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Frank Rich:

The Obama campaign has long been on board those digital locomotives. Its ability to tell its story under the radar of the mainstream press in part accounts for why the Obama surge has been so often underestimated. Even now we’re uncertain of its size. The extraordinary TV viewership for Obama on Thursday night, larger than the Olympics opening ceremony, this year’s Oscars or any “American Idol” finale, may only be a count of the horses. The Obama campaign’s full reach online — for viewers as well as fund-raising and organizational networking — remains unknown.

John McCain has certainly learned some of the internet's hollow campaign tricks (buying adsense keywords, putting sensational clips on youtube), but his digital media strategy is as bankrupt as the rest of his campaign. Obama's campaign is much more disciplined and has a greater understanding of how the subtleties of all media work together. He continues to be underestimated, and he continues to knock it out of the park. Meanwhile, the "maverick" continues to meet everyone's exact expectations. McCain is the status quo, even in campaigning. And Obama is anything but.

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Below, Shelly Palmer talks a bit about Obama's perfectly produced convention speech.  It's just the latest example of the campaign wildly exceeding the MSM's expectations.

• Frank Rich:  Obama Outwits the Bloviators
  

previously on wtg:

• republicans no longer own foreign policy
  
• attacks on obama will just bring more donations
• obama hits limbaugh, dobbs.  limbaugh "hurt"
• jay smooth:  barack obama and tolerance fatigue

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Kirn:  

Compared to the Dude, the typical superheros of our day feel less and less reassuring, and even ominous.  Billionaire playboys who mask their true identities while turnigng themselves into gigantic armored flying boners aren't the solutions to violence, we sense, but embodiments of the traits that cause it.

The dudes approach to conquering evil was to let it conquor itself while he takes a bath or crashes on the sofa.

I couldn't find this particular piece among Rolling Stone's web offering, but it might be there somewhere...

• the decade of the dude

previously on wtg:

• lebowski/christ mashup:  the passion of the jesus 
• the cult of hatepup
• the first church of the last laugh 
• everybody loves beer.  even little jimmy! 

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From Daily Kos:

By picking Palin, McCain revealed his desperation to make a splash to rival the genuine excitement generated by the Obama campaign.  But desperation leads to poor decisions -- and McCain's Hail Mary, like most last second desperation moves, is destined to fail miserably.  He's smeared himself with the pungent mud of Alaska Republican corruption, while cutting the legs out from one of his most reliable attacks against Obama.  And he's presented Americans with the prospect of electing a dangerous neophyte to be a heartbeat away from the presidency, behind a man whose life expectancy is less than two presidential terms.

Why would McCain pick someone from a state so tied to Big Oil?  Why would he pick someone who, like Alaska's Don Young and Ted Stevens, is under investigation for corruption?  Why would he pick someone who thoroughly undermines his arguments against Obama?  And why would he be so foolish as to confuse "a woman named Hillary" with "any woman"?  This is really baffling.

To quote the first reaction of a Republican acquaintance in her mid 60's, "I don't want her holding the reins when he shuffles off this mortal coil."

Note:  I'm generally not a Kos fan and I think the Quayle comparison is irrelevant.

• worse than quayle
  

previously on wtg:

• alaska's don young:  angry.  corrupt.  proud of it. 
• republicans oppose voter confidence act  
• republican representative from texas:  american's love waterboarding 
• mccain health care advisor:  everyone already has health care 

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"Jon Cohn has continued to follow the saga of John Goodman, the McCain health care policy advisor, who has said that the ability to go to an emergency room is as good as having health insurance.

First, the McCain camp denied that Goodman was an advisor. Then, after being confronted with evidence to the contrary, they went on to issue what amounts to a non-denial denial and a repudiation of Goodman's emergency room statement."

• emergency room paradise
• john c. goodman, ph.d.
  

previously on wtg:

• why don't people know that mccain opposes roe v. wade? 
• what about the military commissions act of 2006? 

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Alone around 10 PM - Just me and this tempting French creperie, originally uploaded by Stuck in Customs.

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A very quick explanation of the thinking behind the dream machine.

previously on wtg:

• burroughs, balk, gysin: towers open fire
• the visual art of william s burroughs
• brion gysin's poem of poems
• genesis p-orridge on evedolph hitler
  

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Eddie, writing on Gen's blog:  

"We're thrilled to report that the new PSYCHIC TV / PTV3 album "Mr. Alien Brain Vs. The Skinwalkers" will be released by Cargo/Sweet Nothing Records on October 20th, 2008. It will be a CD + DVD containing a featurette edited by filmmaker Marie Losier. More info to come, but wanted to share the great news...the cover art as wallpaper."

