Bloggingheads.tv - The Week in Blog

The Week in Blog

The Week in Blog: Cue the Montage
Bill Scher & Matt Lewis

Sep 3

2010

	Few are happy with Obama’s Iraq speech
	Is Joe Miller’s surprise win in Alaska a gift for the left?
	Bill dissents from the “Dems are doomed” storyline
	The recent evolution of the blogosphere
	Online debate’s lack of civility and empathetic understanding
	Matt and Bill reflect on their TWIB career

The Week in Blog: Shiny-Object August
Bill Scher & Nicole Kurokawa

Aug 27

2010

	The quest for a narrative to explain the midterms
	Boehner’s wiliness and the rudiments of a GOP policy agenda
	The fuzzy line between being in and out of Iraq
	Everybody hates Alan Simpson…
	...and nobody’s happy about Social Security
	Brinksmanship on ending the Bush tax cuts

The Week in Blog: Cannibalism Edition
Bill Scher & Matt Lewis

Aug 20

2010

	Is Jimmy Carter really history’s greatest monster?
	Matt Yglesias’s pro-dishonesty tweet sparks firestorm
	Do Obama and Reid disagree on the “Ground Zero mosque”?
	Matt: Obama contributed to the divisiveness of the issue
	Both sides fall for culture war distractions
	Investigating Howard Dean’s opposition to the mosque

The Week in Blog: The Emergency Slide
Bill Scher & Kristen Soltis

Aug 13

2010

	Tensions boil over between Obama and the left
	Were Tuesday’s primaries a good or bad omen for Dems?
	Immigration, the Fourteenth Amendment, and “terror babies”
	Kristen: A hard anti-immigrant stance is perilous for the GOP
	Battling over Ross Douthat’s column on gay marriage
	Is Charlie Rangel the Mark Foley of 2010?

The Week in Blog: The TWIB Must Go On
Bill Scher & Matt Lewis

Aug 6

2010

	Does it matter if the Prop 8 judge is gay?
	The return of the judicial activism narrative
	Is America becoming pro-life and pro-gay marriage?
	Immigration split on the right over birthright citizenship
	Immigration split on the left over border security

The Week in Blog: Iconoclastic Edition
Bill Scher & Matt Lewis

Jul 30

2010

	Left and right reax to WikiLeaks Afghanistan
	The conservative anti-war critique hasn’t taken off…yet
	Dave Weigel’s media odyssey concludes (we think)
	Obama hammered by both sides on immigration
	Matt: Hispanics ought to be conservatives
	Liberals to Obama: Elizabeth Warren or bust!

The Week in Blog: Boorish Miscreant Edition
Bill Scher & Conor Friedersdorf

Jul 23

2010

	Is there any legitimate defense of Andrew Breitbart?
	Conor on Journolist: Not a conspiracy, but still troubling
	News media agonistes: traffic vs. substance
	Will the right refudiate the war against the “Ground Zero mosque”?
	Do ideological flamethrowers hurt their own side?
	Why the left is rallying so hard around Elizabeth Warren

The Week in Blog: Intellectual Meat
Garance Franke-Ruta & Matt Lewis

Jul 16

2010

	What Bristol Palin and the New Black Panthers have in common
	Attractive women arguing, a guaranteed YouTube smash
	First, Palin conquers Facebook; next, the White House?
	Is TV over? Podcasts too?
	How Skype can democratize TV punditry

The Week in Blog: Princess Bride Edition
Bill Scher & Matt Lewis

Jul 9

2010

	Is Steele the forerunner of a right-wing rethink on Afghanistan?
	If only Obama had listened to Bush’s Afghanistan wisdom…
	Allegation of accusation of murder leads MSNBC to ban Kos
	Does the MSM give special treatment to conservatives?
	Sharron Angle, the gift that keeps on giving (to Harry Reid)
	Matt: Ideology is important, but competence is crucial

The Week in Blog: Fruits and Vegetables Edition
Bill Scher & Peter Suderman

Jul 2

2010

	GOP centrists get tripped up by financial reform
	Bill: The simplistic public debate made the bill better
	Kagan, Thurgood Marshall, and the power of a good resume
	Did the CBO just pop the Dems’ healthcare savings bubble?
	Has a rogue pollster been faking its results?
	The ethics of Journolist

The Week in Blog: Getting Fired Edition
Bill Scher & Matt Lewis

Jun 25

2010

	Dave Weigel exits Washington Post following Journolist leak
	Is there such a thing as unbiased reporting?
	Divergent liberal reactions to Obama’s firing McChrystal
	Conservatives generally applaud Obama’s move
	Reassessing the conservative narrative of Obama’s foreign policy
	By filibustering the jobs bill, did the GOP hand the Dems a gift?

