Archive for the 'Memes' Category

Lou Dobbs’ Ratings Drop Like They’re Hot

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Media, Memes

Perhaps CNN will take note and boot him? After all, it seems the cable newsers will allow nearly anybody on air if it’ll boost ratings.
But once ratings drop, well, sayonara.From New York Observer:
Mr. Dobbs’ first began reporting on Obama birth certificate conspiracy theories on the night of Wednesday, July 15. In the roughly two [...]

July 31st, 2009 | Permalink| 13 Comments »

A Time for Anger: Fisking the Times

By Mark Thompson | Related entries in Consumer Safety, Legislation, Memes, Partisan Nonsense

After months of pleas from the small business community, the New York Times (the so-called paper of record) finally decided to cover some of the central elements of the legislation. Except that it was not an article discussing the potential costs of the legislation; nor was it even an article discussing the debate over [...]

February 18th, 2009 | Permalink| 9 Comments »

William Ayers Talks About His “Pal” Barack Obama

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Ayers, Barack, Media, Memes

It was reported after the election ended that the link between Obama and Ayers was first introduced on the campaign trail prematurely by Palin, and then McCain was forced to join in. But the blogs were talking about them long before that.
One meme even emerged that Ayers wrote Obama’s first book, and even though [...]

December 6th, 2008 | Permalink| 2 Comments »

Fox News’ Shepard Smith Talks Media Bias, Obama Win

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Democrats, McCain, Media, Memes, Republicans, Video

And what he says may surprise you…

I welcome the day when the “liberal media” meme dies once and for all. Because it’s not only inaccurate, it has been used as a clumsy bludgeon by lazy Republican hacks since the early days of Reagan when folks like Limbaugh first went on the air and started claiming [...]

November 14th, 2008 | Permalink| 8 Comments »

Full Audio Of Drudge’s Obama “Bombshell” + Transcript

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Economy, History, Memes

The date of the broadcast is January 18, 2001. It’s in Real Player format, which is a pain, but if you want to listen to the whole thing you can.
The key section is here…where Obama argues against the courts redistributing wealth…
“Maybe i am showing my bias here as a legislator as well as a law [...]

October 27th, 2008 | Permalink| 14 Comments »

Surreal Biden Interview Reveals 2012 Republican Talking Points?

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Barack, Biden, Media, Memes, Republicans, Video

When’s the last time you heard a local television news anchor quote Karl Marx?
Well, get ready, because you’re about to…

First off, I think Biden answered the way you should when somebody asks questions with such a heavy editorial slant. I mean that was laughably transparent. Karl Marx? Is she serious with that?
But second…I think what [...]

October 25th, 2008 | Permalink| 17 Comments »

PODCAST: Preview of Third Obama-McCain Debate, Electoral College Projections, Voter Trends, Strategy and More

By 2008Central.net | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Biden, Debates, Florida, Jobs, McCain, Media, Memes, Palin, Romney

In this podcast we offer a preview of the third and final presidential debate between Obama and McCain as well as an overview of the state of the campaign. We also discuss our most recent election projection and the polling trends during the last week.
Additionally, we criticize both campaigns on their respective weaknesses and [...]

October 13th, 2008 | Permalink| No Comments »

Drudge Pushing McCain Comeback Meme

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, McCain, Memes, Polls

First, there’s the obligatory headline asking the question that Drudge wishes was a reality…

Then, on the far right hand side you see the familiar “DEVELOPING” line…

So, let me take these one by one…
The Gallup poll has narrowed, but that’s only because Obama got a bump after the debate that pushed the spread to something unsustainable. [...]

October 12th, 2008 | Permalink| 2 Comments »

McCain Urges Supporters To Be “Respectful”

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, McCain, Memes

Giving credit where credit is due, McCain is finally addressing the tone of some of his recent gatherings and trying to tell the crowds that Obama is not a scary guy.
The only problem? The mob doesn’t care.
From Politico:
“I am enthusiastic and encouraged by the enthusiasm and I think it’s really good,” McCain said. “We have [...]

