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Eric Massa Is Even Crazier Than You Thought

By | 05.24.10 | 1:02 pm

Glenn Beck-like, I put my head in my hands over the sheer lunacy expressed by the much-disgraced former New York Democratic congressman:

• Earlier in the year, long before the allegations had been made public, Massa had called me with a potentially huge story: Four retired generals — three

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Massa Refunds Total $112,000

By | 04.16.10 | 3:15 pm

On the day Eric Massa resigned from the House, he refunded $112,000 in campaign donations, according to the Federal Election Commission. More than half of those refunds, $62,000, were returned to individual donors, and the rest went to political committees. The biggest refund recipients?

Nancy Pelosi — $7,000 (PAC and More…

Bachmann: ‘Whether or Not You Believe in a Conspiracy to Drive Eric Massa Out of Congress’

By | 03.15.10 | 10:36 am

I don’t sneer and point at everything Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) says — she clearly courts such a reaction every day — but Ed Morrissey’s video of Bachmann at an anti-health care reform rally in Minneapolis is pretty amazing for the quantity of smears she packs in. Democrats, she More…

GOP Gets Massa Investigation in the House

By | 03.11.10 | 1:09 pm

The GOP’s privileged resolution on an investigation of what members of Congress knew about Rep. Eric Massa’s (D-N.Y.) problems has passed the House, on a 360-2 vote. Both “no” votes came from Republicans.

A Love/Hate Relationship with Eric Massa

By | 03.11.10 | 9:33 am

Glenn Beck on Eric Massa, March 8:

I’m not saying he is as pure as the driven snow, I don’t know, I don’t know the guy, but this is a moment that will decide the course of this nation, possibly.

Glenn Beck on Eric Massa, March 10:

I

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Report: House Drops Massa Investigation

By | 03.10.10 | 5:56 pm

The Washington Post is reporting that the House Ethics Committee has closed its probe into former Rep. Eric Massa’s (D-N.Y.) alleged harassment of staffers.

Update: Looks like Massa’s resignation might have been a shrewd move. From the Post:

The committee concluded that Massa’s resignation put him outside the reach

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Glenn Beck on Massa: ‘I Almost Threw Him Out of the Studio’

By | 03.10.10 | 1:20 pm

On his radio show today, Glenn Beck lit into former Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) for his disastrous, rambling appearance on the Tuesday episode of Beck’s Fox News Show.

“America, have you ever heard of a 50-year old man having a tickle-fight — five men tickling each other so hard that More…

Massa: The Morning After

By | 03.10.10 | 9:46 am

Before Eric Massa appeared on Glenn Beck’s show, there was a short war of words between the Fox News host and blogger/columnist Michelle Malkin. Beck likened Massa to a captured enemy soldier who could be pumped for information; Malkin argued that Massa was a lying opportunist. In the wake More…

Eric Massa in 2007: GOP Has Become ‘Constricted in Its Own Twisted Evil’

By | 03.09.10 | 2:24 pm

I first encountered former Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) at a 2007 forum on, of all things, the media, at the 2007 Yearly Kos convention. (Starting in 2008, the annual event was renamed Netroots Nation.) Massa portrayed himself as an angry ex-Republican who considered himself part of the liberal blogosphere — More…

Eric Massa, Conservative Icon

By | 03.09.10 | 9:53 am

John Bresnahan’s story this morning explores the praise former Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) has been soaking up on the right — accolades from Rush Limbaugh, a spot today on Glenn Beck’s Fox News show. And as Bresnahan hints, the plaudits are coming from right-wing entertainers and media stars More…