John Gorenfeld

Change is afoot. On Monday, I’ll be handing over the center seat of the Campaign Silo to the formidable political reporter/blogger Lindsay Beyerstein, who has written for the New York Press, Slate, Raw Story, and a whole host of publications. Thanks for reading, and thanks to FireDogLake’s Jane and David letting me write for the [...]

OMG, no building has ever collapsed after being hit by massive jets like the World Trade Center did—it had to be thermite! At least according to David Lynch, and a crazy Air America host I met once, and people on Second Life, and Jerome Corsi, the best-selling right-wing author of Obama Nation, who, we didn’t [...]

According to John McCain.

Big news yesterday was, a former Republican congressman, Jim Leach of Iowa, has gone and crossed party lines and endorsed Barack Obama. I wasn’t surprised by his maverick(!) turn. In my new book Bad Moon Rising, which is a case study of the moral decay of the Religious Right, a crucial and illuminating scene finds [...]

♦ What would Basic Instinct screenwriter Joe Eszterhas have said about John Edwards’s mistress? Rush Limbaugh just said it. [Media Matters] ♦ People died from America’s cheap promises to Georgia—given by the force behind the foreign policy platform of John McCain, who for some reason stresses that the invaded country was "one of the world’s [...]

John McCain’s latest Web ad: In which the movement that gave us writers like William F. Buckley and William Safire now relies on pop culture jokes as poorly thought-out as anything on "The Family Guy."

As Georgia and Russia committed barbarities upon people caught between their disgusting territorial ambitions: ♦ Neoconservative Robert Kagan asked us not to bother with the details of why Putin counter-attacked Georgia, because, after all, we can’t remember the details of why Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia. [Time] ♦ Russophile journalist Mark Ames lambasted John McCain’s "stark-raving statement" [...]

Here’s McCain’s latest commercial, complete with narration from a vulnerable-sounding woman whose family, we are to assume from her ragged tone of desperation, will lose the only hope keeping Dad from the grave if Barack Obama, drunk with celebrity, repeals Bush’s tax cuts, sucking the life blood out of Americans who earn but $42,000 a [...]

♦ An L.A. advertising agency has proposed that Obama supporters form their hands into the "SIGN OF PROGRESS," a hand gesture they’ve come up with. Under the unlikely plan, Obamaphiles would make an O-shaped salute to express their commitment to reinventing America, exactly like in that Star Trek episode with the space hippies. We reach, [...]

John Quinn, a photographer from the Bloomberg news service, interrupts an Obama speech on energy today to demand that the candidate recite the Pledge of Allegiance.