President Bush Slams John McCain's Pre-Debate Spin*
Bush decries* what he calls "the soft bigotry of low expectations" emanating from Camp McCain as the Palin-Biden debate approaches: * Just kidding:...
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Underdog Wins Gold at 2012 Sarah-lympics
David Quigg | Posted 10.02.2008 | Politics
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BOB COSTAS: And we are back. More coverage of the decathlon coming up in just minutes here. But first we're going to quickly send you out to a place t...
Creating Candidate Palin: How McCain Spun This One A Turn Too Far
Les Gara | Posted 10.01.2008 | Politics
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Palin's nomination has created unusual common ground for Alaskans. Whether we support her or not, we've been furrowing our eyebrows a lot lately as we watch the McCain campaign re-write Alaska history.
Palin Needs To Deliver A Game Changing Debate Performance
HuffingtonPost.com | Jed Lewison | Posted 09.28.2008 | Politics
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Basically, Palin needs to be superhuman: to not only to turn her negative ratings around, but also to somehow make the case for John McCain in a way that he has not yet been able to do for himself.
The Future of Media: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying That the Internet Will Consume Print
Bob Guccione, Jr. | Posted 09.17.2008 | Media
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The future of media will boil down to, and pivot on the axis of, one thing: imagination -- how creative we are in exploiting technology and, equally important, with content.
Too Much Spin
Janet Ritz | Posted 08.27.2008 | Politics
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I was in a doctor's waiting room recently, listening to pundits on a big-screen TV, when a middle-aged man turned to me and stated: "Too much spin." ...
Friday Talking Points [37] -- Welcome, New Readers
Chris Weigant | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics
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McCain flip-flops on torture, tax cuts, the religious right, Roe v. Wade, lobbyists, gay marriage, creationism, Iraq, talking to enemies, and just about any other subject you care to name.
Story is Everything
Lisa Dale Norton | Posted 06.10.2008 | Politics
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Hillary Clinton is shifting the paradigm and the narrative. Because the story is everything in the culture of politics, these are important shifts to ...
Obama Countdown; Clinton Spin: Press Release Tea Leaves
M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 06.02.2008 | Home
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The delegate countdown is revealing on both sides. Clinton press releases portray a two-person race. Obama's portray the race as a solitary time trial. In any case, he'll reach the number Tuesday.
Obama's Clarifying Win: The Fly on the Wall Is the Wall
Norman Solomon | Posted 05.07.2008 | Politics
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In North Carolina and Indiana, voters had more votes than all the pundits did. Pundits lost. Voters came out ahead. So did Obama. And so did the body politic.
Clinton PR People Send Out Mailer Featuring $2200 Gun
Paul Loeb | Posted 05.04.2008 | Home
Continuing to parrot every possible Republican sound bite, Hillary's PR people have just sent out a mailer accusing Obama of being insufficiently supportive of gun rights.
Spinning? Fine. Spinning AND Lying? Not Cool.
David Sirota | Posted 05.04.2008 | Politics
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Clinton is trying to set expectations in advance of the Indiana primary, with the goal of making it seem as if a victory is "unexpected." In reality, she has been ahead from the beginning.
Hillary Wins PA by Triple Digits!
Evan Eisenberg | Posted 04.24.2008 | Politics
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Based on the AP's almost-final vote count (which hasn't budged since Wednesday afternoon), Clinton has blasted her rival out of the water with a triple-digit margin of victory: 9.31%.
Pentagon Propaganda & Antiwar Analysts (Updated)
Ari Melber | Posted 04.21.2008 | Media
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While the Times exposed a sophisticated propaganda campaign, the flip-side is harder to document -- but antiwar perspectives are routinely marginalized or scrubbed from televised debate.
Barack the Politician With a Smokescreen to Block
Kristen Breitweiser | Posted 03.19.2008 | Politics
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Obama has taken something that is an absolute and undeniable truth (race relations are a problem in America) and attached it to something that is flawed and wrong (Wright's hate speech).
Clinton Spinning Into Twilight Zone
Paul Jenkins | Posted 02.11.2008 | Politics
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The Clinton operation's dismissive attitude towards the states that she loses feels uncomfortably like a post-facto snub by the aggrieved party in a break up: "he's not really my type anyway."
Friday Democratic Talking Points
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.28.2007 | Politics
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Time for another round of Democratic talking points, for the benefit of whoever's going to be on this weekend's Sunday morning talk shows (or for any ...
Friday Democratic Talking Points
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.21.2007 | Politics
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Why are Democrats so lame on basic PR? Someone asked me that question on my blog the other day, and I didn't really have an answer. Why are Democrats...
What Democrats Need To Say Before Bush's Speech
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.12.2007 | Politics
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Democrats in Congress have to quickly decide what to do about this state of affairs. If they aren't careful, Republicans could wind up owning the "withdrawal" as a political issue.
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