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About emptywheel
Marcy Wheeler is an independent journalist writing about national security and civil liberties. She writes as emptywheel at her eponymous blog, publishes at outlets including Vice, Motherboard, the Nation, the Atlantic, Al Jazeera, and appears frequently on television and radio. She is the author of Anatomy of Deceit, a primer on the CIA leak investigation, and liveblogged the Scooter Libby trial.
Marcy has a PhD from the University of Michigan, where she researched the “feuilleton,” a short conversational newspaper form that has proven important in times of heightened censorship. Before and after her time in academics, Marcy provided documentation consulting for corporations in the auto, tech, and energy industries. She lives with her spouse in Grand Rapids, MI.
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Vetting
/in 2008 Presidential Election/by emptywheelIf you’ve swung by Drudge today, you know the latest manufactured outrage is that Gwen Ifill has a book, The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama, coming out on inauguration day. Now, Judd Legum says it’s McCain’s own damn fault if that is news to him, since Ifill’s book was already public back on August 6, when the campaigns agreed to debate terms. But Judd forgets. The McCain team was very very busy back then … vetting Sarah Palin.
David Addington?
/in emptywheel/by emptywheel60 Days
/in Law/by emptywheelDid They REALLY Want to Make Age Jokes Fair Game?
/in 2008 Presidential Election/by emptywheelSurprise surprise–just hours after they scripted Sarah to make jokes about Biden’s age, the McPalin campaign is launching another fit of outrage by claiming a joke about McCain’s erratic behavior was about his age.
But I guess that means jokes and discussions about McCain’s age are okay now?