Open Thread: Who Won the New Hampshire GOP Debate
Last night was the second GOP debate, this time hosted by CNN and including candidates Mitt Romney, Michele Bachmann, Tim Pawlenty, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Herman Cain, and Ron Paul.
From Bachmann officially announcing her intentions to run for president, to Romney asking why Obama never called him to discuss the pitfalls of a healthcare mandate, the debate covered a broad range of…
Politico's VandeHei: 'Not Any Single Reporter At Any Media Organizatio
People know that the MSM despises Sarah Palin. Still, it was shocking to hear the beans so blithely spilled . . .
Jim Vandehei of Politico, on Morning Joe today:
"If you talk to any single reporter at any media organization that we're aware of, I don't think that anyone thinks she can be president or should be president."
View video after the jump.
Mainstream Media Hit Bottom with Palin E-mail Obsession
If the big media in 2008 had dedicated the resources they are now squandering on Sarah Palin's emails from when she was governor of Alaska and probed Barack Obama's background and associations, she might now be vice president of the United States and Obama might still be a junior Illinois senator.
Regardless of what you think of Palin, the vultures attacking her 24,000 pages of emails may…
NBC's Gregory: Are Americans Really 'Better Off' with 'Freedom
While grilling former Pennsylvania Senator and presidential hopeful Rick Santorum on NBC's Sunday Meet the Press, host David Gregory was skeptical of the idea that Americans should be able to choose their own health care plan: "They're better off with the freedom that they've got in the vagaries of the private insurance market?"
Gregory was responding to Santorum's criticism of ObamaCare: "[…
Thomas Roberts Mocked Palin's Revere 'Flub,' But Says LBJ Was 'Never E
According to MSNBC's Thomas Roberts, who last week seemed to enjoy correcting Sarah Palin for her historical "flub," President Lyndon Johnson "was never actually elected Commander in Chief." The cable anchor relayed that piece of false information on Monday in a segment downplaying the chances of another Texan, potential 2012 candidate Rick Perry.
In fact, Lyndon Johnson won the 1964…
Chris Matthews: Newt 'Is Evil, Looks Like The Devil
Talk about demonizing your political opponents, Chris Matthews has literally done it to Newt Gingrich. . .
On his MSNBC show this evening, Matthews said that Gingrich "looks like the devil," reminds him of the warlock in Rosemary's Baby, and "is evil."
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Daily Kos: Herman Cain Is The Perfect Racist Republican
On Friday morning, the Daily Kos blogger with the byline Seneca Doane tried to have fun with the mass defection away from Newt Gingrich, satirically offering Newt his services in defeating the other GOP candidates. He was especially vicious with Herman Cain: "I'll admit it right up front -- Cain scares me. I don't mean as an opponent; I mean as a human being." Cain, he says is the perfect…
MSNBC's Matthews Doesn't Seem to Understand British Were Coming for Co
"Shouldn't presidential candidates and prospective candidates have a firm grasp of American history?" Chris Matthews rhetorically asked on the June 9 "Hardball" before lamenting that Sarah Palin had a penchant for being "painfully wrong" on the subject, citing her recent inartful explanation of the famed midnight ride of Paul Revere.
Yet it seems Matthews may have no idea why the British…
NBC Predicts 'Tough Day' for Palin With Release of Email 'Political Mi
At the top of Friday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer declared that it "could be a tough day for potential presidential candidate Sarah Palin. We're live in Alaska, where thousands of her e-mails as governor there will be released today." Later, fellow co-host Ann Curry introduced a report on the upcoming release by proclaiming that Palin was "about to face a new political minefield."
Without…
VIDEO: Bozell Slams NY Times, WaPo for Deputizing Readers to Comb Thro
"I've never seen the news media do this, and it is beyond reproachful for them to have done this," NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell complained on the June 10 "Fox & Friends" regarding the New York Times and Washington Post calling for readers to volunteer to help them comb through the archive of Sarah Palin's official gubernatorial e-mail correspondence.
For the full segment, click the…
Andrea Mitchell Whines About Tim Pawlenty's 'Counterintuitive' Tax Pla
MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell scolded Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty today over the former Minnesota governor's proposed plan to reduce taxes and cut spending, decrying the conservative measures as "counterintuitive."
"What makes you think that a plan to actually increase the deficit by cutting taxes is the right way to go right now?" groused NBC's chief foreign affairs…
WaPo, NYT Solicit Help From Readers to Examine Palin E-mail Archive
Both the Washington Post and the New York Times are looking for readers to help them comb through every jot and tittle of Sarah Palin's official gubernnatorial e-mail correspondence.
Notre Dame Trustee Resigns; Chicago Trib Relays Claim She 'Didn't Real
There must be something in Chicagoland's drinking water which causes either acute memory loss or a persistent inability to pay attention.
First, we had presidential candidate Barack Obama, who sat in Jeremiah Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ for nearly two decades, but who supposedly had no idea Pastor Wright was so hostile towards America ("US KKK of A"), its history (we deserved the…
Politico Erroneously Tags Retiring Rep. Dan Boren as 'Conservative Dem
Whether it's deliberate obfuscation or just plain laziness is up for debate, but the media have a penchant for misleading news consumers with the meme that Blue Dog Democrats are politically "conservative." While the Blue Dog caucus is decidedly more moderate than Democrats as a whole -- you could individual members are "conservative for a Democrat" -- they rarely if ever qualify as…