While Psychic TV / Throbbing Gristle release dates have been completely divorced from reality in recent years, I am absolutely ecstatic about eventually getting my hands and ears on a brand new PTV3 record.  The death of Lady Jaye led me to wonder if Gen would continue on with the band in the long term.  Here's hoping that this is just the next step of PTV3 and not the last gasp.


Just for fun, here's some relatively recent footage of the band performing Roman P.:

• new ptv3 album october 20, 2008
  

previously on wtg:

• comprehensive interview with genesis p-orridge 
• message from thee temple ov psychic youth 
• psychic tv:  r u experienced? 
• genesis p-orridge:  e crazy genius 

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Bill Moyers sits down with history and international relations expert and former US Army Colonel Andrew J. Bacevich who identifies three major problems facing our democracy: the crises of economy, government and militarism, and calls for a redefinition of the American way of life. "Because of this preoccupation with the presidency,” says Bacevich, “the president has become what we have instead of genuine politics, instead of genuine democracy." Respected across the political spectrum, Bacevich has contributed to The Nation, The American Conservative, Foreign Affairs, among others, and his latest book is The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism.

I recently watched this on my iPhone to pass the time on an exceptionally long train ride from NYC to Rhode Island. Bacevich delivers some hard truths that American citizens are unlikely to accept any time soon.  While our willful ignorance and insistence on living beyond our means saddens me, it's heartening to know that a man of this stature is speaking up. I'll definitely pick up a copy of his book.

• Vacevich Interview @ PBS 
• Andrew Bacevich @ Wikipedia
  
• Subscribe to Bill Moyers Journal in iTunes

previously on wtg:

• josh marshall on alberto gonzales 
• white house trying to eliminate foia 
• al gore declares support for gay marriage 
• moblogic's sobering look at the war in iraq 

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Pemaquid Point, originally uploaded by Ed Karjala.

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• Pageonce - Banking, bills, etc. all on your phone. This has the potential to be a killler app if they can add additional interactive functionality. 
• Evernote - Incredibly useful note taking via text/voice/photo. Optical character recognition and versions for web/mac/win make for a universally useful tool.
• Beatmaker - Worth every penny of its $20 price. This feature-rich music composition/performance app shows how powerful the phone really is.  And I get the feeling that this is only the beginning.
  
• NetNewsWire - Very basic free RSS reader that works even when you don't have signal. Somebody will improve on this (greader + google gears, please!), but you might as well stick with this free app until somebody does. 
• NYTimes - It is friggin' awesome to have the entire NYT downloaded to your phone. Like NetNewsWire, it's a welcome source of information for those who find themselves without connectivity on a regular basis.

 previously on wtg:

• the blip.tv <-> iphone hack
• the iphone is nice.  but it's not revolutionary 
• nyc students vs. the cell phone ban 
• make a mellotron out of walkmans

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If you made it through last week's premiere, you *might* be ready for this week's episode. But being a veteran viewer might not be enough.  If you can get through the giggles of embarrassment, you'll be laughing out loud.

Warning: This show is NSFW!




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For more information about the show, be sure to read last week's post.

• The Fold
• Subscribe in iTunes
  

previously on wtg:

• comprehensive interview with genesis p-orridge
  
• enter the fold:  part sci-fi, part sex comedy, part art movie
  
• newsdate 2011:  the grand inqusitor, featuring the work of julie atlas muz, dj spooke and julie talen
• calia & friends bible study 
• the cradle will rock
• j.d. casten, ana voog & "dreaming on stage" 

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Play Value cops the VH1 style (in a good way) and gives the history of videogames the focus it has always deserved.  The Tetris saga is one of the most fascinating stories in the gaming history, which inevitably led to this being the show's best episode.  Of course, that's not to say that the other episodes aren't fascinating as well.

And while we're on the subject, somebody finally released a free version of Tetris for the iPhone.

• Play Value
• Subscribe to 720p HD in iTunes
  

previously on wtg:

• modding tapper:  a noble cause
• performance art in second life
• torus trooper:  old school gaming with beautiful graphics a la tempest 2000/3000 
• hey kids!  it's grey market 8-bit dance dance revolution

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Sports Night is one of my favorite TV shows and easily the most Sorkin-y show that was ever Sorkin-y (read:  people walk and talk while repeating themselves and others). He spoke a bit about the show in a recent GQ article:

"GQ: Sports Night ran for just two years. I gotta say, It always seemed like a weird fit for ABC.

AS:  Yeah. Sports Night was on right between The Drew Carey Show and Spin City. ABC would tell me, “You’re losing 20 percent of Drew Carey’s audience.” I would tell them, “I don’t think so. I think I’m losing 100 percent of Drew Carey’s audience.”


GQ:  Sports Night ends with a classic line: “Anybody who can’t make money off of Sports Night should get out of the moneymaking business.” Zing!

