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Stephen C. Rose: Sarah Palin -- Two More Days on the Down Slope

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com --- 12 days ago
By Stephen C. Rose SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 11:09 AM EASTERN Today's Palin links carry nothing reflecting yesterday's affair allegation. I have seen nothing to suggest that my thinking about this bursting on the MSM was correct. But the day is not over yet. The links for today include a skewering of Palin as a cultural benchmark that would warm the heart of a Mayhill Fowler on the hunt for elitist statements. Troopergate is alive and well, buttressed by popular sentiment for disclosure and accountability in Alaska. Tina Fey is, if anything, better on her second SNL Palin appearance. Palin is not the favorite of George Will and other conservative commentators. And, sadly I sense, the Bristol wedding may become a pawn in the political gamesmanship that Palin's presence has created. I am told by a little bird that the prospective groom is not exactly aching for a tie that binds. The source is the same as that which alleges the affair. MAD DOG PALIN a screed about American culture GO TROOPERGATE still hounds Palin GO BRISTOL's wedding and other oddities GO TINA FEY returns as Palin on SNL VIDEOS & text GO PALIN alienates some conservative pundits GO FIRST HAND REPORT of Palin "accountability" rally in Alaska PHOTOS & text GO SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 8:43 AM EASTERN PALIN AFFAIR ALLEGED SOURCE 8:14 AM EASTERN Yow. Bad press reviews of the Couric debacle. Republicans are getting antsy. KO has that October 1 deadline out there for a Palin wit ...

Mayhill Fowler: Obama, God And Governance

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com --- 94 days ago

Barack Obama's Zanesville, Ohio, remarks on July 1st, in which he pledged a continuation, if reorganization, of the Bush Administration's Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, are part of a larger Obama religious outreach called the American Values Campaign, a "journey," in which the Obama camp is mulling the role of faith in the public square and reclaiming the "moral values" debate. The campaign's so-called American Values Supporters get a Daily Faith Briefing as well as the opportunity to blog a Values Question of the Week. Likely this wing of the campaign is a surprise to some of the Senator's progressive supporters. Here is a candidate who has had to navigate stumbling blocks such as the Reverend Wright, Father Phleger and the Muslim urban myth, as well as the words out of his own mouth on working class Pennsylvanians clinging to religion, nevertheless consigning his summer outreach to Director of Religious Affairs Josh DuBois, a young Pentecostal minister who signs off as Joshua , and Alyssa Martin, a Religious Affairs Intern who signs off with Blessings . Is this good strategy? The Senator's intention to give religious faith an important place in the public square, should he be elected president, is not a revelation. He has long argued for a connection between religion and politics. In his June 28, 2006, Keynote Address at the Call to Renewal's Building a Covenant for a New America conference, Obama talked about the need " ...

Mayhill Fowler: Obamavolk Prepare For Obama Blitz

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com --- 79 days ago

BERLIN -- On what used to be the East German side of the Brandenburg Gate, Linnea and Julia, two American college students, have been spending this sunny Wednesday afternoon handing out blue postcards advertising Barack Obama's appearance tomorrow at the Siegessaule, the Uberphallic Victory statue in the Tiergarten, less than a mile down the boulevard Unter den Linden on the other side of the Tor. Yesterday and today volunteers from Americans Abroad for Obama, as well as college students like Linnea and Julia, have been plying Berliners and tourists with these rather bizarre cards -- the artwork reminiscent of both German Expressionism and Soviet Constructivism in its depiction of a frowning Barack. Is the Obama brow wrinkled in thought? Is the Senator squinting at the future? Or is he hectoring an audience? Take your pick. Certainly, one customer, a Communist who used to live in East Berlin, likes the card. He asks for a stack to replace the usual Communist literature he puts in the mailboxes of his new neighbors in West Berlin. People are arriving from all over Europe to hear Obama speak. Earlier today, Linnea and Julia met a group of Americans, just flown in from Paris, who pulled their suitcases along behind them as they worked their Obama shift. Dirk Mirow, the organizer of the Obama event for Americans Abroad supporters, has received emails from young people coming in from Macedonia and Poland. One of the (many) complaints ...

