Lefty Blogger: GOP’s Fake Issues Distract Public From Real Issues
November 22nd, 2015 1:28 PM
The left tends to believe that Republicans, for whatever reason, are a lot better than Democrats at messaging and salesmanship. In that vein, Martin Longman argues that GOPers have a flair for fabricating issues -- “non-problems,” Longman calls them -- which distract the public from real problems.
“There was the non-problem with Fast & Furious,” wrote Longman in a Friday post. “There was the…
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Limbaugh: Obama Sees Conservatives as ‘Number One Enemy,’ Not ISIS
November 22nd, 2015 11:18 AM
Appearing on Fox News Sunday, conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh blasted President Obama for treating Republicans as a greater enemy than ISIS terrorists: “Barack Obama's number one enemy is the Republican Party and the conservative movement. You see he gets animated, he doesn't need cue cards, he doesn’t need Teleprompter when he starts ripping into them.”
NYT Laments Global Warming Has Affected Fall Fashion for New Yorkers
November 21st, 2015 2:07 PM
In what has to be one of the more unusual pieces by the liberal media sounding the alarm on global warming, a piece in Thursday’s New York Times complained about the inability of wealthy (liberal) New Yorkers to wear their lucrative fall clothing due to stretches of warm temperatures in the Empire State.
Blogger: On ISIS, GOPers Make Obama ‘Look Like Alexander the Great’
November 21st, 2015 11:56 AM
President Obama deserves high marks for his ISIS policy only if you’re grading on a curve and the other students are Republicans who “can't be bothered to take any of this seriously,” suggested Kevin Drum in a Thursday post.
Drum charged that GOPers “blather about Obama being weak, but when you ask them for their plans you just get nonsense…Obama's ISIS strategy has [not] been golden. But…
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The PBS Boys: Dubya Is Lincoln on Islam, Today's GOP 'Horrendous'
November 21st, 2015 7:41 AM
The Public Broadcasting Service isn’t really a representative of the Public, as everyone should know. It’s the defender of liberal elite opinion, no matter what the polls say. This week, the polls are stacking up against President Obama on his ISIS policy and his Syrian-refugee policy. But the PBS NewsHour stands with Obama and in horror at the current Republican Party.
Both liberal Mark Shields…
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On HBO, Gavin Newsom Defends Being a Sitting Duck at a Mass Shooting
November 20th, 2015 11:35 PM
Appearing as a guest on Friday's Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO, far left California Democratic Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom doubled down on the wisdom of being a sitting duck at a mass shooting as he refused to acknowledge any possible advantage to being armed in the event of such an attack.
After Newsom, who has already announced he will run for governor in 2018, and host Maher went…
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CNN's Costello Hounds Democratic Rep. Over Syrian Refugee Vote
November 20th, 2015 5:30 PM
On Friday's CNN Newsroom, Carol Costello badgered Democratic Rep. Kurt Schrader over his vote in favor of additional scrutiny for Syrian refugees applying to enter the U.S. Costello spotlighted how "some on Twitter have not been kind — calling you a traitor to Oregon and...xenophobic," and how "some say the intent of this bill is to really create so many checks that it will be impossible for any…
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ABC, NBC, Spanish Nets Skip United HealthCare Threat to Leave ACA
November 20th, 2015 3:07 PM
In the latest piece of ObamaCare news that the liberal media have chosen to ignore, ABC, NBC, and Spanish networks Telemundo and Univision skipped on Thursday night and Friday morning word from United HealthCare from Thursday that it may withdraw from ObamaCare exchanges in the future after reporting losses of around $700 million for the year.
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CBS Hints at GOP Double Standard on Gun Control vs. Syrian Refugees
November 20th, 2015 1:01 PM
Friday's CBS This Morning hyped that "thousands on the government's terrorist watch list...bought firearms in the last decade...and all of the sales were legal." Nancy Cordes played up that a bill to "close that loophole" that has been introduced for eight straight years has "gone nowhere" due to opposition from the NRA and congressional Republicans. Cordes later hinted that House Speaker Paul…
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NBC: GOP ‘Defying’ Obama With ‘Fearmongering and Heated Rhetoric’
November 20th, 2015 1:00 PM
On Friday, NBC’s Today lambasted Republicans for daring to oppose President Obama on the process of accepting Syrian refugees into the U.S. Co-host Savannah Guthrie proclaimed: “Defying the President, the House on Thursday voted overwhelmingly to impose stringent new screening rules.”
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Colbert Deems GOPers Aren't Christians Due to Refugee Stance
November 20th, 2015 12:25 PM
On the heels of news that he’s slipped to third place in the network late night comedy show ratings due to his alienation of right-leaning voters, Late Show host Stephen Colbert proved why it’s the case on Thursday as he accused Republicans of not being Christians for wanting to put a hold on the U.S. accepting Syrian refugees, contending it's comparable to the KKK as an example of Christians…
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Ted Danson Swoons: ‘I Love’ Clintons ‘with Every Fiber of My Being'
November 20th, 2015 10:59 AM
Liberal actor Ted Danson used his appearance on the early Friday morning edition of Tavis Smiley’s PBS program to profess his love for Bill and Hillary Clinton “with every fiber of my being” and praised Hillary Clinton’s performance at the Benghazi Committee hearing as a showcase of someone who would be a “thoughtful, big hearted, incredibly bright president.”
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NBC Hits GOP for ‘Ugly’ Refugee Talk; Hillary ‘Going Against the Tide'
November 19th, 2015 9:13 PM
NBC Nightly News lashed out at conservatives and Republicans on Thursday for creating an “ugly” and “angry debate” with President Obama over whether to accept Syrian refugees while gushing how Hillary Clinton was “[g]oing against the tide” of a bipartisan majority of voters and members of the House in backing the President.
CNN Suspends Reporter for Biased Twitter Post on House Refugee Vote
November 19th, 2015 8:08 PM
Politico's Hadas Gold revealed on Thursday that CNN suspended correspondent Elise Labott for two weeks, after she decried the 289 to 137 vote on Syrian refugees by the House of Representatives: "House passes bill that could limit Syrian refugees. Statue of Liberty bows head in anguish".