Code Pink demonstrators disrupted John McCain's acceptance speech at the Xcel Center tonight right next to the Pajamas TV booth. PJTV has exclusive video of them being hustled out at the link.
It's a tough call for those who feel strongly about both national security and a woman's right to choose. (Also, Claudia Rosett on What Sarah Palin Won't Say.)
JIM LINDGREN -- WHO LOVES HIM SOME NUMBERS -- DOES AN ANALYSIS and concludes that in spite of the press treatment, Obama's speech included more negative attacks than Palin's. But girls are supposed to be nice. His conclusion: "By continuing to spread false memes about the nature of Sarah Palin's speech as if they were true, the press marches forward in the most biased season of political reporting I've seen since at least 1998." Absolutely.
UNLEASHING THE ABZUG BRIGADE? That's a little harsh, Don.
WELL, OBAMA IS OPRAH'S GUY: "Oprah Winfrey may have introduced Democrat Barack Obama to the women of America -- but the talkshow queen is not rushing to embrace the first woman on a Republican presidential ticket! Oprah's staff is sharply divided on the merits of booking Sarah Palin, sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT." Oprah already took a ratings hit from women angry over her support of Obama over Hillary. This probably won't help.
QUESTIONS ABOUT flu vaccine for older people: "A growing number of immunologists and epidemiologists say the vaccine probably does not work very well for people over 70, the group that accounts for three-fourths of all flu deaths." But studies are complicated by the fact that healthier older people are more likely to get vaccinated. Assuming this is true, I wonder if the vaccine could be reformulated to be more effective in older recipients, or if older immune systems just don't respond as well.
JOE BIDEN DEMOTES PALIN to Lieutenant Governor of Alaska? What's the matter, Joe, can't imagine that a woman could hold the top job?
ELECTIONS: GOOD FOR TRAFFIC! Over 432,000 pageviews yesterday, and over 9 million pageviews last month. Just a dollar per pageview, that's all I ask . . . . If only!
MICKEY KAUS: "I predicted McCain's would be a good speech. Wrong again. That makes two successful conventions ending with weak final acts." Yeah, McCain's speech, like Obama's, was too long and had the laundry-list/State of the Union aspect that Obama's had. Both were upstaged by others -- McCain by Sarah Palin, Obama by Bill Clinton.
PALIN RIVALED OBAMA IN TV VIEWERS: "Barack Obama apparently isn't the only 'rock star' in presidential politics this year. After days of intense media coverage about Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's qualifications, more than 40 million Americans tuned in Wednesday to see for themselves what they thought of her. . . . Nearly 2 million more women were watching Palin than men, Nielsen said. Viewers were far more interested in Palin than Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden. Biden's speech to Democrats last week was seen by an estimated 24 million people." All the media attacks mostly just built up the audience.
DAVID BERNSTEIN ON RELIGIOUS PREJUDICE IN AMERICA: "Even though studies consistently show that conservative evangelical Christians are no more likely to be anti-Semitic than others (the ADL, for example, notes based on years of study that neither religion nor political ideology drive anti-Semitism), many American Jews, especially liberal, secular American Jews, have a disturbing tendency to suspect all evangelical Christians of being hostile to Jews." I wonder why that is?