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  • THE MEDIA, CONTROL AND BALANCE

    THE MEDIA, CONTROL AND BALANCE By Ronn Torossian, President & CEO, 5W Public Relations Working in public relations and, in particular, crisis management, there is a tremendous balancing act between projecting clients’ images and agendas and, at the same time, protecting them – essentially keeping the press at bay. Often, as it is, the ...
    Posted to Trailhead by stella007 on July 23, 2008

  • US Offshore Oil Drilling

    Barack Obama and John McCain have made recent statements on US offshore oil drilling while on the US presidential campaign trail. Well, Offshore Drilling is a huge issue right now and rightly so. Between the desire to deal with the economic mess that is being spurred by the price of oil and the on-going longer-term concern of global ...
    Posted to Politics by herkayle on July 23, 2008

  • McCain's Unhappy Warrior

    This piece says one smart thing and one stupid thing. Yes, the gas price ad was dumb, as the writer recognizes. But on this point he was dead wrong: his Surge attack was dumb too, and hence the writer's statement is dumb, because it buys into the fallacious arguments that: 1) The Surge is working, because it lowered our troops' death rate in ...
    Posted to Politics by klevenstein on July 22, 2008

  • Er, uh, like we said, Maliki still agrees with Obama

    Even after being pressured by the U.S., Iraq still agrees with Obama's timetable for withdrawal. BAGHDAD — The Iraqi government on Monday left little doubt that it favors a withdrawal plan for American combat troops similar to what Senator Barack Obama has proposed, providing Mr. Obama with a potentially powerful political boost on a day he ...
    Posted to Kausfiles Special by larbabe on July 22, 2008

  • Let's not be ridiculous.

    Let's not be ridiculous. A) E.J. Graff and others are upset over the existence of stereotypes. Does all comedy need to abandon any use of stereotypes? Should the writers of the Simpson's apologize for reinforcing stereotypes about desi Kwiki-Mart owners? Should we all feel bad for laughing at Futurama's Judge Whitey? Should we start a letter ...
    Posted to XX Factor by diggyG on July 16, 2008

  • satire and stereotypes

    EJ's got a lot of the underlying stuff right here: we all stereotype, whether we mean to or not. A lot of insidious stereotypes are cultural, omnipresent and deeply engrained in our subconscious. But this is exactly why good satire is good for uprooting, rather than ''activating'' stereotypes. Anything that alerts us to our subconscious ...
    Posted to XX Factor by transit-oriented diva on July 16, 2008

  • "Terrorist" Fist Jab?

    Little did I know that all those years trading fist bumps after a great play on the court during noon basketball games at the Y has probably compromised my ability to ever run for public office.
    Posted to Politics by KenR1029 on July 15, 2008

  • New Quinnipiac poll shows Obama with sizable lead

    Barack Obama’s overall lead against John McCain is 50 - 41 percent in the latest Quinnipiac poll. The majority of his support is among women (55 - 36%) and young voters (63-31%), with unanimous numbers from blacks (94 – 1%). The presumed Democratic presidential candidate also racks up an impressive lead in purple and swing states (50 – 39%), of ...
    Posted to Kausfiles Special by larbabe on July 15, 2008

  • setting up the obama stage

    The curtain rises and there she is, standing under a single spotlight, center stage. She is very pregnant, just in time tor the polls to open, just in time to steal any last minute thunder McCain might offer. She is wearing a Jackie Kennedy hairdo and hat. WELL, it could happen, couldn't it?
    Posted to Trailhead by zook on July 12, 2008

  • The empty suit Mr. Obama wears

    Mr. Kaplan seems to go to unusual lengths to inflate Mr. Obama's non-record while attempting to deflate Mr. McCain's extensive record on substantive matters of foreign and military policy. Mr. Obama seems challenged by whether he visited ''57 of the 58 state'' of our nation, a potential measure of the gentleman's real capacity for history or ...
    Posted to War Stories by Donald Wolberg on July 12, 2008
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