Jan 28, 2016: Excerpt from GOP Presidential Debate in Iowa
Category Archives: Debates
I was impressed by what Fiorina and Santorum had to say
Filed under Carly Fiorina, Debates, News Media, Republicans, Rick Santorum
The Saturday Drive-By
Since nobody’s around on the weekend anyway. There was a pathetic display of how gullible the MSM thinks the people are last Tuesday when the democrats held what they laughingly referred to as a “townhall” where the questions were pre-written, the actors were given the script, and the ‘questioners’ were shills, chosen to ask candidates questions they were prepared to answer. No surprises allowed.
Thursday it was the Trump vs. the anti-Trump Show. Fox drew 12 million viewers, the ratings were second only to the initial debate that shattered all records for a cable news show. I didn’t post anything because there were as many opinions about the whole mess as there are blades of grass on a Kansas prairie. That analogy is the result of my watching a 1958 episode of Wagon Train at the time of writing this.
I’m a little weary of reading about how Hillary is in serious trouble, about to be indicted, much hand wringing over can she survive? Darrel Issa has said he wants to charge both Cankles and Hummus Weiner with felonies. Let me state for the umpteenth time, NOTHING WILL HAPPEN TO HER. We know it,she knows it. The FBI can present a mountain of damning evidence and if the super-corrupt Obama DOJ refuses to convene a grand jury it will all come to nothing. I have had maybe two cocktails in the last 25 years but if the bitch DID get indicted I would consider getting falling down drunk. I’m posting a video in the comments about how her Heinous said she’d consider appointing Dear Reader to the Supreme Court. Maybe that’s the price he’s demanding to cover her cellulite-covered backside.
Democrats cover for each other. It’s how they survive. You never see any of them break ranks if it really counts. That’s the rules they play by and that’s how they survive when they should all be in a penitentiary. They also have a good number of alleged republicans at their beck and call. You know the names.
My wife’s 96 year old dad is not doing well after he had a broken hip replaced, my grandson is fighting a battle no seven year old should have to, and after one successful cataract surgery I’m having the other eye done in two weeks. There are things far more important in life than politics.
Filed under Debates, Democrats, Republicans
DID YOU HEAR THE NEWS?
Rumor has it the Dumbocrat Party had its fourth and final debate Sunday night. While the NFL playoffs were on. I watched the Hated Green Bay Packers go down to defeat, as did Hillary, according to the opinion polla post debate. I cherry picked a few interesting things, so as not to clog the header too much.
From the leftist hacks at The Hill: No punches pulled at debate
Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders traded vigorous verbal blows in the last Democratic debate before the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary on Sunday evening, both showing a clear understanding that the stakes could hardly be higher.
The two front-runners traded wonky digs at each other’s platforms as well as more personal attacks in a debate reflective of the heightened rhetoric that has been heard on the trail during the past week.
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/266225-no-punches-pulled
Best Lines of the Fourth Democratic Debate
AS YOU CAN WELL IMAGINE, THE SOCIALIST AND THE WHORE TRIED TO OUTDO EACH OTHER ON EVERYTHING FROM HEALTH CARE TO GUN CONTROL
https://gma.yahoo.com/best-lines-democratic-debate-022102199–abc-news-topstories.html#
Hillary: “There Should Be No Individual Too Big To Jail”
OH, NO, SHE DIDN’T!
OH, YES SHE DID
Even Code Pink mocked Wasserman Schultz over Sunday night’s debate
After giving her a pass for dodging the question about whether she’d be adding any more debates to the schedule, Stelter asked Wasserman Schultz if she was interested in ratings.
“Sunday night is a terrible time to have a debate, because there are so many great shows on,” the CNN host said. “Don’t you think that is going to hurt your ratings? And isn’t it in your interests to have high ratings for these debates?”
Wasserman Schultz responded by saying they’ve had “record viewership” for their debates, but went all the way back to 2008 in naming some of their successes.
AP FACT CHECK: Democratic debaters and the facts
FACT-CHECKING THE DEMOCRATS IS AS USELESS AN EXERCISE AS FIGHTING THE DREADED GLOBAL WARMING
A look at some of their claims and how they compare with the facts:
CLINTON on Sanders’ proposal for a taxpayer-paid health care system: “I don’t want to see us start over again with a contentious debate.”
SANDERS: “We’re not going to tear up the Affordable Care Act,” but build on it.
THE FACTS: As Clinton suggests, Sanders’ plan would indeed mean a radical change in direction — one that makes the government the payer of health care for everyone, not just for the elderly or the poorest Americans or members of the military.
http://news.yahoo.com/ap-fact-check-democratic-debaters-facts-032913344–election.html
Filed under Bernie Sanders, Debates, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, Democrats, Hillary Clinton, Obamacare
GOP DEBATE UNDERCARD
In full disclosure, your intrepid reporter made an exception to his self-imposed boycott of news broadcasts to watch the debates last night. I have every cable channel and the moderators at FBN, unlike their counterparts at CNN, are far smarter than the chairs they’re sitting on. Trish Regan and Sandra Smith may have done a better job than Cavuto and Bartiromo.
