Mark Schmitt has done some good work pointing out how the Bush Administration uses anonymous quotes to generate the spin it wants. The anonymous sources get to say ridiculous and/or self-serving things without being held accountable, and sometimes their excuses for anonymity are quite silly. If the White House were half as good at running Iraq as it is at playing the media, parts of Baghdad would not be exploding right now.
(PS - I'm proud to be the sender of the email mentioned at the beginning of the post.)
Neil Sinhababu's philosophy and politics blog, 2004-2015 ‡ neiladri, at gmail dot com
My other blogs
I've blogged in many different places. Here are some of them:
I'm very proud of War or Car, where I posted a new thing you could buy for the price of the Iraq War everyday, for 121 days. This was during the 2008 elections, and I was glad that the antiwar candidate won. The site got its name because you could buy every American household a Toyota Prius for the $3 trillion price of the war. Or you could buy the Irish their annual beer intake, in Guinness, for a millennium. Or you could buy all the world's pandas their own personal stealth bombers!
Probably my greatest era of internet awesomeness was guestblogging for Ezra Klein long before he achieved his current superstardom at Vox. My posts there are pretty scattered, so they'll be hard to find. My work for Ezra catapulted me into other opportunities like filling in for Kevin Drum at the Washington Monthly. After that from 2008 to 2015, my friend Nick Beaudrot and I wrote a blog called Donkeylicious. As the name suggests, it was largely about Democratic politics.
During the 2012 elections, I created a little blog called VoteSeeing that tabulated election predictions and graded predictors on how well they did. The folks at Daily Kos Elections won the prediction contest, with Nate Silver and FiveThirtyEight a close second. Shortly afterward, a group of philosophers at a blog called NewAPPS got me to put up a few posts for them.
This post at the Philosophers' Cocoon has more about my job at the National University of Singapore, where I'm a philosophy professor.
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- Getting facts into play
- Reading Gallup
- Election Protection
- Ten cuidado del nombre "Bush"
- Read the Book
- Only with the Democratic plan...
- Theoretical Taxonomy: Wussy and Badass
- Kerry on the warpath
- Go Alan Go!
- Charter school disaster
- The tragedy of coherentism
- Tonight
- Edwards and experience
- Becoming an ethical werewolf
- Prediction
- Mattlinks
- Making the rounds on Monday
- What Gore could've done
- Anonyspin
- Reports and thoughts
- This isn't Willkietime
- The Instapundit Fun Page!
- Get well soon, Bill
- Last SBVT post (I hope)
- Swift Boat endgame?
- Zell Miller, 2001
- Don't nominate crazy people
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