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It’s starting to seem like Obama understands very well how to disassemble the GOP’s famously disciplined “noise machine,” which amounted to little—maybe nothing—more than an ad-hoc monopoly on a speaking like a sovereign. Exhibit A: the Murdoch-owned NY Post (Hurt, “Prez Zings GOP Foe in a $timulating Talk,” 23 Jan ’09) tries to find its [...]
Male fantasies
Rush Limbaugh provides a vital comms link to the diving bell USGOP currently plumbing many of the same socio-psychic depths that Klaus Theweleit explored in his brilliant book Male Fantasies (Vol. 1). Spake the blimp: “We are being told that we have to hope he succeeds, that we have to bend over, grab the ankles [...]
Architect’s architect no more
Mike Connell dies in single-engine plane crash. See also: ”What do you mean ‘we’, kimosabe?,” “Karl Rove: information ‘architect’.”
Tories in waiting
The US as parliamentary democracy meme insight is catching on (WaMo, Hullabaloo). But whatever happened to this (8 Aug ’08)? SUMMARY: The National Park Service (NPS) is proposing to amend regulations governing viewing of the Inaugural parade by the public, demonstrators, and the Presidential Inaugural Committee. The proposed rule would extend the duration and extent [...]
Electoral cleansing
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the WP’s Dan Froomkin wrote (“Who’s in Charge? Karl Rove!”, 15 Sep ’05): Rove’s leadership role suggests quite strikingly that any and all White House decisions and pronouncements regarding the recovery from the storm are being made with their political consequences as the primary consideration. More specifically: With an [...]
New Republican
Jerry Sanders, the Mayor of San Diego, explains his change of heart: He puts the lie to the stone-faced doom-mongering and martial mummery right-wing cowards are forever hiding behind.
Karl Rove: information “architect”
According to Rebecca Abrahams (“White House Emails: The Missing Link?”, Huffington Post, 21 Oct ’08), Mike Connell, the architect and cyber keymaster of George W. Bush election websites including GeorgeWBush.com and GWB43.com, the site Karl Rove used for 95-percent of his email communication…is also the CEO of Govtech Solutions, the company responsible for building and [...]
What do you mean “we”, kimosabe? [updated]
Did Rick Davis have his hooks in Dean’s operations in early ’04? 3EDC’s website as archived on 10 Jun ’04: Who’s we? So what was Rick Davis up to in early summer ’04? 3EDC’s website as archived almost three months earlier, on 18 Mar ’04, said: “Welcome nicco.trueserver.com to Your New Server!” Who’s nicco? How [...]
Down again; or whatever happened to Windy Smith?
Martin Miller (“Is Campaigns’ Path to the Heart a Proper One?”, LAT [11 Aug ’00]), on Windy Smith’s cameo at the 2000 RNC: “What the nation witnessed was the passing of the torch,” said JoAnn Simons, president of the Atlanta-based National Down Syndrome Congress. “Individuals with disabilities don’t necessarily need people to speak for them.” [...]
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Down with the Republicans
The first time it’s a tragedy, the second time a farce: Those were the days, eh? The text of Windy’s letter to Governor Shrub follows.
Onion headlines we’d like to see
Right-wing Noise Machine Breaks Down Repair bill high: vast conspiracy mulls new hybrid Alas.
Surreal: scene of a GOP loss
Pray. (Flickr)
Bang path
The Nexis search that DoJ White House liaisons ran on job candidates: [first name of a candidate] and pre/2 [last name of a candidate] w/7 bush or gore or republican! or democrat! or charg! or accus! or criticiz! or blam! or defend! or iran contra or clinton or spotted owl or florida recount or sex! [...]
Election ’08: what if?
Cute: The entire world drafted an open letter to Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) today, asking him to drop out of the U.S. presidential race and concede the presidency to Senator Barack Obama (D-Illinois). Scenario: McCain drops out of the election late, Obama wins uncontested, right-wing noise machine revs up the theory that “He isn’t really [...]
Evolution of the GOP