Month: September 2010
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Banner ad on NYTimes.com compares tea party/Nazis
Dear New York Times – Please don’t allow banner ads like this on your site (click image for larger version): It’s absurd and offensive to compare the Tea Party to “Nazi Brownshirts”; also, the grammar is wrong. Thanks, Brendan
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Twitter roundup
Brendan Nyhan Sep 30, 2010 at 3:29pm From my Twitter feed (9/14-9/17) BrendanNyhan Sep 17, 2010 at 3:35am Why people are angry in one sentence: "median family incomes in 2009 were 5 percent lower than in 1999" http://j.mp/crGLjD The New York Times > Log In BrendanNyhan Sep 16, 2010 at 12:26pm RT @daveweigel O’Donnell wanted
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Will the GOP brand make a difference in November?
Today’s New York Times includes a front-page story on a new poll headlined “Poll Suggests Opportunities for Both Parties”. In the lede, Jeff Zeleny and Megan Thee-Brenan note the signs pointing to a Republican sweep, but note “while voters rate the performance of Democrats negatively, they view Republicans as even worse, providing a potential opening
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What we know about political misperceptions
In the wake of the publication of a Pew poll showing an increase in the false belief that Barack Obama is a Muslim, misperceptions have reached a new level of prominence in the national discourse, including a mention of the Muslim myth on Newsweek’s cover. In addition, MIT political scientist Adam Berinsky released some new
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Fred Barnes: Hack (a recurring series)
Fred Barnes, September 2010 (via Jon Chait): President Obama has fallen into the John Boehner trap. By attacking Boehner last week—emphatically, repeatedly, and by name—the president made himself look desperate. And by treating Boehner as practically an equal, Obama elevated him… A word comes to mind about the Boehner gambit—unpresidential. Karl Rove, President Bush’s political
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Twitter roundup
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D. Limbaugh suggests Obama trying to destroy country
I don’t have much to add about Dinesh D’Souza and Newt Gingrich’s factually unsupported race-baiting campaign against President Obama, but I do want to flag the latest smear against Obama’s loyalty to this country. As Media Matters points out, columnist/author David Limbaugh (Rush’s brother) suggests that Obama may be “trying intentionally to take us over
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Twitter roundup
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Here & Now and NECN interviews
My interview with WBUR’s Here & Now about the persistence of political misperceptions aired today: When Facts Don’t Correct Misperceptions Why do some people still believe that President Obama is a Muslim, and others that President Bush banned all stem cell research, despite news reports that disprove both stories? We speak with Brendan Nyhan, a