Mayhill Fowler: Evangelicals Find A President At Saddleback

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com --- 53 days ago

LAKE FOREST, Calif. -- The telling moment Saturday night at the Saddleback Civil Forum on the Presidency comes just before the end when the mega-church's pastor Rick Warren asks Senator John McCain "What about -- you -- we're seeing Russia reasserting itself in Georgia, and maybe now Poland. What's happening?" Those two words what's happening are the crux of the evening. Although the forum's format has been to ask the same questions in the same order back-to-back of Senators Obama and McCain -- Obama going first by coin toss and McCain during that hour placed "in a cone of silence" -- here on the crisis in Georgia Pastor Rick, as his congregation calls him, branches out. The consequence of Obama's inclination to nuance and McCain's to brevity for the pastoral conversation is that Pastor Rick has time to ask McCain an additional question. And the question the preacher poses is very different from all the others. He doesn't ask for opinion or personal philosophy, he wants to know what's going on in Georgia. He wants knowledge. He wants expertise. The assumption is that the presumptive Republican nominee for president has that knowledge and expertise. The asking of the question itself is an imprimatur, dramatically so, of John McCain for President according to the very terms Rick Warren has set forth for the evening's dialogues -- "to discuss issues of leadership" more than just the specific positions on abortion, marriage and stem-cell ...

Mayhill Fowler: Who Is Mary Matalin?

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com --- 57 days ago
Mary Matalin, I've always admired your feistiness and fine mind -- and over the last year I appreciate as well how difficult it is for women in media, for there is indeed an undercurrent of sexism, and that means you, Jake Tapper, yukking it up on This Week with George Stephanopoulos about Brit and Paris being stupid (Paris Hilton may be a party girl, but that does not mean she is stupid -- in fact, I suspect she is very smart) -- but Mary, you have let me down. How could you? Jerome Corsi? Having chosen Corsi's Obama Nation , at least you could have done a decent job with the editing. You're old enough to know that choices have inexorable consequences. You're old enough to know that truth always finds its way, in the end. Don't you remember your Shakespeare? The little candle that throws its beams in a naughty world? You should be carrying one of those candles. And to think I'd always thought of you as a Portia. Ah well, from childhood I've seen that politics is a nasty business. So it's probably useless to try to set the record straight about a few things Corsi says about my husband and me in the mercifully brief section of Obama Nation called "Who Is Mayhill Fowler?" But for the record: 1. I am not a "self-appointed freelance journalist." If only, Jerome and Mary, you could know how amusing and false is "self-appointed!" But I digress. The fact is that in the first week of June 2007 Amanda Michel, the director of Off the Bus, ...

Mayhill Fowler: Obama's Nomination Speech In Denver and Dayton

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com --- 42 days ago

DAYTON, Ohio, 28 August 2008 -- Barack Obama likes to go to the Lincoln Memorial in the middle of the night, when no one else is around and it's quiet; he sits there and thinks. Over the past year on the campaign trail, the Senator, now the Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States, has mentioned this predilection once or twice. As I have often done while composing my posts at 3 AM, I'm imagining Senator Obama on the dark steps below the floodlit presence of the first President from Illinois. But this time I'm perched on a stool in a bar while watching Obama deliver his acceptance speech to the throng of 85,000 supporters crowded into the Denver football stadium. I've just flown in from Denver to cover Senator McCain and most likely his new running mate in the morning. The bar crowd is silent, intent on the biographical film that is formally introducing Barack Obama to many Americans for the first time. In this intimate setting, the video is compelling. When Senator Obama himself takes the stage at Invesco Field, the columnar portico behind him reminds us all of the Memorial, as well as the speech Martin Luther King delivered there, before another throng, on another August 28 forty years ago. But it is only a fleeting reminder, just as, to my surprise -- despite advance notice to the press -- Obama's speech seems only fleetingly to recall King intoning "I have a dream" and Lincoln addressing his followers in Spri ...

