Though we tend to skew left at Pop and Politics, there’s a whole other world out there that’s reporting the issues quite differently. We’d like to take a look at them every week.

Ann Coulter apparently saw something creepy in a grassroots video supporting Obama—she followed a link to that video with another one to a Nazi-power song from the 1972 film Cabaret. Children may or may not have political opinions of their own, but come on. I admit I felt a little uneasy watching the kids sing, but then, I feel that way around anything ceremonial. What’s scarier perhaps is that most of the 54 comments on the “Sing for Obama” video were marked as spam (and not just the critics’). The Nazi song is below. For added creepiness, start them playing at exactly the same time and listen. You have to try it. They sync well, trust me.

Sarah Palin has at least three accomplishments to her name as governor of Alaska, according to guest blogger Bill Dyer, writing on radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt’s Townhall.com blog. He blasts the “old media dinosaurs” for not asking her the right questions. Dyer says Palin has used her line-item veto to cut spending from the state budget; renegotiated with full transparency the state’s severance tax on oil and gas production, giving part of the surplus money back to taxpayers; and helped end a stalemate over a $40 billion natural gas pipeline that will lower Alaskans’ high fuel costs and deliver gas to the rest of the country. On this last point, he says, “Gov. Palin has done more to advance the cause of American energy independence than any other politician—of any party, and at any level of state or federal government—in this century.” Quite a claim.

Thank the Democrats for the Wall Street Crisis, say the editors at National Review. An “anything goes” mentality let institutions like Fannie and Freddie get out of control with their debt and spending. That may sound like a joke coming from the free-market camp, but the main contention is that the government overfed the pseudo-public-private lenders with subsidies unavailable to other banks and institutions and then failed to keep an eye on them as they outgrew and brought down the house. And prominent Dems such as John Kerry and Barack Obama were recipients of Fannie-Freddie lobbying and campaign contributions. I like what Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said in September as the financial mess was spiraling out of control—essentially, solutions first, blame later.

Tags: ann coulter, bill dyer, blame the democrats, right wing response, sarah palin