THE PROS VERSUS THE MOB. The other day, the missus and I were watching the Daily Show, and Lewis Black did a very funny rant about things like Conservapedia (created to counter Wikipedia’s liberal bias), Fox’s “Half Hour Comedy Hour” (created to counter the Daily Show’s liberal bias) and Qube TV (created to counter YouTube’s […]
Paul Waldman
Paul Waldman is a weekly columnist and senior writer for The American Prospect. He also writes for the Plum Line blog at The Washington Post and The Week and is the author of Being Right Is Not Enough: What Progressives Must Learn From Conservative Success.
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COULTER v. EDWARDS.
COULTER v. EDWARDS. Yesterday’s confrontation between Elizabeth Edwards and Ann Coulter (which you can watch here) showed once again just what a poisonous figure Coulter is. “I want to use the opportunity,” Edwards said, “to ask her politely, stop the personal attacks.” To this, Coulter responded, “Okay, the wife of a presidential candidate is calling […]
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EZRALARK LEMON.
EZRALARK LEMON. For those who haven’t seen it, you can watch Ezra delivering a first-class ass-whupping to Larry Kudlow and some anti-Michael Moore dude on TVEyes. But watching it, I couldn’t help but question my own reaction. It seemed apparent that you have here a debate between 1) A blowhard wedded to his religious views […]
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GET YOUR HUNGER UNDER CONTROL.
GET YOUR HUNGER UNDER CONTROL. In today’s Times, Maureen Dowd takes a predictably sneering look at Hillary Clinton‘s Sopranos video (if you haven’t seen it yet, you can watch it at her web site). Fine — nothing surprising there. But Dowd feels the need to throw this in: “And like Tony, Hillary is so power-hungry […]
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THE DIXIE BONUS. Ezra
THE DIXIE BONUS. Ezra notes below, “Edwards‘ Southern accent and manners are critical in his ability to project a much more combative, sharp form of liberalism than the others are offering. What would sound like Marxism from the mouth of Howard Dean or Hillary Clinton sounds like good, old-fashioned, American populism from Edwards.” From the […]
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The Party of No Ideas
The quest for the GOP presidential nomination has been remarkable in its utter lack of substance, even by the low standards of political campaigns. What accounts for the vacuousness?
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MARCHING LEFT.
MARCHING LEFT. Michael Kinsley notes something that has been apparent for some time: On no issue is history moving faster than on “gay rights”–an already antiquated term for full and equal participation and acceptance of gay men and women in American life. The work is not finished, of course, but what took black Americans more […]
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Religion and the Threat Effect
Research shows that the more secularists there are living near evangelicals, the more politically conservative those evangelicals will be.
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SOUNDS LIKE A PLAN!
SOUNDS LIKE A PLAN! Since no one else here at TAPPED has discussed the fact that in Iraq we are now arming Sunni militias if they agree to help us fight al-Qaeda, I’ll go ahead and say it: Given our highly nuanced understanding of all the individuals and groups competing for advantage in Iraq; and […]