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That explains both of these posts from this week. The topic however is not China but Rev Wright
Wright’s radioactive because he’s vocalized what most liberals really think, but are too afraid to say out loud.
“If you start from the idea they are all Marxists, it makes perfect sense”
Update: hotair notices
…it’s a sign of weakness in a swing district. In this he is reporting and repeating DCCC spin:
Public Policy Polling, a North Carolina firm, released a survey Monday showing Republican candidate Tim Burns leading Democratic candidate Mark Critz by only one point, 48 to 47. I noticed some conservative blogs reporting that Burns had “moved into the lead,” but that result actually represented a six-point bump for Critz and only a four-point bump for Burns since the last poll.
Somehow the Susquehanna poll showing Critz with a 6 point lead last week doesn’t fit into the template here.
The plan seems to be that if Critz wins it becomes a bellwether of how the republicans can’t win the races this year. The hotly contested senate race of national importance is apparently no excuse.
This is called laying the groundwork. And Todd & the Post are not the only players:
They blame the establishment, the insiders, the Beltway types, the incumbents—the people who are in charge. They tend on the whole to direct their ire at Democrats, because right now Democrats tend to be in positions of power. But for the most part their dissatisfaction is not ideological. They want someone who can make things better. And someone different is a start.
No matter what happens in tomorrow’s primaries—no matter who wins or who loses—this will be the message that voters are sending. Seriously. It won’t be about the Tea Party, or a progressive resurgence, or some new level of partisan polarization. It’ll be about plain old change.
although he underplays the ire at Democrats Newsweek’s Romano makes a point, if anyone read Newsweek they might even agree.
And it isn’t just today it has been throughout the cycle:
By preferring someone else to him, Pennsylvania Republicans had “forced out” Sen. Specter, Mr. Milbank said. If he loses to Mr. Sestak on Tuesday, will Mr. Milbank say Mr. Specter was “forced out” by Pennsylvania Democrats?
Will Ms. Vieira wonder out loud if a Specter defeat indicates the Democratic party “doesn’t have room for moderate voices?”
Will Mr. Matthews declare that Mr. Specter was the victim of a “Stalinesque purge?”
Meanwhile Brinkley sees the Dems playing the expectations game and talks about some strong reinforcements:
Lee is a “Gold Star Mother” whose son, a Navy SEAL, was killed in a 2006 firefight in Iraq. She praised Burns as “a candidate who understands and will uphold the Constitution and who recognizes the sacrifices our troops make.”
In the battle for Pennsylvania’s 12th District, Lee is one member of a veritable of army of volunteers fighting to elect a Republican to the seat held for more than three decades by the late Democrat John Murtha. For weeks, volunteers have stuffed envelopes, manned phone banks and walked precincts, and today they’ll make the final push to get their voters to the polls in a special election that many observers are calling a crucial test of whether the GOP can win back the House of Representatives in November.
I’ve met Debbie Lee twice, she is a powerful advocate. The question is will she be enough?
“Is there another regime in existence now that has a worse human rights record over the course of it’s existence?”
Buchanan says no:
Sam Stein Laughs, Woodward laughs, hints that the apology story isn’t true until Mika corrects him, other than Pat nobody will comment on China’s human rights record.
60+ million murdered and Stein & Woodward laugh, and sadly I’m not amazed.
What was the title of my post on the subject? “If you start from the idea they are all Marxists it makes perfect sense”.
Apparently you could say that about the panel today.
…even doing an expose on a front running democrat:
what is striking about Mr. Blumenthal’s record is the contrast between the many steps he took that allowed him to avoid Vietnam, and the misleading way he often speaks about that period of his life now, especially when he is speaking at veterans’ ceremonies or other patriotic events.
Sometimes his remarks have been plainly untrue, as in his speech to the group in Norwalk. At other times, he has used more ambiguous language, but the impression left on audiences can be similar.
Via this tweet by Joe Scarborough. Today Mika is talking about how he has done good work and has wanted this for years and how shocked she is about the story.
HotAir however is shocked that the NYT actually broke the story.
Credit where credit is due: No doubt it pained the NYT to drop a bomb on one of the few surefire Democratic winners this November, but they dropped it anyway.
Smitty is having none of it:
Why are we congratulating the NYT for doing the right thing? Should we as well give Blumenthal a medal for not firing a shot in a theater to which he apparently never deployed?
Smitty must still have scripture on his mind after our discussion yesterday and is remembering Luke 17:10b.
Bob Woodward is going on about what a good job and how relevant the NYT is. I think it really speaks volumes about the times that we expect so little from them that we cheer when they do their job.
Scarborough is talking about his prospects for recovering from this. They are going on about how he should handle it and how he could get though it. Sam Stein in particularly give him some defense but everyone is overlooking something important: His opponent’s real military record
Closing thought, how far has the times fallen for us to be so excited by them doing their job?
Update: Mika is really pained looking at these quotes as he knows and likes the guy and came out and said so. Her reaction and the reality of it has to be seen. She sang the praises of his record, but she is having none of the spin. It’s one of the reasons I like her, she is too honest to try to spin this any other way. Sam Stein however is spinning like mad comparing Cheney to Blumenthal. To my knowledge Cheney never misrepresented his record. On the advice of my wife I will not describe him with the adjective he deserves.
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