Today on the Dish, Andrew live-blogged Sharon Bialeck and Gloria Allred's press conference (more here), and we collected reax here. The accused employed an unusual media strategy, successful non-politicians are an anomaly in politics, and the GOP turned away another major demographic. Andrew parsed Romney's plan to reform entitlements, conservatives openly resisted the former governor, and the Onion's Jon Huntsman was happy to be rejected by a "terrifying" GOP. The Obama campaign asked "what if," we took an early look at electoral math, and in our video feature, Andrew discussed whether Obama's "evolving" views on marriage equality matter.
We checked in on Arab Christians, the stakes keep getting higher for the EU, and Pakistan’s national security establishment is at war with the US. Core issues have yet to be resolved in Iraq, we met the Iraqi team tasked with making bombs safe, and George Will demanded intellectual honesty from Republican candidates on the withdrawal of American military forces ("dryboarding" update here).
MTV took to OWS, the Oakland police doubled down, and Republicans in Congress are acting in the interests of nobody at all. Dream jobs are not a right, the generational wealth gap is widening, and progressives aren't against hard work and personal responsibility. The black market is the world's biggest employer, nature makes poisons, and the border is littered with blackened water bottles and caffeine. We addressed mobility and the high costs of moving, were introduced to climate skeptic Lord Christopher Monckton, and asked what America should be the best at. Mississippi is prepared to give an undeveloped embryo legal rights, straight guys did without a certain kind of extreme pleasure, and readers weighed in on fantasy and spirituality. Andrew extolled the uselessness of a classical education, WFB's charm made conservatism palatable, and celebrities have been imposed on animation since Aladdin. We spend more on prison than college, some crap technology actually works, and coffee should really be chased with napping.
Dish check update here, future app of the day here, poseur alert here, cool ad watch here, VFYW here, FOTD here, MHB here, and "ninja squirrel vs. stoners" here.
— M.A.
(Photo: Sharon Bialek arrives for a news conference where she accused Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain of sexual harassment more than a decade ago on November 7, 2011 in New York City. Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images.)
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