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Fighting the 'Big Is Bad' Narrative: Dems Go Bite-Sized on Recovery, Health Laws
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyHouse Republicans have gone home for their August recess armed with a memo mocking Democrats for billing this season as "Recovery Summer." A better name, campaign committee chairman Pete Sessions wrote, might be "Run for Cover Summer." Democrats "have their backs to the wall," he said, because of their unpopular "big-government agenda." There is plenty of fodder for Republicans' "big is bad" narrative, given the huge stimulus, health care and financial regulation laws enacted in the last 18 months over their near-solid opposition. The GOP story line is simple and thus far effective: Big ...
Reverse Racism Is All in Your Mind -- but Not So Much in Your Kids'
By Melinda Henneberger - Politics DailyDavid Corn made an excellent point Wednesday about how obsessed some on the right are with sussing out supposed instances of "reverse racism" against white people -- to such an extent that even a 24-year-old thought crime became fair game. Why is that, really? How many of us have reason to suspect that anything like that has hurt us in any way? Paging Dr. Freud, it does seems like a classic case of projection, with our most unsightly, guilty racial baggage fobbed off on the victims of our own past and sometimes not-so-past behavior. (They're doing the same thing we did? Ah, now that feels ...
Shirley Sherrod Gets a White House Apology, Deserves a Book Contract
By Melinda Henneberger - Politics DailyShirley Sherrod, I will read your memoir! Most of us had never heard of Sherrod until she was wrongly accused of racism and lost her USDA job over misleading video snippets publicized by the conservative Internet publisher Andrew Breitbart. Proving once again that the camera can too lie, what we saw on the tape made it look like this African-American civil servant had withheld help from a white farmer it was her job to assist back in 1986. The whole tape showed that's not remotely what happened, though, and the farmer vigorously defended her: "We probably wouldn't have [our farm] today if ...
Handicapping the 2010 Election: The Five Biggest Mysteries
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyFifteen weeks until the election, political prophets are peddling the kind of glib certainty about the future normally found at an astrologer's convention. From Joe Biden ("I don't think the losses are going to be bad at all") to House Republican Rep. Pete Sessions ("We will be slightly over 40") forecasting a GOP majority on NBC's "Meet the Press," each predictable partisan prediction is treated with the gravity of a pronouncement from the Oracle at Delphi. Respected non-partisan political analysts like Charlie Cook are declaring, "Democrats could lose the House if the election were held ...
Al Gore, Sex Poodle: It's Not Only Scandal That Sells, but Stick Figures
By Melinda Henneberger - Politics DailyThis week, Alex Wagner, Patricia Murphy, Bonnie Erbe' and I discuss a story I wrote about what bothers me about the media's handling of allegations that former Vice President Al Gore behaved like a "crazed sex poodle" with a massage therapist in his Portland hotel room four years ago: Follow Melinda Henneberger on Twitter. ...
Al Gore as Allegory: Nothing in Moderation
By Melinda Henneberger - Politics DailyAl Gore, Nobel Laureate and alleged "crazed sex poodle" has surely consulted an astrologer at some point in his highly eventful 62 years, and if she was any good at all she told him, "You have quite an unusual chart here, Senator. No, really." He's been up, down, out and then in, denied the presidency but redeemed . . . by Hollywood, where he'd never before been beloved. Perhaps most improbably, after being mocked throughout his life as too beige, too careful, and all too maddeningly perfect, the guy who as a kid on a field trip approached his teacher and inquired, "Sir, is it the time to be ...
'The Real L Word': Gay Girls and Sex, but Reality? Not So Much
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyJust in time to put some sizzle in the summer television season and lend sparkle to the monotonous same-sex debate, "The Real L Word" crashes into Gay Pride Month with sex galore, cutesy girls and inane melodrama. It arrives, wrapped in slick come-ons, just as a federal court in San Francisco has finished hearing arguments on Proposition 8, which bans gay marriage in California, and as other prickly issues such as gay divorce, gay custody and adoption battles, gay infidelity and gay-on-gay violence pop up in mainstream conversation (well, in some parts of the country anyway). But "The Real L ...
Sex and the City 2: Do the Producers Think We're Stupid?
By Helena Andrews - Politics DailyAccording to "Sex and the City" -- the television show -- my 30s will totally rock. I'll be rich, I won't ruin my feet grocery shopping in giganto heels, and that heel of a man I've been chasing for like ever will suddenly come around. The dream will be realized, not deferred. But then I saw that high-definition "dream" blown up on the big screen in 2008, and the fab four looked wrinkly as hell. In 2010's installment of the franchise, they just looked bored. Gone is everything that was great about SATC, the series, or even the sporadic bright spots in "Sex and the City -- The Movie." In its ...
Laura Bush: The Real Reason Behind Her One-Dimensional Legacy
By Eleanor Clift - Politics DailyI admit to having a soft spot for Laura Bush, and I wasn't the only reporter in Washington who felt that way during her eight years as first lady. She got mostly favorable press, and her approval ratings remained high even as her husband's tanked. She was always so sedate and dignified that she provided a welcome contrast to her Texas cowboy husband. There was evidence that she'd once been a Democrat, and rumors that she might be pro-choice, which made her hard to pigeonhole. But as the years went by, Laura Bush pigeonholed herself with her hyper-cautiousness about ever appearing to be at ...
Hank Aaron, a Real Hometown Hero
By Jim Henry - AOL NewsMOBILE, Ala. -- Bob Feller was friends with Babe Ruth. He pitched against the likes of Stan Musial and Ted Williams. His offseason barnstorming tours that crisscrossed the country often featured other big leaguers and Negro League stars such as Satchel Paige. Feller, a robust 91-years-old, figures he faced plenty of good players during his 18 seasons with the Cleveland Indians. He enjoyed his share of success and fretted over his share of failures, too. Now Hank Aaron, that's a hitter the "Heater From Van Meter" is not sure how he would have fared against. "I don't know about Hank's ...
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