Booman, Booman Tribune AlterNet: Election 2008. October 12, 2008. McCain and Palin's scurrilous and inciteful attacks may still play in modern-day Alabama, but they don't play outside the south.
Staff, No More Mister Nice Blog AlterNet: PEEK. October 12, 2008. If John McCain had been the maverick he thinks he is, he might have single-handedly redeemed his own party.
Emptywheel, Firedoglake AlterNet: PEEK. October 10, 2008. "I accuse you of deliberately feeding the most unhinged elements of our society the red meat of hate ..."
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. October 10, 2008. The Wall Street Journal reports today that inside the McCain campaign, there's division over the bloodthirsty tactics.
Norman Solomon, AlterNet. October 9, 2008. Some progressives believe the McCain campaign is doomed. Let's not forget how low the Republicans will go to win.
Jared Bernstein, Huffington Post. October 9, 2008. McCain's economic plan contradicts his recently held fundamental views and is far out of touch with the needs of the country.
Simran Sethi, Huffington Post. October 9, 2008. Palin and McCain have always been for it. Joe Biden was sort of against it before he was for it and Barack Obama embraces it.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: Election 2008. October 9, 2008. MSNBC's Keith Olbermann has a very interesting report on McCain's own 'character' and 'judgment.'
Matt Corley, Think Progress AlterNet: Election 2008. October 9, 2008. McCain's campaign has continually drawn the ire of musicians by using copyrighted material without permission.
Jason Linkins, Huffington Post AlterNet: PEEK. October 9, 2008. To "transcend politics" Bill O'Reilly thinks McCain should just yell and engage in crazyfaced, nonsensical rantings.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. October 8, 2008. "It is obviously with tacit approval; and quite probably on the campaign's specific instructions."
Robert Scheer, Truthdig. October 8, 2008. McCain is not a perfect replica of George W. Bush. But neither man seems to have any sense of how we actually live or what we need from government.
Robert Parry, Consortium News. October 8, 2008. Palin may not even understand the significance of her baseless attacks on Obama that are straight out of the neocon playbook.
Melissa McEwan, Shakesville AlterNet: PEEK. October 8, 2008. I gave Brokaw the benefit of the doubt that he wouldn't let his bias show. Well, that was silly of me.
AlterNetOctober 8, 2008. Liliana Segura, Don Hazen, Joshua Holland, David Sirota, Jill Tubman, Arianna Huffington, Andrew Sullivan and others share their thoughts.
Seth Colter Walls, Huffington Post AlterNet: Video. October 7, 2008. Sounds like McCain is buying into the hate rhetoric spouted at his own rallies. Click through for more analysis.