Wolf Blitzer meets Princess Leia

From Slate V, of course.

The newly-opinionated AP

Back in September, I sent this article by the AP around to several friends, with a “whoa, the AP wrote this?” comment attached.  I obviously agreed with the conclusions presented in the new organization’s fact-check of Palin’s Convention speech, but the article was clearly more analysis than purely factual.  That made it totally not what [...]

Katha doesn’t care

Katha Pollitt’s latest, on (what else?) Sarah Palin:
John McCain chose the supremely under-qualified Sarah Palin as his running mate partly because she is a woman. If you have a problem with that, you’re a sexist. She talks incessantly about being a mother of five and uses her newborn, Trig, who has Down syndrome, as a [...]

McCain and moral warfare

I think Chuck Spinney might be right.  We do seem to have reached a point where McCain and Palin continue to repeat the same misleading lines (even outright lies) despite being directly confronted by the people they’re repeating them to. They’re being called out, over and over again, by Charlie Gibson, by Norah O’Donnell, by [...]