2008 Election

W&W: The Voter Suppression Squirrel and (Ooo!) Crazy Republicans

By Maegan Carberry ⋅ November 12, 2008 ⋅   Email this post ⋅  Digg This ⋅  Share on Facebook ⋅  Print this post ⋅ Post a comment

With Ted on vacation and Teresa with an early morning work commitment, I got the hot comedian and political pundit Baratunde Thurston all to myself! We discussed the success of his Voter Suppression Wikki on election day last week, whether comedians can be funny in an Obama administration (don’t ask him that!!), and how we talking heads who supported Obama will now be able to transition into a more appropriate critical mode. 

Halfway through the program, MediaLizzy joins to discuss the overwhelmingly self-reinforcing comments on our HuffPost piece. I’ve never been fond of pundits who can’t take criticism, but I was shocked by the number of readers who really believe that Republicans are predominantly whack jobs. I wanted to write the post because there are compelling people like Lizzy out there who are going to emerge as the new leaders of the party. They need to organize better online and we progressives need to start listening to them instead of immediately pointing fingers at Fox News and RedState. (Read Federalist No. 10 if you’ve got doubts about tyranny of the majority.) The comments are the equivalent of suggesting that liberals can only be characterized by Dennis Kucinich and Al Sharpton. Looks like some liberals have let this victory get them a lil bit sassy pants. 

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