Today on the Dish, Andrew continued his debate with Greenwald on Obama's drone strikes, pinpointed double standards on Romney's Mormonism, predicted a race that would go down to the wire, and bet immigration reform wasn't dead. We set expectations for Obama's upcoming speech, explained why Romney could lie so blatantly, outlined a scenario by which Romney could outfox the GOP on taxes in 2013, and spotlighted Joe Scarborough's vote for Ron Paul. We also profiled the lives of America's poorest white citizens, picked up on an oddity in the left's approach to substances, and wondered about the impact of the web on Supreme Court jurisprudence. Ad War Update here.
Andrew also remade the social conservative case for marriage equality over civil unions, found more evidence that Piers Morgan knew all about phone hacking, pushed another argument for why opposing gay families was bigotry, tallied the thinning Catholic herd as a consequence of the Pope's theological rigidity, figured the young and secular would change America, and declared the Pet Shop Boys the soundtrack of his life. Prometheus awkwardly engaged with science and religion, soccer fixing spread, and Game of Thrones hid a controversial little Easter Egg. International law dangerously allowed fake drugs to proliferate, the War on Drugs hampered medical research, the common cold may have helped us, and kids in cities had more allergies. America needed to rethink "college," the military didn't know it all, ticketing good behavior lowered crime rates, interactive video became a possibility, social stories came full circle, and bets amused. Ask Tina Brown Anything here, Headline of the Day here, Chart of the Day here, Yglesias Alert Nominee here, Poseur Alert here, VFYW here, MHB here, and FOTD here.
– Z.B.
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