i know there is nothing funny

[piranha]

about al-qaeda. nevertheless i laughed out loud when i saw this headline: "Al Qaeda Condemns 'Unfair' Pro-Obama Press Bias".

wingnuts the world over agree, from faux news to al qaeda -- that makes me ponder whether the press didn't get it just right.

i don't want to get into a long rant about press bias, but i purposely stayed away from almost all right-wing reporting this year because i just cannot stomach the lack of intelligent conservative commentary anymore; what little there is drowns in vitriol and conspiracy chatter. and yet i was informed in detail about rezko, ayers, wright, raines, the "present" votes, the half-brother in poverty, the illegal immigrant aunt, "spread the wealth", "sex ed for kindergarteners", and even the ludicrous "lover in exile", and "fake" birth certificate. what exactly did the so-called liberal press miss there? IMO there was a lot more coverage of obama's shadier associations than of mccain's.

indeed, they reported more positive things about obama's campaign than about mccain's -- well, yeah, a campaign that's disciplined, well-run, successful, whipping up hope at rallies _is_ more positive than one that's disorganized, putting out a different message a week, and whipping up hatred at rallies. if it bleeds, it leads -- witness sarah palin who got a lot more coverage (and still does) than she deserved, in part because she is such a train wreck in motion which mysteriously inspires accolades from the right wing.

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From a link chained from that.

[mechaman.livejournal.com]

Again, I should be a better person, but... you just can't make this up:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/25/ann-coulters-jaw-wired-sh_n_146248.html

[cantkeepsilent.livejournal.com]

I'm just so glad that Obama decided to have a campaign that was about ideas and hope, and that engendered his supporters to respond with their own hope. And I'm glad he's not done. I mean, I just heard that Malia is going to get to do her homework in the White House. At the desk Abraham Lincoln used. To sign the Emancipation Proclamation. How fucking cool is that?

[lorres.livejournal.com]

I stayed away from the press and stuck with various panel discussions from fora.tv and iTunes podcast series. There's very good conservative commentary to be had there. The press has been so silly maybe the serious conservative thinkers just won't play with them anymore.