Could Christine O’Donnell Really Win? Could Christine O’Donnell Really Win?
Why the media—and probably more voters than we like to think—find her bewitching.
Sep 21, 2010 / The Notion / Leslie Savan
How’s That Hopey-Faithy-Charity Stuff Workin’ Out for Beck? How’s That Hopey-Faithy-Charity Stuff Workin’ Out for Beck?
Beck and his people, goes the emerging consensus, are good, polite, and tolerant. And, oh yeah, they’re not political.
Sep 7, 2010 / The Notion / Leslie Savan
The False and ‘Seedy’ Claim That Obama Is Muslim The False and ‘Seedy’ Claim That Obama Is Muslim
Let’s get this straight once and for all: Regardless of what Billy Graham’s son claims or what millions of Americans believe, Obama is not now, nor has he ever been a M...
Aug 24, 2010 / The Notion / Leslie Savan
‘Reverse Racism’ Is a Weapon of Mass Distraction ‘Reverse Racism’ Is a Weapon of Mass Distraction
Andrew Breitbart is being reverse-whipped on his reverse-plantation, crying out in anguish, ‘How long, O Lord?’
Jul 22, 2010 / The Notion / Leslie Savan
Biden’s Crystal Balls Biden’s Crystal Balls
Nobody sees the future like Joe Biden—especially when he’s wrong.
Jul 10, 2010 / The Notion / Leslie Savan
Pulling the Wings Off Beck’s Housefly Story Pulling the Wings Off Beck’s Housefly Story
Flies, rats, bees, demagogues, demons and dog whistles.
Jun 30, 2010 / The Notion / Leslie Savan
Joe the Gusher Exposes Cracks in the Right Joe the Gusher Exposes Cracks in the Right
The response to the BP disaster is a rare instance in which populist outrage and simple logic are allied—and for some on the right this is deeply confusing.
Jun 25, 2010 / The Notion / Leslie Savan
Shill, Baby, Shill Shill, Baby, Shill
How BP’s disarmingly charming ten-year-long ad campaign helped get us into this mess.
Jun 14, 2010 / The Notion / Leslie Savan
Are Fox Ratings Fading as the Tea Party Stumbles? Are Fox Ratings Fading as the Tea Party Stumbles?
Fox News's Free-Market Theory of Journalistic Evidence has it that more viewers makes the channel more correct. Therefore...
Jun 5, 2010 / The Notion / Leslie Savan
Corporate Media as a Toxic Dispersant Corporate Media as a Toxic Dispersant
Like the 1 million gallons of chemical dispersant that BP has now dumped in the Gulf, media can make any gush of oily lies less visible on the surface, though more toxic in the lon...
May 28, 2010 / The Notion / Leslie Savan