It’s also — take my word on this — not funny. Excising a lot of both-siderism from the Politico article: … “I’m stunned that a man like Bernie Sanders, who has clearly committed his life to making the country a better place, would get sucked into this very dangerous rhetoric, which perpetuates sexist and misogynistic …
Election 2016
Late Night Open Thread: In Non-GOP-Related Campaign News…
Hillary Clinton speaking before roughly 2100 at Atlanta rally pic.twitter.com/R3usUTHOyb — Sabrina Siddiqui (@SabrinaSiddiqui) October 30, 2015 Jesse Jackson, to standing ovation, at HRC event in Atlanta: "It's healing time. It's hope time. It's Hillary Clinton time." — Sabrina Siddiqui (@SabrinaSiddiqui) October 30, 2015 Rep. John Lewis in Atlanta with HRC: "Hillary Clinton is without …
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Friday Evening Open Thread: No Violin Tiny Enough
"Yeah, I am, I’m having a blast," – Jeb! on if he's having fun. https://t.co/46D8pNr7p0 — Andrew Kaczynski (@BuzzFeedAndrew) October 30, 2015 From the NYTimes: It is a portrait of deep frustration. Jeb Bush’s campaign has 10 paid staff members in Iowa, it has made 70,380 phone calls to state Republicans and it has collected …
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PowerPoint Presentation of the Darned
Earlier, valued commenter Germy Shoemangler alerted us to the location of a leaked PowerPoint deck from Jeb’s recent “Imma Tell My Mom, Dad and Big Brother You Were MEAN to Me” conference. There are 112 slides in the presentation. One hundred! And twelve! Until I saw that, I didn’t think it would be possible for …
Friday Morning Open Thread
So, the whiny-ass crybaby GOP candidates are having a meeting Sunday — to which RNC Chair Rinses Repeatus is pointedly not invited — because the debates are unfair and mean, you guys! Republican presidential campaigns are planning to gather in Washington, D.C., on Sunday evening to plot how to alter their party’s messy debate process …
So, What About the Media Villagers’ New Man-Crush, Rubio?
MARCO RUBIO: Looking good by contrast.™ — Bob Schooley (@Rschooley) October 29, 2015 Greg Sargent, in the Washington Post, on “Why Marco Rubio is so effective and dangerous“: Marco Rubio bashed the mainstream media with great gusto last night, eliciting roars of approval from GOP voters. Amusingly enough, the emerging media consensus appears to be …
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Open Thread: The Co-opting of Bernie Sanders Begins
BREAKING: NHDP Chair Pens Letter to Secretary of State Stating Sanders Is a Democrat https://t.co/GtwNSR1Ua9 #fitn #nhpolitics — Judy Reardon (@JudyReardon) October 29, 2015 Yes, my title is snark. Or, in the words of underrated author R.A. Lafferty: Tongue so firmly in cheek as to protrude from the vulgar bodily orifice. From the linked article: …
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