But when footage finally aired on Hannity’s Fox News program and on Carlson’s Daily Caller website at 9 p.m., following hours of aniticipation spurred by Drudge’s promise of controversy and Hannity’s promise of a “bombshell”, it fell flat. – Dylan Byers, Politico THE DAYS of Matt Drudge having influence beyond the Sean Hannity squealers is [...]
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Paul Ryan’s Remarks Beat Daily Caller’s 2007 Obama Tape [Video and Transcript]
TUCKER CARLSON’S Daily Caller, in an apparent move to be the conservative version of Mother Jones, has unloaded a 2007 video of Barack Obama that had Sean Hannity jumping out of his infotainment captain’s chair on Tuesday night, as he talked with Carlson. Juan Williams couldn’t get a word in during another segment with Hannity. [...]
Warren Responds to Scott Brown’s Character Assassination
ONE THING that happens when a good candidate starts losing a grip on an election is that he or she is forced to go against their own image. That’s happening in Massachusetts. Scott Brown has always had a nice guy image going for him. Up against it in the polls he’s decided to go nuclear, [...]
Scott Brown Staffers Caught on Tape: “Indian War Whoop” – “Tomahawk Chop”
STAY CLASSY Scott Brown. After Scott Brown released ads once again attacking Elizabeth Warren on her heritage, the above video surfaced. Brown’s deputy Chief of Staff Greg Casey and Constituent Service Counsel Jack Richard, and GOP operative Brad Garrett are pictured in the video, NewsCenter 5′s Janet Wu confirmed. It’s gotten very ugly in Massachusetts [...]
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IF YOU haven’t been following along with Steve Benen’s “Mitt’s Mendacity” series over at The Maddow Blog, he did another one and it’s a doozy. He’s up to 32 in his series. image: Shutterstock
Top Story: Romney Shrugs off Critics, Pleased his Birther Joke Got a Laugh and Cheers
“The crowd loved it and it got a good laugh.” – Mitt Romney DEFLECTING THE QUESTION about what he said today in Michigan, Mitt Romney shrugged it all off as a joke when speaking to Scott Pelley of CBS News. It didn’t bother Mr. Romney that he was not only channeling Donald Trump, but embracing [...]
Mitt Romney Floats Birther Joke in Michigan
THE GAFFERIFFIC candidate either can’t tell a joke or actually believes this stuff works. Adviser says Romney went rogue. “I love being home, where but the both of us were born. No one’s ever asked to see my birth certificate; they know that this is the place where both of us were born and raised.” [...]
Trending: Robert Gibbs v. Paul Ryan, and Defending Joe
“If [Paul Ryan] wants to protect Medicare for his mother, he should thank President Obama for what he has done to extend the life of the Medicare trust fund. What President Obama did was strengthen the Medicare benefits to help Medicare beneficiaries and extend it more than 8 years.” – Robert Gibbs on Fox News [...]
Romney Campaign Attacks Hard After Ahmadinejad Statement on Israel
“As President, Barack Obama has never visited Israel and refuses to recognize Jerusalem as its capital. … Mitt Romney will be a different kind of president—a strong leader who stands by our allies. He knows America holds a deep and cherished relationship with Israel.” [Romney campaign commerical (seen above)] SINCE FRIDAY, Team Romney has sent [...]
MSNBC’s Touré Lowers Himself to Birther Level
**UPDATED** “I know it’s a heavy thing, I don’t say it lightly, but this is ‘niggerization.’ You are not one of us, you are like the scary black man who we’ve been trained to fear.” – Touré, MSNBC’s “The Cycle” [Mediaite] MSNBC HAS ALLOWED a lot of rhetoric on its station, but how far are [...]
Top Story: Romney Accuses Obama Campaign of ‘Hate’ After 3 Years of Birtherism
“Mr. President, take your campaign of division and anger and hate back to Chicago,” Romney said while campaigning in Ohio. [The Hill] “Well I think, if you look at the ads that have been described and the divisiveness based upon income, age, ethnicity and so forth, it’s designed to bring a sense of enmity and [...]
News Desk: Pres. Bill Clinton Slams Romney’s False Welfare-to-Work Ad in Statement
FORMER PRESIDENT CLINTON unloaded on Team Romney late Tuesday after they unleashed a welfare ad against Pres. Obama that was patently false. The proof was laid out earlier today. From Pres. Clinton: “Governor Romney released an ad today alleging that the Obama administration had weakened the work requirements of the 1996 Welfare Reform Act. That [...]
Mitt Romney Distorting Obama Military Complaint in Ohio
“President Obama’s lawsuit claiming it is for Ohio to allow servicemen and women extended early voting privileges during the state’s early voting period is an outrage.” – Mitt Romney WHILE SEN. REID continues to confound Republicans on what they can do about his unabashedly brazen charges that Mr. Romney hasn’t paid his taxes for 10 [...]
Jon Stewart Unloads on Harry Reid, Eric Fehrnstrom Uses the Opening: ‘Have You No Decency, Sir’
The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook WHEN SEN. REID first unloaded the allegations on Monday, I wrote that without verification they were worthless. Reid offered no proof, while forwarding unsubstantiated allegations that Mitt Romney hadn’t paid his taxes in 10 years. But [...]
Tucker Carlson’s Daily Caller Swings and Misses
In any event, Romney is likely to have some trouble undermining the President’s record on national-security issues and foreign policy. Last week, in Colorado, Admiral William McRaven, a Navy SEAL who oversees all American Special Forces, and who supervised the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, was asked to evaluate Obama as a Commander-in-Chief. “I’m [...]
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