I was gonna write about our friend Ken Tomlinson, his attempts to politicize CPB, PBS and NPR and the new information which has just come to light, but Media Matters beat me to it. …newly released email messages prove Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, the Republican chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), “extensively consulted a …

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In yet another example of failing upward (see Wolfowitz, Bolton, Rice et. al.) here’s an interesting news item: General Ricardo Sanchez is up for promotion. From a March ACLU press release: …a memo sent by Lt. Gen Sanchez flatly contradicts sworn testimony given by him before the Senate Armed Services Committee, in which he denied …

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