2008 Presidential

We are more than seventeen months away from the 2008 elections, and the Washington Post actually published an article Tuesday by Howard Kurtz that began with the following sentence (emphasis added throughout, h/t Glenn Reynolds):Hillary Clinton is inevitable.Nice way to begin an article about a presidential race months before the first primary, dontcha think? Kind of like saying that the Yankees…

Something interesting is happening between the new and old media: the more Democrats move to the left to please liberal bloggers, the more mainstream press members express disdain.On Wednesday, following in the footsteps of the Washington Post’s David Broder and Time’s Joe Klein, and just days before Democrat strategist Bob Beckel, NBC’s Tim Russert jumped on the “Netroots Are A Danger to…

How many times have you read a quote from a major political figure that included words like “uh” or “um?”Not often, right? Typically, journalists omit such disfluent pauses when citing America’s leaders in order to not make them look foolish.After all, the vast majority of people commonly use such utterances to fill the silence as they assemble their thoughts. But, you rarely see them left in an…

Bloggers, like any other media outlet, sometimes overestimate our influence. The lefty blogs seem to be doing just that when it comes to the 2008 presidential race where their preferred candidate, John Edwards, is falling further and further behind Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. That's not a problem for most Democrats but for left-wing bloggers it is a problem because Clinton and Obama have…