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More important, many of them were probably not partisans but people who might not have paid any attention to the stem-cell issue before the celebrity dustup roused their curiosity. (Just what made Rush so mad? How shaky does Alex P. Keaton look now, anyway?) In a past election, viewers might have seen the controversial ads only if they lived in Missouri or caught them on the news. Now they can find them, in full, at their leisure. They can also expand on, rebut or parody the ads, as numerous YouTubers did, including breatheasy7000, a woman whose 17-second video...
...other words, the controversy took a local race and--through YouTube's free distribution--nationalized it. The Democrats, whose holy grail has been to nationalize the midterms, owe Limbaugh a fruit basket. (The flap probably had less effect in Missouri, where the ads would have got notice anyway.) True, Rush's side got exposure too, but on a national level the Fox video seems more effective. It discusses the issue in emotional terms that people in any state can understand (whether or not they agree). The response ad begins, bafflingly, with Caviezel speaking in untranslated Aramaic, the historical language...
...difference is that if you're over 35, you think you have the right to keep your regrettable moments private. If you're under 35, you realize that everything is public now. Even if your racist rant were for a show in Kazakhstan, it would be on the Internet anyway. Never trust anyone under 35. Especially if he has a video camera...
...could to go to the Shi'ite elders in Baghdad and say, you are safe, you no longer need militias and they are a source of discord, so they must be disbanded. But the Americans failed to dislodge the Sunni insurgents, and then they go after the Mahdi army anyway - and that enrages Maliki because it weakens his government in such a way that it could fall...
...race still matters in politics. Earlier this year, David Yassky encountered resistance when he ran in the Democratic Congressional primary in Brooklyn’s majority-black 11th District. Residents called for him to drop out of the race because he was white. Yassky stuck it out but lost anyway to a black city councilwoman, Yvette D. Clarke...