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Campaign Crawlers
The Exact Opposite of Truth
Media coverage scarcely resembles the actual GOP convention.
TAMPA, Florida — The Republican Party has spared no expense to accommodate the hundreds of journalists who have come here to write dishonest stories aimed at preventing the GOP from winning this year’s election.
If you’ve been following major media coverage of the Republican National Convention, you know that the party’s presidential candidate is Todd Akin, who will campaign this fall on a platform of undiluted hatred and evil, with the able assistance of his running mate, Martin Bormann Jr. The Akin-Bormann ticket was personally selected by RNC Chairman Rush Limbaugh and endorsed by Karl Rove after consultation with a secretive cabal of right-wing Mormon billionaires. The Republican delegates who are assembling this week in Tampa are mere dupes hired by the Koch brothers to provide the superficial appearance of a “political convention” debating a platform and nominating candidates.
Such is the narrative subtext of most of the GOP convention coverage, which is provided by a political press corps that is overwhelmingly composed of people who would never vote for any Republican under any imaginable circumstance. It has been estimated, based on data analyzed by the conservative non-profit Media Research Center, that Democrats outnumber Republicans among journalists by a ratio of at least 7-to-1, perhaps even more than 10-to-1. This lopsided partisanship has consequences that are, on the one hand, blindingly obvious to Republicans and yet somehow, on the other hand, utterly invisible to most of those inside the news industry.
Most journalists never notice liberal bias for the same reason that fish don’t notice water — it is all around them, it is all they’ve ever known, and they take it for granted. And just as the fish out of water flops around desperately at the life-threatening loss of its accustomed environment, most journalists react with a frantic horror at reporting that lacks the partisan slant which is understood as “objectivity” by members of the press corps. Only when one’s mind is trapped inside that weird worldview, for example, is it possible to take Chris Matthews seriously.
In case you didn’t realize it, the only claim Matthews has to being a journalist is that he is a partisan Democrat. Matthews never worked a day as a reporter, never covered a city council meeting or a homecoming parade. After evading the Vietnam-era military draft by enrolling in the Peace Corps, Matthews moved to Washington and worked on the staff of various congressional Democrats before unsuccessfully running for Congress as a Democrat, later joining the White House staff as a speechwriter for Democrat Jimmy Carter, then spending the Reagan years as a top aide to Democrat House Speaker Tip O’Neill. Somehow, this ultra-political background as a partisan operative qualified Matthews for the job of Washington bureau chief for the San Francisco Chronicle. Such is the biography of the man who has been employed for the past 15 years as a “journalist” by NBC, hosting his own show on the network’s little-watched MSNBC cable franchise while appearing regularly on the broadcast network during coverage of major political events.
Matthews made a guest appearance Monday on MSNBC’s Morning Joe program, which provided him an opportunity to lecture GOP Chairman Reince Priebus that Republicans were playing “the race card” by, among other things, criticizing President Obama for waiving work requirements for welfare. “When you start talking about work requirements, you know what game you’re playing and everybody knows what game you’re playing,” Matthews scolded Priebus, in a bizarre rant that also referenced Obama’s “African name” as a burden the president has “got to live with.” Video of the Matthews-Priebus encounter immediately went viral online, cited by conservatives as yet another example of liberal bias in the media, equal to the infamous 2008 declaration by Matthews that while listening to Obama speak he “felt this thrill going up my leg.”
Matthews is an extreme example of a general phenomenon, the gaudy tip of a much larger (and usually, more subtle) iceberg of bias. Consider, for example, the question of what constitutes a newsworthy controversy. Politicians occasionally say thoughtless or offensive things that make headlines and may require an apology for the foot-in-the-mouth moment. Seldom, however, do reporters demand that Democrat politicians denounce and repudiate another Democrat’s gaffe. By contrast, when Missouri’s GOP Senate candidate Todd Akin made atrociously stupid comments about rape and abortion, Akin’s blunder became for several days the most important political news in the country. Even though Akin’s remarks were swiftly repudiated by nearly every Republican of note, much of the news coverage created the impression that Akin was speaking officially on behalf of the GOP, and that the “extremist” Akin — rather than moderate former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who is in fact the party’s presidential nominee — was symbolic of Republicans everywhere. Inside the liberal media worldview, only Republicans must answer collectively for the errors and embarrassments of their individual members.
To a liberal journalist, the offensive words of Todd Akin tell Americans everything they need to know about what the GOP stands for, while scandal-plagued or gaffe-prone Democrats are viewed as an aberration. No reporter for the New York Times or CBS News would tolerate, for example, coverage that inferred from the late Ted Kennedy’s career that Democrats endorse drunk driving and vehicular manslaughter as a matter of policy. Yet Akin’s comments were immediately seized on as a significant national story that symbolized a Republican “war on women.” Meanwhile — almost entirely unnoticed by the mainstream press — actual Republican women are among the most articulate and outspoken critics of Obama’s policies.
Monday afternoon, I bumped into an example of this phenomenon. Walking through the lobby of the Sheraton hotel, I spotted a familiar-looking woman sitting quietly near the elevators. I’d met her briefly at a convention-related event Sunday, but had forgotten her name and, overcoming my embarrassment at having to ask, was surprised to find myself talking to the former lieutenant-governor of New York.
Betsy McCaughey has a Ph.D. from Columbia University and has gained recognition as an expert on health-care policy, authoring a recent Encounter Books “Broadside” called The Obama Health Law: What It Says and How to Overturn It. McCaughey spoke Monday at an event hosted by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, where she described her analysis of research that she says demonstrates that Obamacare “is likely to cause an estimated 40,000 unnecessary deaths each year” among hospitalized Medicare patients. Policy experts might dispute McCaughey’s analysis and I lack the expertise to evaluate her research, but as soon as she described it to me in the hotel lobby, I recognized it as newsworthy. Democrats have repeatedly accused Republicans of scheming to kill old people through Medicare cuts, a tactic that included a TV ad showing Paul Ryan literally pushing an elderly woman off a cliff. Yet here was a scholarly GOP politician citing research data in support of a conclusion that is the mirror-reverse of that perception — to summarize McCaughey’s research quite bluntly, Obama’s plan will kill Grandma.
True or false, right or wrong, it is certainly a startling claim and one might suppose that McCaughey’s research would be considered as newsworthy as anything a Missouri Senate candidate might say. Yet it seems that almost none of the major political journalists covering the Gingrich event Monday deemed McCaughey’s analysis worth reporting. A blogger for Esquire’s website gave McCaughey some skeptical and derisive coverage, and her remarks at Gingrich’s event were briefly quoted by a reporter for the local Tampa paper. Other than that, however, McCaughey was a non-story, ignored by the press who seemed unimpressed by this remarkable woman saying that 40,000 senior citizens will die as a result of the president’s policies. After I interviewed her for my blog, McCaughey sat unnoticed by other reporters in the restaurant of the Sheraton, a hotel swarming with media types whose alleged purpose for traveling to Tampa was to find news.
Betsy McCaughey, however, didn’t fit the narrative subtext that liberal journalists are here to report. She is neither evil nor stupid, and Republican policy experts with Ivy League doctorate degrees are not newsworthy — especially when such experts are women in a party whose policies (according to the liberal narrative subtext) are fundamentally hostile to women.
Hundreds of reporters have come to Tampa with plans to cover something other than the actual Republican convention. Instead, they are here seeking “proof” of their own preconceived partisan prejudices and it is amazing (as I sit here in the lavishly appointed Media Filing Center downtown) to see how the Republican Party has spared no expense in welcoming its most ferocious and dangerous enemies. If you believe what you see in most convention coverage, you will think of Republicans as the Evil Party of Greedy Haters, a frightening conclave of grim and ferocious extremists. Everything the GOP does here in Tampa will be portrayed as insincere, corrupt, scandalous or (best of all) “controversial.” When Democrats convene next week in Charlotte, however, everything Obama and his supporters do will be portrayed as warm, wonderful, and honest. The reporters delivering these contrasting depictions of the two parties do not consider themselves as engaged in partisan advocacy. Rather, in the minds of the liberal media, they are simply reporting the objective truth.
Republicans watching from afar are no doubt sadly familiar with this kind of bias. And they’ll be happy to learn that the Media Filing Center here at the convention in Tampa is open 24 hours a day, providing liberal journalists the facilities to lie around the clock.
About the Author
Robert Stacy McCain is co-author (with Lynn Vincent) of Donkey Cons: Sex, Crime, and Corruption in the Democratic Party (Nelson Current). He blogs at The Other McCain.
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Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 8.28.12 @ 6:24AM
The majority of the public is wise to media clowns like Chris Matthews. That's why his ratings and ratings overall for MSNBC and other liberal shows are in the tank.
I wonder how the media will spin the fact that there will be a two hour Muslim prayer fest at the DNC while a Catholic priest was denied the same outlet.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.co.....ad-prayer/
But the most disturbing aspect of the entire “Jumah at the DNC” is not the obvious victimhood-mongering of its agenda, but the people involved. The Democrats are playing host to an unsavory gang of Islamic supremacists with numerous ties to jihad groups. Even this is not surprising, but it should be a matter of concern to any Americans who are more aware of the jihad threat than the average politically correct Democrat pol.
President Obama turned down a chance to have Timothy Cardinal Dolan deliver a prayer at the Democratic National Convention after Dolan told Democrats he would be “grateful” to deliver a blessing in Charlotte.
Stephie| 8.28.12 @ 6:44AM
Don't you think Bill that this is "sour grapes" because of the lawsuits brought on by the Catholics for being forced to provide birth control to their employees ? Why would Dolan even offer to deliver the invocation to the party of death and atheism!
The Avenger| 8.28.12 @ 7:22AM
Maybe it is because he is a man of God who believes in forgiveness? God knows the democrats need it.
TLP| 8.28.12 @ 8:08AM
When the Catholic Church starts EXCOMMUNICATING these MFers, then this Sh*t will stop.