I decided to post this because there wasn’t much noteworthy compared to the main event.
Here’s Dianny’s take:
I know most of you probably didn’t see it, but I thought I’d give you some quick thoughts on the Undercard Debate.
First of all, I wish like hell Fox Business did all the debates. These moderators are awesome.
Both Trish Regan and Sandra Smith were moderators for the previous Fox Business Undercard Debate, and honestly, I think they’ve proven they should be moderating the main event. Smart questions, not the typical crapola one gets from say CNN or CBS or those numb-nuts at CNBC. Just great questions — intelligent, thought-provoking. These ladies are terrific.
Actually, the debate was over in two minutes, when Carly Fiorina came up with this zinger: “Unlike Hillary, I Like Spending Time With My Husband”
SOME PEOPLE HAVE THE TALENT TO SMILE SWEETLY WHILE TURNING THEIR WORDS INTO RAZORS
http://www.breitbart.com/video/2016/01/14/fiorina-unlike-hillary-i-like-spending-time-with-my-husband/
I was monitoring the internet while the debate went on and the reaction to her comment was as swift as it was predictable.
It took about 10 minutes before this one went up:
Carly Fiorina Slams Hillary Clinton in Opening Minutes of Debate
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/christinerousselle/2016/01/14/carly-fiorina-slams-hillary-clinton-in-opening-minutes-of-debate-n2104880
The giant sucking sound you may have heard was the collective gasps from the left at the insolence of this WOMAN to the queen-in-waiting.
I know I’m not supposed to post YouTubes longer than two minutes, but at least this clip has all three speaking, since Rand Paul had a hissy fit and skipped the show.
This runs 12 minutes
Ima post a couple things in case I run out of steam before I do anything with the main event.
Filed under Carly Fiorina, Debates, Republicans
LADY TAKES A LEAK
With apologies to the late Billie Holliday
So the democrats had a debate Saturday night. The extravaganza drew an audience of 8 million, about the same as a rerun of South Park. It was painfully obvious to any objective observer that this was a monumental waste of broadcast time in an effort to hide the fact that their nominee is an arrogant slut whose pomposity and hubris were on full display. There was little of note during this little get-together except another Clinton lie about Trump being a recruiter for ISIS. Her campaign first defended the statement, then later admitted it was just another lie. At that point,what difference did it make?
I’m not at all comfortable with Trump as the Republican nominee, but at this point if Cankles is destined to succeed to the throne at least the months-long food fight between those two would be worth it. A last hurrah for the nation, as it were.
HER VIEW ON THE WAR ON TERROR
Clinton On ISIS: “We Now Finally Are Where We Need to Be”
BERNIE IS IN THE RACE STRICTLY FOR COMIC RELIEF… QUIT WHINING
Bernie Sanders campaign manager accuses DNC of being in the tank for Hillary Clinton
Dem Debate: Hillary Clinton Dodges Responsibility for Libya
YOU EXPECTED DIFFERENT?
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton twice dodged moderator Martha Raddatz’s simple question on Libya at Saturday night’s Democratic debate in Manchester, New Hampshire: “How much responsibility do you bear for the chaos that followed elections?”
Well, first, let’s remember why we became part of a coalition to stop Gadhafi from committing massacres against his people. The United States was asked to support the Europeans and the Arab partners that we had. And we did a lot of due diligence about whether we should or not. And eventually, yes, I recommended and the President decided that we would support the action to protect civilians on the ground and that led to the overthrow of Gadhafi. BLAH,BLAH,FREAKIN’ BLAH
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/12/19/dem-debate-hillary-clinton-dodges-responsibility-for-libya/
LADY TAKES A POTTY BREAK
Hillary Clinton Missed Debate Because She Wouldn’t Share A Bathroom
Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton was late getting back to the debate stage Saturday night because she didn’t want to share a restroom with a Martin O’Malley staffer.
Clinton reportedly went to the ladies’ room during the commercial break, according to The Boston Globe. Clinton even had a campaign employee on bathroom duty to make sure Clinton could quickly get inside the restroom and return to the stage. But when that staffer let in O’Malley spokeswoman Lis Smith, Clinton waited outside.
And the Clinton camp is reeling from a Breitbart News report that the DNC is really not so fair and impartial in this primary. How could it be? After all, the Clinton campaign is funding the DNC and its state-level get-out-the-vote efforts!
