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
Scenes from the Ron Paul mini-revolt from today on the convention floor and what all the fighting was actually about.
Akin finally admits it’s the Republican party, not the liberal media, trying to kick him off the ballot.
Todd Akin’s evolution from apologetic and semi-humbled to defiant and bashing fellow GOPer.
Was it just me or was that hand metaphor from Santorum kind of weird?
RNC attendee booted after allegedly throwing nuts at black CNN camerawoman, said ‘This is how we feed the animals’