Senate ethics panel cites Cranston in Keating Five case — chicagotribune.com Interesting to read this now… and McCain was the only Republican involved, at a time when the Democrats ruled the Senate (and the House, I believe).
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The Obama campaign is coming out with some attack ads of their own… they went back to the archives for some footage from the Keating Five hearing. McCain got off that one with a reprimand for exercising poor judgement. Oh, and this is the guy we want in charge of our economy, and the world’s? Uh, no. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/Jhb41Z-Znkg" width="425" height="344" wmode="transparent" /] William Bradley: Obama Finally Fastest In TV Ad Wars
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Back about a week or so, I ran across an interesting item in my feed that was shared by ***Dave. It was a funny little detail Stephen Colbert lampooned: McCain’s weirdly reptilian tongue flicking gesture that was picked up by someone as a classic “poker tell.” FiveThirtyEight.com: Electoral Projections Done Right: The Tongue Jut Tongue-jutting behavior is a gesture used by people who think they have gotten away with something or are “caught†doing something. I have seen this behavior in flea markets both in the United States and in Russia, among street vendors in Lower Manhattan, at poker tables…
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As noted in ***Dave’s post, if a show has been on TV for 3 or 4 decades, there are bound to be… discernable patterns. And it’s odd that they didn’t call the show “Doctor What’s He Doing There?” [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/DtG5dK_HaGg" width="425" height="344" wmode="transparent" /] Via ***Dave :: “What are you doing here?”