Category Archives: Politics

Ironic Part of Dr. Carson’s 2011 Miami Speech

Posted on November 9, 2015 by Michael Froomkin

In 2011 Dr. Ben Carson gave the commencement address at the Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine of the University of Miami, on May 14, 2011. It shows off his considerable talents as a speaker (although the religiosity at the end of it is a bit odd given the circumstances). The full video is here. But one little piece, the ten second snippet above, has ironic resonance in light of multipe questions about his biography, not least this one about his supposed award for honesty. (Bonus: this Doonesbury tie-in.)

Hat tip: My #1 Twitter Troll, who gave me the link to the Carson speech at UMiami, apparently thinking that the medical school’s endorsement of Carson’s medical prowess should matter to my views of Carson’s fitness as a candidate or President.

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Yup.

Posted on November 8, 2015 by Michael Froomkin

GOP Frontrunner Outraged Over Claims That He Wasn’t A Violent Psychopath.

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Great Immigration Video

Posted on November 8, 2015 by Michael Froomkin

Never heard of the authors, but “Heard it Before” gets it right:

Spotted via Daily Kos.

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The Overton Window Has Moved

Posted on November 1, 2015 by Michael Froomkin

Bernie’s First Commercial

(Overton Window explained.)

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Who Gets to Say Who Won

Posted on October 15, 2015 by Michael Froomkin

NakedCapitalism asks the obvious question:

Sanders won the CNN focus group, the Fusion focus group, and the Fox News focus group; in the latter, he even converted several Hillary supporters. He won the Slate online poll, CNN/Time online poll, 9News Colorado, The Street online poll, Fox5 poll, the conservative Drudge online poll and the liberal Daily Kos online poll. There wasn’t, to this writer’s knowledge, a poll he didn’t win by at least an 18-point margin. But you wouldn’t know this from reading the establishment press. The New York Times, the New Yorker, CNN, Politico, Slate, New York Magazine, and Vox all unanimously say Hillary Clinton cleaned house. What gives?

As far as I can tell there was no scientific polling done of “who won” which is very odd given that there were such polls after the GOP debates. All the above are unscientific polls. But so too is the poll of pundits.

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Winning Graphics

Posted on September 27, 2015 by Michael Froomkin

SandersClintonI don’t know who made that picture, I saw it at Down With Tyranny, but it’s the sort of thing that wins elections.

Graphics like the following, from the same source, are much more informational, but I think much less effective for most people:
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Update: Does Rand Paul belong in the top picture? I thought he was more isolationist. Actually, if you go by the second debate, wasn’t Donald Trump also?

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