Liberal Talk Radio

What are we to make if this Zogby poll showing Kerry with a 76-7 lead over Bush in the American Muslim community? Well, it’s probably not something the Kerry campaign is willing to brag about, but maybe they should think about it. I was just reading a piece in the Atlantic Monthly on “Bush’s Lost [...]

On Monday’s program, I asked our guest, the Stranger’s own Sandeep Kaushik, why Bush wouldn’t just adopt Kerry’s own Iraq strategy once the Democratic challenger announced it. This is a president, after all, who’s taken waffling and vacilation to Orwellian heights never before seen in this country … sometimes it’s like reading Kafka watching Bush [...]

I happened to catch Bush’s speech at the U.N. this morning. Two things struck me: 1. Bush has this habit of using recent historical narrative in his speeches. He likes to give a brief wrap-up of how we got here. He said something like “We needed Saddam to disarm. The UN passed resolution 1441. We [...]

Bruno and I got into a discussion over a few beers last week. As such discussions often do, it lost coherency somewhere between drinks 2 and 5. But out of that failure came an understanding of a new need — how can you accurately and consistently measure B.S.? What’s needed is a unit of measurement. [...]

Matski’s dad was in town a few weeks ago. Something about the site of a 60-ish man sleeping on my futon-couch strikes a great fear into my heart … but that’s not what I want to talk about now. Dad, see, still lives in flyover country, or what this year we’re euphemistically calling a “swing [...]

Joe Klein hits it on the head: And it is easy to predict Bush’s response to any Kerry criticism about Iraq: “My opponent is too pessimistic,” the President will say. “See, what he doesn’t understand is that the President of the United States has to stand firm. We can’t show weakness. And we won’t on [...]

Sandeep Kaushik, political correspondent for The Stranger, will be returning to the show this Monday to catch us up with the presidential race and share his experiences from the Republican convention in NYC. We’d love to see you there or tuned in on line!

A quick programming note on this unexpected Sunday in Seattle: As some of you may have noticed, I’ve shut off comments on the site. Believe it or not, it’s not because I don’t love all of our loyal readers. The problem, as with most things on the internet these days, is spam. Spam comments were [...]

Via Drudge, an interesting interview in the L.A. Weekly on the politics of Jay Leno. Truth be told, I always sort of did think he was some kind of Republican shill. The only time I’ve ever really had respect for the guy is in one scene in Jerry Seinfeld’s movie Comedian. Jerry, Jay, Kevin Nealon, [...]

Ok, I know everyone’s used that headline already. I’m slow sometimes. But this letter published by Sullivan really got me thinking: I always thought the clear liberal bias at CBS (and others) was just a natural consequence of the way the liberal journalists dominating MSM see the world rather than a concerted effort to push [...]