Slate Columnist Cheers Breitbart’s Death
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Economics and philosophy expert Matthew Yglesias reacted with glee Thursday morning at the news that conservative journalist Andrew Breitbart had died. “Conventions around dead people are ridiculous,” the Slate correspondent wrote on Twitter this morning. “The world outlook is slightly improved..
Published on Wednesday 16th of May 2012 11:29:43 AM
WaPo Owned Slate.com Calls Sarah Palin a C*** in Headline
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Washington Post owned Slate.com used a crude misogynist wordplay to call Sarah Palin a c*** in a headline for an article published Tuesday about a supposed secret Sarah Palin Facebook account. The headline reads: Sarah Palin Uses Alternate Facebook Accunt to Praise Sarah PalinThe article, posted in Slate’s “Slatest” section, is based on an article from Wonkette titled, Sarah Palin Has Secret ‘Lou Sarah’ Facebook Account To Praise Other Sarah Palin Facebook Account, that in a rare show of class for Wonkette does not use the sexist slur in the article.Two commmenters at Slatest criticized Slate for the slur with...
Published on Wednesday 16th of May 2012 11:29:43 AM
WaPo Owned Slate.com Calls Sarah Palin a C*** in Headline
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Washington Post owned Slate.com used a crude misogynist wordplay to call Sarah Palin a c*** in a headline for an article published Tuesday about a supposed secret Sarah Palin Facebook account.The headline reads: Sarah Palin Uses Alternate Facebook Accunt To Praise Sarah PalinThe article, posted in Slate's "Slatest" section, is based on an article from Wonkette titled, Sarah Palin Has Secret ‘Lou Sarah’ Facebook Account To Praise Other Sarah Palin Facebook Account, that in a rare show of class for Wonkette does not use the sexist slur in the article.Two commmenters at Slatest criticized Slate for the slur with one...
Published on Wednesday 16th of May 2012 11:29:43 AM
The Truth About Fox News Viewers
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Does watching Fox News rot your brain? According to a report released last month by WorldPublicOpinion.org at the University of Maryland, "Misinformation and the 2010 Election," the more people watch Fox News, the more they are "misinformed." The allegation rapidly became a favorite topic for leading mainstream news outlets including The New York Times, U.S. News and World Report, CBS News, Slate, The Atlantic. Even major newspapers in Canada and the U.K. covered the report. Of course, left-wing websites -- the Talking Point Memo, Media Matters, and the Daily Kos -- reveled in the findings. The report asserted that Fox...
Published on Wednesday 16th of May 2012 11:29:43 AM
Vanity, thy name is John Kerry
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Sen. John Kerry is so vain, he probably thinks this story is about him . . . and he’d be right! Slate.com has named the skipper of the Isabel the most vain man in that vanity pit known as the U.S. Senate based on a “scientific analysis” of all 100 senators’ “Ego Walls.” In a posting headed “If the Walls Could Talk,” Slate writers Darren Garnick (who also writes “The Working Stiff” column for the Herald) and Ilya Mirman explored the photo displays on the waiting-room walls of each senator’s office and developed a “Senate Vanity Index.” The formula, developed...
Published on Wednesday 16th of May 2012 11:29:43 AM
HP Slate 500 finally (finally!) official, rings up at $799
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Nope, you're not dreaming, but feel free to pinch yourself, rub your eyes or take a cold shower! You've read right -- the HP Slate is finally official, and after all the teasing, back and forth, and (very recent) leaks, the Atom-powered, Windows 7 Slate will finally see the light of day -- though in a different way than originally intended. While the first videos released by HP may have made it seem like it would be for consumers, HP's tactfully changed its tune (don't forget it's got Palm / WebOS tablets on the way) and is now aiming the...
Published on Wednesday 16th of May 2012 11:29:43 AM
Slate’s Anti-Wall Street Mob Populism: We Should Go After Them with Pitchforks, Knives, Guns, Clubs
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Does anyone remember when the liberal intellectuals decried populism coming from the likes of Glenn Beck and other conservatives that was aimed at the direction the country is going under the leadership of President Barack Obama and the Democratic-controlled Congress? Throughout 2009, that so-called "bottom-barrel demagogy," as Troy Patterson called it in an post for Slate one year ago, was the focus of much consternation from the intellectual class that resides in the Northeastern U.S. corridor. One example was a critique of the Rick Santelli call that inspired the Tea Party movement, which John Dickerson called "impassioned, scattershot, and ultimately...
Published on Wednesday 16th of May 2012 11:29:43 AM
HP’s Slate Device Delivers (screw the iPad)
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HP’s Slate Device Delivers a Holistic Mobile Experience Up to now, we’ve given you only tiny glimpses of the HP slate device coming out later this year. You saw it first in a video we released during CES and most recently in videos demoing its Web experience and Adobe Flash and Air support. We’ve also blogged about the evolution of the slate category and our history in the space. So far, almost everything we’ve shared showcases how you’ll consume media with the device. And by media we mean all types of digital content, whether it’s a story from a major...
Published on Wednesday 16th of May 2012 11:29:43 AM
Down With the People
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Blame the childish, ignorant American public—not politicians—for our political and economic crisis.
Published on Wednesday 16th of May 2012 11:29:43 AM
Slate Editorial: Jobs Are on the Way! The pessimists are wrong.
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For most of 2009, pundits on both the left and right have insisted that the programs enacted to bring the financial system back from the brink wouldn't—and couldn't—work. And they have been wrong. They said the TARP would throw good money after bad, but now Bank of America, recently a basket case, is paying back $45 billion in TARP funds—with interest. They said the stimulus passed in February was way too small to halt the economic decline. Actually, it has short-circuited the recession. The economy shifted from shrinking at a 6.4 percent annual rate in the first quarter to expanding...
Published on Wednesday 16th of May 2012 11:29:43 AM
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