Mainstream Media Obsessed with Sex, Sex, Sex!
Cernig is outraged at the sex-obsessed American press. I am now officially disgusted with America's insular and navel-gazing punditry. En masse and on a bipartisan basis the media, commentators and bloggers have decided that the Edwards Affair story is more important than events in South Ossetia. What happened, folks, did your minds cloud over at contemplation of events beyond these hallowed ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on August 9, 2008 18:50
Edwards Admits Affair, Denies Love Child His
After months of speculation -- and, let's face it, lies -- John Edwards has admitted to having an affair with Rielle Hunter but denies that he fathered her child. Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards on Friday admitted to an extramarital affair while his wife was battling cancer. He denied fathering the woman's daughter. Edwards told ABC News that he lied repeatedly ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on August 8, 2008 15:46
Afghanistan Death Toll
The NYT has a feature story highlighting the increased death toll in Afghanistan under the headline "500: Deadly U.S. Milestone in Afghan War." Oddly, however, that milestone passed some time back and we're well past it now. June was the second deadliest month for the military in Afghanistan since the war began, with 23 American deaths from hostilities, compared with 22 in ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on August 7, 2008 07:02
McCain Op-Ed Rejected by New York Times (Updated)
The NYT has declined to run an op-ed piece by John McCain in response to last week's by Barack Obama, CNN reports, instead giving what's known in academic circles as a "revise and resubmit." In an e-mail to the McCain campaign, Opinion Page Editor David Shipley said he could not accept the piece as written, but would be “pleased, though, to ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on July 22, 2008 07:50
McCain and Obama on Iraq and Afghanistan
William Arkin contends that recent political maneuvering has put Barack Obama and President Bush in almost identical positions vis-à-vis Iraq: The Bush administration's potential Iraq withdrawal plan, floated in The New York Times over the weekend, to draw down brigades further before September of this year and to accelerate withdrawals in 2009, has collided with Barack Obama's own 16-month plan, which ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on July 15, 2008 14:46
Why Rush Limbaugh is So Popular
Ezra Klein believes a recent NYT Magazine profile of Rush Limbaugh is a "puff piece." He lists, for example, Rush's "presidential platform" as published: 1. Open the continental shelf to drilling. Ditto the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. 2. Establish a 17 percent flat tax. 3. Privatize Social Security. 4. Give parents school vouchers to break the monopoly of public education. 5. Revoke Jimmy Carter’s ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on July 8, 2008 09:03
Al Qaeda in Iraq Defeated?
Al Qaeda in Iraq [AQI] is all but defeated, Marie Colvin reports for The Sunday Times. A huge operation to crush the 1,200 fighters who remained from a terrorist force once estimated at more than 12,000 began on May 10. Operation Lion’s Roar, in which the Iraqi army combined forces with the Americans’ 3rd Armoured Cavalry Regiment, has already resulted in ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on July 6, 2008 07:56
Supreme Court Focus of 2008 Election
The NYT editorial board want you to know that they're very disappointed in the Roberts Court, particularly its upholding of Indiana's law requiring would-be voters to be able they are who they claim to be, allowing Kentucky to continue using lethal injection for convicted murderers who've exhausted seventeen years of appeals, and its ruling that the 2nd Amendment applies in ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on July 3, 2008 11:55
Obama, the South, and the Black Vote
Thomas Schaller, the author of Whistling Past Dixie: How Democrats Can Win Without the South, argues that the notion that Barack Obama has a good chance of winning Southern states because he'll energize black turnout is based on fallacious reasoning. The first myth is that African-American turnout in the South is low. Black voters are actually well represented in the Southern ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on July 1, 2008 13:37
Bush Sewage Plant
Some creative San Francisco bar patrons want to rename a sewage treatment plant after the, um, sitting president. From the Department of Damned-With-Faint-Praise, a group going by the regal-sounding name of the Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco is planning to ask voters here to change the name of a prize-winning water treatment plant on the shoreline to the George W. ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on June 25, 2008 06:53
