Eric Florack on November 16th, 2007

Man, I tell you, this bit with Spitzer just keeps getting better… The Weekly Standard’s Mike Goldfarb:

New York Governor Eliot Spitzer has taken a lot of abuse in recent weeks–for his hastily-dropped plan to give driver’s licenses to illegal

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davidl on November 16th, 2007

The speculation that Wolf Blitser had suddenly grown a spline,  proved to be unfounded:

CNN debate moderator Wolf Blitzer did an ‘outstanding’ job in Vegas, a senior adviser to the Hillary campaign said early Friday. ‘He was outstanding, and did

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Eric Florack on November 16th, 2007

I didn’t see much of the debate last night, and very little of the reax this morning, so far. There’s a lot of it on Memeorandum… I’ve just not had time to look.

However, it doesn’t take a mystic to

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Eric Florack on November 15th, 2007

You’ll recall last night I commented on the drooling idiot, Kos and how Newsweek had lowered themselves into hiring the guy, saying, “That’s OK… Newsweek didn’t have any credibility left, anyway.  No loss.”… Well, perhaps… just perhaps… I under-estimated Newsweek.

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Eric Florack on November 15th, 2007

Well, now….. Just a few hours before Hillary Clinton is to face both the press and her opponents for the Democratic Nomination, ABC news is asking some interesting questions, which will doubtless play heavy tonight:

Three recipients of controversial 11th-hour

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davidl on November 15th, 2007

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Say what you will about Mrs. Clinton’s campaign, the MSM is no longer accepting her as inevitable.   CNN”s Wolf Blitzer asks a good question of Mrs. Clinton.   Bill Sammon

 “If she can’t handle the heat during a Democratic contest,

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Eric Florack on November 15th, 2007

I’ve had some time to consider the Spitzer “I don’t have a plan anymore” speech of yesterday One thing I noted Spitzer’s “poor me” act, wherein he, in dropping the “drivers licenses for illegals” monster he’s been pushing, complains that

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Eric Florack on November 14th, 2007

If we ever needed an indication of the way Newsweek is going, we don’t anymore.

Newsweek press release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Tuesday, November 13, 2007

MARKOS MOULITSAS, FOUNDER AND PUBLISHER OF DAILYKOS.COM,
TO BECOME NEWSWEEK CONTRIBUTOR FOR 2008 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN

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davidl on November 13th, 2007

hillary31.jpgChris Welch and David Schechter, CNN, report on Muriel  Gallo-Chasanoff of one Mrs. Clinton’s plants from Grinnell, Iowa:

Gallo-Chasanoff, whose story was first reported in the campus newspaper, said what happened was simple: She said a senior Clinton staffer

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Boortz, doing a message to Bill Clinton:

You want to talk about being “rough” on your wife?  Let’s do a short review:

We’ll start with a few names: Gennifer Flowers, Dolly Kyle Browning, Then there’s Monica Lewinsky, Juanita Broaddrick, Kathleen

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Eric Florack on November 13th, 2007

HOUMA, La. (AP) — A white state lawmaker in a runoff election called a black civil-rights veteran who had helped her campaign “Buckwheat,” prompting the NAACP to urge voters to kick her out of office.Rep. Carla Blanchard Dartez, a Democrat,

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Eric Florack on November 12th, 2007

Jim Wrenn the Editor of PoliSat.com, asks a pretty fair question, given the political conetnt and angle of the movie:

Who has the financial clout and production skills to counter Hollywood’s “Lions for Lambs” campaign-ad?  Does not McCain/Feingold unconstitutionally

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Eric Florack on November 12th, 2007

Ace of Spades says:

Looks like the Saturday night box office estimates are in and while Lions for Lambs basically doubled its take from Friday, $6.7 million in box office is only good for 4th place.

A distant 4th

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Eric Florack on November 11th, 2007

Found at Donklephant:

Frum:

“Just noticed that Andrew Sullivan opines that I am “rattled” by Paul’s haul. Personally, I think it is Andrew who has been “rattled” by being caught in yet another of his careless or reckless errors

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Eric Florack on November 11th, 2007

Poor Paul Krugman...

So there’s a campaign on to exonerate Ronald Reagan from the charge that he deliberately made use of Nixon’s Southern strategy. When he went to Philadelphia, Mississippi, in 1980, the town where the civil rights workers

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