Obama? Conservatives thought he was "flat" or "too unemotional." Regular people thought he was on target with the economy and answering McCain's attacks, very presidential.
McCain? Conservatives are tickled pink McCain mentioned abortion and taxes, doing what they wished he'd done during the second debate. Regular people thought McCain acted like a spoiled brat on the playground, made some wei
Seems like the critics have expressed themselves. And yes, we watched, and all we heard from John McSame was more of the same. The man talked in cliches, talked in talking points -- don't know what the hell he was doing. Honestly, if you have to refer to yourself as "the maverick of the senate" and say "and my partner is a maverick" you've just become the laughing stock of the country. People
I can't help but get a laugh out of what the conservative talk show hosts say about the media. Today, for instance, I heard Steve Malzberg jump all over Bob Scheiffer. I heard Sean Hannity discuss how the media gives Sen. Joe Biden passes all the time, while they pounce on Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.
It's not so much their critical nature that I question—it's their universal dismissal of the media
Where to start today. I just read through a bunch of things and I’m coming across more and more things of note.
Let’s do it alphabetically from the different online sources I read.
First, a kind of doomy financial thing from one of my favorites, Blogging the Singularity, about something I actually mentioned recently, “fire sales” and [...]
Many pundits had predicted that Hillary Clinton would be announcing her exit from the race in her NYC speech Tuesday. She'll fight on--with many of those same commentators.
Alternate Universe Washington, DC (AUP)--An influential group of liberal pundits and political commentators has formed a new organization to apologize for their columns on Ned Lamont's 2006 challenge to Joe Lieberman (R - Forallintentsandpurposes) and to call for their own resignations. The organization, "Repentant Villagers," announced today that it would be issuing formal apologies to hundr
HEY There, Sweetieby Nancy MorganObama called a reporter 'sweetie.' Gasp. The pundits are divided on whether he should attend sensitivity training to correct his thinking or whether his coerced apology will suffice. The debate swirls, the opinions proliferate. The lesser pundits anxiously await the position paper from the National Organization of Women before committing themselves to a firm stance
A favorite of James Taranto is his section called 'wannabe pundits' where he quotes part of an article and asks you to guess what it is about.Philadelphia: Rev. Jeremiah Wright was born in Philadelphia. Even if, like me, you think many of Wright's remarks are being lifted out of context for political purposes, now would be an excellent time for him to meditate in a remote monastery in Nepal for the remainder of the year. Example of context: attack ads show Wright saying only "God damn America." Deleted is the full quote, "God damn America for treating its citizens as less than human." The full quote isn't extremism, just an overblown choice of words. Steven Waldman, author of the must-read new book "Founding Faith," about the religious values of the Framers, recently noted, "Many of the Fr
A favorite of James Taranto is his section called 'wannabe pundits' where he quotes part of an article and asks you to guess what it is about.Philadelphia: Rev. Jeremiah Wright was born in Philadelphia. Even if, like me, you think many of Wright's remarks are being lifted out of context for political purposes, now would be an excellent time for him to meditate in a remote monastery in Nepal for th
Much to the chagrin of leftist nut cases in San Francisco and all across the great nation of America, conservative superstar Michael Savage has been voted among the most influential political pundits in America.
Commentators like Chris Matthews and Tim Russert love to play up the idea of a tight election–it's good for ratings, I guess. Matthews recently told his hero John McCain that he has a 50-50 chance of winning the election. Russert made a similar claim to Howard Dean, saying McCain is either tied with or beating the Democratic candidates in polls.
Meanwhile, an AP story (posted on MSNBC, which both Matthews and Russert are affiliated with) says the electoral map favors Democrats and states that "McCain will have to play defense". How to explain the discrepancy? Matthews and Russert are ignoring the way we elect a president in the U.S.
