Ceci Connolly

Ceci Connolly and the ecology of media lies

Thu, 09/17/2009 - 12:10pm — DCblogger

Emptywheel has the latest on Payola Patty:

In all, Ceci presents a landscape in which the most important players--aside from two Senators who have been slighted in the process thus far--are trade industry groups. And the most important issue for them is the profit they stand to make off of taxing America's middle class to make them wealthier.

I would love to know if any of the private industry sources for the article has ties to Warren Buffet.

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WaPo's Ceci Connolly plays Baghdad Bob to America’s health neglect system

Sun, 11/30/2008 - 12:30am — DCblogger

Ceci Connolly has an article entitled, U.S. 'Not Getting What We Pay For': Many Experts Say Health-Care System Inefficient, Wasteful, where she quotes, without irony, all the parasites of our health neglect system.

First a few words about Ceci Connolly; if you read The Daily Howler, you know that more than any other member of the celebrity press corps, she is responsible for smearing Al Gore and giving us Bush. An example of her notion of humor:
Smile-a-while (10/3/00)

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