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By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyFormer Rep. Jim Traficant, one of the loopiest and most passionate members of Congress past or present, filed a petition Monday morning to get his old job back. According to the Youngstown Vindicator, the former nine-term congressman turned in 3,138 signatures along with his petition to run in the November election to represent Ohio's 17th Congressional District. Unlike years past, however, Traficant will skip the Democratic primary and run as an independent. Rep. Tim Ryan, a former member of Traficant's staff, now represents the district as a Democrat and will face his old boss in November ...
Vanna White in the White House? How About Bruce?
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyVanna White, the pleasant letter-turner on the game show Wheel of Fortune, was wildly popular in the mid-1980s. Some surmised that Vanna's appeal stemmed not from her blondness, but rather her blandness. Viewers saw either a girl next door or an irresistible, slightly dangerous hottie, depending on what they wanted to see. So my suggestion for 2012 presidential candidate is: Bruuuuuuce! Yes, Mr. Springsteen. The singer. Well, why not? ...
The Cable News Patrol: Rounding Up the Usual Suspects and Subjects
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyAlready, my life feels like it has been reduced to a cheesy Internet banner ad: "New York Man Watches TV at Home – And Is Paid for It, Just Like a Real Job." On Monday, I began my masochistic regimen of watching cable TV news for 12 hours a day in a valiant effort to...err...I dunno...maybe...probe the subterranean depths of the American political psyche. In truth, my motivation had something to do with frustration at being stuck at home recovering from Achilles tendon surgery (I told them that they could start the Trojan War without me). Perhaps others in my situation might be reading ...
Video: Chris Matthews Calls West Point 'Enemy Camp'
By David Sessions - Politics DailyOn the air after last night's speech, MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews questioned the venue for President Obama's speech on Afghanistan, calling the U.S. Military Academy an "enemy camp" where officials in the Bush administration went to drum up support for "democratizing the world." ...
On 'Hardball': Is There Really a Split Between Obama and the Left?
By David Corn - Politics DailyMonday's question on the cable transmission belt was this: Is President Obama losing support on his left? Here's how I became part of that discussion. In his weekly Washington Post column, Howard Kurtz explored whether liberal commentators and journalists are losing faith in the president: The criticism of Barack Obama has turned strikingly personal as some of his liberal media allies have gone wobbly on him. After playing a cheerleading role during the campaign, some are bluntly questioning whether he's up to the job. If Obama is losing Paul Krugman, can the rest of the left be far behind? To ...
Democrats Hounding Norm Coleman to Concede
By Dylan and Ethan Ris - Politics DailyNorm Coleman has already ignored the will of Minnesota voters, the state board of elections and a three-judge oversight panel. It's time to bring in the big guns...DNC Chairman Tim Kaine!(We'll pause here for the hush to fall over the crowd.)Kaine appeared on the ultimate stage of election jurisprudence, "Hardball With Chris Matthews," and told Coleman he must "set aside his ambition" and allow opponent Al Franken to be seated in the U.S. Senate. A bold statement by Chairman Kaine, and one that's certain to strike fear into the heart of Coleman, Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty and every other ...
Rush Limbaugh 'Doubled Ratings' Lie Gets Leg Up From Chris Matthews
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyOver the weekend, I reported that the Washington Post's claim that Rush Limbaugh's ratings had doubled was, in fact, not true. I contacted the WaPo source, Talkers Magazine's Michael Harrison, who confirmed that the figures he gave to the Post were not "ratings," nor would he characterize them as equivalent to ratings.Redstate also contacted Harrison, and he told them, regarding the figures he gave WaPo: "If I didn't believe that they were an accurate estimate of whatever the elusive truth about radio listenership actually is, I wouldn't publish them"Of course, in this case, he didn't publish ...
Chris Matthews: GOP Outsourcing to Jindal
By Caleb Howe - Politics DailyEvery day, Democrats scour the earth to find some new, obscure person they can use to pretend that being in the GOP means being racist. With that level of hyper-awareness, it's pretty much stunning no one noticed the code words here: Racist? Of course not. It's Chris Matthews, after all. Obama's leg-tingler in chief. Of course, if Jindal were a Democrat, and O'Reilly made the comment ... or, heaven forbid, Rush Limbaugh? I think you can figure it out. (via Hot Air, where Allahpundit presumes innocence and Ace of Spades, with no such presumption) ...
Oh God! Chris Matthews Hates Bobby Jindal
By David Knowles - Politics DailyWhy is it that those who make a living speaking into microphones don't seem to understand the basic principle of how the things work? When you say something out loud into a live mic, people can hear it! Well, leave it to MSNBC's Chris Matthews, among the most boorish commentators in the history of punditry, to forget how the whole TV thing is done. After Keith Olbermann's introduction of Bobby Jindal, and the Louisiana governor was making his way to his own open mic, Matthews let out a not-so-Freudian slip. Watch:Generally, pundits like Matthews wait until after a given speaker delivers his or ...
Revealed: Why Chris Matthews Nixed Senate Run
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyChris Matthews' much-talked-about Senate run is not to be, and US News' Nikki Schwab finds out why from NBC's Chuck Todd:"Because [Chris] had a really good friend of his say to him, 'What are you going to do when you get there?' and he couldn't answer the question and he realized that, and that's why he didn't run," says Todd. "It was a childhood dream to be a senator, but he didn't know what he was going to do if he got there." It was the same for 2008 presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and John McCain, says the coauthor of How Barack Obama Won. "They never knew why they wanted to be ...
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