On The Radio Today
Friday I’ll be guest-hosting Left, Right and Center on L.A.’s NPR flagship station KCRW 89.9 FM. I’ll be chewing over the week’s politics with Arianna Huffington and Tony Blankley.
You can catch the show streaming live at 2:30 p.m. or 7:00 p.m. PDT here on join in on the LRC blog here.
UPDATE: Here’s a link to the the mp3 podcast of the show now posted online.
August 15th, 2008 at 3:44 am
Marc, check your bio on the LRC blog – “…a lefty who’s gotten less liberal over the years…” ?? If they only knew!
August 15th, 2008 at 7:15 am
Senile?
August 15th, 2008 at 7:25 am
A couple things to help you with topics Marc:
Obama’s Foreign Donors: The media averts its eyes
Then, tell me if this would be a good slogan to point out that Obama is too inexperienced to be President: Why send a boy to do a man’s job? Nothinig else is implied, despite what you think.
August 15th, 2008 at 7:50 am
RIP Engineer Bill.
He now joins Sheriff John in the Hall of L.A. kids Memorial.
August 15th, 2008 at 8:34 am
Well, except for the fact that Sheriff John has yet to shuffle the mortal coil….
August 15th, 2008 at 11:22 am
Ah gee! May you always have a green board Engineer Bill – promise I’ll drink my milk!
August 16th, 2008 at 9:37 am
Oh, please, Woody. The right wing blogosphere echo chamber is merely displaying increasing sonic fidelity in its echoes, if Debbie Schlussel’s charges of being plagiarized by WND are to be believed. (And she seems to have her act so much more together than WND that I tend to believe her, at least about the plagiarism charges.)
The latest wingnut tizzy: it looks like a pair of guys in Gaza used a credit card number (their own? who knows) to try to buy a whole bunch of Obama t-shirts, which would get recorded as a donation, and sell them in Gaza.
WorldNetDaily wanted to know from them how they could possibly make a profit selling a $20 t-shirt for about $9. What a stupid question. It’s easy: don’t pay the credit card bill. That’s especially easy if it’s not even your own credit card.
At last report, these transactions, which took place over a period of a few weeks late last year, were mostly reversed by the campaign in early December. WorldNetDaily claims that these two guys are saying they never got their money back. Ooh, that thieving Obama campaign! But who says it was ever these guys’ money anyway? If they were using ripped off credit card numbers somehow, or were falsely representing themselves to the credit card company, of course they wouldn’t get their money back.
WorldNetDaily, never a very reliable source itself, tries to build up a case against Obama’s online fundraising by relying on unreliable sources. They make a story of their source’s unreliability wherever that’s convenient to their agenda of embarrassing Obama, but then they ignore their source’s unreliability when … it’s convenient for their agenda of embarrassing Obama! Gee, how fair and balanced. No cherrypicking here, no way.
And these people wonder why the mainstream press isn’t touching the story? Probably because of the near-certainty among editors and seasoned news managers (even at FOX) that they’d have to dispatch some people with actual training in journalistic techniques and ethics, to paw through lots of documents for days, only to find that the Obama campaign is telling it straight. To wit: The campaign spurned these donations, never shipped these idiots any t-shirts, but (possibly because of software that couldn’t interpret “GA” in the State field of the database as a foreign place called Gaza rather than the state of Georgia), they also ran into trouble getting the reversal of charges properly recorded with the feds, and the whole non-issue just fell through the cracks as Obama’s campaign took off like a rocket.
The question to ask isn’t the paranoid rhetorical one, “Why hasn’t That Liberal Media picked up on this story?” Rather, it’s “Why hadn’t the Federal Election Commission acted on it, half a year ago already, if it was so bad?” I’ll tell you why I think they didn’t: inspectors at the FEC are probably wearily familiar with this kind of idiotic credit card/t-shirt scam, having seen it quite a few times before, but with the slight (and legally negligible) difference that, in those cases, “GA” actually DID stand for “Georgia”, and the ignorant, half-bright rubes perpetrating it weren’t Palestinian slum-dwellers, but American citizens.
As long as the Obama campaign never really touched the money, what’s the difference, ethically, legally or in any other way that could possibly matter?
August 16th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
Pamela “Atlas Shrugs” Geller is your source? LOL
August 22nd, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Hey, not any worse than The Village Voice.
Further, Pam Geller is the one that caught and exposed the plagiarism that MT discussed above.