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Unity08: No more disagreement
As a joke, another grad student here sent me the canned Unity08 appeal to your friends, which makes the anti-democratic tendencies of the “movement” especially clear: I thought you’d be interested in Unity08, a new citizen-led movement to elect a bi-partisan ticket in the 2008 presidential election in order to put an end to divisive
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More “straight talk” from John McCain
All aboard the Straight Talk Express! John McCain has re-launched his (struggling) candidacy and he’s going to tell it like it is! Oh wait… Mr. McCain at first only hinted that on Thursday he might call for the resignation of Mr. Gonzales. Asked by reporters if he still supported Mr. Gonzales, he responded, “I’ll tell
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Brownback’s strange death penalty position
I don’t know how we’re supposed to parse Senator Sam Brownback’s incoherent position on the death penalty (Hotline subscription required): On the death penalty, Brownback called it “something that I’ve changed on in my career in public life” and now believes that it should be used only when “society can no longer protect itself from
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Mark Burnett, meet the FEC
I don’t understand how this show will pass muster with the FEC: The online social networking site MySpace and reality TV producer Mark Burnett are teaming to launch the search for an independent presidential candidate. The political reality show “Independent” comes with a $1 million cash prize and a catch: the winner can’t keep the
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White House: We don’t question patriotism
Via Josh Marshall, White House spokesperson Dana Perino claimed during today’s White House briefing that no one in the administration has questioned Democrats’ patriotism: Q Can the President say both that he does not question the patriotism of Democrats, but their actions aid the enemy? MS. PERINO: I think that I want to take a
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Jerry Bowyer’s misleading media bias claim
Time for what Brad DeLong calls “intellectual garbage pickup” at National Review Online. In a column today on NRO Financial, Jerry Bowyer, a conservative columnist/radio host/investment adviser, blames media bias for the lack of coverage of current levels of black unemployment under President Bush: Each year the National Urban League releases a report called “The
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Treason rhetoric roundup
In the last few days, there have been a slew of accusations or insinuations of treason in the debate over US foreign policy and the war in Iraq, continuing the pattern of attacks on dissent since 9/11. Rush Limbaugh, who once accused former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle of having “chosen to align himself with
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TAP touts Kos endorsement
Back in September, I wrote this about the leverage that liberal blogs have over opinion magazines like The American Prospect, which pressured me to only criticize conservatives: One important factor shaping TAP’s decision may have been the popularity of Democratic bloggers like Atrios, who pump out a stream of pre-filtered news and commentary. Before the
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The Cheney approval fallacy
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who has been in a war of words with Vice President Cheney over his statement that the war in Iraq is “lost,” recently made this crack: Mr. Reid said he was not going to engage in a tit-for-tat with the vice president. “I’m not going to get into a name-calling
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Frontline’s “News War”
I was sent the DVD and transcript to Frontline’s “News War” series. I have to say I was underwhelmed reading the transcripts. If you’ve followed the news closely over the last few years, there are few revelations. But it might still be worth watching if you want an overview. Here’s a summary of the four