Tim Pawlenty: Bachmann’s ‘Record Of Accomplishment In Congress Is Non-Existent’ (Mediaite/Meet the Press)

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by Matt Schneider
July 10th, 2011

Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty is eager to add some excitement back to his campaign, and this morning on Meet the Press he may have found just the ticket: going on the attack. In Pawlenty’s crosshairs was fellow presidential candidate Michele Bachmann who Pawlenty dismissed as having no successes in Congress that would make her more worthy than him of being elected President.

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(Thought from the Peanut Gallery: If Pawlenty wants to be really brave, why not say stuff like this on Fox News? Probably for the same reason he wouldn't say "Obamneycare" in front of Mitt Romney.)



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A new era of accusation and innuendo (Politico)

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By JONATHAN MARTIN & JOHN F. HARRIS
4/28/11

President Barack Obama’s appearance Wednesday in the White House briefing room to present a documented rebuttal of suspicions that he was not really born on U.S. soil was more than just a surprise. It was a decisive new turn in the centuries-long American history of political accusation and innuendo.

By directly and coolly engaging a debate with his most fevered critics, Obama offered the most unmistakable validation ever to the idea that we are living in an era of public life with no referee—and no common understandings between fair and unfair, between relevant and trivial, or even between facts and fantasy.

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Helen Thomas, Karl Rove, Gaza and Jewish Republicans (PajamasMedia)

By Roger L. Simon

How’s that for a collection of  keywords for Google search?  Well, it was (sort of) earned by me last night from the interviews I conducted for PJTV at the annual Republican Jewish Coalition summer bash, this year at the Beverly Hilton.

Most notable was Karl Rove, the RJC’s keynote speaker of the evening, who is apparently a reader (once in a moon anyway) of this blog.  I did something of a formal interview (up soon on PJTV) with Bush 43’s former senior adviser turned author, commentator, etc., etc., on a number of issues pertinent to the occasion, one of which has already become dated. Helen Thomas has retired or — as Drudge wittily put it — been “sent to Poland.”

Shall we sing it all together now?  “Ding, dong, the witch is dead… Which old witch… the wicked witch…”  And on and on.  (It’s worth adding, to be our version of politically correct, that Poland is far from the worst place anyone could be sent these days. How about Turkey?)

But back to Rove.  Other than Thomas, I talked with him about two key areas — the Gaza Flotilla situation and  the direction of the American Jewish vote.

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Did Sarah Palin Get a Boob Job? A Photographic Investigation (Gawker)

 

So much has changed since Sarah Palin was governor. She raised a baby; her baby raised a baby; she made millions of dollars on a book. And at the Belmont Stakes this weekend, something else looked a little, um, new.

"Sarah Palin sure looks like she was trotting out some new work at the horse races," reports Wonkette, our favorite source for political boobs and bloggers. And in the Reuters photo offered for comparison, the great buoys of Alaska appear more bountiful than usual. However, detailed analysis reveals that, from some angles at the Belmont, the breasts didn't look quite so huge...

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Sarah Palin’s ‘nonsensical’ plea for more drilling (TrueSlant)

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By Sara Libby
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June 2, 2010

Hi, kettle? It’s me, Sarah Palin. Umm, you’re black.

It might as well have been her latest Facebook message. Instead, Sarah Palin lashed out at environmentalists, repeatedly calling them “nonsensical” for opposing oil drilling following the worst oil spill in our nation’s history that was a direct result of … oil drilling. WHO’S nonsensical, now?
She writes:

Radical environmentalists: you are damaging the planet with your efforts to lock up safer drilling areas. There’s nothing clean and green about your misguided, nonsensical radicalism, and Americans are on to you as we question your true motives.

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Jake Tapper Launches Twitter Campaign to Get Sarah Palin as Guest on This Week (Mediaite)

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by Tommy Christopher
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June 1st, 2010

















On his uber-popular Twitter feed this morning, ABC News’ Jake Tapper launched a campaign to entice former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to “broaden her reach” by appearing on This Week. There’s no question that ABC’s Sunday morning talk show would be the perfect forum for Palin to reach beyond her loyal base, but will she do it, and will Fox News let her do it?
I asked Jake why he has chosen Twitter as the vehicle to entice Palin onto his show: (via email)

“We’ve been trying for sometime now to have Gov. Palin as a guest on This Week, so far to no avail. Knowing how connected she is to the internet and how responsive she is to her supporters, I thought appealing to her on twitter might work. We’ll provide a fair forum for her to share her thoughts on politics and policy; I hope she comes on.”

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