Our linkfest bringing you intriguing reading from many different viewpoints from all over the blogo-you-know-what. Linked posts do not necessarily reflect the opinion of TMV.
Fox News Is Getting Very Predictable. You just KNEW they would try to discredit Valerie Plame like this. (Why don’t they just change the name of the network to Fox Defense Lawyers and be done with it?)
They’re Fighting Over Al Gore in Belgium.
There’s Some Discussion About Why You Don’t See More Women Writers On Op-Ed Pages but is the discussion part of the problem?
So What Are We Heading Towards In 2008? Are we heading towards The Least Objectionable President?
A Poll Says Iraqis Life Is Better Now Than Under Saddam and that is that — or is it? The All Spin Zone begs to differ.
Blacks Aren’t Prominent In Nascar and, in case you wonder why, Booker Rising has some ideas.
Bill Richardson For President? Good Will Hinton looks at Bill Richardson: “I’m going to make the argument that Bill Richardson is the best man, of those currently committed to running, for the job of the presidency. I’m not going to argue that he is the most electable. That is a separate discussion, which I will attack in a future post.” Read it all. And, indeed, Richardson is not a polarizing candidate and if you listen to him extensively he comes across as highly-intelligent and a straight shooter (which is probably further confirmation that his candidacy is doomed).
Pondering John McCain: Oxblog’s David Adesnik has a MUST READ on John McCain and the press. Here’s a tiny taste 4 U:
The more interesting question may be whether anti-McCain sentiment is gaining momentum in the media. A couple of weeks ago, I laid out my working hypothesis that journalists will take shots at McCain precisely because of his sterling reputation, but that those shots won’t add up to a coherent anti-McCain narrative. But I could be wrong….
…..Finally, there is the proverbial elephant in the room: the war in Iraq. McCain’s uncompromising commitment to an unpopular war means he isn’t the kind of maverick journalists were hoping for. But perhaps the press corps will recognize that it is precisely the same “maverick spirit of 2000” that has led McCain to stand firm on the most controversial issue of today.
And it is certainly a subject of interpretation. McCain has also run into a political buzzsaw because in trying to mend-fences with segments of the GOP that decimated his street-popular 2000 Presidential bid, he is getting the image of someone who turned The Straight Talk Express into The Pander Parade. Unfair? Perhaps. But imagery is vital in politics.
Everyone Loves A Lottery Winner. Or do they?
Is PC In Conflict With “The Truth?” Liberty Dad asks “What If The Truth Is Offensive?”
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.