Reprise from 14 June 2008: When Tim russert passed away during the height of the campaign, this was our tribute.
“I’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints – you know that only the good die young.” – Billy Joel.
As I sat for hours searching for yet more words to express the magnitude [...]
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Crying with the Saints
Posted on 21 May 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 2008 election, Big Russ, CNN, Deepak Chopra, FOX News, Keith Olbermann, Luke, Meet the Press, Morning Joe, MSNBC< The Today Show, NBC News, quo vadimus, Tim Russert, TJR
Oh Bobby!
Posted on 02 March 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: bobby jindal, CNN, Jack Cafferty
Bobby Jindal punked by Jack Cafferty
Voting Transparency: Through The Looking Glass of Technological Ballot Boxes
Posted on 23 December 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: $450 million dollars worth of new touch screen voting m, 2008 John F. Kennedy Profiles in Courage Award, 30-years, all failed her 2007 security audit, anyone can download the entire last election’s results, Avon Massachusetts, ballot security, British term ‘jobsworth’, California Secretary of State Deborah Bowen, Carolyn Crnich, CNN, commissioned a university study, County Clerk and Elections Director, Denis Campbell, despite proven flaws and security holes, Diebold, ES&S, Exit polling, fear of placing a complete back-door entry system into, fix the ‘illusion’ of Ballot security, full report could not be issued, hackers dream, Hart InterCivic, hovered so much to ensure transparency, http://hum.dreamhosters.com/etp/, Kevin Collins, local concerned citizen and commercial fisherman, lose confidence, maintained such high security around the ballots it too, more about speed than getting it right, Northern California’s Humboldt County, not worth losing my job over, officials bury their head in fear, Paper is once again king!, potentially racist lying Veep candidate more exciting t, questionable technology, require thinking and then mobilisation, Rodney (“why can’t we all just get along?”) King, security complaints, Sequoia, serious security flaws, speed results to a salivating media, there weren’t ‘aliens in the supply room', town clerk, Tucson Citizen, Vi Nethino, Voting Transparency, We go back to the future, you’re damned if you do or you don’t, ‘monster under the bed’ issue
(reprise article) By Denis Campbell
Throughout the primaries we heard, “it’s 8:00 pm in the east, polls have closed, CNN can now declare with 1% of the ballots counted, Senator Barack Obama is the winner of the South Carolina Primary.”
99% accuracy. How did they know? Exit polling is part of it. But polling places, early voting [...]
Rachel and Keith Continue to Bring in New Viewers
Posted on 28 October 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: Bill O'Reilly, CNN, FOX News, Keith Olbermann, MSNBC, Rachel Maddow
TV Newser has the results. Here are the full totals instead of just the 25-54 demographic. What’s impressive here is that Fox’s audience really hasn’t shrunk - they’re pretty much fans and they’re not going to switch channels.
MSNBC’s Olbermann and Maddow combo has attracted hundreds of thousands of NEW viewers to the fold. Numbers are [...]
Monday, 20:59:52
Posted on 19 October 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 000 Dutch nationals, 120, 15 February 2003, 20:59:52, 21-million marched peacefully, 400-Americans, 665 countries around the world, Amsterdam’s DAM Square, bogged down in lip-sticked pigs, Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer, civil war and internal destruction, CNN, co-opted by his national party’s leadership, conducted by a decorated war hero, Countdown, crying terrorist at every corner, Denis Campbell, desperately trying to seize a shred of military glory r, Dutch media village in Hilversum, election ‘officials’ poised to steal another election, fear smear and lies can win, flight suit carrier deck photo op, FOX, great national debate, Hans Blix UN report, hijacking of our global goodwill, Keith Olbermann, let the UN inspectors finish hunting for WMD’s, lies and misdirection like a cheap magic trick, Mission Accomplished, Monday, moral standing, MSNBC, not all Americans were like George W. Bush, rained bombs on Baghdad, shameful election campaign, silent candlelight vigil by the US Consulate, sits smothered by election silliness, That’s Countdown for this the 2000th Day since the decl, The Iraq Platform’s Faisel Nasser, the war barely merits an above the fold headline, two weeks before Election Day 2008, We deserve much better, we don’t listen to focus groups, ‘Shock and Awe’
by Denis Campbell
Keith Olbermann will utter the words: “That’s Countdown for this the 2,000th Day since the declaration of Mission Accomplished in Iraq. I’m Keith Olbermann. Goodnight and good luck” thus closing Monday night’s MSNBC broadcast, two weeks before Election Day 2008.
