Dave Winer (the “h” is invisible) comments on the aftermath of the unctuous handjob Bill Moyers gave Jeremiah Wright, wondering why it’s so quiet, and stating that he’d expected to find much more on the order of Karl’s piece posted on the tubes: The most I could find was this post on Protein Wisdom saying that Moyers didn’t play hardball with Wright. It’s true, he didn’t. Instead he did what

Karl’s post earlier today on Bill Moyers’ execrable (and predictable) attempt to rehabilitate Barack Obama by way of softening the edges on one of his more notorious cultural proxies has brought out a number of Obamateers, several of whom are clearly first time readers of this site. Among the most courteous of these is a fellow named Jack Foster, who makes a number of claims worth responding to. First, Jack

David Thompson explains the kosmos to nishi: Further to Dr Abd al-Baset al-Sayyed’s call for the global adoption of “Mecca Time” – and the shocking discovery that “in Mecca there is no magnetic force” – here’s another nugget. In this clip from Saudi Arabia’s al-Majd TV, first broadcast in January 2005, Dr al-Sayyed shares the extraordinary news that people living in Mecca are “less affected by gravity.” No less remarkable

After Karl’s epic destruction of Bill Moyers’ whitelibwash of the Reverend Wright, I hesitate to bring this up, but here’s Joe Conason in Salon:

Not that anyone should expect that Bill Moyers Journal will involve journalism, but the former LBJ flack’s “interview” with Barack Obama’s longtime spiritual adviser, Rev. Jeremiah Wright cannot be fairly called a softball game. It would be more apt to compare it to whiffleball. At the very outset of the program, in which Moyers made the following disclosure: I joined a UCC church on Long Island 40 years ago and

What else would account for “An unspoken demographic problem for Obama?”: WASHINGTON (CNN) — As both Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton race to make history, some political observers believe Obama might have a unique problem because he’s African-American. They claim voters often say they’ll go one way, then act quite differently at the polls when it comes to a candidate’s race. The punchline? “There is no indication in the

Political scientist Alan I. Abramowitz writes at TNR: According to the new conventional wisdom, Barack Obama has been badly damaged by Hillary Clinton’s continuing attacks and by his own personal baggage and mistakes, ranging from his relationship with his controversial former minister, Jeremiah Wright, to his highly publicized comments about bitter small town voters who cling to their guns and religion. And while Obama has been trying to respond to

This election season has brought with it the most blatant example of identity politics I can remember seeing. This is mostly due to the fact that the Democratic candidates, Hilary and Barack, are very busy playing the victim and race cards, respectively, whenever they get in a jam of some kind. The difficult situations they manage to get into are usually the result of their own political ineptitude, which I

When it comes to key issues like Iraq, healthcare and taxes, Democratic hopeyness and changitude is bustin’ out all ovah!  House Democratic leaders plan to send the the emergency war funding bill without withdrawal timetables and other controversial provisions.  The bill is expected to bypass the Appropriations Committee and go straight to the House floor, to help avoid the difficulties raised by anti-war Democrats.  Meanwhile, at TNR, Michael Crowley writes that “when it

Study says near extinction threatened people 70,00 years ago I’m nearly interested by stories like this.  But most of all, this will be a reminder to the radical greenies of how close we came to a world without humans.  I blame Bush. (h/t Reynolds)