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Monday, August 20, 2012
Saturday, June 02, 2012
John Sununu Takes Down Obamabot Soledad O’Brien Over Using Donald Trump 'Birtherism' Card: ‘Why Is CNN So Fixated On This?’
Mediaite.com:
Following a contentious opening segment on CNN’s Starting Point on Wednesday, former New Hampshire Governor and Romney surrogate John Sununu clashed with Soledad O’Brien over CNN’s Donald Trump coverage.RELATED: O’Reilly And Panel Clash Over Legitimacy Of Soledad O’Brien Asking About The ‘Stupid Birth Certificate’
“Why the birther thing?” O’Brien questioned Sununu. “I don’t know,” Sununu shot back. “Why is CNN so fixated on this? Why don’t we talk about the jobs issue in this country?”
“Sure and we’ll get to that in a moment but let’s start with this,” O’Brien pressed.
“It’s CNN that wants to bring it up. I don’t want to bring it up. Mitt Romney made it clear that he believes that President Obama was born in the U.S. You had Donald Trump on last night. And now you are asking the question this morning. It’s CNN’s fixation,” Sununu responded sharply.
“You don’t think it’s a valid question of someone posing as a supporter/surrogate?” O’Brien countered.
“He’s a high level big funder. He’s talking about millions of dollars he’s thinking of donating. You don’t think it’s a big deal that person talks about the fact that the President of the United States is not a citizen of the country?”
“I think it’s equivalent an issue as Bill Maher, who gave a million dollars to President Obama talking with such a foul mouth about women,” Sununu explained. “But you can’t pick your supporters in this country.
The fact is that this country has a jobs problem and supporters of the President like CNN keep wanting to talk about other issues.”
O’Brien doggedly stuck to peppering Governor Sununu with questions relating to birtherism.
“Come on, let’s talk jobs,” Sununu said.
“Is that because you don’t want to talk about the fact that a major fund-raiser is a birther?” O’Brien asked.
“It’s not an issue,” Sununu argued. “There is nobody in the Romney campaign that believes that the president was not born in the United States.”
“So then how come someone doesn’t say, Donald Trump is wrong?” O’Brien pressed.
“Donald Trump is wrong,” Sununu acknowledged. “The President was born in the United States.”
“That may be the first time,” O’Brien grinned.
“No it isn’t, ma’am,” Sununu snapped. “It’s just because you don’t read enough.”
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Mitt Romney Learns From John McCain, Not Playing The Hypocritical Liberal Repudiation Game
Of course if the Left was really concerned about Mitt Romney's association with Donald Trump they'd call on Barack Obama to give back that $1M donation he got from vile, disgusting, misogynist Bill Maher some time back. But not only are they not concerned about Romney's best interests, they also have no interest in talking about the issues that really matter to most Americans and Mitt Romney knows it:
Mitt Romney's refusal to repudiate Donald Trump sends a signal, both to Democrats and the voting public: With the nation's future at stake in this November's election, Romney will not accommodate calls that he disown supporters who make ill-considered, unpopular, or sometimes outrageous statements on matters not fundamental to the campaign.RELATED: Romney clinches GOP nomination with Texas win
Romney aides believe that cooperating with Democrats and media figures who are demanding a Trump disavowal would most certainly lead to more calls for more disavowals of other figures in the future -- leaving Romney spending as much time apologizing for his supporters as campaigning for president. Team Romney views it as a silly and one-sided game designed to distract voters from the central issue of the race, which they remain convinced will be President Obama's handling of the economy.
By one-sided, they mean not only that Obama has not disavowed SuperPAC contributor Bill Maher for a number of Maher's statements that were particularly insulting to Republican women. They also mean the press, with, as Team Romney sees it, questionable associations of its own. Has David Gregory, moderator of NBC's "Meet the Press," repudiated his colleague Al Sharpton, the MSNBC host with a decades-long record of incendiary statements and actions? And has, say, the New York Times columnist Gail Collins repudiated her colleague Charles Blow, who once wrote to Romney, "Stick that in your magic underwear"? Romney, his team believes, understands that the calls for him to repudiate Trump over the issue of birtherism -- and future calls to repudiate this or that supporter next week or next month over some other issue -- are at the core all about politics.
