I only saw bits and pieces of it as they were replayed on various news shows -- Hoystory doesn't begin operating at 7 a.m. PDT -- but Sen. Barack Obama's big speech was full of soaring rhetoric, signifying nothing. To be honest, there's little he could say or do to really address the underlying problems […]
Time magazine pop culture columnist James Poniewozik reveals that he's an Obama supporter. He also joins the few media people (which include yours truly) that are pushing for transparency from the media on their political biases. The reasons not to say whom you're voting for boil down mainly to the interests of journalists, not those […]
Tomorrow morning, Democrat presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama is going to give a major speech in Philadelphia that will touch on the subject of race and his pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Obama has attended Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago for 20+ years. Wright married Barack and his wife Michelle and baptized their […]
Last week, the U.S. State Department removed China from its list of the world's worst human-rights abusers. This week, China's killing Tibetans in a crackdown on protests reminsicent of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. And the International Olympic Committee thought having China host the Olympics was a good idea?
Barack Obama may have what appears to be an ethical problem. Dan Riehl notes, via Amanda Carpenter, that in the list of earmarks he requested, $1 Million was requested for the construction of a new hospital pavilion at the University Of Chicago. The request was put in in 2006. You know who works for the […]
What's the difference between your crazy uncle and the pastor of your church? Usually they're not one and the same. That's true of Sen. Barack Obama too. And it's going to quickly become a problem. Sen. Barack Obama's pastor says blacks should not sing "God Bless America" but "God damn America." The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, […]
Rich Noyes and Brent Baker have noted how many media outlets have treated disgraced New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer's party affiliation in their coverage this week. Baker reported that the "NBC Nightly News" never mentioned he was a Democrat, ABC's "World News Tonight" didn't mention any party affiliation Monday or Tuesday, but finally did Wednesday. […]
I generally defer on military matters to people with miiltary experience. However, I've also read enough history to know that there are bad generals and good generals. It's not always easy to discern one from the other except in times of military conflict. McClellan: bad general. Grant: good general. That's happening again today with this […]
New York Democratic Gov. Eliot Spitzer announced yesterday that he would resign effective Monday. That's not the most interesting thing about the Spitzer saga to hit the news yesterday. This is: Close aides to the governor suggested on Tuesday that the mood in the Spitzer home was tense, with the governor’s wife, Silda Wall Spitzer, […]