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Category Archives: Tea Party
Fox & Friends Launches ‘Biased Polling’ Psy-ops Campaign
You almost have to feel a little sorry for the trio of hosts on “Fox and Friends.” They’re just kinda too dumb to fully know what they are saying. Today they launched a weak little psy-ops campaign trying to get … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, News Media, Presidential Politics, Tea Party
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Fare Unbalanced
Jon Stewart last week noticed a few discrepancies in the way Fox News approached the RNC, versus the emphases it homed in on during the DNC. You know, like how Brit Hume loved the data-filled speech of Paul Ryan (somehow … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, News Media, Presidential Politics, Tea Party, Video
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‘A Calculated Bluff of Historic Dimensions’
I generally avoid Matt Taibbi’s snark-and-snarl brand of populist journalism, preferring a bit more reason and substance. But I have to say, he may have cracked the Romney code here, in a way that the rest of the press has … Continue reading
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On the American Taliban
I know the clip below from HBO’s “The Newsroom” is at least five minutes longer than any network would really permit a talking head to have to voice an opinion on the air. I know Jeff Daniels’ character–a Republican pundit … Continue reading
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Photo of the Day
This seems to be the only photo I snapped of Congressman Paul Ryan the day I met him with a group of Humphrey Policy Forum fellows on Feb. 3, 2005. I don’t remember very much of what he said, but … Continue reading
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Mann and Ornstein: It’s Even Worse Than It Looks
I attended a presentation Monday by Thomas Mann and Norm Ornstein, the authors of a crucial new book, “It’s Even Worse Than It Looks.” The book is a much-needed critical appraisal of the state of the U.S. Congress by two … Continue reading
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Walker Wins: Time to Overestimate What it Means
Republicans have hung onto the Wisconsin governorship held by Scott Walker, and challenger Tom Barrett has gone down to defeat. Now get ready to endure an onslaught of overwrought and probably wrong-headed assertions about what that means. Tea Party types … Continue reading
Posted in State Politics, Tea Party, Uncategorized, Wisconsin
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I See Today Going Walker’s Way
In my (otherwise non-political) interview with him this morning, I asked Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton to predict whether his next-door neighbor will remain Scott Walker. He did not hesitate in his answer. “I think Walker will win,” Dayton said. As … Continue reading
Posted in Labor, State Politics, Tea Party, Video, Wisconsin
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Positions, Schmozitions!
So, is the issue that so few Americans pay any attention at all to the news that a top presidential campaign adviser—in this case Eric Fehrnstrom for Mitt Romney—can feel comfortable speaking the unvarnished truth on TV? No matter how … Continue reading
Posted in Presidential Politics, Tea Party, U.S. History
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Santorum Makes a Mockery of Mitt
Not at a all a bad piece of work, this ad that GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum is using against Mitt Romney. As Talking Points Memo’s Josh Marshall notes, “mockery is always the deadliest political weapon.” At that level it … Continue reading
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