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Video: PUMAs, Birthers, Tea Parties Get Their Own Sci Fi Series - V!
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyScience fiction has a long tradition of embedding political messages into far-out scenarios. Most recently, The Sci Fi Channel's Battlestar Galactica remake held a mirror up to many of the Bush era's dilemmas.Now, it looks like ABC is putting out a remake that flips the script. See if you can catch the oh-so-subtle parallels in this trailer for V:Let me start off by saying that I will totally be watching this. Wild cylons couldn't keep me away. Phasers are set on "Teh Awesome!" You get the picture.The original V had cool effects (for the time), a mean streak of black humor, and a heavy hand ...
East Coast Birthers Beef With West Coast Birthers
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyIn the "I Love the 2008 Campaign" department, the "birthers" are alive and not so well. Politico likens the current schism between rival Barack Obama birth certificate conspiracy theorists to the hip-hop beefs of the 90's. East Coast Birther chief Philip Berg has filed suit against West Coast Birther poobah Orly Taitz, whose name sounds like an inflammation best treated with some Gold Bond powder. Among the complaints is the charge that Taitz called Berg a "Shyster." That's not to be confused with the more recent adjective form, "Shysty." YesToDemocracy.com is all over it, as usual: Ladies and ...
Upcoming Movie to Tell Story of Barack Obama's Birth
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyThe Honolulu Advertiser, the same paper that ran President Obama's birth announcement, is now reporting that some University of Hawaii students are casting roles for what may be the Greatest Political Story Ever Told: Casting is underway for a student-made film inspired by the Island birth of Barack Obama. Students in the University of Hawaii-Manoa's Academy for Creative Media program are making the Advanced Production film, "Born In Hawaii." They are currently casting and soliciting donations from the community. "Born In Hawaii" is a fictional story based loosely on the nurses who worked at ...
Politico Throws Gasoline on Birther Fire
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyActually, they're called "birfers" by the cool kids, and a 3-page writeup in Politico is just the thing to make these xenophobic losers do this.That's fine with me. The deeper these people become involved in this nonsense, the less time they'll have to screw up important things. Also, as the piece points out, they make normal conservatives look bad. These folks revolt even slavery mitigator Michael Medved. From Politico: The conservative talk show host Michael Medved recently referred to the movement's leaders as "crazy, nutburger, demagogue, money-hungry, exploitative, irresponsible, filthy ...
Revealed: Why Chris Matthews Nixed Senate Run
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyChris Matthews' much-talked-about Senate run is not to be, and US News' Nikki Schwab finds out why from NBC's Chuck Todd:"Because [Chris] had a really good friend of his say to him, 'What are you going to do when you get there?' and he couldn't answer the question and he realized that, and that's why he didn't run," says Todd. "It was a childhood dream to be a senator, but he didn't know what he was going to do if he got there." It was the same for 2008 presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and John McCain, says the coauthor of How Barack Obama Won. "They never knew why they wanted to be ...
Vatican Study: Satan is Sexist
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyUpdate: Scientists are crazy, too.As if the Prince of Darkness didn't already have a big enough PR problem.The UK Times reports that the Vatican, after recently showing signs of reasonableness by agreeing with me about evolution, has veered back into Crazytown. Don't ask me how they know this, but apparently, women are more likely to have their souls broken on a wheel.Monsignor Wojciech Giertych, personal theologian to Pope Benedict XVI and the papal household, said there was "no sexual equality" when it came to sin. "Men and women sin in different ways," he wrote in L'Osservatore Romano, the ...
PUMA Movie Director on Unusable Signal Tonight
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyThe new documentary film "The Audacity of Democracy" (starring Tommy Christopher) came out this week, and it is full of surprises. The film documents the PUMA (Party Unity My Ass) movement to elect John McCain/defeat Barack Obama, and that movement's political face, PUMAPAC. The film's director, Brad Mays, shows the movement from the inside, almost as an embedded reporter might. What's remarkable to me, then, is that even as told from the PUMA point of view, the film can't escape their utter failure.What it also does, however, is to humanize the characters in this drama. I'll be talking with ...
Top 10 Political Machine Scoops of 2008
By Tommy Christopher and Caleb Howe - Politics DailyOver at Politico, Michael Calderone has a list of the Top 10 Scoops of the Year:1. Couric and Palin (CBS News)2. McCain's houses (Politico)3. Obama on "bitter" small-town Americans (Huffington Post)4. Palin's shopping spree (Politico)5. Clinton camp turmoil (Washington Post and The Atlantic)6. Jeremiah Wright tapes (ABC News)7. Network TV's military analysts (New York Times)8. McCain's inner circle (New York Times Magazine)9. Edwards' extramarital affair (National Enquirer)10. Powell's endorsement (NBC)I immediately noticed that none of these were from The Political Machine. That's somewhat ...
Whiner of the Year
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyThere's no shortage of contenders for this award, but I've narrowed it down to these finalists, who will be given a choice of cheddar or gruyere: Harriet Christian (and PUMA): The heroine of the PUMA movement to make Hillary Clinton supporters look as foolish as possible, Harriet made whining history with her racially tinged diatribe at the DNC's Rules and Bylaws Committee meeting. With a voice that's equal parts Edith Bunker and latter-day Lucille Ball, the deck was already stacked against her. Joe the Plumber: Joe gets points for the breadth and stamina of his whining. First, he whines to ...
Post's Ruth Marcus: Larry Summers Was Right, Girls Suck at Science
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyI'm paraphrasing, of course. (h/t Murphy) Was Larry Summers right about women and science, after all? As the mother of two girls, I hope not. Summers himself said in his infamous comments about intrinsic differences between the genders, "I would like nothing better than to be proved wrong." But Summers may have been on to something, recent research suggests. Math and science test data...show gender differences at each end of the performance spectrum... men are overrepresented at the very top and bottom. This small but significant variance, he hypothesized, suggested differences in innate ...
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