Posts Tagged ‘red meat’

Pick your “-ism.” When socialism and terrorism are waved like red herrings to obscure the campaign trail, historical revisionism can’t be far behind. If your political playbook is straight out of Richard Nixon and your policies emulate George W. Bush, why wouldn’t you want to re-write history?
Russ Rymer presents a nuanced interpretation of John Lewis’s [...]

Joe Killian was on assignment for the Greensboro News & Record when he was kicked to the ground at a Sarah Palin rally at Elon University yesterday. He tells the story in How I Became Joe Sixpack « AUTOMATIC WRITING:
After the speech was over I was walking around getting peoples’ reactions to it when I [...]

David Schaper  provides a long, thoughtful answer in  NPR: Bill Ayers, Explained 101608:
In last nights debate, Sen. McCain demanded more details on Sen. Obama’s relationship with former Weather Underground member William Ayers, saying “I don’t care about an old, washed-up terrorist. But as Senator Clinton said in her debates with you, we need to know [...]

NPR national editor editor Ron Elving writes:
McCain knows his recent strategy has been about fear and suspicion and the dark side of the American psyche. He is clearly uncomfortable with it, which is why he undercut the message himself by correcting supporters who called Obama “an Arab” or wondered if they’d be safe raising a [...]

YouTube - John McCain’s Rage is a National Security Concern.