Compare this: But among the crowds a little child suddenly gasped out, "But he hasn't got anything on." With this report from Think Progress: McClatchy identified the man as Iraqi television journalist Muthathar al Zaidi and reports he threw both of his shoes at Bush just after he finished prepared…
What does it mean to call President Bush a Manichean warrior? Glenn Greenwald explains, in this interview with Bill Moyers: Well, the idea of being a Manichean comes from this third century BC philosophy that--or religion really that--basically understood the world, a never-ending battle between the forces of pure good…
Now that he doesn't need the evangelicals to get elected (and now that John McCain doesn't need them either), George W. Bush can safely say the the Bible is "probably not literally true." In a recent interview on ABC with Charles Gibson, Bush freely admits that Muslims can go to…
Lots of people want to know, based on Obama's website.
Not all social positions are equally defensible.  Thus, a good journalist will call out injustice and bigotry, rather than simply nodding his or her head out of "respect" for all opinions that an interviewee cares to serve up.  That's the thought I was thinking as I watched Jon Stewart conducting…