If the press really is McCain’s base, then for a poltician, he’s remarkably cavalier about getting snippy with his base. Video below the fold:
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The New York Times has a report today about a declassified memo outlining what the CIA can and can’t do to its prisoners. But good luck figuring any of that out from the actual memo. Kevin Drum has a handy visual aid.
Rest assured, none of it is torture, because none of these techniques are used solely to induce sever pain. Apparently gut-wrenching agony only counts as torture if it’s done out of revenge, instead of, say, to obtain information. Thanks for the info, CIA!
You know guys, the... Read Full Story
I think I’ve finally organized my thoughts enough to provide a coherent take on my experiences at Netroots Nation, so here we go.
First off, I think the attendees at Netroots Nation represented a reasonable sample of all the different sections of the liberal blogosphere. That’s not to say that every group was proportionally represented, but there was a pretty good balance between, say, the wonkier types, the more organizing-oriented people, the activists on the ground, the campaign operatives... Read Full Story
What a day yesterday. Apparently, not only did John McCain attempt to convince America that the surge is not actually the surge except when it is politically advantageous for him to take credit for something that seems surge-y, but Bob Novak hit an innocent pedestrian with his car. Presumably he was distracted while driving because he was busy writing “MOCK ME, POLITICAL BLOGGERS” on his forehead in sharpie.
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Apparently, John McCain, having realized the unlikelihood of his bid for the White House ending successfully, has ordered his staffers to get to work on making the SkyMall catalog’s commemorative campaign poster. For just $29.99, you can let it molder in your basement next to the ceramic bald eagle plates and various other Thomas Kinkade-inspired baubles. Read Full Story
Bad news for Max Boot: the new neoconservative line on Maliki is already getting kind of old.
There is some irony in the fact that Democrats, after years of deriding Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki as a hopeless bungler and conniving Shiite sectarian, are now treating as sacrosanct his suggestion that Iraq will be ready to assume responsibility for its own security by 2010. Naturally this is because his position seems to support that of Barack Obama.
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Lieberman unpopular among American Jews. As far as I can figure out, it’s either because of bigotry, a hatred or Israel, or the whole “he’s a massive tool” thing. Read Full Story
You know how sometimes a skilled writer will begin an essay by writing about something that’s somewhat interesting but doesn’t seem particularly significant? And then will expand on that idea and connect it to something much larger and more important, so that by the end you see both topics in a whole new light? Well, Richard Cohen’s a terrible writer, and that’s not what he’s doing here.
Tattoos are the emblems of our age. They bristle from the biceps of men in summer shirts, from the lower... Read Full Story
Hey guys, members of the press. I’m here today to do something that bugs the hell out of me whenever other people do it - I’m going to speak on behalf of a large, diverse group as if it was ideologically homogeneous.
Yep, that’s right. For the purposes of this blog post, I am electing myself official spokesperson for young people. What qualifies me for the job? Absolutely nothing, except that I happen to be young myself. Tom Brokaw, on the other hand, is not young, and is therefore less... Read Full Story
A convention swag bag with the AT&T logo? For real, Democrats?
Here’s a tip from the folks at the Republican Party, who have been doing this whole “corporate sellout” thing a lot longer and are a hell of a lot better at it: When accepting corporate sponsors who happen to have lobbied for reprehensible legislation which you in turn supported, sometime it’s a good idea to exert the smallest amount of restraint and not plaster their logo on your shit.
Come on, guys. There’s a reason why even... Read Full Story
