If you haven’t seen this yet at Greg Sargent’s, check out this crazy video Eric Cantor’s office put out about AFSCME. <object width=”425″ height=”344″><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/_3mw49mk_x0&hl=en&fs=1″></param><param name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true”></param><param name=”allowscriptaccess” value=”always”></param><embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/_3mw49mk_x0&hl=en&fs=1″ type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowscriptaccess=”always” allowfullscreen=”true” width=”425″ height=”344″></embed></object> It’s actually kind of funny in a way, but it’s (a) profanity-laced and (b) doesn’t make AFSCME look particularly …
Tweet, tweet
No one could have anticipated that the Republican Twitter revolution would go so horribly awry: Witness New York Republican Jim Tedisco’s attempt to incorporate the Age of Twitter onto his website. Tedisco, running for the vacant old seat of Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in New York’s 20th District against Democrat Scott Murphy, has a nifty little …
Blast from the past
It’s interesting to compare the tough coverage George W. Bush received during his first few weeks in office with the disgusting, pro-Obama bias that we’re now seeing. Here’s Fred Hiatt in January 2001: In these honeymoon weeks, Mr. Bush’s more open-minded opponents have seemed willing to work with him, and those who have spurned his …
I like this ad
Americans United For Change is running a hard-hitting ad against Boehner, McConnell, and Cantor for their opposition to the stimulus package (via Ben Smith): These guys deserve to be taken apart for their bullshit, caveman-like attitude towards the stimulus package. It’s a disgrace. And I certainly wouldn’t say that about their possible opposition to the …
The Madonna standard
Jen R points me to the following from Howie Kurtz: DeKalb, Ill.: Dear Howard, Was a question about A-Rod really appropriate during the President’s press conference last night? Why not also ask about Jessica Simpson’s weight gain or the fact I missed House…. I would expect that question from a sport reporter, but I was …
Rule by Rush
Just popped into WaPo to ask a question about why cable tv is so anti-stimulus: Rochester, N.Y.: Is the debate over the stimulus package shaping up to be a bit like the debate over the impeachment of president Clinton, where media elites are on one side — against the stimulus — and the American public …
Strange Rasmussen polls
Over the past few weeks, the media has flogged the living hell out of a series of Rasmussen polls which purport to show that the support for stimulus pacakge has gone from +11 (meaning 11 percent more Americans support the package than oppose it) to minus 6 (meaning 6 percent more oppose it than support …