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• A Strategic Ideological Hiccup

  August 13, 2010 in culture, media, politics and television

  I suppose it should no longer be surprising when the Obama administration shows its true centrist/conservative colors as it did in the recent comments of White House spokesman Robert Gibbs’ condemnation of a “professional left” condemning comparisons (by primarily television commentators such as Rachel Maddow and Keith Olberman of MSNBC) of the Obama administration and [...]

• And he punts, he punts (Oh baby)…

  August 4, 2010 in media, politics and television

  (Thanks to Ricky Martin’s song, “She Bangs,” for inspiring this post’s title.) A few days ago I watched the online video of last Thursday’s (July 29) ABC daytime talk show, “The View,” during which President Barack Obama chatted up the “little people”—Obama’s clueless reference to the female occupants of the seemingly uncomfortable couch he was [...]

• Moments of Delusion

  June 29, 2010 in assorted and politics

  I have written before on my blog site about President Barack Obama’s tepid leadership, fearful and delayed administrative action, even clueless constitutional idealism. In making these arguments I (unfortunately) might seem to share rhetorical space with conservatives (“conservative” is a prehistoric misnomer now applied to knee-jerk, anti-ideological reactionaries simply defending existing institutions and practices of [...]