Like Megan, I think that Naomi Wolf's post on Al Jazeera is dumb, dumb, dumb. Wolf gets it completely wrong because the whole popularity of Palin and Bachmann (particularly the former) is a function...
Naomi Wolf recently posted a blog on Al Jazeera entitled "America's Reactionary Feminists: what do Palin and Bachmann have that make them so appealing to the American public?" I don't doubt that...
SEK calls some conservative commentators out:Anybody else notice the problem with Schweizer and Nolte’s defense? Of course you do. But in case either of them read this, I’ll spell it out: Palin...
By now you've probably seen the news of Sarah Palin resigning as governor of Alaska. My first reaction was Whaaa?????? Since I too am aware of all internet traditions, my second reaction was to cruise over to LGM and see what DaveNoon had to say about things. My third reaction was to scan the blogosphere for newsy-political gossip. TPM, employing the patented Duck methodology of analysis, had as good a take as anyone:It looks like a duck and quacks like a duck. Either Palin is resigning ahead of some titanic scandal (which should emerge in short order if it exists) or her resignation was...
Russians can make the funny on YouTube too!
David Brooks always styled himself as a member of the conservative intellectual vanguard. He would much rather be an observer of "real people" than to actually dirty his hands at playing milkmaid in his own Hameau de la reine.But David Brooks has recently come to a stunning realization: To borrow a line from Jeff Foxworthy, "you might be a member of the East Coast elite if... you have a column in The New York Times, are a regular commentator on the NEWSHOUR, and like to drop names like Edmund Burke and Russel Kirk."Now, fearing that he might be among the first against the wall when the...
Yesterday I wrote in an email to a conservative blogger that I thought that McCain still had a fighting chance. I don't think so any more. I suppose enough slime might make this thing close. An al Qaeda intervention, or some other exogenous shock, might even salvage McCain's position.But I'll be very surprised if Obama doesn't win this thing, and win it convincingly.
As I always tell my World Politics 101 students, the word is "nuclear," folks. Noo-clee-ahr. No such word as "nuk-ya-lar"! Yet here we go, Sarah Palin on the stage pontificating about nukes (HT to Moira Whelan at Democracy Arsenal):Seems like a silly thing to bitch about, eh? But goddammit, the thought of listening to my President or Vice-President further embarrass our country and belittle the incredible threat posed by these weapons by mangling that word for the next four to eight years, well, let's just say my botherment is probably at least as disproportionate as the utility of nukes to...
In an interview from a few months ago, Palin discusses the Supreme Court's decision to limit the damages payed by Exxon for the Exxon Valdez oil spill. While she's not saying anything that requires an advanced degree, she's articulate, poised and confident.But in the CBS News footage last night, she's incapable of naming a Supreme Court decision, other than Roe v. Wade, that she disagrees with.The contrast is simply remarkable. Is the McCain campaign playing some high-level head fake to make what will likely be a decent performance by Palin in the debate seem like the work of a superhero?...
Oh, goody. Another celebrity interview.Bored now.
I'm sorry, but I simply couldn't help but post this.* *My willingness to make fun of Sarah Palin should in no way be construed as an endorsement of some members of my party's more appalling rhetoric toward her and her daughter, which I frankly have found an embarrassment over the past eleven days. There are many good reasons to not want her at the country's helm; her commitment to her family and her daughter's exercise of her choice as a woman (a responsible one, you might even say) are certainly not among them.