Former Republican Sen. Fred Thompson would be a tough opponent for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in a presidental election, a new poll shows.
According to the first Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey involving Thompson, the actor-turned-politician-turned-actor is neck-and-neck with Clinton, leading her by a margin of 44 percent to 43 percent.
Thompson, who has not yet officially announced his candidacy, doesn’t fare as well against Democratic Sen. Barack Obama. In the poll, Obama leads Thompson 49 percent to 37 percent.
I am subscriber to Time magazine. Time unveiled a new lay-out two weeks ago with a politically charged and highly slanted piece slamming the Republican party of Washington DC. I am so weary of the daily drivel promulgated by the drive-by media decrying the republican party. NBC and CBS have completely lost any objectivity and the New York Times has only extreme leftist political coverage.
Peggy Noonan, a speech writer for Ronald Reagan, pokes fun at Time for their obvious bias against the republican party:
I will never forget the stunning Oct. 7, 1962, Time magazine cover that showed Franklin D. Roosevelt weeping, a shining tear snaking its way down his pale and sunken cheek as he surveyed the destruction wrought by the New Frontier–tax cuts, a Republican running Treasury. What an indictment of the Democratic Party; what a dirge for the New Deal.
Oh wait, that didn’t happen.
Well, I do remember the great Time cover of JFK sobbing as he looked down on a cartoon of dope-smoking hippies holding a banner that said “McGovern.” It was the summer of ‘72, and the little bubble over JFK’s head said “Amnesty, Acid, Abortion . . . that’s not A-OK!”
Oh wait, that didn’t happen either.
Could I be correct that they only front-page weeping Republicans, and only laud conservatives when they’re dead?
Rosie O’Donnell is becoming more delusional by the day. Today on “The View” she actually defended Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. She falsely claimed that he has been held at Gitmo since 1993, and that the United States stripped him of his dignity. She is factually wrong on all counts.
I wish more people were watching The View every day to see Rosie’s radical, leftist agenda. Surely, America can not be falling for Rosie and Joy Behar’s daily drivel. Rosie and Joy do not seem to be in touch with reality at all.
The drive-by media clearly has no intention of covering the disarray of the democrats in congress. While they gave glowing coverage to the “First One Hundred Hours” of Nancy Pelosi and company in the house, absolutely none of their legislation has become law. Since those “first one hundred hours” Jack Murtha has managed to upstage the lack of any real legislative achievements. Guess what…idiotarian Chris Matthews and other liberals aren’t about to cover the failed democrat majority in the house and the senate.
There is a lot of speculation centering around former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson and his possible run for President. Like Vice-President Cheney, Mr. Thompson is a solid, grounded, non-pandering adult. He would make a great President. Here’s hoping Mr. Thompson gets in the race as soon as possible. Enjoy this clip from Senator Thompson’s appearance on Fox News Sunday this morning.
A Thompson/Guiliani ticket would be wonderful and a possible winner.
When perky Katie brought her smile and empty head from morning show couch to evening news anchor desk, I predicted that she would be a disaster.
6 months after making her debut, the extent of that disaster is clear. In the recently completed February “sweeps” period, Couric’s evening newscast finished dead last among the three major networks. Since September 4, Couric has hemorrhaged 10 percent of the average audience she inherited from Bob Schieffer.
The reasons for Katie’s spectacular and on-going failure are as numerous as they are obvious. Katie’s over-the-top bias affects every aspect of her show, and viewers, after giving it a try for a while, are simply changing the channel.
More significant is the utter lack of substance in Katie’s nightly appearances. Writing in today’s USA Today, no less a media observer than the paper’s founder, Al Neuharth, writes, “Six months later her lack of serious reporting experience severely handicaps her on hard news.”
25 million viewers a week still turn into nightly news programs, and they’re looking for news. They’re not looking for Katie’s soft focus features and peachy-keen interviews.
To put it bluntly, as the former Marine is wont to do, Rep. John Murtha is rankling some of his fellow Democrats who worry his outspokenness sometimes upstages even Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
The Pennsylvania Democrat has long charted his own course in dealings with the press and congressional leaders. But now after three decades in the House, he’s a national figure and his independent streak and sometimes fiery rhetoric are causing wider rifts for Democrats.
A day before the House voted on a resolution disapproving of the president’s troop “surge” plan last month, Murtha turned to a liberal Web site to preview his plans to block the president’s deployment of an additional 21,500 troops into Iraq. And his statements overshadowed the ongoing floor debate and fueled Republican charges that Democrats were laying a foundation to cut off war funding.
Murtha’s plan was “overexposed before it was exposed,” said Rep. Earl Pomeroy (D-N.D.), a member of the conservative Blue Dog Coalition. “It was grist for talk shows even before the members knew about it. It made it very difficult for that plan to get off the ground now.”
Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.), another Blue Dog, was similarly annoyed.
“I was not keen on him stepping on Nancy’s message,” Cooper said. “The headline was not what we do here (in Congress) but what he was doing there” on the Web site.
(CBS) Newcomer Jennifer Hudson is up for an Oscar for her performance as backup singer Effie White in the hit movie “Dreamgirls.” In the film, the overweight singer is pushed out of the group, out of the spotlight and out of her relationships despite her extraordinary singing voice. Jennifer Holliday, who originated the role on Broadway, says her own life echoes Effie’s.
“I am Effie,” she told Sunday Morning correspondent Russ Mitchell. “I am not the essence of Effie. I am Effie.”
Holliday has been struggling to emerge from Effie’s shadow ever since she won the role at just 21 years old. Eight times a week for three years, adoring, standing-room-only crowds would come to Broadway to hear her belt out the musical’s trademark song, “And I’m Telling You I’m Not Going” at the end of the first act. She won a Tony for the performance in 1982. But the crowds couldn’t see was that Holliday and Effie White were becoming one and the same. When the curtain fell and the cheering stopped, Holliday’s own insecurities shifted from Effie to herself.
Holliday gained 100 pounds in one year and became more and more isolated.
“[I] just would eat all the time,” she said. “It needed no explanation; it needed no apologies for not being social. And it wasn’t that I didn’t want so much to have a lot of friends; it’s just that I felt such an obligation to the people that were coming to hear me sing. I’d rather not be in a show where people say, ‘Well, I went there and I don’t know what all the talk is about.’ I don’t think there’s anyone that can say that.”
If you listen to the drive-by media, the Republican party is practically extinct. Bill Kristol has a different view in his article, “Why Republicans Are Smiling.”
I have lots of conservative friends and often speak to Republican-leaning groups. I have something surprising to report: they’re pretty cheerful. They’re well aware that President Bush’s numbers are terrible–and that Al Gore got an Academy Award. Yet my fellow conservatives and Republicans are pretty upbeat. After a rough 2006, conservative magazines are seeing an uptick in subscription renewals, right-wing websites are getting more hits, and Republican and conservative groups here at Harvard (yes, Harvard!) seem invigorated. What’s going on? Here are five reasons conservatives and Republicans might have some cause for their cheer.
1. The surge. Nothing was more demoralizing last year to supporters of the war than the sense that Bush was refusing to alter course out of misguided loyalty to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and General George Casey. The ouster of Rumsfeld and Casey and the announcement of a new strategy backed up by additional troops and a new commander, General David Petraeus, gave hope to those who still think success is possible in Iraq–which, polls show, is still a healthy majority of Republicans. (more…)
Bringing Rosie O’Donnell to “The View” has to be the cheapest stunt to save a show in the history of daytime television.
Here’s Rosie’s quote of the week: “Don’t you believe democracy demands dissent? Don’t you believe that like the Patriot Act has robbed us of us our civil liberties in this country, that fear has taken over from faith in democracy, in the Constitution?”
With the non-stop liberal, unhinged speech taking place on television and on the internet, how has fear replaced faith (of all words) in our constitution? Wow! Rosie is truly delusional.
Rosie has brought a variation on a theme started by Jerry Springer in the 1990’s: allow the ridiculous to keep you in the headlines. Rosie and Joy Behar make outlandish political statements every day. Rosie and Joy are two middle-aged women screaming for attention by throwing a moonbat temper tantrum nearly every day.
March 2, 2007 — AN on-air dig from co-host Rosie O’Donnell during an episode of “The View” this week left co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck in tears after the taping, sources told Page Six. “Elisabeth just can’t take it any more,” the insider said of her tensions with O’Donnell, who constantly slams her conservative stance. Things got especially ugly on Wednesday. Hasselbeck said she supported the government’s access to citizens’ phone conversations. Liberal O’Donnell responded, “Elisabeth, you are very young and you are very wrong.” Hasselbeck accused Rosie of ageism and broke down later off-camera. By yesterday afternoon, Rosie had blogged: “i said some of elisabeth’s comments were ignorant which was ignorant itself.” This wasn’t the first time the women have clashed on camera, but sources told us the insult was the last straw for Hasselbeck. “Her days there are numbered. She is looking to leave,” said the spy, who hinted that Hasselbeck was shopping for a permanent spot at E! O’Donnell’s rep, Cindi Berger, said, “They get along great. They have differences of opinion, but that’s what makes ‘The View’ so great and newsworthy.” Reps for “The View” did not return numerous calls.
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Ronald Reagan
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
