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08.28.12 | 6:33 pm
Convention Attendee Booted After Nut Throwing Stunt

RNC attendee booted after allegedly throwing nuts at black CNN camerawoman, said ‘This is how we feed the animals’

08.28.12 | 5:31 pm
Santorum’s Weird Hand Metaphor

Was it just me or was that hand metaphor from Santorum kind of weird?

08.28.12 | 5:27 pm
See Todd Run

Todd Akin’s evolution from apologetic and semi-humbled to defiant and bashing fellow GOPer.

08.28.12 | 5:25 pm
Akin: I Have Met the Enemy & It Is Me GOP

Akin finally admits it’s the Republican party, not the liberal media, trying to kick him off the ballot.

08.28.12 | 4:12 pm
The Ron Paul Mini-Revolt

Scenes from the Ron Paul mini-revolt from today on the convention floor and what all the fighting was actually about.

08.28.12 | 2:59 pm
Outbreak of Conscience?

I’ve been talking about this for a few days. The Romney campaign’s welfare ad is demonstrably false. Everyone seems to concede that. And the Romney campaign is pushing it so hard for one reason: to find an angle to inject the president’s race into the campaign. The accepted phrase ‘playing the race card’ is too trivial and glib to pass muster. Let’s call it what it is — appealing to racial bigotry, fear of black people.

Mainstream media types are chronically unwilling to, shall we say, call a spade a spade in cases like this. It’s too radioactive. And the charge once leveled isn’t one that can easily be treated in the comfortable he said/she said narrative of political reporting.

But maybe something’s changing. At least a bit. Or at least for a few. Read More

08.28.12 | 2:18 pm
He’s Their Man

The biggest cheers of the day so far in Tampa go to this guy.

08.28.12 | 2:07 pm
Cheer-OFF!

The Ron Paul acolytes at the RNC let loose today, and the Romney counter-chanters went into full U-S-A! chant mode to try to drown them out. Watch.

08.28.12 | 1:46 pm
RNC Making It Official

Within moments, we can all drop the use of the word “presumptive” when describing Mitt Romney as the GOP nominee.