While President George W. Bush has maintained neutrality among contenders for the Republican presidential nomination, he privately expresses to friends his exasperation with Mitt Romney’s hard-line stance on immigration.
Oops, I’m sorry, he didn’t merely say Bill Clinton was lying, he said:
“Bill Clinton is lying about Barack Obama’s record…“
There’s an old joke about crooked politicians, that the way to tell if they’re lying is to check if their lips are moving. That doesn’t apply to Bill Clinton. In general, the way to tell whether Bill Clinton is lying, is to check his pulse.
Anyway, you can listen for yourself to Ed Schultz reporting the patently obvious.
Thanks, Ed. Never would have known it if you hadn’t said something.
The woman wants to be First Lady, and she can’t even pronounce “Nevada” properly???
Gambling and prostitution are nothing here—Michelle Obama committed the real local sin by mispronouncing the name of the state.
She was introducing her husband, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, by saying how happy she was to be in Nuh-VAH-duh. The crowd at the University of Nevada Reno immediately burst into heckles.
Locals don’t like it when visitors pronounce the state by using a soft a, like in “baccarat.“ The correct pronunciation in these parts is Nuh-VAD-uh, with a hard a, like in “craps” or “blackjack.“
And if Teh Narrative™ is at odds with reality, PUSH IT HARDER!!!
The national media thinks John McCain is under siege again, and his campaign is only too happy to help reporters file their stories.
At a rally Thursday, outside McCain’s headquarters just down the street from the state capital here, the candidate and a key local supporter, Sen. Lindsey Graham, are explaining that sorcerers of the dark political arts are at work.
“There’s a lot being said out there on phone calls, in the mail, that’s a bunch of garbage—ignore it,“ Graham proclaimed. “We know the truth.“
“You know that a lot of nasty things are going on,“ McCain added, “but ignore that stuff.“
The truth is, not that many nasty things are going on in 2008…
Stuff like this is why conservatives can’t let go of their suspicions about John McCain. Anyone who gets so much fawning media coverage while at the same time branding himself as a “maverick,“ has got to be phony to the core.
“Ignore that stuff,“ he says, even while telling reporters it’s going on. Even while IT ISN’T going on.
The man is a liar.
That’s why the Establishment Media types like him.
Has there been a law passed recently, or a policy adopted or something, requiring that people who submit letters to the editor of a daily newspaper of any size, have to have some kind of diagnosable mental illness?
Or is it just that all the sane people have quit relying on such old, one-way media to provide a forum for their views?
“I can confirm that Landmark Communications has retained investment banks JPMorgan and Lehman Brothers to assist in exploring strategic alternatives, including the possible sale of the company’s businesses,“ said Richard F. Barry III, vice chairman of the company.
JPMorgan is advising Landmark on the sale of The Weather Channel, one of its largest properties, and Lehman Brothers is advising the company on the sale of its other media assets, Barry said.
He declined to say whether the company would be sold in whole or part, or at all.
“We are exploring strategic alternatives, and that can entail a number of possibilities, one of which is the sale of the company’s businesses,“ he said. “It’s very early in the process.“
He also would not say why a decision was made now to explore the sale of the company.
We’d have to do some serious leveraging to pull off this deal. I wonder how much financing we could swing with a 12-year-old truck and a riding mower that won’t start?
Some media people are so stupid that rocks point and laugh at them.
Iowa is packed with presidential candidates and hundreds of campaign aides, advisers and contributors. Twenty-five hundred representatives of news organizations have been granted credentials to cover the caucuses on Thursday night, twice as many as in 2004. Rarely has a political event been so intensely anticipated as a decisive moment, at least on the Democratic side.
If I were to call Mike Huckabee a jackass, the Jackass Anti-Defamation League would have a case against me.
Republican Mike Huckabee took his presidential campaign for a quick pheasant-hunting expedition in Iowa on Wednesday, and at one point, a reporter asked why he hadn’t invited sporting enthusiast Dick Cheney along. “Because I want to survive all the way through this,“ Huckabee replied, in a chuckling dig at the vice president’s accidental shooting of a quail-hunting partner last year.
