Bookworm on Nov 19 2007 | Filed under: Media matters, Presidential elections
Here’s a wonderful video from Hot Air exposing the fact that many of the “undecided” voters who got to question the candidates at the most recent Democratic debate were activists or operatives of some kind. Indeed, one of them may even have been known to a Democratic candidate before the debate began:
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It’s a very funny [...]
Bookworm on Nov 15 2007 | Filed under: Media matters
It’s tempting and easy to take poll results at face value. I certainly used to for most of my life and even now still have a lazy tendency to do so. However, I’m beginning to discover that you always need to drill down into the poll at issue, either to discover what population [...]
Bookworm on Nov 01 2007 | Filed under: Media matters
United 93, instead of becoming a weapon in terrorists’ hands that would have struck at America’s heart, become a symbol of heroism and resistance. And the reason that happened was because of the cell phone. Passengers on board the flight were able to gain information and assess risk thanks to the information they received through [...]
Bookworm on Oct 18 2007 | Filed under: Anti-war, Iraq, Media matters
A few days ago (although I only just got to it now), I read over at Confederate Yankee that troops are not fragging (i.e., killing) their officers, something popular during the Vietnam War. CY comments that the report’s author sounds almost, I don’t know, disappointed that the troops aren’t slaking their blood lust against [...]
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