progressive cyberdadaism from our nation’s capital
In just a moment I’m going to put on my DC Drinking Liberally hat and put out the final notice before our primary watch party this evening. While my role in the mechanism of the vast left-wing conspiracy in our fair city is small, it’s still a role I take seriously. I’ll just say this: if you’re reading this, and you’re left-leaning, and you live in DC, you should by all means come to the 17th Street Cafe, starting at 6:30pm tonight. Trust me, like Christmas, New Year’s, the Superbowl, or a Jim Jarmusch marathon, you don’t want to experience these historic events by yourself.
That said, I’d like to put on my pop culture/political hat. As Josh Marshall puts it: (my emphasis)
But I think the real story is a very effective working of the refs on the part of the Clinton campaign. Going back more than a week the Clinton campaign has made a concerted and aggressive push arguing that they’ve been the victim of systematically negative press coverage while Obama has gotten a free ride. Whether or not you agree with that claim there’s little doubt that the effort has paid off big dividends.
On this point I’d like to bring up the Saturday Night Live portrayal of the Clinton/Obama race. The writers there appear to be pushing a similar argument. While it’s tempting to write this off as just good clean fun, I’d like to point out that comedians are people, too. Highly competitive people. That hate to see their candidates lose. SNL is not the cultural force it was when Chevy Chase did his bumbling Ford impression, but I still say: watch out.
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On a muggy Florida evening in 2008, I meet Iraq War veteran Forrest Fogarty in the Winghouse, a little bar-restaurant on the outskirts of Tampa, his favorite hangout. [Link]
The Labor Department announced this morning that new applications for jobless benefits rose to a seasonally adjusted 542,000 last week. It also revised the figure from the previous week down to 515,000. [Link]
A team from IBM has spent the past several years constructing a virtual-world version of China's Forbidden City. [Link]
Following confirmation that Google intends to open its virtual world Lively to games developers, creative director Kevin Hanna has revealed the long-term goal is for the service to become an online games platform. [Link]
CHIBA, Japan (AP) -- Video game rivals Sony and Microsoft are going head-to-head in virtual worlds for their home consoles later this year. [Link]
a) He was paid by Dick Cheney's henchwoman Mary Matalin to write a book on Obama [Link]
One bunch of guys is getting up and saying, "we hafta." Another bunch of guys is getting up and saying, "nuh-uh." [Link]
To be able to say to folks, "You can keep what you have" is a big political selling point. [Link]
Here, based on 16 years experience watching Bill Clinton campaign — and interviews with a half-dozen veterans of his political teams — is a reasonably safe bet about his campaign advice to Barack Obama: [Link]
WASHINGTON — Government officials handling billions of dollars in oil royalties improperly engaged in sex with employees of energy companies they were dealing with and received numerous gifts from them, federal investigators said Wednesday. [Link]
We are going to have a new administration. Do we want these policies continued or not? [Link]
You can try Counter Culture coffees at: - Baked and Wired, 1052 Thomas Jefferson St. NW, 202-333-2500; www.bakedandwired.com [Link]
In sum, we concluded that the evidence showed that Goodling violated both federal law and Department policy, and therefore committed misconduct... [Link]
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