Another Dead Canary

Look, I’ll be the first to admit that I’m completely in the tank for Obama. I’ve phone banked for him and I’m heading to Roanoke later this week to work as a volunteer to get the vote out. If you’ve read any of the other entries on this blog, you know that I’m a flaming [...]

I’m not sure why this YouTube clip contrasting WFTV-Orlando anchor Barbara West’s interviews with Joe Biden and John McCain makes me so angry. We’ve grown to expect media bias at the cable networks, whether it’s the unabashed right-wingers at FOX News or the liberals at MSNBC. So maybe it’s a little idealistic to still expect [...]

It’s a Saturday and I don’t feel like doing any heavy lifting. Instead, I’m hoping I can make a point with the three video clips below. The first is a piece by the American News Project that explains how Big Oil has borrowed a page out Big Tobacco’s playbook — use junk science and slick [...]

Keith Olberman at his best. He goes to town on Palin. Does Sara Palin really want to go there? Does she really want to throw stones when it comes to someone’s association with seditionists and religious nut jobbers? She’s got a domestic terrorist and witch doctor of her own in her closet, as Olberman so [...]

So which John McCain story line do you believe? The carefully crafted legend about the hero whose character and convictions were forged in the fires of hell, a tale perpetuated in today’s Washington Post story by Michael Dobbs? Or the narrative spun in Tim Dickinson’s Rolling Stone piece that questions McCain’s bravery, his honesty and [...]