Thomas Friedman <3 the 90s!

Readers of the Times could be mistaken for thinking it’s 1992.  What with Ross Perot back in action and a Bush leaving Washington, you can practically bust out the House of Pain.  Sir Thomas Friedman, bearer of the Mustache of Understanding and inspiration for the eponymous Friedman Unit (FU), takes this nonsense to its logical [...]

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Your liberal media at work *BREAKING! UPDATE! PANIC!*

Mark Halperin is editor and chief political analyst of Time magazine, as well as a political analyst for ABC News.  He writes “The Page,” a graphics-heavy, blurby sort of newswire on Time’s website.  All his titles place Halperin firmly among the Very Serious Journalists in Washington, those with the platforms to reach broad audiences with [...]

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The Obama effect

For months we heard rumours that Obama was some kind of closet Panther, hiding his afro pick while plotting revolution.  Starting around 11 PM on November 4, the same people who made these claims suddenly decided he was actually a center-rightist, that his victory reflected America’s inherant conservatism.
Obviously, this put actual black nationalists in a [...]

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Dan Rather and media bias

Way back when Bush’s approval rating was above freezing, CBS News’ Dan Rather got himself canned in a controversy over the President’s National Guard documents.  In case you somehow missed “Rathergate,” which also involved the firing of producer Mary Mapes, the Wikipedia summary is enough background for the more recent news.  Since being tossed out [...]

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Quick follow-up on Obama’s aunt

Before I take off for canvassing, the Washington Post reports this morning:
“The Department of Homeland Security is investigating whether its privacy policy was violated after a news organization reported that an aunt of Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama is an illegal immigrant from Kenya, officials said yesterday”
The AP’s original story cited an unnamed federal [...]

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I’m staying with Aunt Sally / But you know she’s not really my aunt

I read the news today, oh boy:
CHICAGO (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama says he didn’t know that one of his relatives was living in the United States illegally and believes the appropriate laws should be followed.
The Associated Press found that Obama’s aunt had been instructed to leave the country four years ago by [...]

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Yes, they’re racist, chapter 53

Here’s an actual headline from Fox News…
“Hip-Hop-Dancing Colin Powell Fuels Speculation He’ll Endorse Obama”
And in case the meaning was unclear, the explanatory sub-header…
“Colin Powell showed off his hip-hop moves at an ‘Africa Rising’ celebration in London Tuesday, fueling speculation that the former secretary of state is about to endorse Barack Obama for president.”
…followed by the [...]

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How do you cover a madman?

The Slovak Spectator recently carried an editorial asking how the media should treat Jan Slota.  Slota is the leader of the Slovak Nationalist Party (SNS,) a neo-fascist political party spitting vitriol towards Hungarians, Roma, and Jews.  For most of the period following its 1989 founding, SNS floated around 5-10% in national elections and managed to [...]

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Mad Max Beyond Palindome (with mid-90s R&B update!)

Moose enter; nothing gets out.  US News reports:
“In case you’ve missed it, Palin’s meetings with Karzai, Uribe, and former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger were supposed to get pool coverage—one television camera, that network’s TV producer, a print reporter, and a wire reporter would get to see first contact between Palin and these world [...]

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l33t ism

pwned!
Once again the media reminds us that Democratic oligarchs feed on the bones of peasant babies.  This time, it’s Jon Decker of Reuters speaking on MSNBC:
“For Joe Biden, I — you know, not that he’s not folksy, but I don’t think it helps his case when he’s making the argument on economic issues wearing French [...]

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