State Rep. Ellyn Bogdanoff, who was skewered by Cal Deal below, is going over the top in her defense of Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin. As the Sun-Sentinel’s Anthony Man reports today, Bogdanoff, a Republican hack, expressed “shock” over Barack Obama’s “lipstick on a pig” comment — which was…

Hey, the ethically challenged Ritter, now a Broward County commissioner, has more serious governing experience than Sarah Palin. So why not? Just throw another lipsticked face in the race and see what happens … it’s working for the GOP so far. Following is an e-mail from Fort Lauderdale activist (and…

— So the Sun-Sentinel comes out with a new column called “Living With Rules,” by Daniel Vasquez. The maiden headline: “Rules can be a burden, but they may be sorely needed.” How can you not read that? Talk about deep and provocative! It looks like an extension of good ol’…

The people at Google have fleshed out the chain of events that led to the crashing of United Airlines stock yesterday — and, again, they seem to line up (mostly) in the Sun-Sentinel’s favor. And it all started with a Tribune Co. story from 2002 about UAL’s bankruptcy at that…

More and more this looks like some stupid Internet games by some financial types cause the United Airlines stock to plunge, not — I repeat not — due to any Sun-Sentinel error in posting an old bankruptcy story. This from a story in the International Herald Tribune: The trouble started…

From the Chicago Tribune: United Airlines’ stock fell more than 75 percent Monday morning after a nearly six-year-old Chicago Tribune news report was posted on Bloomberg News Service. The stock, which had closed Friday at $12.30 a share, hit a low of $3 a share before the confusion was cleared…

A reader pointed the Pulp to a Wall Street Journal story this morning on the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac takeover. Here’s a passage from the leading financial newspaper’s story on the background of one of the most significant bailouts in American history: The decision was hashed out over weeks of meetings…

A warehouse worker named David Kalb got a chance to play Lebron James in a game of horse on Wednesday after winning a contest. Here’s the way Kalb promo’d the event: Kalb routed James in two games. I love this stuff. The shot in the warehouse might be most uncanny…

… Give a speech. I’m actually stunned. This is, without a doubt, the worst convention speech by a nominee I have ever seen. McCain is obviously reading from the teleprompter which helps give him that deer-in-the-headlights look, he’s off balance, off key, flubbing lines and words, no flow, no timing,…

Here’s what the Sun-Sentinel reduces the election to in its poll question: What did you think of vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin’s speech at the RNC? It was fantastic, she hit it out of the park and showed that she would make a wonderful VP (1115 responses) 52.0% It was…

The assault on Scott Israel, a man who very well might be Broward County’s next sheriff, came fast and furious a week before Election Day. First came mailers comparing Israel to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney for changing his party affiliation from Republican to Democrat before filing to run…

I’m not going to do a whole lot more Sarah Palin stuff — I have a tendency to go on these tangents and it’s about enough. I’m just going to give you my opinion on where this election stands. As we saw tonight, Palin has a good presence and can…

What the hell, this is Sarah Palin’s day, so I might as go with it. Here’s some of the latest info on McCain’s choice: — She’s born-again Christian who advocated banning books from the library. From a New York Times article about her initial race to become mayor of Wasilla:…

Well, it finally happened. The Sun-Sentinel, WSFL-TV, and the Orlando Sentinel have taken their collective Internet content — otherwise known as their future — out of the hands of journalists and given it to marketing chief Jeff Levine. Here’s the announcement, which was sent this morning by Sentinel publisher Howard…

John McCain should never be president. Let’s get that out of the way. Forget about his abrupt dumping of his wife and kids for Cindy Hensley, the heir of the Budweiser fortune. That was an asshole move, but it was years ago, even if it did thoroughly piss off the…

Or at least that’s what they are reporting. I was on Barry Epstein’s radio show when the news came across the wire and said on the air that McCain, like Obama, had picked someone to shore up his weaknesses. Since he was old and crotchety, I said, I would imagine…

In a move that would have seemed utterly shocking a year ago, the South Florida’s three major daily newspapers are set to announce a content-sharing agreement later today, according to sources. While details of the plan are sketchy, the Miami Herald, Sun-Sentinel, and Palm Beach Post have reached an agreement…

You can disregard this — I’m just getting my story on Reille Hunter on the blog so that it will make its way to the Nets. I don’t know what’s been going on between New Times and Google, but it hasn’t been pretty the past couple months. Here’s the story:…

Let’s run down some of the election’s real winners and losers: WINNER: Judy Stern. The lobbyist and political consultant was behind sheriff’s candidate Scott Israel and Broward County Commissioner John Rodstrom, who each won squeaker races on Tuesday (or Wednesday thanks to a sluggish elections office). She also won easily…

Rielle Hunter, who was born in Fort Lauderdale 44 years ago, has had an alarmingly eventful life. As a teenager, she was an accomplished equestrienne who rode a champion jumping horse until the animal was electrocuted in its stable by a hit man from Chicago, part of one of the…

It’s the end of an era: The Miami Herald is shuttering its bureau in Fort Lauderdale, where the newspaper has had a presence for the last four decades. The bureau, which is located at 1520 East Sunrise Boulevard, will close on Friday. [UPDATE: Apparently, the bureau is moving to another…

So it looks like Scott Israel prevailed yesterday. And so did John Rodstrom. And from that, you might extrapolate that attack ads really don’t work, since both of those candidates were the targets of well-financed and pretty brutal attack machines. Not so fast. A political observer just mentioned to me…