Adam Serwer

While the political press finally begins to reconsider its approach of being “fair” to candidates rather than illuminating the truth, the right has begun to dismiss fact as an inevitable casualty of politics, the easier to excuse McCain‘s outright lying. Without mentioning any of his most consistent and outrageous lies, regarding say, Obama’s tax plan […]

On Sept. 3, American troops staged a raid inside Pakistan’s border. Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas of Pakistan told the AP on Tuesday that U.S. troops would be fired upon if they did so again. The AP quoted one analyst who seemed to believe Abbas was taking a necessary tough stance for political reasons. The economy […]

Carly Fiorina’s remarks about Sarah Palin not being able to run the company Fiorina herself was forced out of contradict at least ten years of Republican rhetoric regarding “executive experience.” George W. Bush, remember, was marketed as “the MBA president”, supporters of Mitt Romney touted his executive experience both as Governor of Massachusetts and as […]

David Brooks marrs an otherwise solid column about the contradictions of conservatism’s hatred of “the elite” with this statement: The feminists declare that [Palin is] not a real woman because she doesn’t hew to their rigid categories. No, feminists don’t like Sarah Palin because she wants to, at best, give state governments jurisdiction over women’s […]

Only about 4 percent of Alaska’s population is black but, nonetheless, Governor Palin seems to have managed to develop a bad reputation among them according to Gwendolyn Alexander of the African American Historical Society of Alaska. Via Electronic Village, this seems to be the most pertinent quote: While meeting with Black leaders concerning the absence […]

In this weekend’s Washington Post, Randall Kennedy considers the effect of an Obama loss on the black community: I anticipate that most black Americans will believe that an Obama defeat will have stemmed in substantial part from a prejudice that robbed 40 million Americans of the chance to become president on the day they were […]

Sure, fancypants Tim Fernholz with his education and knowledge of economic policy might think that the term “fundamentals of the economy” refers to markers like GDP or unemployment that economists generally use to understand how the economy is doing, but that’s because he’s a latte liberal who doesn’t shoot moose or anything. John McCain on […]

Army Times is interested in finding out whether John McCain has renounced his longtime position that the Future Combat Systems should be scrapped. Last week he criticized Obama for wanting to slow down the program to pay for an expansion of the Armed Forces, but reporters covering his speech used the term generically, as though […]

My friend, Racialicious blogger (and past TAP contributor) Latoya Peterson is quoted along with Feministing blogger Miriam Peres in this week’s Newsweek commenting on a new MTV reality show, Exiled. The show takes the wealthy daughters of families from a previous MTV series, “My Super Sweet 16,” and sends them on trips to villages in […]

I disagree with my arch-enemy Tim Fernholtz about the effectiveness of the Obama campaign’s new ads. While most liberals probably wanted Obama to hit back harder, these ads simply don’t hit back very hard. McCain‘s inability to use modern technology is a serious problem, but it should be highlighted in a subtle way that doesn’t […]