Paul Waldman
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A "Senior Fellow and Director of Special Projects" for Media Matters for America. He'd be little more than a sycophantic, walking joke if some people didn't take him seriously enough to let him go on shows like Larry King or write for them, such as TAPPED.
Last modified Dec 23, 2008
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Barack Obama acceptance speech: whines about things he supports; a descent - 08/28/08
... claims to be patriotic.
On a more Paul Waldman-esque point, consider:
They claim that our insistence on something larger, something firmer and more honest in our public life is just a Trojan Horse for higher taxes and the abandonment of traditional values.
I suspect that Obama's speech writers are even more in tune with Beavis and Butthead than I am, so I have trouble thinking something like...
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...
Media Matters for America on immigration "myths" ("Fear and Loathing in Prime Time") - 05/21/08
... The authors of the report are: Paul Waldman, Elbert Ventura, Robert Savillo, Susan Lin, and Greg Lewis.
There's video of the press conference here. On May 27, 2008, Hilda Solis spoke with NPR about the event; audio here. A partial transcript is here:
NPR: ...Some people raise the question is it really appropriate for elected officials to be trying shape news coverage? Isn’t that a slippery...
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