The Dish

Reihan sees an apocalypse for old media upon us:

In other news, the New York Times, the most valuable and prestigious brand in the news business, has declined in value by 70 percent over the last five years.

The massive wave of emails "smearing" Obama as a Muslim seem to be working with Jewish voters, according to The Jewish Week.

Hat tip: M.J. Rosenberg.

Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild have collaborated to create a visual representation of cross-references in the Bible. Harrison explains:

Due to the extremely high number of cross-references, this lands more on the aesthetic side of the information visualization spectrum. Different colors are used for various arc lengths, creating a rainbow like effect. The bar graph running along the bottom shows every chapter in the Bible and their respective lengths (in verses). Books alternate in color between white and light gray.

Click here to see a bigger picture of the graphic.

Again. What a sad, final betrayal of feminism. Even worse than sliming and smearing female victims of her husband’s sexual harassment.

Listen to Lanny Davis and think hard about what we could be re-electing.

Liberals waste $8.5 million on Bush-hatred. Just wait, guys. It’s nearly over.

An online visual representation of over eighty million nouns in the English language.

Some ominous developments in the North Sea.

An ornithologist’s charming guide to the election.

I thought McCain and Huckabee were on very good form, and Romney did better than he has in the past – largely because he was not attacked. But again, when I hear him lambasting Hillary Clinton on healthcare as if she were far out on left field, I recall the extreme similarities between her vision and Romney’s mandated individual, government-enforced private sector insurance policy in Massachusetts. Now I know there’s a difference between federal and state policies in this regard, but Romney’s ability to treat his own policies as if they were utterly anathema to him is … how to put it? … unsettling.

The big take from the debate is the Republican unanimity on the Iraq war: it’s been a great thing and we should keep at it. Maybe it helps with base voters (although I doubt it), but it’s going to be a real issue this fall and every single one of them is now wedded to it. McCain’s attempt – again – to describe those who favor withdrawing from Iraq as people eager to wave the "white flag of surrender" is offensive. If you believe that staying in Iraq for ten thousand years, as McCain said is feasible, actually hurts our ability to defang Islamist terror, you may be wrong. But you are not in favor of surrendering. And framing it in that way is Dolchstoss-style Republicanism.

But what do I know? Here’s the objective voice of reason:

Tim Russert and Brian Williams … threw hard balls at the former Massachusetts governor and he hit them all, many out of the park.

Romney displayed

a memorable and effective display of the sort of energy and tactics the GOP candidate must make every day for the next eight months… Romney won the night, and perhaps the nomination as well.

If Romney wins this, one small consolation will be the immense pleasure so many of us will draw from the continued insights and brilliance of Hugh Hewitt. Oh, and keeping Tagg! around, of course.