November 13th, 2008 at 11:44 am
In an earlier post I wrote that there was a report circulating out of the McCain camp that Ms. Palin did not know that Africa was a continent.
It turns out that that information was part of an elaborate hoax spread with the intent to embarrass bloggers.
They say the blame lies not with them but with shoddiness in the traditional news media and especially the blogosphere.
“With the 24-hour news cycle they rush into anything they can find,” said Mr. Mirvish, 40.
But most of Eisenstadt’s victims have been bloggers, a reflection of the sloppy speed at which any tidbit, no matter how specious, can bounce around the Internet. And they fell for the fake material despite ample warnings online about Eisenstadt, including the work of one blogger who spent months chasing the illusion around cyberspace, trying to debunk it.
Whoops. My bad.
You can read the full article that describes the hoax here.
August 30th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
We’re now set with Obama-Biden and McCain-Palin presidential tickets. McCain’s choice of Palin as running mate is interesting and puzzling for several reasons. First, McCain has spent a large amount of time hyping his experience, how important it is, and how little experience Obama has. Now he’s chosen a VP candidate who has 2 years experience running a state with a population roughly the size of Boise, Idaho and almost zero political experience outside of that. It seems as though McCain decided that his attacks on Obama’s experience aren’t working so he’ll just trash that argument entirely and hope everyone forgets how big of a deal he made of it.
I’m also seeing a lot of people suggest that Palin will bring in the fence-sitting democratic women who were hardcore Hilary supporters and I can’t possibly see this as anything less than a gigantic insult to all women. Its essentially saying that women really don’t follow nor care about the issues as much as they’re just dying to vote VAGINA!!!!!! Have we not reached a point as a society to where we can actually consider the thought of women straying far enough from the kitchen to follow the presidential race and make an informed decision based on their views? Did McCain think “Well, the democrats have the minority guy so we need to find someone that isn’t a white male to put on this ticket or we’re not politically correct enough?”. We’re come a long way, haven’t we?
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