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BREAKING: Max Baucus Mumbles Occasionally

By | 12.28.09 | 5:54 pm

So, which respectable media outlets actually ran with the completely baseless, Drudge-driven “Max Baucus was drunk” smear? I count the Los Angeles Times (whose blogger Andrew Malcolm is basically a funnel for Drudge), The Charleston Daily Mail, The Palm Beach Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, More…

The ‘Drunk’ Smear

By | 12.28.09 | 11:02 am

At the end of a slow holiday weekend, Matt Drudge linked to a video posted by YouTube member SocialistsSteal, labeled “Senator Max Baucus Drunk/Intoxicated on Senate Floor.” SocialistsSteal had, ironically, stolen the video from ThinkProgress, which had grabbed the lengthy clip — way back on Dec. 22, six More…

Newt at Large

By | 06.09.09 | 9:11 am

When President Obama gave his “Muslim speech” in Cairo, the Drudge Report headlined it “6,000 words.” When former Vice President Cheney responded to the president’s speech on Guantanamo Bay and torture, he opened with a joke about how long it was (“In the House, we have the five minute rule.”) More…

British Newspapers Are Different

By | 05.04.09 | 10:34 am

Just reiterating the point from my article about the U.K. press, here’s a pull-out fact from a story in The Sunday Times about how “Democrat Joker Al Franken” will cement Harry Reid’s 60-seat majority when former Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) loses his lawsuits.

Hillary Clinton, Obama’s surprise choice

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McCain Camp Plays Gender Card with Pig Ploy

By | 09.09.08 | 8:42 pm

LEBANON, Va. — Sen. John McCain played the gender card Tuesday night, seizing on a hackneyed statement by Sen. Barack Obama to claim, rather implausibly, that the Democratic nominee was calling Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin a pig.

To even entertain McCain’s far-fetched attack, one would have to think Obama had More…