Liberal Talk Radio

As in, “That barbecue is amazing!” Or, “I thought Neil Labute’s new play was just amazing!” So will a terror attack on D.C. hold up as similarly “amazing”? I doubt it. Nothing can surpass what has already happened this season on 24: The commander of the Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility Tuesday for a deadly assault [...]

But it’s not anything President Obama came up with: “I want to apologize to you for what happened,” he said, looking earnest and speaking as if he felt pretty badly about it all. “But I can’t. Because I did nothing wrong.”

I’m beginning think that the Clinton campaign intends the“Obama plagirism” story as a feint to prevent the news cycle from focusing on the rising story of the Clinton campaign’s flat-footed responsiveness in the face of a real national campaign. The last thing the Clinton campaign needs is for its vaunted competence to come into question [...]

Bill, I really don’t need you to tell me that the leading Democratic candidates for president are hesitant to discuss the relative benefits of the troop surge in Iraq. I seem to have read somewhere that the surge is working. That’s good! It’s important to take care of stuff in Iraq! But you know what? [...]

If they could, they would blame Wal-Mart for the country’s port security woes. Oh wait: Terrorists could hide a nuclear weapon inside a shipping container bound for New York at any time, U.S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler said yesterday, and large importers such as Wal-Mart are partly to blame for opposing greater scanning checks. “Wal-Mart, America’s [...]

When Sam Brownback raised his hand to indicate that he doesn’t believe in evolution, what he meant to say was: If belief in evolution means simply assenting to microevolution, small changes over time within a species, I am happy to say, as I have in the past, that I believe it to be true. If, [...]

When defending the appearance of impropriety, obfuscation is the clear path to take: Less than two months after ascending to the United States Senate, Barack Obama bought more than $50,000 worth of stock in two speculative companies whose major investors included some of his biggest political donors. One of the companies was a biotech concern [...]

What’s up with the Right-wing attack that says Democratic politicians are hypocrites just because they’re rich? Whom do they expect to advocate for the poor? The poor themselves? Fox News anchors, in particular love this one. So stupid.

Apparently I wasn’t the only one to notice Eliot Spitzer’s unique ads. The Carpetbagger flags a New York Sun article from this summer about the man behind the ads: Jimmy Siegel. Siegel’s an ad man, not a political consultant, and it shows. Read the article for some interesting dish about the mutual hatred between ad [...]

Part of my weekend involved watching some New York media-market television. So I got a chance to see some ads for the local NY races. Here’s what I learned: Elliot Sptizer is King. Seriously. First, I saw Spitzer’s gubernatorial ad (click here and watch “To Do”), which was striking in that it basically moved past [...]