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Blog Entries by Caryn James from 10/2008

Return of the War Room: Not-So-Extreme Makeover

| Posted 10.12.2008
Read More: James Carville, Chris Hegedus, George Stephanopoulos, Political Documentary, D.A. Pennebaker, Sundance Channel, War Room, News

Sometimes a political documentary plays like a horror movie, and Return of the War Room and its accompanying déjà vu scared me more than anything I've seen in a while.

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On Wordiness, Godliness and Truthiness: The McCain-Palin Assault on Language

| Posted 10.30.2008
Read More: Wordy Shipmates, Sarah Vowell, Language, Mccain, Political Rhetoric, Palin, Anti-Intelectuals, John McCain, Speech, Election 2008, Barack Obama, Socialists, News

The McCain-Palin campaign is demonizing language and not just using it with that politics-as-usual slipperiness. But denigrating language is easy after all these years of George "Malapropism" Bush.

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