Category: New Yorker
By Concerned Mother on Mar 30, 2009 in Bamboozling, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, CNN, David Axelrod, Hillary Clinton, Hoodwinking, Huffington Post, MSNBC, Media, Media Bias, Media Handling of Story, New York Times, New Yorker, Obamedia, Political Strategy, Race, Race Card, Racism, South Carolina, White People, White Working Class, Women | 77 Comments
Today the American Association for Public Opinion Research Ad Hoc Committee on the 2008 Presidential Primary Polling released a pdf report on the methodologies utilized by pollsters during the Democratic primaries. It is a long report, and a cursory analysis of it is available at Pollster.com. Much of the report focuses on the [...]
By SusanUnPC on Nov 13, 2008 in Auto Industry, Economy, MSNBC, Media, Media Bias, Media Handling of Story, Media, Television, Morning Joe, New Yorker, Obamatopia, Obamedia, Race Card | 32 Comments
The profundity of it all:
Need a tissue?
Step aside, LD! We have the genius now:
By SusanUnPC on Jul 21, 2008 in Barack Obama, Media, New Yorker | 146 Comments
From The Guardian’s “New Yorker’s plane snub over Obama ‘terrorist’ cartoon“:
The [New Yorker] article’s author, Ryan Lizza, would have expected to secure one of the 40 press places on Obama’s tour this week but was told no space was available.
Writing on the Huffington Post, media blogger Rachel Sklar said: “So it’s gonna be like that, [...]
By Larry Johnson on Jul 20, 2008 in Barack Obama, Media, New Yorker | 221 Comments
The phrases that come to mind? How about:
Petty, Small and Vindictive … Nobama for The New Yorker … No Room on Obama’s Virgin Air One … Nein Wilkommen!
By shutting out the New Yorker correspondent, is Obama engaging in a nasty little act of getting even, demonstrating contempt for a free press, or is it satire? [...]
By Kirk Tofte on Jul 18, 2008 in Allison Davis, Annenberg Chicago Challenge, Barack Obama, Chicago politics, New Yorker, Qualifications, Tony Rezko, William Ayers | 144 Comments
The recent article in the New Yorker about Barack Obama’s rise in Chicago politics has been overshadowed, of course, by the controversy surrounding the satirical cover illustration of the same issue. This is unfortunate in that the piece has much good information about Obama’s past. Although it is still far too fawning [...]
By Andy Martin on Jul 17, 2008 in Barack Obama, Campaign Gaffes, Chicago politics, John F. Kennedy, Media Handling of Story, New Yorker, Obamedia, Qualifications | 199 Comments
HOW OBAMA BOTCHED THE “NEW YORKER COVER” ISSUE
ANDY MARTIN
Executive Editor
ContrarianCommentary.com
“Factually Correct, Not Politically Correct”
AMERICA’S #1 POLITICAL BLOG ON THE 2008 CAMPAIGN
Obama author Andy Martin on how Obama fumbled the New Yorker cover story
“Senator Obama, I knew Jack Kennedy, and you’re no Jack Kennedy”
(NEW YORK) (July 17, 2008) One of the great lines in American political [...]
By Ani on Jul 17, 2008 in 4th Amendment, Barack Obama, Current Affairs, David Axelrod, Democratic National Convention, Democratic Party, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, New Yorker | 218 Comments
Do we really want to nominate a candidate we have to protect, or someone who is going to protect us?
With the collapse of IndyMac and Bear Stearns, mounting home foreclosures, a tanking economy and no end in sight in Iraq, we need someone far smarter and more knowledgeable than we are on matters of foreign [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Jul 16, 2008 in ACORN, Barack Obama, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, New Yorker, Race, Racism | 279 Comments
All over a cartoon. A satirical cartoon at that. The one Obama didn’t care about before he cared about it. Yes, I am referring to the cover of the New Yorker which dared to depict The Emperor and Empress Obama in anything less than a devotional homage. How DARE they?!? Never mind that the cartoon [...]
