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Voter Questions are "Gotcha Journalism"?

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:50:19 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "...is that a pizza place?" Huh???

On Monday night, CBS' Katie Couric talked to John McCain and Sarah Palin about their apparent disagreement on attacking terrorists within Pakistan. Echoing the words of a voter who asked Palin a similar question, the VP candidate turned the question on end, equating questions from the public to "gotcha journalism."

Couric, referring to Palin's support for attacking Pakistan, which is similar to Democratic nominee Barack Obama, asked whether she and McCain are on the same page

During the first presidential debate, McCain chastised Obama for stating the plan out loud. Playing off his running-mate's seeming strategic slip, Couric asked McCain if she had made the right move

"Is that something you shouldn't say out loud, Sen. McCain?" asked Couric.

"Of course not," replied McCain. "But, look, I understand this day and age of 'gotcha' journalism. Is that a pizza place? In a conversation with someone who you didn't hear ...

"It wasn't a 'gotcha,'" said Couric. "She was talking to a voter."

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Tags: politics, mccain, questions

Think your vote will count in November? Don't be so sure

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 06:21:13 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Interview with Bobby Kennedy, Jr., on various allegations of vote-suppression schemes. My first instinct on reading this is to think, "conspiracy nut." But it's not actually as far-fetched as one would like to think.

Clip Source: www.truthout.org

RFK Jr., Mike Papantonio: "Is Your Vote Safe?"

"One of these requirements under HAVA is called "the perfect match" and what that does is little known but it is devastating. A quarter of the voters in Colorado have just been removed from the rolls because of this - just this one scam. And what it does is they use a computer system to compare your registration application to all other government records of you in the state. So they'll look at your social security records, your motor vehicle records and any time you've had any interaction with the government and if there is any information on your voter registration that is different than the information on another government record that they find they remove you from the voting rolls.

"For example, if I registered as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and yet my motor vehicle license said Robert Frances Kennedy Jr. I'd be removed from the rolls.

300,000 voters in New Jersey were just sent letters saying that they are now ineligible to vote.

Tags: vote, politics, presidential_campaign_2008, interview, bad_news

Think your vote will count in November? Don't be so sure

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 06:21:13 GMT

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RFK Jr., Mike Papantonio: "Is Your Vote Safe?"

"For example, if I registered as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and yet my motor vehicle license said Robert Frances Kennedy Jr. I'd be removed from the rolls.

300,000 voters in New Jersey were just sent letters saying that they are now ineligible to vote.

Tags: vote, politics, presidential_campaign_2008, interview, bad_news

Think your vote will count in November? Don't be so sure

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 06:21:13 GMT

Clip Source: www.truthout.org

RFK Jr., Mike Papantonio: "Is Your Vote Safe?"

"For example, if I registered as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and yet my motor vehicle license said Robert Frances Kennedy Jr. I'd be removed from the rolls.

300,000 voters in New Jersey were just sent letters saying that they are now ineligible to vote.

Tags: vote, politics, presidential_campaign_2008, interview, bad_news

Think your vote will count in November? Don't be so sure

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 06:21:13 GMT

Clip Source: www.truthout.org

RFK Jr., Mike Papantonio: "Is Your Vote Safe?"

"For example, if I registered as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and yet my motor vehicle license said Robert Frances Kennedy Jr. I'd be removed from the rolls.

300,000 voters in New Jersey were just sent letters saying that they are now ineligible to vote.

Tags: vote, politics, presidential_campaign_2008, interview, bad_news

Think your vote will count in November? Don't be so sure

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 06:21:13 GMT

Clip Source: www.truthout.org

RFK Jr., Mike Papantonio: "Is Your Vote Safe?"

"For example, if I registered as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and yet my motor vehicle license said Robert Frances Kennedy Jr. I'd be removed from the rolls.

300,000 voters in New Jersey were just sent letters saying that they are now ineligible to vote.

Tags: vote, politics, presidential_campaign_2008, interview, bad_news

Think your vote will count in November? Don't be so sure

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 06:21:13 GMT

Clip Source: www.truthout.org

RFK Jr., Mike Papantonio: "Is Your Vote Safe?"

"For example, if I registered as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and yet my motor vehicle license said Robert Frances Kennedy Jr. I'd be removed from the rolls.

300,000 voters in New Jersey were just sent letters saying that they are now ineligible to vote.

Tags: vote, politics, presidential_campaign_2008, interview, bad_news

Think your vote will count in November? Don't be so sure

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 06:21:13 GMT

Clip Source: www.truthout.org

RFK Jr., Mike Papantonio: "Is Your Vote Safe?"

