Morning Roundup — Wednesday
October 8, 2008 at 7:25 am by Wayne GarciaWorking off that post-debate drinking game hangover? Here’s your political and media headlines for Wednesday, and that ought to do the trick. Along with some Aleve and another shot of Frangelico. With updates throughout the day in the box to the right:
- “That one.”
- And “that one.”
- No knockout.
- Fact-checking the debate: AP, Palm Beach Post, Annenberg, ABC News, and PolitiFact.
- Need a debate transcript? Host a staged reading of it in your office for lunch today.
- A transgender victory in Georgia politics and courts.
- Scientology to help Amy Winehouse?
- A shakeout in the auto dealer industry is a-comin’; 700 dealerships could bite the dust.
- One closed dealership is sued by a former worker.
- Hey, didja know that Latinos are going to play a key role in Florida’s election? Yeah.
- The review is in for CL Editor David Warner, appearing in Stageworks’ “The Chosen:” He “could not have been more authentic as a fervent Zionist and equally impassioned man of letters.”
- Dylan’s latest bootleg.
- Don’t drive through Lee County on I-75 with an Obama bumpersticker:
October 8th, 2008 at 11:33 am
A couple of notes:
1) I read the posts from last night’s debate. LMAO!
2) IMHO, forget the idea of a recession. I sincerely believe that we are entering the beginning stages of a full blown DEPRESSION. I wrote about this a few days ago in my own blog:
http://interstate4jamming2.blogspot.com/2008/10/picture-so-familiar-but-yet-so.html
Since then we’ve seen that the DJIA has fallen one-third in the past year, banking systems the world over are on the edge of collapse, and among we’ve learned that the unemployment rate in Florida has risen to it’s highest rate in more than a decade.
While there are plenty of safety nets in place to prevent the severity of what happened in the 30s, a lot of people are and will be hurt before it’s all over.
3) One thing I haven’t noticed any of in either campaign: Noone seems to care, or at least talk about, the “working poor”. Certainly the middle class is being squeezed out, but the group I call the “working poor” — those of us who earn less than $30-35K a year — are being hit especially hard as the cost of rent, utilities, food, and other necessities of life continue upward while in comparision our checks dwindle. It seems that most politicians take the old saying “the poor will always be with us” to heart, and say “fuck ‘em”.
4) Tell Brendan McLaughlin he needs to post his “Flashpoint” previews earlier. This past weekend it showed up at 11:15 AM…while the show was already on-air.
5) Did you see the Palin interview on WFLA? It won’t win an Emmy; it sounded like Cate’s questions had to be cleared first.
Make it a great day!