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  • Red, White and Yellow?

    Number of comments: 10
    It’s being reported this morning that prisoners from the Guantonomo detainment facility will be transferred to an upgraded prison in Illinois, pending congressional approval. Prepare for some major cable news thumb-sucking. “Hide the women and children,” the cable news fear mongers and Obama Administration critics will effectively shriek. “Put America’s enemies [...]
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    Posted: December 15, 2009, 8:42am EST
    by Joe Loveland

  • ENDorsements

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    Juxtapose Gillete’s “the best a man can get” ads, and headlines about Tiger’s weeping family moving to an island to escape humilation. Justaxpose Accenture’s “Be a Tiger” ads and spicy details about Tiger being an extramarital tiger. Juxtapose Nike’s “Just Do It” ads, and Tiger indiscriminately doing it and doing [...]
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    Posted: December 14, 2009, 9:02am EST
    by Joe Loveland

  • Journalists Could Illuminate A Better Deficit Debate

    Number of comments: 9
    During times of war and economic crisis, some believe deficits are a necessary evil. At the same time, some believe we should never run deficits. This debate is healthy. Journalists should press Obama and his congressional supporters about whether 2009-10 was a justifiable time to run a record deficit, and [...]
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    Posted: December 11, 2009, 2:39pm EST
    by Joe Loveland

  • Where All the Children Are Above Average?

    Number of comments: 6
    Fake journalist John Stewart recently did an exposé on fakey journalist Gretchen Carlson, the former Miss Minnesota turned Miss Fox News. On Fox, the Anoka native frequently plays Palin-esque “aw shucks” anti-intellectual cards. For instance, Carlson recently pretended to look up the words “czar,” “ignoramus” and “double dip recession” to [...]
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    Posted: December 10, 2009, 8:03am EST
    by Joe Loveland

  • SmartAss Award 1 — You Go Paula Maccabee!!

    As a facilitator of group sessions, on leadership development or talking with the media or tatting, I often, when I remember to, give out a Smartass Award. Somebody shoots off a zinger nailing me or a corporate sacred cow or a boss who can take it, and I’ll toss out [...]
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    Posted: December 09, 2009, 10:36pm EST
    by Bruce Benidt

  • Cost of No New Taxes, China, Greed & Pogo

    Number of comments: 10
    One in four kids in America on food stamps. Ninety thousand new food stamp recipients in Minnesota in the last two years. A Hennepin County spokesperson told the StarTribune Sunday that the “solidly middle class have fallen into the safety net.” Now Minneapolis will have 25 fewer cops next year because [...]
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    Posted: December 09, 2009, 10:23am EST
    by Bruce Benidt

  • “The Minnesota Compromise” on Health Reform?

    Number of comments: 10
    In the health reform debate, the Senate is split between “public option,” and “private only.” It’s reminiscent of the mid-19th century, when the split was “slave” versus “free,” and the Senate ultimately landed on middle ground, the Missouri Compromise of 1850. In the waning days of 2009, the Senate is once [...]
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    Posted: December 08, 2009, 9:09am EST
    by Joe Loveland

  • Beyond the Senate Health Reform Speeches

    Number of comments: 5
    The knives are out in the Senate health reform rumble. To be sure, a vote in support of health reform is politically perilous. Voters are very nervous about how the complex proposals will impact their lives. But political admakers are also spotlighting how a vote to KILL reform can sting [...]
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    Posted: December 07, 2009, 3:33pm EST
    by Joe Loveland

  • One Data Point

    Number of comments: 10
    If extraterrestrial anthropologists were evaluating our species, what they would make of this: A human is fined just $212 for propelling a 3,000 pound hunk of metal at his fellow humans at 109 miles per hour. Later that week, the same human is fined more than twenty times as much [...]
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    Posted: December 05, 2009, 12:50pm EST
    by Joe Loveland

  • Does Size Really Matter?

    Number of comments: 10
    Danielle Steele’s novels are automatically superior to Leo Tolstoy’s novels, right? That must be so if you adopt the logic of a common contemporary Republican talking point: Big documents are automatically inferior to short documents. Increasingly, it seems Republican pols and pundits love to criticize legislative proposals by citing the SIZE [...]
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    Posted: December 01, 2009, 2:20pm EST
    by Joe Loveland

  • Save the Tiger

    Number of comments: 10
    What should Tiger Woods do? Something other than what he’s doing, surely. John Feinstein wrote Monday that Tiger, like most big businessmen, likes control. He’s carefully controlled his image and the media’s access to him, and now, by running down a fire hydrant and a tree, he’s lost control over the conversation [...]
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    Posted: December 01, 2009, 12:16am EST
    by Bruce Benidt

  • Can Obama Make the Case for More Costly War in Afghanistan?

