No horse in this race, mind you
July 21, 2008
From Glenn McCoy.
Is Obama’s Truth Squad also writing iPhone publicity material?
July 11, 2008
With so much money and creative marketing talent sitting on the bench of the Obama campaign, it’s inevitable that some of their restless energy would spill over to other areas. Witness the 3G iPhone publicity EXPLOSION at top tech blogs like Gizmodo and Engadget. It is an absolute firestorm of publicity. Like last year’s initial iPhone launch, you have Apple fanboys camping out, filming the unboxing of their shiny new device, and adopting “Apple” as their middle name.
Ok, I made up that last part, but the level of idolatry is eerily familiar.
Fairness Doctrine, Lee Judge style
June 24, 2008
Stay classy, Lee.
Reality check
June 18, 2008
I would imagine that voters this November will fall into two columns: those basing their assumptions on narrative, and those doing the same with factual information.
“Fainting”
June 17, 2008
Brit singer Amy Winehouse, who used to make records, enters the hospital again.
This will be my last Winehouse post until the next rehab.
All hail the new media drumbeat for 3Q 2008!
June 13, 2008
All hail!
Another meaningless poll that will be beaten to death by network talking heads: “Republican support, enthusiasm down“.
Other issues the media also relentlessly hyped the following but was unable to kill:
The economy — so far, still expanding.
The war — the media was unable to kill it. And we may even see a little twinkle at the end of the tunnel.
Global warming — Apparently not pressing enough for the Senate to debate it any more this year.
Global AIDS - golly, that might have been overblown a little.
My thoughts: Republicans will likely lose some seats in Congress. However, and I may be alone on this, I thing McCain will handily defeat Obama in November.
Why? McCain was the media’s darling for years. That will not change. And Obama is not an individual–he is a product offered by savvy politcal marketers. Mature Americans don’t buy that shit. Americans were supposedly turning grayer every year, and we have been told that senior Americans were going to be turning the Social Security crank harder and harder every year until the Baby Boomers phase out. These people like politicians like McCain and Clinton. And they vote like crazy.
What’s changed?
Legendary hoax officially declared . . a hoax
May 22, 2008
Anti-Semites have one less passion play in their Pallywood theater. France2 withers in the Al Dura case.
Why does it take this long for a truth to be known?
Howard Dean - Top Asshole
April 29, 2008
Top ‘democratic’ shows he’s still got what it takes to continually misrepresent simple spoken American language.
Randi Rhodes suspended for speaking freely, pissing off Clinton Media Fascists, but mostly for pissing off Clinton Media Fascists
April 4, 2008
While nitwits still bitch about how President Bush has eroded civil rights, Clinton Media Facists set new records in actually silencing critics:
Randi Rhodes, an afternoon host for the progressive Air America radio network, was suspended Thursday after repeatedly insulting Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton at an event last month.Ms. Rhodes used vulgar language that likened Mrs. Clinton to a prostitute at an event sponsored by KKGN, the Air America affiliate in the San Francisco area, on March 22. A video of Ms. Rhodes’ remarks was published to the video-sharing Web site YouTube on Tuesday, prompting condemnations by some bloggers.
In a statement, Charlie Kireker, the chair of Air America, said the radio network “encourages strong opinions about public affairs but does not condone such abusive, ad hominem language by our hosts.”
However repugnant Rhodes’ comments were, why the sudden interest in her attacks on Clinton? Listening occasionally to Rhodes over the years, I’ve heard her seethe how sinister conservatives like Tom Delay and Dick Cheney could theoretically vanquish their enemies without anything resembling a fair fight. And I’ve heard her deliver “abusive, ad hominem attacks” against President Bush, usually including some kind of color commentary that either correlated his intellect with the distance between his eyes or pointed out his supposed simian resemblances.
She wasn’t suspended then, so why now?
