Published: PolicyMic (October 3, 2012)
Here is my last minute prediction on the first Obama-Romney debate:
I think Mitt Romney is going to win it. This has nothing to do with the forensic skills of either Romney or Obama, and everything to do with the media.
Historically speaking, they tend to try to make political stories as “exciting” as possible, and as such, usually tend to award “victory” to whichever participant in a debate was perceived as the “underdog” going into it.
Published: PolicyMic (October 3, 2012)
Editor’s Note: This represents instant analysis of the presidential debate on Wednesday night. For the author’s thoughts in the hour immediately before the debate began, see here.
[To see who won the third and final presidential debate, see here]
Here are my first impressions about the first debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney on Wednesday evening:
1) The Big Points
– Twitter monitors have found that Romney’s Big Bird comment is trending.
Published: PolicyMic (August 29, 2012)
If you want to refute the widely-disseminated myth of the media having an anti-Republican bias in this election, one need not look any further than this recent incident at the Republican National Convention:
The controversy should have been over the type of partisan parliamentary maneuvers that normally define such major political gatherings, as Ron Paul supporters were in the process of contesting the decision of the Romney-run Republican National Committee not to seat several of the delegates that the quixotic libertarian had won during the Maine caucuses.... Read Original Article
Published: PolicyMic (August 29, 2012)
(co-authored with Cady McClain)
Editor’s Note: This article is written by Matthew Rozsa and Cady McClain
When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans seven years ago, 80% of the Crescent City was buried under water, spanning an area approximately eight times the size of Manhattan.
Published: PolicyMic (July 21, 2012)
Someone at ABC News needs to be fired.
In my article on Mitt Romney’s Bain scandal last week, I chided the media for being “pathetic” in its determination to take sides rather than objectively report the facts and demand answers from those in power. One week later, the irresponsibility of our mainstream news outlets has again reared its ugly head, this time when ABC News anchor Brian Ross wrongly connected The Dark Knight Rises killer to the Tea Party shortly after his network broke the story of the shootings.
To what extent does the public have the right to know about the mental health of its politicians?
This is what we should be asking ourselves after the revelation that Illinois Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. is receiving “intensive medical treatment at a residential treatment facility for a mood disorder.”