Commentary on political events
Last night Chris Matthews aired his heavily promoted hit piece, “The Rise of the New Right” on his MSNBC show. For anyone who has been following Matthews and his MSNBC colleagues Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow, this faux-documentary broke no new ground and offered no surprises. It was the same-old-same-old: Tea Parties plus Michele Bachmann … Read more Demonizing the Right
I really didn’t want to watch President Obama’s Oval Office speech last night. The last Oval Office speech I watched was the one George W. Bush gave on March 19, 2003 at the start of the invasion of Iraq. I remember thinking at the time, and telling others too, that he doesn’t care a whit … Read more Obama and the oil leak — update 2
Steve Chapman has accused conservatives of being inconsistent in their criticisms of President Obama. He hasn’t been listening very carefully to what they’ve been saying. Read more →
You’ve got to hand it to Barack Obama. He has done something nobody in a million years would have dreamed possible. He’s made the Bush Administration’s handling of the Hurricane Katrina disaster look like the very model of competence and compassion. From the day of the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon on April 20, right … Read more Obama and the oil leak
Racism! Sexism! Religious bigotry! And a Tea Party candidate is right in the middle of it! This has all the ingredients of a scandal just made for the non-stop news cycle. Remember back in March when unsubstantiated allegations were made about racial slurs being shouted at members of the Congressional Black Caucus by Tea Party … Read more The Nikki Haley revelation