Tag Archives: Politics & Government

‘Unintentional satire’: Michael McKean takes a shot at Sarah Palin

http://twitter.com/#!/MJMcKean/status/411309489552244736 What has actor Michael McKean invoking the Unintentional Satire Department? The link leads to a — gasp! — gold Sarah Palin medallion from Alaska Mint. What’s not satirical: a portion of the proceeds from the sale of the medallion will go to the Wounded Warrior Project, a service organization for wounded veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan. Not only that: the description of the medallion is decidedly nonpartisan: “This 1 oz. gold medallion honors Alaska’s Sarah Palin. As Alaska’s first woman Governor, she had a reputation of being against ‘business as […]

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‘Has campaign season started already?’ CNN hosts Hillary Clinton town hall

http://twitter.com/#!/MJCFlorida77/status/479012943468969984 As if she weren’t gaining enough free publicity from her book tour, Hillary Clinton was the subject of a “town hall” meeting on CNN Tuesday afternoon. http://twitter.com/#!/MichaelHargrov1/status/479014095770091520 Good point. http://twitter.com/#!/Chiggins44/status/479013889699348480 So she might or might not be running for president. What else have we learned from CNN’s Hillary love-fest? http://twitter.com/#!/TheMattWilstein/status/479013945680723968 http://twitter.com/#!/Facetotty/status/479014039440199681 http://twitter.com/#!/cnnbrk/status/479014860190388224 http://twitter.com/#!/amandacarpenter/status/479018863246725120 http://twitter.com/#!/murphy_paulp/status/479022398252285952 http://twitter.com/#!/CNN/status/479023459788656640 http://twitter.com/#!/JeffreyGuterman/status/479022060174581760   Read more: http://twitchy.com/2014/06/17/has-campaign-season-started-already-cnn-hosts-hillary-clinton-town-halllove-fest/

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NBC News’ Andrea Mitchell refers to Free Beacon as ‘anti-Clinton website’

http://twitter.com/#!/NumbersMuncher/status/433027097347383296 Don’t worry, Hillary. NBC News has got this! Earlier today, NBC News’ Mike O’Brien didn’t see the point in the Washington Free Beacon’s Hillary Clinton scoop. O’Brien discounted the report as old information that won’t matter going forward (maybe people would have already heard about it if the lapdogs ever did any digging on their pet Dems). The Free Beacon’s Michael Goldfarb also noticed that NBC News’ Andrea Mitchell didn’t refer to their site by name, but rather as an “anti-Clinton website” that ran an “inflammatory […]

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Comically pitiful: Some people were ready for Hillary — All. Night. Long. [pics]

http://twitter.com/#!/CajunTomato/status/476307491283013633 It’s always too early for that. And some Hillary devotees refused to wait until morning to line up for her book signing at a Manhattan Barnes & Noble. http://twitter.com/#!/moneyries/status/476133020953759745 One Clinton admirer showed up before 3 p.m. on Monday and admitted to Business Insider that he “can’t wait” to read Hillary’s “insightful” book, “Hard Choices.” http://twitter.com/#!/gdebenedetti/status/476193986999492611 Hillary feels your pain, fans, and she’s totally down with the camping-out struggle. She was once so broke she feared she couldn’t pay the mortgages on her pricey homes. Just […]

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Soldier killed in attack posed for recent photo with War Memorial visitor

http://twitter.com/#!/IanCharlebois/status/525034731646513152 @megunder @MPolowin my heart 🙁 — Allison Moscovitch ♊ (@allipaige) October 22, 2014 It has been confirmed that soldier was killed in today’s shooting at Canada’s National War Memorial in Ottawa: CBC News has confirmed the Ottawa shooting victim is Nathan Cirillo, 24, a reservist serving in Hamilton from the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada regiment. Ottawa police announced at a press conference Wednesday that the soldier shot while guarding the National War Memorial had died.​ On Sunday, Cirillo posed for a picture with a […]

