Will Blogs Kill Political Magazines?
Andrew Sullivan, who was editor-in-chief of The New Republic when he was 12 and now works at The Atlantic, notes that the websites of conservative opinion magazines National Review and The Weekly Standard get no more traffic than the top conservative blogs. So the competition for the opinion-reader is intense. And the financial edge of individual bloggers with relatively no overhead ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on November 18, 2008 12:13
Norquist’s Bailout Plan
Grover Norquist has applied for a $700 billion subsidy from the Treasury. His appeal reads, in part: I have a plan for this $700 billion which should be just what’s needed to get the American economy going. Since the money came from the taxpayers in the first place, I propose giving it back to them. The rest is less amusing but probably ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on November 18, 2008 11:50
McCain Whines While Obama Does the Prom Queen
Yesterday's announcement that Barack Obama had raised a staggering $150 million in the month of September has been largely overshadowed by news of the Powell endorsement. There has been, though, a bit of whining in Republican circles, including from John McCain himself, about how unfair it all is. Obama, meanwhile, is, to paraphrase Sean Connery's famous line from "The Rock," having ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on October 20, 2008 12:58
Obama Mocks McCain’s Computer Skills
The Obama campaign launched a new ad yesterday, "Still," which mocks John McCain for being out of touch because, among other things, he "doesn't know how to use a computer" and "can't send an email." The Charge: McCain Computer Illiterate The key 'graph in its entirety: Things have changed in the last 26 years, but McCain hasn't. He admits he still doesn't know ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on September 13, 2008 08:23
Obama Called Palin a Pig!
The Outrage of the Day is that Barack Obama called Sarah Palin a pig. Or, at least implied she was a pig. Well, he used the words "lipstick" and "pig" in the same sentence. Politico's Ben Smith appears to have started this one, passing on a report from an Amie Parnes: Obama poked fun of McCain and Palin's new "change" mantra. "You can ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on September 10, 2008 10:18
Reality TV Politics
Steven Donegal has achieved what I'm pretty sure is an OTB first: An InstaLink to a comment, for this entry in yesterday's Obama as Jackie Robinson discussion. There's only one way to resolve this 3 am thing: reality TV. Set up a TV program where each candidate is called unexpectedly at 3am and tell them of some impending crisis in ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on August 28, 2008 09:29
30 Years Ago Today
Glenn Reynolds: "Thirty years ago Jimmy Carter established the Department of Energy. And all our energy problems were solved . . . ." Heh. Indeed.Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on August 4, 2008 11:27
