Nov 16 2010
President Obama is back from his Pan Pacific – Asian debt sales trip, and the Lame Duck session of Congress is now officially underway.
Lt. Dan Choi and 12 other Get Equal civil rights activists handcuff themselves to the White House fence on Monday, Nov 15, 2010, to protest the military’s discriminatory policy of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” (photo of murky screenshot from video was highlighted. )
Jun 29 2008
The free ride that John McCain is getting from the mainstream media continues. McCain has been around so long that the cozy relationship that he’s built with the media for many years is turning out to provide a super-Teflon coating for the candidate of 2008. The flip flops, back-flips, miss-statements, and outright deceptions go uncovered by reporters eager to curry favor with the candidate.
The Nation magazine this week does a brilliant job of first acknowledging McCain’s likability, then his blatant pandering, and lying. It’s both common knowledge and unspoken criticism that the candidate McCain of 2000 is vastly different than the candidate of 2008. Eric Alterman and George Zornick sum it up succinctly below the fold: