Bob McCarty Writes

It took her almost an hour to get there, but Sarah Palin finally reached the point when she, the hockey mom from Wasilla, was able to distinguish herself as vastly different from Joe Biden, the six-term U.S. senator from Delaware. “Oh, yeah, it’s so obvious I’m a Washington outsider and someone just not used to [...]

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When I read a piece in which Barack Obama running mate Joe Biden was described by one source as a “rainmaker,” I just had to read it.  After all, The Rainmaker is one of my favorite John Grisham novels.  Interestingly, both the description of Biden and the Grisham book revolve around trial lawyers.  Here it [...]

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In a post earlier today, I connected the dots between the location where the ROTC buildings once stood at Washington University in St. Louis to the St. Louis Athletic Complex, site of Thursday night’s vice presidential debate.  In short, I reported that the St. Louis Athletic Complex, the venue for the debate, was constructed upon [...]

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Dear Sarah; I have some advice for you as you prepare for the vice presidential debate with Joe Biden tomorrow night at Washington University in St. Louis. First, as recommended by Rush Limbaugh during his radio program today, I recommend you quell some of the controversy surrounding debate moderator Gwen Ifill by using your opening [...]

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Before Americans pass post-debate judgment on Sarah Palin tomorrow night, I suggest they vaccinate themselves from “The Stockdale Syndrome,” a disease first introduced into the political arena by liberal members of the news media in 1992.  That vaccination is available in the form of an opinion piece, Debates Don’t Always Reveal Character, published in The [...]

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Today, Paul G. Kirk, Jr. and Frank J. Fahrenkopf Jr. announced the finalized formats of the 2008 presidential and vice presidential debates agreed to by the Obama and McCain campaigns.  In calling them “a breakthrough in the history of televised debates,” however, the co-chairmen of The Commission on Presidential Debates may have exaggerated a bit. [...]

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Anyone can predict the future. To predict the future of news, however, one needs to look into the past or, stealing a phrase from Hollywood, BACK TO THE FUTURE. Steve Boriss is doing just that at Washington University in St. Louis. The bearer of a now-dusty, 23-year-old journalism school degree who has spent most of [...]

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