BlogHer (Free subscription) | yesterday
BlogHer Contributing Editor Mary Katharine Ham and columnist Jennifer Rubin preview tonight's Sarah Palin speech, with Rubin predicting Gov. Palin will 'bring the house down.'
CJR Daily (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
You know a reporter’s presence in the convention hall is cardinal when proximity to an unprecedented distraction (from—take your pick—delegate, journalist or protester) only serves to sharpen his or her observations about the main affair. Alas, Commentary’s Jennifer Rubin—trying to focus on McCain while protesters rabble-roused nearby—didn’t make the cut tonight: One gets a different sense...
Southern Appeal (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
From Jennifer Rubin at the Commentary Mag Blog: There is no more thin-skinned politicain in America than Barack Obama. He has bristled at press questions, took obvious umbrage at the tough queries in the Philadelphia debate this spring and generally is unaccustomed to criticism. Hence, the Thou Shalt Not rules. Today was no different: Sen. Barack Obama [...]
Power Line (Free subscription) | yesterday
Jennifer Rubin asks, "what are they thinking?" "They" is "a certain set of Republican pundits–e.g. George Will–which was highly critical of the Sarah Palin pick" because it struck them as an overly opportunistic instance of identity politics. "What must they be thinking now," Jennifer wonders, "as the tidal wave of Palinism has swept through the Xcel Center?" I don't know what they are thinking. As...
Gay Patriot (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
Last night when I attended what Glenn Reynolds dubbed the “best party” he ever attended, I realized the scope of what my co-blogger Bruce Carroll, the GayPatriot, accomplished when he established this blog four years ago tomorrow. Pajamas TV had organized a blogger party at the home of James Lileks. I ran into bloggers whom [...]
Dr. Helen (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
In the case of Sarah Palin, it seems to be the Republicans. Jennifer Rubin at PJM states: Sarah Palin has set off a new round of political fisticuffs in the “Mommy Wars” and in the Culture Wars. How could a newcomer and her pregnant teenage daughter do all that in a mere six days on the national scene? Perhaps it was inevitable that any woman selected, that is — any woman selected on a
Pundit Review (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
Dave Price at Dean’s World Why is it we get massive national coverage of VP candidate Sarah’s Palin’s daughter Bristol — including three NYT page one articles in one day – while the fact Presidential candidate Barack Obama’s half-brother lives on a dollar a day in a Third World war-zone hellhole, despite the Obama family’s millions, [...]
Daled Amos (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
With all due righteous indignation, The Washington Post reminds us: It's hard to recall a time when either major party asked voters to accept a nominee with a thinner record.I don't know--is it really all that hard, or are they just not really trying. Jennifer Rubin tries to give some helpful pointers: Well, on one level this is true. She will have no choice and the knives have been sharpened.
CJR Daily (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
Jennifer Rubin, a blogger for Commentary Magazine, has this to say about covering the conventions live: Covering the Convention live gives you a gift: the gift of your own impressions and the counsel of your own judgment. You don’t hear or even see the MSM commentators. It is a blessing and a reminder that most viewers...
Gay Patriot (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
WOW! What a great convention. I’m having a blast introducing myself to delegates, alternates and other assembled guests as a gay blogger. I’ve talked to delegates and alternates from Connecticut, Utah, North and South Carolina, Virginia, California. No one seems to have a problem. Upon learning I live in West Hollywood, the [...]
New York Times (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
Governor Palin’s experience: executive skills...and earmarks?
Fresh Bilge (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
Why no bounce? wonders Jennifer Rubin. Is it only because McCain deflated the opposition the day after its convention, with his cleverly timed VP announcement? Or is Obama’s demagogue-spell wearing off at last — not dramatically broken, but incrementally eroded by Rezko, Wright, Pfleger, Clinton, Biden? Here is J. R. R. Tolkien, describing the [...]
Ed Driscoll.com (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
During the day, as we watched the final preparations being applied to the PJTV booth before it could go live yesterday evening, Jennifer Rubin, the three Power Liners and I kicked around how the ever-expanding Palin family story was playing...
HolyCoast.com (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
The polls are pretty much back to where they were before the Dem convention and that has a lot of pundits mystified. Surely the Obamessiah's Greek Temple speech would have have driven voters into throes of ecstacy and given him a 40 or 50 point bump in the polls. Well, maybe not. Jennifer Rubin at Contentions gives us some reasons why: How can it be that The One is in a dead heat , that the bounce...
Mercury Rising 鳯女 (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
If he had written nothing else in his lifetime but this passage, he would still be among America’s prose heavyweights: Jake Tapper asks: “What would the response be if Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, and his wife Michelle had a pregnant unmarried teenage daughter?” I can answer that. Mona Charen, Ann Coulter, and Michelle Malkin would sprout bat [...]
