Matt Yglesias of Slate

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CAP wants to run the U.S. and can't even make a workable website - 05/31/11

... Then, of course, there's the Matt Yglesias avatar at the top that makes him look like he's hosting a 60s political talk show. 3. They've gotten rid of Disqus comments and replaced them with comments from Facebook. For all its faults, Disqus is at least not Facebook. It sometimes takes a few tries to login using Facebook (or using Yahoo via Facebook), when Disqus logs in right away. For instance...

Matt Yglesias supports taking toys from needy U.S. children; unable to understand limited resources - 12/01/09

... the story is here. About this, Matt Yglesias says (link): I think there are pretty good pragmatic reasons to think that democratic governments should consider themselves primarily responsible for the welfare of their citizens rather than for the welfare of humanity at large... I’m not sure what sense it makes to say that “the point” isn’t “to punish the children” since the method chosen is the...

Dear Center for American Progress: do you support getting jobs for Fresno's homeless? - 03/26/09

... Center for American Progress: Your Matt Yglesias drew my attention (link) to the New York Times article "Cities Deal With a Surge in Shantytowns" (link) about a rise in homeless people living under bridges in Fresno, California. I have an effective way to ease their plight and I'd appreciate it if you'd let me know whether you'll help promote the idea. In my plan, Immigrations and Customs...

Marin Cogan/TNR's massive Fairness Doctrine strawman - 11/20/08

Marin Cogan of the New Republic offers "Bum Rush/Obama's secret plan to muzzle talk radio. Very, very secret." (tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=68d07041-7dbc-451d-a18a-752567145610). The supposed "reporter-researcher" looks for evidence that the Democrats want to bring back the Fairness Doctrine and can't find it. She therefore concludes that the Democrats don't want to try to muzzle rightwing...

Did James Glassman/State Department mock Sarah Palin? - 10/03/08

An anonymous commenter at yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2008/10/simmons_mocks_palin.php says: James Glassman, the Undersecretay of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, was just introduced on C-Span at the National Press Club. As he approached the speaker's platform he said: "Thank you Donna. May I call you Donna?" Then he went immediately into "a shout out" to the school his...

Stephen Bainbridge, Matt Yglesias embarrass themselves in support of illegal immigration (minorities, bailout) - 09/28/08

... faulty data wasn't enough for Matt Yglesias, he needed to race bait and smear those who, unlike him, support our laws [3]: This is one of these wingnut talking points that I can't even begin to unpack in a coherent argument, but white supremacist sentiment has always been an important element of the modern conservative movement so it's not surprising to see it rear its head even in odd contexts...

Jonathan Martin/Politico: please try real reporting for a change ("Holtz-Eakin: McCain helped create BlackBerry") - 09/16/08

... likely to still hear today. Even Matt Yglesias caught on, and that's saying something: yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2008/09/ dhe_no_mccain_no_blackberry.php What I suggest is we keep a tally of all the things that Johnathan Martin of the Politico refuses to cover, and we point out his journalistic failings before and after the election. Please leave some of the things Martin refuses to...

Washington Post: America's finest source for bad reporting (Palin "slashed" funds story) - 09/02/08

... blogging could have been expecting, Matt Yglesias fell for the WaPo's tale too: yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2008/09/life_begins_at_conception_and_ends_at_death.php (The link here before was to another post where MattY got things wrong: yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2008/09/palin_and_special_needs_children.php UPDATE 4: NPR also fell for the WaPo's tale, but at least they printed a...

Paul Kane/WaPo's reporting skills are on par with DailyKos (Sarah Palin veto) - 09/02/08

... comment (not the post) at corrects Matt Yglesias with this (yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2008/09/palin_and_special_needs_children.php#comment-629796): If you bother looking at the documents, you can see that one program, the Alaska Challenge Youth Academy Program is included in the budget for 2007 but not in 2008. This accounts for nearly all of the discrepancy. You could also see, with...

DailyKos' Netroots Nation has Mexican government-linked group - 07/15/08

... notables such as Cliff Schecter, Matt Yglesias, and Amanda Marcotte. If you register now, you can save 10% if you use the special code GUSHALL at checkout.

Questions for Matt Yglesias - 06/21/08

Recently, Matt Yglesias of The Atlantic (matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com) has been posting a daily thread soliciting questions that he'll answer from his visitors ("requests"). I've posted a few comments to those threads without an answer, but that just means I'll keep trying. To be frank, the reason I do that is in the hope that one of these days Matthew Yglesias will let someone at the higher...

