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Archive - Oct 28, 2008

Citizen Jane, a New Film Festival

The weekend of October 17-19, a college town in Missouri welcomed a new film festival, Citizen Jane--a clever title for a festival devoted to women in film. 


Campaign Myths Busted

Whether you're a Democrat or Republican, Socialist or of the Green Party, you are faced with the mind-boggling task of filing through the media's coverage of each candidate. With every click of the remote and turn of the page, falsehoods are being "ripped from the headlines," bearing witness to new age campaigning and swayed voting. As November looms over our heads it is about time that we cleared up a few of these well-known myths.


Endorsements this Election

So endoresments have gotten played pretty big this election.  Colin Powell's endoresment of Obama last week was huge.  And SNL parodied McCain's avoidence of a Bush endorsement last weekend (http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/update-thursday-bush-... ). But perhaps the biggest endorsement of the election came last week for McCain.  And NO ONE talked about it.  I usually am pretty up on my news, and I just found out about this today.  

Whose endoresment am I talking about?  Well that would be Al Qaeda's endorsement of good ol' John McCain.  That is kind of huge, especially considering the suggestion by security experts that Al Qaeda might use terrorist attacks in the next week to tip the election in McCain's favor.  

What I want to know is why this was hardly covered.  This seems like a huge issue worthy of news coverage -- far more important than Sarah Palin's wardrobe.  

Check out Nicholas Kristof's column on this endorsement: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/26/opinion/26kristof.html?_r=1&em&oref=sl...

One week until election day!Â