Posted 10:36 AM by Scoobie Davis

Instant Classic
Bill Maher on race

Posted 9:08 AM by Scoobie Davis

New Post on the Moon Blog
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Posted 8:56 AM by Scoobie Davis

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Mean Girl

Sorry for the dearth of posting. I'm busy.

Posted 2:15 PM by Scoobie Davis

Jet Setters Against Obama
Somebody apparently didn't send Sean Hannity the memo that the endorsement of John McCain by former Hilary supporter and socialite Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild (as well as her characterization of has led to snickering by people in the know. Today Hannity interviewed her on his radio show. She sounds like the type of person who has been on a fox hunt.

Posted 7:28 AM by Scoobie Davis

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(Updated Below)
Yesterday's Frank Rich column in the New York Times. It's kind of fitting that Sarah Palin, the darling of Limbaugh, Hannity, and the hard right, would quote the late Westbrook Pegler, the right-wing journalist/operative. I am familiar with Pegler. Though Pegler rightfully is an obscure figure in American politics, his influence continues to this day. I will write a future post about this.

UPDATE: I am familiar with Pegler but I didn't know this tidbit of information about Pegler's thoughts about Bobby Kennedy.

Posted 11:45 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must View
This is the best campaign spot I've seen all year--"Judement" by TruthAndHope.org:

Posted 4:54 AM by Scoobie Davis

The Moonie Media, Sean Hannity, Fox News, and the "Obama is a Muslim" Meme
On the Sun Myung Moon blog.

Posted 4:39 AM by Scoobie Davis

B.F. Skinner & American Politics
Cathleen Decker of the LA Times asks why the McCain campaign lies. Her answer: "he answer is simple: because it works."

When I think about people like McCain adviser Karl Rove and the various Rove-clones who are running McCain's campaign, I think of B.F. Skinner behaviorist theories. These people are motivated by whether they receive a reward or punishment for a act. If they tell a lie like the "lipstick on a pig" accusation and they don't pay a price (or the price they pay is less than the rewards they receive in return) then they will stay on the same course. It's that simple.

Posted 9:52 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must View
The segment on Bill Moyer's Journal last night on how right-wing talk radio has poisoned American discourse. It is disturbing but very insightful. On the show was Rory O'Connor, the author of Shock Jocks: Hate Speech and Talk Radio: America's Ten Worst Hate Talkers and the Progressive Alternative (here's a blog post on the book). O'Connor was the journalist who had uncovered that author Carlton Sherwood's manuscript for a book defending Sun Myung Moon was reviewed by Unification Church operatives despite Sherwood's claim that he was an independent journalist (click here for more about Unification-related books).

Posted 4:13 PM by Scoobie Davis

College Stuff
Playboy had its latest college pictorial The girls of the Big Ten (I'm still waiting for the girls of the Mid-American Conference pictorial that I personally spoke to Hef about).

I have a graduate degree from Ohio State but my top pick is Missy Tarrington of Minnesota. First runner-up is a buckeye, Jamie Graham of Ohio State. Second runner-up is Shavon Presely of Purdue. Third runner-up is Kimberlee Ann of Penn State. fourth runner-up: Mallory Adams of Iowa, Fifth runner-up: Nicole Marie of Penn State.

Honorable mention: KELLY Kae, Lauren Brooks, Adelaide Miller, Taylor Loftlyn, Hayley and Kelly Fox of Indiana; Maxine Christine, Maria Vargas of Northwestern; Chelsie Rae, Abby Leigh, Austin Thompson, Lisa Marie, Chloe Allen of Minnesota; Kelsey Evans, Marie Morgan of Ohio State; Sophie Adams, Brianna Leigh, Crystal Elise, Kimberlee Ann, Shannon elizabeth of Penn State; Mariela Henderson, Michelle Reid, Vanessa Carrera of Purdue; Nina Reyes of Illinois; Lindsey Elizabeth, Julianna Reed, Kimberly Mueller, Kelly anne of Iowa; Andrea Bach, Katie Marie of Wisconsin; Lynn Wisper, Ryan Lovette, Monica Walker, Ann Morgan, Alyse Sutton, Nicole Kennedy of Michigan State; Renee allison, Bobbie Korina, Caitlyn Shannon of Michigan, Nikkki christine of Purdue, Julia francis of Illinois

Posted 1:32 PM by Scoobie Davis

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Joe Conason

Posted 1:00 PM by Scoobie Davis

Busy
Sorry no posting but I have been busy. Saturday I'm going to the USC/Ohio State game. I might post on Sunday.

Posted 7:48 AM by Scoobie Davis

Busy Busy Busy
I will post today or tomorrow on the Unification media

Posted 11:34 AM by Scoobie Davis

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Paul Krugman, brilliant as usual, on the GOP's politics of resentment:

By selecting Barack Obama as their nominee, the Democrats may have given Republicans an opening: the very qualities that inspire many fervent Obama supporters — the candidate’s high-flown eloquence, his coolness factor — have also laid him open to a Nixonian backlash. Unlike many observers, I wasn’t surprised at the effectiveness of the McCain “celebrity” ad. It didn’t make much sense intellectually, but it skillfully exploited the resentment some voters feel toward Mr. Obama’s star quality.

That said, the experience of the years since 2000 — the memory of what happened to working Americans when faux-populist Republicans controlled the government — is still fairly fresh in voters’ minds. Furthermore, while Democrats’ supposed contempt for ordinary people is mainly a figment of Republican imagination, the G.O.P. really is the Gramm Old Party — it really does believe that the economy is just fine, and the fact that most Americans disagree just shows that we’re a nation of whiners.

UPDATE: Another must-read: Robert Parry, "McCain-Palin: 'Phonies Squared'"

Posted 1:29 AM by Scoobie Davis

Rush
From the guy who characterized then 13-year-old Chelsea Clinton as "a White House dog," it a headline on RushLimbaugh.com for a commentary about Sarah Palin's daughter: "Liberals and The Children: Liberals are content to destroy a 17-year-old girl."

Posted 11:30 AM by Scoobie Davis

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Oliver Willis on the right's "Bubble."

Posted 10:53 AM by Scoobie Davis

New Post on the Moon Blog
Moon's Univeristy of Bridgeport recieves a dubious award.

Posted 1:56 AM by Scoobie Davis

Pepsi Retro
I was in Mexico yesterday and had Pepesi Retro. It was pretty good. Here's a commercial: