The news has been full of stories about “voter fraud” this week. It seems the rolls of registered voters in some states are growing rapidly with the addition of Mickey Mouse and other Disney characters, dead people, children, and probably anything else that imaginative good-for-nothings can dream up. Many of the signatures appear to come … Continue reading I don’t care if Mickey Mouse is registered to vote
This evening CBS news aired an interview with Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Once again the Alaska governor displayed her own special command of important issues. When asked to name a Supreme Court decision she disagreed with, she said: Well, let’s see. There’s, of course, in the great history of America rulings there have … Continue reading Palin strikes again; please, governor, just go home
PBS’s very capable Gwen Ifill will be moderating the vice presidential debate tomorrow night. Conservatives are now blasting Ifill’s selection because she has written a book scheduled for publication on Inauguration Day entitled Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama, about the younger generation of black politicians. I am not unbiased in this … Continue reading If not Gwen Ifill, then who?
It couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy. (smirk) Geraldo Rivera, my all-time least favorite grandstanding “reporter” was setting up for a live shot today from down on the Gulf Coast — you know, standing in the teeth of Hurricane Ike and all that. Evidently he was planning to be standing next to, or possibly on top … Continue reading ROFL! Geraldo dumped by Ike — on camera, sort of
I’m taking entirely too much pleasure in hearing today that Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann have been been spanked by MSNBC for their anchoring of the national political conventions in the last couple of weeks. The FoxNews people were positively gloating over it. (Kudos to CNN for not mentioning it, at least not while I … Continue reading Matthews-Olbermann circus shut down by MSNBC
The McCain campaign is gaming the system today, hinting broadly that McCain’s veep has been chosen and will be named tomorrow, or maybe today if the name “leaks.” Regardless of whether it leaks, and whether the leak is accidental or intentional, the media can’t help themselves and are reporting it. Which is, of course, the … Continue reading Daytime TV: Watching the watchers watch the DNC