They have a Weapon.
USE IT!
MK48| 8.28.12 @ 10:21AM
Tim how could you be excommunicated from something you never belived in.
TLP| 8.28.12 @ 10:58AM
Agreed, but the Scarlett Letter would go along way in Shutting their Lying Mouths, about how Catholic they are.
Nick| 8.28.12 @ 7:45PM
Excommunication is not a weapon to be wielded, Mr. Pennell, nor, is it a punishment.
Excommunication is a corrective measure, used to get the faithful right with God.
I agree, though, that there are some bishops who could be exerting more of their pastoral care & discipline in these cases. Some bishops are causing a scandal by their silence.
Occam's Tool| 8.28.12 @ 11:02AM
When I run across a Libtard advocate for an NHS who has actually worked as a doc in both the American system (in prison, private practice, nursing homes, Developmental Delay Care Centers, for profit private hospitals, not for profit private hospitals, University Hospitals, LA County Hospital, VA hospital, a State Psychiatric hospital, and Community Mental Health Centers in two states, and a Native American opioid treatment clinic) AND an NHS as a Senior Medical Consultant, and who is able to speak coherently with hands on experience in both why he thinks an NHS is better, then maybe I will listen.
Since I am that person except for the fact that I KNOW an NHS is dogshit and can point out case after case why this is so, what Crap in my Pants Matthews and his talking heads think about Healthcare is immaterial to me. Ditto for what Berwick and his band of loons thinks. Ditto for Sibelius.
I am the f'in authority on this subject, not them. There's very little I don't know about the American system of Mental Health Care or the NHS system in New Zealand, which is closely modelled on the British. My practice range of experiences shocks myself sometimes when I think about it. I didn't plan it this way; I just did what I wanted to do at the time. But there's nothing I haven't seen.
Occam's Tool| 8.28.12 @ 11:05AM
I've also worked, by the way, with Bill Clinton's head of Mental Health Services in Arkansas as an administrator. Nice guy. I've got some stories to tell. Did you know that Hillary and I attended the same high school? About 14 years apart or so, but the same one. I've got interesting knowledge of where she grew up.
I live as far f'in away as I can from those turds.
cuban pete| 8.28.12 @ 11:58AM
Smart money says the Maine South Hawks will return to the 8A title game this year. Plan on coming back Thanksgiving weekend.
irish19| 8.28.12 @ 6:17PM
St. Ignatius Wolf myself. Doubt we have a chance at B-ball.
JP| 8.28.12 @ 7:30AM
The Dems are childish. And they haven't a clue the pandora's box they are opening.
DTOM| 8.28.12 @ 9:36AM
And the best thing - the Dems are having a two hour Jumah lead by KNOWN Islamists (radicals) and they claim that Republicans and conservatives are waging war on women?
Exactly who is it that thinks that "heaven" consists of being 'given' 72 virgins?' Stripped of their burkas?
Ask these questions of every Democrat you meet!
Don't wait around for an answer - just ask and bolt! With no one to blame for asking the question, these Democratic dupes might actually think about it!
DTOM
DRed| 8.28.12 @ 10:39AM
Well, I've done some poking around. First, it's not the Dems who are having it! The prayers are on a Friday. The convention starts the following Tuesday. It's not an official DNC event. This is a free country. If some muslims want to pray in Charlotte they can pray in Charlotte.
DTOM| 8.28.12 @ 10:50AM
DRed;
It is not a free country for those with the avowed aim of supplanting the constitutional laws of our country!
You need to find out who dhimmis are. You need to find out what dhimmi law is.
If you don't know, you'd better find out.
And if you do know, then you are an enemy of our Constitution. You won't be lonely, though.
And if the Dem's are circulating the invitation to the Jumah to their attendees they are supporting not suppressing this event, aren't they? Or can't you tell?
Get that damn camel's nose outta my tent!
Don't Tread On Me
DTOM| 8.28.12 @ 10:50AM
DRed;
It is not a free country for those with the avowed aim of supplanting the constitutional laws of our country!
You need to find out who dhimmis are. You need to find out what dhimmi law is.
If you don't know, you'd better find out.
And if you do know, then you are an enemy of our Constitution. You won't be lonely, though.
And if the Dem's are circulating the invitation to the Jumah to their attendees they are supporting not suppressing this event, aren't they? Or can't you tell?
Get that damn camel's nose outta my tent!
Don't Tread On Me
DTOM| 8.28.12 @ 11:04AM
DOH!
nathan| 8.28.12 @ 1:38PM
You REALLY REALLY need to get your copy of the Constitution, shake the decades of dust off of it, and read it again. Honestly. I would have you start with the Fifth Amendment, then the First, and proceed from there.
After that go to the Declaration of Independence and read the second sentence CAREFULLY. INDIVIDUALS have rights that they can forfeit but not have taken away with going through that Fifth Amendment process.
INDIVDUALS not found guilty of breaking any laws may worship as they please. If suspected of breaking laws, charge them and due process them. Otherwise they have all the constitutional rights you have. You understand that right?
And while you're at it, you know after 911 the NYPD conducted a comprehensive intelligence effort against the muslims. Mosques, cafes, student groups, you name it. Guess what they found? NOTHING. No arrests, nothing actionable.
So yes, be vigilant, but do so understanding that everyone I mean EVERYONE have rights, even people you hate which must be respected.
Class is over.
Nick| 8.28.12 @ 7:49PM
The only class you are qualified to teach, Nathan, is one that makes people dumber.
You didn't even know the difference between water-boarding and the water cure, Einstein.
Mimi | 8.28.12 @ 3:01PM
"THS DEMS ARE CHILDISH "
Thats what it is that frustrates us so...those four words are it in a nutshell!
FarmersDaughter| 8.28.12 @ 9:17AM
Well stated, Bill.
Alan Obama Fan Brooks | 8.28.12 @ 9:25AM
"If you believe what you see in most convention coverage, you will think of Republicans as the Evil Party of Greedy Haters, a frightening conclave of grim and ferocious extremists."
No, just incompetent post- Reagan clueless. No Warsaw Pact to unite you. And now you have to listen to professor Gingrich's future-babble at the convention.
I almost feel sorry for you.
DTOM| 8.28.12 @ 9:39AM
Yeah, Alan lucky you! You get to listen to the economic theorizing of socialist Obama and that brilliant Democratic economic theoretician Joe Biden!
I'd rather listen to Ted Kennedy explain how much he respects women to Mary Joe Kopechne's parents!
DTOM
Alan Obama Fan Brooks | 8.28.12 @ 10:04AM
So you are writing that your Rockefeller liberal Mittens Romney will do better than Bush and McCain ever did or could have done?
DTOM| 8.28.12 @ 10:43AM
Bush won 2X
McCain lost 1 X
I never have said I was a big fan of Mr. Compassionate Conservative Bush.
I supported a lot of candidates before I supported Mitt Romney. He is my LAST choice this time around.
But the difference between Obama's socialism and Mr. Romney's centrism is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.
Anyone who cannot see that is not just blind and deaf, but brain dead.
Alan, if Obama somehow steals this election, he will be coming for you, one thing the communists have always done after achieving power is go after their own sympathizers because those useful idiots always think they are owed something and make a lot of trouble.
DTOM
KennesawJack| 8.28.12 @ 11:20AM
DTOM, You forgot to tell him to not come to us for help when they come for him. We ain't gonna be there.
Alan Obama Fan Brooks | 8.28.12 @ 3:22PM
"But the difference between Obama's socialism and Mr. Romney's centrism is ..."
Mittens is a Rockefeller LIBERAL.
Doctor Right| 8.28.12 @ 1:17PM
First they came for the anarchists, but since I was not an anarchist, I didn't speak-up.
Then they came for the socialists, but since I was not a socialist, I didn't speak up.
Then they came for the Marxists, but since I was not a Marxist, I didn't speak-up.
Then they came for the Liberals, but since I was not a Liberal, I didn't speak-up.
Then they came for the abortionists, but since I was not an abortionist, I did not speak-up.
Then they came for the trade-unionists, but since I was not a trade-unionist, I did not speak-up.
Then they came for the homosexuals, but since I was not a homosexual, I did not speak up.
And then they came for me...
And I told them not to forget the Occupy Wall Street losers.
Then the party started!
S.O.S| 8.28.12 @ 9:49AM
". . . you will think of Republicans as the Evil Party of Greedy Haters, a frightening conclave of grim and ferocious extremists . . ."
Mr. McCain, this is the impression one gets when reading the comments on AmSpec. The commenters, refusing or incapable of seeing the complexity of ideas, rant and rave like . . . well, fanatics.
Take abortion, for example. Commenters refer to the fetus as a "baby," and to women, who for whatever reason terminate their pregnancies, as "murderers."
When the Republican Religious Right turns down its rhetoric, perhaps Republicans will not be viewed as blind fanatics.
Al Adab| 8.28.12 @ 9:55AM
Well, old friend, Truth is a defense.
George True| 8.28.12 @ 10:28AM
Your comment proves what Mr McCain is saying.
DTOM| 8.28.12 @ 10:45AM
No, we will be viewed not as blind fanatics, but "Blind Mice!"
SOS - have you ever seen a sonogram of a 10 - week "fetus?" I say you haven't.
Drunken Sailor| 8.28.12 @ 10:51AM
Question of wise one, SOS.
Why is it that pro-abortion groups claim to be pro-choice yet attack anyone who makes the choice against abortion?
Love the tolerance.
S.O.S| 8.28.12 @ 11:03AM
"the choice against abortion"
The Republican Right wants to take away a woman's right to terminate her pregnancy.
This is the problem, and it will be our downfall at the polling booths. But have it your way. "Abortion is MURDER," you say.
No gray areas, no complexity, nothing. According to you, it's murder.
Four more years of growing debt, thanks to the extreme right-wing of our party.
You're taking us down like a kamakazi pilot. But, again, have it your way.
