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Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 19, 2010 8 Comments

Not surprisingly, Scott Brown is a target for Think Progress, which regularly distorts what conservatives say as part of the Democrats' strategy to paint all opponents as extremist and crazy. TP ran the following headline yesterday related to the attack by Joe Stack who crashed...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 18, 2010 9 Comments

"Progressive" bloggers met yesterday at the White House with the "chief economist to Vice President Joe Biden" (who knew there was such a thing? why do we have such a thing?) who told them what Oba-messages to put on their Obamalogs:The basic thrust of the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 16, 2010 9 Comments

The Democratic base has convinced itself that the problem is that Obama has not succeeded in passing health care legislation and other items on his agenda. The possibility that their agenda is being rejected by voters never enters their minds.Here's a pretty good analysis of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 15, 2010 8 Comments

The latest in the "how do they think this stuff up" series, Matthew Yglesias on the new definition of immorality, namely, doing something which hurts the Democratic Party (emphasis mine):Obviously, Evan Bayh’s never been my favorite Senator. And the more one learns about both the manner...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 15, 2010 8 Comments

The Internet hasn't had this much fun since Arlen Specter jumped off the Republican ship onto the sinking Democratic ship last April.Now we get to watch the leading lights of the Democratic base attack Evan Bayh on his way out.  I guess they just weren't that...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 14, 2010 14 Comments

I was reading, and rather enjoying, Bob Cesca's rant (Time for the Democrats to Get Loud and Fearless) at HuffPo. The post was about -- get ready for this because you've probably never heard this before -- how stupid Sarah Palin is and how mean...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 13, 2010 5 Comments

When Sarah Palin wrote a few words on her hand during a speech, the left-wing blogs went wild with the sexually suggestive "hand job" analogy, as I documented in my post Palin Exposes Misogyny In The Democratic Base, Again.Now California Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein (B.A. in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 13, 2010 13 Comments

Amy Bishop, who killed three fellow professors at the University of Alabama - Huntsville because she was denied tenure, obviously was a disturbed person. Her politics, whatever they may have been, are irrelevant. She did the crime, and now she needs to do the time...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 11, 2010 7 Comments

The Creepshow which has become Palin Derangement Syndrome is so enthralling to watch.The Black Bracelet crowd cannot figure out if Palin is Anatoly Karpov or some strange combination of Raymond Shaw and Barbi Benton.Act I, Palin as Chess Grandmaster (h/t HotAir), via HuffPo blogger Joan...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 11, 2010 5 Comments

Eric Robinson, author of the Black Bracelet hit piece on Sarah Palin, has written a response to the criticism (emphasis mine):Author's Note: In my column in the News Wednesday, I criticized former Alaska governor Sarah Palin for wearing a black memorial bracelet with her son’s...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 10, 2010 25 Comments

I thank Yale Graduate School student Eric Robinson for his service to the country in Iraq and Afghanistan.But Robinson's hit piece on Sarah Palin, Palin’s bigger blunder, leads me to believe Robinson has succumbed to the New Haven funny water, either that, or he is...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 10, 2010 17 Comments

TPM ran a story yesterday, based on Sarah Palin's interview with Chris Wallace on Sunday, claiming that Palin had come out in favor of Obama bombing Iran to improve Obama's political standing. The TPM headline was Palin Advocates War With Iran After Apparently Misunderstanding Buchanan...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 07, 2010 41 Comments

Writing-on-hand-gate reminds me of one of the reasons Sarah Palin was put on this earth: To bring out and expose the worst misogynistic impulses in the hard core of the Democratic base.I'm not talking about criticism or mockery of the handwritten notes. That's fair game....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 07, 2010 33 Comments

At one level, Obama and his supporters have played the "Birther" issue brilliantly. By refusing to release his birth certificate and by equating a demand that Obama release his birth certificate with being a racist, Obama has created the single most toxic charge that can...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 04, 2010 6 Comments

Gallup has come out with another of its surveys showing how different groups self-identify in terms of liberal-conservative-moderate.The headline of the Gallup release focused on the liberal leanings of Asian-Americans, but the survey also showed that "non-Hispanic blacks" self-identified slightly more conservative (29%) than liberal...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 03, 2010 9 Comments

Almost as if on cue, DailyKos, Steve Benen, Andrew Sullivan, Sam Stein and others are pushing hard on the meme that Republicans are "crazy" and Taliban-like in their ways.The "crazy" findings are based on a poll commissioned by DailyKos using the same pollster which found,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 30, 2010 8 Comments

When the Obama administration announced in November its intention to put Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and several other 9/11 plotters on trial in a civilian court in downtown Manhattan, the decision was met with derision on the right.There were two parts to that decision which were...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 26, 2010 13 Comments

We had Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts.They now have the doofus triplets committing the sin of felony all over Mary Landrieu's phone.Thanks for giving comfort to the enemies of my enemies who therefore are my friends, just when they had nothing to look forward to...

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