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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.
Entries by emptywheel
Vote-Caging by Division of Labor
/in 2008 Presidential Election/by emptywheelThe federal, state, and Macomb county GOP all claim they know nothing about the vote caging using foreclosure lists. Aside from the loopholes in their denials, they issue no denial on the fourth, unmentioned entity involved in alleged attempts at vote-caging: the McCain campaign, which until Saturday was shacking up at a foreclosure lawyer’s office.
Brand New McCain
/in 2008 Presidential Election, Press and Media/by emptywheelJohn Heilemann suggests that McCain’s disintegrating relationship with the press is an important factor in his political failure this fall. Not only does Heilemann ignore two critical factors in this equation: McCain’s unpopular ideology and actual voters. But it was Palin’s crappy relationship with the press that was key.