If you never thought you’d get a chance to hear Sean Hannity impersonating Al Gore impersonating a black preacher to make a point about how Barack Obama talks too black, well your moment has finally arrived.
You’re seeing lots of debate previews and ‘what to watch fors’. We have a new take on the old genre: What to watch for in terms of actual issues of substance. Go figure.
Carl Franzen introduces us to the MegaDroid, a simulatation of 300,000 zombie Android smartphones running simultaneously that allows app makers and others to test out their products before launch.
Tucker Carlson: “You are seeing now the press, which contains many reflexive defenders of Obama — many throne sniffers who instinctively suck up to power — you are seeing them try to dismiss this as old news.”
It must be annoying to have a campaign ‘tracker’ following and videotaping your every move. Then again, you don’t have to run for Senate. But word to the wise. Don’t shove a tracker and then lie about it by saying he shoved you first when the guy’s friggin’ videotaping the whole thing and there’s a reporter there watching too. Read More
TPM Reader VS reports in from Massachusetts …
I was at the debate last night. The perspective must be very different when one is sitting in the audience from when watching on TV/computer. Despite all the reported “tie” (and partisan claims of victory), my perspective was very different. I thought it was an absolutely crushing defeat for Brown and only the Boston Herald spin is preventing the ensuing disaster.
Let me explain what I saw. Since everyone else has seen it by now, the references should be obvious.
Click here to subscribe to TPMPrime.
We’re closing the second day of our Launch Member drive. Help us get to this week’s goal of 2,000 paid members. This is a key part of building the site and growing our community of engaged readers. If TPM is important to you and you’d like to be part of our new venture, please join us.
Many thanks in advance.
For many of us who watched the whole unfolding six or seven hours of Drudge build up, video leaks and Daily Caller ‘Exclusive’ all building to the Hannity episode it feels like something very weird just happened. Surreal, bizarre, self-parody, take your pick. Race has been a key division along partisan lines in American politics for roughly half a century. But the intensity has ramped up and in ways I do not think are wholly explicable through by the presence of a black president. You can also see it in the hyped up efforts at voter suppression. Read More
From TPM Reader JD …
I have been following this election since it started, though I know putting a date on it is a bit difficult in this case, considering Mitt Romney began running almost a half decade ago.
As a biracial man, perhaps I just haven’t been paying close enough attention, but for the first time since the election began, I have felt deeply, personally attacked by the vitriol of Republicans.
As many of you know, the combined forces of Drudge and Fox (and the Daily Caller) began trumpeting earlier today a major scoop: an earth-shaking, election-altering, Obama bombshell. Tune in tonight, etc.
Well now the story is out: “Obama’s Other Race Speech” is the headline at the Daily Caller and at Drudge, with Drudge teasing: “THE ACCENT… THE ANGER… THE ACCUSATIONS… THE SERMON…” Read More