It doesn’t get any more bizarre than this:
What I want to know is, when the camera showed the (smallish) audience for the McCain speech, were there any black people there? And this was in New Orleans! Here’s another analysis of McCain’s speech, from Pop-up Double-Talk:
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Yesterday in her (inverted victory) speech, Hillary Clinton asked people to go to her website and send her messages so she could decide what to do next. Unfortunately, if you take her up on her offer you get this: In other words, the only message you can send to her is that you support her. […]
It is hard to read this article about media manipulation in Russia without worrying that we have started down the same path here in the US. In Russia, journalists critical of the current administration, including popular political satirists and other humorists, have been all but banned from television. The media has gone so far as […]
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A few days ago, Bill Clinton started placing blame for Hillary’s failing nomination bid on a number of “enemies”, powerful forces including a brazenly biased media, and the group MoveOn.org. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0508/10715.html Speaking about the press, he said that Hillary faced a hostile and imbalanced media environment. But a new study by Harvard University says that […]
Richard Clarke appears on The Daily Show to promote his new book “Your Government Failed You”. But before they talk about that, Jon Stewart quotes the Bush administration’s response to Clarke’s previous book “Against All Enemies” from March 22, 2004: Well, why, all of a sudden, if he had all these grave concerns, did he […]
In a stunning triumph of spin over reality, the blogosphere is going crazy over a videotape — a tape that none of them have actually seen or heard, and might not even exist. Reports have been circulated (conveniently enough on the eve of the last two democratic primaries) that there is a tape containing video […]
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McCain has been losing campaign staff left and right since he decided he needed to get rid of all (current) lobbyists from his staff, but I’m not sure that the new replacements are any better. Consider Michael Goldfarb, the newly appointed Deputy Commications Director for McCain. Goldfarb’s previous job was at Bill Kristol’s The Weekly Standard, […]
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Now that the Democratic party has bent the rules for Clinton and seated the Florida and Michigan delegates, she now only needs 153% of the remaining delegates to win. Prior to the new rules, she needed to pick up 181% of the remaining delegates, so momentum is clearly in her favor! http://mwcnews.net/content/view/22900/26/
According to Treehugger, the FBI is looking for “friendly and personable” types with the perfect “look” to infiltrate vegan potlucks, to “rub shoulders with Republican National Convention protesters, schmoozing their way into their inner circles, then reporting back to the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force.” http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/05/are-vegans-plotting-to-disrupt-convention.php
