Halloween links.
ABC news is trying to get a lot of attention by hiring right-wing blogmeister Andrew Breitbart as an election night commentator. To the news whores at ABC any publicity means ratings in a world where nobody under the age of 80 watches network news. If you’re the least bit confused by the demographics of network newscasts, just look at the commercials. They’re all for denture cream and pharmaceuticals.
Lily’s not waiting for any comic book hero. On her blog, NEA VP Lily Eskelsen says, “Public school teachers and support staff are used to politicians and pundits ignoring their voices. Why would a movie director who needed a simple story of good guys and bad guys be any different?”
On the eve of this election, NPR reminds us of a forgotten hero of the Civil Rights Movement.
A Halloween fright: Schools that are scared of witches and goblins and the Super Mario Brothers.
Shana Shupe thinks it is odd that common sense about schools makes you into a radical these days. She writes about it on Huffington.
Don’t be frightened. They’re leaving now. Adrian Fenty and Michelle Rhee give parting advice to DC about their schools. Didn’t they read the election returns? DC voters don’t want their advice.
One dirty little secret of the 2010 election is that it won’t be a political tragedy for Democrats if a Tea Party icon like Sharron Angle or Joe Miller ends up in the United States Senate. Angle, now synonymous with racist ads sliming Hispanics, and Miller, already on record threatening a government shutdown, are fired up and ready to go as symbols of G.O.P. extremism for 2012 and beyond.
What’s not so secret is that some Republicans will be just as happy if some of these characters lose, and for the same reason.
But whatever Tuesday’s results, this much is certain: The Tea Party’s hopes for actually affecting change in Washington will start being dashed the morning after. The ordinary Americans in this movement lack the numbers and financial clout to muscle their way into the back rooms of Republican power no matter how well their candidates perform. Frank Rich
