Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny

While the Obama campaign depicts the ontogeny of Organism McCain as the phylogenetic recapitulation of Species Bush, aka “running for Bush’s third term,” one has to wonder how McSame will respond. Perhaps he will take a page out of the old (and not so old) Kremlin playbook, as mentioned in Monday’s NY Times editorial titled Airbrushed by the Kremlin, Again, …

We Must Rise The Occasion

NEW ORLEANS— John McCain stammered his way through one of his more memorable speeches ever Tuesday night, but unfortunately it was memorable for the number of speaking miscues off the teleprompter, not the content. It was memorable for the forced, creepy smiles at the end of sentences that didn’t warrant them. Even his repetitious blinking was unnerving. And with more …

Over the Top: Live Blogging the End of the Primaries

Anybody surprised that Fixed News is saying Obama is already over the top, before the polls close, while CNN and MSNBC are saying, in effect- not so fast? Anything to counter the obvious Dem strategy to have their Hollywood moment, declaring that either Nebraska or South Dakota have put Obama over the top rather than the INSIDERS at the DNC, …

What Happened: The Culturing of Deception [UPDATE]

Today, Jay Rosen over at Huffington Post uses a slightly different analysis to come to the same conclusion as moi last Saturday re what I’ll call here The McClellan Mushroom Strategy: Keep him in the dark and feed him loads of shit: One of Bush’s strengths is his eye for human weakness. The towel-snapping humor is based on this. It …

What Happened: The Culturing of Deception

Former Bush Administration Press Secretary Scott McClellan‘s new tell-all book, What Happened:Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception, hasn’t even officially hit the bookshelves yet and there is already a ton of reviews and political analyses, thanks to advance copies provided to the well-connected. My local Borders is not among the elite, however, so I’m going to …

Sooner or Later, You’ll Own Generals: Update 3

David Kurtz over at TPM reports that: …the House last Thursday passed an amendment to this year’s military authorization bill mandating investigations by the DOD IG and the GAO. Democrats argued that the program amounted to illegal domestic propaganda. Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) called the program part of “a military-industrial-media complex” (with apologies to Eisenhower). Despite the MSM‘s continuing refusal …

Seance Exclusive! Lee Atwater Says Clinton the Stronger Candidate

HOLLYWOOD, CA (C.U.News) The godfather of Republican dirty campaign tricks, Lee “Willy Horton” Atwater, revealed through one of the world’s most respected psychics today that Billary would be the stronger candidate against John McCain in the 2008 presidential election. In an exclusive interview granted to this reporter, the medium (who insisted on anonymity, and only after she was satisfied as …