The New York Times offered a post-election column to match Ruth Marcus of The Washington Post in its aggressive insistence that the election results meant absolutely nothing, especially to Barack Obama. In a Wednesday article -- mockingly titled "Hark! The Voters Speak!" -- Gail Collins said Creigh Deeds was a rural buffoon, and Jon Corzine was an urban nightmare:
Although there is no way to deny that New Jersey and Virginia were terrible, horrible, disastrous, cataclysmic blows to Obama’s prestige. No wonder the White House said he was not watching the results come in. How could the man have gotten any sleep after he realized that his lukewarm support of an inept candidate whose most notable claim to fame was experience in hog castration was not enough to ensure a Democratic victory in Virginia?
New Jersey was even worse. The defeat of Gov. Jon Corzine made it clear that the young and minority voters who turned out for Obama will not necessarily show up at the polls in order to re-elect an uncharismatic former Wall Street big shot who failed to deliver on his most important campaign promises while serving as the public face of a state party that specializes in getting indicted.
They would not rally around Corzine even when the president asked them! Really, what good are coattails if they can’t drag an unlovable guy from a deeply corrupt party into a second term?
Like other liberals, Collins said the Congressional races were the only ones that mattered to Obama: "We have a dramatic saga story line brewing here, and I do not want to mess it up by pointing out that Obama’s party won the only two elections that actually had anything to do with the president’s agenda. Those were the special Congressional races in California and upstate New York."
Collins began her column from Cincinnati by mocking anyone who would see implications for Obama and the Democrats moving forward with absurd examples:
In Ohio, citizens marched to the polls on Tuesday and voted to allow gambling casinos in the state. This was obviously a message to President Obama that independent voters are not happy with the way the health care bill is going.
Really, I don’t see how else you can interpret it. Ohioans were looking forward to the lower insurance costs that would come with a robust public option, and if the president can’t deliver, they’re planning to pay their future medical bills with their winnings at the roulette wheel.
Also, people here in Cincinnati rejected a proposal that would have made it harder for the city to expand mass transit. Obviously a repudiation of the entire cash-for-clunkers initiative.
Like Marcus, Collins really hates the idea that anyone might take these statewide GOP victories in states Obama won in 2008 and suggest that Democrats might want to trim their liberal sails a little before the midterms.
—Tim Graham is Director of Media Analysis at the Media Research Center.
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As far as Collins, the NYT
Sat, 11/07/2009 - 09:16 ET by motherbeltAs far as Collins, the NYT and the rest of the liberal establishment are concerned, there were only two possible outcomes to Tuesday's elections:
Democrats won, proving the President still has his Mojo...
or
Democrats lost, proving nothing.
That she has to point to local issues such as casinos and mass transit to "prove" her point shows just how deluded she is.
NYT and other liberals and
Sat, 11/07/2009 - 09:56 ET by rockyracoonNYT and other liberals and Pravda media have gotten into the habit or expertise of repairing Humpty Dumpty and sending him back out to sit on the wall only to fall down once again. Proving once again the old saying, "There are none so blind, that refuse to see."
Facts are like kryptonite to the liberal.
"cataclysmic blows to
Sat, 11/07/2009 - 10:10 ET by notonmywatch"cataclysmic blows to Obama’s prestige"
He had prestige? With who? Europeans? U.N. employees?
Biggest presidential crash & burn ever. If your only source is Big Media you probably don't think that of course.
But thankfully there is still a world OUTSIDE of Big Media...
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Obama, you stink
Sat, 11/07/2009 - 09:19 ET by DontFeedTheTrollsWait a minute, this: . . .there is no way to deny that New Jersey and Virginia were terrible, horrible, disastrous, cataclysmic blows to Obama’s prestige.
And this: . . .Really, what good are coattails if they can’t drag an unlovable guy from a deeply corrupt party into a second term?
Sound like she is 'speaking truth to power' and saying the D's are a steaming pile of YKW and Obama is hurt by it. 'Deeply corrupt party', she got that right. Aren't all the 'African-American' members of Congress under indictment? Yowza! I am verklempt.
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Clueless
Sat, 11/07/2009 - 09:44 ET by rightwingidiotAbsolutely clueless.
No wonder they can't sell papers.
Gawd for the sheer crap they these people write.
Yes,but this denial is typical, and was there in the summer 2006
Sat, 11/07/2009 - 09:51 ET by jondelwicheI actually prefer they keep their heads in the proverbial sand.
The Repubs were like that in 2006, acting like it would be alright.
11/2006---Dem tsunami!!!
The fact the Dem House, 255 strong, had to delay their health vote tells us that the House membership knows the Dem majority is on shaky ground heading into 2010.
Toast
Sat, 11/07/2009 - 09:51 ET by nadadhimmiEven average, non political people are talking about how biased is the NYT. Their circulation is falling rapidly and their prestige has fallen to nill. They will very soon deteriorate into a poorly supported online publication as revenues continue to fall. Don't change a thing Pinch, you're doing fine. And remember, people have NO IDEA it's a biased political rag. Yep. you're foolin' em Pinch, foolin' em REAL good.
just watch and
Sat, 11/07/2009 - 09:56 ET by USA4freedomjust watch and see............
Ronald Reagan, 1962: I did not leave the Democratic party, the party left me.
