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Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 31, 2011 41 Comments

I'm finally back after a full day of travel, where I had to rely on CNN and MSNBC on the plane for coverage of the Politico story about Herman Cain. I can't really sort through all the details yet, too much has happened in the last...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 29, 2011 28 Comments

Never has there been a love as true or as blind as media Obamalove, as evidenced by this adoring puff piece written by Jonathan Alter for Bloomberg News, Obama Miracle is White House Free of Scandal: President Barack Obama goes into the 2012 with a weak economy that...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 27, 2011 11 Comments

I will not repeat everything about how The Washington Post misstated Marco Rubio's record in order to portray Rubio as having misrepresented how his parents came to the U.S. and whether they were exiles. But true to form, WaPo not only is not backing down, it's...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 26, 2011 5 Comments

The New York Times is shocked, just shocked to find that a New Poll Finds Deep Distrust of Government: With Election Day just over a year away, a deep sense of economic anxiety and doubt about the future hangs over the nation, according to the latest...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 26, 2011 5 Comments

Via Taegen Goddard:President Obama "stopped for an undisclosed meeting with some of the entertainment industry's high-level executives" before leaving California yesterday, according to the Hollywood Reporter."The event was not a fundraiser, and attendees were not asked to donate to the Obama reelection campaign. But those...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 25, 2011 17 Comments

Walter Shapiro on the risk that the GOP Just Might Nominate [Herman Cain] a Candidate Patently Unqualified to Be President: This is how presidential vetting traditionally works. The press pack pounces on the logical fallacies in a candidate’s positions and the shakiness of his resume. Party...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 21, 2011 18 Comments

Not long ago The Washington Post was digging up rocks from 30 years ago to find dirt about Rick Perry. Now WaPo is digging up immigration papers from 50 years ago about Marco Rubio's parents, Marco Rubio’s compelling family story embellishes facts, documents show.  The gist of WaPo's dramatic...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 17, 2011 15 Comments

Saturday was to be a nationwide turnout for the Occupy Wall Street movement, with large protests across the land.  From media coverage which portrays the movement as growing, one would have expected a large turnout, at least as large as the April 15, 2009 Tax...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 15, 2011 5 Comments

Quote of the day, from a mostly sympathetic Walter Shapiro writing in The New Republic (h/t @SissyWillis): How do I convey this respectfully as a veteran of the 1960s? This is not the 1967 Pentagon March or anything like it. Nothing I saw in New York this...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 10, 2011 6 Comments

Democrats and media helpers like Paul Krugman have been weaving a Tea Party eliminationist narrative for years. As pointed out by James Taranto, it looks like Democrats finally have found an eliminationist narrative they can believe in: Related:  Worst. #OccupyWallStreet. Advice. Ever....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 09, 2011 15 Comments

I've warned you not to take at face value the depictions of the protesters at the Occupy Wall Street rallies. Andrew Cole, the focus of a sympathetic New York Times article, turned out to be a pretty hard core solicialist (by his own description) and former...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 09, 2011 14 Comments

No, not Occupy Wall Street or Occupy anything. That was the estimate by Nate Silver (then of 538 blog, now of The NY Times) of the April 15, 2009 Tax Day Tea Parties.  Silver noted the upward adjustment of the Tea Party rally in Atlanta from...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 06, 2011 15 Comments

The smear is long gone from the front pages, but will live on forever in Rick Perry's campaign: “I know for a fact that in 1984, that rock was painted over. It was painted over very soon, my family did that.” Silly you, Rick, you thought WaPo...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 06, 2011 5 Comments

Tea Party = Terrorists OccupyWallStreet = Heroes...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 03, 2011 36 Comments

In tagging Rick Perry with the "painted-over rock" allegation without first learning the facts? Yes, I think so.  It certainly is fine to point out that the name was offensive, but to suggest that Perry somehow was responsible was a bridge too far (transcript via MVOPOV): WALLACE:...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 02, 2011 15 Comments

A tale of two videos. It is not okay to sit silently when a single person in an audience shouts something: We don’t believe in the kind of smallness that says it’s okay for a stage full of political leaders -- one of whom could end up being...

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