I DON’T KNOW IF THIS IS CURMUDGEON’S HANDIWORK OR GRUNT’S
IT’S HILARIOUS
I contacted our cub reporter Scoop and asked if he could do a little snooping. Here’s the exclusive report he filed just a few minutes ago.
CHAPPAQUA, NY—According to sources close to the Clinton campaign, Hillary has taken to spending more and more time in the can. Aides are concerned that she may meet the same fate as Elvis who was rumored to have died on the toilet due to “overexertion in the privy.”
The source, who asked to remain anonymous, said that she clenches her fists, grabs hold of the toilet seat and really bears down. She has been seen with beads of sweat dotting her aged forehead after emerging from the bathroom.
The unnamed source allowed our reporter to hide in the corner of the guest house living room where the former Secretary of State was doing a photo shoot for a rather famous company that produces a toilet spray designed to trap unpleasant bathroom odors.
http://www.politicalclownparade.blogspot.com/2015/12/oh-poo.html
DIANNY COULDN’T RESIST
The Most Tardy Woman in the World
Posted on December 20, 2015 by Dianny
Apparently Hillary Clinton was about as interested in the Democrat Debate as I was.
During the commercial break that happened at 9:30 pm, Hillary was a wee bit tardy in getting back when the debate started up again nearly six minutes later.
“Sorry” says the most tardy woman in the world.
Now, at the previous debate, Hillary made a joke that, as a woman she needed more time in the restroom. I’m a woman. I can be in and out of a bathroom in under a minute. And that includes washing my hands. The only time it has taken me longer is if I have to wait in line. And something tells me that the bathrooms provided for the candidates aren’t being flooded by people, but rather, are private facilities in green rooms. So unless she ate nothing but bean burritos and Ex-Lax the entire day, why the hell would she need more than five minutes?
I have my theories.
Hillary: Trump’s a Bigot; Guns Help Terrorists, Not You
Hillary Clinton on Saturday laid out what could be themes for her upcoming general election campaign, saying Donald Trump is a bigot and guns help terrorists, not average Americans.
“He is becoming ISIS’s best recruiter. They are going to people showing videos of Donald Trump insulting Islam and Muslims in order to recruit more radical jihadists. So I want to explain why this is not in America’s interest to react with this kind of fear and respond to this sort of bigotry.”
Like President Obama before her, Clinton linked gun violence to terrorism, with the implicit suggestion that limiting Second Amendment rights could help combat ISIS attacks in America.
ABC Lets Stephanopoulos Host Pre, Post-Debate; Teams with Brazile to Tout ‘Battle-Tested’ Hillary
HEY, SHE WAS HIS BOSS
Showing that they’ve learned next to nothing from the George Stephanopoulos/Clinton Foundation scandal, ABC allowed its chief anchor in Stephanopoulos to anchor its pre-game coverage of Saturday’s Democratic presidential debate.
Not surprisingly, the former Clinton White House official teamed with DNC Vice Chairwoman Donna Brazile to gush over how Hillary Clinton has “found her footing during the fall” and has been “battle tested” following e-mail server and Clinton Foundation scandals that rocked her candidacy earlier in the year.
http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2015/12/19/abc-lets-stephanopoulos-host-pre-post-debate-teams-brazile-tout#sthash.lUrJ6bhk.dpuf
ABC’s Raddatz Throws Softball to Hillary on First Spouses; ‘Is It Time to Change the Role?’
In the final set of questions of Saturday’s Democratic presidential debate prior to the closing statements, ABC’s co-moderator Martha Raddatz served up a massive softball to frontrunner Hillary Clinton concerning how former President Bill Clinton would function as a member of the First Family if Hillary is elected president.
Promising “to make a very sharp turn as we wrap things up here,” Raddatz began by explaining to Clinton: “First Ladies, as you well know, have used their position to work on important causes like literacy and drug abuse, but they also supervise the menus, the flowers, the holiday ornaments and White House decor.”
http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2015/12/19/abcs-raddatz-throws-softball-hillary-first-spouses-it-time-change#sthash.76teaXbU.dpuf
THIS WAS HER TREATMENT OF DR. CARSON:
Palmieri struggles to defend Hillary Clinton’s claim that videos of Trump are ISIS recruitment tools
TOUGH TO BE THE BUTCHERS’ PRESS SECRETARY
Hillary Clinton to Unleash Her ‘Not So Secret Weapon’ Bill Clinton in January
PREDICTION: WE WILL BE REGALED OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER ABOUT HOW HE SINGLE-HANDEDLY PRODUCED BUDGET SURPLUSES.
THE FACT THAT HE ENJOYED THE LABORS OF A REAGAN AND BUSH ECONOMY, THE DOT COM BUBBLE, AND A REPUBLICAN HOUSE LED BY NEWT GINGRICH TO CONTROL SPENDING, IS IRRELEVANT.
