You have to love Democracy Now. Amy Goodman reported this morning on a story that I’ve read about nowhere else. Apparently, last week Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillispie recently sent a letter to Rock the Vote president Jehmu Greene offering his unsolicited legal advice. Apparently, Big Ed is worried that RtV could lose […]

I assume that the erudite souls who check out our blog are already hip to this, but Sinclair Broadcast Group’s decision to run this bullshit-assed film slandering John Kerry has got them in hot water. I ask our friends to ratchet up the heat on those dicks in the following manner.
By going here […]

The office of the Lucas County Democratic Party was burglarized October 13. Clamor is in Lucas County and it’s a heavily democratic area in a battleground state.
The Toledo Blade reported: “At Democratic headquarters, officials stopped short of publicly blaming partisan politics, but at the same time, they all but ruled out run-of-the-mill criminals.
“Two other computers, […]

Greg Palast, investigative reporter for the BBC "Newsnight" and Britain’s "Guardian" (also featured in the current issue of Clamor), has kindly donated 20 copies of the audio version of his book "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy" and 20 signed decks of his "Joker’s Wild" playing cards for us to offer to new and renewing […]

Late in last night’s Veep debate, Gwen Ifill asked how the candidates intended to unite the country. Cheney’s answer was an interesting rumination on how the debate in Washington has been acrimonious and partisan. While this is doubtless an interesting subject for those in the Beltway, it wasn’t the question Ifill asked. I don’t believe […]

It took us about 20 minutes to get used to the idea that we were actually watching two skilled debaters go at it, as opposed to watching one debater and one bumbling fool as with the first presidential debate. After that, it started to look like Luke Skywalker battling Darth Vader. As for substance, there’s […]