Politico
Barely News: Iowa Sanders Supporters Shouted 'She's a Liar' at Hillary
February 5th, 2016 4:31 PM
Five items found at the Politico filed late Monday or early Tuesday reported that supporters of Bernie Sanders at the Iowa caucuses, while watching a live feed of Hillary Clinton's speech late Monday evening, began chanting "She's a liar!" The chants grew until they "took over the room," and didn't stop until Sanders campaign officials cut off the live feed being shown.
This is barely news in…
Tampering? Mid-Evening, Politico's Thrush Declared Hillary the Victor
February 2nd, 2016 10:31 AM
In the November 2000 presidential election, the Big 3 TV networks prematurely declared Democrat Al Gore the winner before the polls in those portions of the Sunshine State in the Central Time Zone had even closed. According to one post-election study, the networks' arguably politically motivated calls cost Republican George W. Bush 10,000 votes, led to the most bitter post-election battle over…
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Chuck Todd: Obama Did Hillary ‘A Solid’ in Softball Politico Interview
January 26th, 2016 12:42 PM
Appearing on Tuesday’s NBC Today, Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd touted President Obama giving a boost to Hillary Clinton’s struggling campaign during a softball exchange with Politico’s Glenn Thrush: “...this is something where the President was trying to do her a solid in this case.”
Politico's Thrush to Obama: I Had 'Candidate Envy,' Wanted On Your Bus
January 25th, 2016 11:50 AM
Politico’s Glenn Thrush was granted a 30-minute interview with President Obama, perhaps because the dominant issue was gauzy nostalgia over how awesome Obama was on the trail in 2008. It carried the flavor of the “Chris Farley Show” skit on Saturday Night Live. “Remember when you said you were Hope and Change. That was awesome.”
Thrush told the president that covering Hillary Clinton wasn’t…
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Politico Portrays Possible Hillary Running Mate Castro as Lightweight
January 22nd, 2016 11:41 PM
Lethargic. It is a word that your humble correspondent thought he could retire now that lethargic labor reporter Mike Elk has left Politico. However, after reading Politico's almost sneering article about possible Hillary Clinton running mate should she be nominated, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro, I might have to pull that word out of retirement and pair it with "…
State: Snow Will Delay Release of HIllary Emails; AP, Politico Ignore
January 22nd, 2016 11:01 PM
These people play the press and the courts like a fiddle.
At 2 p.m. Friday — just in time for a slow-news weekend and the onset of what is supposed to be a serious blizzard in the Northeast — the State Department asked a federal court for an extension of time to February 29 to complete its interagency review and release of Hillary Clinton's private-server emails. But State didn't merely use the…
Politico’s ‘Obama Issue’ Fawns Over ‘Historic Presidency’
January 9th, 2016 12:07 PM
The latest gushing edition of Politico Magazine released on Wednesday entitled “The Obama Issue: A Special Report on a Historic Presidency,” was loaded with one article after another largely celebrating the impact of President Obama’s waning administration.
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Politico Inadvertently Reveals Clinton Campaign Elitism
January 4th, 2016 4:46 PM
Almost nothing screams political elitism louder than holding a Clinton campaign fundraiser hosted by Chelsea at the Tribeca Soulcycle in Manhattan almost on the eve of the Iowa caucuses. The funniest thing about the Politico article describing the yoga pants Hillary supporters fundraiser is that author Annie Karni seems to be completely unaware of how politically damaging it appears as she gushes…
Politico Performs Deep 'Schlong' Analysis
December 23rd, 2015 11:09 AM
Just how much did Ben Zimmer chuckle while writing this "schlong" analysis for Politico? Well, no matter how much he was laughing, he did manage to write in a serious tone on the subject...which made it come off even funnier than was probably intended. At first Zimmer slams Donald Trump for his use of the term "schlonged" but ends up exonerating him when other examples of the slang word being…
Politico Falsely Portrays Cruz's Response to Shameful WashPost Cartoon
December 22nd, 2015 11:31 PM
As Curtis Houck at NewsBusters reported this evening, the Washington Post published "a disgusting GIF early Tuesday evening depicting (Ted) Cruz’s young daughters as toy monkeys being played with" accompanied by a pathetic two-paragraph justification by cartoonist Ann Telnaes as to why Cruz's daughters "were fair game."
The Post withdrew the cartoon and the justification within a few hours, but…
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Rahm Emanuel Chews Out Politico's Allen for Revealing Vacation Plans
December 2nd, 2015 9:54 PM
This hasn't been a good week for Politico's Mike Allen. On Monday he apologized for email that had been revealed in which he promised Hillary Clinton's PR operative Phillippe Reines two years ago that he would submit questions in advance that he would ask Chelsea Clinton. Today, Mike Allen again apologized for drawing the wrath of Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel for revealing his family vacation…
Bozell Blasts Politico for Hiring Character Assassin Brad Dayspring
November 20th, 2015 12:24 PM
Brad Dayspring, a well-known beltway establishment Republican operative, has a history of antagonizing conservatives, both on the national and grassroots level, smearing them on countless occasions.
CNN Suspends Reporter for Biased Twitter Post on House Refugee Vote
November 19th, 2015 8:08 PM
Politico's Hadas Gold revealed on Thursday that CNN suspended correspondent Elise Labott for two weeks, after she decried the 289 to 137 vote on Syrian refugees by the House of Representatives: "House passes bill that could limit Syrian refugees. Statue of Liberty bows head in anguish".
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Matthews Ignores Kerry Seeing 'Rationale' In Charlie Hebdo Murders
November 17th, 2015 8:50 PM
As Politico reported earlier today, Secretary of State John Kerry seemed to see a "rationale" in the deadly terrorist attacks on the Charlie Hebdo newspaper office back in January, unlike target pattern in Friday's coordinated terror strikes in Paris. Reporter Eliza Collins posted her story at 4:14 p.m. Eastern, about 3 hours prior to MSNBC's Hardball went live on the air. That's plenty of time…