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Glenn Beck: Should Fox Toss Him Out of the Coop?
By David Corn - Politics DailyGlenn Beck is walking toward a cliff -- or running, or skipping. The question is, will Fox News go flying over the edge with him, or give him a push? For years, Beck has pitched various conspiracy theories with a rather predictable thrust: The left is out to take over and/or destroy the United States. (The relationship between assuming control of the country and scheming its decimation has always been a bit fuzzy.) And his targets have been sinister lefty outfits that are not household names: the Tides Foundation, ACORN, and others. As long as Beck stuck to this classic tale -- secret commies ...
Glenn Beck Hits Back at Bill Kristol Over Egypt
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyOn his radio show Monday, Glenn Beck hit back hard at Bill Kristol over comments Kristol made in a recent column. "People like Bill Kristol ... I don't think they stand for anything anymore," said Beck. "All they stand for is power. They'll do anything to keep their little fiefdom together, and they'll do anything to keep the Republican power entrenched." Beck was responding to a Weekly Standard column Kristol recently authored, which said: When Glenn Beck rants about the caliphate taking over the Middle East from Morocco to the Philippines, and lists (invents?) the connections between ...
Republican Reaction to Obama's Iraq Speech: Mostly Negative
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyPresident Obama's speech Tuesday night marking the end of combat operations in Iraq drew a largely -- but not universally -- negative response from Republicans. One particular sticking point for many Republicans was the president's failure to tip his cap to the apparent success in Iraq of the counterinsurgency "surge" strategy -- authored by Gen. David Petraeus and implemented by President George W. Bush over the objections of many Democrats, including then-Senators and presidential candidates Barack Obama and Joe Biden. Sen. John McCain, who ran against Obama in the 2008 general election ...
Fox News Contributor Bill Kristol: 'I Agree With Harry Reid'
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyOn Monday's edition of Fox News' "Special Report," Weekly Standard editor and Fox News contributor Bill Kristol said he agreed with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's comments regarding a controversial mosque planned near Ground Zero. "I agree with Harry Reid. I've wanted to say that for three and a half years," Kristol joked. Watch the video here: A partial transcript is here: I agree with Harry Reid. I've wanted to say that for three and a half years -- the three and a half years he's been Senate majority leader. I don't think I've ever said that on this set, or anywhere else. But ...
Ann Coulter vs. Bill Kristol: Beginnings of a Conservative Schism?
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyAnn Coulter's recent column "Bill Kristol Must Resign" may have officially kicked off the next great schism within the conservative movement. At issue is the war in Afghanistan -- and, more specifically, whether Republicans should support President Obama's approach to a conflict that has now lasted for Americans far longer than World War II. Mocking neoconservatives, Coulter wrote: "Bill Kristol [editor of The Weekly Standard] and Liz Cheney have demanded that [Michael] Steele resign as head of the RNC for saying Afghanistan is now Obama's war -- and a badly thought-out one at that. (Didn't ...
Top 5 All-Time Michael Steele Gaffes
By David Knowles - AOL NewsSince becoming the head of the Republican National Committee in 2009, Michael Steele has often courted controversy with his public comments and statements. Today, at a Republican Party fundraiser in Connecticut, that pattern continued when Steele lashed out at U.S. policy on Afghanistan, terming the military campaign there "a war of Obama's choosing." Steele went on to espouse his belief that America should not attempt direct military intervention in Afghanistan, something quite out of step with the majority view in his own party. Watch: Writing in the Weekly Standard, neo-conservative ...
Brit Hume: Tiger Woods Should 'Turn to the Christian Faith'
By David Sessions - Politics DailyOn "Fox News Sunday" yesterday, Fox anchor Brit Hume suggested that Tiger Woods should trade his Buddhist faith for Christianity if he wants to make a personal comback. When host Chris Wallace asked the show's roundtable to predict the biggest sports story of 2010, Hume said:"Tiger Woods will recover as a golfer. Whether he can recover as a person I think is a very open question, and it's a tragic situation for him. I think he's lost his family, it's not clear to me if he'll be able to have a relationship with his children, but the Tiger Woods that emerges once the news value dies out of this ...
Kristol: Only Conservative Populism Will Win for Republicans
By David Sessions - Politics DailyWashington Post columnist William Kristol writes Tuesday that "the GOP is likely, for the foreseeable future, to be of a conservative mind and in a populist mood." Reviewing polls that show 40 percent of Americans and 72 percent of Republicans say they are "conservative," Kristol concludes that out-of-office candidates like Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee embody the party's near future. "The center of gravity, I suspect, will instead lie with individuals such as Palin and Huckabee and Gingrich, media personalities like Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh, and activists at town halls and tea parties," ...
Vanity Fair's Palin Piece Underscores Republican Split
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyRepublican infighting over the recent trashing of Sarah Palin in Vanity Fair is bringing to the surface the long-bubbling conservative dislike of moderate "maverick" John McCain. Once McCain won the presidential nomination last year, most conservative Republicans supported him because he was better than the alternative, Barack Obama. Support on the right for McCain became more enthusiastic when he chose Sarah Palin -- a true conservative -- as his running mate. ...
Bye Bye, Bill Kristol
By Michael Kraskin - Politics DailyKristol's stint at the New York Times lasted only about a year. His final column, titled with the question "Will Obama Save Liberalism?" opened with this statement, sure to strike dread into the hearts of any conservatives who are still paying any attention to anything Kristol has to say (which they aren't) :All good things must come to an end. Jan. 20, 2009, marked the end of a conservative era.Interestingly, his first column for the New York Times way back on January 7 of last year also was titled with a question. "President Huckabee?"Well, I can answer that question Bill, and I could have ...
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