Michael Walsh

Daily Kos Founder: Righties Live In a 'Bubble' That Denies Polls
By Tim Graham | September 27, 2013 | 2:48 PM EDT

Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas thinks conservatives live in a hermetically sealed bubble of Fox News and Breitbart commenters. On Thursday he mocked "reality-bending" Michael Walsh of National Review for suggesting the country would tilt away from Republican Tea Party-bashers like John McCain.

“Conservatives love to quote the 'public', the 'country', the 'American people' without ever pointing to a single poll because, as we all know, they're on the wrong side of virtually every issue,” Kos proclaimed, ignoring how polls have showed the approval of Obamacare has been underwater for years.

MSNBC's Matthews Portrays General Dissed by Sen. Boxer as 'Political Sideshow'
By Ken Shepherd | June 18, 2009 | 6:25 PM EDT

<div style="float: right"><object width="240" height="194"><param name="movie" value="http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/eyeblast.swf?v=ydaGQuZuZu&amp;c1=0xCE4717&... name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/eyeblast.swf?v=ydaGQuZuZu&amp;c1=0xCE4717&... allowfullscreen="true" width="240" height="194"></embed></object></div>U.S. Army Brigadier General Michael Walsh &quot;learned his lesson the hard way&quot; by crossing a <a href="http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2009/06/18/boxer-scolds-army-gene... target="_blank">very testy Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.)</a> in testimony before a Senate committee yesterday, according to MSNBC's Chris Matthews. [audio <a href="http://media.eyeblast.org/newsbusters/static/2009/06/2009-06-18-MSNBC-HA... target="_blank">available here</a>]<p>Walsh's grave transgression: calling the senator, &quot;ma'am.&quot; For that, the &quot;Hardball&quot; host treated Walsh as part of the day's &quot;political sideshow,&quot; literally, in his June 18 program:</p><blockquote><p>Sen. BARBARA BOXER: Do me a favor. Could you say, &quot;Senator,&quot; instead of &quot;Ma'am&quot;? It's just a thing. I worked so hard to get that title. So I'd appreciate it. Yes, thank you.  </p><p>Brig. Gen. WALSH: Yes, Senator.</p><p>CHRIS MATTHEWS: She sure did, she's been elected three times, by the way. So I guess the question is this: Had he said &quot;sir&quot; to a male senator, would that senator be correct in correcting the general? There is a history, however, and let us not forget, of male-female condescension in the U.S. Senate. Just recall the Anita Hill testimony of not too long ago. </p>