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Source: www.huffingtonpost.com --- 5 days ago
Sarah Palin's post-Couric/Fey comeback at last week's vice presidential debate was a turning point in the campaign. But if she "won," as her indulgent partisans and press claque would have it, the loser was not Joe Biden. It was her running mate. With a month to go, the 2008 election is now an Obama-Palin race -- about "the future," as Palin kept saying Thursday night -- and the only person who doesn't seem to know it is Mr. Past, poor old John McCain. To understand the meaning of Palin's "victory," it must be seen in the context of two ominous developments that directly preceded it. Just hours before the debate began, the McCain campaign pulled out of Michigan. That state is ground zero for the collapsed Main Street economy and for so-called Reagan Democrats, those white working-class voters who keep being told by the right that Barack Obama is a Muslim who hung with bomb-throwing radicals during his childhood in the late 1960s. More on Sarah Palin ... Source: www.huffingtonpost.com --- 12 days ago
What we learned last week is that the man who always puts his "country first" will take the country down with him if that's what it takes to get to the White House. For all the focus on Friday night's deadlocked debate, it still can't obscure what preceded it: When John McCain gratuitously parachuted into Washington on Thursday, he didn't care if his grandstanding might precipitate an even deeper economic collapse. All he cared about was whether he might save his campaign. George Bush put more deliberation into invading Iraq than McCain did into his own reckless invasion of the delicate Congressional negotiations on the bailout plan. More on John McCain ... Source: www.huffingtonpost.com --- 18 days ago
You know the press is impotent at unmasking this truthiness when the hardest-hitting interrogation McCain has yet faced on television came on "The View." Barbara Walters and Joy Behar called him on several falsehoods, including his endlessly repeated fantasy that Palin opposed earmarks for Alaska. Behar used the word "lies" to his face. The McCains are so used to deference from "the filter" that Cindy McCain later complained that "The View" picked "our bones clean." In our news culture, Behar, a stand-up comic by profession, looms as the new Edward R. Murrow. Network news, with its dwindling handful of investigative reporters, has barely mentioned, let alone advanced, major new print revelations about Cindy McCain's drug-addiction history (in The Washington Post) and the rampant cronyism and secrecy in Palin's governance of Alaska (in last Sunday's New York Times). At least the networks repeatedly fact-check the low-hanging fruit among the countless Palin lies, but John McCain's past usually remains off limits. More on The View ... Source: www.huffingtonpost.com --- 34 days ago
SARAH PALIN makes John McCain look even older than he is. And he seemed more than willing to play that part on Thursday night. By the time he slogged through his nearly 50-minute acceptance speech -- longer even than Barack Obama's -- you half-expected some brazen younger Republican (Mitt Romney, perhaps?) to dash onstage to give him a gold watch and the bum's rush. Still, attention must be paid. McCain's address, though largely a repetitive slew of stump-speech lines and worn G.O.P. orthodoxy, reminded us of what we once liked about the guy: his aspirations to bipartisanship, his heroic service in Vietnam, his twinkle. He took his (often inaccurate) swipes at Obama, but, in winning contrast to Palin and Rudy Giuliani, he wasn't smug or nasty. More on Sarah Palin ... Source: www.mediabistro.com --- 18 days ago
"In our news culture, Behar, a stand-up comic by profession, looms as the new Edward R. Murrow." Actually we're not sure Frank Rich means it literally -- one interview does not a journalistic cornerstone make -- but still, point taken. Why is it the comedy world always seems to be doing the MSM's dirty work for them? At this point one could make a fairly solid argument for the idea that at least one of the debates should be moderated by John Stewart , Tina Fey , and Joy Behar . New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media ... Source: weblog.signonsandiego.com --- 28 days ago
Five years ago, I wrote an essay trashing Roger Ebert for the shrill one-note predictability of his political commentary. I went for the jugular, comparing Ebert to his idol, Pauline Kael: It's worth comparing Ebert's reflexive right-bashing with the approach... ... Source: www.newsvine.com --- 12 days ago
WHAT we learned last week is that the man who always puts his "country first" will take the country down with him if that's what it takes to get to the White House. ... Source: clipmarks.com --- 19 days ago
clipped by: ALEX51 clipper's remarks: In his excellent column in today's N.Y.Times Frank Rich points out that a Carl Rove policy means "all slime,all the time" Clip Source: www.nytimes.com All campaigns, Obama’s included, engage in false attacks. But McCain, Sarah Palin and their surrogates keep repeating the same lies over and over not just to smear their opponents and not just to mask their own record. Their larger aim is to construct a bogus alternative reality so relentless it can overwhelm any haphazard journalistic stabs at puncturing it. ... Source: www.buzzflash.net --- 12 days ago