Another reason Romney is wary of such concessions is that John McCain tried them, and they didn't do him any good. For example, in February 2008, a local Ohio radio host, Bill Cunningham, introduced McCain at a rally in Cincinnati. In the introduction, Cunningham referred to Obama three times by his full name, which at the time some Republicans feared would open them up to unspecified accusations of intolerance. "At one point, the media will quit taking sides in this thing," Cunningham said, "and start covering Barack Hussein Obama." McCain immediately apologized and disavowed Cunningham's remarks. Eleven months later, of course, Obama took the oath of office, beginning, "I, Barack Hussein Obama…" In retrospect, the Cunningham episode looked ridiculous. But at the time, it contributed to an image of McCain in retreat.
So the bottom line is, Romney is determined to stay away from anything that distracts him from the main issue of the campaign. In the end, the thinking goes, the heart of the campaign will always be the economy and Barack Obama's stewardship of it. Repudiating, or not repudiating, Donald Trump won't change that.
Monday, December 26, 2011
Politiks As Usual: In The News 12/26/11
Mitt Romney Still Holds Leads In New Hampshire
Obamacare Abominations
Don't Abandon Conservative Message, Sell It Better
Obama Succeeds Abroad When He Follows Bush, Clinton
HuffPost 'Reimagines' Marriage - To Include Sexbots
Lefty Media Blame Tebow for Broncos' Inaction on Anti-Bullying Campaign
America the Generous? Not According to the Media
Trump, Ego, And The Presidency
Joe Biden Calls Iraqi Leaders After Wave Of Violence
The Ron Paul Newsletter Controversy Is A Textbook Liberal Smear Campaign
Gender Identity, Assange And The Case Against Bradley Manning
Saturday, December 10, 2011
Kirsten Powers: How Did Trump Become A ‘Kingmaker’ In The Republican Party?
Mediaite.com:
In case you’ve been living under a rock or willfully avoiding the news like a virus, you know that Donald Trump is going to host a Republican presidential debate on December 27th between Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich. The head of the Republican party publicly expressed concerns about the debate, especially given the possibility Trump will decide to run as an independent.RELATED: Red Eye Panel: With Debate, Trump ‘Threw His Own Birthday Party And Nobody Showed Up’
Realistically speaking, some candidates would naturally make the decision to avoid the Trump debate for that very reason, but Trump seems to think the other candidates are afraid of him, and this was the topic of discussion on tonight’s Hannity. Sean Hannity discussed the Donald’s influence in the Republican party with Democratic strategist Kirsten Powers and Republican strategist Kevin Madden.
Kirsten Powers: How Did Trump Become A ‘Kingmaker’ In The Republican Party?
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In case you’ve been living under a rock or willfully avoiding the news like a virus, you know that Donald Trump is going to host a Republican presidential debate on December 27th between Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich. The head of the Republican party publicly expressed concerns about the debate, especially given the possibility Trump will decide to run as an independent.
Realistically speaking, some candidates would naturally make the decision to avoid the Trump debate for that very reason, but Trump seems to think the other candidates are afraid of him, and this was the topic of discussion on tonight’s Hannity. Sean Hannity discussed the Donald’s influence in the Republican party with Democratic strategist Kirsten Powers and Republican strategist Kevin Madden.
RELATED: Andrew Breitbart: Why Would GOP Candidates Go On MSNBC, But Turn Down Trump?
Hannity wondered why any candidate polling poorly would avoid an invitation to such a high-profile event, given that any airtime is good exposure for these candidates. (Long-shot candidate Buddy Roemer has, in fact, publicly asked Trump to participate in the debate.) Powers found it hard to just accept that Trump suddenly became the Jeff Probst of the Republican party.
