Turner Classic Movies doesn't run nearly enough classic movies to suit me but every month's schedule includes a few treasures. Obscure but wonderful footage can often be found on their Festival of Shorts, which hauls out rarely-seen short subjects. This month, they have a 1930 film called The Hard Guy starring Spencer Tracy in a […]
Here's an article in The Los Angeles Times about who got what wrong last night. […]
Dennis Donohoe writes… What really struck me was Kerry continually talking about his "plan" for everything. I think any rational person would wonder why he hasn't done anything in the last 20 years toward items in his plan and now he will. But then I'm a conservative (and not a reflexive Bush backer by any […]
Here's a link to a better copy (a Quick Time file) of that brief speech I mentioned earlier by Ohio Congressman Tim Ryan. […]
A fact-check on the debate from the Washington Post. And here's one from The New York Times and another from the Associated Press. […]
Dick Cheney seems to have made factcheck.org the place to be. Flipping channels, all the pundits are citing them as an authoritative source of truth. I guess they figure no one can fault them for using that since Cheney sort of endorsed the site and Democrats have often used it to prove their points. […]
Did Charles Gibson really need a TelePrompter to do that closing? Bush did better than he did in the first debate. Kerry missed a lot of good opportunities. I don't believe in saying one guy won or lost but my sense is that the polls for Kerry will be somewhat higher by the time these […]
Bad, evasive answer on the last question to Bush — the one that challenged him to name three mistakes he made. This is the one people are going to talk about. […]
Kerry's probably losing points with some people by not addressing some questions directly. Neither man is giving the best possible answers to what, so far, have all been pretty predictable questions. Bush answers the questions but says very little of substance and much that is arguable. Kerry starts by addressing the previous question, then works […]
Bush did okay — better than I would have expected — on the foreign part of the debate but he's flailing in the economic parts. A president who's run up the deficit can't lecture someone else like that about fiscal responsibility. […]
Too much repetition. You'd think these guys would learn a second or third way to phrase their main talking points. […]
Bush isn't as bad in terms of finishing sentences and making faces. But he sure seems defensive. I don't get the point of having a live audience there if they're not allowed to actually talk to the candidates. People could submit questions and the moderator could read them and you'd have the same thing. I […]
Bush does not seem to have a bulge on his back. […]
In the last hour or so, I've watched every human being even vaguely connected to politics say what they expect will happen with tonight's debate. I have no idea but I'm getting really tired of the phrase, "…first president to create no new jobs since Herbert Hoover." It's true…but Hoover didn't get mentioned this often […]
Fred Kaplan dismantles Bush's explanation of why the war in Iraq was right even though all the original reasons for it have been discredited. […]