The Week in Blog: Mind-Exploding Edition
Bill Scher & Matt Lewis

Jun 18

2010

	Why the left largely panned Obama’s oil spill speech
	Matt: Obama’s speech was smart politics
	Irate Keith Olbermann quits Daily Kos
	RedState slams NRA over campaign finance loophole
	Dems trade away gun control to win out West
	Why, oh, why did a GOP rep apologize to BP?

The Week in Blog: Eternal Ostracization Edition
Bill Scher & Matt Lewis

Jun 11

2010

	Pelosi heckled by progressives; is the left eating its own?
	Did unproven rumors of infidelity power Nikki Haley to victory?
	Website whitewashing and the year of the Republican woman
	New media leads to Helen Thomas’s downfall
	Lincoln’s win reveals rift between White House and labor/netroots
	Bill sees a hidden progressive triumph in Arkansas

The Week in Blog: I Have a Shoe
Bill Scher & Matt Lewis

Jun 3

2010

	Erick Erickson pulls a post-modern media hoax
	Is “Offergate” a nothingburger or a somethingburger?
	Obama drops his post-partisan stance
	Is it wrong to use the oil spill to push for a climate bill?
	Another blogger goes to the MSM: NYT picks up Nate Silver
	Why aren’t the big papers hiring new-media conservatives?

The Week in Blog: Dang Edition
Bill Scher & Matt Lewis

May 28

2010

	Grading the substance and style of Obama’s oil spill response
	Is “Obamacare” a pejorative?
	Blogger claims affair with South Carolina gubernatorial candidate
	The line between news and rumor grows thinner
	Comparing the wagon-circling tendencies of left and right
	Is South Carolina’s political culture the nastiest?

The Week in Blog: Hug It Out
Bill Scher & Matt Lewis

May 14

2010

	The “Is Elena Kagan gay?” meme
	Bill slams David Brooks’s column on Kagan
	Is Kagan a John Roberts or a Harriet Miers?
	Anti-incumbent fever scrambles primary races
	Why the Dems are not necessarily doomed in November
	What killed the Blogometer?

The Week in Blog: String Theory Edition
Bill Scher & Peter Suderman

May 7

2010

	Risk and responsibility in the BP oil spill
	Dave Weigel’s “bigots” tweet gets him in trouble
	When old media meets the culture of blogging
	A conservative attacks supply-side economics. Who will listen?
	Mark Penn says politics is moving in a Penn-friendly direction
	Is there a libertarian swing vote?

The Week in Blog: A Constant Battle Against Idiots
Andrew Golis & Matt Lewis

Apr 30

2010

	The all-consuming life of the political blogger
	Twitter, the best place to disseminate bogus news
	Goldman Sachs and the word the MSM dares not say
	Differences between liberal and conservative blogs
	Are websites responsible for their nutso commenters?
	Matt floats Marco Rubio for president in 2012

The Week in Blog: Politics Ain’t Indie Rock
Bill Scher & Matt Lewis

Apr 23

2010

	Crist considers independent run; could scandal sink Rubio?
	Crist–Rubio compared to Lieberman–Lamont
	GOP hopeful wants to barter chickens for health care
	Intellectuals and proles brawl at National Review
	Matt: Books by conservative talk show hosts are awful!
	Nickelback, OK Go, and the conservative movement

The Week in Blog: Shocked, Shocked Edition
Bill Scher & Matt Lewis

Apr 16

2010

	Obama puts strong financial reform ahead of bipartisanship
	Republicans wrestle with financial reform politics
	Tea Partiers fight infiltration, get polled
	Heritage Foundation’s new activist group enters political fray
	Liberals fear Elena Kagan is too moderate; conservatives don’t
	Matt’s advice for liberals: Don’t let yourselves get Soutered