Occam's Tool| 8.28.12 @ 11:10AM
SOS: A Haiku for You!
Does Fetus That Dies (5)
Grow Up To Pay Taxes For (7)
Your Senility? (5)
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50 million kids would have worked down a lot of Medicare/Medicaid/Social Security imbalance.
Ian Cognito | 8.28.12 @ 1:56PM
Don't worry about the 50 million... (they were mostly black) when you hear Dems ranting on abortion, remind them they wanted it to control black births. Affirmative action and welfare costs were going out of control. Academic parity failed to arise. Dems had a big problem. Abortion solved it. Also ask them WHY anti-racist Dems refuse to live next to blacks. Why do they create laws that assure blacks cannot advance - like school choice. Or why they do NOTHING to stop black on black murders. Chicago had 19 in a matter of minutes a few days ago. Do Dems consider these deaths late term abortions?
DTOM| 8.28.12 @ 11:12AM
Isn't the fetus's pregnancy, too?
And why is that taking of an innocent life 'complicated?' How can it be gray?
And how can you blame Obama's four trillion dollars in new debt on the right?
Do you believe in electricity? Do you dry your hair in the tub? Drop it and you'll discover there are things you can't see that you NEED to believe in!
WAIT A MINUTE!!!
You said
"Four more years of growing debt, thanks to the extreme right-wing of our party." You are confused, you meant to write "the extreme LEFT- wing of OUR party..."
There, confusion all staightened out - or you have a very bad case of projection - It is the left and the Democrats who have blown the federal budget to hell.
Any other thought suggests that you had better be living at home with mom and her boyfriend to make sure you eat and wash behind your ears...
Stupid troll - try your bologna somewhere else!!!
Don't Tread On Me!!!
Dai Alanye | 8.28.12 @ 11:16AM
The Democrats are waging a war on children and spending money as if there were no tomorrow, yet this S.O.S person wants to facilitate them.
Strange logic, to say the least.
KyMouse| 8.28.12 @ 12:17PM
S.O.S., it is not a pregnancy that is terminated, but a daughter or son who is deliberately killed. If you think babies deserve to be killed, then say so -- why use euphemisms and oblique phrases to disguise what you mean?
A "fetus" could be a dog, a cat, or a pig in its mother's womb -- why not be precise and acknowledge the humanity of the baby in her mother's womb? You do know, don't you, that from the moment of fertilization, that tiny human being has human DNA, and therefore can be nothing else but human?
You talk about women's rights, yet at least half of the babies killed by abortion would have grown up to be women. By the way, where do you stand on sex-selection abortion -- does it bother you when a mother aborts her baby girl because she wants a son instead?
Abortion hurts, and sometimes kills, mothers. Google "Lou Ann Herron" and "Synthia Dennard" to read about two mothers who died at the hands of "safe" and legal abortionists.
Every mother deserves better than abortion.
Every child deserves a chance.
MK48| 8.28.12 @ 3:08PM
Mouse.....sex selection abortion is almost nonexistant.......they spin the sperm to get what you want.
irish19| 8.28.12 @ 6:24PM
"spin the sperm" sounds like an adult (very adult) party game.
That would only hold for in vitro or artificial insemination. Sex selection abortion is, I think, fairly rare in our culture. Others, however (think China and India) seem to do it as a matter of course.
Drunken Sailor| 8.28.12 @ 12:47PM
Oh, so now your conservative but for abortion. I never said it was not complex but you seem to think you can read my mind when you can't seem to make yours up. First you say Romney is to liberal, now your saying the extreme right wing of OUR party is going to take us down.
So, just which canidate do you support?
Controse| 8.28.12 @ 11:05AM
If a fetus isn't a baby what is it? If people who kill babies aren't murderers what are they? When people such as yourself find a moral compass you'll be a Republican.
S.O.S| 8.28.12 @ 12:08PM
The Bible says it.
When does life begin? Well, I think I will use the Bible (frequently referenced on this blog) to tell you when life begins.
The Bible speaks of the "quick and the dead."
Quickening, according to medical science, begins anywhere between the 13th week and the 20th.
The Bible does not recognize life in the womb before quickening--before the 13th week. This is the Bible's account of when life begins.
'Jesus will come to judge the quick and the dead"
The verse is 2 Timothy 4:1. The "quick" is a reference to those who have "Life."
Understand?
But this is very unsettling. Jesus will judge a fetus in the womb? Doesn't make any sense to me. In fact, it's patently ridiculous that a fetus can be judged morally. Could a fetus "sin"? Yikes!
So much confusion . . .
Seattle Sam| 8.28.12 @ 12:14PM
Excellent point, S.O.S.
Superb point.
I agree with you that the extreme rightwingers are destroying our party with wedge issues, such as abortion.
These pro-life zealots are incapable of reasoning, even when you quote their favorite book--the Bible.
Intelligent Republicans are deserting the party in droves. Get ready for four more disastrous years of Obama's fiscal ruination.
Evelyn W.| 8.28.12 @ 12:32PM
We traditional Republicans--fiscal conservatives--have almost been silenced by the hysterical religious rightwingers.
I agree with both of you that they are making Obama's bid for another four years an easy quest.
When we lose in November, as we are bound to do, we all know which element of the party to blame, and so many are subscribers to AmSpec.
They focus on wedge issues, and their anger is downright toxic.
Doctor Right| 8.28.12 @ 3:43PM
You're an idiot.
You support the legality of inserting a sharp pair of scissors into the back of a 9-month old baby's head, scrambling the brains, sucking out the brains into a sink with a small vacuum-tube, and disposing of the body in a garbage bag...
...and you call Pro-Life Republicans "extreme"???
The extremists are the people who murder children.
S.O.S, for all of his ignorance, does make one valid point:
There WILL be a judgment one day.
I try not to take pleasure in it, but I'd like to see the look on God's face when He hears someone justify the slaughter of the unborn.
You're a sick person.
KyMouse| 8.28.12 @ 12:33PM
Why are pro-abortion people such as S.O.S. so anti-science?
I have in front of me a copy of "The Developing Human: Clinically Oriented Embryology," a textbook written for medical students -- not seminary students.
On its very first page, it says, "Human development is a continuous process that begins when an ovum from a female is fertilized by a sperm from a male...A zygote is the beginning of a new human being."
S.O.S., is this tiny new human being isn't alive, how can the cells be dividing and multiplying? How can the circulatory, digestive, skeletal and nervous systems be developing?
If the baby isn't alive, the result is decay, not development!
Why is it so difficult for people such as you to admit that you believe mothers should have the right to kill their baby daughters and sons? If it is such a good thing, why not just say so?
Evelyn W.| 8.28.12 @ 3:38PM
KyMouse,
A zygote has the potential for life, but it has no brain and cannot live on its on. Therefore it does not qualify for personhood.
An acorn has the potential to become an oak tree, but an acorn is not an oak tree, just as a zygote is not a person.
Pro-lifers can babble all they want and twist their words and spin their untruths, but you will never prevail.
The hidden agenda in the pro-life movement is control--the control of a woman's body.
There was a time when men controlled women by denying them the right to vote.
We are living in the enlightened 21st century, and we will not allow you to tell us what to do with our bodies.
You are a male Neanderthal, KyMouse. Your time has passed.
Doctor Right| 8.28.12 @ 3:48PM
And you are as clueless as they come.
Once, many years ago, YOU were a "zygote."
And if your mother had had an abortion, YOUY would now be what's commonly known as "dead."
You can't see the forest for the trees.
Abortion is the most extreme, most ANTI-WOMAN position imaginable.
You've been duped by radical feminists into thinking that the "right" to kill your own baby is somehow a good thing.
Who benefits the most from abortion? Women?
Uh-uh. Think again.
Think about the millions and millions of men who've been allowed to evade their parental responsibilities because a woman was willing to KILL her own child.
The Pro-Life movement WILL prevail. That's because God won't care about your silly, infantile rationalizations.
You're a fool. And you've been duped.
Evelyn W.| 8.28.12 @ 4:26PM
Is this scrambled, illiterate, and unreasonable response to my post the best you can do, Dr. Right?
You throw a little verbal tantrum, and call me a fool.
Name-calling is always the resort of those who cannot organize coherent thoughts to rebut an argument.
Too bad your verbal skills and analytical dexterity are too weak to counter my argument.
Doctor Right| 8.28.12 @ 6:21PM
So, in other words, you have no response?
Typical.
You are a fool. An ignorant, ill-informed fool.
I explained to you, quite succinctly, my position.
I also explained, quite succinctly, how abortion is a lie that harms women and murders children.
You chose not to listen.
If you'd like to debate facts, I'm all ears.
Now...WHAT, exactly, is your position on the murder of unborn children?
Nick| 8.28.12 @ 7:55PM
"You are a male Neanderthal, KyMouse."
- Evelyn W. @ 3:38PM
"Name-calling is always the resort of those who cannot organize coherent thoughts to rebut an argument."
- Evelyn W. @ 4:26PM
You were saying, brainiac?
CJW| 8.28.12 @ 7:31PM
Evelyn
You do know that Pa, as most states, has a law titled "Homicide of an Unborn Child." The unborn child is defined as a child from fertilization. Let me simplify if for you. If you kill an unborn child, except for abortion, you will be prosecuted. And when you parade your street law to the judge that you killed only a zyogte, or an acorn, then the next word you will hear is GUILTY. You will then have a lot of time to write you jailhouse briefs and appeals that you killed only a zygote.
Jrk| 8.28.12 @ 1:03PM
That is the most asinine comment I have ever read. Jesus doesn't judge a human before the age of accountability. By you'r failed attempt at reasoning a baby just born will be judged. Which is not true. Also I must point out you particular verse of the New Testament you choose to use for supporting abortion is stupid. Your ignorance shows.
Doctor Right| 8.28.12 @ 3:38PM
Since you're obviously NOT familiar with scripture (or biology), I'll educate you.