October 10th, 2008 | Permalink| 10 Comments »

Comparing Obama’s And McCain’s Newest Ads

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, McCain, Media, Memes, Video

Obama focuses on McCain’s housing gaffe to highlight that he’s out of touch with Americans…

McCain continues to try and sell the idea that Obama’s a celebrity who will raise everybody’s taxes…

Who wins?
Well, remember John Kerry’s “I voted for it before I voted against it” moment? Sure you do. It painted him as the beltway insider [...]

August 22nd, 2008 | Permalink| No Comments »

No One Term Pledge For McCain

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, McCain, Memes

I think this was a pretty easy one to call, but given the speculation a couple weeks ago, I figured I’d follow up.
From Politico:
LAS CRUCES, N.M. — John McCain stated unequivocally in an interview with Politico on Wednesday that he would not pledge to serve only a single four-year term, rejecting a suggestion that some [...]

August 21st, 2008 | Permalink| No Comments »

McCain’s “Fan Club” Ad Crosses A Dangerous Line

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Gender, McCain, Media, Memes, Race, Sexuality, Video

Not only has McCain’s latest celebrity attack ad gotten goofier, it’s also starting to reveal the particularly distasteful “white women like the black guy” tactic that Republicans have used in the past to scare voters away from African American candidates.

First, let me once again point out that McCain is just plain lying that Obama will [...]

August 11th, 2008 | Permalink| 7 Comments »

Does Obama Have A Weight Problem?

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, McCain, Media, Memes

He’s the picture of health, and that may be the problem.
Because as the Wall Street Journal reports, Obama’s fitness may only reinforce the stereotype that he’s an elitist…
The candidate has been criticized by opponents for appearing elitist or out of touch with average Americans. A Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll conducted in July shows [...]

August 1st, 2008 | Permalink| 2 Comments »

McCain’s “Obama Wouldn’t Visit Troops” Attack Backfires

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Bad Decisions, Barack, McCain, Media, Memes, Republicans

McCain is better than that ad, and he shouldn’t have made it. What’s more, I think he knows this.
But just in case he doesn’t, the media is reminding him…
From Washington Post: For four days, Sen. John McCain and his allies have accused Sen. Barack Obama of snubbing wounded soldiers by canceling a visit to a [...]

July 30th, 2008 | Permalink| 6 Comments »

Are Older Voters Exceedingly Gullible?

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Age, Barack, Democrats, Media, Memes

I know, it’s definitely a broad generalization and I’m prepared to get smacked down for it, but I bet if you did a poll and asked who believed the nonsense about Obama being a muslim, etc., the older voters would come out on top…by A LOT.
What else am I to make of stories like this [...]

May 22nd, 2008 | Permalink| 1 Comment »

Hillary Clinton As The Black Knight From Monty Python and the Holy Grail

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Democrats, Hillary, Memes, Video

Let me just say that I’ve seen this meme starting to pop up across the blogosphere in recent weeks and I think I can lay claim to having started it with this post on April 6th.
In fact, here’s a blog that completely ripped off my post from that day.
Oh, and here’s the scene…

Quite fitting, no?

May 22nd, 2008 | Permalink| 1 Comment »

Barack Claims Voters Are Bitter. He’s Right.

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Democrats, Hillary, McCain, Memes, Republicans

This has become a mini-firestorm…
“You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them…And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities [...]

April 12th, 2008 | Permalink| 34 Comments »

Thank You Media!

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, 9/11, Barack, Billary, Bush, Cheney, Democrats, Hillary, Law, Media, Memes, Religion, Republicans, The War On Terrorism, Torture

Greenwald has a breakdown of the stories that made the news…
Here are the number of times, according to NEXIS, that various topics have been mentioned in the media over the past thirty days:
“Yoo and torture” – 102
“Mukasey and 9/11″ — 73
“Yoo and Fourth Amendment” — 16
“Obama and bowling” — 1,043
“Obama and Wright” — More than [...]

April 6th, 2008 | Permalink| 2 Comments »

The “Obama Was In The Church” Meme

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Blogging, Memes, Race, Religion

Want to know why I made such a big deal when a blogger said that Obama “finally admitted that he was in Church when Wright said some of the things we saw him say on video.” ?
Here’s a comment that was posted from a random visitor to the site…
Neither myself,my family nor my friends care [...]

March 22nd, 2008 | Permalink| 8 Comments »