Posts Tagged ‘MSNBC’

Colin Hanna, Liar.

I get that politics is rough and tumble and the both sides stretch the truth; I don’t love it as an old-school trained journalist, but with a decade of covering politics and nearly another decade as a participant, I kind of have a sense that you can stretch the truth in politics and people get that and factor it into their digestion of news and reporting.

But there are times when something gets so badly stretched that the truth is utterly snapped and someone needs to point it out. This time it comes from Chester County’s own Colin Hanna.

You might remember Hanna as a short-tempered, personality-challenged former county commissioner or may know him from his “Swift-Boat-Lite” PAC, LetFreedomRingUSA (and how someone showed up in both an LFRUSA commercial — the guy who says he won’t hire anybody if Obama is elected — and a McCain commercial makes one wonder about blatant violations of — wait for it — McCain-Feingold, but I digress).

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When life imitates art.

We all went to high school with Sarah Palin. Maybe we aren’t all members of the Wasilla class of ’82 — but we all share that memory.

Whatever your Sarah was named, you know what I mean. Mine was a particularly ruthless girl named Sue. She was the head cheerleader, the editor of the high school paper. She liked to pretend she was all sweetness and light — but inside: cold, hard steel and ambition. Nothing much was going to get between her and what she wanted. Don’t be surprised if that reminds you a bit of the movie Election — which no one in the media has been savvy enough to pick up on outside of MSNBC’s Keith Olberman — although the reality is a bit more like the novel of the same the film is based on.

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