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Manchurian Candidate

The Inevitable Fluke That Is Sarah Palin

William Bradley | Posted 11.19.2009 | Media

Read More: John McCain, Oprah Winfrey, Ronald Reagan, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Steve Schmidt, Republican Party, Sarah Palin, Neo-Confederate, Barack Obama, Rush Limbaugh, Mitt Romney, Hugh Hewitt, Charlie Crist, Mike Huckabee, Sean Hannity, Birther, Tim Pawlenty, Joe Lieberman, Manchurian Candidate, Hillary Clinton, Far Right, Tea Party, Creationism, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Chairman Mao, Katie Couric, Media News
William Bradley

Five minutes into yesterday's Oprah extravaganza with Sarah Palin, I messaged Steve Schmidt, John McCain's presidential campaign manager: "So how did you know Bristol was pregnant before it was announced?"

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Republicans Demand Equal Access to Schoolchildren

Don Parker | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Brainwashing, Mitch McConnell, Michele Bachmann, Cult of Personality, John Boehner, Hypnosis, President Barack Obama, America's Schoolchildren, Indoctrination, Republicans, Manchurian Candidate, Slit Wrists, Politics News
Don Parker

Amid the uproar over President Obama's grand scheme to use subliminal brainwashing to indoctrinate America's schoolchildren into his cult of personality, Republicans today demanded equal access to young minds so they could counterbalance the president's dangerous message.

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Sotomayor, Obama, and the Looming Republican Race Problem

William Bradley | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Confederacy, Rush Limbaugh, Barack Obama, South, Sonia Sotomayor, John McCain, North Carolina, Michelle Obama, Birther, Manchurian Candidate, Obama Birth Certificate, Watergate, Gordon Liddy, Video, Politics News
William Bradley

The "Manchurian Candidate" fantasy is alive and well in Republican ranks. And is it a long-term problem that they are largely opposed to the first black president and first brown Supreme Court justice?...You bet.

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The New Yorker Raises A Toast To Birther Nut Michael Savage

Eric Boehlert | Posted 09.03.2009 | Media

Read More: Right-Wing Media, The New Yorker, Manchurian Candidate, Kelefa Sanneh, Michael Savage, Media News
Eric Boehlert

The New Yorker's soft-pedaling of Savage, as well as the larger unhinged right-wing movement to demonize and dehumanize Obama, is just embarrassing.

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The Republican Summer Olympics of 2009

Gary Cohan | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Corruption, Mark Sanford, Ted Stevens, Jack Abramoff, Ann Coulter, Olympics, Lobbyists, Blue States, Larry Craig, Eliot Spitzer, Dick Cheney, Adultery, Condoleezza Rice, John Edwards, Michael Savage, Gop, Newt Gingrich, Manchurian Candidate, Constitution, Republican Party, Bob Ney, Randy "Duke" Cunningham, Jim McGreevey, Mark Foley, Bill Clinton, John McCain, Social Conservatives, Ted Haggard, Rush Limbaugh, Lobbying, Scandal, Barack Obama, Red States, Homosexuality, John Ensign, Sean Hannity, Oxycontin, Neocons, Hypocrisy, Homophobia, New York Times, Neoconservatives, Alberto Gonzales, Bill O'Reilly, David Vitter, Conspiracy, Contract With America, Prostitution, Mail-Fraud, Big Tent, Tax Evasion, Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin, Tom Delay, Teenage Pregnancy, Divorce, Internet Porn, Fox News, Phil Gramm, Hal Turner, Al Gore, Summer Olympics, Pilonidal Cyst, Vietnam Draft-Dodger, Draft-Dodging, Vietnam War, Politics News
Gary Cohan

Republicans' private embraces are often in complete contradistinction with their own oft-trumpeted, Biblically-mandated "moral" guidelines for the rest of us.

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Irresponsible Vitriol in the Media

John W. Delicath | Posted 05.02.2009 | Media

Read More: Politics, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Obama, Glenn Beck, Media, Manchurian Candidate, Michael Savage, Extremism, Media News
John W. Delicath

Obama or his policies have been equated with socialism. But charges of socialism are tame compared to some of the accusations now being hurled at Obama.

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Obama in the Tank

William Bradley | Posted 03.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon, Al Qaeda, Ray Odierno, Pakistan, David Petraeus, Joe Biden, Iraq, Soviet Union, General Jim Jones, Iran, Central Command, Barack Obama, Central Asia, Russia, Taliban, Afghanistan, The Tank, Gen. David Petraeus, Dmitri Medvedev, Bob Gates, Chechnya, Vladimir Putin, George W. Bush, Marine Corps, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Manchurian Candidate, Politics News
William Bradley

While most eyes were on the then impending vote on Obama's economic revival program, the new president ventured out to the Pentagon for his first meeting with the Joint Chiefs of Staff yesterday.

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How Obama's Adroit Symbolism Yields Sky-High Approval

William Bradley | Posted 01.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Symbolism, Barack Obama, Chicago, Hawaii, Obama Transition, Media, Manchurian Candidate, Presidential Transition, Cabinet, Wall Street Meltdown, Video, Politics News
William Bradley

Well, Obama has more than weathered a few highly-publicized controversies -- he has the highest approval rating for a president-elect in decades.

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The "Manchurian Candidate" Fantasy: Paranoia And Irony Abound

William Bradley | Posted 11.15.2008 | Media

Read More: Manchurian Candidate, Barack Obama, Presidential Campaign, Far Right, Frank Sinatra, John F. Kennedy, Sean Hannity, John McCain, Robert F. Kennedy, John Frankenheimer, Ann Coulter, Richard Condon, Media News
William Bradley

There is a further irony, in that there actually is a candidate in this race who was not born in America and who was a prisoner of war. That would be, of course, John McCain.

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The Murdochurian Candidate

David Horton | Posted 11.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Rupert Murdoch, Sarah Palin, George Bush, Manchurian Candidate, 2008 Election, Republican Base, Politics News
David Horton

The deluge of articles about Palin continues as unchecked as a snow melt creek in Spring. We know already it seems, far more than we ever wanted to kn...

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A White Knight Talking Backwards: The Manchurian Candidate in the Kitchen

Elissa Altman | Posted 10.12.2008 | Living

Read More: Sweet Surprise, Karl Rove, John McCain, Andrew Zimmern, Food Network, Department of Interior, Obesity, Sarah Palin, Alice in Wonderland, Alton Brown, Anthony Bourdain, Harold McGee, Nigella Lawson, David Tanis, Mario Batali, Fred Thompson, Republican Convention, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Food, Republicans, Manchurian Candidate, Living News
Elissa Altman

Without a doubt. So, after the hideous spectacle of the convention was over, I did what most food writers do when they're mildly hysterical: I fled for the safety of my kitchen.

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