Palin Last Nail in Republican Coffin?
Quite a few reports came out yesterday buttressing rumors that there were tensions between John McCain and Sarah Palin which caused a feud within the campaign team. It's only fitting, I suppose, since the selection of Palin has highlighted and exacerbated a growing fissure within the Republican Party itself. Fox New's Carl Cameron dished last night about rumors that Palin was ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on November 6, 2008 08:06
Obama to Appear on O’Reilly on Thursday
On Thursday night, it appears that Barack Obama will be appearing on The O'Reilly Factor:Before Senator John McCain delivers his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention on Thursday, Senator Barack Obama will make a marquee appearance of his own. Call it counter-intuitive. He will appear on “The O’Reilly Factor” on Fox News Channel. For Mr. Obama, it will be the first ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on September 3, 2008 09:07
Jesse Jackson and Barack Obama’s Cohones
Jesse Jackson's statement that Barack Obama's "talking down to black people" makes him so angry that he "wants to cut his nuts out" has caused quite the stir. Charles Hurt of the NY Post has the most concise report: In a vulgar tirade caught on tape by Fox News, the Rev. Jesse Jackson said he wanted to "cut his [Barack Obama's] nuts ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on July 10, 2008 07:14
Hillary Clinton Wins Ohio, Texas (Postmortem)
Hillary Clinton won the Ohio and Texas primaries, revitalizing her campaign and ensuring that the race will continue, probably to the Democratic convention. It's not clear as of this writing (6:01 Eastern) how many delegates she's won and her path to a majority of delegates remains unclear. What It Means: The Spin Game The candidates' spin: "For everyone here in ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on March 5, 2008 06:03
O’Reilly: Blacks Order Tea without Cursing!
Bill O'Reilly made some, um, interesting comments on his radio show Wednesday that have sparked some controversy in the blogosphere after being highlighted by Media Matters. Here, in context, is what he said. All emphases from the Media Matters transcript: O"REILLY: Now, how do we get to this point? Black people in this country understand that they've ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on September 22, 2007 09:03
Bill O’Reilly’s Web As Bad as DailyKos
Bill O'Reilly has been railing against Democrats and corporate sponsors who are associating themselves with the YearlyKos convention, on the grounds that there is a lot of filth and hate spewing from the DailyKos website. While the former is his right and the latter is likely true, virtually all the examples cited come from commenters and the hundreds of ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on July 25, 2007 14:27
Book Review: “It’s Not About The Truth”
Former Sports Illustrated associate editor Don Yaeger's book about the Duke lacrosse case, written with former head coach Mike Pressler, is a very good overview of the circumstances surrounding the fateful events of March 13-14, 2006, when members of Duke's lacrosse team created a "perfect storm": hiring two adult entertainers for a party that went dreadfully wrong. It's Not About The ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on June 17, 2007 18:38
Buchanan and “White America”
Cross-posted from PoliBlog: Via Human Events we have Pat Buchanan to go along with my Bill O'Reilly post from yesterday: Path to National SuicideAccording to the Census Bureau, from mid-2005 to mid-2006, the U.S. minority population rose 2.4 million, to exceed 100 million. Hispanics, 1 percent of the population in 1950, are now 14.4 percent. Their total number has soared ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on June 3, 2007 00:51
O’Reilly and the “white, Christian, male power structure”
Cross-posted from PoliBlog: It is not uncommon for critics from the Left to accuse persons on the Right as being about nothing more than defenders of a white, male, protestant status quo. What is unusual (thankfully) is to hear a prominent commentator or politicians from the Rightward side of things to blatantly state that that is what they favor. ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on June 1, 2007 14:28
Republican Candidates Don’t Fear MSNBC
Sean Hackbarth finds the Republican acceptance of a debate on MSNBC interesting. Despite MSNBC being the network of Leftist loon Keith Olberman, despite it being the network of Chris Matthews, no friend to conservatives, neither the candidates nor the GOP base is crying foul. That’s in stark contrast to the Left going bonkers that Fox News host Democratic debates. Indeed. Especially ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on April 24, 2007 15:47
