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Do Sarah Palin and the Tea Party Bear Responsibility in Gabrielle Giffords Shooting?
By Elliot Olshansky - AOL NewsWhen Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was shot Saturday afternoon along with 19 others in her home state of Arizona, there was an almost immediate connection made to Sarah Palin and the tea party. Markos Moulitsas, founder of the Daily Kos, sent a succinct message on his Twitter account: "Mission accomplished, Sarah Palin," linking to a blog post featuring the controversial map sent out by Palin's political action committee in March, marking the congressional districts carried by John McCain in the 2008 presidential election whose representatives had voted for President Barack Obama's ...
Sarah Palin Blamed by Bloggers for Shooting of Gabrielle Giffords
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailySome prominent liberal bloggers wasted little time before politicizing the horrific and tragic shooting of a congresswoman in Arizona on Saturday. Related Stories Judge Killed, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords Wounded in Arizona Rampage Almost immediately after the nation learned of the shooting of Arizona Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and several others (including a federal judge), a few prominent liberal web writers sought to blame Sarah Palin and other conservatives for the action. Linking to a map of U.S. House districts that Sarah Palin's pac wanted to "target" during the 2010 ...
NFL Kickoff: Political Insiders Make Their Super Bowl Predictions
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyAre you ready for some football? The NFL season officially kicked off Thursday night when the New Orleans Saints began their title defense against the Minnesota Vikings. That means it's time for our second annual "pigskins and politics" column -- where a group of top political insiders and opinion leaders weigh in with their wildly premature Super Bowl predictions. Why ask political and media folks about football? First, sports and entertainment people rarely hesitate to spout off about politics, so turnabout is fair play, right? Second, as GOP strategist Kevin Madden told me last year, ...
Democratic Civil Wars Likely as Left Weighs Primary Challenges Over Health
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyDemocrats are having fun highlighting the "civil war" within the Republican Party, but their schadenfreude may be short-lived. Conservative and moderate Democrats are failing one liberal litmus test after another, stoking not just frustration on the left but also potential primary challenges. The list of those tests starts with the public option, a proposed government-sponsored health insurance plan that appears to be losing ground on Capitol Hill despite continued popularity in opinion polls. And that's just the beginning. As filing deadlines approach, particularly for later primaries, ...
Pigskins and Politics: Let the Super Bowl Predictions Begin!
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyAre you ready for some football? The NFL season kicked off Thursday night when Pittsburgh beat Tennessee. With the other teams launching their seasons yesterday and tonight, the time seemed ripe to ask some political insiders and opinion leaders for their predictions about the year ahead. Here are their choices for the next Super Bowl champ, along with some observations on the ties that bind politics and football. ...
Ann Coulter and Bill O'Reilly Among Early Scapegoats for Tiller Murder
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyIt didn't take long. The blogosphere, and the more immediate (and arguably more important) Twittersphere are abuzz with finger-pointing in the hours-ago murder of Dr. George Tiller. On Twitter, Daily Kos' Markos Moulitsas was characterisically subtle with his summation:Who'll be the next target of O'Reilly's and Beck's ire to get gunned down by domestic conservative terrorist?As I pointed out earlier, Bill O'Reilly has already been singled out, and Ann Coulter was the next to be teed up: ...
New York Times Defends Maureen Dowd on Plagiarism Charge
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyAs David Knowles wrote earlier, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd is under fire for a passage in her op-ed piece that is a near-identical copy of one from TPM's Josh Marshall.Now, Politico reports that the New York Times has issued them a statement defending Dowd:...I put the question of whether this is common practice for columnists before Times editorial page editor Andy Rosenthal, who passed me along to PR. But now I've now received a statement supporting Dowd from spokesperson Diane McNulty. Maureen had us correct the column online as soon as the error was brought to her attention, ...
Meghan McCain Says Karl Rove and HuffPo are 'Twitter Creeps'
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyAnd I, apparently, am not. Meghan McCain, the darling of the Twitter set, writes today at The Daily Beast that certain of her Twitter followers creep her out. The first one she mentions is, surprisingly, Karl Rove. The surprise is that it took Twitter to show her that Rove is creepy. From Daily Beast, with a hat tip to The College Politico:Karl Rove follows me on Twitter. That's creepy. I joined Twitter a few months ago; so far, it has been a liberating way to transition from political to personal blogging. It's allowed me to share the less serious aspects and humorously uncensored moments of ...
Gallup Exploits Binghamton and Pittsburgh Shootings
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyAccording to a Gallup poll, support for a total ban on handguns was at an all-time low just prior to last weekend's deadly mass shootings:PRINCETON, NJ -- In Gallup polling conducted prior to last week's gun massacre at an immigrant center in Binghamton, N.Y., only 29% of Americans said the possession of handguns by private citizens should be banned in the United States. While similar to the 30% recorded in 2007, the latest reading is the smallest percentage favoring a handgun ban since Gallup first polled on this nearly 50 years ago.While it is true that the poll shows slipping support for ...
Evil Mr. Rogers Fox News Clip Makes Rounds of Humorless Liberals
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyMarkos Moulitsas tweeted a story about Fox News' "F'ing Crazy" assertion that Mr. Rogers is evil. That is a crazy thing to say. I checked it out, and this is the hot story on Digg! right now. (Yes, I'm jealous.)There's a corresponding story at Daily Kos, too, also decrying Fox's insanity at making the claim that Mr' Rogers is evil. Tough to argue with. There are 2 problems with this story. First, the YouTube clip is from December. Isn't there a statute of limitations on this stuff?Secondly, there's the clip itself. I want to start by saying that I am as liberal as it gets. I had my kids form a ...
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