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The Weekly Standard Turns on Sarah Palin
Tweet Share on Facebook November 22, 2010 Comment (23)I know Sarah Palin’s poll numbers are sagging, but I didn’t realize it was this bad. Not only do a majority of Americans view her negatively, but it seems that the Weekly Standard, one of Palin’s earliest promoters, may be turning on her as well.
The magazine posted a review of Palin’s reality show over the weekend that drips with entertainingly scathing condescension for the former half-term governor and her latest venture. Standard senior writer Matt Labash invests his not inconsiderable talents in mocking Palin, Palinisms, and Palin’s Alaska.[See a roundup of editorial cartoons about Sarah Palin.]
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Palin, Tea Party Quiet on Joe Miller Power Grab
Tweet Share on Facebook November 19, 2010 Comment (15)Joe Miller, the Alaska Republican Senate nominee who--virtually everyone but him now agrees--lost his bid to Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski, is starting to resemble the jilted suitor who refuses to get the message. Thursday he asked a federal judge for an injunction preventing the state from certifying Murkowski the winner. He wants a bunch of Murkowski votes tossed out on minor technicalities.
Miller, it seems, is bound and determined to become a U.S. Senator, the will of Alaska voters be damned. And here I thought the Tea Party movement, which gave us Miller, was a response to out of touch pols who refused to listen to the voters. So why aren't Tea Party leaders--especially, their Alaskan godmother, former half-term Gov. Sarah Palin--voicing their outrage at Miller's naked power grab?
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Republican National Committee: Hire Pelosi!
Tweet Share on Facebook November 5, 2010 Comment (13)Suddenly Republicans rather like Nancy Pelosi. After an election season highlighted by RNC Chairman Michael Steele's "Fire Pelosi" bus tour and a "Fire Pelosi" sign hung over their national headquarters door, the GOP is taking a different tack toward the outgoing speaker. As of this afternoon the sign over the RNC headquarters door reads, "Hire Pelosi."
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MSNBC 2010 Election Coverage Lacks Any Pretense of Neutrality
Tweet Share on Facebook November 2, 2010 Comment (50)Part of the fun—well, torture really—of election night is flipping between the three “news” channels, mostly to avoid their most irritating commentators (hello Messrs. O’Reilly and Schultz) or channel-hopping pols (our inability to escape Michael Steele literally made my wife scream). But one thing I find really striking is how the three cable networks are approaching their coverage—most particularly that MSNBC has given up any pretense of being a straight news channel.
