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7606 [lbo-talk] Remarkably small delegate gain for Clinton -- rank: 1000

On Mar 6, 2008, at 6:57 AM, shag wrote: > I vaguely recall hearing (not reading! :) that this was b/c of the > way TX > doles out delegates, with cities where Teflobama is strong having more > delegates than suburban/rural/exurban areas. Does anyone know of an > article > on this? Heavily Democratic areas, like Austin, get more delegates than others. And since places like Austin are hotbeds of Obama-ism, he gets extra delegates. I learned this from Michael Barone on, of cour ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 6 04:53:03 PST 2008

7607 [lbo-talk] C & O gloss over Colombian attack; Hillary plugs escalation; Correa says hostage talks sabotaged -- rank: 1000

On Mar 5, 2008, at 9:01 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote: > the days of Kennedy-administration death squads Wasn't it creepy when Obama called for another Alliance for Progress? And when Caroline Kennedy said he would be "a president like my father"? I'll post my fundraiser interview with Chomsky soon - he makes some nice points about JFK founding the LatAm death squads. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 5 20:46:30 PST 2008

7608 [lbo-talk] speaking of... -- rank: 1000

On Mar 5, 2008, at 4:12 PM, Eric wrote: > Yeah, right. Actually, it will be his job as an intellectual to > devise the "the new relation between the political movement and the > level of the ideological." (By the way, I love that he mentions his > gaze: "the Moroccan I see.") Every time I hear Badiou's name, I think of Zizek's Lenin conference in Essen back in 2000 or 2001. Badiou was unable to come, so his paper was read by a woman (one of only two women who ga ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 5 13:39:35 PST 2008

7609 [lbo-talk] the gayest songs of all time -- rank: 1000

<http://gawker.com/364256/the-gayest-songs-of-all-time>

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Date:	Wed Mar 5 13:07:49 PST 2008

7610 [lbo-talk] speaking of... -- rank: 1000

On Mar 5, 2008, at 2:40 PM, Eric wrote: > A first consequence is the recognition that all belong to the same > world as myself: the African worker I see in the restaurant kitchen, > the Moroccan I see digging a hole in the road, the veiled woman > looking after children in a park. So is Badiou going to roll up his sleeves and wash some dishes? Or, better still, take care of some kids? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 5 11:57:35 PST 2008

7611 [lbo-talk] more news interest -- rank: 1000

On Mar 5, 2008, at 2:36 PM, shag wrote: > doug quoted: > > 55% of the weekly newshole. > ^^^^^^^^ > > interesting term of art. Is that not widely familiar? Newspaper jargon.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 5 11:54:23 PST 2008

7612 [lbo-talk] more news interest -- rank: 1000

Further to Carrol's question: <http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=394> > Public interest in news about the presidential campaign reached a > new high during the week of Super Tuesday when voting took place in > more than 20 states nationwide. Four-in-ten Americans (39%) > followed news about candidates for the 2008 presidential election > very closely, while 45% say they followed election news more > closely than any other story last week. > > Cov ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 5 11:23:21 PST 2008

7613 [lbo-talk] Obama the devious & slippery opportunist -- rank: 1000

On Mar 5, 2008, at 1:17 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Has anyone ever asked and attempted to answer any question like the > following: > > What percentage of voters in a given election were more than > occasional > watchers of TV News? > > What percentage of voters in a given election had ever listened to the > candidates on TV? Don't have info on voters at hand, but Pew regularly asks questions about news consumption. E.g.: <http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3? ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 5 11:12:53 PST 2008

7614 [lbo-talk] Obama the devious & slippery opportunist -- rank: 1000

On Mar 5, 2008, at 12:55 PM, Dennis Perrin wrote: > As I put it in my post today: > > "Of the three major channels, MSNBC has to be the worst. Chris > Matthews, > Keith Olbermann and Tim Russert taken all at once is too much for > the sober > mind to process, their pale, sagging faces morphing into a single > yammering > unit. Toss in Stepford Anchor Norah O'Donnell and the mummified > remains of > Tom Brokaw, and who needs hallucinogens? Granted, MSNBC is b ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 5 10:10:20 PST 2008

7615 [lbo-talk] Obama the devious & slippery opportunist -- rank: 1000

On Mar 5, 2008, at 12:29 PM, shag wrote: > in fact, my partner this morning called out from the living room to > tell > me that, on the news, they were chanting, "Yes SHE can" repeatedly. Yeah but in her victory speech last night, she led them in a "Yes we WILL" chant. Once again, Fox kicked CNN's ass on election coverage. Brit Hume is hilarious, compared to the tedium of Anderson Cooper. Their reporters in the field seem much better informed and smarter than CN ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 5 09:46:21 PST 2008

7616 [lbo-talk] video -- rank: 1000

On Mar 5, 2008, at 7:43 AM, paraconsistent at comcast.net wrote: > That contrary to your claim, the press is incapable of asking > anything other than softball questions. The idea that they'll get > tougher with BHO or HRC or JMcC is silly. You been following the same press I have? They ask tough questions about horserace and personality. They don't ask tough questions about policy. They're having a great time with this Dem race, with the lead alternating so much. It's like they didn ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 5 06:48:15 PST 2008

7617 [lbo-talk] Obama the devious & slippery opportunist -- rank: 1000

On Mar 5, 2008, at 7:52 AM, shag wrote: > i also think you should get the bottle of a laguvian max owes me as > i think you're right: it no longer seems inevitable that either one > will > pick the other as running mate. i think she could get away with it. > but > he'd never do it because his following wouldn't have it. I doubt she'd want to run as VP under someone 14 years her junior. If he were VP, however, could run in 8 years as heir apparent and he be just 54. With plent ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 5 06:42:41 PST 2008

7618 [lbo-talk] video -- rank: 1000

On Mar 5, 2008, at 12:13 AM, paraconsistent at comcast.net wrote: > The press that, with Einsteinian acumen caught CheneyBush in their > lies about Iraq right up front, thereby saving the oh so wise > public from being complicit in the murder of hundreds of thousands > of Iraqis and the squandering of around 3 trillion bucks? That press? The very same. Your point?

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Date:	Wed Mar 5 04:18:19 PST 2008

7619 [lbo-talk] Times UK: Obama likes Hagel for Defense Secretary, maybe VP -- rank: 1000

On Mar 4, 2008, at 8:08 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > [I have no idea how reliable Times UK political gossip about the US > is, > but...] I've been saying for months that he'd appoint at least one Republican to his cabinet. I doubt he'd do it for VP, but Defense, yes. David Gergen, who's tedious as hell but a reliable guide to establishment opinion, said on CNN last night that if BHO wins big tonight, he'll have to announce some "strong" foreign policy advisors on Wednesday. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 4 17:18:15 PST 2008

7620 [lbo-talk] Obama the devious & slippery opportunist -- rank: 1000

On Mar 4, 2008, at 8:02 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > All absolutely true. But this is kind of a straw man, no? I mean > does > anyone on this list believe otherwise? So why do people get so preposterously excited about him? Doug

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