politics

I certainly support historian Douglas Brinkley's call for a boycott of advertisers who support Donald Trump's TV show. Here is a list of sponsors' phone numbers, in case you want to call them to demand that they stop supporting the man how now qualifies as the most shameless bigot currently active in American politics:

The Wall Street Journal has published an article by Shmuley Boteach saying that Sarah Palin is "right" to accuse her critics of "blood libel" for linking her political rhetoric to the murders in Arizona. Its author says it is appropriate to use that term "whenever an amorphous mass is collectively accused of being murderers or accessories to murder."

Does this mean that Sarah Palin is an "amorphous mass"?

Jon Friedman, who writes for MarketWatch, posted some thoughts about Cindy Sheehan in his latest column that seem, well, stupid. They're the sort of remarks that I might critique on a blog post at the website of the Center for Media and Democracy if there were more of a connection to the Center's mission (exposing spin and propaganda), but instead I'll comment on them here.

Friedman seems to think that USA Today's reporter Judy Keen is devoting too much attention to the "Sheehan circus," so he interviewed Keen and peppered her with questions, asking for example whether Sheehan "had begun to enjoy the massive media attention" or whether "the media are distorting the Sheehan story out of all proportions."