WHAT we learned last week is that the man who always puts his “country first” will take the country down with him if that’s what it takes to get to the White House. When John McCain gratuitously parachuted into Washington on Thursday, all he cared about was whether he might save his campaign. McCain was determined to be the bull in Washington’s legislative china shop, running around town and playing both sides of his divided party against Congress’s middle. By Wednesday, Angry Old Ironsides McCain suddenly emerged to bark that our financial distress was “the greatest crisis we’ve faced, clearly, since World War II." There was no suspension of his campaign. His surrogates and ads remained on television. Much of the press paid lip service to McCain’s new “suspension” as it had to its prototype -- the self-righteous “suspension” of the G.O.P. convention as Hurricane Gustav arrived on Labor Day. David Letterman’s most mordant laughs on Wednesday, after McCain had blown off Letterman for Katie Couric, came when he riffed about McCain’s campaign “suspension”: “Do you suspend your campaign? No, because that makes me think maybe there will be other things down the road, like if he’s in the White House, he might just suspend being president. I mean, we’ve got a guy like that now!” » original news ... Source: www.buzzflash.net --- 39 days ago
After a weeklong orgy of inane manufactured melodrama labeled “convention coverage” on television, Barack Obama set the record straight. America is in too much trouble, he said, to indulge in “a big election about small things.” Obama did what he had to do in his acceptance speech - he scrapped the messianic “Change We Can Believe In” for the more concrete policy litany of “The Change We Need.” All week long a media chorus had fretted whether he could pull off a potentially vainglorious stunt before 80,000 screaming fans. Well, yes he can, and so he did. Indeed, the disconnect between the reality of this campaign and how it is perceived and presented by the mainstream media is now a major part of the year’s story. The latest good luck for the Democrats is that the McCain campaign was just as bamboozled as the press by the false Hillary narrative. None of this, any more than the success of Obama’s acceptance speech, guarantees a Democratic victory. But what it does ensure is that all bets are off when it comes to predicting this race’s outcome. As Obama said, this is a big election. We will only begin to confront the magnitude of our choice when and if we stop being distracted by small, let alone utterly fictitious, things. » original news ...
Source: www.buzzflash.net --- 26 days ago
If we’ve learned anything from the G.O.P. convention and its aftermath, it’s that the 2008 edition of John McCain is too weak to serve as America’s chief executive. This unmentionable truth, more than race, is now the real elephant in the room of this election. No longer able to remember his principles any better than he can distinguish between Sunnis and Shia, McCain stands revealed as a guy who can be easily rolled by anyone who sells him a plan for “victory,” whether in Iraq or in Michigan. A McCain victory on Election Day will usher in a Palin presidency, with McCain serving as a transitional front man, an even weaker Bush to her Cheney. The cunning of the Sarah Palin choice for vice president as a political strategy is that a candidate who embodies fear of change can be sold as a “maverick” simply because she looks the part. Karl Rove for once gave the Democrats a real tip rather than a bum steer when he wrote last week that if Obama wants to win, “he needs to remember he’s running against John McCain for president,” not Palin for vice president. Obama should keep stepping up the blitz on McCain’s flip-flops, confusion, ignorance and blurriness on major issues rather than Palin's gaffes and résumé. If he focuses voters on the 2008 McCain, the Palin question will take care of itself. » original news ... Source: www.vidiac.com --- 37 days ago
Afterlife Crisis Steve Mayfield Book Trailer Downsized manager Frank Moon dies and is whisked away to an afterlife. There, Frank learns about human warmth and is asked to return to earth to use it. With this story of challenge and risk, comes an original seven-song soundtrack that provides a Rich rock-and-roll accompaniment to Frank's spiritual journey. http://www.afterlifecrisis.com ISBN # 978-1-934454-24-4 Genre(s) mainstream fiction ... Source: www.americablog.com --- 33 days ago