AS:  I’m not crazy about stepping outside the show and winking at the audience. But it felt good to write it. And the crew liked listening to it.


GQ:  So much of Sports Night was about fathers. I remember watching one scene in which a dad rejects his son’s ringside seats to a boxing match because he thinks his kid is showing off, and thinking that had to have come from real life.

AS:  Oh yeah. My father was an intellectual-property lawyer. He was born in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, fought in World War II on the GI Bill. The greasier side of this business turns him off. And ought to. My father is the reason why I tend to write as idealistically and romantically as I do. He is a guy who has one foot in the last century. He’s out to civilize people—but with great wit and humor."

I already own the series on DVD, but I'm clearly going to have to buy the special edition set.

• why does aaron sorkin feel so guilty?
• sports night 10 year anniversary dvd set
  

previously on wtg:

• enter the fold:  part sci-fi, part sex comedy, part art film
• is yuri baronovsky the next woody allen? 
• milton offers more bang for your buck than wall-e 
• onion a.v. looks at the best one season tv shows 

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John McTaint knows what America needs.

• John McTaint 2008 

previously on wtg:

• ann coulter's illegitimate daughter learns the identity of her father 
• Little Richard Effectively Translate's Bush's Message
  
• henry rollings:  a letter to ann coulter

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Did you know that you can watch blip.tv video on your iPhone? All you have to do is add "/rss/ipod" or "/rss/itunes" to the end of a blip.tv show URL. So http://illdoctrine.blip.tv becomes http://illdoctrine.blip.tv/rss/ipod. You're just seeing the RSS feed, but it's a surprisingly convenient way to browse and view blip.tv shows.

Seperately, if you'd like to keep up with blip's latest "hot episodes" on your iPhone, you can use this URL: http://blip.tv/rss/itunes/?bookmarked_by=hotepisodes&pagelen=25.

Of course, blip.tv episode pages have always had a dropdown menu that lets you select from different file formats.  This feature works perfectly well on the iPhone.  This RSS method just makes it a little easier.

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"Part sci-fi, part sex comedy, part art movie, THE FOLD interweaves sotries involving a time-traveling geek with Asperger's Syndrome, an investigation by a Gaming Babes Magazine reporter, a sex-cult guru, a right-wing CEO determined to remake history, and a New Jersey hot tub salesman for whom things mysteriously start to go the right way."

Warning: This show is NSFW!



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The show has a genuinely intriguing plot and comes from the minds of Matt Lambert, Polly Frost, and Ray Sawhill.  It also features the talents of WTG fav Julie Atlas Muz.  I'm really looking forward to seeing how this unfolds.

• The Fold

previously on wtg:

• newsdate 2011:  the grand inqusitor, featuring the work of julie atlas muz, dj spooke and julie talen
• calia & friends bible study 
• this is not spinal tap:  the story of anvil 
• j.d. casten, ana voog & "dreaming on stage" 
• vernissage tv @ the deitch art parade 

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Glenn Greenwald says:

"The death of government scientist Bruce Ivins has generated far more questions about the anthrax attacks than it has answered. I want to return to the role the establishment media played in obfuscating the anthrax investigation for so long and, at times, aiding in what was clearly the deliberate deceit on the part of Government sources."

Dan Kennedy says:

"ABC News has some explaining to do. The suicide of Bruce Ivins, a government scientist who's now being described as the principal suspect in the anthrax attacks that followed 9/11 (not that there's a whole lot of evidence), has prompted renewed scrutiny of ABC's sensational claim in October 2001 that the anthrax had been traced to Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq."

Jay Rosen says:

"It now appears that the attacks were of domestic origin and the anthrax came from within U.S. government facilities. This leads us to ask you: who were the “four well-placed and separate sources” who falsely told ABC News that tests conducted at Fort Detrick showed bentonite in the anthrax sent to Sen. Tom Daschle, causing ABC News to connect the attacks to Iraq in multiple reports over a five day period in October, 2001?"

(UPDATE) Scott Rosenberg says:

If you’re a reporter and you discover that your sources demanded anonymity because they were manipulating you or lying, you’re no longer under any obligation to protect them.  In fact, the public good probably demands that you expose them.

• Dan Kennedy: Anthrax, Iraq and ABC News  
• Glenn Greenwald:  Journalists, their lying sources, and the anthrax investigation
• Jay Rosen:  Three Vital Questions for ABC News About its Anthrax Reporting in 2001 
• Scott Rosenberg:  ABC should reveal anthrax-Saddam connection sources
  

previously on wtg:

• greenwald on "real reporting"
• naomi klein interviewed on the alcove 
• gore vidal's sad (sadder than usual) take on the u.s. media 
• throbbing cow on the future of journalism
• "breathtaking" coverage of israel
  

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