    Number of comments: 10
    President Obama has a hard job ahead of him — convincing Americans we should keep fighting in Afghanistan, convincing us that the soldiers who are being killed and maimed there are serving our national interest and the interests of global security, freedom and democracy. I’m tired of useless, ill-conceived and poorly [...]
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    Posted: December 01, 2009, 11:16pm EST
    by Bruce Benidt

  • Internal AP memo on breaking the “Going Rogue” story

    Number of comments: 2
    via tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com An interesting look into the AP’s process for tracking down an early copy of Sarah Palin’s “Going Rogue” and how the news service was first with the fact-check story. It’s like a Bond movie! Posted via web from Mike’s stuff [...]
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    Posted: November 28, 2009, 4:04pm EST
    by Mike Keliher

  • Really, AP?

    Number of comments: 5
    via The Associated Press A) It’s not the AP’s job to report on what the First Lady is wearing. B) Let’s discuss this matter of you calling it a “flesh-colored gown.” [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 3:05pm EST
    by Mike Keliher

  • Will MPR save journalism?

    Number of comments: 7
    I assure you I’m neither the first nor the last keyboard jockey to ask this post’s titular question, but this article from Ken Doctor has me thinking again about it. (In fact, last time I was on this kick, I was writing about NPR and, a quick check reveals, I [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 9:30pm EST
    by Mike Keliher

  • Evolution or Devolution of Political Discourse?

    Number of comments: 10
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 4:37pm EST
    by Joe Loveland

  • Democrats on Deficit: Proclaim, Don’t Blame

    Number of comments: 10
    Republicans have a potent issue to win over Independents and other swing voters in the 2010 congressional elections – the deficit. And the Democrats’ defense against deficit spending charges so far has been “Bush did it first.” That “Bush did it first” blaming is certainly true. Bush’s Democratic predecessor eliminated the [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 9:21am EST
    by Joe Loveland

  • Zygi’s PR Hail Mary Puts Vikings In The Game

    Number of comments: 10
    In the political world, there is something much worse than being opposed. It’s called being ignored. And until Vikings owner Zygi Wilf and his team showed their teeth this week, they were being roundly ignored by the Legislature. The billionaire not only couldn’t get half a billion bucks from the Legislature, [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 1:52pm EST
    by Joe Loveland

  • Media Misses Health Trend Story Behind Rating

    Number of comments: 10
    We’re number six! We’re number six! It’s not exactly the cheer proud Minnesotans are accustomed to when it comes to health. After all, for four years in a row we were the number one healthiest state in the nation, according to the United Health Foundation. Health has always been one [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 5:13pm EST
    by Joe Loveland

  • Siding With Sarah

    Number of comments: 10
    Pigs must be aloft and they must be playing hockey in Hell today because I find myself in agreement with Sarah Palin regarding Newsweek’s cover photo choice.  It’s a cheap shot and one the magazine should have resisted taking. It’d be one thing if she posed for Newsweek in this get-up, [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 2:13pm EST
    by Jon Austin

  • The End of Unallot?

    Number of comments: 6
    Five months ago, we ruminated about “Unallot,” the magical fiscal fiefdom created by Governor Tim Pawlenty. “Don’t let it be forgot That once there was a spot, For one brief, shining moment That was known as Unallot.” In the magical kingdom of Unallot, a Governor who feigns surprise about huge deficits that have been [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 6:36pm EST
    by Joe Loveland

  • “Dithering” Doublespeak

    Number of comments: 10
    One of the things that uncredentialed fake journalist Jon Stewart does on Comedy Channel that many credentialed real journalists don’t do is connect the dots of recent events. Stewart and his writers don’t just regurgitate the news of the day and look at events in isolation. They dig until they [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 3:26pm EST
    by Joe Loveland

  • Why newspapers need copyeditors

    Number of comments: 2
    Hell hath no fury like an AP stylist scorned. (Click the image to see a larger version. Story here.) [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 12:46am EST
    by Mike Keliher

  • “No Faith Justifies These Murderous and Craven Acts”

    Number of comments: 10
    Yesterday’s service at Fort Hood for the soldiers murdered last week was a haunting introduction to Veterans Day. These are trying times for our country, President Obama said in Texas. He’s trying to bring the Iraq war to an end, and trying to understand what path is best in the [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2009, 11:18am EST
    by Bruce Benidt

  • The Wall

    Number of comments: 10
    A wall is a symbol. Of fear. Of hope. The Berlin Wall — and its absence — is a symbol that change is possible. Change can come. There is always hope, in the deepest dark, that the world can change. For 28 years in prison, Nelson Mandela held on to [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 9:43pm EST
    by Bruce Benidt

  • Pawlenty’s Secret Weapon in Iowa

    Number of comments: 2
    Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty has been busy preening Presidential in Iowa, which raises an interesting question: Where will his breakthrough political moment come in the Hawkeye State? Will Governor Pawlenty’s breakthrough come during a spellbinding address to the Muscatine County Republican Women’s Club meeting? Will it come with a well-timed anti-evolution [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 9:06am EST
    by Joe Loveland

  • “With liberty and health care for all.”

