The "McCain standard" and the rise of the Calphalon Candidate
If you’re following America’s electoral theater at all, you know that we have a candidate with a preacher problem. And that the candidate in question has been put in the uncomfortable position […]
The anatomy of a FOX "interview"
by Josh Nelson In what will perhaps become Chris Wallace’s proudest moment, yesterday’s interview of Barack Obama offers a glimpse into the subtle efforts FOX makes to frame the debate. In the […]
I thought I knew you, Chuck
by Josh Nelson I generally like Chuck Todd, and tend to agree with his analysis, but this is pretty weak: From NBC’s Chuck Todd As expected, one of the two major Democratic […]
Obama: Eye to eye with Israel — or wandering eye?
For those who believe that the key to lowering the political temperature in the Middle East lies in snuffing out the pilot light on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Senator Obama’s otherwise transcendent race […]
Buchanan, Kristol, Hannity and those ungrateful negroes: a banner month in race relations
I guess there’s probably nothing Earth-shattering about revelations that FOX News “journalist” Sean Hannity was BFFs with a white supremacist. I mean, even if you don’t expect it, it’s not the sort […]
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