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Are Americans really racists?
The 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 readingBizarro World strikes Sarah Palin
I 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 readingDifficult decisions
The 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 readingWhen Americans start paying attention
Yesterday, 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 readingA serious time in American politics
Almost 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 readingBehind every successful woman is….
The 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):
Continue readingWomen speaking back
I don’t know how much difference this will make, but it’s a petition to show that the media is wrong — women will and do support Sarah Palin. Hat tip: Bloggers for John McCain
Continue readingDebugging the rumor mill
Explorations has a comprehensive list of the rumors circulating around Sarah Palin, and explains which are true and which are false. It’s amazing how much dirt managed to flow down the media pipeline is a single week.
Continue readingTrying to fool all of the people all of the time
I periodically check out Yahoo’s most popular news to see what AP articles are getting the most play according to the Yahoo picks (which, except for including Ann Coulter, skew liberal). It’s fascinating to see the AP headlines, each of which is snarky, dismissive or critical of Palin in some
Continue readingAbout that National Enquirier story….
Not much, it turns out.
Continue readingMedia double standards
From the National Review editors: This shameful but predictable media performance [obsessing about Bristol’s sex life and manufacturing debased rumors] stands in marked contrast to the rigorous “hands-off” privacy policy dutifully honored by the press throughout the Clinton years for the president’s then-teenage daughter, Chelsea. Indeed earlier this year, though
Continue readingThe media scourge
I told an elderly liberal friend (“ELF”) about my liberal friend, the one who thinks the media is being so unfair to Palin that she’s tempted to vote for McCain just to spite the media. The following conversation ensued. I should add here that the ELF considers herself very well
Continue readingIrritating the average woman
A liberal friend of mine told me she’s so incensed by the attacks on Palin’s pregnant daughter that she feels like voting for McCain just to spite the media.
Continue readingCause — meet effect
Once again, a writer for the MSM leads with a sentence that implies that there is no causative relationship between two obviously related facts. This from the San Francisco Chronicle: California home sales surged last month even while prices plunged a record amount, as buyers snapped up bargains among the
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