This is how Frank Rich's column today starts -- and it just gets better: SARAH PALIN makes John McCain look even older than he is. And he seemed more than willing to play that part on Thursday night. By the time he slogged through his nearly 50-minute acceptance speech — longer even than Barack Obama’s — you half-expected some brazen younger Republican (Mitt Romney, perhaps?) to dash onstage to give him a gold watch and the bum’s rush. Still, attention must be paid. McCain’s address, though largely a repetitive slew of stump-speech lines and worn G.O.P. orthodoxy, reminded us of what we once liked about the guy: his aspirations to bipartisanship, his heroic service in Vietnam, his twinkle. He took his (often inaccurate) swipes at Obama, but, in winning contrast to Palin and Rudy Giuliani, he wasn’t smug or nasty. The only problem, of course, is that the entire thing was a sham. Yes, it was. There are so many great lines and passages in this column. Read the whole thing. Excerpts and analysis don't do it justice. ... Source: www.huliq.com --- 26 days ago
Both are Palin-based - but Midler concedes that Rich's is "far superior." ... Source: blogs.jobdig.com --- 36 days ago
From a great editorial by Frank Rich in Sunday’s New York Times entitled Obama Outwits the Bloviators… YouTube, the medium that has transformed our culture and politics, didn’t exist four years ago. Four years from now, it’s entirely possible that some, even many, of the newspapers and magazines covering this campaign won’t exist in their current [...] ... Source: www.drudge.com --- 4 days ago
With his persistent erratic behavior and serious questions about his physical and mental health unresolved, John McCain is essentially out of the race. The focus has shifted from Obama v. McCain to Obama v. Palin. ... Source: www.americablog.com --- 5 days ago
NYT The second bit of predebate news, percolating under the radar, involved the still-unanswered questions about McCain’s health. Back in May, you will recall, the McCain campaign allowed a select group of 20 reporters to spend a mere three hours examining (but not photocopying) 1,173 pages of the candidate’s health records on the Friday of Memorial Day weekend. Conspicuously uninvited was Lawrence Altman, a doctor who covers medicine for The New York Times. Altman instead canvassed melanoma experts to evaluate the sketchy data that did emerge. They found the information too “unclear” to determine McCain’s cancer prognosis. There was, however, at least one doctor-journalist among those 20 reporters in May, the CNN correspondent Sanjay Gupta. At the time, Gupta told Katie Couric on CBS that the medical records were “pretty comprehensive” and wrote on his CNN blog that he was “pretty convinced there was no ‘smoking gun’ about the senator’s health.” (Physical health, that is; Gupta wrote there was hardly any information on McCain’s mental health.) That was then. Now McCain is looking increasingly shaky, whether he’s repeating his “Miss Congeniality” joke twice in the same debate or speaking from notecards even when reciting a line for (literally) the 17th time (“The fundamentals of our economy are strong”) or repeatedly confusing proper nouns that begin with S (Sunni, Shia, Sudan, Somalia, Spain). McCain’s “dismaying temperament,” as ... Source: www.californiaprogressreport.com --- 3 days ago
By Clint Reilly Forget the exhausted claims of “liberal bias”; the Times has a serious smugness problem on its hands. Even I – a life-long Democrat, Obama supporter, Times subscriber and daily reader – find the paper’s pomposity and orthodoxy difficult to stomach. An October 1 column on the Times... ... Source: www.newstrust.net --- 8 days ago
YouTube - By Rachel Maddow - Oct. 1 (Interview) - Frank Rich expresses his concern about Sarah Palin being Vice President. Last reviewed by: Fabrice Florin NewsTrust Rating: (not enough reviews) - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer ... Find more results for Frank Rich on RSSMicro.com |
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A beautiful woman, at once a scheming, ambitious right-wing ideologue, and the powerful, evil forces behind her, plot to seize the presidency from the man—foolish enough to have made her his running-mate—who may be concealing just how seriously sick he is, both physically and mentally! As the stuff of straight-to-video filmmaking, not bad, perhaps. But as the theory of an ostensibly serious column in America's newspaper of record? And yet, that is the paranoid picture that Frank Rich paints today in Pitbull Palin Mauls McCain . Annotated excerpts: [T]he 2008 election is now an Obama-Palin race . . . and the only person who doesn’t seem to know it is Mr. Past, poor old John McCain. Watch in horror, as the scheming woman plots behind the muddled McCain's back! [S]till-unanswered questions about McCain’s health. [I]nformation too “unclear” to determine McCain’s cancer prognosis. [H]ardly any information on McCain’s mental health. McCain is looking increasingly shaky . . . McCain’s “dismaying temperament,” as George Will labeled it, only thickens the concerns. His kamikaze mission into Washington during the bailout crisis seemed crazed. His seething, hostile debate countenance. McCain looking increasingly shaky? I'd say the consensus was that in the debate he was impressively in control of his facts and his temperament. If he perhaps erred on the side of being too aggressive, it's hard to see that as a symptom of a man in decline, pa ...