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Category Archives: Media Criticism
Jews Who Vote For Barack Obama
…are dumb Jews. Three good reasons.
I’m pretty sure that the LA Times knows that if it released the Khalidi tape, it would be devastating to his prospects for the Jewish vote.
[Update mid morning]
Jewish Democrats warn Netanyahu to stay out of the U.S. election.
They’re running scared. If the Romney campaign was smart, he’d fly to New York and meet with him.
[Bumped]
The New York Post
Elizabeth Warren
Fauxcahontas AKA Spreading Bull has a potential legal problem.
Maybe her real Indian name is Practicing Without License. Hope the Brown campaign picks up on this.
[Update early afternoon]
A difference of opinion. A lot of discussion in comments. She may be within the letter of the law, but as a commenter points out, her actions on September 11th stink.
Classic Projection
Harry Reid: “Mitt Romney has sullied Mormonism.”
Jill Stein
People aren’t talking enough about her. It’s pretty obvious why.
Critical Legal Studies
…and Barack Obama’s hatred of the U.S. Constitution.
This shouldn’t be news, but most people remain unaware of it. I hope the Romney campaign decides to change that.
Likability
I think that there’s some Bradley effect going on. People say that they like him, so they’re not thought to be racist. There’s a lot of pressure from the media for us to think that he’s likable, and that there’s something wrong with us if we don’t like him.
The last time I recall finding him admirable or likable in any way was at the 2004 convention speech. Since then, he’s always come off as an (unjustifiably) arrogant prick to me. He’s a proud man, with much to be humble about.
Straight People
Do they pick up all the hints at the Drudge Report about the president being gay?
I actually don’t read the Drudge Report on a regular basis, but it does look like that’s what he’s doing.
The Dumbest Anchormen
Do we have media full of Ron Burgundies, or just partisan hacks?
When MSNBC got an advance copy of Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell’s convention speech, the network landed another scoop. “For four years,” McConnell planned to say, “Barack Obama has been running from the nation’s problems. He hasn’t been working to earn reelection. He has been working to earn a spot on the PGA Tour.” A fool might think this a not-exactly-veiled reference to the fact that Barack Obama plays a lot of golf, more than 100 rounds since he was elected. But MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell is no fool.
Asked what he made of the line, O’Donnell confidently replied, “Well, we know exactly what he’s trying to do there. He’s trying to align . . . the lifestyle of Tiger Woods with Barack Obama.”
Martin Bashir asked O’Donnell whether he really believed that. Couldn’t McConnell just mean what he said?
O’Donnell went into full eye-roll mode. “Martin, there are many, many, many rhetorical choices you can make at any point in any speech to make whatever point you want to make.” According to O’Donnell, McConnell’s speechwriters chose the golf reference because “these people reach for every single possible racial double entendre they can find in every one of these speeches.”
Bashir, who for a moment gave the impression of neural activity, was convinced. “Wow,” he exclaimed. “Things are getting lower and lower by the day.”
I vote for both.