I don’t know how I missed this, but Matt Damon doesn’t hold back at all on the subject of Sarah Palin, calling the possibility of her becoming President both “scary” and “totally absurd.” I just wish more people spoke their minds– too bad Damon will quickly be dismissed as part of the liberal Hollywood elite. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘McCain-Palin’
Matt Damon: A Liberal Hero
Posted in Culture, Politics, tagged Disney, Election 2008, hero, Hollywood, Matt Damon, McCain-Palin, Politics, Sarah Palin on September 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Truthiness Redux
Posted in Politics, tagged Election 2008, Frank Rich, George Bush, Helen Thomas, John McCain, Karl Rove, Keating Five, lies, McCain-Palin, NYtimes, Politics, Sarah Palin, Stephen Colbert, truthiness on September 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m not the only one writing about how aptly truthiness captures the current political landscape. In his new column “Truthiness Stages a Comeback” Frank Rich excoriates the McCain-Palin campaign for its deceptive, ad hominem campaign tactics: A Rovian political strategy by definition means all slime, all the time. The more crucial Rove game plan is [...]
Truthiness
Posted in Culture, Politics, tagged conventional wisdom, Election 2008, indecision, John McCain, McCain-Palin, Politics, Sarah Palin, Stephen Colbert, Susan Jacoby, The Word, truthiness, unreason, words on September 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Since writing about the durability of lies, it occurred to me that I missed how well Colbert’s neologism “truthiness” sums up the present political milieu. All of the McCain-Palin fabrications are brimming with truthiness. Colbert originally defined the term as “truth that comes from the gut, not books.” Frankly, I’m surprised that I haven’t heard [...]
This About Sums It Up
Posted in Culture, Politics, tagged McCain-Palin, Politics, Sarah Palin, Saturday Night Live, SNL, Tina Fey, wig on September 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Meant to post this the other day before everyone had seen it. If you haven’t, it’s more than worth your time; Fey and the skit are both spot-on. Remember, “All you have to do is want it.” And apparently even Fey’s wig is newsworthy.
Lie, Lie, Lie = Truth
Posted in Politics, tagged bridge to nowhere, Election 2008, Farhad Manjoo, John McCain, Katherine Q Seelye, lies, McCain-Palin, NYtimes, Politics, Sarah Palin, Slate.com on September 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Quite a few liberals keep asking themselves how the McCain-Palin duo is getting away with it. They repeat several blatant lies (Palin’s opposing the bridge to nowhere, Obama raising taxes on the middle class, Palin rejecting earmarks, Obama voting for sex education for kindergartners, so forth and so on) despite the fact that numerous factchecking [...]