Of course, it's the electoral college, not the popular vote, that determines the winner of the presidential election. It's no mystery which
What spin can we expect from the media following a Clinton win in Pennsylvania? Probably about the same we got when she won in Texas (sort of), and Ohio. And then before that, in Massachusetts.And that is, "its a comeback for Clinton and she is still in the race." I'm sorry? Say that again please?Only a few months ago, Barack Obama was well behind in the national polls. On Super Tuesday, Hillary Clinton was expected to wipe the floor with Obama. It didn't happen.In Massachusetts on super Tuesday, Clinton had led with double figures in the long lead in to the primary. Obama secured Kennedy's endorsement the week before the vote. The media reaction when Clinton still won the state? Kennedy's endorsement wasn't worth as much as it was thought and Clinton had prevailed.This of course flew in t
(Credit: Crave UK) There's nothing like a price cut announcement to set us tech journalists off like pro-Tibet protesters chasing a flaming baton. Yesterday O2 quietly announced it's going to reduce the price of the 8GB iPhone by a whopping 100 pounds until 1 June (about $198)--but ...
Senator John McCain has an uphill battle to climb now that he has become the nominee of the Republican Party. Conservative Republicans are torn over the idea of having McCain as the head of their party. There are many conservatives that dislike John McCain so much that they have said they will vote for the Democratic nominee. What is it that Senator McCain has done to agitate conservatives so much? First of all there is immigration. McCain has pushed for immigration reform while in the Senate which included some forms of “amnesty” and did not have enough border protection for conservatives. McCain worked hand and hand on this bill with Senator Ted Kennedy who is seen as one of the most liberal senators in Washington. Second of all, McCain opposes torture and the pr
The Presidential Election Flea And Tick Circus is in full swing. The "big buzz" in Politico Land? It's supposedly a remark made by Mitt Romney over whether he'd have a "Muslim in his cabinet."Michelle Malkin wrote a terrific piece. Short and sweet and to the point:Well, we will see what Romney is made of in the aftermath of this kerfuffle. Will he back away from supporting common-sense national security profiling? Or will he continue to speak hard truths about what’s needed to win the war on jihad at home?In their zeal to "expose" Mitt as some sort of semi-quasi backroom racist they overlook one very important point. The majority of the voters may not feel the "need" to have a Muslim in the Presidential cabinet. In fact they might just feel the opposite. They also might be in the market for a Presidential candidate who feels he doesn't have to place certain members in his cabinet in order to appease a segment of our society.It's a matter of priorities. When we vote, we vote our o
Pollsters and media pundits have been slowly starting the inventible retreat from the Ron Paul juggernaut. Throughout the campaign, media pundits and pollsters have been claiming that Ron Paul did not have support and was at only 1-4% in polls.read more | digg story
The prevailing wisdom is that oil prices will move down. They have already dropped from over $78 to...
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I'm checking Memorandum today to see if there is anything there of interest to blog about and I see a WaPo/Newsweek article titled "Paganism May Not Pass Religious Muster" and thinking it might be...
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Title1Online prognosticates the future of NCLB by surveying 5 education experts. Here's what they see:Growth models are in. So is a permanent reshuffling of the order of school improvement sanctions.Expanding testing exemptions for students with disabilities? Not likely. The same goes for expanding high school assessments and allowing incentives for states to participate in some form of national standards.With Congress beginning to wade into the turbulent waters of reauthorizing No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the Title I Monitor asked five of the nation’s top education experts and policy wonks to evaluate the leading proposals submitted thus far.The biggest non-surprise: Virtually no-one believes that NCLB will be reauthorized on schedule this year. That item scored the lowest of all: 2.2 on a scale from 1 to 10 (see chart). It is also hardly news that fostering growth models and allowing schools in improvement to implement supplemental educational services (SES) in their first year s
An Independence ViewWhile the pundits are talking about the potential impact of independent voters,we cut through the speculation to let America's independents speak for themselves.The result is a 13 minute documentary Facing America's Independents.This trailer includes some of my thoughts as the fourth voice.The documentary features highlights from interviews with morethan 40 independents from across the county.To Purchase DVDGet your copy today! DVD copies are available for a specialintroductory price of $20.00. Visit http://www.independentvoting.org/ to purchase.Michael H. Drucker
