If, for some reason, you ever find yourself reading the magazine, The Economist, be sure to understand the difference between “the economy” as that magazine writes about it, and the economy as it relates to you.
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Tags: corpocracy · economics · media
Regarding Geraldine Ferraro’s comment that Barack Obama is where he is because he’s black, Chris Matthews, scolding those who were defending Ferraro’s statement, declared her wrong on the grounds that no one ever says a white guy is where he is because he’s white.
However, by the time Matthews had delivered his sermon, Obama himself had […]
Tags: media · race · vote 2008
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Ready for a black president
The myth of America’s racist past
Electing Obama: how the country says "some of my best friends are black"
Mythmakers
McCain: victim of the old racial gamesmanship?
Ready for a black president
It keeps popping up everywhere this election, this question of America’s readiness for a black president. A Google search on the phrase, in quotes, […]
Tags: history · media · race · vote 2008
Or don’t. There are better sources
The American public’s distaste for and mistrust of the New York Times is understandable. How else would Americans view a paper that would editorially welcome Republicans arriving in town for their 2004 convention with the suggestion they should embrace a policy of amnesty for illegal aliens in order […]
Tags: AILA · corpocracy · corruption · immigration · media · vote 2008
The health care mess in the United States is a top concern of voters. Too many Americans find that, despite their best efforts, they are unable to provide quality health care for their families. Too many Americans live in fear that an illness might leave them destitute. Too many Americans spend years sacrificing to pay […]
Tags: corpocracy · health care · immigration · media · race · vote 2008
Tags: media · race · vote 2008
In early 2005, ProjectUSA sponsored a contest in which people who contributed to the cost of it, could vote for whichever slogan they preferred on a billboard that would target a member of Congress who supported amnesty.
John McCain “won” in a rout, drawing donations from Maine to San Diego.
A billboard in Phoenix was contracted […]
Tags: corpocracy · media · vote 2008
In May, 2006, Senators John McCain and Ted Kennedy were striving to pass a complex piece of legislation through the Senate. It wasn’t going very well. Opponents of the Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act wouldn’t stop calling the bill an amnesty.
When it comes to infuriating the citizenry, nothing works so well as a proposal […]
Tags: immigration · media · vote 2008
For those who may share my fascination with the awfulness of the Washington Post’s immigration coverage, you won’t want to miss this corker by the policy geniuses on the Post’s editorial board.
CHECK OUT the asparagus you have for dinner, the cucumber in your salad and the pear on your plate for dessert. Chances are […]
Tags: economics · immigration · media
If you were watching the results of the Iowa caucuses on CNN last Thursday, you saw “the best political team on television” become downright giddy over Obama’s win over the rest of the Democratic field.
Obama won because he is inspiring, gushed the best political team. He is brilliant, he has the right message, […]
