On the campaign trail in Jacksonville FL, former Gov. Mitt Romney tried relating to some black kids at a MLK Day parade, by quoting “Who Let The Dogs Out,” which was a hit in 2000 and later made Rolling Stone magazine’s 20 Most Annoying Songs readers’ poll. Come on.  Is there no one on staff to slip a copy of Rhianna’s “Umbrella” onto his iPod?  Or maybe some Kanye West? 

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As previously announced, Scarlett Johansson is boosting the… morale of US troops in the Persian Gulf: CAMP BUEHRING, Kuwait (Jan. 20, 2008) — If anyone has wondered what can make a battle hardened Marine act like a love-struck high-schooler, the answer is simple—a meet and greet with Scarlett Johansson. *** A hush fell over the crowd as Johansson, wearing a pink sweater, knee-high boots and cherry-red lipstick, entered the USO.

Excitable Andy has a hot news flash on the 2008 campaign: At least now we know what this race is about: Obama versus the Clintons. Both of them. Their dynasty. Their power. Their methods. Their character. And so the question becomes: does America really want a Restoration? As previously noted here: The central dynamic of the Democratic presidential nomination has been known for years.  It is a referendum on Sen.

Given that my last post was one of many criticizing the establishment media’s fixation on horse race polls, it is of course only fitting that we now… take a look at the horse race polls! NRO’s Jim Geraghty surveys the recent polls and concludes: McCain is probably up a bit, Giuliani’s a bit behind him, and Romney and Huckabee are probably a bit further behind that. He is a tad dismissive of

At PressThink, Jay Rosen promotes an article he has posted at TomDispatch, “The Beast Without a Brain: Why Horse Race Journalism Works for Journalists and Fails Us.”  Rosen writes that it is “about how the campaign media cannot easily make decisions, change course, or learn from its screw-ups because it is a ‘herd of independent minds.’” Among Rosen’s points: Just so you know, “the media” has no mind. It cannot make