NEW YORK TIMES SUNDAY MAGAZINE: For a guy who just four years ago was running his first statewide campaign, Barack Obama has made startlingly few missteps as a presidential candidate. But the moment Obama would most like to take back now, if he could, was the one last April when, speaking to a small gathering of Bay Area contributors, he said that small-town voters in Pennsylvania and other states had grown “bitter” over lost jobs, which caused them to “cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren’t like them.” That comment, subsequently posted by a blogger for […]
NPR FOR THE DEAF: We Hear It Even When You Can’t
FRESH AIR The New Yorker‘s chief political correspondent, Ryan Lizza, explains Joe Biden’s relationship with Barack Obama — and why taking on less often means doing more as vice president. Lizza’s article “Biden’s Brief,” about the Democratic vice presidential candidate, appears in the Oct. 16 issue of The New Yorker. ALSO, Emmy-winning director and producer Larry Charles has a penchant for the ridiculous — witness his credits, which include Borat, Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm. Now, Charles wants to turn his latest film, Religulous, into an HBO series. RADIO TIMES Hour 1 Analysis of last night’s third and final presidential […]
PLUMBER CRACKED: Joe The Plumber Ain’t All That
WASHINGTON POST: Joe the Plumber is not exactly a plumber and he’s “not even close” to making the kind of money that would result in higher taxes from Democrat Barack Obama’s proposals. Such is the whirlwind of information that has come out about Joe Wurzelbacher of Holland, Ohio, since Republican John McCain made him famous in last night’s debate. McCain mentioned him more than 20 times to use him as a symbol of hard-working Americans who would be hurt by Obama’s tax policies. Obama and Wurzelbacher met earlier in the week in Toledo, where Wurzelbacher said Obama’s plans to raise […]
PAPERBOY: Special ‘Fuck Joe The Plumber’ Edition
BY DAVE ALLEN Like time, news waits for no man. Keeping up with the funny papers has always been an all-day job, even in the pre-Internets era. These days, however, it’s a two-man job. That’s right, these days you need someone to do your reading for you, or risk falling hopelessly behind and, as a result, increasing your chances of dying lonely and somewhat bitter. That’s why every week, PAPERBOY does your alt-weekly reading for you. We pore over those time-consuming cover stories and give you the takeaway, suss out the cover art, warn you off the ink-wasters and steer […]
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PHILLIES WIN PENNANT! PHILLIES WIN PENNANT!
Please resist the urge to shoot your gun into the air. NEW YORK TIMES: The Phillies captured the National League pennant Wednesday night at Dodger Stadium, with Cole Hamels silencing the Los Angeles Dodgers, 5-1, in Game 5 of the N.L. Championship Series.
INSTA-POLLS: Obama K.O.s McCain, Wins 3 Out Of 3
CNN: Fifty-four percent of those questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey conducted after the debate ended said that Obama did the best job in the debate, with 30 percent saying Sen. John McCain performed better. According to the poll, 64 percent had a favorable opinion of Obama after the debate, up 4 points from before the event. Fifty-one percent of those polled had a favorable opinion of McCain after the debate, unchanged from before its start. A majority said Obama seemed to be the stronger leader during the debate, 54 percent to 43 percent, and by a more than […]
TONITE: The Old Man’s Last Stand
[Illustration by JAY BEVENOUR] Tune in tonight for the snarkiest, most unabashedly liberally-biased debate coverage on the Internet! You may not learn anything, but it will make you feel better. Tonight’s analysts will be JONATHAN VALANIA and CITIZEN MOM. Starts around 9 PM. You betcha 8:50 PM me: yo Citizen: Where ya been, slacka? 8:51 PM me: saving up my superpowers of snark CNN? Citizen: Yeah, I can’t live without the neon noodles anymore meaning, the squiggley lines me: I like following Gergen’s combover it’s like a soap opera and a whodunnit 8:52 PM all at once Citizen: Soledad O’Brien’s hair is getting […]
CELEBS: Madonna Back On The Market, Silverman Off
CNN: Pop star Madonna and her film director husband Guy Ritchie are to divorce, Madonna’s UK spokeswoman, Moira Bellas, confirmed to CNN. A statement e-mailed to The Associated Press from Madonna spokeswoman Liz Rosenberg says the couple has agreed to divorce, and asks the media to respect their privacy. The statement, co-signed by Ritchie’s representative, says the couple had not agreed to a settlement. Ritchie, 40, and Madonna married seven years ago at a lavish ceremony in Scotland, but rumors have been circulating in the press recently that their relationship was increasingly under strain. Earlier this year, the singer denied […]
Cheney Taken To Hospital With Irregular Heartbeat
ASSOCIATED PRESS: Vice President Dick Cheney experienced an abnormal heartbeat Wednesday morning and, upon the advice of White House doctors, went to the hospital for a procedure to “restore his normal rhythm.” For the 67-year-old Cheney, who canceled a campaign event he was to attend later Wednesday in Illinois, it will be the second time in less than a year that he will have the outpatient procedure — which consists of an electric shock. The vice president’s office said that after experiencing a problem, Cheney saw the White House physician. It was discovered there that he was experiencing a recurrence […]
NO PLACE LIKE HOME: Another Foreclosure Suicide
LA TIMES: A series of financial setbacks left Wanda Dunn facing eviction from the house in Pasadena where her family had lived for generations. Dunn, 53, told neighbors that she would rather die than leave. Early Monday, the day of her expected eviction, firefighters pulled her body out of the house as it burned. She apparently had set it on fire before shooting herself in the head, authorities said. “We knew it was going to happen,” said Steve Brooks, who lived across the street. “It was nobody’s fault; it was everybody’s fault.” As Brooks watched the flames, he noticed that […]
LASSO OF TRUTH: Wonder Woman Is Anti-Palin
THE HILL: Lynda Carter, who played Wonder Woman on television in the 1970s, slammed Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin as the “anti-Wonder Woman.” Carter made her remarks in response to a question from Philadelphia Magazine about comparisons between Wonder Woman and Gov. Palin (Alaska), the GOP’s first veep nominee. “She’s judgmental and dictatorial, telling people how they’ve got to live their lives,” Carter added. “And a superior religious self-righteousness … that’s just not what Wonder Woman is about. Hillary Clinton is a lot more like Wonder Woman than Mrs. Palin. She did it all, didn’t she?” Carter said that […]
MUST SEE: Species, Asshole Americana
[Al Jazeera English: Misconceptions of Obama fuel Republican campaign] Astonishing how little progress has been made since the Salem Witch Trials. [Hat tip to WOOKIFIED]