2 Timothy 4:1
NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION
4 In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead...
NEW AMERICAN STANDARD VERSION
4 I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead...
NEW KING JAMES VERSION
4 I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead...
"Quick" does appear in the KING JAMES VERSION:
4 I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead...
Anyone with a brain would understand that in this version, the word "quick" implies a state of animation. In other words, "living," as the other versions demonstrate.
It's really not that hard to understand:
When Christ returns, some will be alive ("quick"), and some will have died...but all will be judged.
"Quickening," as you say, has NOTHING to do with an unborn baby, or when life begins.
Yes, Jesus will judge a baby in the womb. But guess what? They'll ALL be found innocent. Since you like to quote scripture:
Matthew 19:14
"But Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.” So no...an unborn baby CAN'T sin.
Just because something doesn't make sense to you does NOT mean it doesn't make sense.
In other words, maybe the problem is you...
Evelyn W.| 8.28.12 @ 4:34PM
Reread S.O.S's post, Doctor Right.
You failed to comprehend what he said about quickening. Perhaps if you read it four or five times, the meaning will sink in.
I'm signing off. I've had enough of this idiocy.
But before I go, I want you to know that it's Republicans like you who are ruining our party by making us seem uneducated and reactionery.
Bye bye . . .
Doctor Right| 8.28.12 @ 6:25PM
LOL!
Yes, Freedom, Liberty, and Life are sooooooooo reactionary!
You're funny!
BackToBasics| 8.28.12 @ 7:37PM
S.O.S, Then let's start by banning all abortions after the 13th week.
Small children and aborted babies are not judged as you think the Bible teaches because they do not have enough ability to discern right from wrong.
Matthew 19:14 - But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.
Luke 12:47 - And that servant, which knew his lord’s will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.
Luke 12:48 - But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.
Bill8472| 8.29.12 @ 10:56AM
The term "quick," which was in common usage when the King James Bible was written, means "when the heart begins beating." So the "quick and the dead," literally speaking, are the people whose hearts are beating and the people whose hearts are not, i.e., the living and the dead.
I don't know when a fetus's heart begins beating, but I believe it's pretty early in the gestation period.
CJW| 8.28.12 @ 3:25PM
What do you think the "fetus" is if not a baby?
Who on this site has called the women murderers?
Doctor Right| 8.28.12 @ 3:50PM
I'll call anyone who voluntarily kills a child - be he/she a doctor, nurse, man, woman, mother, or father - a murderer.
What else should we call them?
It's time to reclaim the language from the left; words mean things.
And when the left dilutes or distorts the meaning of words, they lose their power.
Abortion = killing an unborn child.
Period.
So yeah...I'll call them murderers.
spike59| 8.28.12 @ 6:42AM
" I wonder how the media will spin the fact that there will be a two hour Muslim prayer fest at the DNC while a Catholic priest was denied the same outlet."
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my guess is that the media will portray it as the Catholic Church getting what they deserve for having the unmitigated gall to be faithful to their Messiah rather than the media's 'Obamessiah'
TLP| 8.28.12 @ 8:05AM
They'll go in to that, on the Day they pull out all the stops in an effort to Demonize the Mormon Church, right before Election Day in Nevada, when Harry Ried is up for Election, again.
S.O.S| 8.28.12 @ 9:55AM
About the 2-hour "Muslim Prayer Fest," Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, a devout Muslim and the Founder and President of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, wrote:
"The leaders of this event – Jibril Hough and Imam Siraj Wahhaj [are not] moderates. They are radicals. These individuals embrace Islamist supremacy and have demonstrated support for radical ideologies.
A quick Google search by the DNC would have shown them that Hough and Wahhaj are leaders in the separatist American Islamist movement. While they may be able to get a few thousand Muslims to attend the event, they are NOT going to be mainstream Muslims. Most will likely come from Hough and Wahhaj’s radical networks that have long been entrenched in the Charlotte area. Make no mistake they are part of the Islamist movement.
Their jummah (group) prayer is…about empowering their Islamist and MB sympathetic groups into the very fabric of the political system so that Americans become anesthetized. We need American Muslims to speak up and marginalize these radicals. The DNC needs to understand and reject them because of their radical history and ideas.
George True| 8.28.12 @ 10:31AM
A well researched comment, sir. But I doubt we will see any so-called moderate American muslims speaking out, because they seem to tacitly approve of the radical agenda.
DTOM| 8.28.12 @ 11:16AM
The existence of moderate Muslims is a myth - the biggest enemy of Islam is the moderate Muslim.
Sort of like "Christians" who believe that maybe the Bible is a little old-fashioned and doesn't really mean what it says. Sort of like the Constitution is old and in the way.
Actually, come to think of it, the Islamic loathing of the lazy, non-committed Muslim may not be such a bad thing - something we might think about adopting... if you are not with us, you are against us...
DTOM
Stephie| 8.28.12 @ 6:46AM
I forgot to mention, it seems that the rest of the cast on Morning Joe were outwardly embarrassed by the unhinged behavior of Matthews when he went after the RNC head. Why in the world does MSNBC keep this freak.
spike59| 8.28.12 @ 6:57AM
because he epitomizes their 'values' EXACTLY
The Avenger| 8.28.12 @ 7:23AM
That is the truth.
Alan| 8.28.12 @ 7:23AM
Look at the face of this pathetic dope at the top of this article, that should tell anybody what they need to know about this dufus.
TLP| 8.28.12 @ 8:01AM
When you say "This Freak"?
Could you narrow that down, for us.
I defy anyone to name someone on that Abortion who ISN'T a Freak.
Dodd2| 8.28.12 @ 7:23AM
And don't forget the left wing bias in the upcoming presidential debates with all the moderators being tired old liberals.
Why the Republicans put up with this is a sign of their weakness.
JP| 8.28.12 @ 7:32AM
Because the GOP Establishment is run by Beltway political operatives. And the operatives are Progressives whose worldview differs little from that of the Dems.
Could you imagine the gnashing of teeth if the GOP demanded that it has the right to select at least one of the moderators?
Occam's Tool| 8.28.12 @ 11:11AM
Bob Tyrrell or Lowry should be a moderator.
Nick| 8.28.12 @ 8:02PM
That would be excellent, Occam.
I would mind also seeing Greta Van Susteren, Byron York, and Niall Ferguson.
Greta is the fairest liberal out there, bar none.
JP| 8.28.12 @ 7:28AM
Many in the media and elsewhere are missing the revolution in communications taking place via Twitter. The older and more traditional media like network TV, Cable TV, and news print still take the lion's share of viewership. But the trends cannot be ignored. Many if not most younger voters are getting thier information via other sources.
Gary B| 8.28.12 @ 7:31AM
And, how about the "moderators" for the debates? It's deja vu all over again. All the evidence points to a genetic GOP death wish. This, of course, is what drives the Tea Party to distraction. What's that quote about good men doing nothing? Most of the time the Republicans are worse than nothing, especially in a House run by an establishment stooge.
George True| 8.28.12 @ 10:33AM
They're not called the stupid party for nothing. Almost makes me ashamed of being a lifelong registered Republican.
DTOM| 8.28.12 @ 10:37AM
George;
Consider the alternatives:
Lifelong registered Democrat.
Lifelong, un-registered, too-fickle-to-pick-a-side independent
Non-voting schlump
You could have done worse, but not better...
DTOM
Gary B| 8.28.12 @ 7:33AM
Maybe it would have been better if the convention were shortened to one day. Nominate Romney and Ryan then get the hell outta' there. Let the speeches be given on TV some other time.
DTOM| 8.28.12 @ 9:55AM
No, Gary, it wouldn't.
Because the fundamental purpose of the national conventions is to give the American electorate an un-interrupted, un-filtered, un-re-interpreted look at the key players in the two parties.
It is the Democrats who would profit from one day conventions - shorten the time the Republicans spend sounding like adults saying things like - we need to balance the budget-hell, we need a DAMN budget, etc. You did build that, no we won't take your wealth and give it to our friends...
The Democrats have all they can do to avoid disaster after disaster.
Start with a 2 hour Jumah - an anti-Christian, anti-Jewish, anti-Buddhist, anti-everyone else on the planet Muslim fest lead by Islamicists who want you apostates, you non-beleivers DEAD.
Then:
Joe Biden opens his mouth
Sandra Fluke (Who's fluking Fluke today?) whines about not getting free BC pills
Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz says anything
Howard Dean screams
Al Sharpton bitches about unfair treatment of Black Panthers guarding polling places from white people
Jeremiah Wrong tells America that it's our own damn fault
Obama says that everything that you don't like, America, is the George Bush's fault.
And you know they're all racists!!!
No we need them on television - every channel, all day long for a week.
So you are completely off course in calling for single day conventions. Unless, of course, you agree with OBama, Fluke, Wright, Sharpton, Rangel....
Gary B| 8.28.12 @ 6:55PM
I suggest that just to reduce the size of the target. Can't wait for the Muslim/abortion jamboree the Democrats will be sponsoring.
Von Mises Jr| 8.28.12 @ 7:35AM
Betsy McCaughey is one of the most brilliant people I have heard speak. I had the opportunity to briefly meet her since I was chatting with one of the other speakers, Robert E. Moffit, Ph.D., Senior Fellow Domestic and Economic Policy Studies whom headed the ObamaCare team at Heritage whom I had previously met.
Betsy did NOT use a teleprompter. In fact, she did not even use notes. She spoke for about 45 minutes quoting section and verse from PPACA legislation since she had taken Pelosi's advice and read it to find out what was in it.
This is why the liberal MSM does not want to talk to her. She has more intelligence and knowledge than they could ever grapple with. She would make them appear the incompetent fools they are.
Mr. Kimber| 8.28.12 @ 9:51AM
This is the kind of lady that the Left is afrtaid of. She knows her stuff and they can't BS her. It is impossible to take so much money out of Medicare without rationing. By decreasing payment to Medicare providers Seniors will be rationed. 70/80 yr olds that need an MRI for their Total Hip Replacementwill end up waiting weeks/ months to get it then will have to wait for the MD's schedule to open up and then wait for a hospital bed...it's going to be a nightmare. What upsets the most is the peop[le that voted it won't be affected.
