Washington Post regurgita fracasada calumnia de Univisión contra Rubio
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Bueno, eso iba a ocurrir en algún momento. "Eso", desde luego, es que otro órgano importante de la prensa nacional intentaría refreír y regurgitar el informe en el centro de la fracasada estrategia de Univisión para perjudicar a Rubio en 2011.
Clinton 'Going Hollywood' to Win Young Voters Back From Sanders
Even though Hillary Clinton has been the front-runner for the Democratic nomination in the 2016 presidential race since she declared her candidacy in April, the former U.S. secretary of state is embarking on a swing of fund-raising events this week that will be hosted by such famous stars as actress Drew Barrymore and Sting, the popular musician.
This move is taking place after a recent NBC News…
Leftist Pundit: Will GOP Become a ‘Neo-Fascist, White-Identity Party’?
Several weeks ago, there was an Internet meme about whether it would have been ethical to kill the infant Adolf Hitler. Michael Tomasky poses a (somewhat) less-weighty back-in-time question: Could the Republican party’s current Donald Trump problem have been avoided?
Tomasky suggests that it could have been, but instead, during Bill Clinton’s first term in the White House, GOPers “played footsie…
Pols Hate Ted Cruz, Will That Hurt or Help Him
As Senator Ted Cruz has become a serious contender for the Republican presidential nominating contest, he's facing greater scrutiny and opposition. That's to be expected. Some of the opposition is fairly traditional. Iowa's governor just attacked Cruz for opposing ethanol subsidies. Cruz opposes the subsidies because he doesn't believe the federal government should be picking business winners and…
Shorter BuzzFeed: When It Comes to Trump Coverage, Forget Ethics
Even though their ethics guide states, that “reporters and editors should refrain from commenting in a partisan way about candidates or policy issues,” cat-meme giant BuzzFeed is letting those ethical guidelines fall to the wayside when it comes to coverage of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
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CBS Hypes: Ted Cruz ‘Deeply Unpopular’ With GOP Leadership
On Monday’s CBS This Morning, while covering Ted Cruz’s rise in the polls, correspondent Nancy Cordes noted the Republican presidential candidate’s “outspoken opposition to ObamaCare and his willingness to take on both sides of the Washington establishment resonates with Iowa conservatives,” but warned: “That approach has made Cruz deeply unpopular with leaders in his own party, who worry that he…
WaPo Rehashes Univision's Failed Rubio Drug Smear
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The Washington Post joins its GOP presidential forum partner, Univision, rehashing a 2011 narco-by-association smear of Marco Rubio.
Crunching the Numbers: What to Watch For at the Next GOP Debate
After a five-week hiatus, the Republican presidential candidates meet tomorrow night for their next prime time debate, moderated by CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. Based on how the various networks handled the first four debates, viewers of Tuesday's CNN debate should expect: 1) the questions will be aimed at getting the candidates to fight with one another; 2) Donald Trump will take more airtime than any of…
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Scarborough: Republicans Tell Me They'll Vote for Hillary Over Cruz
Joe Scarborough prefaced his remarks this morning by saying "this is the sort of thing that right-wing bloggers get very angry about." So let's oblige him . . .
On Morning Joe, Scarborough said "I am shocked by how many Republicans, that have always voted Republican, that have said they're going to vote for Hillary if it's Cruz or Trump running against Hillary. I'm talking Deep South, Southern…
ABC Drama: Dems the Party of Family Values, U.S. Creates Terrorists
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Last night’s winter finale of the new ABC drama Quantico and was chockfull of unrealistic politics – and unintentional comedy! The present day storyline of the episode “Inside” had the Democratic National Convention starting in New York City the day after Grand Central Station was bombed and over 100 people were killed. Right, the DNC would TOTALLY take place as scheduled the day after a…
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Synergy: GMA Promotes ‘Scandal’ President Campaigning for Hillary
On Sunday, ABC’s Good Morning America served as the latest example of shameless corporate synergy by touting in its lead 2016 report how actor Tony Goldwyn from the network’s lead drama Scandal spent Saturday giving Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton “a big boost” by campaigning for her Iowa.
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Moran Links Farage to Trump Despite Rebuke; Fawns over Trudeau
Reporting on Sunday’s This Week about foreign reaction to Donald Trump’s candidacy and proposal to ban all Muslims from entering the U.S., ABC News chief foreign correspondent Terry Moran compared Trump to U.K. Independence Party (U.K.I.P.) leader Nigel Farage despite his firm denouncement of Trump. Moran cheered new leftist Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as providing “sharp relief” to…
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Chuck Todd Smears Scalia: ‘I Couldn’t Help But Think of Al Campanis’
Seemingly unable to tell the difference between a man who affirmatively asserted racist assumptions about the physical abilities of a whole race and a man doing his job by pressing lawyers about a contention in a brief, Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd smeared Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia: “I couldn’t help but think of Al Campanis on Nightline.” Ted Koppel, a panelist on Sunday’s show…
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Kerry: 'For The Most Part' We Know Who's Coming Into Our Country
Ain't that reassuring? . . . On today's Meet the Press, John Kerry told Chuck Todd that "for the most part" we know who's entering our country. Kerry's statement came after he boasted about the Obama admin's "huge process" for vetting visa applicants. Not huge enough to catch Tafsheen Malik. Knowing for "the most part" who is entering the US is dangerously insufficient, given the hundreds of…
