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Big Whoop: Politico's Glueck Hypes One Republican Who (Sort of) Doesn
Politico's Katie Glueck must have been really desperate for something newsworthy as a Saturday column topic.
She apparently believed it was worth devoting over 1,500 words to a writeup whose key point was that "at least one Republican" doesn't like Texas Governor Rick Perry's aggressive attempts to persuade companies in other states to relocate to or expand in the Lone Star State. She cited…
June 2nd, 2013 10:06 PM

Comedian Mocks Dead Storm Chasers: 'Sometimes God Just Cleans the Gene
On Friday, three storm chasers were killed in Oklahoma when a tornado they were following made an unexpected turn in their direction.
Comedian Ralphie May on Sunday dishonored their deaths by tweeting, "Sometimes God just cleans the gene pool up":
June 2nd, 2013 8:24 PM

Eleanor Clift: My Ancestors Were Probably at the Low End of the Educat
Newsweek’s Eleanor Clift on Friday said something that might explain a lot to conservatives.
After Pat Buchanan commented on PBS’s McLaughlin Group that "the United States is moving towards Third World [education] standards because most of the students coming in now, the principle feeder nation in the country now is Mexico which is at the bottom of the OECD,” Clift replied, “When my ancestors…
June 2nd, 2013 6:49 PM

Jessica Chastain Denies Being Up for Role as Hillary Clinton
NewsBusters reported last Sunday that Jessica Chastain was one of four gorgeous actresses up for the part of Hillary Clinton in the planned 2016 biopic "Rodham."
According to Digital Spy, Chastain denied this during a discussion with journalists at Saturday's Sound of Change concert in London.
June 2nd, 2013 5:04 PM

Top NY Times Editor Rejects ‘Atmosphere of Scandal,’ Claims Public
See no scandal, report no scandal. Jill Abramson, Executive Editor of the New York Times, came down to DC on Sunday to defend President Obama on the scandals and the economy, stressing the leaks cases is the only supposed scandal she cares about as she contended “I’m just not sure” the leaks cases, IRS and Benghazi “come together and create, you know -- quote, unquote -- ‘an atmosphere of…
June 2nd, 2013 4:58 PM

CNN Insider: 'Wolf Blitzer to be Gradually Phased Out and Replaced Wit
He's been at CNN for 23 years, and one could make the case at times the face of the network.
Yet according to a report by the New York Daily News, Wolf Blitzer's air time is going to decline until he's finally replaced by a "younger, hipper host."
June 2nd, 2013 4:25 PM

Not Yet National News: Fla. Dem Congressman's Chief of Staff Resigns A
This has to be an imaginary story, right? Most Democrats and others on the left continue to insist that voter fraud is not a problem, even in the face of examples like Minnesota U.S. Senator Al Franken, whose 312-vote "victory" margin in 2008 may have entirely consisted (and then some) of illegal votes by felons in just one county.
More recently, it seems that the claim is under revision. A…
June 2nd, 2013 2:54 PM

Back on Thursday, Tom Brokaw Found The Only 'Pretty Big Damn' Scandals
You can tell there’s been a sudden chilly change in the weekend political weather when Tom Brokaw suggested Eric Holder might have to go. An eon ago -- well actually, on MSNBC's afternoon show "The Cycle" on Thursday -- Brokaw saw nothing serious on the horizon.
MSNBC co-host Toure asked, “With the AP and IRS scandals, we hear the word ‘Watergate’ thrown around a lot. Are these actually…
June 2nd, 2013 2:47 PM

Gregory Frets Obama Losing ‘Scope’ to ‘Usher in Economic Restora
Pivoting to the downside for President Obama of the swirling scandals, Meet the Press host David Gregory fretted over “a bigger issue that the President faces, which is where is his agenda left in all this?” Citing a poll showing the public thinks fixing unemployment should be a higher priority than investigations, Gregory despaired: “The President’s coming under fire for losing his scope,…
June 2nd, 2013 2:32 PM

Brokaw: 'It’s Tough to See How' Holder Keeps His Job
The ice seems to be cracking beneath Attorney General Eric Holder's feet.
When asked by NBC Meet the Press host David Gregory Sunday if Holder is going to "stay in the job" given the leaks investigation scandal, former NBC Night News host Tom Brokaw replied, "Boy, I think it’s tough to see how he does" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
June 2nd, 2013 1:51 PM

Karl Rove Smacks Down Arianna Huffington for Tying IRS Scandal to His
Arianna Huffington got a much-needed education about 501(c)(4)s Sunday.
When she claimed during an ABC This Week discussion about the Internal Revenue Service scandal that Crossroads GPS shouldn't have qualified because "it was all about politics," former George W. Bush senior advisor Karl Rove struck back (video follows with transcript and commentary):
June 2nd, 2013 1:09 PM

Rove to Former Obama Advisor Plouffe Claiming IRS Scandal Wasn’t Pol
Former George W. Bush senior advisor Karl Rove and former Barack Obama senior advisor David Plouffe got into quite a heated debate on ABC’s This Week Sunday.
When Plouffe claimed the ongoing Internal Revenue Service scandal wasn’t political, Rove pushed back twice saying “Baloney.”
June 2nd, 2013 11:51 AM

N.J. Doc's Occupy Wall Street Involvement Ignored in AP Coverage of Hi
The indictment of Occupy Wall Street-connected Doctor Roberto Rivera on a number of charges, including "stashing large amounts of bomb-making materials at his home," apparently wasn't news anywhere until Friday afternoon at NorthJersey.com. The Associated Press's unbylined five-paragraph report (HT Legal Insurrection) appeared Saturday aftenoon.
Kibret Markos's Friday report noted the doctor'…
June 2nd, 2013 10:23 AM

Issa: Carney Is a 'Paid Liar
Darrell Issa, the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, made a harsh statement about White House press secretary Jay Carney Sunday.
Appearing on CNN’s State of the Union, Issa, before pointing to a picture of Carney, referred to him as the White House’s “paid liar” (video follows with transcript and commentary):
June 2nd, 2013 9:42 AM