DTOM| 8.28.12 @ 9:56AM
Mr. K - You mean the Congresspersons and President who voted for it, right?
Don't Tread On Me!
Von Mises Jr| 8.28.12 @ 10:42AM
DTOM, nathan claims not to be a troll and in reading your comments, I have busted your chops and it appears I may have been mistaken. My apologies if I aggravated you in error. But my couple week crusade against trolldom brought out much self-identification of the many names a few trolls use. They were not smart enough to figure out they were being played, but then again they are Obama voters.
Mr. Kimber is more correct than he knows. Besides stealing Medicare Premiums and redistributing them, Medicare reimbursements will drop near Medicaid levels. Sixty-percent of doctors in a study of 4,300 said that they would not take the new Medicaid expansion patients. So when grandma's reimbursements fall, there will be no Hip Replacement even if Steely Cold Sebelius approves it.
DTOM| 8.28.12 @ 10:55AM
VM, Jr;
I've been reading you for a while. No sweat.
Extremism in defense of liberty and all...you can't find the edge of the envelope unless you cross it occasionally.
DTOM
Von Mises Jr| 8.28.12 @ 11:01AM
Thank you for putting up with my crap, DTOM. You were a gentleman even though I had you all wrong. Have a terrific day.
Occam's Tool| 8.28.12 @ 11:13AM
Medicare does not pay well. Many docs, believe it or not, believe in giving back to the Community. We're not personal injury attorneys.
DRed| 8.28.12 @ 10:55AM
http://www.thedailyshow.com/wa.....ghey-pt--1
http://www.thedailyshow.com/wa.....ghey-pt--2
Look at the left tremble in fear! I like the way she keeps fumbling around through the PPACA when it's clear she's lying.
Look, if you claim to be an expert on a subject and then you get publicly humiliated in a debate with a comedian, you really shouldn't whine if people don't take you seriously anymore.
George S| 8.28.12 @ 11:41AM
What Stewart did is a long standing leftist trick. Back when the Civil Rights Acts was passed, some congressmen raised a concern that the language of the bill gave the federal government the power to engage in reverse discrimination and demanded amendments to specifically address that. Hubert Humphrey rose up waving the law in his hand and boomed: If you can show me where in this legislation it says that, I will eat this bill right here. Of course the language was not there, but Humphrey knew the difference between the way the law is written and the way courts may interpret.
Yet in the ObamaCare bill, laden with 'As the Secretary Shall Determine', Stewart can play the Humphrey gambit with the absolute confidence he is right.
Didn't the IRS just unilaterally determined that Congress meant to say the tax breaks applied to federal exchanges as well as the ones formed by the states? Yet anyone who dared to predict this on Stewart's show would have been laughed at. Where does it say that, Mr. Republican Know-It-All? Huh? Show Me!
spike59| 8.28.12 @ 4:55PM
...because I, for one, ALWAYS refer to second-rate comedians for keen political insight (sarcasm off)...jeez, DRed, at least TRY to act as if you have an operating brain cell, would you?
Jacob McCandles| 8.28.12 @ 10:34AM
Another great source for health care truth is Grace-Marie Turner. She heads up the Galen Institute and frequently appears on Fox Business. Her speeches are great, and she knows the dangers of Obamacare as well as anyone. Check out her book Why Obamacare is Wrong for America.
allanius | 8.28.12 @ 7:36AM
I guess a positive way to look at this is that they are exposing themselves. More than half of Americans already think they are working to elect Obama. This number can only go up and inoculate Republican candidates from their spin.
Jack London| 8.28.12 @ 7:38AM
Akin's comment wasn't a gaffe - it's what he believes, and both Romney and Ryan are disciples of John Willke, the so-called doctor who puts this bogus science about. Ryan, certainly, is an extremist in social and women's issues. Romney probably isn't but he's had to pretend he is.
As for Betsy McCaughey, she's a joke like the rest of the GOP who are lying about Medicare. Apart from the lies about cuts (which the GOP would do too but without savings in the system) the most obvious point is that Medicare is socialized medicine that the GOP has long wanted to take down.
fmm| 8.28.12 @ 9:15AM
Wonderful to have the benefit of your wisdom.
DTOM| 8.28.12 @ 9:59AM
WOW!! Jack what a stinging, insightful rebuke!
Didja get that from Howard Dean or Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz, or Chris Matthews? We've read enough of your posts to know you are incapable of such an extended train of logical thought.
So c'mon, fess up - who toldya?
Don't Tread On Me, you jerk!
Occam's Tool| 8.28.12 @ 11:15AM
What I love about Jack is how he figures that MDs will accept patients they are seeing AT A LOSS. Sorry, Jack, but I love my free time, too. Good luck.
DTOM| 8.28.12 @ 11:21AM
OT;
See it for what it is:
Seeing patients at a loss - if you are forced to do so is the exact equivalent of SLAVERY.
The first black American President passed the biggest Slavery program ever made law in the USA. Perfect...Black America should be so proud!
Don't Tread On Me!
Mr. Kimber| 8.28.12 @ 10:00AM
You are full of crap and always have been. Medicare being socialized isn't that simple but I could see how it could be for you. Cuts are coming in Medicare fool. It was planed why do you think it dosen't kick in until 2014. If ocare is so good why dosen't Obama have it? Why are all Congress people exmemt. The only joke around here is you. You can never prove anything you say. I swear you must be getting paid.
George True| 8.28.12 @ 10:39AM
Well Jack, your comment is absolute proof of what Mr McCain is saying. Confronted with irrefutable facts, you proceed to insist that facts are not facts,and that things that have never been true are in fact true. Who are we going to believe, you or our lying eyes, right Jack?
George S| 8.28.12 @ 11:22AM
Accusations of lying are not reasoned arguments, they are the last refuge of ideologues. I doubt you have read any policy papers written by Betsy McCaughey so we cannot take any critique you make seriously.
Medicare is going broke, per the Medicare Trustees, and ObamaCare DOES siphon 714 billion away from the program to fund another program's bureaucracy. That is not a lie.
As far as Akin, he believes that abortion is wrong in all circumstances. And he believes that a baby breathing outside of the womb under the abortion clinic lights has the right to life (or... the right to medical care???)
How you can defend Medicare because it provides life sustaining care to seniors yet deny that same basic humanity to an innocent baby who had nothing to do with his circumstances is truly abhorrent to contemplate.
I wonder... do you believe in God?
Jack London| 8.28.12 @ 12:05PM
"ObamaCare DOES siphon 714 billion away from the program to fund another program's bureaucracy. That is not a lie."
No George - that's not what's happening. That's why it's a lie. Medicare benefits will be the same, but there are cost savings (less growth in Medicare - not actually a cut) we must make in the hugely wasteful system we have, by opting for quality over quantity, plus the Advantage program will be scaled down.
As for Betsy McCaughey, she's been fact checked several times as being a four star fabricator.
And really - abortion will remain legal in this country. You may not like that, but you lost that battle in 1973.
George S| 8.28.12 @ 1:39PM
So if Medicare benefits "will be the same" and Medicare is a "hugely wasteful system", it makes sense that the 714 billion cut will not impact the system. So why, then, did the government put the taxpayers on the hook for over 714 billion more than necessary? Whose pockets was that money planned for? The Koch Brothers?
Why exactly do you support the scaling back of Advantage? Because it works or because Evil Republican Life Form Bush signed it into law? You seem not to care that the program is popular and cheaper than Medicare.
Who fact checked McCaughey? You still can't get over the fact that she exposed the mess of HillaryCare. Even the Clinton's didn't challenge her.
Abortion is only legal for the first trimester and made legal by a SCOTUS ruling that has no basis in law. The entire ruling, save for a few paragraphs on one page, is a dissertation on medical care, its practice and its history. No legal precedence or constitutional debates are referenced.
The battle is not lost as long as there are still fighters. Remember: the Supreme Court also ruled in 1857 that a black man has no rights a white man need respect. Substitute 'fetus' and the two decisions are practically identical.
So how 'bout it... if a baby survives an abortion does he or she have a right to medical care or should it be legal to let him/her die because that was the original intent?
Jack London| 8.28.12 @ 2:13PM
George, you must know that for many years we've had massive overtreatment and inefficiencies across our entire health system. Now we're finally doing something about it adn guess what - you don't like that either. Medicare Advantage is mainly delivering more overhead - this is our tax dollars so we should look to scale that overhead down.
McCaughey is not taken seriously as a health policy analyst - she's just a right wing shill with little grasp of the issues. She's been called out many times. As Factcheck says:
"As we’ve found before, McCaughey’s claims were riddled with errors — some we’d debunked before, but there were a few brand-new ones."
Politifact has given her a 'pants on fire' rating, and so on.
Don't get me wrong - I do not like abortion, and I've never met anyone who does. But unlike you, I want to reduce it by investing in sex education, family planning clinics and contraception access.
The single biggest thing we could do to cut abortion is to reduce inequality, which you bitterly oppose.
You just want to drive desperate women back to long trips across state lines or back to illegal and dangerous practitioners.
Skippy| 8.28.12 @ 3:15PM
As it should be.
Don't like Ca. gun ban?
Move to another State or break the State law.
Upset about high taxes?
Move to another State or break the State law.
Can't legally kill your child weeks before delivery date?
Move to another State or break the State law.
That's not so tough to comprehend, is it?
Or is abortion a religious sacrament that cannot be restricted?
George S| 8.28.12 @ 3:25PM
Yes, we are doing something about Medicare -- denying treatment to cut costs. (Did you know that Medicare, right now, denies more claims than any for-profit insurance company?).
