Watching the DNC

We have the DNC on in the newsroom as we all plug away at putting out tomorrow's paper and website.

I'm kind of disgusted with the coverage. All of the commentators are talking about the lack of mudslinging as if it were a major fault in the convention.

The positive nature of all of the comments portray what the convention is, and rightfully should be, a Democratic pep rally. This convention should be about what is right about their own party, not about pointing out what is wrong with the other one.

The RNC should follow this example and tout their own strengths instead of harping on their opponents' weaknesses. I know that is an idealized version of what politics will honestly never be, but the Democrats are doing a fine job of staying positive during the first night of their convention.

I for one applaud this.

My new favorite thing

The Daily Show is airing a series of reports this week with Rob Riggle in China.

Yes.

That guy is funny. That show rules. They keep getting better. Profiles in Profiling. They got Keri Strugg to badmouth Rob Riggle. I recommend everyone watch the show for the rest of this week to see these segments.

side note: Jon Stewart was talking about John Edwards' affair and said, "author of the theory of two Americas, and apparently was only faithful to his wife in one of them."

interesting

i can't say enough good things about the dark knight. and apparently i am not the only one. 300 millions bucks in ten days. all kinds of records broken and about to be broken.

i'm still trying to figure out where the next movie will be going. the rumor was that ledger was signed to at least 2 pictures. so whatever was being planned is clearly scrapped. and with that performance, there is not a chance they'll be getting another actor to play the joker.

my call: bane breaks the batman.

good storyline, lesser known character, could be a good route.

who knows.

professionalismish

just a thought about the media blitz on obama v mccain.

yeah, the media are harping on obama's trip around the world. yeah, mccain is getting treated as the secondary candidate. yeah, it does seem like the media is enamored with obama because of their constant attention.

but mccain is touring diners in east nowhere. obama is speaking to over a half-million people in germany.

maybe it's just good planning on the part of the obama camp. would mccain be getting more coverage if he were doing something interesting? probably.

obama is being held as accountable by the media as any candidate. the constant talk on the 24 news networks about "the rumors" about obama's being a muslim and whatever other nonsense is floating around the internet is surely not helping obama.

there will never be completely fair and unbiased news coverage in our current media culture. but for every sycophantic obama lover in the media, there are equally biased mccain supporters. it seems that the more mccain accuses the media of favoring obama, the more opinion articles pop up against obama.

i know in our paper we seem to offend the right wingers and the left wingers, so it seems like we're pretty balanced in at least one respect.

ne-ne-ne-ne Hellboy!

Obsessive might be the word. Excited sure works.

Hellboy 2 comes out on Friday. All of the hype is doing little to dissuade my belief that it will be a killer movie. Usually, the more advertising and pushing a movie does, the less i like it. As in: if it needs help through massive marketing, it clearly isn't good enough to stand on it's own.

Mr. del Toro is a genius. A man with a golden touch. He even made a movie with the horrible story and premise of Mimic watchable. The Hobbit movies are going to be amazing thanks to him and Peter Jackson teaming up.

The first Hellboy movie is a modern classic. Ron Perlman was born to play that role. Guillermo del Toro was born to direct that movie.

The cartoons were fun, but it's time for more of the live action Hellboy.

who didn't see that coming?

i know it's my job to put the news on the website, but i'm not sure how gore backing obama is news.

really? al gore, the democratic president who wasn't, the continual star of the party, the nobel prize dude, backing the democratic candidate?

yeah.

it would have been a surprise if he came out and backed mccain. actually, it would have been a shock had he come out and backed hillary at this point. but after the dems made the distinction and it was down to just one candidate for the party, al gore officially endorsing him is just going through the motions.
a little late even.
maybe a quick endorsement right after hillary conceded would have made a little more sense.
even bush got it right. he came out and had a nice hand-holding session with mccain right after it became official that old john punched his party's ticket and was heading to the big dance.

oh big green al, how did you let w beat you at something again?

here it comes

i know i'm jumping the gun here, but it looks like the possibility of an obama-clinton ticket this fall is still alive and well. in fact, it might be more viable now than ever before because of the peaceful, and often complimentary tone each candidate's campaign has had toward the other.

this might be the best thing that could happen to this country. i know that liberal politics scares people a lot, but we need something different after the past eight years of liberal spending and conservative social policies.

pissing away money to pay cheniburton to do the job that our troops are doing, but at a hundred times the price. and then at the same time, cutting funding for the veterans when they come back home. that's how this administration has thanked our troops. paying contractors way more to do way less and then giving them sub-par hospitals and healthcare when they come back home.

i'm looking forward to this new president. even if mccain wins, it'll be better than bush-cheney.