Rick Santorum, in sweeping three contests last night in Minnesota, Colorado and Missouri, has revealed a successful strategy to the Republican nomination: pray away the Romney.
Odd Couple of the Day
February 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment
”On January 31, Newt Gingrich was told that he was no longer wanted in the state of Florida. Soon he found himself looking for a home in the Super Tuesday states along with his similarly-hated friend Mitt Romney. Can two severely messed-up men share a dysfunctional political party without driving each other crazy?!!!!!”
Thanks to Ron Brownstein and Jan Zimmeck for making this happen. And to Ron for the shout-out on this morning’s interesting chatfest with the always interesting Soledad O’Brien. Back atcha.
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/
Despicable Duck of the Day
February 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment
In Newt’s overheated lingo people are not wrong or objectionable, but pathetic and despicable. Quite often they are “the most pathetic or despicable in the history of the planet”. The carpet-bombing of Newt in Florida by Romney’s super pac shows how the system works. And while Newt’s complaint is really about the post-Citizens United world, he will keep that shady and target Romney alone for criticism. In any case we can see where poor Daffy at last gets it right.
Nazi Hunter of the Day: Newt Gingrich
January 31, 2012 By Leave a Comment
This image by guest artist Newt Gingrich, revealing Mitt Romney’s anti-Jewish-senior past. Newt Gingrich reaches new lows in the Florida-race-to-the-bottom-primary almost by the minute. In yesterday’s Washington Post
we saw the signs of a right-wing lunatic fringe gone mainstream in which a Gingrich campaign stop had the feeling of a hate group rally. Today there is the robo call to elderly Jews telling them that Romney once voted against a meals bill which would have forced seniors to forgo kosher food (not true).
As governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney vetoed a bill paying for kosher food for our seniors in nursing homes. Holocaust survivors, who for the first time, were forced to eat non-kosher, because Romney thought $5 was too much to pay for our grandparents to eat kosher. Where is Mitt Romney’s compassion for our seniors? Tuesday you can end Mitt Romney’s hypocrisy on religious freedom, with a vote for Newt Gingrich. Paid for by Newt 2012.
In a flash, for the votes of some old people Newt has become the tribune of compassion. Forget that, given half the chance, all meals for all needy people would be thrown into the Intracoastal waterway along with Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and whatever is left. As a piece of carrot atop this gefilte fish, Newt’s text refers to “our grandmothers”. Newt Ginsberg! Who knew?? . And adding the phrase “holocaust survivor” elevates the cause, casting Mitt Romney as the perfect symbol of all that is evil. As opposed to Newt.
Opening Day
March 30, 2011 By Leave a Comment
This week I began a new series of editorial videos for Slate.com. Up till now I have used a production crew to create short films. This works very well for TV where you can find (if you’re lucky) a budget of some kind. The web is different. If I wanted to continue this online, I realized I had to get the costs down. So finally, after some fuss and education I have gotten the video deal down to the cost of an editorial illustration. Thanks to Bill Smee and everyone at Slate for giving this a go. Shooting for one a week. Let’s see what happens. I will put these up as I do them. A big difference between this and print is that success is measured in clicks . . . not only editorial decision preference. So your page-view really helps. Hope you like.
In honor of opening day, who these ballplayers remind you of?
The Giants’ Brian Wilson?
Manny Ramirez?
A-Rod?
Milton Bradley?
Stephen Strasburg and Jordan Zimmermann?
See the full video at http://www.slatev.com/video/opening-day-meets-2012/