Under ObamaCare, if an 85-year old is diagnosed with cancer, a computer will say he is past the actuarial table's definition of life span and therefore the $100 grand would be better spent on bailing out California's public employee pensions rather than treatment for one person. Besides, he can't vote when he is bedridden anyway.
Now the actuarial lifespans shorten and more people get denied treatment as the age decreases where it becomes cost beneficial...
... therefore ObamaCare is self-amortizing! Just how f****ng brilliant is that Obama!!! Saving money all over the place.
You know where people are equal? In prison or in concentration camps -- they dress the same, they eat the same and their freeman occupations are irrelevant to their work. I dare you to name a free country past or present where everyone is "equal" in ability an way of life. That is just Utopian fantasy bullshit.
Jack London| 8.28.12 @ 3:56PM
I see you gave up on sensible discussion, as usual. I do sympathize - it must be hard holding mutually exclusive thoughts in your head:
No contraception! No abortion!
Unlimited futile healthcare! Cut our tax dollars!
Never mind George - you're in good company – with Mitt Romney.
Skippy| 8.28.12 @ 3:09PM
Roe goes down 5-4 thanks to Romney SCOTUS appts.
Checkmate; you lose.
Mr. Kimber| 8.28.12 @ 4:43PM
Medicare bennies will not be the same. When the gov. decreases payment to Hospitals, Hospice, labs, xrays, Md's, RNP's, Midwaves, PA. Resp. Thearpy, Physical Thearpy. seniors won't get treatment thus directly affecting their life expectenancy. When the IPAB decides to give grandma the blue pill equals death panel...OPS Palin was right.
The Advantage program will be taken away as a perk to AARP for supporting ocare. McCaughey is not a 4 star fabricator but since I work with women and I know that when one women says to another " that guy is a 4 star jerk" she really means he is a 4 star AH...read b/w the lines.
Joellen| 8.28.12 @ 7:49AM
Jack , you epitomize the words "useful idiot". I say that in earnest and ask you to prove that Lt Governor McCaughey is lying - you cant and that is why you resort to your five year old antics. As for Akin/Romney & Ryan, you will believe what you wish to believe. However, I ask you to try and defend Obama's stance on Infanticide - you know what tha is right Jackie boy. That is where a babay actually survives the evil act of abortion, yet Obama wants the baby to be isolated and put to death anyway. Hey Jack - how extremist is that for a woman and her child? Please go into a corner and meditate on that Jack - then come back and try to defend the man who wishes to destroy America.
DTOM| 8.28.12 @ 10:01AM
Joellen:
Don't ever discount the fact that Jack might not be a "useful idiot" but actually an "unrepentant communist!"
DTOM
spike59| 8.31.12 @ 6:54AM
i'm not sure he's all that 'useful', except as future organic fertilizer
Mr. Kimber| 8.28.12 @ 10:08AM
Idiot yes useful emmmm not so much. What does it take for any of us to reevaluate our position? After almost 4 yr of obama bs. and ridicule these people like London refuse to take their head out of their doopa to see the light. Nice try Joellen but you are not going to get any useful feedback.
DTOM| 8.28.12 @ 10:31AM
Mr. K.
This is America and I don't fault joellen for trying to save what might be a fellow American from his folly. Actually you have to admire the forebearance, patience, and love joellen shows in trying to save the lost cause that is Jack.
Go, joellen, go. But good luck with that.
As Mark Twain said, "Try, try, try again. Then quit, no use being a damn fool about it!"
I'm pretty sure joellen is still trying, but won't make it all the way to 'damn fool.'
DTOM
Mr. Kimber| 8.28.12 @ 4:49PM
DTOM
How many times does one do the same behavior expecting different results? I have been reading this dick for over 2 yrs and he is a lost cause.
Mimi | 8.28.12 @ 7:52AM
The Democrats will do anything to INTIMIDATE our Guys hoping they will not come out with the truth about Obama and the harm he's done to America. This truth need to be shouted from the housetops and should be told also by the MEDIA.... every detail in "CRIMES AGAINST LIBERTY" one and two and those done since then need to be known so they can be held to account at the POLLS ! What are ELECTIONS FOR a major cover-up?
rlranger907| 8.28.12 @ 7:56AM
One quibble. Whatever may be said about Chris Matthews, he did not "evade" the draft by entering the Peace Corps. He SERVED in the Peace Corps. As the son of a WWII veteran and the son in law of another, I have every respect for military service to our nation. But having worked with a great number of former Peace Corps volunteers through the years, I have great respect for them as well. Former Peace Corps volunteers are over-represented in positions in private industry as well as the public sector where insight, analytical capability, and the ability to think beyond one's own culture are important professional qualifications. Chris Matthews has become a one-dimensional political shill in his later years. That fact should not be used as the trigger for a drive-by slam at a group of Americans whose service benefited our country, and that has equipped them for continued leadership and service in their careers since.
Kind regards,
Richard
Albert Constantine Jr.| 8.28.12 @ 8:37AM
With all due respect to your point, the Peace Corps and all who serve in any capacity, it is important to recall that until 1974, American males were required to register for and exposed to an actual military draft, with a real possibility that they would be serving as an infantryman in combat from 1964-1974. Among the options which existed for those who did not wish to do so was flight to Canada or other countries, alternative service with or without conscientious objector status (VISTA, Peace Corps, etc.), and extended enlistments in other branches of the service. For those who chose to serve instead of flee, the rational decisions that they made to avoid the potential increased danger and lack of choices encountered by a draftee does not diminish their service, but I don't think that we need ignore all of the context that went into the decision making process.
Back to the odious Chris Matthews, though, I believe he was also briefly employed as a Capitol Police officer, until he managed to embed himself into a political staff position. I would be interested in learning as much about his brief turn in law enforcement as what he did in the Peace Corps.
Jacob McCandles| 8.28.12 @ 8:59AM
If, God forbid, this country is ever subjected to a military assault upon our shores, you will not hear one person screaming for the Peace Corps to protect our citizens and our freedoms. I do respect what they do, just not nearly as much as I respect our fighting forces, especially the USMC.
DTOM| 8.28.12 @ 10:06AM
Jake,
If I may be so familiar with you.
Au contraire you will be hearing lots of calls for the Peace Corps to go and talk to the invaders and explain to them that we understand that they have been mistreated and that it is primarily the United States fault and where can we line up to surrender our weapons.
Yup, it'll be the Obamaniacs lining up to reap the INTENDED benefits of their polity! Ha ha - they'd line up for extermination!
The rest of us will be cleaning our weapons, humming the Battle Hymn of the Republic, arranging supplies, communications, etc...
DTOM
Houdini| 8.28.12 @ 10:25AM
Ditto.
Jacob McCandles| 8.28.12 @ 10:26AM
You may be correct DTOM. The left would probably align politically with the invaders, be they communists, islamists, or what have you.
DTOM| 8.28.12 @ 10:34AM
Aha! You've seen the light!
You betcha the Left would line up, useful idiots that they are! And a lot of the Peace Corps (Dare I call them the PC?) would line up, too.
Who FIRST said "If you want peace, prepare for war!"?
DTOM
Jacob McCandles| 8.28.12 @ 1:39PM
Patrick Henry maybe. I was looking at that photo of Matthews...I think he's a real tortured soul. Given the whole Peace Corps thing,, I believe he's never really come to grips with the fact that he's a major league p---y. Some guys are perfectly happy with it- not this idiot.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 8.28.12 @ 12:27PM
Mr. McCandles;
I hope I didn't give the impression that I was suggesting an equivalence between Peace Corps service or military service, as I was trying to suggest something quite different, i.e. Chris Matthews could simultaneously avoid the draft and "serve" in the Peace Corps, but there are critical distinctions between exposing yourself to dysentery for 18 months in the Third World, and exposing yourself to dysentery, mortar and rocket fire, drowning, automatic weapons fire, etc for 13 months.
Thankfully, I think the nation still recognizes this, which is why we have a VA system for military veterans, but not (yet, at least to my knowledge) for those who did time in the Peace Corps. As for my own time, well, my Corps is represented by an Eagle, Globe and Anchor, so I particularly concur with your last sentence.
Jacob McCandles| 8.28.12 @ 1:49PM
Thanks for serving, and Semper Fi. Although not a Marine, I worked very closely with them during my time in the USN. I hope they never change.
Cobalt| 8.28.12 @ 10:58AM
F.Y.I.
Chris Matthews is married to Kathleen Matthews.
Kathleen Matthews was with the local ABC-TV affiliate in Washington, D.C., for 25 years.
Kathleen Matthews is now the chief communications and public affairs officer for Marriott International.
The Marriott family, friends of the Romneys, are Mormon, and therefore, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Cobalt| 8.28.12 @ 10:59AM
"is Mormon"
Bill8472| 8.28.12 @ 2:29PM
No draftee was sent to Vietnam until 1966. Before 1966, Vietnam service was entirely voluntary.
MK48| 8.28.12 @ 3:13PM
Bill......ahhh 1965 I know...........I had to take 2 or pick for 4.
Bill8472| 8.29.12 @ 10:58AM
If you volunteered for a second tour in Vietnam, they'd knock six months off your enlistment.
Martin kzovich| 8.28.12 @ 8:05AM
Chris Mathews is a shrill,loud mouth who is clearly ( ha been ) not journalist. He sounds like a prosecutor for Joseph Stalin.
Todd Aikin in the context of this election seems to me unqualified to run because his comment meant that he was not thinking and given the MSM enemy a politician running for office who does not think about the consequences of what they was does not make it for me. His refusal to recognize that this was a much more serious blunder show me that.
As for the MSM I do think it is time for the Republican Party to ( unlike the copward GWB ) to stand up and counter attack. Running against the media is running against BHO.
MK48| 8.28.12 @ 10:39AM
And Martin...........you never mis-spoke in your life.
The blunder is the GOP let the libs run with it. Instead they hung Todd in the square. We need him to take the senate.
Typical GOP old thinking "cut and run"........I hope Todd wins despite all the cowards in the GOP.
