2007.05.16 Decision '08 // Dem Stupidity Roundup
(And assorted other "Let's give 'em a country to run" topics)
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Below the fold, newest items at the top:
- DNC Sets Debate Schedule; Fox News Excluded
- MSNBC vs. FOX
- Spending Mayor Mike’s billion
- Bush gets “The Full Nixon” treatment
- Four Dems running for president vote to cut off Iraq funding in ‘08
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*** *** Fold (but please don't spindle or mutilate) *** *** DNC Sets Debate Schedule; Fox News Excluded
Kim Priestap
What complete wussies. The Democrats are too scared to face the tough questions like those asked of the Republican candidates last night. From TVNewser: CNN and NBC get two and ABC and CBS get one each. Fox News isn't included. Here's the list:
July 23, 2007: YouTube/Google and CNN in Charleston, SC
August 19, 2007: ABC in Des Moines, IA
September 26, 2007: NBC News/MSNBC in Hanover, NH
October 30, 2007: NBC News/MSNBC in Philadelphia, PA
November 15, 2007: CNN in Las Vegas, NV
December 10, 2007: CBS in Los Angeles, CA
The Republicans are willing to face any panel from any network or cable news channel while the Democrats only will go in front of those they think will lob them softballs. Typical of the party that cuts and runs from any situation that becomes too hard. ...
*** MSNBC vs. FOX
Stephen Spruiell (H/T: Michelle Malkin)
So how do the questions from the first GOP debate, moderated by MSNBC and the Politico.com, match up to the questions posed by the FOX News panel in the second debate?
It's not even close. Opening up the Media Blog vault and reviewing the first GOP debate after having just watched the second was a revealing exercise. I think the MSNBC/Politico questions actually got stupider with age.
By contrast, the FOX News questions were serious and the questioners tenacious in pursuing answers. Even the questions that viewers submitted to FOX via e-mail were far better than "What do you dislike most about America?" and the other nonsense that got past the Politico's electronic gatekeepers.
Watch the video. I created a montage of MSNBC questions first, followed by a montage of FOX questions. The increase in the seriousness and difficulty of the questions is comparable to that between high school and college: [video link]
*** Spending Mayor Mike’s billion
Don Surber
The Times of London Online seized on the news that Mayor Mike Bloomberg of New York City may spend a billion bucks on an independent bid for president.
The Times is hosting a “What should Michael Bloomberg do with his billion dollars?” contest.
Well, I just happen to have a few ideas.
1. Pay for John Edwards’ next 2.5 million haircuts.
2. Buy 95 million box lunches from Nikola’s restaurants at the Newburgh Yacht Club to eat while pretending to go to Wendy’s. Oh, wait. That backfired on John Kerry.
3. Pull an Oprah and buy 35,211 Pontiac G-6s to hand out to voters.
4. Run the federal government for 3 hours, 14 minutes and 24 seconds.
5. ...
*** Bush gets “The Full Nixon” treatment
The Anchoress (H/T: Kim Priestap)
Well, I was waiting for it, and here it is - the press’ unrelenting willingness to follow the template they used to destroy Nixon has led them back to the “he’s mentally ill” fountain from which they so ardently quenched their thirsts all those years ago - and they’re daring to call the fountain “truth.”
First, we get an elementary course on “denial:”
Denying the evidence of your eyes is the most extreme form of the coping mechanism called denial. But denial comes in milder forms as well. Parents refuse to believe their child is on drugs; that baggie under his bed contained oregano…
Yes, and insisting that someone “lied” about intelligence, no matter how many times you’re reminded that the same intelligence was was being fully touted by world leadership for almost three years before the man ever got into office…that’s denial. ...
*** Four Dems running for president vote to cut off Iraq funding in ‘08
Allahpundit
It was the first of three votes scheduled today, with John Warner’s benchmark proposal being the only bill that stands a chance of passing. This one, predictably offered by Russ Feingold, crashed and burned at 29-67. But the fact that it failed is less significant than who voted in favor. ...
Biden, Dodd, Obama, and naturally the Glacier herself, always eager for a new opportunity to pander to the nutroots and further atone for her sin of having voted for war in 2002. Of course, the left being the left, they can’t embrace their own bold strokes for fear of alienating centrists. So even this vote comes with qualifiers: ...
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