Tom Cotton

NYT's Weisman Hints at Hypocrisy of Alleged 'Common-Man Conservatives' Running as Tea Party Candidates
By Clay Waters | May 17, 2014 | 7:52 AM EDT

Reporter Jonathan Weisman looked very hard to find hypocrisy among Tea Party candidates in his Saturday New York Times story "Ivy League Degrees, Elite Consulting Jobs, and Now Tea Party Candidacies."

The online subhead hinted at it: "Ben Sasse of Nebraska and Tom Cotton of Arkansas are running for the Senate as common-man conservatives but share high-flying pedigrees." Weisman's article is sprinkled with "gotcha" attempts that don't stick:

GOP Congressman To Hillary Clinton: 'I Just Wish You’d Won the Democratic Primary in 2008'
By Noel Sheppard | January 23, 2013 | 5:11 PM EST

There was a funny moment during Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's testimony before Congress Wednesday concerning last year's attack on our consulate in Benghazi, Libya.

When newly-elected Republican Congressman from Arkansas Tom Cotton began his questioning of Clinton, he said, "Some of our peers on the other side have expressed their ambitions for your future. I’d like to say that I just wish you’d won the Democratic primary in 2008."