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[Ghost who walks] Advised as always, today Bob Somersby at www.dailyhowler.com talks about how many months it took McCain and Bradley to concede and endorse in 2000, as well as takes us back down memory lane to Hillary's Senate campaign where the press had fun with her being a Cubs/Yankees fan, listening to Gennifer Flowers talk about Hillary killing people, and then going through Hillary's photo album to describe how ugly she used to be. What a bunch of lovable goofs!!! He then returns to recent times, describing who was calling out her cleavage and calling her bitch when in 2007. Seems like only yesterday, such great times. [If it's not the current article, check the archives - stuff from Friday gets confused in my head]
Also, please blogroll digbysblog.blogspot.com and www.firedoglake.com including Empty Wheel at emptywheel.firedoglake.com - the best court/congressional reporter around), and Melissa/Shakesville at shakespearessister.blogspot.com - today she's discussing how a rape victim wasn't allowed to use the word "raped" or "sexual assault" or "victim" or "assailant" on the stand. It's interesting because it reflects the difficulty of discourse in many areas of our political and public lives - somebody may have done something to someone, but we can't quite say what it is but you get our drift. Anyway, go get 'em, tigers. My ghostliness beckons me back into the shadows, rather peeved at me actually.
Comments (2)
Interesting avatar change. Not sure if it fits the whole ghost of your former self idea.
Can you go haunt some other threads today? And when are you going to start writing some stuff on your blog?
By the way, the stuff about the language in rape trials is astonishing and something I hadn't heard about at all. I don't even really know what to say about that.
June 9, 2008 4:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
Like digby, Bob Somerby is a must-read, although his style takes some getting used to. This particular post is one of the more difficult, because his style interferes with the imparting of information. But I love him for his obsessive-compulsive thoroughness, his biting sarcasm ("But uh-oh!"), and his courage to keep liberals honest. New readers should be advised, however, that he calls out Josh and Greg as a running theme.
In this post, Somerby also calls out Michael Kinsley, Richard Cohen, John Judis, E.J. Dionne, Ruth Marcus, Chris Matthews, Michelle Goldberg, Alex Castellanos, Katherine Seeyle, Ceci Connolly, and Kevin Drum. The history of the 2000 election non-endorsements by John McCain and Bill Bradley is fascinating (scroll down to "Howler history: Endorsements of the saints!").
June 10, 2008 2:37 AM | Reply | Permalink
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