Month: July 2007
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The pro-Obama spammers
The endlessly creative spammers are now using Barack Obama to try to steal your money: If you click through on the email, you get taken to a site (no link for obvious reasons) registered to someone in France that tries to charge you $1-2 to be added to the “petition wall.”
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Fox guest cites “24” as evidence
Media Matters catches former NYPD detective Bo Dietl citing the fictional TV show “24” as evidence of the terrorist threat during a guest appearance on Fox News: The fact of the matter is — I mean, you don’t watch 24 on Fox TV? They’re out there. They’re out there. There are cells out there. We
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Most insipid campaign article yet?
News I can’t use — the New York Times reports on John McCain’s “gay sweater”: When Senator John McCain’s campaign went into a midflight stall last week, it was not only the candidate’s hard-line stance on Iraq or problems with his party’s conservative wing that enthralled the thumb-tapping hordes of the blogosphere. It was leaks
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The crack Bush 41 administration
Here’s a confidence-inspiring anecdote about the current Secretary of Defense from Evan Thomas’s review of Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA: Weiner, a reporter for The Times who has covered intelligence for many years, has a good eye for embarrassing detail. High-ranking officials, it appears, were often the last to know. When Iraq
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New Iraq doc: No End in Sight
James Fallows, who wrote Blind Into Baghdad, is recommending No End In Sight, a new documentary on the war in Iraq: Next week Charles Ferguson’s documentary No End in Sight opens in DC and New York, followed in August by “select other cities.” It is worth making time to see this film. …My deeper bias
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Decline of civilization watch: Robin Givhan
Yes, Robin Givhan wrote an entire Washington Post article on Hillary Clinton’s cleavage.
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The Pentagon smears Hillary
In the latest post-9/11 attack on dissent, a Pentagon undersecretary has accused Hillary Clinton of reinforcing enemy propaganda for requesting information about US plans for eventual withdrawal from Iraq. Here’s the AP account (see also the letter itself): The Pentagon told Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton that her questions about how the U.S. plans
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Why Bush will drag down the GOP
Ron Brownstein provides the most convincing argument I’ve seen for why Bush is likely to devastate the GOP’s fortunes in 2008: when a departing president has been as unpopular as Bush is now, his party has usually lost the White House in the next election. There’s no guarantee that history will repeat itself. But the
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Susan Collins: Best no comment ever
Dana Milbank captures a classic no-comment by Susan Collins on the plight of her colleague David Vitter: Though they ultimately rewarded his contrition with a standing ovation, some colleagues weren’t sure they liked the smell of things, either. “I don’t have any thoughts,” Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said of Vitter as she arrived. She reconsidered.
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Conference blog hiatus
I’m currently attending the summer meeting of the Society for Political Methodology in lovely State College, PA so blogging may be light through Sunday…