Mayhill Fowler: Tom Hayden Predicts Obama Will Lose

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com --- 46 days ago

DENVER -- Speaking at a luncheon hosted by the Denver Press Club at the Denver Athletic Club today, former California state legislator and '60s political activist Tom Hayden predicted that Barack Obama will lose the 2008 Election. "An African-American candidate talking about economics and a white war hero -- it's clear to me who is going to win," Hayden said. When one of the attendees at the small luncheon, attended mostly by Denverites, asked him to be more specific about why he thinks Obama will lose the race, Hayden replied, "You don't think McCain's gonna have a convention about his being an American." Hayden seemed to be referring to the fact that Barack Obama continues to introduce himself to the American electorate. Hayden elaborated. "I've known kookie Cokie, kookie Cokie Roberts for years, but when Obama vacationed in Hawaii, she said, "He shoulda gone to Myrtle Beach." Hayden turned out his hands, as if to say what're you gonna do? Hayden went further. "[Obama's] problem is that he's lived in the world of beating the Democratic establishment for so long, it's hard to transition to being the Democratic establishment." Hayden is part of the group Progressives for Obama, but he has his issues with the candidate. "There's the pursuit of the last white man standing in Pennsylvania," he said, rather than a fierce pursuit of the Latino vote, which is what Hayden would like to see. Given Hayden's history of confrontation with t ...

Mayhill Fowler: Palin Puts McCain One-Up In Ohio

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com --- 40 days ago
"There was nobody I wanted to vote for -- but now I'm so ecstatic," crowed Vickie, a forty-five year-old who works at the Southwest Ohio Development Center. Vickie's enthusiasm for Sarah Palin, the presumptive Republican vice-presidential nominee, is the predominant mood among the women at the Dayton rally where Friday John McCain introduced his choice for second-place on the ticket to an overflow crowd of Republican Ohioans. Having spent some time earlier in the summer following the Ohio campaigns, from Zanesville to Portsmouth, I just didn't see how John McCain could win this supposed battleground state -- not with the formidable number of voters that the Obama Campaign is going to rack up in the big cities, not with Appalachian Ohio lukewarm and lassitudinous about John McCain. Without Appalachian Ohio turning out in force to vote, John McCain can not win this state, and without this state, he cannot win the White House. Unless intense media scrutiny and the St. Louis debate destroy her credibility -- and it's going to take a lot more than bridges, polar bears and an abusive brother-in-law to have any sway in the Buckeye State -- Sarah Palin has suddenly put Ohio seriously into play for John McCain. The Obama Campaign has sent out an email to the press that quotes the analysis from Editor & Publisher on the latest Gallup and Rasmussen tracking polls . "First Two National Polls Find Palin Gains LESS Support from Women," the E&P ...

Mayhill Fowler: Live Blogging Berlin>> Hurra! Barack Obama Ist Da!

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com --- 78 days ago

7:20 PM, BERLIN, 24 July 2008 Senator Obama takes the podium and at first many in the crowd don't recognize him, for one of the Secret Service checking the podium shortly before is African-American. Obama calls himself not a candidate but a citizen, a citizen of the world. Speaking in English, with no German phrases, he begins quietly, to subdued applause. Immediately, he invokes freedom, complimenting Berlin, "this city of all cities knows the dream of freedom." Now is the time to build more bridges across the world." Interestingly, Obama is echoing much of Bill Clinton's speech at the Brandenburg Gate on July 12, 1994. "Building bridges, not walls," Clinton had said. Despite the distracting echo from the video screens down the Strasse, the crowd is slowly warming to Obama. They aren't so enthused about "a new dawn in the Middle East," but they applaud on Darfur, nuclear weaponry and "saving the planet"--the latter most of all. Berliners take in politely Obama's call for more action in Afghanistan. "People of Berlin, this is our moment, this is our time.". Now towards the end of his speech, the Senator weaves in common phrases from his campaign. "The road ahead will be long." The crowd has liked some of what they heard, but clearly they are just getting to know Barack Obama. To what extent he has met their expectations remains to be seen. Obama himself seems tired. At one point, he even stumbled in his phrasing--a rarity for him ...

