Archive for March 4th, 2007
Sunday, March 4th, 2007
Is the G.O.P. Moving Left?
I was on WBUR’s On Point with Tom Ashbrook on Friday along with Mark Silva, the White House correspondent for The Chicago Tribune. Mark made a really good point after I said that the pendulum has swung, and that liberalism is once again a rising philosophy. He added that one could look at Rudy Giuliani’s […]
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Sunday, March 4th, 2007
Nice
DailyKos’s community actions are the most interesting and creative part of the site. Today, the community has briefly morphed into Queer Nation, circa 1990, and is targetting Ann Coulter’s advertisers. They’re a surprisingly mainstream bunch — USA Today, ING Financial and the like. Now that’s how you change a cultural norm.
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Sunday, March 4th, 2007
The Geffen Backstory
The Los Angeles Times shows its home-town chops and gets the back-story on the David Geffen-Clinton relationship. The takehome: The feud is almost entirely between Bill and Geffen, dates back to 2000, and has spilled over onto Hillary, who was largely a bystander to the original fight. How things fell apart:
As the Clinton presidency neared […]
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Sunday, March 4th, 2007
A Good Lookin’ Fellow
The Nation’s Max Blumenthal was at CPAC, as well, where he engaged in some truly inspired acts of guerilla theater, which he made sure were caught on tape, and then edited down to this hilarious seven-minute YouTube video. It’s like an extended blog post, but acted out.
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Sunday, March 4th, 2007
The Straw Poll
Mitt Romney may have beaten Rudy Giuliani on the first preference round of the CPAC straw poll (PPT), 21 to 17 percent, but the real figure to look at is the combined first and second preference number. That combined measure successfully predicted George Bush as the 2000 presidential nominee, even though Gary Bauer led as […]
