Steve Last night blogging from 7-11 pm on http://www.thenation.com/blogs/steve-brodner Back at it again tonight @7 The American virtue of being an a**hole. And away we go! The delightful Ann Romney, here to humanize Mitt. How can she miss? Nikki Haley. Anti-union, anti-black innuendo all in one speech! Nikki Haley, former Sikh, now fiercely anti-immigrant. Also loves … Read more
TONIGHT @ 7 http://www.thenation.com/blogs/steve-brodner Tonight, the first actual night of the Republican Convention, we see the big stage set, which was designed with Romney’s input, replicating his idea of a warm and comfortable living room. It has thirteen TV screens. That sort of figures. What’s most important here is the new post-–Citizens United politics in America. … Read more
It’s hard to forget the political conventions I’ve covered. But sometimes, I feel, it would be a good idea. Today, conventions seem, on the surface at least, about less and less. They mostly exist as a fancy feast for fat cats and the creatures of the media industrial complex. They try to hold the country’s … Read more
This first in a series for the Washington Spectator on people who, one way or another, this year have told the truth. For this series I am very interested in your take on whom you would nominate. Please nominate your truth-tellers of 2012 in messages here. I will draw the best ones. Ai Weiwei, brilliant … Read more
Here’s to the premiere of the USA Network’s new mini series POLITICAL ANIMALS. This thinly disguised riff on Hillary Clinton, played here by heart-throb-to-guys-my-age Sigouney Weaver. Siggy here, however, actually divorces her philandering husband and then becomes a power on her own. Something tells me this show will not hurt Hillary’s post-Obama plans. Here’s the … Read more
