Month: September 2008

Michele Catalano takes a close look at the Jill Greenberg affair in a piece titled “Unrepentant Photographer Turns McCain Into a Monster“: What has become of journalistic integrity? As if it wasn’t already on its way to a slow death, its demise has been shoved forward a few steps thanks to the Atlantic and photographer…

This is a long and complicated story about how Obama backers were behind the mortgage industry meltdown. It hast to start some where, so lets start with a well known Chicago name Penny Pritzker. It starts with a bank failure. Unfortunately, this wasn’t the case for the 1,406 people who lost much of their life…

The New York Post has some surprising news. Johnny Mac and Sarah Palin have picked up 5 points in New York State. Boosted by the selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate, Republican John McCain has experienced a surge of support among women in heavily Democratic New York state – where he has closed…

Many people are being influenced (some may find themselves beaten into submission) by the idea that John McCain represents all that is “old,” while Barack Obama represents all that is “new.” I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve heard this theme. Of course, I realize that constant repetition of something does not make…

Regardless of whether Obama turns out to be Jesus, there’s still an election, and halos don’t necessarily translate into votes. (Jesus never ran for public office, nor did he win an election.) Under normal circumstances (which I hope we still have in this country) what it takes to win is votes. In an earlier post,…

I just got an interesting e-mail: My name is Eric Baumer, and I’m a PhD student in the Department of Informatics at UC Irvine. I’m working on a project called metaViz (metaviz.org), which is designed to find potential conceptual metaphors in political blogs. The goal is to draw reader’s attention to patters suggestive of metaphor,…

In this video Tom Brokaw holds up an ∅bama button saying Attention Sarah Palin. Jesus Christ was a community organizer. Pontius Pilate was a Governor. Thus comparing ∅bama to Jesus. Well they do say he is The One We Have Been Waiting For. So maybe the connection is not so far fetched. Stupid maybe. Not…

The panel interviewing ∅bama was from WTTW (PBS) Chicago. It looks like the Chicago Annenberg Challenge and the connection between it ∅bama and Ayers is going to break out big time now that there is video footage out there where ∅bama admits the connection. Maybe we will finally get some media attention to the results…

Anyone remember Jill Greenberg, the far left photographer who deliberately made children cry for photographs so she could depict them as victims of the religious right? Her rationale was along these lines: I also thought they made a kind of political statement about the current state of anxiety a lot of people are in about…

Last night, M. Simon touched on an important theme in American politics when he opined that Barack Obama, has come off as weak. And as I pointed out in Midway for Obama, Americans do not elect weaklings to office. How true. Say what you want about Bush, but weakness is not the first thing that…

Via a link from Darleen Click, I was drawn to a discussion of copyright law at Rolling Stone. The lefties are pissed that the Republicans played the song “Barracuda” — because it turns out that the copyright holders don’t like Republicans: Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin has the nickname “Barracuda,” which inspired the use…

It seems things are not going well for The One we have been waiting for. In fact it seems like fewer and fewer people are waiting for him. The Democratic presidential candidate’s slump in the polls has sparked pointed private criticism that he is squandering a once-in-a-generation chance to win back the White House. Party…

The singer is Gretchen Wilson. H/T Vanderleun

Democratic political strategist Mark Penn pointed out in a recent CBS interview that the media’s targeting of Sarah Palin is hurting the media more than it’s hurting Palin: CBSNews.com: Your former colleague Howard Wolfson argued that you all unintentionally paved the way for Palin by exposing some of the unfair media coverage that Hillary Clinton…

Jennifer Rubin has a carefully researched piece titled Obama and the Woods Fund (“Woods Hole” ought to be the outfit’s name, but I guess that name’s already taken). The whole piece is a must-read, I want to focus on a seemingly innocuous (and largely obscure) outfit with the gently nutty name of ACORN: Another recipient…

You can watch part one of the interview at In Her Own Words. One interesting aspect of this exercise is the fact that when Charlie Gibson interviewed Obama he gave him a bunch of softball questions. Palin was hit hard on all kinds of policy questions. ∅bama? Not so much. Here is the first question…

The ∅ campaign is mocking McCain for being a computer illiterate in their latest ad. NEW YORK (AP) — John McCain is mocked as an out-of-touch, out-of-date computer illiterate in a television commercial out Friday from Barack Obama as the Democrat begins his sharpest barrage yet on McCain’s long Washington career. The new fighting spirit…