Lou Dobbs attempts to talk about race and gets about one syllable away from ending his career: For those of you who may be confused, the phrase he was going for was “cotton-pickin’.”  Which connotatively is probably not the best expression to use when discussing African-Americans and our country’s history of race relations.

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I never really understood the value of a show where four people– moderated by Barbara Walters– who have little expertise and generally no idea of what they’re talking about, get together to do nothing but talk for an hour.  Think about it.  Would you have Rachel Ray do an hour-long talk show about sports?  Would you have Tucker Carlson do a show [...]

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 If Pat Buchanan were to publicly use a racial slur, he would no doubt be fired from his pundit-on-call position at the various networks and labeled rightly as a nutjob.  The hateful diatribe Buchanan posted today on his website, titled “A Brief For Whitey”, will allow him to keep his job and whatever respectable reputation he enjoys, but it [...]

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The media is already scrambling to find evidence that Barack Obama attended one of Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s inflammatory sermons, which would contradict Obama’s claim that he never personally heard Wright make the kind of controversial statements that are currently circulating on YouTube.  I said in the previous post that it was a dangerous game for [...]

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Not really sure how you get canceled off MSNBC.  Chris Matthews often spends the entire 5:00 pm hour making noises with his armpits, and he’s the highest rated show on the network.  Can’t say I’ll miss Tucker, but he had his moments:

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I for one support CNN’s editorial decision to research this important matter further.  And it was an especially good move to ask the opinion of a man who believes that Hurricane Katrina was caused by gay pride parades and the Catholic Church is “the great whore.” Coming next week to CNN: Is Barack Obama the reincarnated soul of [...]

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Several people have noticed a difference between Barack Obama’s handling of Louis Farrakhan with his handling last year of Donnie McClurkin, the pastor who made a number of controversial statements about homosexuality.  When pressed about McClurkin’s support last October, Obama said this: One of the things that always comes up in presidential campaigns is, if you’ve got multiple supporters [...]

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There’s been a lot of complaining in recent weeks by the Clinton campaign about what they perceive to be the media’s uneven treatment between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.  But Jonathan Martin over at Politico caught a moment in Tuesday’s debate where the media very noticably gave Clinton a pass.  When asked if she could [...]

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I’ve been making note of the fact that, in the last five CNN debates– which were all sponsored by the coal industry front group Americans for Better Energy Choices (ABEC)– there were coincidentally no questions asked about climate change.  But environmentalist blog The Green Miles notices that there were no questions asked about climate change in Tuesday’s [...]

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Commenter “david, with ABEC” takes issue with last week’s suggestion that there may be a connection between CNN’s lack of debate questions on climate change and the fact that their debates have been sponsored by ABEC, a coal industry front group: While we are flattered that there are some people out there who are convinced we can dictate the questions of [...]

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For those of us who’ve been keeping score, last night’s event makes five straight CNN debates sponsored by coal industry front group Americans for Balanced Energy Choices (ABEC) without a single question about climate change policy.

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In a Q&A session with readers, Bill Keller, the executive editor at the New York Times, pretty much echoes what I said yesterday about the article on John McCain’s relationship with Vicki Iseman.  The point wasn’t whether or not McCain’s relationship with her ever became romantic.  The point was that for a politician who has made a career preaching [...]

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Less than a month after the New York Times endorsed John McCain for the Republican nomination, they hit him with potentially the most damaging story of the 2008 campaign thus far.  It’s a story brimming with the suggestion of improper behavior between McCain and a number of lobbyists, including a relationship with telecommunications lobbyist Vicki Iseman that [...]

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Two days ago, Michelle Obama made this poorly-worded statement to supporters in Milwaukee: For the first time in my adult life, I am really proud of my country, because it feels like hope is making a comeback. There’s no doubt that Michelle Obama has been proud of her country before, and she was almost certainly referring to our country’s [...]

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Because, you know, they both… talked… and… inspired people… through words!  IT’S THE EXACT SAME THING, PEOPLE! From the February 11th broadcast of the Tom Sullivan Show: CALLER: Listening to Obama, and what I’ve seen on TV. I’m 65 years old, and it harkens back when I was younger and I used to watch those deals [...]

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