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‘Transparency’: ‘Media lockdown’ at Biden event in Chicago

http://twitter.com/#!/natashakorecki/status/504003995518898176 Some reporters seem like they’re getting a little tired of getting the run-around from the most transparent administration in history. http://twitter.com/#!/natashakorecki/status/504014329315094528 http://twitter.com/#!/natashakorecki/status/504015386623631361 http://twitter.com/#!/jakemalooley/status/504021289573842944 http://twitter.com/#!/natashakorecki/status/504016337648488448 http://twitter.com/#!/natashakorecki/status/504019941050560512 http://twitter.com/#!/RonSandack/status/504021552888033281 They can’t have people like that participating. That could create a breach in the narrative. http://twitter.com/#!/natashakorecki/status/504029164244971522 Transparency. *** Related Reporter: Obama ‘the greatest threat to press freedom in a generation’ Journalists: ‘Stifling of free expression is happening’ despite Obama’s pledge    Read more: http://twitchy.com/2014/08/25/transparency-reporters-on-media-lockdown-at-biden-event-in-chicago/

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CNN asks if Bush or Clinton is the better shoe dodger; Best answer revealed

http://twitter.com/#!/TJSullivanLA/status/454608342346788865 Yesterday, during a speech in Las Vegas, a woman was arrested after throwing a shoe at Hillary Clinton. During a press conference in Baghdad in 2008, George W. Bush dodged two shoes that were thrown at him by an Iraqi journalist. CNN asked which person was the superior shoe dodger: http://twitter.com/#!/CNN/status/454604189977821184 If the voting ends in a tie, will CNN recommend a “dodge-off” competition between Bush and Clinton? Some didn’t any news-worthiness in the question: http://twitter.com/#!/RebeccaTownsend/status/454605354459209728 For most of those who answered the question, Bush was […]

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NC NAACP tells voter ID protesters to bring photo ID to Moral March [pics]

http://twitter.com/#!/TBradleyNC/status/432153614187249664 Wait … what? http://twitter.com/#!/TBradleyNC/status/432168257374920704 First, some background: Leftist activists, including members of North Carolina NAACP, are in Raleigh, North Carolina, today for the so-called Moral March. Their mission? To screech about everything from abortion restrictions to fast-food wages. North Carolina blogger extraordinaire Sister Toldjah has a must-read Moral March primer on the Moral Monday movement and its hateful organizers. As bused-in protesters and professional agitators prepared to promote their progressive causes — including oh-so-racist voter ID requirements — the state NAACP told participants make sure to have photo […]

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Brit Hume’s instant classic Obamacare truth-bomb becomes a meme [pic]

http://twitter.com/#!/brithume/status/395561880334643200 In October, Fox News’ Brit Hume nailed the devastating reality of Obamacare with that tweet. Months later, he appears tickled to discover that his words have received the meme treatment. http://twitter.com/#!/brithume/status/436697031986655232 Uh oh. Is Hume dipping his toes in the meme-sturbatory #Fugelsanging pool? http://twitter.com/#!/BigJebBos/status/436698192055640065 Nah. He gets a pass since he’s just noting that the pic is “ricocheting around on Twitter.” And besides, Brit Hume is no John Fugelsang. That science is settled. The October tweet has 3,270 retweets and last night’s tweet has over 560 […]

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Reporter misidentifies House Speaker; Boehner replies ‘it’s Boner’ [Vine]

http://twitter.com/#!/SarahNEmerson/status/439096087266480128 During a press conference today, Speaker of the House John Boehner purposefully mispronounced his name after a reporter incorrectly identified him: http://twitter.com/#!/LukeRussert/status/439077237686824960 A check of the video shows that yes, that did happen: http://twitter.com/#!/frankthorpNBC/status/439083450684170241 Read more: http://twitchy.com/2014/02/27/yes-it-happened-reporter-misidentifies-house-speaker-boehner-replies-its-boner-vine/

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