Eric Florack on December 22nd, 2007

CONCORD, N.H., Dec. 21 -Washington Post- After months of discussion within her campaign over how heavily she should draw on her husband’s legacy, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is closing out her Iowa and New Hampshire campaigns in a tight embrace

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Eric Florack on December 19th, 2007

Here we go again, with the nonsense about making religion, a public issue incidental to an election this time from John over at Powerline:

I’m getting really tired of the role that religion is playing in this year’s election campaign.

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Eric Florack on December 17th, 2007

I must say that I am absolutely amazed that Glenn Greenwald could possibly be this stupid.

Russ Feingold, today, on the effects of Harry Reid’s pro-administration dirty work:

This morning, the Senate starts debating legislation to expand the government’s

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davidl on December 14th, 2007

Yesterday I blogged about how Charles Krauthammer hammered Carolyn Washburn for hosting “[t]e worst debate in western history”    Picking up her own hammer, Michelle Malkin gives the school marm, Washburn, gives more of the Malkin treatment.

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Ok, the debates was boring.  The moderator,  Carolyn Washburn, was insipid,  However if the of the Des Moines Register thinks that somehow Alan Keyes is a presidential contender in Iowa, why not invite Charles Krauthammer,.   Then at least the

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Eric Florack on December 11th, 2007

I note where Rory Leishman has stood up to defend Mark Steyn.

I n a flagrant attack on freedom of the press, the Canadian Islamic Congress (CIC) has filed three human rights complaints against Maclean’s magazine and its editor-in-chief, Kenneth

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Eric Florack on December 3rd, 2007

Jonah wins this one going away:

snark2.jpg  By now you’ve probably heard that CNN made such a laughingstock of itself at the recent YouTube debate in Florida that it could only have been worse if host Anderson Cooper conducted it in

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Eric Florack on December 3rd, 2007

Jon Martin at the Politico:

Halperin has the big news: Mitt Romney will take to to the Bush Library in College Station, Texas, on Thursday to give a long-anticipated, much-debated speech about his Mormon faith and the role of

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Eric Florack on December 3rd, 2007

James Taranto, the other day(Via mail) speaks about Murtha admitting there’s serious progress in Iraq, and that the surge IS working….

Murtha does make the obligatory complaint about lack of political progress in Iraq, and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that

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Eric Florack on December 2nd, 2007

David Freddoso at The Corner:

Look, we can blame CNN all we want. But there’s more to the sad fact that Democratic campaign and Party plants asked 11 of the questions in the last two debates, as though they were

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Eric Florack on December 1st, 2007

I mentioned Tim Rutten’s article in the LA Times, earlier today. Captain Ed makes note of the same bit and says in part as regards the causes of the debate debacle:

Corruption?  Rutten doesn’t make the case.  As my partner

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Eric Florack on December 1st, 2007

Hewitt calls CNN:

“The Most Busted Name in News”

No serious anchor would want to be where Cooper is today, at the center of a vast train wreck which cannot be explained away as the inevitable result of the sudden

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Eric Florack on December 1st, 2007

I note with some amusement that Red State and Human events are proposing a do-over for the Republican YouTube debate.

Red State adds an interesting twist:

 Let’s see which of the Republican candidates really want to take questions from real

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Eric Florack on November 30th, 2007

So, the big story of the day ( Memeorandum is simply choked with it… and Michelle has been on it all day) is that one of Ron Paul’s supporters showed up at Hillary Clinton’s Campaign office in Rochester NH.  Well,

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Eric Florack on November 30th, 2007

The Grapevine at Fox last night…(Hume on vacation:)

A new Harvard University study says nearly two-thirds of Americans do not trust campaign coverage by the news media — and more than 60 percent believe it is politically biased.

The interviews

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