The right-wing smear campaign accusing Barack Obama of a secret allegiance to the Muslim faith got a high-profile and respectful boost from the Washington Post. The influential newspaper fronted a story that recycles the innuendos and buys into the bigotry. November 29, 2007
Sphere: Related ContentYou’ve kicked the coke habit and put down the bacon. But how much damage has already been done? We designed a scale around a man with a few indiscretions of his own — Keith Richards — to rank your reckless past.
Sphere: Related ContentA judge who thinks mass jailings are the best way to respond to his own irritation — without probable cause or even an individualized suspicion that each of the 46 detainees had done something wrong — deserves to lose his job. Thankfully, Restaino lost his.
Sphere: Related ContentTo whet our appetite, the publisher has released a pretty damning excerpt in which McClellan in no uncertain terms implicates Bush and Cheney in the disinformation campaign that Scotty undertook from his post in the press room to exonerate the administration in the outing of Valerie Wilson.
Sphere: Related ContentTo whet our appetite, the publisher has released a pretty damning excerpt in which McClellan in no uncertain terms implicates Bush and Cheney in the disinformation campaign that Scotty undertook from his post in the press room to exonerate the administration in the outing of Valerie Wilson.
Sphere: Related ContentFor Obama, who is 46, and his followers, boomer politics clearly have to go. What is less obvious is whom Obama represents. He often speaks to the Millennials, recently telling cheering college kids in South Carolina, “It’s your generation’s turn.” But rarely mentioned is Obama’s own generation, i.e., Generation X, the Lost Generation, whose name has been virtually erased from the national conversation.
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All the usual caveats apply — it’s just one poll, there are still six weeks until the caucuses, anything can happen, the margin of error is important, and Iowa is a notoriously difficult place to conduct reliable polls, in part because it’s hard to know exactly who is going to caucus.
Sphere: Related ContentTo the press, all the world’s a stage. Or rather, all the world’s an onstage and a backstage. Candidates don’t have beliefs; they have positions. Campaigns don’t have meanings; they have narratives. In the postmodern funhouse that imprisons prestige media, the job isn’t to cover events, but rather to reveal their theatricality; the trick isn’t to find truth, but to disclose “framing.”
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