Todd has aligned himself with Ryan for the last 25 years why don't you hang Ryan as well.
No guts no glory..........I say.
MK48| 8.28.12 @ 3:23PM
Just herd Rush say the repubs are fighting over rules....they don't want any conservatives talking.
Here we go "in fighting" instead of comming together. By the time this dog & pony show is over I would'nt be surprised if they lost.
Mitt is in the middle of it he wants his way "no conservatives". If they don't secure the conservative vote IT'S OVER.
They are taking their eye off the reason to beat this POS.
Just like Akin..............my way or the hiway.
It makes me sick......................
Louis Jenkins| 8.28.12 @ 9:13AM
The Republican convention newsmedia is like the ten wolves who gathered for a vote on what to have for dinner. The goose of course voted no, but was outweighed by the 10 votes to consume her. Why do the Republicans even invite the ilk to cover their convention? There is not one amongst them that will give the Republicans a fair story.
FarmersDaughter| 8.28.12 @ 9:14AM
Chris Matthews' most offensive statement on the Monday 'Morning Joe' segment, in my opinion, was saying that Mitt Romney 'was born on 3rd base'. Matthews is still hawking his recent book on JFK, in which he likely makes no cheap "it's not fair" remarks about the former president's massive wealth.
Chris spent the day yesterday trying his best to whip up all the platforms of Obama's re-election campaign: inciting resentment among races and class envy and maybe most importantly, fiercely refusing to address any questions regarding the president's past. Nothing brings the Chris Matthews' to their feet quicker, nor causes more saliva to run from their mouths than the slightest bit of humor or mere mention regarding the president's past. Chris won't engage anyone on national TV and debate the movie "2016", and he didn't have time yesterday to read his beloved NYT to learn that Mr. Romney DID pay taxes each year. Chris didn't have time to subsequently excoriate Harry Reid "Matthews Style" because he was too busy making the rounds trying to pick fights with Republicans on their convention turf. The only thing more pathetic than Matthews' running around all day, wailing and gnashing his teeth in utter desperation was the wimpy performance by Scarborough. Joe sat by and hung his head, squirmed in his chair but never did figure out how to man up against Matthews and King Brokaw.
Al Adab| 8.28.12 @ 10:03AM
Matthews bias is only the latest and most visible manifestation of what began with Cronkite back in 1968 when, reporting on the riots across town from the convention hall, he constantly repeated, "The kids oh the poor kids" as though innocence were being violated in the streets.
Wait for the coverage of the riots about to begin in Tampa pushed by the OWS instigators. They will continually be referred to as protesters, not as the anarchists or statists they are. These actions are not petitioning the government for a redress of grievences. No, these actions are aimed solely and bringing to an end the ability of our system to continue as we seek to govern ourselves.
DTOM| 8.28.12 @ 10:16AM
Al, It didn't begin with Cronkite.
In 1951 Senator Joe McCarthy (R, Wis) - went public with a list of some 200 communists in the US State Department- for which he was excoriated and much later proved correct! The media of the day provided the desired excoriation.
In the 1920's Walter Duranty of the New York Times won a Pullitzer for his coverage of Joe Stalin's operation to starve to death millions of poor farmers by confiscating their crops. But Duranty covered it not as genocide, but as a great program protecting the poor indigent farmers who would have starved without Uncle Joe's help. A spectacular lie that Bill Clinton can only aspire to- he could never carry it off.
An even earlier sign was the progressive movement that began with the labor riots in Chicago's Haymarket Square in what 1898?
These bad guys have been after us for a long, long time. Cronkite was NOT the beginning.
DTOM
Bill8472| 8.29.12 @ 11:12AM
Didn't the Haymarket incident occur in the 1870s? Some laborite (Knights of Labor, I think) threw a bomb that killed several people.
Nick| 8.29.12 @ 6:01PM
I thought that you were an expert at defending union-thug history, Bill?
You should know that the Haymarket Riot was in 1886, and, that the union-thugs killed SEVEN police men.
Because I included all this in my replies to your "conservative" moral-equivalency arguments, last week, remember?
MK48| 8.28.12 @ 10:44AM
Daughter......you need to farm some land and quit watching Morning Joe........
FarmersDaughter| 8.28.12 @ 7:01PM
Need to farm? How about a 60 year career at it. Is that enough?
MK48| 8.29.12 @ 10:43AM
If your watching morning joe that means your not sitting on the John Deere. Why would someone want to watch that garbage ?
LarryK| 8.28.12 @ 9:14AM
As I read this article, I had a thrill running down my leg....
Doctor Right| 8.28.12 @ 9:31AM
GREAT article about why we should be GLAD that arch-crank, conspiracy theorist and foreign policy doofus Ron Paul is retiring:
http://www.nationalreview.com/.....amie-m-fly
Occam's Tool| 8.28.12 @ 1:21PM
May you be safe and sound this election season, Dear Doctor...Paul annoys me greatly...
Kwan| 8.28.12 @ 9:32AM
Mathews is the male-version of Debbie Wasserman-Schultz. He's a loud-mouth leftist zombie whose credibility went out the window when he had that Brokeback Mountain leg-tingling experience over Obama.
spike59| 8.31.12 @ 6:53AM
wait a minute...if Chrissie is the 'male' version, does that mean that DWS is a 'female?'
excuse mewhile i hurl
ncatty| 8.28.12 @ 9:39AM
Articles on the liberal bias of the media are not man bites dog material. Still, I suppose it has to be mentioned occasionally.
rlranger907| 8.28.12 @ 10:10AM
In the unlikely event someone invades our shores, yes, I'd ask for the marines. I've worked with enough former marines to respect their capabilities across a spectrum of skills and services. But the Peace Corps, like the US Public Health Service, is a form of national service, not 'better' than another type of service, but one with its own merits and attributes. But then, I should remember not to expect subtlety in the high testosterone environment of the American Spectator tavern.
DTOM| 8.28.12 @ 10:22AM
rlr'07;
Next time you need to be saved from bad, armed, evil people - who you gonna' call the Peace Corps or the Marines?
When you want to draw a pretty picture, get out the pastel chalk; when you want to knock down a building, get a bulldozer.
You need the right tool for the job.
Peace Corps - tool of long term, usually un-reciprocated peaceful interaction.
USMC - tool to defeat evil, bad men who are trying to kill you.
I'd fund the Marines for a long time before I worried about writing checks for the Peace Corps.
By the way ask yourself this question: Could we have a Peace Corps if we never had the Marines?
Hmmm?
Case closed.
DTOM
DTOM| 8.28.12 @ 10:26AM
Oh, yeah - we don't have to wait for an invasion by sea - our southern border has been de-fenced, declared open by the imbeciles in Washington DC.
Only problem - it's not desirable to have the Marines running around our country - they do make a lo of collateral damage and you realy don't want that here at home.
BTW that collateral damage is instructive for those local people who quietly cower, but continue to help support and fund the troublemakers that have occasioned the USMC's visit...
Capiche?
DTOM
Occam's Tool| 8.28.12 @ 11:17AM
DTOM: too right. Again, I believe in Nation Smashing, not Building.
Bill8472| 8.28.12 @ 12:42PM
The United States Marine Corps when it has to be absolutely, positively, destroyed overnight."
Alan| 8.28.12 @ 3:20PM
Minuteman III, delivered anywhere in the world in 30 minutes or less or your next ones free!
Bill8472| 8.29.12 @ 11:00AM
Like jump school: "if both your main chute and your reserve fail, we'll give you new ones!"
Bill8472| 8.28.12 @ 12:41PM
"We sleep well at night because rough men stand ready to do violence, on our behalf, to those who would harm us."
-George Orwell
MK48| 8.28.12 @ 3:26PM
Who will pull that lever BILL...george is dead.
Bill8472| 8.29.12 @ 11:03AM
Although I don't agree with the viewpoint, I've always respected the essential truth of the statements that the USMC Lt. Col. played by Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men makes to the Tom Cruse character, when he tells him that he and all Americans should just say "Thank you" and leave him alone to run his unit the way he wants, and that if Cruse understood the real truth about the defense of freedom, he would find it hard to handle.
Al Adab| 8.28.12 @ 1:00PM
Ranger:
The invasion of our shores, in actuality our southern border, of which you speak has in fact taken place. Large portions of our country have been deemed off limits to citizens while armed bands control the area.
The analogy here is to the invasion by Pancho Villa which led Wilson to send the army INTO Mexico to apprehend him. One of the enumerated powers, those reasons for which the national government was created, is to protect the States from invasion. If that is not the situation today, what is it?
The federal government is refusing to fulfill that obligation to the States and in fact is actively opposing efforts of the States to act on their own behalf. The president is under oath to to ensure that the laws be enforced. That he refuses to do so and opposes the States efforts is unconscionable in the extreme.
Bill8472| 8.29.12 @ 11:05AM
Don't forget the British Army burning Washington, D.C., in 1812.
Jacob McCandles| 8.28.12 @ 2:00PM
I don't believe I said "better", just said I have more respect for the military. That's my own opinion, and, rather than being driven by testosterone, it is a reflection of my patriotism and love for freedom. The military protects the things that are most important to me. Pretty simple.
WRTolkas| 8.28.12 @ 10:37AM
Listening to matthews discussing the news is like reading a book on the joys of natural childbirth written by a Nun. I don't waste my valuable time.
DTOM| 8.28.12 @ 11:03AM
WRT - Leave the nuns alone, except the ones telling the Pope, he's out of touch.
How about this one?
"...is like reading a book on the joys of natural childbirth written by a man."
I possess both an X and a Y chromosome, so I am authorized to write that. Besides, I have watched plain old hospital childbirth - and I will attest that I am very grateful for my own chromosome configuration and I never cease to marvel at women with more than one child, never cease, never, never, ever... I thank you, ladies; your children thank you. God bless you, one and all.
DTOM
Who Knows?| 8.28.12 @ 11:29AM
When will enough people realize the MSM is our true government?