“I don’t understand how Donald Trump suddenly became this kingmaker in the Republican party. I’m a little puzzled by it, and I… ’cause it makes total sense to me that Republicans are saying no to him. And even this idea that people now go up to see Donald Trump to kiss his ring, I just… I don’t know, it’s just puzzling.”
Hannity countered that when Trump briefly “entered” the race, he was polling well. Yes, and Breaking Dawn: Part One broke box office records, it’s still a crappy Twilight movie. What other strong metric does Trump have going for him, according to Hannity? He’s a harsh Obama critic. Powers didn’t buy this explanation, pointing out the Obama administration has plenty of critics who aren’t wealthy megalomaniacs.
Madden, meanwhile, argued that one of the problems with having Trump host a debate would be that the Donald would gravitate towards the center of attention, as is his modus operandi. He expressed concerns that such a distraction would take away from the candidates’ efforts in early primary states. Madden also made the obvious observation that Trump is most likely not going to run for president as an independent, but says it as often as possible in order to garner the media’s attention.
Wednesday, December 07, 2011
Neil Cavuto Asks Donald Trump ‘If All This Is Just To Get Publicity For Your Book’
Maybe the GOP really doesn't want to win the presidency next year, because anyone who would associate with, much less appear on some stupid debate hosted by the likes of a famewhore like Donald Trump is just begging to lose. That says you Next Gingrich:
This afternoon on Fox News, Neil Cavuto not “disparagingly, just realistically” asked Donald Trump if his upcoming gig hosting a GOP presidential debate for Newsmax if really all little more than an attempt to garner publicity for his new book.RELATED: Huntsman: Trump's Involvement 'Dumbs Down' GOP Primary Race
“No, I don’t think at all,” said Trump. “I mean, you know, people talk. Look, I’ve had the number one selling business book. Here we are on a great business show, a fantastic business show that I watch all the time, but as you know, The Art of the Deal was the number one selling business book of all time. I’ve had twelve bestsellers. This is, frankly, a book that I’m very proud of. It’s actually a book I’ve probably worked the hardest on.”
Trump then admitted that all the attention on him right now “doesn’t hurt” his book sales.
Cavuto then began to form a question about the dark times Trump faced coming out of bankruptcy, when Trump interrupted to say that he’s never gone bankrupt. “On the brink, let’s say,” Cavuto ventured. “Neil, I never went bankrupt,” Trump continued. “People say I went bankrupt, but I don’t understand.”
Cavuto noticed that he’d seemed to have “opened up a wound here,” and gave Trump a change to explain what, exactly, had happened to his business in the early 90s.
“Nothing happened,” Trump replied. “I was in trouble like almost everybody else, and I worked out my difficulties. I have some great banks that are with me to this day; they love Trump.”
“I wonder whether candidates who suck up to you fear you as much as they suck up to you,” said a characteristically hesitant Cavuto. “I don’t think they should fear me at all,” Trump replied.
He added, once again, that he’d be open to running if the Republicans don’t pick the “right” candidate. Also, he has a successful show and did well in the polls before he left. Just so you know.
Monday, December 05, 2011
Politiks As Usual: In The News 12/5/11
Ron Paul Turns Down Donald Trump’s Debate Invitation
Obama's Job-Killing Global-Warming Agenda Continues Under the Radar
Payroll Tax "Cut" Just Another Welfare State Scam
Baptism by Fire: Executive Summary
Obama's Cloud-Based Transparency
Anderson Cooper Smacks Down Ed Schultz for Saying 'I'm Kicking His A--'
Trump Warns of Obama Tipping Point that May Destroy America
America's Obsession With Missing White Women
Death at Texas 'Occupy' Camp Suspected to be Drug-Related
Is “Tebowing” An Attack on Christianity?
