Jonathan Mills

From HuffPost:
Elizabeth Dole Tries To Name AIDS Bill After Jesse Helms

And my head explodes in 5….4….3….2….

“Because we won, we now have no choice — we have to win. We have to win!” (9:58)

I loved this video…

Tom Brokaw Slams Press Drumbeat For Hillary’s Exit: “Inappropriate”, “Commentary Disguised As Reporting”:

DAVID BAUDER | June 9, 2008 12:01 AM EST

…”Americans have taken a deep interest in the campaign and the media, particularly cable news, has responded to strong ratings by giving them more, more, more. It encouraged a predictive culture, fueled by opinion polls. It was not enough to report what was happening; people needed to prove themselves by talking with assurance about what will happen.

“There was also an overwhelming need for closure, odd for a very close race even in the context of recent history, when Gary Hart and Ted Kennedy took losing nomination fights to the summer conventions. As one veteran political reporter wondered recently: why would journalists seem so eager to see the best story of their life end?

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Via The Huffington Post

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I’d like to be a fly on the wall in a serious journalism class, and hear a discussion of this topic, because this really bothers me. While I liked the election coverage provided by MSNBC over the other networks thus far, they do seem to have too much time on their hands, and it leads them away from the facts and into the realm of the speculative — in a way that is often leading or suggestive to their viewership IMO. And it seems endemic of the 24-hour news cycle. It’s just too much!

Obama Clinches Nomination; First Black Candidate to Lead a Major Party Ticket:

By JEFF ZELENY

“Senator Barack Obama claimed the Democratic presidential nomination on Tuesday evening, prevailing through an epic battle with Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in a primary campaign that inspired millions of voters from every corner of America to demand change in Washington.

“A last-minute rush of Democratic superdelegates, as well as the results from the final primaries, in Montana and South Dakota, pushed Mr. Obama over the threshold of winning the 2,118 delegates needed to be nominated at the party’s convention in August. The victory for Mr. Obama, the son of a black Kenyan father and a white Kansan mother, broke racial barriers and represented a remarkable rise for a man who just four years ago served in the Illinois Senate.

“Tonight, we mark the end of one historic journey with the beginning of another — a journey that will bring a new and better day to America,” Mr. Obama told supporters at a rally in St. Paul. “Because of you, tonight I can stand here and say that I will be the Democratic nominee for president of the United States of America.”

Via NYTimes.com

*Sigh* It’s about time!