Posted on June 15th, 2009 by Stuart O'Neill
There are Traditional Media on the ground in Iran including NBC, ABC and, if they haven’t been thrown out as was ordered yesterday, the BBC.
Yet we get more information directly from the site of demonstrations, meetings and rallies from the bloggers and tweeters that are on the ground.
Marc Ambinder suggests we approach this uncensored or [...]
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Filed under: In The Blogosphere, In The News, International, Iran, Stuart O'Neill
Posted on November 1st, 2008 by Michael Stickings
The latest chant at Palin rallies is this: “Vote McCain, not Hussein!” or “John McCain! Not Hussein!” As NYT’s The Caucus is reporting, the former made an appearance at a rally earlier this week in Pennsylvania, the latter at one this morning in Florida:
After the rally in Florida ended, two of the people leading the [...]
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Filed under: Bigotry, Election '08, Gov. Sarah Palin, Michael Stickings, Republicans
Posted on October 21st, 2008 by Michael Stickings
Sarah Palin is against robocalls… while doing them herself.
She is also against the “atrocious and unacceptable things” some of her supporters have been yelling out at her rallies, vicious and violent slurs directed at Obama, calling them “unacceptable” (though claiming that she hasn’t actually heard any of them, which hardly seems possible)… while stating, in [...]
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Filed under: Election '08, Gov. Sarah Palin, Michael Stickings
Posted on October 16th, 2008 by Hart Williams
Hi there. Hart Williams here. I am guest-blogging for a few days at the kind invitation of Pamela Leavey, and it’s good to see you.
Here’s something that you might have seen and not quite noticed. …
Let’s pass over the Rovian Campaign of McCain’s dual smoke screen/smears, the ACORN kerfuffle to mask REAL voter disenfranchisement, and [...]
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Filed under: Election '08, Hart Williams, In The News, John McCain '08, Pamela Leavey, Politics, Presidential Election, Republicans
Posted on October 15th, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
McCain has decided to attack whenever possible and place Obama, if possible, on the defensive. This is going to be a long debate. Obama is doing well and keeping his usual cool. McCain, 30 minutes into the debate, is attacking on every response since first question.
Bob Schieffer threw the ball in the air and McCain [...]
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Filed under: Democrats, Election '08, In The News, John McCain '08, Politics, Presidential Debates, Presidential Election, Republicans, Stuart O'Neill
Posted on May 20th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Good gracious the wingnuts have lost it. That large turnout for Obama in Oregon the other day wasn’t about him… it was about a local indie band. That’s even more far-fetched than the meme that folks turned out for Springsteen and not Kerry in ‘04 when Springsteen performed at rallies for Kerry. I can’t help [...]
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Filed under: Bruce Springsteen, Democrats, Election '08, In The News, John Kerry, John McCain '08, Music, Pamela Leavey, Political News, Politics, Presidential Primaries, State Politics, Wingnuts
Posted on October 3rd, 2006 by Javelin
After a medium sized event earlier in Columbus, Senator Kerry spoke to a huge crowd of students at Ohio State University, the media and many of the Democratic candidates who are poised to take positions in the state and federal government. Excitement filled the University Union not unlike what was seen in the [...]
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Filed under: John Kerry, Politics, Republicans, Senate
