Maybe I’m missing something, but if Obama’s pal Dr. Eric Whitaker did offer Rev. Wright $150,000 to stay silent for the duration of the campaign, as charged by Ed Klein, how exactly is that different from John Edwards’ pal Fred Baron giving Rielle Hunter money to stay out of the limelight for the duration of the campaign? It’s a good question asked by lawyer/blogger Ted Frank. … Like Frank andMore »
KausFiles
May 15, 2012
5:49 am
May 12, 2012
9:28 pm
Standard MSM Mistake: Event X happens. Pollster asks voters if their choice will be affected by event X. A majority say no–they are of course interested only in important issues like the economy and foreign policy, not Event X. Press runs with story, “Majority Say X Won’t Affect Their Vote.” The implication is ‘Nothing to worry about here. It turns out X isn’t a big deal.’
But of course if you are a candidate, especially in More »
May 11, 2012
3:32 am
Amnesty: Fast Track to a Prestigious University Presidency One of the issues on which soon-to-be-ex Senator Richard Lugar was most out of touch was immigration policy, where he was a consistent supporter of various forms of amnesty. (It’s one of two or three issues highlighted in Mourdock TV ads.) … That’s not something you can cure by maintaining a second home in Indiana. ...P.S.: Think this is only a big More »
May 10, 2012
7:35 pm
Shorter BuzzFeed: Hollywood is idiots. Keep it under your hat.
1:43 am
Thinking two steps ahead? If Barack Obama loses the 2012 election, do you think he’s going to quit elective politics, serve on a series of corporate and foundation boards, write a best-selling children’s book on being a Dad and a Lugaresque memoir describing how Fox News and Peter Orszag betrayed him? I don’t. I think he’s going to run again, Grover Cleveland style. That casts possible additional (distant) light on today’s endorsement of same-sex marriage: It may More »
May 9, 2012
3:58 am
May 8, 2012
4:09 pm
Where there’s Prince there’s fire! An ex-adviser to John Edwards has apparently testified that in June, 2008 he informed the Obama campaign that the alleged scandal involving Edwards and Rielle Hunter was an actual, true scandal. I’d be very surprised if Obama’s campaign hadn’t already known this for a long time–maybe for almost a year. Why? In September, 2007–before the National Enquirer’s reports (but after a suggestive blind Page Six item)– Huffington Post‘s More »
May 7, 2012
6:13 am
Just asking: If they’re going to count the “scary” “anxiety” of false positives when weighing the benefits and harms of medical tests, shouldn’t they also count the massive relief from anxiety that comes with non-false negatives–e.g. not having to worry that you have an illness? Or would that not give prestigious medical boards enough justification for denying people expensive services they want? …
P.S.: Why do today’s do-gooding More »
May 6, 2012
7:42 pm
Faster Hope? A few days ago I suggested that even a late economic recovery might be enough for Obama. The CW (reiterated by pollster Ed Goeas)–that voters need 6 months for an upturn to sink in–seems outdated, a violation of the Feiler Faster Thesis.
John Podhoretz objected (via Twitter):
kausmickey I don’t think stats matter. Has to be what people feel. That’s why Goeas still More »
12:58 am
On the latest Left Coast/Right Coast podcast [available here], Jennifer Rubin and I contrast Romney’s distressing I’m-not-in-control performance in the Grenell controversy with Dick Cheney’s more presidential behavior when he confronted a similar situation as Defense Secretary. …
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