CNN Contributor Avlon: Christine O'Donnell 'Queen of the Wingnuts

September 20th, 2010 3:50 PM
CNN contributor John Avlon returned to his consistent theme of bashing conservatives on Monday's Newsroom, labeling Delaware Republican Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell the "new queen of the wingnuts." Avlon also referenced Reason magazine's label of O'Donnell as a "crackpot of the first order" and didn't provide the full context of her 1997 remarks on AIDS. Anchor Kyra Phillips led the…

Joy Behar Trashes Christine O'Donnell: 'A Witch Who Doesn't Masturbate

September 20th, 2010 2:06 PM
Comedian Joy Behar seemed to enjoy herself as she muckraked through exotic comments made by Republican Delaware U.S. Senate nominee Christine O'Donnell over a decade ago, refusing to leave them out of a serious discussion about O'Donnell's candidacy. She even threw Sarah Palin into the mix.O'Donnell, in a 1999 appearance on Bill Maher's "Politically Incorrect," said that she "dabbled into…

Maddow Laments That Five Pro-Life GOP US Senate Candidates Have No Rap

September 20th, 2010 1:06 PM
Wow, I didn’t realize this until watching radical left MSNBC host Rachel Maddow’s September 16 rant bemoaning the “great, unacknowledged, big honking policy issue of this year’s elections nationwide.” That is, at least 5 Republican, Tea Party-backed US Senate pro-life candidates oppose aborting innocent babies whose fathers are sexual criminals.With Christine O’Donnell of Delaware newly added…

Today Show Hypes Christine O'Donnell's Witchcraft Past

September 20th, 2010 10:34 AM
Today co-anchor Matt Lauer, on Monday morning, couldn't wait to tell viewers about the revelation that Christine O'Donnell once admitted to practicing witchcraft, as he greeted viewers at the top of the very top of the show: "Casting a spell. She's already won her state's Republican Senate primary and captured headlines across the country. Now a video surfaces showing Christine O'Donnell…

Top Bush Aide Denounces Mark Levin, Malkin, Others as 'Unhinged...Bols

September 19th, 2010 5:49 PM
Former top Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson is a Washington Post columnist, and there is never a better time for right-leaning columnists to lean left than in the last weeks of an election season. (See George Will trashing Sen. George Allen in the last weeks of 2006.) His rant also may have granted Gerson a seat on CBS's Face the Nation on Sunday.Gerson not only denounced Christine O'Donnell as a…

NBC’s Gregory: Obama to Claim ‘Warlord-ism’ in GOP, O’Donnell

September 19th, 2010 4:33 PM
It’s one thing to acknowledge that most voters in a liberal-leaning state like Delaware may be reluctant to vote for a solid conservative, but, as he appeared on Sunday’s Today show on NBC, Meet the Press host David Gregory claimed that Delaware GOP Senate nominee Christine O’Donnell’s "extremist statements and some views" would not only be a "real problem" in Delaware, but "it would be the case…

Mark Levin: Christine O'Donnell is 'Smart to Bypass' Sunday Talk Shows

September 19th, 2010 11:14 AM
Conservative radio host Mark Levin thinks Delaware Republican senatorial nominee Christine O'Donnell is "smart to bypass" the Sunday talk shows she was scheduled to appear on this week.As the Associated Press reported Saturday, O'Donnell canceled her appearances on CBS's "Face the Nation" and FNC's "Fox News Sunday":Campaign spokeswoman Diana Banister cited scheduling conflicts and said O'Donnell…

AP Bashes Christine O'Donnell With Bill Maher's 'Witchcraft' Video Cli

September 19th, 2010 10:42 AM
The Associated Press is using a video clip that Bill Maher showed on HBO's "Real Time" Friday to bash Delaware Republican senatorial nominee Christine O'Donnell.Here's the headline:Bill Maher Digs Up O'Donnell 'Witchcraft' Clip Inside the piece, things got even dicier:

Rosie O'Donnell Fears Christine O'Donnell Might Win Despite the 'Crazy

September 19th, 2010 7:46 AM
Brian Maloney at the Radio Equalizer blog reports what should have been expected: Rosie O'Donnell hates Christine O'Donnell. "So she apparently has said some pretty crazy s--t," Rosie announced on her XM/Sirius satellite radio show Thursday. "Apparently, there's no chance a candidate like this can win. Is that what they're saying? I have a fear that the opposite may be true."(Wild-eyed liberal…

Desperate Dowd: Savior Obama Losing To Rough Beast Of The Right

September 19th, 2010 7:22 AM
Imagine a movie: Maureen Dowd is seen thrashing around on her bed, clearly in the grips of a gruesome nightmare.  When she awakes, it is not to relief but to the horrifying discovery that reality is worse than anything her fevered brain had conjured.That is the sense of hopelessness, desperation and depression in which Dowd drowns in her New York Times column of today. The piece is one long…

Krauthammer Smacks Down WaPo's King Over Palin and Tea Party Agenda

September 18th, 2010 6:52 PM
Charles Krauthammer on Friday had a heated debate with the Washington Post's Colby King over what the Tea Party stands for as well as who its leader is.As the panel on PBS's "Inside Washington" discussed Delaware Republican senatorial nominee Christine O'Donnell's surprising victory Tuesday, the conversation naturally gravitated towards the conservative movement reshaping the face of politics.  "…

Olbermann: Christine O’Donnell ‘Lump of Dumb & Judgmental,’ Tea

September 17th, 2010 9:46 PM
On Friday’s Countdown show on MSNBC, during the show’s regular "Worst Person in the World" segment, host Keith Olbermann referred to Delaware Republican Senate nominee Christine O’Donnell as a "lump of dumb and judgmental" as he introduced his slam of Republican strategist Jack Burkman and a clip of him being criticized by former New York Republican Senator Al D’Amato for comments Burkman made…

CBS Dishonestly Touts 'Non-Partisan Watchdog' Group's Quest for a 'Cri

September 17th, 2010 9:11 PM
“There are calls for a criminal investigation of another rising GOP star,” Katie Couric teased at the top of the CBS Evening News, after citing Sarah Palin's speaking appearance in Iowa, as she elevated a publicity gimmick from a left-wing organization staffed by veterans of Democratic congressional offices. Though O'Donnell “took the spotlight today at a conservative summit in Washington,”…

CNN: 'Hardcore Conservatives' Meet in DC; Reagan 'Most Secular' Presid

September 17th, 2010 9:11 PM
CNN's Suzanne Malveaux led Friday's Situation Room by labeling the social conservative Value Voters Summit a "traditional showcase for hardcore conservatives." Later in the same segment, senior political analyst Gloria Borger stated that the Tea Party movement was "anti-health care" and bizarrely referred to Ronald Reagan as "the most secular president we've known in our lifetime."Malveaux used…