Archive for September, 2008
Every year I watch the Republicans exploit fear and win elections. It works so well that even you Democrats seem to still be afraid of the very issues you always lose elections with: terror and national security. It’s time for the you use fear to win this election, and there’s nothing to be ashamed of. [...]
PARTIAL TRANSCRIPT OF MSNBC COVERAGE IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING MCCAIN’S SPEECH AT THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION: Chris Matthews: “This man has launched himself, I believe he will be ahead in the polls next week, they see a winner here, Americans like a winner, even though he, uh, had to do it the hard way.” David Gregory: “He said, [...]
When I talk to some of my friends about the dire situation this country is in and how our democracy has been dismantled, our rights taken away, with a press that exists to anesthetize us rather than inform us, I am invariably met with the same optimistically skeptical response. “Things aren’t that bad,” “Don’t you [...]
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. Journalist Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now!, is the most [...]
It should come as no surprise that John McCain’s running mate has an unmarried pregnant teenage daughter. In a campaign that is solely about narrative, with characters and scene-by-scene conflicts that are crafted only to arouse sympathy, anger and ultimately the biggest audiences, what better twist could there be than to include a teenage pregnancy [...]
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