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Ronpaulites face the invisible fist
Posted by Ron Coleman on October 25, 2007
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Google / MoveOn intrigue
Posted by Ron Coleman on October 25, 2007
Bob Cox at the San Francisco Examiner is all over it!:
Internal documents obtained by The Examiner shine new light on MoveOn.org’s “General Betray Us” ad and raise fresh questions about the far-left advocacy group’s misleading statements on the issue and its relationship with Google, a major donor to its political action committee.
The documents show how MoveOn.org used dubious claims of trademark infringement and threats of litigation to silence critics of its recent controversial full-page ad in The New York Times attacking Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top U.S. general in Iraq, which appeared the day he was testifying before Congress on the war effort. Among those critics was Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, who is seeking a third term….
After The Examiner exclusively reported Oct. 11 that Google had banned four anti-MoveOn.org ads placed by the Collins campaign, Google and MoveOn.org each sought to portray the ban as unrelated to the Petraeus ad controversy. The documents obtained by The Examiner, however, show a direct link between the two events….
None of the complaints filed by MoveOn.org with Google or CafePress.com asserted that a “third party” was making fraudulent use of MoveOn.org’s name to collect financial contributions….
[But] on Sept. 19, MoveOn.org’s Erik Olson — husband of [Google COO] Carrie Olson — filed a trademark complaint with Google seeking to block any mention of MoveOn.org by any advertiser for any reason, including ads that criticize MoveOn.org by name.
It was this complaint that Google cited as the basis for banning Sen. Collins’ anti-MoveOn.org ads. Google’s complaint form used by MoveOn.org required that the trademark owner make a legal affirmation that the complainant has a “good faith belief” that the use of the trademark is not “permissible under law.”
MoveOn.org, however, did not cite any specific ad, nor did it provide Google with any evidence of trademark infringement. The advocacy group has since said publicly that the Collins ads are permissible under the law.
There’s a lot more. This story has gotten beyond my little opinions about trademark law — but not past Bob Cox. Read the article.
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Stopping Hillary from the left?
Posted by Ron Coleman on October 24, 2007
More like firming her up with the center. Here’s a strategy that may just propel Hillary Clinton to the White House : Ads by nutroots making her out to be a right-wing tool:
A newly formed political action committee is aiming to stop Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary by calling into question her progressive credentials.”We think there are other Democratic presidential candidates who are both more progressive and have a better chance of beating the Republicans than she does,” said the president of Democratic Courage, Glenn Hurowitz.
He declined to tip his hand on the group’s case against Clinton, but said the PAC plans a paid media campaign in the early primary states to make its position clear.
“We’ll definitely have sufficient resources to make a significant media buy,” he said, adding that their campaign against Clinton would be “edgy” enough to get attention. “We don’t need to raise an immense amount of money to make a big difference.”
Shoring up Hillary’s foreign policy credentials with the key middlin’ vote? If they had a Karl Rove on th’ other side, he’d be behind this one.
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Obama, hands down
Posted by Ron Coleman on October 23, 2007
I said he wasn’t ready, but I wasn’t ready for this (via Glenn). How does he explain this one away?
Members of the radical right [sic] continue to remove the motes from Barack Obama’s eyes, while ignoring the boulders in their own vision.A few weeks ago, it was
Obama’s failure to wear a flag lapel pin that upset some conservatives. Now it’s Obama’s — gasp! — failure to put his hand over his heart during the National Anthem that has some people up in arms.
The website NewsBusters picks the nit with the senator from Illinois:
Does he perhaps believe that, like wearing the flag pin, the hand on the heart isn’t “true patriotism”?
Does anyone believe that putting a hand over the heart proves “true patriotism”?
“Radical right” — sheesh. But the question is: Why do liberals insist on erecting vast policies — economic, legal, educational, military — on symbolism, but when the symbolism of patriotism is in play, it “doesn’t matter”?
Of course it matters — it is not sufficient, but it is necessary. Putting your hand on your heart matters, if any symbolism does. And when you’re a presidential candidate, or for that matter merely a United States Senator, that “when” is always.
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Green with envy
Posted by Ron Coleman on October 17, 2007
The New York Observer catalogs, along with a scurrilously hideous caricature of the candidate’s wife, the horror — the horror! — local New York libs are experiencing at the prospect of their hated former mayor as the likely GOP candidate, and very maybe
possibly winning candidate, for the presidency:
All presidential candidates have some element of hometown opposition—constituents angry about a factory closing, politicians spiteful about losing a bill or an election. But no candidate engenders as much local animus as Mr. Giuliani, whose terms as mayor were characterized by a series of spectacular running battles with various, mostly liberal constituencies.
