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This is about the most depressing video I’ve seen in a long time: It’s obvious that the media effectively got its message across — and it’s impressive how unperturbed these voters are by their abysmal ignorance.  The last woman, who is also the most charming, openly professes surprise at her ignorance, but discounts any possibility [...]

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Knowing as I do that the media is going to puff every tentative step forward by Obama, whether confirmed or not, I’ve simply ignored the news all day.  I’m feeling stressed, but want to wait until tomorrow for a definitive answer, rather than to suffer through the roller coaster of breathless and, usually, ill-informed information.  [...]

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Do you think it’s coincidence that the Sunday before Prop. 8 formally goes before California voters, the SF Chron runs an article about a lesbian couple’s wedding that would be perfectly suitable for a saccharine Barbara Cartland romance?  I probably wouldn’t have noticed or cared about this little subliminal push for its readers to vote [...]

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As long as the LA Times refuses to release the videotape of Obama at the Rashid Khalidi banquet, I’m going to accept the following from Doug Ross as absolutely true — and I urge all of you to do so too until that videotape is released.  We’re all certain, aren’t we, given the illustrious guest [...]

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Ymarsakar is right — contacting the editors at the LA Times to get them to release the video showing Obama cheerfully consorting with radical Islamists is pointless.  They don’t care what you and I think.  However, as he said, the advertisers and owners do (or, at least, should) care. With that in mind, here is [...]

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The LA Times has admitted that it possesses a video of Barack Obama cheerfully attending a radical Muslim meeting at which the speakers hurled the usual violent and threatening invective at Jews and at Israel.  Also attending were Ayers and Dohrn. One might think that, given next week’s election, the LA Times, which is another [...]

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I’d say that this — an article elegantly decrying the collapse of the professional news media — is a must read for today.

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Thought to be extinct, Marinicus Republicanus is emerging from its long dormancy and beginning to make itself known.  Tonight, I attended an enthusiastic rally of at least 100 people crammed shoulder to shoulder in a beautiful home in Marin. People were informed, excited, and refused to be intimidated by the polls. Melanie Morgan, former conservative [...]

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The MSM has been remarkably cavalier about Joe Biden’s bizarre statement regarding the “fact” that America will be attacked six months into a Barack Obama presidency and that people will be shocked and disappointed by Obama’s response (meaning that he’ll either collapse in a sobbing heap, thereby horrifying most Americans, or launch a nuclear missile [...]

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I got this joke in the mail today: A biker is riding by the zoo, when he sees a little girl leaning into the lion’s cage. Suddenly, the lion grabs her by the cuff of her jacket and tries to pull her inside to slaughter her, under the eyes of her screaming parents. The biker [...]

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The other day, I asked you to respond to the poll because we individualists (my new, Century-appropriate name for conservatives) didn’t want it to be one-sided (as in limited only to liberal, or statist, PBS viewers).  It turns out that the PBS viewers are also worried about the outcome.  That’s why I got this in [...]

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Macho Sauce Productions succinctly explains how we can tell that McCain did, in fact, win the debate: Also, if you think the big guys — Hannity, Limbaugh, etc. — should start paying attention to this guy, you can sign a petition to make that point.

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From James Taranto’s Best of the Web Today: The McCain campaign has released Todd and Sarah Palin’s 2006 and 2007 tax returns, the Associated Press notes in a brief dispatch, which ends as follows: The McCain-Palin campaign had said the tax returns would be released Monday, but it suddenly put them out Friday afternoon–a time [...]

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Let’s see if I understand this correctly:  Gwen Ifill, who is moderating tomorrow night’s VP debate, forgot to tell anyone (including the McCain campaign) that (a) she is totally in the tank for Obama and (b) that she stands to make a great deal of money if he wins, and to have egg on her [...]

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The polls reveal that “decideds” are swinging steadily to Obama (although Lord alone knows why), but that there are still a lot of undecideds out there.  I have a hard time comprehending the whole undecided thing in this race.  The candidates are not cut from the same cloth but, instead, stand in stark contrast to [...]

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Since the moment Palin burst onto the scene, the media has engaged in the most sustained attack I’ve ever seen on a single political candidate.  Outright lies, partial lies, rumors, half-truths, full truths — it doesn’t matter.  There’s just a giant information dump onto the public radar, with the hope that most people will never [...]

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Would you be surprised to learn that both ABC and CBS coincidentally managed to edit out of their interviews with Palin those moments when she expressed moderate, hands-across-the-water foreign policy views?  No.  I wouldn’t be surprised either. Hat tip:  The Anchoress

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It turns out that Charles Gibson has two different interview modes.  If you’re male, black and a Democrat, it’s very loving.  If you’re female, white and a Republican, it’s condescending, aggressive, and dishonest.  I know that from all the articles I’ve read about each interview.  Now, the Anchoress reprints a compendium of questions (generated at [...]

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The AP does it again, serving as Obama’s water carrier.  Here’s the set up:  Jerome Corsi’s book, The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality, instantly shot to number one on the New York Times bestseller list. Panic ensued.  First, the New York Times attacked it, pointing to three minor errors, along with [...]

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