Monday, May 16, 2011
Donald Trump Is Not Running For President
I don't blame the news media for covering trump so much and thinking he would run. After all Trump is pretty popular, was leading in a few polls and is enough of a circus act that would warrant ratings (which essentially is what the business is all about), but I think to the few people left in this country who take their votes seriously, this news comes as a bit of a relief:
Real estate mogul and television celebrity Donald Trump, who generated a media publicity blitz by saying he might run for president in 2012, announced Monday that he will instead remain a businessman.
"After considerable deliberation and reflection, I have decided not to pursue the office of the presidency," Trump said in a statement.
With his typical bravado, Trump maintained that he would have won the Republican primary and the general election, but recognized that "running for public office cannot be done half-heartedly."
"Ultimately, however, business is my greatest passion and I am not ready to leave the private sector," Trump said in the statement.
Trump's flirtation with running for the Republican nomination included his demand that President Barack Obama make public his full birth certificate from Hawaii.
Monday, May 09, 2011
Politiks As Usual: In The News 5/9/11
Obama: Bin Laden Raid Was 'A 55/45 Situation'
Majority Agree With Obama Decision On bin Laden Photos
The Fog Of Fog
Democrats Announce New Assault On Small Business
J. Crew Goes Gay Crew
Anti-War Left Presses Obama To Bring Home The Troops
The bin Laden Effect On GOP
Ed Schultz Demands Nashville 'Rednecks' Write A Pro-Obama Song On Osama
Michael Moore: You 'Hate Being An American' If You Wanted Bin Laden Killed Without A Trial
Liberal Group Targets Trump's 'Celebrity Apprentice'
Malcolm X Bio: Are We Missing The Point?
Sunday, May 01, 2011
Friday, April 29, 2011
Donald Trump Was A Draft Dodger
Not that I ever believed that he was running for Prez, but this, and not Obama finally releasing his birth certificate yesterday, should be the final nail in the coffin:
This week, Trump discussed why he did not fight in the Vietnam War with local Fox affiliate WNYW:
I actually got lucky because I had a very high draft number. I’ll never forget, that was an amazing period of time in my life.
I was going to the Wharton School of Finance, and I was watching as they did the draft numbers and I got a very, very high number and those numbers never got up to.
What Trump didn’t mention, however, was that he actively avoided serving. According to The Smoking Gun, the business mogul’s Selective Service records reveal that by the time his draft number – 356 – was drawn during the December 1, 1969 draft lottery, Trump had received four student deferments and one medical deferment. These can be seen in a document on file with the National Archives and Records Administration.
The Smoking Gun explains:
Trump obtained his first two Class 2-S student deferments in June 1964 and December 1965, when he was student at Fordham University in the Bronx. He was briefly reclassified as 1-A–or “available for military service”–in late-November 1966, but that classification was switched back to 2-S three weeks later.
Another 2-S deferment is dated January 16, 1968, just months before his graduation from UPenn (to which he transferred following his sophomore year at Fordham).
Following his UPenn graduation, Trump–no longer qualified for a 2-S deferment–was again briefly classified as available for service on July 9. However, three months later, on October 15, his classification was switched to 1-Y, which was given to men deemed qualified for military service “only in time of national emergency.”
The 1-Y classification came a month after Trump underwent an “Armed Forces Physical Examination,” according to Selective Service records, which note the results of the exam as “DISQ.” While the military records do not further detail why Trump was granted the 1-Y deferment, a 1992 biography of the businessman by journalist Wayne Barrett reported that Trump received a medical deferment following the September 17, 1968 exam.
Now. Who wants to participate in a The Last Word drinking game organized around what Lawrence O’Donnell might have to say about this? One shot for each look of unbridled glee, two shots for each mention of NBC, and an exploded liver every time he mentions that it’s not like Trump is going to run anyway.
