SOMEONE IN the national media just woke up. Consider it an early Christmas present. From Michael Grunwald of Time magazine: Fiscal Cliff Fictions: Let’s All Agree to Pretend the GOP Isn’t Full of It It’s really amazing to see political reporters dutifully passing along Republican complaints that President Obama’s opening offer in the fiscal cliff [...]
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Mark Halperin Plays Romney Fixer in Gloria Allred – Drudge “Freak Show”
THERE REALLY was no reason to cover the obvious swiftboating of Mitt Romney over his involvement in an age-old divorce battle, that is until Time’s Mark Halperin decided to play fixer on behalf of Mitt Romney, which no one of any stature believes was actually necessary. There is little doubt that this is a “freak [...]
Winning the Debate, Losing the Media War
LET THE SPIN begin. What I warned was going to happen yesterday is in full bloom, because try as Obama might last night, Mitt Romney’s debate strategy assured he could slither away from being pegged as un-presidential by the president, because you only get one chance to make a first impression and that came in [...]
Mika Brzezinski Slams Romney for Remarks Now Exploding Into “Bindergate” [Video] *Updated*
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy THIS IS pretty remarkable and it should be sobering for Democrats, but especially Team Obama who once led with women by double digits over Mitt Romney. Brzezinski is an Obama supporter who has close ties to the White House and the clip above [...]
Debate Night: Romney’s “Zingers” Versus Obama’s 47% [Livestreaming - Liveblogging]
**Liveblogging, tweets, photographs…** WHAT HYPERBOLIC sound bite to use to describe the mission in front of Mitt Romney tonight? Romney needs to come off as a nice guy with a heart, while showing he knows what he’s talking about and doing some damage to Mr. Cool. Mitt Romney must deliver a performance that begins to [...]
“Game Change” and “Homeland” Take Emmys
“Wow, I feel so vindicated, because Sarah Palin gave me a big thumbs down!” – Julianne Moore THE 2012 Emmy Awards were Sunday night and two political hits owned the night. Showtime’s “Homeland,” which is a fave of mine, won several nods, including the two leading actors Claire Danes and Damian Lewis, who was amazing [...]
Joe Scarborough Talks to “Intelligence People,” Unloads Anti-Muslim Rant
MORNING INFOTAINMENT in a microcosm. Joe Scarborough just can’t help himself. While intending to exalt himself through his important sources, a daily grind, he trips over his own ignorance through his haste to regurgitate what he’s been told. “You know why they hate us? I talked to intelligence people all weekend. They hate us because [...]
Mark Halperin Scuttles Mitt Romney Over Libya Reax, Foreign Policy Experts Join In [Updated]
“Unless Mitt has gamed crisis out in some manner completely invisible to Gang of 500,doubling down=most craven+ill-advised move of ’12″ – Mark Halperin on Twitter THERE IS NO one who more represents Beltway conventional wisdom and the tortured need for balance for the sake of it than Mark Halperin. As I read the analysis across [...]
Jake Tapper Questions Whether U.S. Haste to Exit Afghanistan is Cause for Green-on-Blue Killings
IN A CONVERSATION that cites the biased coverage of 2008, as well as what it might mean for 2012, the interview ABC News’s Jake Tapper did with Laura Ingraham is not something you’ll hear every day. Tapper said he thought the “media helped tip the scales” in ’08, which I prove conclusively in my book, [...]
Top Story: Karl Rove Super PAC Skirts 30-Day Election Law But Nobody Is Talking About That
The outrageous ad by Priorities USA Action, the Obama Super PAC–the one that accuses Mitt Romney of being responsible for a woman’s death from cancer, apparently on the theory that Romney was personally responsible for providing health insurance and health care services to family members of anyone who ever worked for a company in which [...]
Mark Halperin Wins the ‘Joe Scarborough Award’
FOR POLITICAL ANALYSIS that uses lies instead of facts or truth in order to push your own agenda, the Joe Scarborough Award goes to the insider of Beltway insiders, Mark Halperin. It’s named for the man whose most recent rhetorical lie had him linking autism to the Aurora shooting suspect, which I heard him say [...]
What Has Labor Done for Democrats Lately, the Obama Edition
With five months until Election Day, Barack Obama faces a grim new reality: Republicans now believe Mitt Romney can win, and Democrats believe Obama can lose… – Mark Halperin IT’S IRONIC, which you’ll understand in a moment, but it was almost a year ago that Mark Halperin called Pres. Obama a “d*@!” on “Morning Joe.” [...]
Saturday Night at the Television Movies
The first time I saw the trailer and heard “American Woman” I felt like I should get ready to go on the air again, because I used it as my intro back when I was dabbling in radio. It’s the lead-in for HBO’s “Game Change”, whose roll out has mimicked a Hollywood theatrical production. The [...]
Only Option for Republicans on Obama’s Free Contraceptive Mandate is to Stress Government Overreach
“There really isn’t a constitutional issue involved in this.” – David Boies, on “The Last Word,” with Lawrence O’Donnnell (leading U.S. constitutional attorney) There is no constitutional issue on the contraceptive coverage mandate, as David Boies explained last night. Republicans have two choices, only one of which could work. Right now they’re all doubling down [...]
They Like Obama Soft
New details on Mark Halperin’s suspension: An MSNBC source tells me that MSNBC preident [sic] Phil Griffin’s initial response to Halperin’s “dick” crack was that he should be suspended for two weeks, in keeping with Ed Schultz’s recent limited suspension. But the volume of emails flooding in demanding Halperin’s firing persuaded him the suspension should [...]
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