Time’s Michael Scherer, a veteran of such religiously centrist bastions as Salon, Mother Jones, and The Columbia Journalism Review, slams “the left blog crowd,” because you can’t really get jumped into the MSM until you’ve tossed multiple exclamation points at “the angry left” from the peak of Mount Objectivity. How dare I criticize Obama!!! What […]
Adam Serwer
Adam Serwer is a writing fellow at The American Prospect and a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He also blogs at Jack and Jill Politics and has written for The Village Voice, The Washington Post, The Root, and the Daily News. Follow @adamserwer
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From Pop Charts to Politics
Hip-hop is now a powerful mainstream cultural force, but political activists haven’t quite figured out how to mobilize the hip-hop generation.
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LIMBAUGH CONTEXT.
Obama‘s new ads take Rush Limbaugh out of context, which is stupid, because you don’t need to take him out of context to point out that he has regressive views on race and immigration. He called McCain‘s orphan bill the “Comprehensive Destroy the Republican Party Act of 2007” on the basis that incoming immigrants would […]
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LIFE IMITATING ART IMITATING LIFE.
Chuck Hagel said something about Sarah Palin that caught my eye. “She doesn’t have any foreign policy credentials,” Hagel said in an interview. “You get a passport for the first time in your life last year? I mean, I don’t know what you can say. You can’t say anything.”… “I think they ought to be […]
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COUNTRY SECOND.
Joe Klein makes an important point: How is it putting country first to harm relations with an ally that is cooperating with us in our mission in Afghanistan in order to avoid a stupid mistake? –A. Serwer
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NO SPIN PWN.
Tim already posted the new campaign line on McCain’s response to questions about Spanish Prime Minister Zapatero, but the problems is they simply don’t jibe with the transcript. As Josh Marshall points out, the audio shows very clearly that McCain doesn’t know Zapatero is a leader in Europe. He refers to “Latin America,” “this hemisphere,” […]
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PALIN’S SHRINKING POPULARITY.
Contrary to the assertions of Republican strategist John Feehery, if you strike Sarah Palin down, she does not become more powerful than you can possibly imagine. As word has spread of Palin’s ignorance about foreign policy, her conduct in Alaska, and her dishonesty regarding her own qualifications, the initial enthusiasm about her has waned, most […]
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NO ONE EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION.
Last night Josh Marshall flagged an exchange between John McCain and a pool of Spanish-language reporters that has the Spanish press a bit confused, as McCain seemed to suggest that he might not be willing to meet with Spanish Prime Minster José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, as though he might be a potential enemy. Cardinal, read […]
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THE BARONESS AND THE NATIONAL REVIEW PUBLISHER.
The media is all over Baroness Lynn Forester de Rothschild dismounting from her magic unicorn, adjusting her tiara, and telling her subjects that the guy raised by a struggling single mother and her extended family is an “elitist,” but there’s another endorsement, no less ironic, but far less ridiculous, coming from the former publisher of […]
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CILLIZZA INADVERTENTLY DISPROVES THE MYTH OF THE LIBERAL MEDIA.
Chris Cillizza defends Matt Drudge against accusations that he’s just some “conservative mouthpiece.” What explains the change in tone? It’s easy to lapse into the tired old logic that Drudge is nothing more than a conservative mouthpiece returning to his roots as Election Day nears. But, those who follow the news choices that Drudge makes […]