The USSR had Pravda as the brainwashing arm of the elite politburo committee of masters. The USA is bassackwards, in that the MSM, as the brainwashing fist or boot, has a revolving door “elite” of “elected” officials, who serve at their sufferance.
The majority of Americans are NOT liberal, but conservative. Their interests are very much outside government---they live their OWN lives, attending to family, business and religion, only desiring that government be honest and leave them alone.
The wildly out of whack MSM-American people situation screams for readjustments---in many dimensions. Why doesn’t some go getter COPY the Comedy Channel, for example, and consciously aim to be as right winged in its humor as the CC is left winged, say?
Produce a show called the “Mriss Cathhews Show”, with a clown mirroring the blathering idiot, you know who, always hyped out on caffeine, always tinkling down his RIGHT leg? There is surely an eager audience dying for some of this kind of balance.
There are trillions of dollars people are holding, afraid of the Obama future. Well, deploy some of it, in a surefire network, that’s in-your-face 24/7, with no apologies, making fun of the plethora of useful idiots now ruling America?
Laughter is the best medicine.
Ridicule our rulers---to THEIR demise!
rocky01| 8.28.12 @ 11:35AM
RNC chair's performance explains a lot of things. No need to wonder anymore why the the case is not being made. The situation is worse than it appears. The war machine is being vastly underestimated. Doubt it? Look at who is moderating the upcoming debates. How does that even happen? And d0ing impressions of MJ Fox' dad in Back To The Future with Matthews is an indictment. Does the campaign even own any big boy pants?
RCV| 8.28.12 @ 12:00PM
I'm not quite sure why Robert Stacey McCain thinks it's okay for him to have and express a viewpoint, but somehow improper for Chris Matthews to do the same. Do only corporations and conservatives have First Amendment rights?
Occam's Tool| 8.28.12 @ 1:23PM
Chris Matthews is perfectly entitled to express his viewpoint, and his elevated ratings show what people tend to think of it. Ask most non-political junkies who Matthews is, and they will give you a brain damaged look. But LIBERAL people in NEW ZEALAND know about El Rushbo.
Occam's Tool| 8.28.12 @ 1:23PM
"elevated" is sarcasm, by the way.
Jack London| 8.28.12 @ 2:17PM
Hey OT, why don't you tell us once more what hell on earth New Zealand is. Excuse me if I doze off.
RCV| 8.28.12 @ 6:58PM
Sensational demagoguery is always more entertaining than thoughtful commentary.
Nick| 8.28.12 @ 8:29PM
You think that Chris Matth-spews is thoughtful commentary, RCV?
I thought that you had more sense than that.
Mr. "Thrill Up My Leg" has full-blown B.D.S. (Bush Derangement Syndrome) and he is a racist. I.e., 'Tingles' sees every political issue through the lens of race.
If you want thoughtful liberal commentary, check out Erin Burnett on CNN.
RCV| 8.29.12 @ 11:17AM
I'll agree with you on your last point, Nick. Ms. Burnett is terrific.
... and Greta ("Isn't Sarah Great?") Van Susteren is no liberal.
Nick| 8.29.12 @ 6:16PM
You must not have watched Greta when she was on CNN, huh, RCV?
She is a former defense attorney, by the way. And, her husband, John Coale, is an ambulance-chasing trial-lawyer, who likes to sue gun manufacturers.
But, she is the fairest interviewer on cable-news. She plays devil's advocate with everyone she interviews, making it extremely hard to know which side of some issues she stands. She also confronts talking-points, left or right, head on.
Just because she was outraged at the liberal media's abhorent treatment of then-Governor Palin doesn't mean she gave-up her liberal card, RCV.
I do turn her off when she covers the tabloid stories, though.
Bill8472| 8.28.12 @ 12:39PM
Chris Mathews says, "When you start talking about work requirements, you know what game you're playing and everybody knows what game you're playing," meaning that those who talk about work requirements are racist and prejudiced when it comes to black people.
Well, Chris, what does your remark say about you, blacks, being on welfare, and work? Hmm? Do we have certain Democrat white-boy assumptions at work or what?
Rifleman| 8.28.12 @ 1:05PM
The mainstream media are so corrupt it's disgusting! Their newspapers, news weeklies, networks and websites all have declining readers/subscribers/viewers and yet they still continue with their bankrupt agenda. They ridicule Fox News but envy their ratings! Newsweek recently sold for a DOLLAR and has become a website magazine only. Probably not much longer before it's history. TIME, which used to be at least somewhat decent, now has lost so many readers (me for one) that they try to hawk their magazine for $20 a year. And the magazine is as thin as a Super Model's wrist.
CNN, which used to have no competition, now does and is getting killed in the ratings war. MSNBC is little more than Comedy Central "news" channel with their raging idiots spewing hate and vulgar propaganda. You would think they'd wise but they hate conservatives so much they'd rather die than switch...
Ian Cognito | 8.28.12 @ 1:21PM
Chris was/is friend of arch conservative G. Gordon Liddy. Liddy had a DC radio show in the 1990s - Chris guested there and actually sat in for Liddy. Back then Chris was reasoned and balanced, he was not the lunatic we see today. What's changed? Is Chris being paid to act this way? Are Chris' behaviors scripted? Will the real Chris Matthews please stand up. But, if we examine the real polling and the details of sampling, we learn Left leaning polling is oversampling Democrats by 10% - that translates into a 10 point Romney landslide and explains why Democrats like Matthews are coming unglued. They went all in for Obama and threw away the pretenses they once used to excuse their actions. Remember... 2008; when Democrats expected to control government for a generation or more? BHO ended that dream. Two short years later the American voter awakened from the stupor and vented their rage against Democrats in 2010. That victory told a story. The weekend before that 2010 election Chris Van Holland, D, MD was on all the Sunday shows declaring Democrats would increase their majorities. These people lie without concern. Seeing an election debacle approaching explains their recent behaviors - and the ones yet unseen. It will get ugly. Democrats are losing an election. Matthews and his ilk have lost their power to influence - permanently. That is a similar gift to the one Obama gave to Democrats in Congress who supported Obamacare.
Fernando| 8.28.12 @ 1:39PM
I'll paraphrase Ben Hetch(Nothing Sacred)to tell you briefly what I think about the mainstream media:"the hand of God, reaching down into the mire, couldn't elevate one of them to the level of degradation"
drake1456| 8.28.12 @ 2:50PM
So, why give press credentiials to those who pre-report their stories? Do as the Dems do, and give them the narrative, or deny them access to future events.Seems simple enough to me.
dsapp| 8.28.12 @ 4:35PM
Why does Mitt Romney, a decent, devout man who has a good marriage, five sons, 18 grandchildren, and significant wealth want to run for President in this hate-filled environment? The country is on the precipice of collapse, and Obama, and the Democrats offer nothing other than to increase the debt by another 5 trillion in the next four years. Their agenda is to expand the dependent class to ensure votes. What a sad time for America.
PHILLIPBERNAL| 8.28.12 @ 8:16PM
Rats! I am always late to the comments. I guess that is what happens when one works and is not on welfare. Regards the Peace Corps, a lot of males wussed out and joined the PC. You see, if you have "served" in the PC, you can not enlist in the U.S. Armed Forces. These fag liberals are pretty clever, huh?
MickyC| 8.29.12 @ 8:03AM
Talk about the portrait of Dorian Grey! Chris Matthews befouled persona is showing up on his face!
threeleafclover| 8.29.12 @ 5:04PM
May we look forward to McCain's de-constructing the bona fides of Ed Schultz, Larry O'Donnell, Rachel Maddow and that new punt-it, Al Sharpton?
Larry O'Donnell has it all ways. He can criticize Ann Romney for not including welfare mothers, food stamp women and all the rest of the no-hopers. But if she had included them, then he could have derisively sneered, " Oh, yeah? What does Ann Romney know about poor women?"
Considered from another angle, why is it not pretty smart to just let them spin further and further out of control? Ellen Barkin saying that she wished the hurricane had killed every Republican at the convention was indicative of the complete insanity under the Dem-tent. If there are enough voters in the United States that agree with that crap, we can conclude we are indeed in a minority.
AS it is, in my area (SF-Bay area=) a guarantee of getting your car keyed is to put a Romney sticker on it. Suits me fine, I have a Malibu. I imagine a BMW Republican will think twice about his party pride.
What is it about a Democrat that requires he damage your car or tear your yard sign down and rip it to shreds to express Obama loyalty? Is he getting his inspiration from the Spit Machine, Chris Matthews?
clemsberry| 9.3.12 @ 1:47AM
thanks robert for a very well written account of what conservative folks know but can't put into words. please keep up the good work..mike.
Julio | 9.4.12 @ 4:02PM
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Ee have to understand that the purpose of next QE3 -and maybe QEn - will be:
· Push Up assets prices (10%)
· Push “temporarily” Stock prices up (10%), and
· Finance Budget Deficit (80%)
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Julio | 9.18.12 @ 1:23PM
The next QE3 is coming and its purpose –as the next ones QEn- is:
• Push Up assets prices (10%)
• Push “temporarily” Stock prices up (10%), and
• Finance Budget Deficit (80%)
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Julio | 9.26.12 @ 6:51PM
The US Federal Reserve officially announced the QE3, which is another de facto limitless printing of easy money, which means a “bond buying program”. One week after that, the Bank of Japan announced it was adding another 10 trillion yen ($128 billion) to its already massive bond buying program.
The real the purpose of next QE3 and whatever upcoming QEn is:
Finance Budget Deficit (80%)
Push Up assets prices (10%), and
Push “temporarily” Stock prices up (10%)
Then, the Stocks Markets will say the stocks are improving, and we will hear again the tradictional speech “Invest for the long term with mutual funds”; “It is a safe Investment”.
Finally, we need to be aware that more QE will come in the next three more years. As a result this situation will create more inflation causing increase of prices of products and more world social unrest. The USA government does this because is broke.
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