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| The Rudy Health Care "Solution" [The Questionable Authority] |
| Published: July 31, 2007, 2:33 pm |
| Tags: Campaign 2008 |
| Rudy Giuliani just announced his health care plan. It's not a winner. Of course, Rudy being Rudy, he couldn't just announce what his ideas are without any preparation. First, he had to warm up by spending a day or two imitating a wingnut talk radio host and calling the Democratic candidates "socialists" and who belong to a "party of losers" and |
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| It's Called "Political Cover" [The Questionable Authority] |
| Published: August 8, 2007, 2:57 am |
| Tags: Campaign 2008 |
| Jason Rosenhouse thinks that PZ, Ed Brayton, Revere, and I have reached a "strange conclusion" about the recent Democratic cave-in on wiretapping. It doesn't make sense, at least to him, that we'd blame the Democrats, given that 80% of the Democrats in Congress didn't vote for the wiretapping bill. (That figure doesn't appear to include the |
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| Reasons I Support John Edwards |
| Published: August 27, 2007, 6:16 pm |
| Tags: Campaign 2008, Us Politics, John Edwards |
| John Edwards answers a question about Health Care in Portsmouth, N.H. on August 26, 2007. This stop came as part of his "Fighting for One America" New Hampshire bus tour. |
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| The Fighting For One America Tour Rolls On |
| Published: August 23, 2007, 9:41 pm |
| Tags: Campaign 2008, Us Politics, John Edwards |
| Ok, you knew that I was going to give John equal time :) |
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| Oh The Stories The Media Makes Up |
| Published: August 23, 2007, 9:11 pm |
| Tags: Campaign 2008, Barak Obama, Media |
| Barak Obama discusses silly news headline with Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. |
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| Something You Won't See Everyday |
| Published: August 22, 2007, 1:16 am |
| Tags: Campaign 2008, Us Politics, Barak Obama |
| Senator Barak Obama spends a day walking in the shoes of a home healthcare worker. Maybe There Is Hope! |
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| ABC's Kate Snow: 'Everyone Is Concerned' About 'Getting the Hell Out of Iraq' |
| Published: September 4, 2007, 8:41 pm |
| Tags: Campaign 2008, Iraq, Kate Snow, Abc World News |
| The issues of interest to Iowa caucus-voters tend to be the same issues that everyone is concerned about around the country, ABC's Kate Snow maintained Tuesday night, a contention she illustrated by citing one voter who recited to her a litany of liberal agenda topics: She's worried about health care, Social Security and...'getting |
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| Who Is This Article About? |
| Published: September 5, 2007, 4:31 pm |
| Tags: Campaign 2008, Bill Clinton, Roger Simon, Politico Com |
| The notion behind The long campaign of Bill Clinton is that the former prez just loves campaigning and, um, human contact, and is incredibly good at the art of retail politics. In fairness, there's no doubt that Clinton is a schmoozer supreme. Even so, can anyone imagine a Republican receiving this kind of a fawning profile? There's one |
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| 'Today' Devotes An Entire Half-Hour to Team Billary |
| Published: September 5, 2007, 3:54 pm |
| Tags: Campaign 2008, Campaign Finance Reform, Fundraising, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Larry Craig, Matt Lauer, Norman Hsu, Nbc, Today |
| about public financing of campaigns and wondered if lobbying money should be taxed so more money could be spent on charities but never mentioned the name Norman Hsu. Lauer: "I'm curious. When you think about giving and going back to money for a second. When you think about giving and making a difference do you ever think about how much |
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| ABC's Stephanopoulos Attacks Thompson Again: Campaign Must be Perfect |
| Published: September 6, 2007, 12:31 pm |
| Tags: Campaign 2008, Conservatives Amp Amp Republicans, Revolving Door, Fred Thompson, George Stephanopoulos, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Robin Roberts, Rudy Giuliani, Abc, Good Morning America, This Week |
| Republican Fred Thompson's 2008 chances. On the Thursday edition of GMA, the host of "This Week" attempted to set an impossible bar for the former senator. "...He can't make a mistake," Stephanopoulos breathlessly claimed. Earlier in the segment, the ABC host negatively spun Thompson's standings in the polls. Some might |
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| Media Still Not Interested In Hsu Money |
| Published: September 7, 2007, 12:17 pm |
| Tags: Campaign 2008, Campaign Finance, Democratic Fundraising, Norman Hsu, Associated Press, Wall Street Journal, Government Amp Amp Press, Journalistic Issues |
| refuse to accept or possess campaign contributions raised, solicited, or delivered by fugitives from justice." "Growing flap". That's nice. But it would be even nicer if one of the so-called professional media organizations would devote some time to digging into the actual source of Hsu's large contributions. As of this writing, |
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| NBC, ABC Champion Oprah's 'Magic' to Boost Obama |
| Published: September 6, 2007, 9:44 pm |
| Tags: Campaign 2008, Andrea Mitchell, Barack Obama, David Wright, Oprah Winfrey, Good Morning America, Nbc Nightly News |
| power of Oprah in an Obama campaign ad. In a soundbite, Democratic strategist Donna Brazile gushed that O plus O equals opportunity for Barack Obama to win in 2008. On Thursday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams justified his show's story by asserting that Winfrey's support for him [Obama] is getting new attention -- |
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| A Few Seconds on CBS and NBC, But Not ABC, on Capture of Democratic Donor Hsu |
| Published: September 7, 2007, 8:54 pm |
| Tags: Campaign 2008, Norman Hsu, Abc World News, Cbs Evening News, Nbc Nightly News |
| CBS and NBC, but not ABC, squeezed in brief updates Friday night about how Norman Hsu, the fugitive Hillary Clinton/Democratic candidate high dollar donor, failed to appear in a California court on Wednesday for a bail hearing and was captured Thursday night in Colorado. Both the CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News, which aired full stories late |
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| The NYT on Giuliani's 'Political Exploitation' of 9-11 |
| Published: September 10, 2007, 3:14 pm |
| Tags: Campaign 2008, Swift Boat Veterans, Vietnam, Bill Keller, John Kerry, Marc Santora, Rudy Giuliani, New York Times |
| Memo," "In Campaign Year, Invoking 9/11 Raises New Debates," suggested Giuliani is misleading voters by breaking some kind of promise not to talk about his leadership as mayor of New York City after the September 11 terrorist attacks. "During a Republican presidential debate on Wednesday, Rudolph W. Giuliani asserted, |
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| Media Focuses on Hsu Flight- Not Finances |
| Published: September 11, 2007, 12:42 pm |
| Tags: Campaign 2008, Campaign Contributions, Democratic Party, Hillary Clinton, Norman Hsu, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Government Amp Amp Press, Journalistic Issues |
| I have been following the strange (and mostly unreported) case of fugitive criminal and major Democratic Party fundraiser Norman Hsu since September 5. Paul Mirengoff of the Power Line blog has a post today wherein he notes that the mainstream media, led by the Wall Street Jornal, are finally taking the time to look into Hsu's attempted flight |
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