In case the online spite wasn’t clear enough, we’ve now been dubbed as soldiers in a “War” by POLITICO.

Maybe one reason the Left leads in online reporting instead of just playing catch with hand me down talking points is that our corporate media is already handing down right-wing approved angles on news.

Or maybe it’s because those that are informed have more to talk about than reassuring each other that they’re right.

As ironic proof, you can view the right wing trolls’ comments on the article, seizing upon any random participle from Obama as proof of a “flip flop,” while McCain struggles to remember which decade he is in.

As a new right-wing smear machine gears up against the internationally-adored Obama, of course there will be a quickie attack movie on him.  But guess what ‘expert’ weighs in on the ‘real’ Obama?

None other than my leading man in FREE FOR ALL!, J. Kenneth Blackwell.

Apparently ol’ JKB wasn’t satisfied only starring in one election year documentary.  I guess he has plenty of time on his hands to show up as a GOP talking point dispenser when they need a black guy to give it legitimacy.

But for an African-American politician that oversaw the disenfranchisement of more African-Americans in an election than a whole convention of Southern Sheriffs, perhaps Blackwell aspires to run all blacks out of politics until it is just him and the ‘Club’ that he still desperately wants to get into.

We will be distributing 5000 of these stickers at Comic Con in San Diego this weekend!

For those who are not familiar with Admiral Adama, I strongly recommend that you watch the entire series of Battlestar Gallactica on Sci-Fi.

The fact that Adama is really a character played by Edward James Olmos is not a big deal; he’s just a cooler Bill Richardson.

And while Adama has at times imposed military rule on the surviving humans of his fleet while imprisoning the President, let it be said that he has done what he thought was right and necessary.  His strong armed forces background and intimacy with politics (like putting the moves on Roslyn!) makes him the ideal running mate for Obama.

Today policy switch-hitter John McCain went to a Yankees game with 9/11 mascot Rudy Giuliani.  Rudy insists he’s not introducing McCain to the Yankees lineup to curry favor as a VP possibility.  (Maybe Attorney General, but so what?) 

I documented Rudy’s Yankees fetish and love of power symbols as part of his megalomaniac bully complex for my upcoming film, RUDY & ME, part of the ‘Dude Trilogy’ as I will call it.

While still cutting the Ohio epic that would break into the separate docs FREE FOR ALL! and PAY 2 PLAY, I was also following Rudy’s campaign, interviewing his old rivals in New York, and revisiting my cable access comedy show that sparred with him in the late 90’s, Toolz of the New School.

Once Rudy’s campaign dissolved in a tidal wave of un-enthusiasm,  I set RUDY & ME aside to follow up after the 2008 race.  But as he now eyes the New York Governor’s Mansion, you better believe I’m eager to get back to work.

Rudy: We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.*

* (with a shout out to Tennessee Williams)

One of the reforms we have called for in FREE FOR ALL! (not that I’m alone in any of them) is that there should be a day off for voting.  Why Tuesday? is a citizen journalist group that has done reporting on different issues, including “How the hell did we vote on Tuesday in the first place?”

Here, not only do they speak to Rep. Steve Israel (NY), a member of Congress who introduced a bill to move elections to the first WEEKEND in November, they give him a camcorder to bug other people on Capitol Hill about why Tuesday became Election Day.

A big shout out to Cliff Arnebeck and Bob Fitrakis in Columbus, Ohio, for continuing to track down the 2004 Election Fraud in Ohio like some Bloodhound-Pit Bull super mutt.

The new lawsuit announced this week in Columbus identifies a lynch pin of how Rove et Al. have been hacking our elections: Mike Connell, a little-covered player in this field, who I illustrate in FREE FOR ALL! as the computer programmer who was making Ken Blackwell’s website to report the ‘official’ Secretary of State election totals while simultaneously promoting lies about John Kerry through the Swift Boat Vets for Truth website.  Besides the fact that he’s worked for the Bushes since the 80’s, built almost every other GOP website, and also has access to most of Congress’s emails, there is sufficient reason to focus in on this Southerner.

Below is the sequence from FREE FOR ALL! where I illustrate how this web of Republican operatives controlled the 2004 election in Ohio from when votes are cast on Diebold machines to when they’re counted and reported by other GOP corporations.

I know that the disproportionate amount of media going to every syllable and hiccup that comes out of Senator Barack Obama — compared to the seldom-reported rantings of Crazy Old Guy John McCain — suggests a media establishment looking for some slip-up by the popular front runner, and a hypocritical approval of John McCain’s offensive jokes, marital issues, flip flops, ignorant gaffes (Czechoslavakia is so last century, dude).  I understand that there is legitimate concern about how the corporate establishment will try to tear down Obama as popular hero, and then shrug and nod at McCain because they got used to accepting old white guy Republican talking points long ago.

As Mark Crispin Miller has pointed out, this lopsided scrutiny prepares the public to accept the explanation that McCain wins the presidency despite the world’s expectations, because ‘Americans weren’t ready for such and such and so and so,’ as was widely run into the ground by the media leading up to the election.

But here is another side to the media rush to Obama instead of McCain, which I believe is also a factor: Ask yourself, why has the paparazzi been so single-mindedly focused on Brittney Spears instead of Christina Aguillera?  What of Christina’s woes in love, bad driving, and wardrobe crimes?

Why?  Because people DON’T CARE about Christina Agiullera, or John McCain.  Obama is a star, Britney is a star, and the media swarms around the people readers give a shit about.  And I sense the longer the American public has to get used to Obama being put in front of them every day, the more closet racists will get used to him as The Man, and be more pragmatic than going for the guy who’s skin tone matches theirs, even though his policies don’t.