The Sound of the Crowd

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  1. There’s speculation round a couple of the blogs that Bush may have had a stroke a year or two back and they didn’t tell us. I’ve been going on the theory that the change in his debate performances was down to him falling off the wagon, but this would explain it too.

  1. You’re not gonna believe this one. Guess who’s using a little tune by a confessed pedophile at his campaign events?

  1. Salon, Talking Points Memo and the NY Times all took stabs at it today, but from where I’m sitting the most satisfyingly even-handed look at the Cheney’s daughter issue is once again on Tapped.

There’s a certain darkly ironic humor in the Cheneys accusing people of dirty tricks. The troubling thing is whether Kerry was trying to deny Bush/Cheney votes from the “red state homophobes,” which is a pretty dispicable thing to do. But, as…

  1. …Media Beat points out in this “Preview of the Bush Campaign’s Media Endgame,” nothing the Bush camp isn’t doing themselves, with exploitative things like their gay-marriage constitutional amendment.


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