The Daily Show wasted its imagination on Marco’s road to the White House

[Editor’s note: I wrote this post a week ago. I promptly forgot to publish it. Rubio’s departure from the primary this evening simultaneously reminded me of its existence and rendered it obsolete. C’est la vie.]

Last week [Editor’s note: two weeks ago], in the immediate wake of Super Tuesday, The Daily Show put together a segment contrasting the Rubio campaign’s persistent optimism with Marco’s underwhelming performance in the Republican primaries so far:

The original Stephen Colbert made Stephen Colbert’s job that much harder

Erstwhile right-wing pundit Stephen Colbert famously introduced us to the concept of Wikiality coming up on ten years ago. On the now-defunct The Colbert Report, he explained that — under the rules of Wikipedia — in order for something to be considered true,

What crazy universe is Mike Huckabee living in?

Mike Huckabee is running for President, which will hopefully be almost as fun as the last time he decided to do that. And he certainly kicked things off with a bang. In the speech declaring his candidacy, Huckabee had this, inter alia, to say:

A master lesson in priming, courtesy of The Daily Show [Updated, 4/3]

Let’s talk about priming. It’s the linguistic/psychological phenomenon that explains why someone who has been exposed to a specific stimulus will sometimes respond to subsequent stimuli differently than someone who has not.

The New York Times left its World Cup analysis incomplete; I completed it

Right before the World Cup, the New York Times devoted an entire issue of its weekly New York Times Magazine to the upcoming international soccer tournament.

Americans love to make facile comparisons, especially when they talk about sports, so in one of its heroic efforts to make soccer more understandable/relatable, the Times tried to equate players who would appear in the World Cup to their American “counterparts”:

Is Football really so very different from Futbol?

Tickets for Seahawks training camp went on sale this morning at 10AM — right in the middle of Team USA’s potentially crucial match against Team Deutschland in the World Cup. I took this as a particularly clever strategy to winnow Seattle’s infamous football fans from its similarly notorious futbol fans — an effort to ensure only the purists would show up to watch the team practice in Renton.

But are the two sports really all that different?

Elisheva Goldberg: Genesis of an anti-Israel activist

So much anti-Israel, so little time:

The Rosh Beit Medrash of Uri L’Tzedek, Elisheva Goldberg, is an Anti-Israel activist…

– Daniel Greenfield, The Left-Wing Movement to Hijack Kosher Food

Seattle, Washington. Epicenter of anti-Israel activism: St. Mark’s Cathedral. Olympia Food Co-op. Evergreen State College. And childhood home of the notorious Elisheva N. Goldberg.

Having known Ms. Goldberg for nearly a quarter century, I consider myself uniquely positioned to offer insight into her psyche, her thoughts, her motives, what drives her to act as she does. I often find myself lying awake at night, critically thinking about the critical questions: Where did things go so wrong? How did she go from such a normal upbringing to a known provocateur and terrorist sympathizer, if not a terrorist herself?

I can’t say I have all the answers, but I can point to an article I recently dredged up that I believe betrays the seeds of Elisheva – if that’s her real name – Goldberg – if that’s her real name – Anti-Israel activist.

The article appeared in Between the Lines, publication of Northwest Yeshiva High School, nearly seven-and-a-half years ago. Without further ado, the early work of Elisheva Goldberg, which I believe will provide some insight into the monster she has become, and – I think you will agree – already was at an early date [I have highlighted the anti-Israel portions in bold for your convenience]:

Is Alex Rodriguez Jewish?

Whenever someone writes a question for a headline, the answer is probably no.

This post is no exception, but you could be excused for thinking there’s a possibility. Behold, the evidence:

1. We know he really likes money
2. He does Kabbalah
3. His last name is Rodriguez

If you nodded at that first reason, you’re probably a terrible person.* If you nodded at the last, you may know a little about the Spanish Inquisition.** Take it away, Jerusalem Post:

NameYourRoots.com was launched last week amidst little fanfare. Thanks to an extensive database of Sephardic Jewish names and meanings, anyone who suspects that they might have links to Judaism can begin their research by looking up the origins of their surname.