Paul Waldman wins the BOSA! (Barack Obama Sycophant Award) - 06/19/08

Congratulations to Paul Waldman of Media Matters for America, who's just now won the BOSA, also known as the Barack Obama Sycophant Award, the Toady, the Yglesias, and other names too numerous to mention! Last seen here calling the NAFTA Superhighway a myth and then admitting that it exists in one form, Waldman contributes to the American Prospect's TAPPED. BOSA judges "tapped" the following...

Obama Oregon rally was preceded by free concert from Portland band The Decemberists - 05/20/08

... example, let's turn to paid hack Matt Yglesias (matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/05/jim_geraghtys_revenge_song.php): By now you've heard all about Barack Obama's radical pastor and secret Allah-worship, but Jim Geraghty's got the scoop about Obama's secret association with Portland-based indie rock bands. Yes, that's right, the Decemberists played Obama's 75,000 person rally. Quoth...

Immigrant assimilation study: low scores for Mexicans; other results mixed (N.C. Aizenman/WaPo, Yglesias, Drezner, Atrios, Weigel) - 05/13/08

... having changed. Next up is Matt Yglesias, who links approvingly to both the WaPo and Atrios in "Assimilation Then and Now" (matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/05/assimilation_then_and_now.php). Last and least at least as far as traffic is concerned, Daniel Drezner takes a content-free swipe at both Lou Dobbs and Mickey Kaus (http://www.danieldrezner.com/archives/003815.html)...

Matt Yglesias, Ross Douthat, and Marc Ambinder at... The Table - 12/19/07

This video of the premiere edition of The Atlantic's entry into vlogging is just too funny for words. I was laughing so hard at the intro music plus the hosts turning to the camera that I was unable to listen to the rest (probably for the best). IT WAS ALL JUST A DREAM UPDATE: Now, SansAClue (Yglesias) says the intro was meant to be ironic. Apparently, as in, we were expecting three privileged...

Democrats: soft on terrorist infiltration - 11/13/07

... mainstream bloggers/pundits (like Matt Yglesias), and the MSM just don't take border security that seriously. Some Democratic politicians might not go that far, and some might truly support border security, but most of them - including the top-tier Democratic candidates - simply talk a good game. Hopefully Frank Luntz or similar is working on rhetoric that would expose this abject failure to...

Could Matt Yglesias be any more of a dude? - 04/30/07

... seemingly the first time, pundit Matt Yglesias recently traveled to Taos, New Mexico. I spent a fair amount of time typing out an unheeded comment suggesting that he travel further south and visit Las Cruces, El Paso, and Carlsbad and also that he take a hike at the White Sands National Monument. It's a good thing he didn't take my advice: he probably would have done it in a tuxedo. In a show of...

Tips for John Edwards re: $400 hair cut - 04/22/07

John Edwards recently got two haircuts for the exorbitant price of $400 each, and tried to bill the campaign for them. Various "liberals" are now aghast at the coverage that this matter has received, particularly that from Maureen Dowd. For instance, this. In an attempt to reach out, let me offer some of the talking points the Edwards campaign could use to defuse the situation. Expect to see...

NAU apologists - 11/24/06

... indeed a member of the CFR]. * Matt Yglesias links approvingly to his article in the post "The Highway That Wasn't There". * Both join Vice President Dick Cheney in claiming there's no such highway. * In early August 2007, Stephen Colbert had a little bit of "fun": youtube.com/watch?v=Ookak1IQJ3U 8/24/07 UPDATE: * Seattle Times columnist Bruce Ramsey offers "Bet your bottom amero that U.S....

Could our collective memories have erasers? - 12/27/04

... Hobbes, Blackfive, RedState, Matt Yglesias, Kevin Drum, RightWingNews, JohnMarkReynolds, PoliPundit, The Fourth Rail, StonesCryOut, CadetHappy, BrainShavings, Al Mohler, Betsy's Page, Smash, Patrick Ruffini, Captain's Quarters, Wizbang... (This is my "must visit at least weekly" list, along with others named above or below.) I've never heard of a few of those, and, except for a few of the rest I...

Howard Dean <b>can</b> win! - 06/09/03

Via this post comes this post which says: After I attended the Howard Dean meetup this week... at The Metro, a gay bar in the Castro. I... signed up to volunteer... to do "outreach" activites, including, apparently, going to gay bars and talking to people about Dean. Well... a genuine excuse to [go] up to strange guys without having to worry about an opening line. Good luck, but I don't think...

I coined "transnational progressivism" too - 04/09/03

[Update: the Michael Ratner mentioned below is also trying to use the ICC "as a tool to restrain American military power" as described here and here.] Several lefties are mad with glee over their discovery of errors in a National Review article ("Liberate the universities") about something called "transnational progressivism." First, they say there's no such thing as a "transnational...