Creators Syndicate - Here's an extremely obvious test of how secular our entertainment culture has become:
Creators Syndicate - Ever since liberal media types felt robbed by the Bush-Quayle campaign's "lies" about Michael Dukakis in 1988, we've been suffering through the media elite's attempts to "police" the facts in advertisements. "Correction" squads are insisting that John McCain can't say Barack Obama will raise taxes, no matter how much that announcing Democrats will raise taxes is like announcing the sun will rise.
Creators Syndicate - The temperature has cooled, the leaves are turning colors, and the new fall television season has begun.
Creators Syndicate - For two decades, going back to the Willie Horton ads of 1999, we've heard liberals accuse Republicans of race-baiting. Throughout this campaign, there have been endless whispers, suggestions and outright accusations that GOP could/would play the race card because Obama is half-black. Now Barack Obama has found his bizarre version of Willie Horton, and it's Rush Limbaugh.
Creators Syndicate - As part of the microscopic scrutiny applied to Sarah Palin's record, the public has been told that as the incoming mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, in 1996, Palin dared to ask the town librarian what would happen if anyone objected to an inappropriate book. She merely inquired, but "anti-censorship" activists, perpetually filled with visions of a trash can full of burning books, exploded.
Creators Syndicate - The McCain campaign went looking for a major anchor to be awarded the blessing and the curse of the first Sarah Palin interview — a blessing for ratings and a curse from all the competitors who would accuse the winners of being soft on Republicans.
Creators Syndicate - Something mildly miraculous is happening among pop music stars. Several of them, from the Disney-marketed Jonas Brothers to the recent "American Idol" winner Jordin Sparks, are showing some extraordinary courage, having decided to serve as role models for teenage virginity and abstinence.
Creators Syndicate - The executive suite at MSNBC is the last hardened corner of America to concede that maybe Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews are nowhere close to the textbook definition of detached, "straight news" anchor.