    Number of comments: 10
    The House of Representatives is within minutes of having its members vote on the Health Care bill — H.R. 3962. As could be expected, most Republicans see the bill as a loss of freedom for citizens and too expensive ($1.2 tillion during the next decade, they claim.) But Most Democrats [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 6:28pm EST
    by Ellen Mrja

  • Signs of the Times

    Number of comments: 10
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 12:47pm EST
    by Joe Loveland

  • A Developing Tragedy…

    Number of comments: 2
    The first reports from Fort Hood are chaotic but are coalescing around a couple of truly horrific numbers – 12 dead, 31 injured in a shooting on the U.S.’s largest military installation.  Now comes word that the one of three possible shooters is Army Major Malik Nadal Hassan, age 39 [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 5:00pm EST
    by Jon Austin

  • Whither Obama?

    Number of comments: 5
    Did yesterday’s election tell President Obama to go more to the right or more to the left? Spinners are making the Arachnid Hall of Fame these last 24 hours. Obama’s done, the Right will Rise Again. Or, these were local elections and they were about the individual candidates and blahmeblahblah. [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 12:32am EST
    by Bruce Benidt

  • Kingmaker’s Club Republicans

    Number of comments: 10
    Governor Pawlenty loves to lecture Repbulicans that they mustn’t only be Country Club Republicans, but must also strive to be Sam’s Club Republicans. It’s a savvy attempt to win the votes of the all-important Buys Charmin By the Cubic Yard Moms. Well recently Minnesota’s Governor in absentia has also been acting [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 3:44pm EST
    by Joe Loveland

  • IRV Votes and He’s Kinda Rank

    Number of comments: 3
    Chalk this up to me being an old fuddy-duddy, a conservative, but I voted today in Minneapolis using the instant-runoff ranking, and it felt stupid to me. I wanted to be interviewed by somebody — newsies were interviewing voters about the new ranked-choice voting, and most of the comments were about [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 12:33am EST
    by Bruce Benidt

  • In The Arena, At Last

    Number of comments: 8
    Republican President Theodore Roosevelt once described what it is like to stick your neck out in the brutal world of political communications: “It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2009, 3:52pm EST
    by Joe Loveland

  • A Long (But Easy) Report on Web Analytics 101

    Number of comments: 4
    I attended a conference of the Online News Association in San Francisco last month and heard USC Annenberg lecturer Dr. Dana Chinn present a good session on “finding meaning in the metrics” of Web analytics. (For those of you who are experts in Google Analytics, like my friend Jeremy Powers, [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 10:01pm EST
    by Ellen Mrja

  • Why The Lack of Mac-like Attacks?

    Number of comments: 10
    One of the most profound paradoxes of American politics is that citizens love to hate negative political ads, yet negative ads persist, because the same consumers that hate them are consistently persuaded by them. If negative ads work so well for bottom-line driven political consultants unselling the competitors’ politicians, it would [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 4:38pm EST
    by Joe Loveland

  • Obama Wrong on Fox, Right on Journalists’ Shield Law

    Number of comments: 6
    The Obama administration has gone one for two on issues with the media recently — and it’s gotten the most important one right. I think they’ve muffed it on Fox — good lord, grow a thicker skin and don’t give those twerps the satisfaction of successfully picking a fight with you. [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 11:31pm EST
    by Bruce Benidt

  • Health Care Expert Backs Public Option

    Number of comments: 10
    Don’t want to overlook Lois Quam, quoted in yesterday’s StarTribune, supporting a public option for health insurance. This is a big deal. Quam is smart — one of a handful of incredibly smart women in health care, including former state health commissioner Jan Malcolm, I had the privilege to meet when [...]
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    Posted: October 30, 2009, 11:18am EDT
    by Bruce Benidt

  • Let the Pirates Stand Up and Filibuster

    Number of comments: 10
    Senator Joe Lieberman threatens a filibuster to fend off the dreaded Public Option. It’s a serious threat — who would want to listen to Lieberman blither and dribble for hours on end? Why are the Democrats so afraid of a filibuster — other than the reasonable concern that there wouldn’t be [...]
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    Posted: October 28, 2009, 9:43pm EDT
    by Bruce Benidt

  • In the Year Twenty Eighteen…

    Number of comments: 10
    I just re-upped for the domain name thesamerowdycrowd.com. For nine years. Don’t know why nine, exactly. Mainly because I’m terrible at keeping track of things and now we won’t have to worry about it again until 2018. When a small nerdy herd of us dreamed this blog up three years ago [...]
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    Posted: October 27, 2009, 8:34pm EDT
    by Bruce Benidt

