Dylan Matthews

By Dylan Matthews Via Steve Benen, Barack Obama responds to the McCain campaign’s announcement that mentioning lipsticks and pigs in the same sentence in reference to a man is sexist: In a country with a responsible news media, the presidential frontrunner beginning a speech by excoriating American journalism as an institution would prompt deep reflection […]

By Dylan Matthews I, for one, could never have anticipated the Michael Gerson would use Trig Palin’s emergence as a national figure as an opportunity to wax morally indignant: The wrenching diagnosis of 47 chromosomes must seem to parents like the end of a dream instead of the beginning of a life. But children born […]

By Dylan Matthews If I were to make a list of red states that Obama had an outside chance of winning, North Carolina would be on it, as would Montana, and maybe even the Dakotas and Georgia. But West Virginia wouldn’t have even crossed my mind: A new poll from Mark Blankenship Enterprises shows Sen. […]

By Dylan Matthews And the award for first right-wing “liberal media” complainer to launch homophobic attacks on Rachel Maddow goes to Tim Graham (h/t Jossip): The key quote is at about 1:20, when Graham sneers, “Not only are they keeping these people (Matthews and Olbermann) on during the night, they are adding this lesbian Air […]

By Dylan Matthews Following all the Sarah Palin scandals is roughly as taxing as following all the plot twists in Neighbours. The latest, though, isn’t getting a whole lot of play, but seems pretty damning to me. Matt Corley of Think Progress lays it out: In an effort to claim that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin […]

By Dylan Matthews Actual Maureen Dowd headline today: “My Fair Veep.” And yes, she does compare Sarah Palin to Eliza Doolittle, and John McCain to Henry Higgins. Really. That sound you hear is my face connecting with my desk.

By Dylan Matthews Hey all. First off, thanks to Ezra for giving me the chance to blog today. It’s a great break from freshman orientation which, though fun, is sadly devoid of policy wonkery. On that note, Robert Samuelson plays his role as the Washington Post‘s resident entitlement program concern troll particularly well today. There’s […]

By Dylan Matthews There’s been a lot of concerned talk among Obama supporters lately about how the presidential race is closer than it ought to be given the fundamentals (unpopular incumbent, awful economy), which is usually followed by fretting over the possibility of a McCain victory. I’ve never been convinced by this argument, not just […]

By Dylan Matthews “Hello, this is my house. I built it out of my dreams.”