Insert: your name, 2008, and the Republican party.
hurry up 2010 Ronald
Sat, 11/07/2009 - 09:56 ET by USA4freedomhurry up 2010
Ronald Reagan, 1962: I did not leave the Democratic party, the party left me.
Insert: your name, 2008, and the Republican party.
If Deeds was a rural buffoon, & Corzine was an urban nightmare
Sat, 11/07/2009 - 10:01 ET by RD KingI wonder what she calls a radical muslim commie like say obama? I do kinda see her point though because the Ft Hood massacre committed by his rad muslim bro didn't seem to mean much to him either. I bet that picture of him and michelle in muslim garb burning the American flag and high fiving it in the oval office now includes the oh so honorable rev right and billy bomber ayers this time and just maybe it's finally sinking in to America as to who the real muslim obama is.
Failure hussein mm mmm mmm, aint he neat?
Deeds and Corzine
Sat, 11/07/2009 - 10:01 ET by ricklailDeed and Corzien were the greatest things that ever crapped between a pair of shoes prior to the election according to the MSM. Now they are nothing but toe jam according to the same MSM.
Semper suprene nitens
OBAMACARE: If it ain't good enough for my Congressman then it ain't good enough for me.
The MSM is an Aesop fable
Sat, 11/07/2009 - 10:15 ET by TheHistorianRemember the grapes that the animal (I think a fox) kept trying to get, but were out of reach? When he couldn't get them, he walked away, saying that they were probably sour. Hence, sour grapes.
The MSM fits that description perfectly. And these losses hurt REALLY bad, considering so many of these people were personally supporting Corzine and Deeds. Now they are trying to convince themselves (and you) that the losses were unimportant for their messiah, Barack Hussein Obama, hmmm, hmmm, hmmm. If you take him away, you will hurt their fragile egos again.
"What experience and history teach is
this - that people and governments never have learned anything from history,
or acted on principles deduced from it."
G. W. F. Hegel
I hope that she and the rest
Sat, 11/07/2009 - 10:34 ET by cajunkingkongI hope that she and the rest of the left continue with their snotty ass attitude that shows a complete ignorance of the reality of the situation.
Cajunkk, you nailed it!
Sat, 11/07/2009 - 10:40 ET by irishguyCajunkk, you nailed it! Even in her picture you see her elitist snotty a$$ attitude. Then you read her words and experience it.
I worked the polls in VA just outside of DC....
Sat, 11/07/2009 - 10:45 ET by Prester John.....and the people weren't just angry, they were MAD and couldn't wait to get into the polling station to vote.
McDonnell won 9 of the 11 districts (we currently have 5 GOPers and 6 Dems in Congress), and in 8 of them he was over 60%.
The MSM and the Dems don't have a clue what's in store for them in 2010.
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Failure to report the truth
Sat, 11/07/2009 - 11:05 ET by ROSSMANVan Jones told us that no people of color were serial killers!! I guess our friend in OHIO is not a person of color, because no reporter has mentioned this newsworthy tidbit.
Of course not!
Sat, 11/07/2009 - 12:00 ET by boomerconThe MSM will spin that guy as one of those "white inmates from Maine". That's why he belongs to the NAACP; not because he's "a person of color".
Surprised
Sat, 11/07/2009 - 11:51 ET by StarAZGail has quite a fan club over there too--every time she writes something, it's "Oooo, Gail, you have outdone yourself..." I wonder if someone sprinkles salt on these pretzels after they finally come up with a good rationalization.
Re Deeds
Sat, 11/07/2009 - 12:23 ET by slickwillie2001Creigh Deeds:
"Quick observation about Creigh Deeds, the Democrat who lost the governor's race in Virginia yesterday. Earlier this year, he was perceived not as a weak candidate, but as the very best candidate the Democrats could put forward in 2009. He won a competitive primary against Clintonite Terry McAuliffe and Northern Virginia officeholder Brian Moran. The Washington Post endorsed him during the primary largely on the basis of his electability. It's possible to believe that McAuliffe would have run a little better because he would have spent huge personal sums, but the consensus opinion several months ago was that Deeds stood the best chance of victory. Did he run a great campaign? Not really. But was he a foreordained landslide loser? Hardly."
Liberals love to rewrite history when they find it inconvenient.
Source: http://corner.nationalreview.com
And I bet Gail doesn't know
Sat, 11/07/2009 - 12:44 ET by bse5150And I bet Gail doesn't know what a pot plant looks like either.
Gail is a pot-ted plant.
Sat, 11/07/2009 - 13:30 ET by eaglewingz08Gail is a pot-ted plant. Yes, VA and NJ don't mean anything. It also doesn't mean anything that Republicans appear to have won in Nassau County, New York, in liberal democrap Westchester County, New York, in six of seven statewide races in Pennsylvania. Keep drinking the koolaid Gail and the day after election day 2010 you will wonder what happened to those democrap majorities in Congress and other state legislatures and governors.
I'm no Democrat
Sat, 11/07/2009 - 14:47 ET by Tugboat Philbut I am a Virginian that lives in the country. I also didn't vote for Deeds. But to read:
"Gail Collins said Creigh Deeds was a rural buffoon......an inept candidate whose most
notable claim to fame was experience in hog castration..."
Well that's just astounding! Quite an insightful commentary from a homely, uptight, urban b*tch.
No wonder the Dems appeal to so many. It's their people skills.
Gun Control - The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her own pantyhose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound.