From Yahoo Buzz: An obscure blogger unearths some pages of President Obama’s college thesis. The report supposedly comes from big-time journalist Joe Klein of Time magazine. And the thesis has some real gems: like Obama’s disdain for the Constitution. The whole thing was nothing more than a satirical post on a humor blog. But Rush Limbaugh, […]

Story From Telegraph.co.uk. An actor dressed as pop culture icon “Colonel” Harland Sanders managed to sneak his way past security and into the United Nations posing for photos, shaking hands, and even attending a meeting. Usually these sort of pranks are pulled off by political activists or artists, but this time the whole thing was […]

Anyone with half a brain knows you can’t trust the mainstream for reporting anything except the outcomes of major sporting events, and that’s most likely because there are  usually upward of 50,000 eye-witnesses on the scene at any given time. Luckily, the Internet seems full of enough “alternative media” to keep all our heads fat […]

The Internet is a scary place man. A couple of years back you may remember that a University professor “theorized” that Mr. Rogers was responsible of a destroying an entire generation of kids by turning them into a bunch of enormous wimps with a jealous sense of entitlement and the unjustified belief that they were […]

    With a tag-line like “the world is thinking” Fora.tv might best be described as youtube for eggheads. The site features massive and growing amounts of video content drawn from lectures, interviews, discussions and appearances by intellectual types on topics ranging from science, technology, politics, business, the environment and culture.  Although you won’t find […]

Sometimes great wisdom is found in the most unlikely places, such as from the mouth of ex-Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura. In this 10 minute clip, Jesse is confronted by media pundit Donny Deutsche (MSNBC) with the usual hostility that these types often bring when “debating” anyone that isn’t quite ready to send every brown person […]

Anyone else noticed the rash of UFO sightings in the U.S. recently? Some Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAox0pcZZxohttp://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2008/01/16/cooper.shot.wed.cnnhttp://www.youtube.com/FrozenHill And this; http://www.ktvu.com/news/15054540/detail.html Woooooo!

I found this commentary to be a brief and lucid assessment of the framing of political candidates in the televisual mediation of politics; specifically the process by which certain candidates are constructed as “extremist” or “irrelevant” in the political discourses of news media. I couldn’t have said it any better myself.