Sam Rosenfeld

DEPLORABLE. It is deplorable — deplorable, my friends — that political parties might use illness or the misfortunes of others to score political points, and it is exploitative — exploitative, my friends — that they would use videotaping equipment to bring this deplorable exploitation into our living rooms. And how do we know they’re not […]

CONFIRMED. So they gathered them all up from radio studios across this mighty land this week, and they threw them across the White House grounds. To paraphrase John F. Kennedy, never has there been such a concentration of worthless bloviation collected in that hallowed place since the last time Warren Harding dined alone. Anyway, you […]

NOT EVEN SIX DEGREES. While Brother Pierce expounded on the absurdity of the Heaton–Caviezel–Suppan (et al) television spot thrown together in response to Michael J. Fox‘s latest star turn as an advocate for stem-cell research, my ears pricked up at the mention of the name of Patricia Heaton, whose face graces the misleading Feminists for […]

END OF DENIAL? A curious headline popped up on the New York Times homepage today: “Bush Offers Gloomy Assessment of Iraq.” In an Associated Press story on remarks by the president delivered this morning from the East Room of the White House, Bush, against precedent, actually spoke of the number of deaths suffered by American […]

THE STEM WEDGE. Apropos of my earlier post, Jim Talent can probably consider himself lucky that Claire McCaskill‘s only throwing Michael J. Fox at him. If you want to see some real chin music, take a look at this ad on a similar theme, which is being run against Josh Marshall‘s old pal, Count (Chris) […]

ANSWER RECORD. The moving — and, it must be said, very tough — commercial on behalf of Missouri Democratic senatorial candidate Claire McCaskill featuring Michael J. Fox has sent the usual suspects into orbit. But it’s done more than give Rush Limbaugh another apparent excuse for a couple hundred more milligrams of high dudgeon. It’s […]

HONESTY. Almost all of the state reporting on the Maryland Senate contest has focused on race. Given that Republican Michael Steele is black and Democrat Ben Cardin is white in a state with one of the largest and some of the most affluent African-American populations, a certain degree of focus on the subject is surely […]

THE GOODS ON BROOKS. JPod is, it must be said, genuinely and intentionally amusing here, mocking Andrew Sullivan‘s verbose blog responses to David Brooks‘s review of his new book. But amidst those posts on Sullivan’s site is this email from a reader that seems to have the goods on Brooks’s ultra-condescending schtick: Reading David Brooks’ […]

OVERCLASS BIAS. Nothing in the world is more reliable than overclass bias in the elite media. The go-to place for daily tracking of such phenomena is, of course, here. –Sam Rosenfeld

TIP’S WAY. Of all the reasons for Democratic politicians to remain pessimistic about the midterm elections, one of the most telling to me is the fact that Nancy Pelosi is apparently telling everyone she can tackle that impeachment is “off the table” should her party manage a majority in the upcomings. This strikes me as, […]