For the first months of his candidacy for president, prominent progressives in New York mocked the notion that a pro-choice, immigration-friendly serial husband with a history of opposition to guns would have a shot at the Republican nomination.
But now, with Mr. Giuliani up nearly 10 percentage points in national polls and unexpectedly competitive in the early primary states of New Hampshire and South Carolina, a mixture of nervousness and disbelief is running through the ranks of his old antagonists.
“People say, ‘Still?’” said Mark Green, a former New York City public advocate and persistent foil to Mr. Giuliani. “If the other 49 [states] knew what we knew, he wouldn’t be in the ballpark, much less winning the game.”
It is to laugh — Mark Green! He would surely be proud, at all the East Side dinner parties, to be considered a “persistent foil” to Mr. Giuliani. But the word “tinfoil” keeps bursting through one’s mental associations, for as any local will tell you, Green is identified mainly as one of the persistent losers of New York politics, a liberal Democrat without a pogrom to his credit who still managed to lose a New York City mayoral election to a billionaire Republican in New York City. Green is most notable for finding last-ditch municipal teats, such as the preposterous political post of “public advocate,” onto which to latch, so as never have to work an honest day in his life.
Foil, indeed. To hear a strikeout king like Mark Green talk about ballparks and games — this is truly local color!
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I report, you decide
Posted by Ron Coleman on October 14, 2007
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Stopping the bulldozer
Posted by Ron Coleman on October 13, 2007
I used to think the eventuality of a Hillary Clinton presidential run was “no problem,” because surely the brain trust at the tippy-top of the GOP has been working out this strategy, utilizing higher math, the alignment of the stars, dumpster-diving and elaborate drills and simulations, for a decade. Her candidacy, I figured — as Carl Rove says — was a gimme for the Republicans, and all we had to do was let the Democrats step into the trap of nominating her, and then — fwip! — we’d have her figuratively hanging by her ankle in a net. “Heh,” right.
No such heh. I saw the Republican leadership in 2006… saw them mishandle the immigration debate… watched the porkathon of 2007 with horror… and saw the GOP become the face of gross political corruption. Unless “simulate utter political incompetence” is really one of those grand Roveian master plans, it’s going to take a lot more than the party that keeps giving us the likes of Trent Lott for leadership, to avoid this bad dream:
Clinton yesterday said she would meet with Iran without preconditions. “I would engage in negotiations with Iran, with no conditions, because we don’t really understand how Iran works,” she said.
“Because we don’t really understand how Iran works“?!
Save us, God!
So, how do you stop a bulldozer? Read the rest of this entry »
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Guess who’s coming to kiddush
Posted by Ron Coleman on October 9, 2007
Roger Simon writes about “Why They Hate the Neocons” (via Insty) but besides a passing reference to the subject, completely ignores the Jewish issue and the underlying accusation against neoconservatives, at least on one level, of dual loyalty.
But it is not to be ignored. To even fail to address it at least by refutation suggests that perhaps Simon is not being honest… about himself.
UPDATE: “They all look alike” (same hat tip) but, again, the obvious issue is ignored — even though it’s as plain as the nose on my face.
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Obama quits race
Posted by Ron Coleman on October 1, 2007
The New York Times reports:
Senator Barack Obama will propose on Tuesday setting a goal of eliminating all nuclear weapons in the world, saying the United States should greatly reduce its stockpiles to lower the threat of nuclear terrorism, aides say.
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Hot Air keeps gunning for Rudy
Posted by Ron Coleman on September 16, 2007
Rudy does something very right … everyone in the rightosphere high-fives him … that can mean only one thing:
Al the Pundit slams Rudy for being an effective political battler — again. It’s pretty clear that Allah is far beyond being a fair broker on Giuliani: He can’t stand him. But is it Anonymous Al, or is he carrying water for Michelle Malkin? If so, what’s the back story here? I haven’t the slightest idea, but it’s not funny.
(Hat tip to the permalinkless Hotline.)
By the way, this article in The New Yorker is the gold standard on Rudy Giuliani. And it is no puff piece. Yet he is my candidate. Because in terms of New York, not post-9/11, but post something truly more destructive — the Dinkins Administration — I was there.
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