Politico’s Arresting, COMPLETELY UNSUPPORTED, claim about African-American voters.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  May 10th at 12:00 PM  | 

(Via Hot Air) Specifically, North Carolinian voters on Tuesday’s Amendment One vote banning same-sex marriage: African-Americans voted 2-1 in favor of the North Carolina amendment banning gay marriage Tuesday, but the White House is betting that black voters there and beyond will stick with the president, despite broad resistance to legalization. …and that’s it. There’s no backup for that at all in the article. The | Read More »

Politico: excusing in 2012 their lack of foresight about 2010?

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  April 28th at 10:30 PM  | 

I need to push back on this cover-their-rear statement by Politico on the ‘surprise’ flipping of the House of Representatives in 2010. [House Speaker John] Boehner doesn’t play political prognosticator often. But when he does, those close to him say, there’s usually a calculated reason. In April 2010 — almost two years ago exactly — the then-House minority leader said in a radio interview that | Read More »

Politico notices how bad Obamacare’s been.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  March 17th at 08:00 PM  | 

(H/T: Instapundit) So, Politico publishes this story called “Four hard truths of health care reform“ – which is Politico’s way of saying ‘Obamacare has been an unmitigated disaster, but we’re going to try to spin it as well as we can anyway’ – and there’s two reasons why the tone of said story is amazing in its effrontery. The first reason is the way that | Read More »

Gov. Perry invites Politico to either give the source…

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  January 2nd at 11:42 AM  | 

…that Politico used to back up its repeating of anonymous internal sniping from Perry’s campaign; or else to kindly shut up: Partial transcript at the link. One of the nice things about being a Perry supporter is that his contempt for the DC establishment – which Politico most assuredly is a member of at this point – is never particularly in doubt. I’m also reasonably | Read More »

Time for Herman Cain to take a three-day weekend.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  November 3rd at 08:52 PM  | 

Background: Cain’s Chief of Staff Mark Block went on the air today to admit, yeah, it really couldn’t have been former Cain staffer Curt Anderson who leaked the original Cain sexual harassment story to Politico, given that Anderson’s denied it in Politico – and is now giving permission to every reporter that Anderson’s ever talked to about Cain ever to reveal the details of those | Read More »

This was not a good phone interview for Team Cain.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  October 31st at 09:37 AM  | 

Via @ewerickson… actually, it’s going around and around and around, but I have to H/T somebody. Anyway, for those without video, it’s a phone interview where Geraldo Freaking Rivera scores points off of Herman Cain spokesman JD Gordon over yesterday’s allegations of past sexual harassment charges made against the candidate. Gordon was unprepared, and (at best) uninformed about the facts about the case; he should | Read More »

Obama to farmer: ‘Call the USDA.’

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  August 19th at 08:30 PM  | 

So, Wednesday – while campaigning in Illinois, although I understand that we’re supposed to pretend that Obama isn’t actually campaigning, for some bizarre reason – the President of the United States faced with a technical question (the effects of new EPA’s soil and dust regulations on Illinois farmers) by a technical expert (an Illinois farmer). Despite the fact that the technical question is in fact | Read More »

Politico: Conservatives are pro-cancer!

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  April 30th at 08:40 PM  | 

Either that, or Politico hires some pretty sloppy writers.  Personally, I’m voting for the latter. The background: Politico decided to write an article that attempts to answer the eternal question, For just how long will George Soros keep throwing money down the rathole which is the Activist Left*? It’s an interesting question in its own right – the article suggests that Soros is getting pretty | Read More »

Politico Fails to Fact-check Carnahan’s Coffin Con. [UPDATED]

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  March 25th at 10:45 AM  | 

[UPDATE: via Glenn Reynolds I see that Politico has updated the story, and that it was even worse before I noticed it.  I'm making corrections.] Let us start by watching what happened SUNDAY. This is via Gateway Pundit – who, by the way, was there and who was a spokesman: Got it? Low-key prayer vigil, coffin brought in for staged funeral of Constitution [future victims | Read More »

Politico compares Obama to Bush.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  November 5th at 02:08 PM  | 

So, Axelrod’s trying his best to convince people that the fact that independent voters in two states won by Obama broke heavily for the Republican gubernatorial candidates is much less important than a three-point win in a district where conservatives made it clear that they’d rather lose than not be listened to by GOP party leadership.  His best is actually not all that great, given | Read More »

Politico offers the unkindest cut of all towards POTUS.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  September 15th at 07:27 AM  | 

They analyze the President’s performance to date, and conclude that his new life goal should be… mediocrity. What all this means is, barring some unforeseeable world event, Obama’s will probably not be a historic presidency. He will have some successes and a lot of failures. His opposition won’t roll over, and his party will refuse to go along with his more costly, and thus risky, | Read More »

The most interesting thing about this J-List thing…

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  March 17th at 10:08 AM  | 

…as mentioned by Brother Erick Erickson here, about this article here, is that nowhere does the Politico state that they got their information about this particular echo chamber from their own J-List members. The only on-the-record quote from a named Politico J-Lister is, in fact, rather innocuous. Which suggests that either: Politico doesn’t want its own members being accused of dishing out some of the | Read More »