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Obama Finally Releases "Long Form" Birth Certificate
Surprised he'd do this considering how much his loon base wanted to keep the "Birther" stuff out there to continue distracting Americans from 3 wars, rising gas prices, high unemployment and the whole lot of real issues that represent Barry's utter fail of a Presidency:
The White House has released President Obama's long-form birth certificate, saying the document is "proof positive" the president was born in Hawaii.
The release marked an unexpected turn in the long-simmering, though widely discredited, controversy over Obama's origin. Obama's advisers have for the better part of three years dismissed questions about the president's birth, directing skeptics to the short-term document released during the 2008 campaign. But as the issue gained more attention at the state level and particularly in the 2012 presidential race, Obama said Wednesday that it was starting to distract attention from pressing challenges like the budget.
The president, who discussed the release at the White House without taking questions, said he had been "puzzled" by the enduring shelf life of the issue and acknowledged the announcement may not put the so-called birther controversy to rest. But he told the public and the media that it's time to "get serious."
"We do not have time for this kind of silliness," Obama said. "We've got better stuff to do. I've got better stuff to do. We've got big problems to solve."
He said the country will not solve those problems if people are "distracted by sideshows and carnival barkers."
Monday, April 25, 2011
Monday, April 18, 2011
Politiks As Usual: In The News 4/18/11
Donald Trump Takes On Mitt Romney
Half Of Households Pay No Income Tax
FEC Investigators Digging Into Obama's 2008 Campaign
Obama: Republicans Will Make U.S. 'Third World' Nation
The New Health Law: Bad For Doctors, Awful For Patients
MSNBC's UnCivil War On The Right
Gallup: 62 Percent Of Americans Support 2011 Budget Deal
Pro-lifer: Blacks 'Exterminating' Themselves
Helen Thomas To Offer Keynote Speech Protesting Netanyahu, Accept Code Pink Award
Keith Olbermann Dishonestly Explains His S.E. Cupp Planned Parenthood Tweet
Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. Blames iPad For American Unemployment
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Donald Trump At The Top Of New Republican Poll
Who knows if he's serious about running for President or not, one's thing's for sure: all the talk about Trump has made the world of politics a lot more interesting:
Donald Trump is now tied with Mike Huckabee for first place when Republicans are asked who they support for the GOP presidential nomination in 2012, according to a new national poll.
But while a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Tuesday indicates that the real estate mogul and reality TV star has nearly doubled his support since mid-March, it doesn't mean he has smooth sailing ahead.
"More than four in ten Republicans say they would not like to see Trump toss his hat in the ring," says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland.
Nineteen percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents questioned in the poll say that as of now, they'd be most likely to support Trump for next year's GOP presidential nomination. Trump says he'll decide by June whether he runs for the White House. An equal amount say they'd back Huckabee. The former Arkansas governor and 2008 Republican presidential candidate says he'll decide by later this year if he'll make another bid for the White House.
Monday, April 11, 2011
Politiks As Usual: In The News 4/11/11
Donald Trump Pushes For Obama's Birth Certificate
Gaddafi Accepts Peace Plan But Rebels Say He Must Go
GOP, Obama Make 'Historic' Dead To Avoid Government Shutdown, Debt Cut
Texas May Ban Courts From Considering Foreign Laws
You Can Slaughter Christians, But You Can't Burn A Koran
J. Crew Pushes Transgender Child Propaganda
'Make No Mistake: I Oppose This Negotiated Dead,' Says Bachmann
Federal Judge Rules Against Anti-Gay Protesters, Gays Allowed To Adopt In Arkansas
Why No Outrage Over Democrat Saying Republicans Want To Kill Women?
