Adam Serwer

Last week, John McCain urged us all to be very concerned about Barack Obama‘s tenuous links to former Fannie Mae executive Franklin Raines and even cut a commercial drawing an association between the two. John McCain also said, “He put Fannie Mae’s CEO who helped create this disaster in charge of finding his Vice President. […]

Troy Davis will be executed tonight for a crime he most likely didn’t commit. Davis was implicated in the murder of police officer Martin McPhail in Georgia. Since Davis’ conviction, 7 out of the 9 witnesses in the case recanted. Two witnesses confessed to fabricating their accounts, three of the four who testified at trial […]

Both Tim and Ezra have weighed in on George Will‘s column about McCain‘s worldview and temperament, but what’s frightening to me is McCain’s tendency to believe himself at the center of pivotal conflicts in which he represents the ultimate good. Will says McCain sees politics as “operatic,” but really he sees everything as operatic. After […]

El Rushbo seems to be losing his mind. Last week, Limbaugh insisted that Barack Obama was a “Chicago Thug” before he wrote an op-ed describing Obama as a segregationist like George Wallace. Before that, Limbaugh was arguing that Obama should “renounce his race and become white” before deciding that Obama has “disowned his white half.” […]

Last week, Stuart Taylor admonished newspaper reporters for reporting the facts, because they have a liberal bias, and demanded that they put their thumb on the scale to make sure that the wholesale lies of the McCain campaign be balanced by elevating the distortions of Obama’s ads on immigration to the same level. A new […]

Sure, it’s a reflexive conservative technique, but it’s tried and true, and after all, there is a black guy running for president. The easiest way, after all, to obscure the fact that conservative deregulation policies are at the heart of the credit crisis is to blame black folks, and doing so has the added advantage […]

So the bailout plan is out, and not too many people are happy about it, except for maybe the guys who get to keep three of their houses and their most precious “overhead.” Paul Krugman says “No Deal.” And there’s no quid pro quo here — nothing that gives taxpayers a stake in the upside, […]

Rush Limbaugh, trying his best to blame Obama for the hacking of Palin‘s e-mail account, does his best to avoid “stoking racism”: And then of course, Obama, folks, is showing who he really is. A community organizer, the street agitator, the Chicago thug, clear the playing field, is finally being — it’s on display for […]

John McCain enters the final stage of abuse, lamenting the negative tone of the campaign. This comes after the previous stage of abuse, in which McCain blamed Obama for refusing to do town hall appearances with him. He’s only doing it because he loves you America. Don’t. Make. Him. Do. It. Again. One of the […]