History Shows Newt Speaks Bombastically But Carries a Tiny Stick

December 14th, 2011 8:42 PM
Fellow right-wingers: Is our objective to taunt Obama by accusing him of "Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior," of being "authentically dishonest" and a "wonderful con" -- and then lose the election -- or is it to defeat Obama, repeal Obamacare, secure the borders, enforce e-verify, reform entitlement programs, reduce the size of government and save the country?  If all you want is to lob…

Open Thread: In the Senate, GOP Finger-pointing

November 4th, 2010 9:25 AM
Politico reports today that Senate Republicans have let tensions spill into public view over who is to blame for the GOP's inability to take the Senate. "If you think what happened in Delaware is ‘a win’ for the Republican Party then we don’t have a snowball’s chance to win the White House," said South Carolina's Lindsey Graham, who channelled the establishment view. "If you think Delaware was…

CBS's Face the Nation Worries 'Moderates' Excluded from GOP in 'Suicid

November 30th, 2009 2:00 AM
CBS devoted half of Sunday's Face the Nation to the pressing question of “divisions within the Republican Party: Is there room for moderates?” Fill-in host Harry Smith of the Early Show allowed guests Dick Armey and Ed Gillespie plenty of time to reject his premise, but he forwarded the media's widely-held presumption in a series of statements as he simply cued up Dede Scozzafava, the Republican…

WaPo Charges 'Grand Old Purging' of Scozzafava Shows 'Republican Dysfu

November 10th, 2009 8:57 AM

Politico: Conservatives Ousted Scozzafava Because She's A Woman

November 9th, 2009 3:16 PM
"Conservatives say they pushed Dede Scozzafava out of the House race in New York's 23rd District a week ago because of her left-of-Republican social views - and not because she is a woman. But the growing schism between the Republican Party's ascendant right wing and its shrinking moderate core has clear gender undertones..." So wrote Politico's Meredith Shiner and Glenn Thrush Monday in another…

ABC's Concerns of Sexism in Scozzafava Exit Ignore Its Own Bigotry Tow

November 5th, 2009 10:00 AM
Dede Scozzafava's exit from a major campaign gave readers a perfect glimpse into the double standard applied by the media when it comes to women in politics. The World Newser, official blog of ABC's World News Tonight, ran an article November 2 lamenting Scozzafava suspending her campaign curtly titled "Message to the GOP - 'Moderates Need Not Apply.'" The piece quoted three people sympathetic…

WaPo Warns GOP's 'Ideological Fissures Loom,' Sees No Similar Trouble

November 4th, 2009 4:35 PM
This afternoon, the Washington Post's Web site offers readers two looks at how the Democrats and the GOP will proceed following the 2009 elections, but, surprise, surprise, the paper only forsees internecine squabbles for the GOP."Republicans revel in wins but ideological fissures loom," the headline to Washington Post staffer Philip Rucker and Perry Bacon's news piece filed at 2:30 p.m. EST…

CBS's Schieffer Denies Vote a Referendum on Obama, Compares Conservati

November 3rd, 2009 7:27 PM
Shortly before the polls closed, CBS's chief Washington correspondent, Bob Schieffer, rejected any effort to tie President Barack Obama to two the Democratic gubernatorial candidates for whom Obama campaigned, insisting on Tuesday's CBS Evening News that the contests were more about local issues and so “I don't think they had much to do with anything but New Jersey and Virginia.” Citing the…

CNN's Martin: Dems are a 'Big Tent,' GOP Risks 'Fringe' Status

November 3rd, 2009 4:32 PM
CNN’s Roland Martin picked up where Anderson Cooper left off on Monday’s AC360, claiming that there’s “the beginnings of a civil war” in the GOP and that Tea Party protesters “want to radicalize the right” in the party. Martin also claimed that the Democrats are more of a “big tent” than Republicans: “You have a Democratic Party that has no problem having liberal...moderate...and conservative…

Bozell Column: The Dede Media

November 3rd, 2009 2:05 PM
The New York Times editorial page is a perfect weather vane for the way the liberal media's hot air is blowing. In an October 26 editorial called "Torching the Big Tent," they lamented: "The feeble pulse of moderation in the Republican Party is in danger of flat-lining in the Nov. 3 Congressional election in upstate New York."The feeble "moderate" the Times was backing for Congress was Dede…

Laughable: 'Countdown' Accuses Palin of Sexism

November 3rd, 2009 9:02 AM
The willingness of MSNBC on-air commentators to engage in political hackery for the Democratic Party knows no boundaries - as indicated by the latest charged hurled at former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.  Keith Olbermann, host of MSNBC's "Countdown," who once called conservative blogger Michelle Malkin, "big mashed up bag of meat with lipstick," almost on a nightly basis attacks Rep. Michele…

Gibson Frets: 'Liberal Republican Gets Forced Out, What Happened to th

November 2nd, 2009 9:01 PM
Following a Monday night look at Tuesday's special election to fill New York's 23rd congressional district seat in which Republican Dede Scozzafava dropped out after falling behind the Democrat and the Conservative Party nominee, ABC anchor Charles Gibson -- instead of wondering why the GOP establishment failed to pick a candidate who upholds basic Republican principles -- delivered the usual…

Scozzafava Records Robocall for Owens, What Will Press Say

November 2nd, 2009 4:28 PM
Since Dede Scozzafava suspended her campaign for the open House seat in New York state's 23rd district Saturday, media members have been depicting her as a moderate Republican who was the victim of an attack by the far-right in the nation.As NewsBusters reported hours ago, ABC's George Stephanopoulos on Monday said of events in upstate New York:You saw this conservative candidate just come in and…

BREAKING NEWS: Scozzafava Endorses Democrat Bill Owens

November 1st, 2009 3:22 PM
Dede Scozzafava, the Republican and Independence Parties' candidate for the 23rd Congressional District of New York state who suspended her campaign Saturday, announced moments ago she was throwing her support behind Democrat candidate Bill Owens rather than the Conservative Party's Doug Hoffman.This should make liberal media members ecstatic for the next 48 hours.Scozzafava just released the…