Any good sportsman, though, couldn’t miss a distinctly Cheneyesque moment in the press accounts of the former Arkansas governor’s morning hunt: At one point, Huckabee’s party turned toward a cluster of reporters and cameramen and, when they kicked up a pheasant, fired shotgun blasts over the group’s heads.
This, friends, is dangerously bad hunting form.
To put it mildly. Compared to that stunt, Hillary’s frosty press relations look like a torrid love affair. But wait, there’s more:
One of the leading proponents of Reaganomics these days is an outfit calling itself “The Club for Growth.“ Founded by supporters of Reagan’s supply-side economics, Reaganites one and all, the group is currently headed by former Pennsylvania Congressman Pat Toomey, the conservative who came within an eyelash of upending liberal Republican Senator Arlen Specter in the 2004 Pennsylvania senatorial primary.
The Club is famous for delving into the records of GOP candidates for not just the presidency but other offices as well, carefully combing the fine print of their speeches, programs and votes as office-holder or candidate and matching them to the Reagan ideal. Mike Huckabee, it seems, has supported any number of taxes while governor, and the Club has inevitably zeroed in on his economic beliefs.
What disconcerts is Huckabee’s gut level response. Instead of either defending his record or admitting to a mistake or challenging the views of the Club he said this: “The Club for Greed, I call them. They hate that. Oh, they hate it. And I enjoy giggin’ them about it…“
Hello? Is the Republican Party seriously considering nominating a candidate whose instinctive response to criticism from Reaganites is to use the favorite code word of Reagan’s enemies?
As she races through Iowa in the days before next week’s caucuses, Hillary Clinton is taking few chances. She tells crowds that it’s their turn to “pick a president,“ but over the last two days she has not invited them to ask her any questions.
Before the brief Christmas break, the New York senator had been setting aside time after campaign speeches to hear from the audience. Now when she’s done speaking, her theme songs blare from loudspeakers, preventing any kind of public Q&A.
She was no more inviting when a television reporter approached her after a rally on Thursday and asked if she was “moved” by Benazir Bhutto’s assassination. Clinton turned away without answering.
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Hillary Clinton’s no-question policy didn’t sit well with some of the Iowans who came to see her speak.
“I was a little bit underwhelmed,“ said Doug Rohde, 46, as he left a rally in a fire station in Denison. “The message was very generic—and no questions.“
Her attitude toward the fawning media has been a low-level issue for her campaign for quitesometime. Yet the same press corps that went ballistic when John McCain told a reporterette to “get out of here,“ gives Her Inevitableness a pass.
It isn’t that I don’t think it could be true—it’s just that where there’s a Clinton, there’s almost always a nasty surprise when it’s too late to do anything about it.
Sen. Hillary Clinton’s campaign is teetering on the brink, no matter what the meaningless national horserace numbers say. The notion that she has a post-Iowa “firewall” in New Hampshire is a fantasy, and she is in danger of losing all four early contests…
Hillary Clinton on Friday denied her White House campaign was in disarray, despite sliding poll ratings and an uproar sparked by an aide who questioned her rival Barack Obama’s drug history.
“If I had listened to ... the Washington chattering class, I would not be standing here would I?“ Clinton told reporters, as controversy and reports of campaign turmoil swirled around her 2008 presidential bid.
Barack Obama has come from behind to turn the Democratic presidential race in New Hampshire into a toss-up, according to a new Monitor opinion poll. The results—which show Obama with a one-point edge over Hillary Clinton—mirror other polls released this week, indicating that Clinton’s once-imposing lead has evaporated in the run-up to New Hampshire’s Jan. 8 primary.
It’s a generally reliable rule of thumb to distrust any political analysis that comes from three or more news media outlets simultaneously.
Besides, what Republican wouldn’t want Her Inevitableness as the Democrats’ standard-bearer next fall?
“Every Democratic candidate in Wyoming will be painted with that same liberal, big-government brush. We will also be the target of the locker room jokes that rightfully belong to Bill Clinton,“ John Millin wrote in a letter to the Denver Post.
