Tuesday, August 20, 2002

What if Clinton Had Bashed The Repuplicans For Their Divorces? Imagine if Bill Clinton had in August 2000 lambasted the Republican party as the party of divorce.  He could have pointed out that Ronald Reagen and John McCain had divorced and remarried, and that Newt Gingrich and Bob Barr were on their third marriage.  Clinton could then contrast to his and Gore's still being married to their first wives.  Now, imagine how pundits would write about Clinton's attack.  Would the pundits mention Monica?  My guess is, you bet. Why I bring this up is an opinion piece that does close to analyzing a Clinton speech on the importance of staying married without mentioning Monica - it analyzes Bush's talk in Waco on the deficit without once mentioning Bush's tax cut's contribution to the deficit.  Talk about ignoring the elephant in the living room. 10:43:36 PM    comment []

Some background on the Critiques of Editorials I started posting them in Salon Table Talk prior to the election.  At that time, there were lots of opinion pieces in newspapers that used faulty logic or ignored key facts.  This really bothered me, so I start writing up the holes in the opinion pieces (Critiques of Editorials is really a misnomer as I really write critiques of opinion pieces).  Table Talk is great for small, conversational posts, but my larger posts didn't fit very well.  I never had any idea how many people read them and I rarely got a meaningful comment on them. Salon changed to charging for being able to post to Table Talk, so I lost my platform for deliverying my critiques.  I stopped writing them for a while, but a few months ago I got back in the mood to write them again.  Salon then advertised their blogging service, and here I am. The largest change from when I wrote for Table Talk is that there are (to me) a lot fewer really bad opinion pieces.  Now that we can see the effects of Dubya's policies, it is hard for most pundits to write how wonderful they will be.  As a consequence, I am writing more on bad new stories. I hope to post twice a day - once before work and once after work.  I am getting 50-60 visitors a day.  While I would like a lot more, that is enough for now to keep me posting. 7:07:52 AM    comment []

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