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For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: not a good night for Hillary.Sure, she won in Indiana, but not by much. And, North Carolina, no matter how you spin it, was a disaster.Does she have to get out now? Will Democrat leaders start putting the pressure on her? That's certainly not the way it looked during her "victory" speech last night in Indiana.On another note: how much do…
Are Media Focusing on Limbaugh's Operation Chaos to Force Hillary Out
Are "Totally in the Tank for Obama" media members focusing on Rush Limbaugh's "Operation Chaos" in order to force Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton out of the race?Consider if you will all of the attention Limbaugh's months-old plan to keep the Democrat nomination process going as long as possible got Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning following Hillary's tough night in North…
NYT: Constitution? Schmonstitution
At least they're open about it: the New York Times disdains Supreme Court justices who hew to the principles upon which this country was founded. The Times's admission came in the course of an editorial calling on Obama and Clinton to put aside their bickering and focus on beating John McCain. That is vital, in the Times's view, given McCain's pledge to nominate Supreme Court justices in the…
As Steph Says It's 'Over,' Sawyer Proclaims 'It Was a Great Night
See Bonus Coverage at foot: Morning Joe Mocks Whopper-Telling WolfsonWhat kind of night is one on which Hillary Clinton, in the eyes of many, lost her shot at the nomination? "A great night"—according to Diane Sawyer.Sawyer made her remark at the opening of today's GMA. She started with some shtick with co-anchor Robin Roberts, displaying a series of cards explaining she was losing her voice,…
SFChron Spreads False Immigration Raids Story With 'ICE Raids Frighten
The San Francisco Chronicle and the various demagogue politicians of Berkeley and Oakland, California should really be ashamed of themselves for ginning up into sensational "raids" a few arrests by ICE agents and making of them actions designed to empty those community's schools of children. In reality a few routine U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in those cities occurred…
Matthews: Shame on All Who Participated in Rush's 'Operation Chaos
Rush Limbaugh's “Operation Chaos,” the effort to urge conservatives and Republicans to vote for Hillary Clinton in order to prolong the Democratic nomination battle, certainly annoys MSNBC's Chris Matthews who, during primary coverage Tuesday night, denounced the “mischief-making” by “a talk jock.” In the 11:30 PM EDT half hour, Matthews offered a “Keith [Olbermann]-style special comment” about…
Walters Makes Light of Adultery in Autobiography
News of Barbara Walters' cheating past gets a free pass from Oprah and The Washington Post.
Applauding 'Grand Theft
Yes, young lads, you can visit strip clubs and get lap dances, pick up prostitutes, go on assassination missions and conduct gangland-style executions. The New York Times applauded the game's winsome procession of grifters, hustlers, drug peddlers and other gloriously unrepentant lowlifes.
Stars and Stripes, Newsweek Tut-Tut Concerns about Porn on Military Ba
The big newsweekly suggests Congressman's motive for proposing a ban is re-election, not the welfare of the troops.
AP: 'Far Right' Realizes McCain Judicial Nominees Anti-Roe v. Wade
Those opposed to the Roe v Wade abortion decision are “the far right” in the vernacular of the Associated Press. In a dispatch datelined from Winston-Salem, North Carolina where John McCain delivered an address Tuesday castigating Barack Obama for voting against the confirmations of John Roberts and Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court, as he pledged to name non-activist judges, reporter Libby Quaid…
ABC Adds to Parade of Hapless Economic Victims, Now No Electricity
Four days after NBC centered a story around an elderly couple forced to move “into their van, sleeping on a mattress in the back” while “high food costs have meant” they've “gone hungry,” ABC's World News caught up Tuesday night with a nearly as silly anecdotal report on how families in Minnesota can no longer afford electricity. In the first of two families she showcased, reporter Gigi Stone…