The Other McCain

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DNC Tries to Flush Anti-Bush Ad Down YouTube Memory Hole: FAIL!

The Democratic National Committee put out a TV ad blaming Bush for the “Republican policies that got us into this mess,” which caused a big stir today on the blogosphere. This evening however — no doubt embarrassed by the transparent desperation of their blame-Bush message — the DNC changed the setting on the YouTube channel […]

VIDEO: How to Report the News

Apologies if you’ve seen this before. I hadn’t. Update (Smitty): There is a massive cheap shot at RSM that one could take here, but, rather than take it, I’ll instead hoist some vanilla pudding at him. Cheers, Stacy!

One Wonders If Salon Is Beamed From Another Planet

by Smitty Elon James White, “Defending Park51, attacking Dr. Laura“: The common thread between condemning Dr. Laura and defending Park51 is the idea that the persecuted should be protected. Dr. Laura, in my opinion, should release a record of gangsta rap covers, so that she can use the word which sorts between ‘bigger’ and ‘rigger’ […]

The Internet: The Elites’ Least Favorite Suppository

by Smitty Our favorite Limey, Daniel Hannan notes the following, emphasis mine: The Internet, as Douglas Carswell argues, is ironing out a kink in our cultural and political alignment, whereby a small elite artificially reoriented our foreign policy, our trade and even our news cycle away from our old alliances and towards Europe. That’s the […]

It’s FDIC Bank Failure Friday!

Associated Press: Regulators have shut down two Florida banks and one in Virginia, lifting to 113 the number of U.S. bank failures this year. That count evidently omits today’s announced closure of Chicago’s ShoreBank. Bloomberg News reports: ShoreBank Corp., the Chicago lender operating under a Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. cease-and- desist order for 13 months, […]

I’d Vote For A Frickin’ Wiccan

by Smitty . . .if that candidate took the Oath of Office in a serious way. Note to conservatives fretting un-knowable aspects of the Presidential character (is he Moslem?): nice gills. This argument joins Birtherism in the list of shiny, tangential arguments that can be used to manage the tempo of the news cycle. As […]

Dan Collins Is an Evil Right-Wing Islamophobic Neocon Hatemonger

Really, it’s a miracle he doesn’t have his own syndicated talk-radio show and a primetime slot on Fox News: At least AP journalists are able to refer to it as a mosque, though I’ve been challenged on those grounds as well, by sympathizers who feel that they can defuse the issue by characterizing it instead […]

WARNING: Polls Are Not Campaigns

Instapundit links Fisherville Mike’s caution against over-optimism turning into apathy for Republicans. Meanwhile, Karl Rove is trying to forecast the relationship between “generic ballot” polls and the likely GOP gains in November. WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! If all you’re doing is following the national polls — Obama’s numbers down, Republican numbers up — you are seriously […]

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