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...will always find excuses after a loss, and the weather theory may have some basis, but you'll have to look hard for a concrete example of where snow, or sun, actually gave the election to one side or another. If it did, of course, it puts an interesting spin on actual environmental policy. Do the Republicans, by loosening pollution standards, really want to get a lock on future elections by altering the climate and buffeting the nation with freakish megastorms? Or are they sabotaging themselves by promoting global warming, thus guaranteeing balmy days in November in Democrat precincts...
...unfortunate earlier prognostications. (Last night, many of the pundits were practically giving the election to Bush. If they're proved wrong, they could always blame it on the balmy weather in Miami.) And, during the downtime when polls are open, it adds yet provides yet more wonkish thread to spin while they wait for the returns...
...prize, as the punditocracy have over the last few days declared it to be the Maginot Line of the 2000 election. (And with that, we hereby conclude the French metaphors for the duration of this piece.) Which means that come 7:01 p.m. ET, the deluge of heavy spin will arrive...
Berlinger, who has co-directed true-crime documentaries in rural settings (Brother's Keeper, Paradise Lost), juxtaposes the real with the surreal, whatever those words mean in a fictional spin-off of a pseudo documentary. BW2 ends in a delirious ambiguity, which can be solved by the maxim "Films lie; video tells the truth." But few movies have spread their fibs or facts as clumsily as this one. There's not an emotionally plausible moment in the picture. If Berlinger thinks he's commenting on media sensation--and not trying to exploit it--then the joke...
...Israeli-Palestinian violence have combined to turbo-charge his campaign to smash international sanctions against his country. Iraq Airways on Sunday flew its first domestic flights over the "no-fly zones" maintained by the U.S. and Britain since the Gulf War, and it repeated the gesture on Monday. Official spin from the White House: We have no problem with civilian air traffic; those zones are to protect Kurds and Shiites from Iraqi military planes. Still, nobody doubts the significance of the gesture. Not when airliners carrying government officials and businessmen are landing almost daily from Russia, Europe and all over...