Rice uses the “n” word against Hillary Clinton [e.a.]:
Ms. Rice said Mrs. Clinton’s vote denouncing the Revolutionary Guards made her “part of the neoconservative drumbeat for war with Iran.”
Are we surprised? If so, we shouldn’t be.
Entries Tagged 'dirty politics' ↓
Obama’s team resorts to name-calling
February 25th, 2008 — dirty politics
hit job
February 21st, 2008 — NYT, dirty politics, framing, media, media criticism, raw politics
The smearing-by-innuendo of John McCain by the New York Times drew this response from the blogosphere (via Memeorandum):
New York Times:For McCain, Self-Confidence on Ethics Poses Its Own Risk +Discussion: The Swamp, CNN, Washington Post, Don Surber, Buck Naked Politics, After W, The Carpetbagger Report, Outside The Beltway, Guardian, Firedoglake, Crooks and Liars, Hullabaloo, US Elections, Betsy’s Page, ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES, Bark Bark Woof Woof, Publius Pundit, The Natural Truth, Bang the Drum, Political Radar, Political Punch, The Campaign Spot, American Spectator, Los Angeles Times, TalkLeft, Washington Monthly, NewsBusters.org, Right Wing News, Politics1, You Decide 08!, South Texas Chisme, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS, Patterico’s Pontifications, Emptywheel, Group News Blog, DownWithTyranny!, Shakespeare’s Sister, FOX Embeds, Daily Kos, Booman Tribune, Reason Magazine, Left in the West, NO QUARTER, Salon, The New Republic, PERRspectives Blog, Open Left, About US Politics, No More Mister Nice Blog, TownHall Blog, Political Machine, Riehl World View, Pensito Review, The Moderate Voice, Mercury Rising, All Spin Zone, the talking dog, Washington Wire, Wonkette, D-Day, Attytood, Prairie Weather, Jules Crittenden, Pandagon, Megan McArdle, TBogg, Politics Blog, Gateway Pundit, McCain Central, THE LIBERAL JOURNAL, MyDD, The Democratic Daily, Sister Toldjah, PrestoPundit, Commentary, Oliver Willis, michellemalkin.com, Lawyers, Guns and Money, JammieWearingFool, Truthdig, Big Head DC, BlueOregon and Brains and Eggs
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
THE MCCAIN STORY — This afternoon, before the Times story came out, I was working on a post about national political reporters’ tendency not to give much of any scrutiny to various McCain flipflops, contradictions and bamboozlements. Obviously, the terrain has changed a bit since …
Publius / Obsidian Wings: McCain — Gotta say, I’m underwhelmed by the NYT’s McCain bombshell.
Mark Kleiman / The RBC: The Iseman cometh — Apparently this has been an open secret for years.
Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone: L’affaire McCain? — Just landed in San Francisco to the news …
McCain’s Ties To Lobbyist Worried Aides — Before 2000 Campaign, Advisers Tried to Bar Her — Aides to Sen. John McCain confronted a telecommunications lobbyist in late 1999 and asked her to distance herself from the senator during the presidential campaign he was about to launch …
Pam Spaulding / Pandagon: McCain and the lobbyist: the final straw for the GOP Base?
NY Daily News: Tale’s tall on innuendo, short on proof
Bob Fertik / Democrats.com: VickiGate — So did John McCain cheat on his wife, the taxpayers, or both?
Kevin Hayden / American Street: Justice & Hope, day 51 — On occasion, an exceptional moment arrives …
David Freddoso / The Corner: The Times piece on McCain
Smintheus / Daily Kos: McCain: Experienced in the ways of Washington lobbyists
David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo: WAPO: MCCAIN’S TIES TO LOBBYIST RATTLED ADVISERS
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute: The Times’ McCain Scandal - Sex Or Ethics?
Michael Crowley / The New Republic: Weaver’s Revenge? — An interesting footnote to the Times bombshell …
Lyzurgyk / PSoTD: Vicki Iseman
Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake: Late Nite FDL: It’s Not The Sex, It’s The Corruption
Bonus TNR Angle on the McCain Story — The McCain campaign is apparently blaming TNR for forcing the Times’ hand on this story. We can’t yet confirm that. But we can say this: TNR correspondent Gabe Sherman is working on a piece about the Times’ foot-dragging on the McCain story …
Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire: McCain Will Hold Press Conference
Dan Collins / protein wisdom: Olberdouche on McCain/Lobbyist Article in NYT
Krooney / The Page: McCain Job #1: Discredit the New York Times to Rally the “Other” Base
First-Blush Reaction — The Times doesn’t have the goods—at least from what’s in the story—and shouldn’t have run it. Let’s be honest: this story is all about the alleged affair, and all the Keating Five and campaign finance reform re-hash is window dressing. A key passage:
James Kirchick / The New Republic: What Story? — So here’s the essence of the Times’ 3,000-word “bombshell” on John McCain.