If children have been born during this two year long Presidential campaign, imagine what [...]
On the Brink of Country Divorce
Posted on 06 October 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (1) | Tags: 000 people in Amsterdam, 120, 1973 trip to Washington DC, 1973-74, 2000 (s)Election, 21-million people, 24/7/366 travel, 3-minute campaign newscycle, 30-days of slimy Swift-Boat attacks, 664 cities around the globe, 93rd Congress, a failed burglary at the Democratic National Committee, a group of scoundrels who would be forced from office, a step I never believed I would consider taking, Acorn, angry old man, before PC’s, Black Panther William Ayers, campaigning for 21- and 19-months, cares more for her people and their rights than my own, Carl Albert, cause of the Fannie/Freddie and broader financial meltd, cesspit, change the subject from issues to nonsense, chanting U.S.A.!, citizen of the United Kingdom, Close-Up program, CNN, dangerously small-minded, declaring “Homeland security” the answer to any questio, Denis Campbell, dividing and destroying the country, economic disaster, Edward Brooke, end the war in Vietnam, equal parts education and inspiration, European Union, even municipal ones, former Reagan speech writer Peggy Noonan and I would ag, FOX News, further eroding my ability to even question or write th, Gerald Ford, global conflict, guilt by association attack gambit, Her Majesty’s subject, hide and obfuscate, his policies of the past 26-years cannot be defended, hooker patron, I have no choice, ideologue Supreme Court appointees, if we make yet another (s)election error, increasingly negative campaign, internet, Iraq, John Anderson, Keating 5, lead to his resignation in disgrace a year later, Living abroad for 10-years, make a difference, many flaws, marched in Amsterdam, McCain, Mike Mansfield, Nelson Rockefeller, news cycles were 24-hours long, obama, On the Brink of Country Divorce, our leaders led, Paris Peace talks, Patty Hearst, paying US taxes, perpetuating the mantra of fear, petty our nation has become, Phil Hart the ‘Conscience of the Senate’, placing flags on every stationary surface, polarisation, politics a part of my life forever, radical far-right team in the White House, re-elected President Nixon, reached across the aisle to broker compromises and gove, reached the point of no return, Robert Byrd, Roe v. Wade, rude, Sean Hannity, Senate and House roll call, Senate office building would be named, shared directorship, snarky Sarah going gutter, son of a US immigrant, special interests, Symbionese Liberation army sympathiser, Ted Kennedy, then Soviet Union, Tip O’Neill, today they would just lie, transparency and fairness to help inner city and low in, unchecked deregulation, Uncle Walter Cronkite, US Trident missiles, voters are stupid enough, voting in every election, Watergate Office complex, went after Obama, White House dismissed us as “a focus group”, will file divorce papers with my country, worst economic crisis since the Depression, Xaviera Hollander, ‘Country First’ as more than a slogan
By Denis Campbell
In the middle of our worst economic crisis since the Depression, the McCain campaign wants to change the subject from issues to nonsense because his policies of the past 26-years cannot be defended. From the Keating 5 to the current guilt by association attack gambit, this silliness has snarky Sarah going gutter, no… [...]
