Will GOP Candidates Push Back Against Media Coverage of Hillary?
April 18th, 2015 11:06 PM
Will they just stand there and take it? Or will the Republican candidates for president push back against the fawning media coverage of Hillary Clinton?
Maureen Dowd Disses Obama: 'a Feminized Man'
April 18th, 2015 9:53 PM
Maureen Dowd's Sunday column ostensibly centers on the problem of Hillary's persona being alternatively too masculine or too Chipolte-granny feminine.
But in passing, Dowd discharges a major diss in the direction of President Obama. Analyzing lessons learned from 2008, Maureen writes [emphasis added] that "Hillary saw the foolishness of acting like a masculine woman defending the Iraq invasion…
Rubio's Age Is Problematic, But Post-Menopausal HIllary Is 'Perfect'?
April 18th, 2015 4:59 PM
Time.com's Zeke Miller tweeted yesterday that a "reporter" asked recently declared presidential candidate Marco Rubio of Florida the following question: "Is 43 old enough to be president?" Meanwhile, two weeks ago, a column at Time.com claimed that Hillary Clinton is "biologically primed to be a leader." Seriously.
Since he either can't or won't tell us who asked the question, we're unable to…
The First Blush of Pro-Hillary Pride in People Magazine
April 17th, 2015 10:06 PM
The April 27 issue of People magazine includes two goopy mentions of Hillary Clinton. On the “Passages” page, the headline is “Hillary Clinton: It’s On!” The caption under Hillary’s picture read: “Clinton, 67, would be America’s first woman president.”
They quoted the first tweet: “Everyday Americans need a chamipon, and I want to be that champion. –H”. They quoted superfans: “’I didn’t know in…
Lefty Writer: This Time, Hillary’s ‘Unabashedly Liberal’
April 17th, 2015 9:55 PM
Hillary Clinton is not a weatherman, but she knows, or at least believes, that the wind is blowing in favor of liberalism, according to The Atlantic’s Beinart.
“I watched Hillary Clinton’s presidential announcement video alongside the one she issued in 2007, and the speech she gave declaring her senate candidacy in New York in 2000,” wrote Beinart in a Monday post. “The upshot: America, as seen…
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Cable Nets Cover Hillary's Fable About Grandparents; Big Three Yawn
April 17th, 2015 5:28 PM
As of Friday morning, ABC, CBS, and NBC's morning and evening newscasts had yet to cover Hillary Clinton's false claim that all four of her grandparents emigrated to the United States. In reality, only one – Hugh Rodham, Sr. – was born abroad in England. By contrast, all three main cable news channels – CNN, Fox News Channel, and MSNBC – covered Mrs. Clinton's tall tale about her family between…
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NOW Prez on MSNBC: Hillary Set to Bring a ‘Sea Change to Our Politics’
April 17th, 2015 12:15 PM
Appearing on the Thursday edition of MSNBC’s All In with Chris Hayes, National Organization for Women (NOW) President Terry O’Neill ripped critics of Hillary Clinton from the 1990s to the present for leveling “silly” attacks on the Democratic presidential candidate as she’s looking to “bring another sea change to our politics.”
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Mika: 'I Want to Believe' That Hillary's Like Elizabeth Warren
April 17th, 2015 8:04 AM
Instead of leaping in celebration at the Hillary rollout on Morning Joe, MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski lamented the fact she was forced to settle for a pale imitation of the left’s true savior, Senator Elizabeth Warren.
Brzezinski, a devout Warren fan-girl with the shirt to prove it, took issue with Hillary Clinton’s philosophical plagiarism of her hero’s ideas, "I just feel like she's, it's a…
Time 100 Post on Hillary: ‘One of America’s Greatest Modern Creations'
April 17th, 2015 12:11 AM
The 2015 edition of the Time’s 100 most influential people was released Thursday and, not surprisingly, featured an entry on Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Also to no one’s surprise, the entry was glowing in admiration for her as Laurene Powell Jobs, tasked with profiling Clinton, glowed over how she “is one of America’s greatest modern creations.”
NYT's Fight for Dubious $15 Minimum Wage Boils Onto Front Page
April 16th, 2015 11:48 PM
The New York Times' fight for the economically dubious $15 minimum wage (and its related obsession with "income inequality") boiled over onto the front page the day after nationwide protests against fast-food companies by left-wing activists. The same reporter also challenged Hillary Clinton from the left, insisting she must embrace a $15 figure or risk losing "progressive" support.
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NewsBusted: Thanks, But No Thanks, for the Endorsement, Tony
April 16th, 2015 9:58 PM
"Hillary Clinton officially announced her candidacy on Twitter. And here’s hoping Anthony Weiner will NOT be endorsing her on Instagram!" -- Jodi Miller.
WaPo: Gyrocopter Guy, Hillary Have Campaign Finance Reform in Common
April 16th, 2015 2:30 PM
When I found out that the gyrocopter guy who landed on the Capitol lawn yesterday was protesting against obscene political campaign finances, my first thought was to wonder why he didn't land on Hillary Clinton's Chappaqua lawn. If ever there was an example of obscenely large and shadowy campaign finances, Hillary's political war chest would be ground zero. However, the lesson taken away from…
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Jon Stewart Mocks Media Chasing Hillary's 'Scooby Van'
April 16th, 2015 12:58 PM
Jon Stewart launched a rant against the news media on Wednesday's Daily Show for their mad dash after Hillary Clinton's "Scooby Van" as it arrived at a recent campaign stop in Iowa. Stewart mocked the running journalists, and likened them to five-year-olds chasing after an ice cream truck.
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FNC’s Kelly, Kurtz Mock 'Embarrassing' Media for Chasing Hillary's Van
April 16th, 2015 11:51 AM
On Wednesday night’s The Kelly File, Fox News hosts Megyn Kelly and Howard Kurtz took the media to task for literally chasing down Hillary Clinton’s campaign van in Iowa earlier this week. Kelly joked that the reporters running after Clinton reminded her of the recent video of Arizona police chasing after escaped llamas: “[t]he police did their best to try to capture and elusive subject, and the…