Mark Finkelstein / NewsBusters.org: New Republic Editor: ‘Times In the Tank’ for Dem Nominee
THE TIMES UPHOLDS ITS STANDARDS — The New York Times smears John McCain in tomorrow’s paper, accusing him of ethics violations and insinuating that he had an affair with a lobbyist. What is most striking, though, if you actually read the story, is how thin it is.
Discussion: The Huffington Post and protein wisdom
Marc Cooper / The Huffington Post: Why John McCain Owes The New York Times a Thank You Card
Dan Collins / protein wisdom: McCain Lobbyist Affair Rumor Reported, NYT
What’s the Quickest Way to Rally Conservatives ‘Round McCain? — A sandbagging from the NYT of just this skeezy a nature. — This doesn’t reflect badly on anyone but the Times, as far as I’m concerned. The innuendo and full-on craptastic nature of the lede alone is enough to damn …
Jules Crittenden: WaPo Writes It With A Lede
Slimes At The Times — The New York Times launches its long-awaited smear of John McCain today, and the most impressive aspect of the smear is just how baseless it is. They basically emulate Page Six at the Post, but add in a rehash of a well-known scandal from twenty years ago to pad it out and make it look more impressive.
:Tim Graham / NewsBusters.org: NYT Suggests Unproven Adultery by McCain — Unlike Clinton
McCain Senior Adviser Responds to Times Story — Mark Salter, John McCain’s obstreperous senior aide, just responded to Time’s query about the New York Times’s long-simmering McCain-mixed-up-with-lobbyists story. — Speaking from a parking garage in Toledo, where the campaign is overnighting …
Jennifer Rubin / Commentary: Rapid Response 101 — Well so far both the Right and the Left …
Taylor Marsh: Will McCain Story Hit New York Times Instead?
Krooney / The Page: Morning Show Summary
Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly: JOHN McCAIN AND THE TELECOM LOBBYIST….OK, let’s dive into the John McCain story.
NYT: McCain may have behaved unethically and cheated on his wife, but we’re not sure; Update: Pressured by the New Republic? Update: McCain responds; Update: Carl Cameron video added; Update: TNR confirms? Update: WaPo piles on — A sex scandal that may not be a scandal tucked inside …
Don Surber: Sex is private, 2008 — Dems drop the blond bomb on John McCain.
Jimmie / The Sundries Shack: The McCain Story is No Biggie, If You Ask Me.
Joseph / CANNONFIRE: A most salacious post. (”Heh heh. He said ‘post’!”)
INSTAPUTZ: The American Spectator was Prescient.
Joe Sudbay / AMERICAblog: NY Times: McCain staffers confronted Senator about inappropriately …
Cenk Uygur / The Huffington Post: NY Times Holds Stories Because They’re Afraid of Conservatives
J.P. Freire / American Spectator: McCain Affair Story
Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs: SO WHAT? — Now that it is abundantly clear that McCain …
Karoli / Bang the Drum: John McCain, Ethics and the Right’s Resolve
Isaac Chotiner / The New Republic: The McCain Story — In a piece that reads as if a lot of stuff …
Michael Shaw / BAGnewsNotes: Moral Wrecktitude? — First off, I owe a hearty thanks …
Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake: She Gets Around… Getting publicly exposed in the NYT …
Ken Layne / Wonkette: Did McCain’s Lobbyist Girlfriend Betray Him For Bush?
Dan Collins / protein wisdom: JIM RUTENBERG, MARILYN W. THOMPSON, DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK and STEPHEN LABATON
Macranger / Macsmind: Ny Time Story on McCain …
Who will get hurt more—John McCain or the New York Times?That’s easy: the NYT.
sowing doubt
September 18th, 2007 — America at war, arrogant assholes, dirty politics
According to Andrew Sullivan, this ignorant opinion-mongering serves as a “helpful roundup” of the curious incident of the IAF over Syria [e.a.]:
According to this Times article, the strike was directed at a cache of nuclear materials that had recently been delivered to Syria from North Korea.
This didn’t make a lot of sense to me. …
I suppose that the North Koreans could have shipped a completed nuke to Syria, but that seems quite outlandish …
I‘m still pretty skeptical …
I don’t think the Syrians could do anything useful with nuclear material short of a bomb …
I’d be stunned if the North Koreans were willing to actually sell them a completed weapon. …
Who is “I”? Someone named Robert Farley, an “assistant professor at the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce, University of Kentucky.” Well, okay. I guess that makes him an expert opinion-monger!
Meanwhile Sullivan, who apparently considers himself a public intellectual—ha ha ha HA—has been delighting in unearthing one-sided details of a four-decade-old dispute between real public intellectuals (one of whom, a grandfather of neo-condom—which is what this is really about: the hysterical fear of a theory) happens to have the ear of a current presidential contender.
Naturally, Sullivan is siding with onetime wife-stabber Norman Mailer over his former close friend onetime stab-in-the-back theorist Norman Podhoretz.
Unlike (I suspect) most bloggers, I happen to own a copy of Podhoretz’s book Breaking Ranks. I will be delighted to quote it at length. Stay tuned for a real history lesson.
