Daily Archives: September 14, 2008

Sarah Palin Metaphor Watch: Is Palin Bush’s Seemingly Dead Political Corpse, Reasserting Itself in a Female Form?

Is election 2008 turning into a farcical version of Night of the Living Dead? This weekend, Gary Kamiya of Salon.com offered this disturbing analysis: Observing the Sarah Palin phenomenon, does anyone feel like they’re trapped in a singularly creepy remake … Continue reading

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Thou Shalt Not Torture?: A New Poll Finds That Most White Southern Evangelicals DISAGREE

The Pew polling organization released a rather sobering piece of news this week. Nearly two out of three white, Southern evangelicals are okay with the American government using torture to obtain information from suspected terrorists. Money quote: A new poll released … Continue reading

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“Drill, Baby, Drill” or “Lie, Baby, Lie”? Sarah Palin Continues to Repeat Lies That Have Been Thoroughly Debunked in the Press

Salon.com reports that, in a Republican rally on Saturday in Nevada, Sarah Palin continues to make reference to things that, elsewhere, have been debunked as falsehoods: In her 20-minute stump speech, Palin reprised the greatest hits of her Republican National … Continue reading

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The Moral Obligation, in this Hour, to Tell the Truth: Andrew Sullivan on What Obama Supporters Must Do Between Now and Election Day

The Atlantic’s Andrew Sullivan, at his blog: We cannot control these despicable liars in the McCain campaign. We can only tell the truth as fearlessly and as relentlessly and as continuously as we can until November 4. We must do … Continue reading

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Memo to Sarah Palin: This is What Democracy Looks Like. A Good Exhange Between Bill O’Reilly and Barack Obama on Taxes

Barack Obama does an extended sit-down interview, where he receives tough questions, from Bill O’Reilly. Sarah Palin needs to start doing the same, and with people who aren’t necessarily sympathetic toward her. This is what democracy looks like:

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Sarah Palin Metaphor Watch: How Like an Alien in a UFO Sarah Palin Is!

Is John McCain’s VP pick, Sarah Palin, an alien? She moves around in an impervious capsule of far-right media rectitude—and that’s kind of like how an alien would move around, ensconsed in an armored machine, safe from anything unpredictable that it couldn’t … Continue reading

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“I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure”: Clarence Darrow, the Famous Lawyer Who Defended John Scopes in the 1925 “Scopes Monkey Trial,” on His Agnosticism

Clarence Darrow (1857-1938) on his agnosticism: I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment, to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure. Source: The Quotable Atheist (Huberman 2007, … Continue reading

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On the THIRD Weekend After Sarah Palin was Picked for VP, She’s Still Not Sitting Down to Talk with Journalists on the Sunday News Shows

John McCain’s campaign continues to shield Sarah Palin from any extended, direct media scrutiny. Will she ever hold a press conference before November—or make the Sunday morning rounds of sit-down interviews with journalism news programs? Despite being a largely softball, and light focus interview … Continue reading

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