Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I haven’t watched the debate yet. I’ve been doing volunteer work (yes, we selfish conservatives sometimes give generously of our time), getting food, preparing dinner, and wrapping up a brief that needs to be filed tomorrow. What I thought I’d do, therefore, is reprint here a prediction I made about
Continue readingLet’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
Continue readingThe 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,
Continue readingSince 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
Continue readingI don’t think Glenn Reynolds will mind my reprinting this in its entirety, since it deserves to be read as widely as possible. Send it along to your friends — and, maybe, to your local newsroom: A READER AT A MAJOR NEWSROOM EMAILS: “Off the record, every suspicion you have
Continue readingWould 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
Continue readingThis, directly from the McCain campaign, deserves to be reprinted in its entirety: Today the New York Times launched its latest attack on this campaign in its capacity as an Obama advocacy organization. Let us be clear about what this story alleges: The New York Times charges that McCain-Palin 2008
Continue readingI haven’t gotten up to speed yet this morning for blogging, but my fellow bloggers have, and they’ve already posted some good stuff. The Anchoress has noticed that, as the debates draw near, the MSM is working diligently to prepare the American audience . . . by lowering expectations. Obama,
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Continue readingThe current “scandal” is that a poll shows that one third of white Democrats harbor racist views towards blacks. I have two problems with this poll’s approach and two questions about whether its conclusions have any real meaning. My first problem is the poll’s underlying assumption, one that reveals entirely
Continue readingI was first introduced to the Bizarro World concept when I watched the brilliant Seinfeld episode in which Elaine stumbles across the good doppelgängers of her self-centered, fairly conscience-free group of friends (Jerry, Kramer, George and Newman). When she describes the “good” guys to her group, Jerry says that she
Continue readingThe media is struggling with difficult decisions. On the one hand, media members have to ask themselves if they should report about Sarah Palin’s tanning bed, the fact that she was interested in seeing her ex-brother-in-law lose his job after issuing death threats to her father and tasering her nephew,
Continue readingYesterday, I urged you to read Thomas Lifson’s January 2006 article looking to the two political seasons that affect most Americans — the long inattention season and the short attention season. Today, Thomas was good enough to revisit his original premise and analyze how it helps Republicans generally (which is
Continue readingAlmost three years ago, Thomas Lifson wrote what I think is one of the most important political analyses I’ve ever read — and one that goes a long way to explaining the way in which American voters are slowly abandoning Obama and coalescing around the McCain ticket. Thomas believes that
Continue readingThe very clever Lionel Libson (father of our own Joseph Libson, who sometimes comments here) came up with this great Photoshopped image (click on image for a larger version):
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