“Why bother with the election?”
A much better question: why bother with this blog?

Hey, Reformed Chick, why haven’t you posted an entry about Ted Stevens? He was just indicted on all counts today. That MSM is in our courts now! Grr!
http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=6088781&page=1
Yep, this is the same Stevens who approved all of Palin the Maverick’s pork barrel earmarks. That’s $256 million in 2007, and another $197 million this year. Yes, the same Palin who acuses Obama of being a socialist when Alaska receives more per-capita earmark money than any other state in the Union. Wealth redistribution. Interesting.

its Oct 26-Nov 8 issue had to hit the streets, and the newsstands, before the election
So they’re either savants that predicted an Obama win, or they’ll be the “Dewey Defeats Truman” paper of this election, and all because they had to meet a hard deadline before the election.
What’s the problem again?

Here’s another item you apparently deem not worth mentioning. Could it be because these creeps are kissing cousins to the ones in Palin and McCain’s crowds, the ones who lap it up when Palin and McCain accuse Obama of “palling around with terrorists,” the ones who respond with shouts “Off with head!” and “Kill him!”? And all the while Palin and McCain and you, Michele, remain silent.
WASHINGTON — Law enforcement agents have broken up a plot by two neo-Nazi skinheads to assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and shoot or decapitate 88 black people, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives said Monday.
In court records unsealed Monday in U.S. District Court in Jackson, Tenn., federal agents said they disrupted plans to rob a gun store and target a predominantly African-American high school in a murder spree that was to begin in Tennessee. Agents said the skinheads did not identify the school by name.
Jim Cavanaugh, special agent in charge of ATF’s Nashville field office, said the two men planned to kill 88 black people, including 14 by beheading. The numbers 88 and 14 are symbolic in the white supremacist community.
The men also sought to go on a national killing spree after the Tennessee murders, with Obama as its final target, Cavanaugh told The Associated Press.
“They said that would be their last, final act _ that they would attempt to kill Sen. Obama,” Cavanaugh said. “They didn’t believe they would be able to do it, but that they would get killed trying.”
An Obama spokeswoman traveling with the senator in Pennsylvania had no immediate comment.”

Ms. McGinty, it has long been the tradition of Newspapers to endorse specific candidates. Just about all news sources have right or left-wing leanings, as evidenced in the slant they put on stories and the columnists they employ; columnists, not being journalists, can say just about any old thing they like. That’s why I take what they say with a grain of salt.
But MSN isn’t the only news source to endorse a candidate in this election.
Alaska’s ‘Anchorage Daily News,’ the largest and widest-circulated newspaper in the State, has also officially endorsed OBAMA.
They published a thoroughly thought-provoking editorial. Enjoy.
http://www.adn.com/opinion/view/story/567867.html

Here’s another overlooked item. We’re still waiting for a retraction from you, Michele, in connection with your own comments on this case “before the facts of the case were known or established.” But I guess we’ll wait a long time before we can hope to hear anything like that. I can’t believe that I once mistook you for someone who cared about the truth.
“John McCain’s Pennsylvania communications director told reporters in the state an incendiary version of the hoax story about the attack on a McCain volunteer well before the facts of the case were known or established — and even told reporters outright that the `B’ carved into the victim’s cheek stood for `Barack,’ according to multiple sources familiar with the discussions.
“John Verrilli, the news director for KDKA in Pittsburgh, told TPM Election Central that McCain’s Pennsylvania campaign communications director gave one of his reporters a detailed version of the attack that included a claim that the alleged attacker said, `You’re with the McCain campaign? I’m going to teach you a lesson.’”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com

Tit for Tat. Michele is merely pointing out one more slanted “news” outlet. As for papers endorsing candidates, that’s usually done in the editorial section. In this case the “news” outlet has decided to predict the future the way it would like to see it. Does anyone really think that most of the American TV and print media is NOT biased in favor of Barack Obama? Wake up voters. You don’t get objective news anymore.

Michele is merely pointing out one more slanted “news” outlet.
What part of they had a hard deadline and HAD to get their next issue out before the election is so hard to understand?
They chose to say that the guy who’s currently leading in the polls won the election because their next issue wouldn’t be out until long after the election. Big deal.
They’re either going to be geniuses or a national laughingstock in 8 days, but it’s not like they had a choice in the matter. It was print it now, or miss having any sort of election coverage of any relevance.

*yawn*
until i read this, “A much better question: why bother with this blog?” and then i laughed my butt off.

Why not just let the MSM anoint the candidate they want?
Not any different that you hoped the blogs would do it instead: it’s still a few choosing.

Why not just let the MSM anoint the candidate they want?
I am not sure a bi-monthly newspaper in New Mexico qualifies as MSM.

I am not sure a bi-monthly newspaper in New Mexico qualifies as MSM.
Didn’t you know? They’re a newspaper and they predicted an Obama victory. That alone qualifies them to be part of the mythical “MSM”.
If they’d predicted a McCain victory, on the other hand, this post by Michele wouldn’t exist.

It is unfortunate that the above CNN story didn’t mention the 14 page article that was a compendium of the 38 best editorial page endorsements from all over the United States, and neglected to mention, as we did in the article, that we were justified in saying Obama Wins! because he had just won the Scholastic Magazine election by mostly sixth graders.
These 38 endorsements, plus about 20 more, are posted at mybarackobama.com in my personal blog, listed under Stephen Fox
They are also posted in 7 very long articles at opednews.com, and there is an opportunity to comment at will and at length.
This was not a stunt, whatsoever. Our next issue comes out 4 days after the election, and his victory would be old news by then. We are not seers nor fortune tellers, but we are like most Americans Poli Sci wonks, scholars, and Democratic strategists. I personally have been concentrating on making happen the editorial page endorsement avalanche for Obama we are seeing now, and like a gardener, proud to hold up the first fruits of victory.
The comparison with the Chicago Tribune and Dewey is irrelevant. We are proud of endorsing him in this way, to just declare him the winner, which apparently you would have known if you were still in 6th grade.
By making this out to be a “stunt” or a “prank,” the Senior Political Correspondent at CNN dismissed our motivation. Nonetheless, we are glad we did what we did, and certainly not “just to be first.” The endorsements are all at OpEdNews.com and at mybarackobama.com at my blog site: read them in succession, and you will comprehend more clearly our effort and its integrity.

because he had just won the Scholastic Magazine election by mostly sixth graders.
How cute!

The New Mexico’s Sun News announcement is based on the Current expectation of both candidates. The way all the polls stand, it would be short of a Real Huge Miracle for McCain to win. It is clear.
Very different from Faux News announcing that Bush had won on election day before all the numbers were in in 2004.
After eight brutal years, of the most partisan, wreckless politics, she would know about “annointed”.
Besides, everyone wants Obama to win !!

The “contributing editor” justification for this article is as lame as any I’ve ever seen, and is revealed as a pathetic excuse in the paragraph that follows immediately by saying that (King) Obama’s coronation “will be old news” by the time his irrelevent rag hits the stand (singular). God knows people couldn’t wait an extra few days for this type of “newspaper”.
I’m sure he see’s it as unfortunate that this is still America (for another few months at least).

11,000 copies are distributed through over 400 “stands” every other week … pub

THANKS! I knew he would win . You’ve made my morning.