how shamefully he’s conducted himself, both as a Senator and a candidate, he’s probably actually a decent guy, who thinks he’s doing right. It’s got to be hard, watching your political career end before you are [...]

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A Powerful Ad

October 20, 2006

Maybe it’s my age, and growing up in the 1980s, but this is one powerful ad. When people tell you that it doesn’t matter which party you support, remember that only one party has been so co-opted by the extreme religious right that it is willing to support legislation that limits efforts to cure debilitating [...]

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Debate Fact Check

October 20, 2006

Andy has a great fact check up of the Great Falls debate. Definitely worth a look. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Buzz it up share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Print for later Tell a friend

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Tester-Burns Debate in Great Falls, Part 1

October 20, 2006

Wow. This is amateur hour in Great Falls. I bet the kids at C-Span are impressed with this show. Perhaps finding someone who knows how to use a microphone might have been a good strategy for the moderator. The panelists look terrified as well, which is fun. Burns Opening: Conrad pointedly doesn’t thank Tester in [...]

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Debate, Round 7 Coverage

October 20, 2006

We’ll be watching and analyzing the last Senate tonight, and making video available if it’s not taken care of elsewhere. Pre-debate odds: Burns finally brings a crowd (Bused, at the campaign’s expense, but there) 3:1 Burns reveals that the secret plan is to send President Bush to Iraq in one of those…uh…helichoppers…to kill Osama bin [...]

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Conrad’s Officially Losing It: A Secret Plan To Win the War!

October 17, 2006

Senator Burns may finally have crossed the line from a lovable idiot to a full-blown conspiracy theorist. Pressed to reconcile his belief that the war in Iraq is going well and his new position that we need to make changes to win the war, Burns offered this defense: “He says our president don’t have a [...]

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Quick debate notes…

October 17, 2006

I had Open House tonight at school and so I didn’t catch all of the debate, but I want to make a couple of quick notes of what I did hear: 1. Burns sounds awful. Between the stuttering, lack of subject-verb agreement or awkward phrasing, Burns is a shameful spokeman for Montana. 2. Why on [...]

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The Montana Standard’s High Standards for Journalistic Excellence Continue

October 15, 2006

A week after the tired, ugly piece by a political hack attacking Jon Tester for his position on the Patriot Act, the Montana Standard is back in action, with an endorsement op-ed, from someone (Cindy Perdue-Dolan) who was taking her paycheck from Burns just over a year ago. What, his wife was too distracted by the [...]

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