Open Thread/CaptionFest: CNBC Debate 'Spin' Credentials
Consider this your pre-CNBC GOP debate open thread/caption contest (photo via Erick Erickson).
Time Lashes Out at Carly Fiorina’s ‘Dodgy Claims,' ‘Convenient Truths’
The November 2 issue of Time magazine investigated the “dodgy claims” of a female presidential candidate. Of course, the subject was Republican Carly Fiorina and not Democrat Hillary Clinton. In a cover story entitled “Carly Fiorina’s Convenient Truths," writer Philip Elliott openly attacked, “Dodgy claims are becoming a Fiorina hallmark.”
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NBC: Clinton ‘On the Offensive’; Ready to ‘Counterpunch’ GOP
Ahead of Wednesday’s Republican presidential debate, NBC’s Today promoted Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton having “her own battle plan heading into tonight,” preparing to respond to the GOP 2016 field with a new ad blitz.
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MSNBC's Wolffe Fails to Note Hillary Hypocrisy on Equal Pay
During a segment on MSNBC Tuesday evening devoted to the question of whether Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) has engaged in sexist criticisms of Democratic presidential primary opponent Hillary Clinton, anchor Richard Wolffe played for his audience a Clinton campaign ad centered on the issue of "equal pay," underscoring how the former first lady is running on feminist themes to fire up female…
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Surprise: Fusion Network Investigates ‘Super Rich’ Hillary’s Wealth
In a surprising move, Jorge Ramos’s America program investigated “super rich” Hillary Clinton and her “infamous” denial of being wealthy. In a segment that also looked at how much money the Republican candidates have, Ramos warned, “And as we’ve seen in past elections, candidates are willing to say just about anything to win over voters.”
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NBC and ABC Hype Newspaper Ripping Rubio Ahead of Debate
Hours before Wednesday’s Republican presidential debate, NBC’s Today and ABC’s Good Morning America both seized on a hit piece in Florida’s Sun Sentinel newspaper demanding that Marco Rubio resign his Senate seat. At the top of Today, co-host Matt Lauer proclaimed: “Florida Senator Marco Rubio gets dealt a tough blow from one of his state's newspapers.”
Daily Beast Pundit: Carson ‘Brilliant’ Surgeon But a 'Political Idiot'
Though Michael Tomasky is not a psychiatrist or a psychologist, he has a (liberal) layman’s curiosity about the workings of the human brain and mind which causes him to wonder how Ben Carson can be a “brilliant” surgeon but “an across-the-board nincompoop” when it comes to politics.
In a Monday column, Tomasky wrote, “Usually, if a man (or woman) is a good and knowledgeable and sure-footed…
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Colbert Tees Up Clinton to Promote Paul Krugman’s Endorsement of Her
On Tuesday night, Hillary Clinton sat down with Late Show host Stephen Colbert for a friendly interview which saw the CBS host eagerly tee up Hillary Clinton to promote liberal economist Paul Krugman’s endorsement of the Democrat’s anti-Wall Street proposal.
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ABC Dumps on Trump: He’s Got ‘Electile Dysfunction’
On the morning of the latest Republican presidential debate, ABC’s Good Morning America mocked Donald Trump as having “electile dysfunction” and of being in need of “polling Viagra.” The comment on Wednesday by political analyst Matthew Dowd prompted laughs from journalists George Stephanopoulos and Jon Karl.
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'Clackery of Clacking Class': Wallace Slams Politico Story on Jeb
Whatever Nicolle Wallace had for breakfast this morning, Jeb should down a double order . . . On today's Morning Joe, former Bush communications chief Wallace slammed a Politico story in which former McCain staffers rejected parallels between Jeb's campaign and that of McCain, who came back from the political wilderness to win the nomination in 2008.
Calling the story a "cheap shot," "low blow"…
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MSNBC's Matthews and Bernard Attack Huckabee As Anti-Semitic 'Hick'
On the October 27 Hardball, anchor Chris Matthews and MSNBC contributor Michelle Bernard took turns denouncing GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee as an anti-Semite. Their sole piece of evidence for the claim: Huckabee lamenting that Hillary Clinton regularly corresponded via email to longtime confidant Sidney Blumenthal, but she didn't communicate with Amb. Chris Stevens prior to the…
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David Corn on Ben Carson: 'There Are Serious Issues About His Faith'
David Corn claims that there are "serious issues" about Ben Carson's Seventh Day Adventism faith. Great point, David. After all, for twenty years, Carson sat in the pews of a preacher who spewed "God damn America" hatred, a pastor that Carson chose to officiate his marriage and baptize his children.
Oh, wait: that wasn't Carson. It was Barack Obama, who chose Jeremiah "Chickens Coming Home to…
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CNN's Cuomo Spotlights 'Extreme Propositions' in Ben Carson's Faith
On Tuesday's New Day, CNN's Chris Cuomo bizarrely zeroed in on presidential contender Ben Carson's religious beliefs as a possible factor that could hurt his chances among the Republican base: "Is it fair criticism to look at Dr. Carson's faith being Seventh Day Adventist, in terms of how it may oppose evangelicals? There is a belief within the strictest tenets of Seventh Day Adventist belief…
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Chris Hayes Slips Up, Lists Abortion Among 'Touchstones of Human Evil'
Chris Hayes made an inadvertent admission about the morality of abortion on his All In program on MSNBC on Monday. Hayes contended that in the case of Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson, "It's very hard to get through an interview in which he doesn't compare something either to the Third Reich and Hitler or abortion, right? — the sort of, like, touchstones of human evil." The liberal…