  • Fight Club

    Number of comments: 10
    Among the most tiresome things about cable TV commentary programs is their increasing fixation with airing extensive serial feuds with other cable news networks and personalities. Every night now, Dobbs, Schultz, Beck, Maddow, Hannity, Olberman, O’Reilly and the other faux furious fulminators rant off cue cards about what each other said [...]
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    Posted: October 26, 2009, 4:44pm EDT
    by Joe Loveland

  • “Breaking” a News Story That’s Quivering in Plain Sight

    Number of comments: 10
    A story in the StarTribune today made me think about how covering the health care debate the way we cover elections — as a horse race — results in such lame coverage and an electorate that knows very little about what’s truly going on. The story is about a small young [...]
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    Posted: October 22, 2009, 3:45pm EDT
    by Bruce Benidt

  • “Smart Choices” Smart Marketing?

    Number of comments: 3
    Cocoa Puffs and Fruit Loops are “Smart Choices” for health conscious consumers, according to labels applied by General Mills and Kelloggs. But the Food and Drug Association (FDA), ever the regulatory “mean mom,” is not so sure. The FDA is a stickler for details, and it has discovered there is no [...]
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    Posted: October 22, 2009, 2:02pm EDT
    by Joe Loveland

  • The Hidden Subsidy

    Number of comments: 10
    Rare is the news coverage of an alternative energy source that doesn’t remind us that the cute little alternative isn’t seriously ready for prime time, because, after all, it requires subsidization to be affordable. Which is why the two-inch blurb on page A5 of today’s Star Tribune was such a miniscule [...]
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    Posted: October 20, 2009, 8:36am EDT
    by Joe Loveland

  • On Hugs

    Number of comments: 10
    The Same Rowdy Crowd’s masthead says we’re all about “rumination and fulmination about communication,” and so today I’m fulminating about a change in communications over my lifetime that rivals the dawn of faxes, PCs, the Internet, cell phones, smart phones, and social networking. I speak, of course, of the proliferation [...]
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    Posted: October 20, 2009, 8:29am EDT
    by Joe Loveland

  • Blame Blame

    Number of comments: 4
    New York Times headline today: U.S. Deficit Rises To $1.4 Trillion; Biggest Since ‘45 ______________ Two Parties Trade Blame A brushfire is about to torch your house, the wind is blowing and cinders are falling on your roof. You see two fire engines pull up — and the firefighters jump out of their trucks and start [...]
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    Posted: October 17, 2009, 1:56pm EDT
    by Bruce Benidt

  • News Flash: Franken Featured on Daily Show, And Is NOT Butt of Joke

    Number of comments: 5
    You may recall that Senate candidate Al Franken had a bit of political trouble because of his SNL days brainstorming jokes about rape. Not his proudest moment. So it’s not a big surprise that Senator Al is putting an early focus on building a legislative record of being decidedly anti-rape. [...]
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    Posted: October 15, 2009, 4:36pm EDT
    by Joe Loveland

  • What is Michele Bachmann?

    Number of comments: 4
    Michele Bachmann made the front page of The New York Times today, in a story showing her to be a beacon for conservative views and a lightning rod for liberal stupefaction, the second-most-popular woman to Sarah Palin among conservatives, a woman with a love of TV cameras, and a person [...]
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    Posted: October 15, 2009, 12:50pm EDT
    by Bruce Benidt

  • The Key To Public Support: Government-run Coverage

    Number of comments: 10
    Pollster John Zogby recently found that public support for Senator Max Baucus’s health reform bill was at only about 29 percent. Ouch. But interestingly, Zogby found the addition of two amendments would increase public support to the mid-50s. The amendments? Malpractice tort reform and a Medicare-like public insurance option to [...]
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    Posted: October 14, 2009, 8:13am EDT
    by Joe Loveland

  • Nobel Prize Winner Speaks Clear, Simple Truth

    Number of comments: 3
    Sometimes it takes a Nobel Prize winner to say something clear and strong and compelling about our world. No, not our Nobel Prize winner — Bangladesh’s. Muhammad Yunus is this week’s person answering 10 questions from Time Magazine readers. He is the genius behind local microloans that help people in Bangladesh start [...]
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    Posted: October 13, 2009, 3:01pm EDT
    by Bruce Benidt

  • Stompin’ at the Loft and the Dakota — Jazz and Poetry

    Number of comments: 1
    My friend John Gaterud and his daughter Abbey have created Blueroad Press, and their newest offering, Stompin’ At The Grand Terrace, is being celebrated tonight at The Loft in Minneapolis and Sunday at the Dakota, also in Minneapolis. If you need a break from baseball or from the shock of cold [...]
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    Posted: October 09, 2009, 1:22pm EDT
    by Bruce Benidt
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