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No John, We are NOT all Georgians Today...

October 30, 2008, 3:23PM

I have to say, when the news initially came out how Russia had rolled into Georgia and South Ossetia, I was quite surprised. I was significantly more surprised when John McCain was first on the television claiming that:

I speak for every American when I say to him today, we are all Georgians.

That just pissed me off. I am not a Georgian, I'm American. My wife? She's Russian. And there was a whole lot more to this story that was left out of the American Media.

Why Liberal Media Coverage Isn't - via Politico...

October 28, 2008, 5:09PM

Quite a few people have been crowing about the recent Pew Study that found that coverage of John McCain has been more negative than coverage of Barack Obama. Following that was a Pew Research poll that showed that most voters believe that journalists want to see Barack Obama elected.

So is this the final proof of the Great Liberal Media Conspiracy?

It would be quite convenient if it was, as we Liberals could quit worrying about the press being on our side, and Conservatives would have a new windmill to tilt at, but no. A recent article from Politico.com helps explain why.

Who are we supposed to "reach across the aisle" to anyway?

October 27, 2008, 7:02PM

I had originally planned writing something over the weekend about how with the election winding down to it's final days, we needed to do two things:

- Volunteer and work hard to elect Obama (no time to slow down now!)

- Start dialing down the partisan rhetoric to reach across the aisle post-election

Instead of writing that, I finished reading Conservatives Without Conscience by John Dean. And with that book finished, I realized that one of my points was utterly useless.

And it wasn't the one about volunteering.

YPM: the GOP's Acorn? (but with actual fraud...)

October 19, 2008, 1:48PM

Today comes a story out of the Los Angeles Times where it seems that the GOP has a little Voter Registration scandal of their own.

Dozens of newly minted Republican voters say they were duped into joining the party by a GOP contractor with a trail of fraud complaints stretching across the country.

Voters contacted by The Times said they were tricked into switching parties while signing what they believed were petitions for tougher penalties against child molesters. Some said they were told that they had to become Republicans to sign the petition, contrary to California initiative law. Others had no idea their registration was being changed.

Well now, that's interesting isn't it?

No Virginia, It wasn't Scary Brown People buying houses...

October 15, 2008, 3:58PM

It is refreshing to hear people taking Conservatives to task on this. There is so much BS going around now about minority homeowners being at fault for the economic crisis, that it is really impossible to dig yourself out. But Matt Talabi states the most important point very clearly in a conversation today with Byron York:

The CDS market, this market for credit default swaps that was created in 2000 by Phil Gramm's Commodities Future Modernization Act, this is now a $62 trillion market, up from $900 billion in 2000. That's like five times the size of the holdings in the NYSE. And it's all speculation by Wall Street traders. It's a classic bubble/Ponzi scheme.

Read that again: a $62 trillion market

No John, We are NOT all Georgians Today...

Why Liberal Media Coverage Isn't - via Politico...

Who are we supposed to "reach across the aisle" to anyway?

YPM: the GOP's Acorn? (but with *actual* fraud...)

No Virginia, It wasn't Scary Brown People buying houses...

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YPM: the GOP's Acorn? (but with actual fraud...)