Posts Tagged ‘politics’
How to Torpedo a Sham Political Campaign
The Mickey Kaus Oppo Research Project
By John Cook
Poor blogger Mickey Kaus is running for Senate, and no one really cares. But we do, so we launched a little project to gather dirt on him. The best we got is that he brings heroin-addicted sex perverts into schools.
Kaus, who has made a career out of attacking liberals while claiming to be one, is challenging Barbara Boxer in California’s Democratic primary because he hates unions and illegal immigrants. He’s filed all the necessary paperwork and got himself a fancy (and crappy-looking, compared to his blog) web site, but so far the effort seems to be a bust: The party has denied him a speaking slot at the California Democratic convention, a decision that was based largely on his own repeated public statements that his candidacy is hopeless. And there’s no way he’s going to land a chance to debate Boxer.
A few weeks ago, with the aid of the inestimable Gawker intern Sergio Hernandez, we started looking into Kaus’ past for the sort of damaging information that could derail his campaign if anybody were paying enough attention to actually attempt to derail it. Turns out he’s a horrible nerd who graduated first in his class and got a perfect score on his SATs, so there’s not much there. But some of his friends hate him and said underminer-ish things, and we got some really embarrassing photos from his high school yearbook, so let’s get started, shall we? More »
Awwww, “inestimable.”
This Is Not a Blind Joke, I Swear (At Least Not Intentionally?)
Oh, is this the so-called “bombshell?”
…I see.
Did The New York Times’ Bill Keller Diss Gawker? Only Kind Of
Foster Kamer, the weekend editor over at Gawker.com, posted a great item this evening about Clark Hoyt’s take on this bizarre “New York Times is about to drop a David Paterson bombshell” story.
Hoyt included a quote where head Times honcho Bill Keller’s “called out” Gawker’s coverage of the story, and Foster had an (understandable) objection. But was it warranted? More »
Pray For Fewer Kneejerk Reactions — Col 2:4
So there may or may not be a bunch of Right-wing, Bible-thumping Internet crazies who are currently hijacking religious verses to make thinly veiled death threats against Barack Obama on T-shirts, bumper stickers, and mugs.
But, since it’s a juicier story and makes the Christian Crazies look even nuttier than usual, some of us have — erroneously — gone ahead and assumed that is, indeed, the case.
On Wednesday, Gawker’s John Cook ran an item about this wacky new Internet meme that encourages religious conservatives to clasp their hands together and “Pray for Obama.”
Specifically, it refers to Psalm 109:8, which reads: “Let his days be few; and let another take his office.”
Some of us, meanwhile, have jumped to the conclusion that it’s actually the religious right’s way of hiring God the Cosmic Hit Man to “do” Barack.
Sun City, AZ is where crazy old people go to die
Wow, Arizona people are crazy.
This is a video mashup I put together for Gawker of today’s John McCain health care town hall meeting in Sun City, Arizona.
And I apologize for the poor grammatical construction of the preceding sentence.
