CBS Bemoans Retirement of Senate 'Moderates' Who are Actually Liberal

March 1st, 2012 7:18 PM
On Thursday's CBS This Morning, anchor Charlie Rose spotlighted the apparent "the disappearance of political moderates" in Congress in the context of Republican Senator Olympia Snowe's retirement. Correspondent Nancy Cordes gushingly asked Snowe, "Was it just getting too lonely to be a moderate Republican in the Senate?" CBS also listed several "moderate" senators who are actually liberals.…

NBC's Mitchell Scolds Big Labor for Daring to 'Embarrass' White House

June 10th, 2010 4:21 PM
NBC's Andrea Mitchell took up the cause of the White House in admonishing Big Labor for wasting their money on trying to defeat Arkansas Democratic Senator Blanche Lincoln in the primary there, as she echoed their concern, on Thursday's Andrea Mitchell Reports, that organized labor essentially aided Republican John Boozman's chances to win in the general election. Mitchell invited on AFSCME…

Matthews On Ark. Dem Runoff: 'Gets Back to the Old Days of the Democra

June 9th, 2010 12:27 AM
The more Chris Matthews is on live television within a 24-hour period, the likelihood of him saying something completely strange increases dramatically as each moment passes. On MSNBC's June 8 special coverage of electoral primaries around the country, Matthews, the host of MSNBC's "Hardball," expressed his views on the Arkansas Democratic primary runoff, which incumbent Sen. Blanche Lincoln…

They Won't Say Specter or Lincoln Are Challenged by 'Liberals' or 'Fro

May 18th, 2010 6:39 AM
As the conservatives in the Tea Party movement gained strength, the liberal media often predicted they would cause harm to the Republican Party and drive out all the moderates. Wouldn't the conservatives look too extreme to win over voters? (See Rich Noyes for more.) Now that the MoveOn.org leftists are poised to remove an incumbent Senator or two, they might spread the idea that there is also a…

WaPo's Dana Milbank: 'The Senate Really Has 100 Blanche DuBoises

November 22nd, 2009 9:09 AM
To say that there's good reason not to be impressed with a quite a few U.S. Senators is to state the obvious.But I really hope that Dana Milbank either hasn't read or really doesn't remember A Streetcar Named Desire. Because in his coverage of the Senate vote last night to go forward to debate on its health care bill, the alleged journalist stooped well below the level of most of the blogosphere…

Krauthammer on Landrieu $100 Million 'Louisiana Purchase' Buyoff: 'It

November 21st, 2009 1:26 AM
Remember earlier this year when the new era of hope and change was ushered into Washington, D.C. and President Barack Obama made the statement on day one his policies would "represent a clean break from business as usual"? Not so fast says Charles Krauthammer, columnist for The Washington Post and Fox News regular. Krauthammer on the Nov. 20 broadcast of Fox News "Special Report with Bret Baier…

NPR News Director Calls Republican Candidate 'Nimrod

October 7th, 2009 8:48 AM
Your tax dollars at work . . . Forwarding a press release from a GOP Senate candidate to his Dem opponent, an NPR News Director called the Republican a "nimrod." Roll Call's "Heard on the Hill" column has the [subscription-required] story, which it describes as "another tale of e-mail forwarding gone wrong" [emphasis added]:Army Col. Conrad Reynolds is one of several Republicans vying to take on…

Olbermann Slams Centrist Dems as 'Dogs,' Uses Kennedy Illness for Guil

August 4th, 2009 2:35 PM
On Monday's Countdown show, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann delivered a "Special Comment" lambasting members of the Blue Dog Coalition, a group of centrist House Democrats because most of the group's members have pressured more liberal congressional Democrats compromise in their push for public health insurance. After reciting campaign contributions received by some Blue Dog members from the health…