Gov. Walker Vows: Unions Won't Steal Prosser Election Win
Why Conservatives Must Lead On Education Reform
Monday, March 28, 2011
Donald Trump Doubles Down On Call For Obama To Produce His Birth Certificate
Of course, since Donald Trump is already mega-rich, probably isn't going to really run for President and isn't a pol anyway, he's in the perfect position to take on Barry regarding this stuff:
Potential 2012 GOP presidential contender Donald Trump is doubling down on his call for President Barack Obama to produce a birth certificate, saying “facts are emerging” that have raised a “real question” as to whether Obama is constitutionally eligible to serve as president.
The president has spent “millions of dollars” in legal fees to “trying to get away from this issue,” Trump said.
The billionaire’s remarks came Monday morning in an exclusive interview with "Fox & Friends" co-hosts on Fox News.
Trump said that, when he initially raised the issue last week on ABC’s "The View," he believed Obama was born in the United States and should simply produce the birth certificate to clear up any questions.
As recently as Thursday, Trump told Newsmax in an exclusive interview: “I assume that Obama was born in the United States. I assume he was probably born in Hawaii.”
But following his controversial remarks on "The View," Trump said Monday, new information has emerged to give him serious doubts where Obama was born.
Asked point blank by Fox News host Gretchen Carlson whether he believes Obama was born in the United States, Trump replied: “I am really concerned. And I will tell you, when this all started a week ago, I assumed . . . Hey look, you have no doctors that remember, you have no nurses — this is the president of the United States — that remember.
“That ad that was placed in the . . . paper, that was placed in the paper days after he was born,” Trump said. “So he could have come into the country, and they did it for social reasons they put it in. They did it for whatever reason, there are a lot of reasons they could have put an ad in, but he could have been born outside of this country.
“Why can’t he produce a birth certificate?” Trump said. “And by the way, there’s one story that his family doesn’t even know what hospital he was born in.”
Politiks As Usual: In The News 3/28/11
Defense Sec: Libya Did Not Pose Threat To U.S., Was Not 'Vital National Interest' To Intervene
Donald Trump Won't Back Off Obama's Birth Papers
The Anthony Weiner Waiver Wormhole
Why Liberals Hate Clarence Thomas And Sarah Palin
Obama's Fiscal Policies Doom Retirement For Millions
The Atheist Mormon-Trashing Musical
CBO: Employment, Economic Output Not Expected To Recover Until 2016
Target Sues San Diego Homosexual Group
Huffington Post Axes Andrew Breitbart
Hispanics Become U.S. 2nd Largest Group With 50.5 Million
Monday, March 21, 2011
Politiks As Usual: In The News 3/21/11
Japan's Disaster Toll Rises With 18,000 Deaths
Coalition Targets Gadhafi Compound, Gadhafi Vows 'Long War'
Donald Trump Doubts Obama's Eligibility
Are Charter Schools The Education Solution?
Obama Vs. Obama On War Justification
Top Dem Strategist: Soaring Prices Will Sink Obama In 20E12
Lefty Blogger Exposes How Lefty Bloggers Lie
Networks Ignore Faith-Based Groups In Japan Disaster Aid Coverage
Board Approves Internet Domain For Pornography
Black Leaders Know Obama's Color Boxes Him In
Monday, February 14, 2011
Politiks As Usual: In The News 2/14/11
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords Mouths Lyrics To Songs, Talks On Phone
What's The Difference Between Accused Killers Jared Loughner And Kermit Gosnell?
Rep. Ron Paul Wins CPAC Straw Poll
Berkeley Officials Invite Guantanamo Bay Detainees To Live In City
AP Pushes Pro-Islam Entertainment Propaganda
Donald Trump At CPAC: 'Who Said I'm Pro-Choice?'
Push To De-fund Planned Parenthood Gaining Momentum
CNN Shows Muslim Brotherhood Member Defending Violence Against Israel
Speaker Boehner: "It's Not My Job To Tell" Americans That Obama Is Not A Muslim
George Soros, Nazi Obsessive
Rep. Ryan: Obama 2012 Budget Savings 'Paltry'
Donald Rumsfeld Opens Up About Mistakes In Iraq
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