Category Archives: Wonky Media

CNN Asks The Important Campaign Question: Where Are Bush And Cheney?

Oh, my, where oh where are they? Dick Cheney is certainly not one to hold back on how he really feels. George W. Bush, on the other hand, has been mum. Despite their differing approaches to handling the post-White House years, their absence on the campaign trail has been obvious. Has it? Obama and other […]

Compliant Media Still Beating The Secret Private Donations Drum

No, no, the media and the DNC never co-ordinate their talking points. This smacks of desperation. First we get Top Corporations Aid U.S. Chamber of Commerce Campaign on page A1 of the NY Times Prudential Financial sent in a $2 million donation last year as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce kicked off a national advertising […]

Fish Wrap Offers Pre-Halloween Story About Scary Secretive GOP Donors

Be frightened, very frightened, those evil men in the background are meeting. Mwahahahahahahahhahahahahaha! A secretive network of Republican donors is heading to the Palm Springs area for a long weekend in January, but it will not be to relax after a hard-fought election — it will be to plan for the next one. Obviously, not […]

Fish Wrap Whines About A “Tax Cut Nobody Heard Of”

Yet another of a long line of “in kind” campaign contributions from the NY Times. Shocker In a troubling sign for Democrats as they head into the midterm elections, their signature tax cut of the past two years, which decreased income taxes by up to $400 a year for individuals and $800 for married couples, […]

North Carolina Teen Will Plead Guilty Over Bomb Threats

Hey, do you remember Ashton Lundeby? He was the Oxford teen arrested for calling in bomb threats to schools across the country for money? And how many media outlets, including Raleigh TV station WRAL, ran with the “he was arrested under the EVIL Patriot Act” meme? And so many Lefties ate it up? Even after […]

Fish Wrap Has A Snit Fit Over GOP Climate Deniers

And when I say the NY Times, I mean the paper itself, as the editorial board offers up consensus Former Vice President Dick Cheney has to be smiling. With one exception, none of the Republicans running for the Senate — including the 20 or so with a serious chance of winning — accept the scientific […]

Fish Wrap Finally Gets Around To Chiding Obama Over Jihadi Assassinations

The editorial board over the use of targeted killing towards Islamist terrorist and their associates, and wag their finger in a “tsk tsk tsk” manner, because, hey, Obama’s the messiah: Lethal Force Under Law The Obama administration has sharply expanded the shadow war against terrorists, using both the military and the C.I.A. to track down […]

New Democrat Campaign Issues: Abortion And Campaign Donations

Just a few weeks left, and some Democrats are running on ObamaCare, the Stimulus, and their massive spending. Just kidding Republicans have won points with many voters by promising a conservative overhaul of taxes and spending, but Democrats are working hard in the closing weeks of the campaign to convince voters that a conservative social […]

Uh, Oh, More Stuff On O’Donnell…Wait, They’re Of A Democrat? Never Mind

A little mental exercise, folks: consider that the person in the below pictures was a Republican. Would they and the story be all over the media, instead of just a few outlets and blogs?  From NBC 12 in Richmond (WWBT) She wasn’t very well-known until about six hours ago, now a Virginia woman running for […]

Oh, No, Special Interest Spending Way Up This Election Cycle

You know which side is going to be the bad guy, right? Interest groups are spending five times as much on the 2010 congressional elections as they did on the last midterms, and they are more secretive than ever about where that money is coming from. The $80 million spent so far by groups outside […]

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