As the primary winds down, Erica Barnett at I’m Sick Of Your Insane Demands (which, let’s face it, you should be reading for the title alone, never mind all the amazing content), maps out some of the really nasty background chatter to this primary season. This is, in part, why I thought it was fair [...]
The irrepressible Dave Neiwart at Orcinus has a lengthy post about the now well-established patterns of racially charged (and otherwise duplicitous) political advertising. Well worth a couple of minutes to get a feel for just how institutionalized this is:
It’s important to understand the role that people like [Floyd] Brown [creator of the "Willie Horton" ads] [...]
From the WSJ:
Pastors May Defy IRS Gag Rule
Legal Group Urges Ministers to Preach About Candidates
By SUZANNE SATALINE
May 9, 2008
A conservative legal-advocacy group is enlisting ministers to use their pulpits to preach about election candidates this September, defying a tax law that bars churches from engaging in politics.
Alliance Defense Fund, a Scottsdale, Ariz., nonprofit, is hoping [...]
