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Meet Marc Mezvinsky, Chelsea Clinton's Fiancé
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyMarc Mezvinsky, 31, will marry Chelsea Clinton, 29, the daughter of former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, in the summer of 2010. In this wedding, certain to be one of the social events of the season, the bride is more famous than the groom. But he also comes from a political family, one that is also no stranger to wrongdoing and controversy -- and he, too, has a strong-willed and well-known mother. Mezvinsky also has a successful Wall Street career. He currently works at the hedge fund G3 Capital and previously was an investment banker at the behemoth ...
Sarah Palin Tells the Angry Mob to Calm Down
By David Knowles - Politics DailySarah Palin, the former governor of Alaska and the former candidate for vice president of the United States, has a message for the incensed protesters of President Obama's proposed health care reform: Chill out. After witnessing a spate of confrontational, sometimes violent, exchanges at town-hall meetings, Palin posted the following statement on her Facebook page (Via Ben Smith): "There are many disturbing details in the current bill that Washington is trying to run through Congress, but we must stick to a discussion of the issues and not get sidetracked by tactics that can be accused of ...
Jake Tapper Gets Unfairly Pilloried for Obama 'Muslim Roots' Article
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyMedia Matters, Gawker, and DailyKos, to name just a few, are out for blood -- Jake Tapper-flavored, Venti, please. Why the outrage? Here's what Gawker says:ABC News' Jake Tapper, seemingly bored silly on a flight to Riyadh, or maybe just experimenting to see how many links he could get from wingnut websites, published perhaps the most imbecilic article in the history of journalism on ABC.com. With a title, "The Emergence of President Obama's Muslim Roots," that just pathetically screams "please link to me Matt Drudge," Tapper regurgitates a slew of widely known facts about Obama's family's ...
Obama a 'Secret Muslim' No More?
By David Knowles - Politics DailyOf all the silly claims that have been made about President Barack Obama, perhaps the silliest is that he is a "secret Muslim." The internet is full websites and viral e-mail that use doctored quotes from Obama's two books that purport to prove this assertion, and among his most ardent foes, the idea the Islam lurks in his heart like some sort of Trojan army has never really died away. Witness the uproar that flared when Obama bowed to Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah a few months ago. You see, purveyors of the "secret Muslim" theory bellowed, proof! For this hardy minority of American society, ...
US Army Burns Bibles in Afghanistan
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyOn the heels of a report that Donald Rumsfeld included Crusade-esque cover sheets on his intelligence briefings comes a jarring follow-up to the story of proselytizing soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Jake Tapper reports that Bibles sent to soldiers in Afghanistan for distribution to locals were rather unceremoniously disposed of:On May 5, Army spokeswoman Major Jennifer Willis told Reuters that at Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan "the Bibles shown on Al Jazeera's clip were, in fact, collected by the chaplains and later destroyed. They were never distributed."Today, Christian ...
NY Assembly Passes Gay Marriage Bill
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyBy a wide, bi-partisan majority, the New York State Assembly passed a bill legalizing gay marriage, setting the stage for a tougher fight in the state senate: (h/t Jake Tapper) The State Assembly approved legislation on Tuesday night that would make New York the sixth state to allow same-sex marriage - a pivotal vote that shifts the debate to the State Senate, where gay rights advocates and conservative groups alike are redoubling their efforts. In a sign of how opinion in Albany has shifted on the issue, several members of the Assembly who voted against the measure in 2007 voted in favor of ...
Jake Tapper Compares President Obama With Miss California
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyMan, I am rolling my eyes here, because nobody is going to be happy with me on this one.Unless you live in a cave, without cable, you know about the brouhaha surrounding Miss California Carrie Prejean. Unfairly excoriated for voicing an unfairly solicited opinion at the Miss USA pageant, she went on to join the anti-gay marriage group NOM. In doing so, she went from being a person who disagreed with gay marriage but viewed it as a choice that people should be free to make, to someone who seeks to deny the rights of others to marry.In the ensuing melee, Miss California's initial position has ...
Think Progress Accuses Unamused Jake Tapper of Being Right Wing Puppet
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyCan't we all just get along?On Saturday, I reported about a Chrysler lawyer's accusation that the White House threatened to sic the White House press corps on him. Now, Think Progress is accusing the right wing media of siccing the White House press corps, or at least one member of it, on Barack Obama.The New York Times reported on Friday, "whatever the outcome, this bit of brinkmanship - which many characterized as a game of chicken with Washington - has become yet another public relations disaster for Wall Street." But instead, this story of corporate greed has now been turned into a ...
President Obama Hosts First Ever Online Presidential Town Hall
By Tommy Christopher and Caleb Howe - Politics DailyHere are reactions to the President's Online Town Hall Meeting. Caleb Howe's comments will be in black type, and Tommy Christopher's in blue.My biggest takeaway from this event was witnessing the awesome power of a fully armed and operational Jake Tapper Twitter feed. It was only a minute after Tapper tweeted about vote totals that Obama suddenly decided to address the question with the most votes: Should we legalize it? Disloyal cretin! Don't you know anyone else with an awesome Twitter feed? By the way, Obama's answer was basically no, legalizing won't help the economy, and yes, the fact ...
Sarah Palin Aide Flames Fightin' Jake Tapper
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyA few days ago, I reported that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's home state was #1 in per capita earmark dollars in the recently passed omnibus bill. I used the same source that Jake Tapper used in his post on the subject, which has drawn fire from Palin's director of communications, Bill McAllister: "I am disturbed by this item," wrote Bill McAllister, director of communications for Gov. Palin, referencing a blog entry from last night in which we referred to an article in the liberal magazine Mother Jones noting that Palin -- after what seemed like a campaign against earmark abuse -- was back at ...
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