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Politics in Our Movies: From 'Mr. Smith' to 'Casino Jack'
By James Grady - Politics DailyAll across America this lame-duck congressional season, we're driving past malls or walking down Main Streets where theater marquees offer two major motion pictures "about" politics: "Casino Jack" starring Kevin Spacey and "Fair Game" starring Sean Penn and Naomi Watts. But the truth is, every movie is "about" politics. Every work of art creates a vision of reality and rules for that realm. Even when a movie is not a fact-driven documentary, what's on film are "people" making choices of conscience and circumstance. On some level, choice always involves politics -- and that includes the ...
Rush Limbaugh Lists 'Top 10 Republican Moderate Moments'
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyOn his radio show today, Rush Limbaugh listed his "Top 10 Moderate Moments" -- a list he first introduced on Nov. 3, 2009. According to Limbaugh, these are the "moderate moments" to remember: 10: "Newt Gingrich doing a PSA on global warming with Nancy Pelosi in 2008." 9. "Bush-Quayle '92." 8. "Dole-Kemp '96." 7. "Ford-Dole '76. Do you see a pattern here?" 6. "Jumpin' Jim Jeffords jumps from the Republican Party." 5. "Arlen Specter switches parties." 4. "Richard Nixon resigns in disgrace." 3. "Dede Scozzafava endorses the Democrat, Owens, in New York 23." 2. The McCain campaign of ...
Opinion: WikiLeaks Is Afghan Version of Pentagon Papers
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(July 26) -- The similarities cannot be overlooked. President Lyndon Johnson did not start America's involvement in Vietnam -- John F. Kennedy did that -- but Johnson inherited a war and then escalated it. So, too, with President Barack Obama and Afghanistan. And then, as now, it didn't take the leaking of classified Pentagon documents to alert the honest observer to troubles with the American war effort. By 1971, when the Pentagon Papers -- the Defense Department's study of American involvement with Vietnam from 1945 to 1967 -- first appeared to the public on the pages of The New York ...
Daniel Schorr, Pioneering Newsman on Nixon's 'Enemies List,' Dead at 93
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyDaniel Schorr, the pioneering broadcast journalist who earned his way on to President Nixon's "enemies list," died Friday at a Washington hospital after a short illness. He was 93. Schorr made his name as a hard-hitting, blunt talking reporter for CBS News dating back to Edward R. Murrow's team, which brought television news into the modern era. Schorr's career spanned six decades, starting with newspapers, moving on to CBS, and finally commentary with a liberal bent for National Public Radio's Weekend Edition. During the Nixon years, Schorr worked on the Watergate story for CBS, but then ...
Torture Investigation or Tortured Witch Hunt?
By Bob Franken - Politics DailyThere are two words that those on the left need to remember as they demand that any detainee torture investigation examine top officials in the Bush administration: "Karl Rove." ...
The Watergate and the Economy: Scandalous Behavior Then and Now
By Bob Franken - Politics DailyBummer. There was a distress sale of the Watergate Hotel in Washington, and nobody bid on it. ...
Nixon's Speech Was Ready in Case of Apollo Disaster
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyForty years ago today, Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin became the first men to walk on the moon. But their success was not preordained. In fact, Nixon speechwriter William Safire (on the advice of astronaut Frank Borman) prepared the following words for Nixon to deliver in the event of a disaster that might strand Armstrong and Aldrin on the lunar surface: Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace. These brave men, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, know that there is no hope for their recovery. But they also know that ...
1972 or 1976
By Dave - Politics DailyI'm struggling to find within myself a gut feeling for how this election is going to shake out. This is odd for me. I usually have a definite opinion and people who know that I am into politics are used to receiving a definite answer. My problem is that I like reading about history, especially political history, and this election is really close to either 1972 or 1976, and it could shakeout either way depending on which context matches best. In 1972 we had a ton of energy on the Democratic side, rallying around an antiwar candidate and having a lot of fun pointing out the inadequacies and ...
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