By Kirk Tofte on Jul 14, 2008 in Barack Obama, Chicago politics, Daily Kos, Michelle Obama, New Yorker | 466 Comments
The absolutely brilliant cover of this week’s New Yorker magazine has progressive Internet sites up in arms. (Check out Memeorandum.com’s tracking of the flood of blog posts.) For example, at dailykos.com over 1,400 comments have been made in less than two hours about the topic, “OMG and WTF, have you seen this?”
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By Larry Johnson on Jun 25, 2008 in Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Current Affairs, Hillary Clinton, New Yorker, Race Card | 305 Comments
To whom? To Bill Clinton of course. So, do I think Barack has the backbone to apologize to President Clinton and seek his help? No. Barack’s immaturity and arrogance remain major obstacles to him taking the steps he needs to build a bridge to Bill Clinton. But if he wants to [...]
By Charles Lemos on Jun 16, 2008 in Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Chris Matthews, Hillary Clinton, Keith Olbermann, MSNBC, Media Bias, Misogyny, New Yorker, Obamedia, Sexism | 119 Comments
Well at least, we now know that he suffers from a neurological disease. He also suffers from CDS, Clinton Deranged Syndrome, another affliction that seems highly contagious these days. Perhaps it was only an epidemic but my sense is that it is a virus with no known cure. Pity, because the Clinton health care plan [...]
By Bud White on Jun 1, 2008 in Barack Obama, Current Affairs, Elitism, Hillary Clinton, Larry Johnson, Media Bias, Michelle Obama, New Yorker, Race, Race Card, Whitey Tape | 132 Comments
Roger Stone, respected, hated, and always controversial Republican political knife fighter and commentator for Fox News, has given new credence to Larry Johnson’s reporting of a video of Michelle Obama making racist comments against whites.
Is Roger Stone to be believed?
Obamabots, bewildered by their devastating streak of losses but hopeful of the delegate stealing yesterday, will [...]
By Adolph Green on May 17, 2008 in African-American Media, Bamboozling, Barack Obama, Chicago, Chicago politics, Clinton, Current Affairs, Geraldine Ferraro, Hillary Clinton, Hoodwinking, Jesse Jackson Jr., New Yorker, Obama, Race, Race Card | 191 Comments
Reprinted by permission of The Progressive. Reed’s article was part of a debate on Obama in the May issue that included an affirmative by Edwidge Danticat.
Adolph Reed Jr. is Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania.
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I’ve never been an Obama supporter. I’ve known him since the very beginning of his political career, which [...]
By Bud White on Apr 24, 2008 in ABC News, Barack Obama, George Stephanopoulos, Hillary Clinton, Media, Media Bias, Misogyny, New Yorker, Obamedia, Sexism, Superdelegates, Talking Points Memo | 303 Comments
The essay below was written by Mary Jo Kopechne, PhD, and Bud White.
Sen Obama should drop out of the race. Having just seen the new attack ad that the GOP is showing in NC — condemning the state’s Democratic leadership for backing Obama, replete with Rev Wright cursing America — it is clear that Senator [...]
By Truthteller on Mar 17, 2008 in Bamboozling, Barack Obama, Chicago politics, Current Affairs, Michelle Obama, New Yorker, Obama, Race, Race Card, Tony Rezko | 97 Comments
One’s jaw drops when reading this paragraph in the New Yorker’s profile of Michelle Obama:
From these bleak generalities, Obama moves into specific complaints. Used to be, she will say, that you could count on a decent education in the neighborhood. But now there are all these charter schools and magnet schools that you have to [...]
By Frank Naif on Feb 11, 2008 in Current Affairs, FISA, Intelligence, New Yorker | 13 Comments
A tip o’ the hat to Jeff Stein, Congressional Quarterly, who inspired this week’s ‘toon.
By SusanUnPC on Jan 26, 2008 in Afghanistan, Current Affairs, Gaza, New Yorker | 96 Comments
New report just in at the NYT today: “Tensions Grow at Egypt-Gaza Border: “Traffic over the border in Rafah remained heavy on Saturday, but Egyptians reported shortages of supplies and a growing fatigue with the Palestinian influx.”
An American woman — Sidney Misal, 49, “working for a nongovernmental organization, the Asian Rural Life Development Foundation” — [...]
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