Its good to see that CNN has taken off its Clinton era gloves as a partisan propganda source.
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April Fools.
No, CNN continues to employ hard partisans while identifying them as "news" reporters. I just saw Ware this morning (I think). He is one of those defeat at any price guys, nothing good ever happens, we never have any victorys, nothing ever gets better, blah blah blah...........
Does this not evoke the spectre of Dan Rather and his fabricated documents? Good to know that journalistic integrity has been passed to a new generation.
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Sorry for effectively deleting your comment on my post about local elections, I had to take the hole piece down for legal and rather more importantly political reasons.
I will be posting something similar on Wednesday though.
and they wonder why we call it the Clinton News Network. I think Edwards should be more afraid of CNN than Fox. He'd get more fair and balance coverage there than at CNN where the Clintonites rule the airwaves. Begala and Carville Neutral? Ha!
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Following up on netroots all star complaints about James Carville's position as a CNN 'analyst' considering his relationship with Hillary Clinton, TPM Cafe's Greg Sargent phoned CNN for comment and was referred to Carville himself.
From Carville: "I'm not an adviser to her campaign. I'm not being paid by her campaign...I don't get paid. I'm not an adviser. ... I'm not defined by my support of Hillary Clinton."
yDD's Matt Stoller responded: "The reality is simple - CNN should have a variety of non-Clinton supporting analysts in addition to James Carville and Paul Begala.
And the channel should identify him clearly as who he is. Otherwise, how are we going to know that Carville is being a neutral political analyst and not a Clinton partisan when he delivers on message digs at Obama on the Situation Room?"
John Kerry and his wife were on Fox News last night. They even actually went on O'Reilly! They even lived to tell the tail.
Who knew Kerry and even his wife are far braver than Edwards.
If Edwards can't handle being interviewed by a Fox reporter, how is he going to talk to the President of Iran?
If Nancy Pelosi can cozy up with our enemies, how come Edwards can't handle Fox?
Righty bloggers led with Drudge's coverage of CNN's Michael Ware's "outrageous" conduct at McCain press conference. Reactions include:
Instapundit: "Ah, rofessionalism."
Power Line's John inderaker: "Maybe Ware was drunk; that would be consistent with his own description of how he spends his time in Baghdad.
But he is an extreme manifestation of an all too common phenomenon--the journalist as advocate rather than neutral observer."
AmSpec Blog's John Tabin: "Heckling at a press conference is very rude, and wouldn't be acceptable even from an opinion journalist (I wouldn't dream of laughing in Nancy Pelosi's face during a press conference).
That said, isn't it better when guys like Ware let their biases hang out, rather than embedding them in reports that are ostensibly objective?"
MyDD's Matt Stoller doesn't mean "to pick on" Hillary Clinton but links to posts showing Clinton "plans to stay in Iraq with as many as 75,000 troops to do a variety of tasks" and wonders how she gets away with telling fundraiser audiences: "If George Bush doesn't get us out of Iraq by the election, I will."
Stoller asks: "How is it possible for a major party Democratic candidate to continually promise donors an end our involvement in Iraq while simultaneously proposing a plan that will keep us in Iraq?"
Stoller does not let the rest of the Dem Field off either: "All of the candidates to a greater or lesser extent are doing this same dance ... We ought to start pressing all of our candidates on their plans for Iraq.
Are they going to leave troops in Iraq? If so, how is that ending the war?
with every fiber of their being, the democrats are the cut, run and hide party.
What a bunch of scaredy cats.
Polk County Supervisors unanimously and lukewarmly signed on this morning to
a proposal seeking a one-cent sales tax increase in Polk, Dallas and Warren counties.
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So much for the "buy in the circle" program the chambers keep telling us to do. No longer.I will have to buy OUTSIDE the circle now in protest. This is good for rural counties, though. I will discover you! Let Principal buy into the circle with all their property tax savings at my expense.
Internet shopping, here I come!
Hmmm...
Ford sales down 9%
Chrysler sales down 4%
Toyota sales up 7.7%
And the difference is?????
UNIONS!
Seeking to boost the movement to reinstitute a military draft, Rep. John Murtha is arguing that the U.S. should have a "citizen's army" in addition to a "volunteer, professional army."
I wonder what Cindy Sheehan would say about the democrats advocating reinstating the draft.
Remember when they said the minimum wage was all about those poor people and NOT about union escalator clauses based on minimum wage? Yeah sure it was. Here's the REAL DEAL. to them it's a union renaissance.
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Big Labor is this week putting the seal on what its leaders say is a “renaissance” that has rescued it from the abyss of 2004 and put it back at the center of Democratic Party politics.
Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) and Barack Obama (Ill.) and former Sen. John Edwards (N.C.), the three leading contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination, sought out the endorsement of the Communications Workers of America (CWA) yesterday, holding court at the union’s legislative conference. .
This morning the entire slate of Democratic candidates,
joined by Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.),
are scheduled to address a presidential forum sponsored by the Building and Construction Trades Department of the AFL-CIO.
With McEntee pledging his union will spend much more than the $44 million AFSCME doled out in 2006, the candidates have a clear reason to ask, time and again, for Big Labor’s support.
“All of the candidates are basically saying the words ‘organized labor.’ They’re saying the word ‘union,’” Williams said.
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Hmmm...
Ford sales down 9%
Chrysler sales down 4%
Toyota sales up 7.7%
And the difference is?????
UNIONS!
Honda sales up 7%
Honda and Toyota sales are up because of their hybrids. Once Detroit gets their act together and advances their technologies past the dinosaur SUVs they should be able to pick up market share....if they don't they deserve to go under.
From the Hotline tonight:
URBANDALE -- Tomorrow, Ex-MA Gov. Mitt Romney will open his Iowa office, a cavernous, purple-carpeted converted corporate office a Drew Tate pass away from I-35.
Most of the space is empty, save for a row of tables and chairs, white eraser boards on the roll, and a ring of enclosed offices along the building's northern face.
I-35 divides Polk. Co. from Dallas Co., and it's in Dallas Co. where most of the hundreds of volunteers who will grace this space live.
Gentry Collins, Romney's crisp, suit-clad Iowa state director, luxuriates in this space.
A walk provides a window into the soul of the Romney campaign:
Romney has 15 paid staff in Iowa right now, and none of them are focused right now on the Iowa precinct caucuses.
How's that?
The reality in Iowa is that the straw poll in Ames, winnows the primary field more than early states do, and if Romney fails to meet expectations in Ames, he will almost certainly fail to win or place in the caucuses.
MARC AMBINDER
DES MOINES -- The IA Dem Party confirms that Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) has purchased access to its VAN platform, which provides an incredible wealth of voter files the including detailed information on all 124,000 caucus goers in '04.
The Party has sold the VAN to all the major WH '08 Dem candidates except for NM Gov. Bill Richardson, whose campaign has expressed "every intention" to purchase it too.
Lots of Iowa political news on the hotline today. Here's the clip on Giuiliani and Iowa social conservatives. Is this assessment correct? We'll see after we get the attendance tonight.
http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/2007/04/the_cw_about_ru.html#comments
Truth Squad wonders:
Will you be taking this post down now that the Drudge report has been proven to be false?
Good to meet you at the Rudy Rally tonight.
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