It’s endorsement week at the Mercury. That means, for the next few days, we’ll be releasing endorsements in one or more selected races here on Blogtown. Think of it like a slow buildup to the unveiling of our pick in this year’s mayoral race, which won’t be revealed until the paper hits newsstands later this […]
Election 2012
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John McCain Mad as Hell That Barack Obama Caught Osama bin Laden
The alternate headline for this post is “Angry Old Man Embarks on Vicious Letter-Writing Campaign.” Shame on Barack Obama for diminishing the memory of September 11th and the killing of Osama bin Laden by turning it into a cheap political attack ad. This is the same President who once criticized Hillary Clinton for invoking bin […]
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And the Mercury Endorses: Ellen Rosenblum for Attorney General
It’s endorsement week at the Mercury. That means, for the next few days, we’ll be releasing endorsements in one or more selected races here on Blogtown. Think of it like a slow buildup to the unveiling of our pick in this year’s mayoral race, which won’t be revealed until the paper hits newsstands later this […]
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Is Karl Rove a Dirty Music Pirate?
Buzzfeed says: Swiss electronica band, Yello — whose biggest hit, “Oh yeah,” was made famous in the final scene of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off— are objecting to what sounds like a sample of the track in an anti-Obama ad this week. The commercial, titled “Cool,” was released by Karl Rove’s Super PAC American Crossroads, and […]
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Mitt Romney Says It’s No Fair to Bring Up the Killing-Osama-bin-Laden Thing
Here’s the new Obama ad: In response, the Romney team says ixnay on the in-Laden-bay, because it’s unfair: The killing of Osama bin Laden was a momentous day for all Americans and the world, and Governor Romney congratulated the military, our intelligence agencies, and the President,” Saul said in a statement. “It’s now sad to […]
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Have You Read the Rolling Stone Interview with President Obama?
It’s not a particularly long interview, but it does cover quite a bit of ground. Here’s the president gently evading a question about whether he personally supports gay marriage: I’m not going to make news in this publication. I’ve made clear that the issue of fairness and justice and equality for the LGBT community is […]
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Paul Ryan Wants You to Know That Ayn Rand Is a Filthy Atheist
Conservative bigot haven the National Review points out that conservative economic “genius” Paul Ryan wants to debunk the rumors that he’s an Ayn Rand fanatic: “I, like millions of young people in America, read Rand’s novels when I was young. I enjoyed them,” Ryan says. “They spurred an interest in economics, in the Chicago School […]
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WWeek Publisher Defends Free Ads for Wife’s AG Campaign
In his epic nerd rant yesterday, Mercury Senior Editor Erik Henriksen noticed something curious about Willamette Week‘s endorsement spread this week: It sat directly next to a full-page ad on behalf of publisher Richard Meeker’s wife—attorney general candidate Ellen Rosenblum, whose race the paper’s editor and co-owner, Mark Zusman, has declined to cover. It wasn’t […]
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Watch Marco Rubio Lose the Last Page of His Speech
This morning, Marco Rubio gave a foreign policy speech that his office described as “major.” The speech itself was standard Romney talking points, but he really made quite an impression with the ending: As Buzzfeed points out, “That’s what teleprompters are for.” I love that the Republican war against a commonplace device that makes speeches […]
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The Willamette Week‘s Attempt at a Game of Thrones Cover: WILDLY INSULTING, FULL OF INFURIATING ERRORS
Okay, Willamette Week. You want to do this? Let’s do this. • Westeros is a monarchy, not a democracy. Guess why Varys is a eunuch? HE ONCE SAID THE WORD “ELECTION.” • Endorsing Charlie Hales as Hand of the King? Putting aside the goddamn fact that the Hand of the King position is not equivalent […]
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Republican Spokeswoman Says Their Economic Platform Is Bush’s, “Just Updated”
ThinkProgress brings this to our attention: During an interview last week on The Fernando Espuelas Show, Alexandra Franceschi, Specialty Media Press Secretary of the Republican National Committee, said that the Republican party’s economic platform in 2012 is going to be the same as it was during the Bush years, “just updated” The audio is fascinating. […]
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Mitt Romney Wants Every Computer to Have “a Button” to Control Pornography
BuzzFeed found two 2007 clips of Mitt Romney promising that President Romney would install pornography filters on every single computer sold in the United States: Romney (the 2008 version) was way more interested in social issues than Romney (the 2012 version). In fact, this video is a striking reminder that the entire 2012 Republican party […]