Later at the HuffPo Oasis: Mayhill Fowler and Rachel Sklar

Source: www.mediabistro.com --- 46 days ago

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CNN, Steve Jobs, and the Price of Citizen Journalism: FBNY Talks to Jay Rosen

Source: www.mediabistro.com --- 4 days ago

Meanwhile, back in other news that would be big if it wasn't for the worldwide financial crisis and/or Sarah Fey Palin : You may recall how last Friday someone calling themselves "Johntw" posted a note on CNN 's citizen journalism blog iReport ("Unedited. Unfiltered. News.") saying that Steve Jobs had been rushed to the hospital due to a heart attack (this is not the first time Jobs' health has been falsely reported, back in August Bloomberg accidentally ran the Apple head's obituary). The report was picked up by multiple blogs before being denied by Apple and subsequently removed by CNN, though not before Apple stocks had tumbled nine percent in 12 minutes; that's the equivalent of $9 billion. Questions were immediately raised as to the identity of the blogger and whether he/she was a short-seller and the SEC is apparently investigating. Meanwhile, CNN has confirmed that the posting on iReport was "not vetted or reported by CNN journalists." And the citizen journalist rears it head again! Remember the Sarah Palin fake pregnancy story? That, too, initially began as a anonymous post on Daily Kos . And we're all familiar with the case of Mayhill Fowler and her digital recorder, which rocked both Barack Obama and Bill Clinton . Leaving the discussion of the increased leverage the Internet gives to financial rumors for people who can speak to it more knowledgeably than us , there is the larger question of whether citizen journalism i ...

Help me organize a talk

Source: medianation.blogspot.com --- 38 days ago
Next week I'm giving a 15- to 20-minute talk on the role of the media in the presidential campaign. What I'd like to do is mention a few media trends and how they may play out. I thought I'd put up a rough outline in the hopes that you might help me refine it. Here's where I'm at right now: Citizen journalism. From the "Macaca" video to Mayhill Fowler, expect the unexpected. The rise of a liberal counter-media. Left-leaning, media-savvy Web sites such as Media Matters and, increasingly, the cable channel MSNBC mean Fox News and Rush Limbaugh no longer have the field to themselves. The decline of the so-called objective press as a trusted source. The public that is most engaged with politics wants its political news delivered in the context of an ideological community. The role of "undernews." I believe that's a Mickey Kaus term. I'm referring to stories and rumors that are kept swirling online, breaking into the mainstream later if at all. The 24-minute news cycle. No longer is it enough to respond within a day or even in a few hours. There's no longer a news cycle — it's constant. Well, there are five, which seems about right. But I'm not sure it's the best five, and some are clearly subsets of the same phenomenon. If you've got a better idea, or some examples I should use to flesh these out, don't hold back. ...

Mayhill Fowler: McCain Comes Ashore In Pennsylvania

Source: www.electionbid2008.com --- 101 days ago
McCain says, "I don't have to tell you, old comrades, I hate war." Three generations of veterans in the hall applaud. For all the electrifying moments at Obama rallies, there has never been one quite like this. ...

National Conference of Editorial Writers Conference in Little Rock

Source: www.mediabloggers.org --- 8 days ago
Lois Kazakoff, Deputy Editorial Page Editor of the San Francisco Chronicle was kind enough to invite me to address the NCEW conference in Little Rock at the Peabody Hotel. It was Lois who asked me to write an Op-Ed for the Chron on the Mayhill Fowler/Bittergate controversy which they titled The First Amendment and blogs . The editorial writers sure command attention. They had Bill Clinton, Mike Huckabee, Mike Beebe, the current governor of Arkansas and Mark Stodola, Mayor of Little Rock speaking at their event. Juan Williams was also scheduled. Sadly, the still have Tony Snow listed on their web site. read more ...

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