Sarah Palin’s Feminine Wiles Fall Short
Posted on 29 September 2008 by Sharon Kyle | Comments (0) | Tags: 14 points higher than women. Desperately Searching for, 62 percent of men have a favorable opinion of the Alask, a strictly professional exchange, addressed Gibson as “Charlie” no less than five times, adept at using her charm and beauty to distract from ot, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Alaskan Governor, attractive woman, average citizen is still left wondering — who is Sarah, Biden will be in a precarious position, Bob Herbert, campaign spokeswoman Tracey Schmitt, Charles Gibson of ABC, Christopher Beam, CNN, CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll, compile and analyze what people are searching for on th, Couric didn’t seem to be biting, Couric seemed to rattle Palin, did not seem to work in Palin’s favor, earmarks investigation, enough is enough, Fareed Zakaria has asked that she step down, Feminine Wiles Fall Short, fifty-seven percent of male respondents said Palin was, gender gap, hard pressed to find a single report that looked favora, I trust that he’s up to the task, impossible to grasp the dialogue exchanged between Pali, it gives her an edge over her opponent that all attract, it is not all men. George Will, Jack Cafferty’s exasperation, Katie Couric-Sarah Palin interview, keywords “Sarah Palin legs”, looking directly and unwaveringly at Palin as she stumb, McCain avoided eye contact with Obama, moderated by veteran journalist Gwen Ifill, MSNBC, NBC believes what people search for says a lot about ho, NBC National Journal Reporter Carrie Dann asserts that, NBC News uses online research company Hitwise, New York Times, nine points higher than women, Palin is favored by men, Palin operating outside her comfort zone, Palin resembled a high-schooler trying to BS her way th, Palin searches caused web traffic to spike almost 30 ti, putting an unqualified pilot in the cockpit of a jetlin, reporters could not go into the meetings, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin knows where her strength lies, Sharon Kyle, she touched his arm, she’ll invite it, Slate, subtle gestures easily dismissed as personal style, the idea that the voters of the United States might ins, the reporter ban was a miscommunication, Thursday’s debate, volume fell almost as quickly as it rose, What’s important is that Palin feel comfortable enough, whether Palin is qualified to serve as president, Why else would the McCain campaign shield her from the, Within the first 7, zooming in on hard-hitting questions while staring with
by Sharon Kyle
Shortly after the Katie Couric-Sarah Palin interview, a slew of reports hit the Internet assessing the VP candidate’s performance. Try as I might, I was hard pressed to find a single report that looked favorably on Palin’s delivery. Slate’s Christopher Beam said that Palin resembled, “a high-schooler trying to BS her way through [...]
The Morning After The Night Before’s Debate
Posted on 28 September 2008 by Charley James | Comments (0) | Tags: a clear Obama win, Behind The Lines, Bobby Kennedy, Boris Yeltsen, CBS, Charley James, CNN, doesn’t make me an authority on anything other than the, Fleece-o-nomic policies, getting the name of Pakistan’s president wrong, Grumpy Old Man, Hubert Humphrey, JFK, Lech Walesca, McCain, media outlets, mispronouncing Iran’s president, NBC, Nelson Mandela, NY Daily News, obama, Spin City, The Morning After The Night Before’s Debate, Wall Street Journal, World’s Greater Foreign Policy Authority Ever, Zhu Rongji
by Charley James
Living in the Eastern Time zone, it was well after midnight before I got to bed after watching the debate and flipping the dial to see what the Commentariat would pronounce as post-debate truth, wisdom, justice and The American Way.
As usual, all of the pundits got it all wrong: Most called it a [...]
Maddow Head-to-Head with The King, Winning Hearts and Minds
Posted on 21 September 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: Bill O’Reilly, Chris Matthews, CNN, Harball, Keith Olbermann, labelled sexist, Larry King, Maddow's a big fish in the pond, MSNBC, NBC, NBC News, Palin, Palin interview, Rachel Maddow, Rachel’s got cool and game, Republican SPIN machine, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, solid 1-2 punch, too controversial for the MSM, winning hearts and minds
Rachel Maddow in her second week is winning hearts and minds away from the King and even beat her buddy Keith Olbermann in the ratings giving MSNBC a solid 1-2 punch. MSNBC continues to grow viewers and present NBC with headaches because the right wing attack dogs succeeded in banning their hosts Olbermann and Harball’s [...]
They’re All Bloody Swing States!
Posted on 09 September 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 22 months, cannot have both candidates together on the road for th, Chuck Todd, CNN, colorado, cool new toy from Microsoft, decision '08, demanding access, easy to classify the races as urban vs. rural, eighteen state strategy, election is a dead heat, electoral map, fairly well grounded prognosticator, Florida, GOP stronghold states, hot-spots, lo-tech dry erase white board, master of polls, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, moved decidedly Democratic, MSM, NBC political director, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, obama, Ohio, Pennsylvania, rivals Anderson Cooper, Sarah Palin, South Carolina, survives the scrutiny and arrogance of her own party, Swing States, Tim Russert, too close to call, Virginia, white vs. black, Wisconsin
Tim Russert and his lo-tech dry erase white board will not be with us this election night. Chuck Todd, NBC political director, master of polls and fairly well grounded prognosticator has a cool new toy from MSNBC’s partners at Microsoft. It rivals the cool touch screen Anderson Cooper plays with over at CNN.
The problem, [...]
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