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Time for a little comic relief.
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When Americans were asked in a 2007 poll by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press to name the journalist they most admired, Mr. Stewart, the fake [...]

I’ve gotten pretty used to Obama’s audacity and hypocrisy but this morning’s hypocritical statement was so ridiculous that I had to laugh. Unfortunately, he probably won’t be called on it.
I was listening to CNN this morning and Obama was speechifying and I heard him (I hope you are sitting down) criticizing John McCain for [...]

U.S. Presidential hopefuls BARACK OBAMA and JOHN MCCAIN have recorded yet another round of controversial campaign adverts – for an upcoming comedy competition.
The U.S. Senators will go head-to-head when they appear on an episode of hit TV show Last Comic Standing.
The two candidates filmed separate spots for the show, making fun of themselves in mock [...]

Obama loses support among his strongest demographic groups
UTICA, New York – A national Associated TV/Zogby International telephone poll of 1,011 likely voters conducted July 31-Aug. 1 finds Republican Sen. John McCain taking a razor-thin 42%-41% lead over Democrat Sen. Barack Obama in the race for the U.S. presidency.
The margin between the candidates is statistically insignificant, [...]

Playing the race card repeatedly carries the danger of people turning off to your charges of racism.
Only 22% Say McCain Ad Racist, But Over Half (53%) See Obama Dollar-bill Comment That Way
Sixty-nine percent (69%) of the nation’s voters say they’ve seen news coverage of the McCain campaign commercial that includes images of Britney Spears and [...]

I think this article is a big disingenuous when it says: But when the broadcasters voiced opinions about Mr. Obama, 72 percent of the comments were negative and 28 percent were positive.
By contrast, the study said, when they voiced opinions about Mr. McCain, 57 percent were negative while 43 percent were positive.
What it doesn’t [...]

Something’s going on. Or some things.
A new CNN/Opinion Research poll out Wednesday shows that despite nine solid days of blanket media coverage from overseas with Barack Obama cheered by adoring throngs of Germans and parlez-vousing with the French, making a three-point shot in the Middle East and standing outside No. 10 Downing Street, the freshman [...]

Vanity Fair Covers The New Yorker
by Vanity Fair
July 22, 2008, 12:10 PM
Cover-McCain2.jpgWe here at Vanity Fair maintain a kind of affectionate rivalry with our downstairs neighbors at The New Yorker. We play softball every year, compete for some of the same stories, and share an elevator bank. (You can tell the ones who are headed [...]