"For example, if I registered as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and yet my motor vehicle license said Robert Frances Kennedy Jr. I'd be removed from the rolls.

300,000 voters in New Jersey were just sent letters saying that they are now ineligible to vote.

Tags: vote, politics, presidential_campaign_2008, interview, bad_news

Think your vote will count in November? Don't be so sure

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 06:21:13 GMT

Clip Source: www.truthout.org

RFK Jr., Mike Papantonio: "Is Your Vote Safe?"

"For example, if I registered as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and yet my motor vehicle license said Robert Frances Kennedy Jr. I'd be removed from the rolls.

300,000 voters in New Jersey were just sent letters saying that they are now ineligible to vote.

Tags: vote, politics, presidential_campaign_2008, interview, bad_news

Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the McCain campaign

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 03:14:33 GMT

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clipper's remarks: After publicly accusing Obama of being in the pocket of the mortgage industry (based largely on the claim that Raines was an Obama adviser, which has since proven to have no basis in fact), it turns out that McCain's campaign manager, Rick Davis, headed an astroturfing organization financed entirely by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. You know what they say about glass houses.

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Loan Titans Paid McCain Adviser Nearly $2 Million

Senator John McCain’s campaign manager was paid more than $30,000 a month for five years as president of an advocacy group set up by the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to defend them against stricter regulations, current and former officials say.

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A 2004 photograph from a report by the Homeownership Alliance, an advocacy group for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, shows John McCain with Ken Guenther, a former chairman of the group, left, and David Lereah of the National Association of Realtors.

At the time that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac recruited Mr. Davis to run the Homeownership Alliance in 2000, they were under new pressure from private industry rivals and deregulation-minded Republicans who argued that the two companies’ federal sponsorship gave them an unfair advantage and put taxpayers at risk.

Tags: politics, presidential_campaign_2008, obama, mccain, financial_crisis, economics, banking, republicans

Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the McCain campaign

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 03:14:33 GMT

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Loan Titans Paid McCain Adviser Nearly $2 Million

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Tags: politics, presidential_campaign_2008, obama, mccain, financial_crisis, economics, banking, republicans

Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the McCain campaign

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 03:14:33 GMT

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Loan Titans Paid McCain Adviser Nearly $2 Million

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Tags: politics, presidential_campaign_2008, obama, mccain, financial_crisis, economics, banking, republicans

Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the McCain campaign

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 03:14:33 GMT

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Loan Titans Paid McCain Adviser Nearly $2 Million

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Tags: politics, presidential_campaign_2008, obama, mccain, financial_crisis, economics, banking, republicans

The meaning of "white privilege" in 2008

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:05:43 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Tim Wise's take on what it means to be white today, in the context of the 2008 presidential campaign.

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This is Your Nation on White Privilege

By Tim Wise

White privilege is being able to make fun of community organizers and the work they do--like, among other things, fight for the right of women to vote, or for civil rights, or the 8-hour workday, or an end to child labor--and people think you’re being pithy and tough, but if you merely question the experience of a small town mayor and 18-month governor with no foreign policy expertise beyond a class she took in college--you’re somehow being mean, or even sexist. 

White privilege is when you can call yourself a “fuckin’ redneck,” like Bristol Palin’s boyfriend does, and talk about how if anyone messes with you, you'll “kick their fuckin' ass,” and talk about how you like to “shoot shit” for fun, and still be viewed as a responsible, all-American boy (and a great son-in-law to be) rather than a thug.

White privilege is, in short, the problem.

Tags: commentary, opinion, race, presidential_campaign_2008, mccain, obama, palin, via:facebook

Looking for anti-Palin bile? Here's your roundup

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:08:07 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I don't have a great deal of faith in this source, but if you're in the market for anti-Sarah Palin ammunition, it's all conveniently collected here in one place.

Clip Source: www.laprogressive.com

Alaskans Speak (In A Frightened Whisper): Palin Is “Racist, Sexist, Vindictive, And Mean”

September 5, 2008

“So Sambo beat the bitch!”

This is how Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin described Barack Obama’s win over Hillary Clinton to political colleagues in a restaurant a few days after Obama locked up the Democratic Party presidential nomination.

“Juneau is a small town; everybody knows everyone else,” he adds. “These stories about what she calls blacks and Eskimos, well, anyone not white and good looking actually, were around long before she became a glint in John McCain’s rheumy eyes. Why do I know they’re true? Because everyone who isn’t aboriginal or Indian in Alaska talks that way.”

Tags: politics, mccain, presidential_campaign_2008, via:friendfeed, palin, commentary, conservatives, republicans