Oy, this feels like scrambling for seats on High Holy Days, but here goes: are there any NY OSers out there hosting debate watching parties on Friday night with a spare seat or two? In these fraught times, the prospect of watching a white knuckle event like the debates… Read full post »

 A quick post, for a simple comparison. As reported today by Blake Mitchell, prominent Clinton backer Lynn Forester de Rothschild has come out in support of the McCain ticket because she thinks Obama is "an elitist". Well, I suppose some neighbors of Obama… Read full post »

Ever since first hearing of Lehman Brothers' impending doom Sunday night, all I've been able to think about are those enormous screens wrapped around their headquarters on upper Times Square. Have they gone dark? Are they running giant personal farewells from the… Read full post »

The McCain/Palin spin machine has reached has reached dizzying momentum in these last few days. Palin shape-shifts now at an alarming rate, going from pit bull to pig, to now, apparently, Little Red Riding Hood. As can be seen in the graphic above, embedded in an email sent… Read full post »

It hit me like a flash when I saw the news item on the new Sarah Palin action figures. This whole scenario—the heretofore unknown candidate showing up out of nowhere to dominate a long-running campaign overnight— is new to American politics, unpredictable and highly d… Read full post »

The big news across the right-wing blogosphere this last Saturday was about how John McCain adopted the 12,000 American flags orphaned by Godless Democrats after the pagan orgy of Barack Obama's acceptance speech on Invesco Field. The facts around the situation are a bit muddled, but the narrative ru… Read full post »

In the days since McCain's surprise announcement of his running mate, Sarah Palin has come to bear a disturbing resemblance to that other Sarah, namely Connor, who last held the title of America's favorite gun-toting mom. And that actually might mean new… Read full post »

Actually, there are a few more goodies thrown in the mix: two soft drinks, a long-winded awards show and a national institute (hint: it's a distant relative of the awards show). Answers below.

Bad timing can sometimes just not be helped. I am away at a… Read full post »

An essential ingredient of the McCain spin machine has been to paint Barack Obama as Other, alien, oddball, and in a close corollary, arrogant in his presumptions — David Gergen for one has called their bluff and claims that McCain is using code for "uppity," specifically in his… Read full post »

Hopefully, I'll have time to post on the DNC Convention branding before end-of-day, but in the meantime here is an interesting "subliminal" I discovered on the Obama website. A kind of successor to the much-maligned ur-Presidential podium seal his campaign unveiled back in June, it is on the… Read full post »

When I received this morning's email from the Obama/Biden campaign, I was struck by the embedded image, which links to a videotaped message from the newly-minted team. On the surface, it is no more than a decently lit and shot double-portrait, but as we denizens of the new world o… Read full post »