Back in the day, John McCain was the darling of the national media. The main stream news-types wrote no end of stories, lauding McCain as a “maverick” because he broke with his party on a number of issues. The media mainly loved writing these stories because they made President Bush look like a bad leader.
McCain has long since fallen out of favor with the media when he challenged the Wise and Benevolent Obama for the presidency, to which Obama clearly was entitled without the annoyance of a challenger. The “maverick” was suddenly the old, bedraggled, racist conservative
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A Dog of a Different Color
July 28th, 2009 by Ronald A. RoweWhat If?
July 7th, 2009 by Ronald A. RoweThis week, just for fun, let us consider a “What If?” scenario. What if the right-wing extremist conspiracy-theory nut jobs (RWECTNJs) are right about President Obama’s birth certificate? I know, I know. These are the same tinfoil hat wearers who argue that the moon landing was faked and the government is holding bigfoot’s skeleton next to the bodies of the Roswell aliens. But for the sake of this exercise, just go with me.
In case you tune out the rumblings of the RWECTNJs, there has been a constant stream of rumor, conjecture, and innuendo that perhaps The
Defending the Indefensible
June 30th, 2009 by Ronald A. Rowe
South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford admitted this week that he has been carrying on an extramarital affair. That was the second most shocking thing that he admitted, the first being that he ditched the responsibilities of his office and his family to spend a week with his floozy... ahem, mistress in South America.
Sanford, the Chief Executive Officer of the proud state of South Carolina (I believe their state motto is: The War isn't over; we can still win this thing) ran away from home for a week without telling anyone. His office came up with the brilliant cover
Sanford, the Chief Executive Officer of the proud state of South Carolina (I believe their state motto is: The War isn't over; we can still win this thing) ran away from home for a week without telling anyone. His office came up with the brilliant cover
It All Depends on Your Point of View
June 16th, 2009 by Ronald A. RoweThere were two big stories that highlighted the great political divide this past week. In case you missed one or the other: Republicans are furious with David Letterman and Liberals are furious with Carrie Prejean. In both instances, the offender said something that the offendee didn’t like one little bit.
In Letterman’s case, he mocked Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and made very crude assertions about her 14 year old daughter. The Right-wing argument against Letterman goes like this: he abused his freedom of speech by saying things that are hateful. The Leftist defense is that he can say whatever he wants
The Politics of Smoking
April 21st, 2009 by Ronald A. Rowe
With a cigarette smoking president in the White House for the first time in decades and an economy in the dumps, the perennial battle between the Federal Government and the tobacco industry lobby could be a little bit more interesting than usual this year. If you haven’t been following this dance for the past half a century, this is basically how it has played out.
- Doctors figured out that smoking is bad for your health.
- A decade or so of study later, the Government agreed.
- The Government said “We need to protect people from themselves.”
- Tobacco lobby said “Hold on there,
