Jonathan Chait: 'Paul Ryan Is a Nut’
October 14th, 2014 9:14 PM
The blogger argues that Paul Ryan’s “ideological fantasies prevent him from accepting even basic scientific facts” after Ryan says scientists don’t know if humans have contributed to global warming.
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Nets All But Ignore Wendy Davis 'Wheelchair Ad' Attacking Greg Abbott
October 14th, 2014 5:46 PM
On Friday afternoon, Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis and her campaign released a new ad that took aim at her Republican opponent Greg Abbott as a “hypocrite” for supposedly not caring about the disabled after becoming a paraplegic in 1984.
Since the despicable ad aired, only one story has been offered on the morning or evening newscasts of the major broadcast networks…
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Maria Shriver Asks Ann Romney About GOP's 'Gender Problem'
October 14th, 2014 3:38 PM
In an interview with Ann Romney aired on Tuesday's NBC Today, special anchor Maria Shriver couldn't help getting in a dig at Republicans: "The Republican Party is viewed by so many women as having a gender problem, a women's problem. Do you believe that?"
The question came amid a segment that was largely focused on the Romneys funding the creation of a new medical center to research multiple…
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Jon Stewart Throttles Democrats For Hypocrisy on Campaign Spending
October 14th, 2014 12:18 PM
Jon Stewart attacked top liberals/Democrats on Monday's Daily Show for their blatant hypocrisy on the influence of money in politics. Stewart particularly mocked former Democratic senator and current Secretary of State John Kerry for his past lament that "the unending chase for money threatens to steal our democracy itself," while his party raises hundreds of millions of dollars for its campaigns…
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Scarborough: 'Off the Air, Nobody Thinks Christie Can Win'
October 14th, 2014 7:39 AM
Chris Christie might have millions of admirers across the country, people who love the Jersey governor's blunt style. But among the Republican media and political elites who populate Morning Joe, Christie's a no-hoper.
That's what Joe Scarborough divulged on today's Morning Joe. Said Scarborough: "off the air in Republican circles . . . nobody thinks Christie can win."[
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NBC Banishes Story to Sunday on Obama's Unpopularity Ahead of Midterms
October 13th, 2014 11:49 PM
On Sunday, NBC Nightly News took the unusual step of running a story that not only discussed the upcoming midterm elections but also President Obama’s unpopularity on the campaign trail as Democrats struggle to keep control of the Senate.
The problem with the story, however, was that it aired on Sunday night, when millions of Americans are watching football, spending time with family or at…
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Clinton Speechwriter: Bush 43 'Was Inarticulate Off the Cuff'
October 13th, 2014 10:58 PM
Apparently the folks at Vocativ, who took a look at over 600 presidential speeches going all the way back to George Washington, were a little reluctant to document what their "scientific" analysis of those speeches told them about this nation's two most recent chief executives.
After finding that there is very little difference between the "sophistication" of speeches made by President Obama and…
AP's Winfield Hypes 'Seismic Shift' on Homosexuals in Vatican Document
October 13th, 2014 4:10 PM
Nicole Winfield unsurprisingly slanted toward left-wing LGBT groups in her Monday article about the mid-term report of the Catholic bishops' synod on the family currently underway at the Vatican. Winfield played up how "gay rights groups hailed a 'seismic shift' by the Catholic Church toward gays on Monday after bishops said homosexuals had gifts to offer the church," and front-loaded three…
Lefty Writer: Michael Brown, Trayvon Were Stand-Ins for Obama
October 13th, 2014 12:50 PM
Leftist rock critic Greil Marcus claims that ever since Obama was elected, there’s been a widespread racist “loathing…that seeks out its targets.”
He even claimed "I don’t think it’s nuts that in a certain way, when that cop killed Michael Brown, and when George Zimmerman killed Trayvon Martin, they were killing Barack Obama."
Lefty Blogger: Religious Right Finds Diversity ‘Painful’
October 11th, 2014 7:28 PM
Ed Kilgore says conservative Christians don’t want to put up with unpleasant things like “equality” and “rights” and “government schools.”
At Politico, Walker's 126,000 Jobs Added Is 'A Little Over 100,000'
October 11th, 2014 2:26 PM
In covering the latest debate between incumbent Wisconsin Republican Governor Scott Walker and Democratic challenger Mary Burke, the Politico's James Hohmann significantly understated the number of jobs added in the Badger State during Walker's tenure.
Hohmann wrote that "Burke attacked Walker for his 'broken promise' to create 250,000 private sector jobs during his first term. He’s now at a…
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AP Dishonestly Headlines Report On Davis's Despicable Anti-Abbott Ad
October 10th, 2014 11:44 PM
Another day, another dishonest Associated Press headline.
No one realistically expects the AP, aka the Administration's Press, to go after Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis for her vicious ad attacking her opponent, Greg Abbott. The 30-second ad, seen after the jump, denigrates Abbott as a man who sued for millions when he was crippled by a falling tree and then supposedly…
NY Times Leads With Scoffing Over GOP's 'Dismal' Anti-Obama Rhetoric
October 10th, 2014 9:25 PM
The New York Times led off with a "Political Memo" by Jeremy Peters, "Cry of G.O.P. in Campaign: All Is Dismal -- Looking for a Theme in ISIS and Infection," which not so subtly suggested in tone and text that some hyperbolic Republican campaign rhetoric was out of bounds in suggesting that President Obama is not competent in world affairs.