Frank Rich makes this point in the NYT: McCain has been a strong supporter of the policies of George W. Bush: Why didn’t McCain run against President Bush four years ago — as he had four years before that? Instead McCain campaigned for Bush’s re-election, cheered for Bush policies he…
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This is a YouTube complilation based on a speech made from the 1976 movie Network. This tube is the gospel . . . Television is a god-damned amusement park . . . you're never going to get any truth from us . . . Turn off your TV. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIq46PYxveg&NR=1[/youtube] Related…
Here's one example. Here's what Michelle Goldberg, writing for the UK Guardian, has to say about Sarah Palin: Evidently, Palin's pre-debate handlers judged her incapable of speaking on a fairly wide range of subjects, and so instructed to her to simply disregard questions that did not invite memorised talking points…
We can label our attempts to stop politically motivated violence in a variety of ways. We could use the law enforcement metaphor or we could use the social epidemic metaphor. The Bush administration, however, has consciously chosen to invoke the metaphor of "war." An article in the current edition of…