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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (26705)	4/25/2008 6:29:38 PM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224704

I loved what Laura Ingraham said about Moyers. She said during that interview Moyers looked like a bobble head doll he was nodding so much...lol...what a pinhead.

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (26705)	4/25/2008 7:01:23 PM
From: sandintoes	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 224704

NC GOP not caving in: How Republicans should act; McCain attacks NC GOP as “out of touch with reality” By Michelle Malkin • April 25, 2008 Despite what you may have read or heard, the North Carolina GOP is not pulling its anti-Jeremiah Wright ad. The conservatives there are not caving in to John McCain’s demands. Or the RNC’s. Or Barack Obama’s. Or Howard Dean’s. NC GOP officials still plan to run the ad. State GOP chairwoman Linda Daves says there’s nothing McCain could say to change her mind: “I’m going to run the ad.” They are not caving in to the self-appointed civility brigade in either party who have deemed in beyond the bounds to call attention to Jeremiah Wright’s bile, question Obama’s judgment about his longtime spiritual mentor, and challenge those who support him. NC blogger Katy Benningfield reprints an apology and clarification from state Rep. David Lewis, North Carolina National Committeeman for the RNC, which she received from him yesterday: Katy, I made a mistake this morning in responding to a concerned Republican. In fact, I responded before I even saw the ad. I had seen some news coverage of the ad on WRAL but hadn’t seen the whole thing. I contacted Chris McClure at State Party Headquarters and misunderstood what he told me about the ad. I did not, as I should have, check with Chairman Daves. I tried too quickly to respond to an email without looking into all the facts. Chairman Daves has made me aware that the Party will continue running the ad. I am deeply sorry to have put out incorrect information. The truth is I have been working on a fund raising event with Vice President Cheney and have not been actively involved with this particular media effort. I want to do a good job in responding quickly to emails and phone calls and sometimes I am a little too quick. This miscommunication is absolutely my fault and was not intentional. I sincerely apologize to everyone who has been inconvenienced by my foul up and am going to try to put out a press release later today to clarify my mistake and that I was not authorized to speak for the Party. Thanks. Sounds like the RNC needs people on board who are less panicky, less sloppy, and paying more attention to their own backyard. * NC GOP chairwoman Linda Daves takes on NPR’s Melissa Block. Daves, 1. NPR, 0. Responding to Block’s question about whether the ad is “offensive,” Daves says plainly: “I don’t know why they’re calling it offensive. I call it truthful.” There’s nothing that McCain could tell you to change your mind about the ad? Daves: “That is correct. I’m going to run the ad.” * Once again, here’s the ad that the hapless Lewis distanced himself from before even watching it: *** Update 9:13am Eastern. McCain attacks the NC GOP as “out of touch with reality.” Has he ever attacked Jeremiah Wright this way? No. Never. That is the McCain way. Who is out of touch with reality? Pot meet kettle. Republican U.S. presidential candidate John McCain accused North Carolina’s Republican Party of being “out of touch with reality” over its refusal to pull an advertisement criticizing Democrat Barack Obama. In an NBC interview aired on Friday, the Arizona senator said he has done all he can to persuade the state party to cancel the television ad that criticizes Obama as “too extreme” because of controversial remarks made by his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. “They’re not listening to me because they’re out of touch with reality and the Republican Party. We are the party of Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan and this kind of campaigning is unacceptable,” McCain told NBC’s “Today” Show. “I’ve done everything that I can to repudiate and to see that this kind of campaigning does not continue,” he added. Asked if the state party’s unwillingness to heed his call raised questions about his leadership, McCain replied: “I don’t know exactly how to respond to that.” As I pointed out last week, Obama isn’t the only snob in the race. michellemalkin.com

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (26705)	4/25/2008 8:26:51 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224704

The liberals have gone stark raging mad: Olbermann Loves Obama Enough to Advocate Murder on His Behalf? UPDATED--Olby Reponds and More about the (Male) BEEP. BEEP. BEEP. That's the sound of me getting more popcorn. Yesterday (?) on Olby's show, he talked with Howard Fineman about the need for "threats of retribution" to get Clinton to drop out of the race. He sort of suggests that a superdelegate "takes her into a room, and only he comes out." Now, some on the Left (Obama supporters) say he was just joking and that he didn't mean that someone should kill her. Others on the Left (Clinton supporters and feminists) are absolutely losing their shit: What Keith Olbermann said yesterday is not symbolic. He flatly said a (male) Democratic super delegate should take Hillary Clinton into a room, and only the man should emerge. Keith Olbermann is openly advocating the murder of Hillary Clinton. [...] I have myself read comments advocating rape and murder. I have read main posts saying she was inciting violent acts against her, or saying they could "understand" the position of those who wished violent harm to befall her, her husband and her daughter. The descriptions of what Obama should do to Hillary verge on the pornographic. Not a day goes by that some prominent voice on the left or in the MSM does not demand her submission, subordination and public humiliation. And now a major MSM celebrity and talking head, not some anonymous commenter on some obscure blog, has openly and unapologetically advocated that Hillary Clinton be marched into a dark room and murdered. I think it's pretty clear that Olby wasn't actually asking someone to murder her, but I'll happily watch while Democrats tear themselves apart arguing the question. In February, Clinton dramatically demanded an apology from an MSNBC reporter for saying that the campaign had "pimped out" Chelsea to shill for her mother. I wonder if Clinton will demand a similar apology from Olbermann. The video is tucked below the fold. You decide. UPDATED: That was fast. Drew just 'mailed to tell me that Olbermann has an answer: Olbermann responds to TVNewser: "It is a metaphor. I apologize: the generic 'he' gender could imply something untoward. It should've been 'only the other comes out — from a political point of view.'" I still don't get it. The murder or beat-down threat isn't any better if a woman is doing the murder, is it? Or do Leftists think that only a (male) superdelegate is a reasonable suspect for violence? Because, clearly, if he'd said and "only she--the superdelegate--comes out" then we'd just have assumed that they had a happy little quilting bee and Clinton conceded because her running stitch just wasn't as fine. The reason I ask is because Rachel Sklar at HuffPost used the same parenthetical reference to men when she was writing about this: There really seems to be only one interpretation here, and the only point of debate is on whether it's okay or not. I'm going to cut that one short: It's not. To the fellow (male) journo I wrote to about this yesterday, who waved it off as just some colorful film-noir imagery, I say: can you IMAGINE if someone had said that about Obama? Are we about to start listing our identity groups every time we're mentioned? Yes, I know that Democrats perceive the world by slotting individuals into well-defined identity categories, but this is a new step. This is Gabe (male) signing off... The full segment is hosted at MSNBC (for excruciating context, if you must). posted by Gabriel Malor ace.mu.nu