Former President Bill Clinton joined his wife Hillary in a surprise appearance after the third Democratic debate at a watch party, in Manchester, New Hampshire, Saturday night.
Clinton stood side by side with her husband, saying the former president will be out on the campaign trail in January.
“I think this is fair to say that starting in January, I will have my not so secret weapon,” she said. “We’re going to cover as much ground as we possibly can.”
It was the first time the former president made a public appearance immediately following one of the debates.
President Clinton also took to the mic to address the crowd at the local tavern.
HEY, MR. PRESIDENT: ARE YOU STILL DATING?
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/hillary-clinton-unleash-secret-weapon-bill-clinton-january/story?id=35870901
This is probably the last political post before Christmas.
We all need a break.
Filed under Bernie Sanders, Bill Clinton, Debates, Democrats, Hillary Clinton
Luntz Focus Group
Great lines
- Donald Trump is a pig.
- Kasich went from my number two to right off the charts.
- We’re tired of hearing about what they DID. Tell us what you will do.
Kasich Got the Least Favorable Reaction Ever from a Frank Luntz Focus Group
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Filed under Debates, Republicans
GOP DEBATE: Cruz on illegal immigration
Cruz is exactly right.
VIDEO @ http://therightscoop.com/ted-cruz-kills-it-on-illegal-immigration-video/
Saying Republicans are anti-immigration is offensive. We’re pro-law abiding immigrants! Besides which, Mexico and most other countries have zero tolerance for illegals. Why should we be any different?
Saying Republicans lack compassion is also offensive. IMO, Democrats are the hard-hearted ones for so blithely ignoring the suffering of the millions of Americans that their horrible economic policies have put out of work.
Link to my History of Political Party Control in DC album, which gives easy-to-understand graphic illustrations for which parties held the Presidency, the Senate and the House in each session of Congress.
Link to the Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Population app.
http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS12300000
Filed under Debates, Democrats, Immigration, Republicans, Ted Cruz, Unemployment
THE CHARACTER ASSASSINATION MACHINE
The fourth Republican debate will be held Tuesday, Nov. 19 on Fox Business channel. I have all the channels so I could watch it if I were so inclined. Gov. Krispy Kreme and Huckabee have been relegated to the triple-A farm team and Pataki and Grahamnesty didn’t even make the cut. They were traded to the democrats for two chickens, a flat tire, and a cheese sandwich.
There’s an old saying if you’re drawing fire you must be over the target. It is also well known that the left will always tell you who they’re afraid of. CNN is the advance team of hitmen aiming to destroy Dr. Ben Carson. They have set about dissecting every word he’s ever spoken with the intent of trying to implicate him as a liar. Given the complete and total pass they gave Bent Penis, Obumbles, and Cankles, who all lie as a matter-of-factly this goes well past absurdity.
Carson Tells CNN: Your Story on My Past Is ‘A Bunch of Lies’
Ben Carson Friday told CNN that its story questioning his accounts of violence as a youth as “a bunch of lies” and a “pathetic” attempt to distract him and the public from the real issues that are important.
“You know, I’m not proud that I had these rage episodes,” the top-ranking GOP candidate told CNN “New Day” anchor Alisyn Camerota during a long-ranging, often contentious exchange. “But I am proud of the fact I was able to get over them. My message has been that you can escape from that kind of anger.”
Newsmax.com http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Ben-Carson-GOP-past-violent/2015/11/06/id/700879/#ixzz3qjz04tK2
Dr. Ben Carson: ‘I Am Going To Fight CNN Tooth and Nail’
In 2008, a mere month prior to Election Day, CNN investigative report Drew Griffin uncovered a game-changer: then-candidate Barack Obama had lied about his adult relationship with terrorist Bill Ayers. Watch the video. Watch CNN’s Anderson Cooper drop it as a nothingburger. Neither CNN nor the rest of the DC Media would ever touch the subject again.
Fast-forward eight years. In what is obviously a racially-motivated effort to disqualify a free-thinking black man, CNN is pouring a half-dozen investigative reporters into Detroit with the goal of destroying Carson’s rise to power. This is part of the CNN’s DNA. Going back to slavery, Jim Crow, and segregation, Democrats have been socialized into destroying black people who threaten their political power.
Because no one can remember a few fights and a non-stabbing that occurred more than fifty years ago, CNN is smearing Carson as a liar and crazy. Imagine that: growing up in a violent ghetto and not being able to remember someone throwing a rock 57 years ago?
http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2015/11/06/dr-ben-carson-i-am-going-to-fight-cnn-tooth-and-nail/
THE LEFTIST U.K. TELEGRAPH PILES ON:
Ben Carson’s latest claims – he was homeless, hungry and saw segregation at water fountains
Carson posts a rambling, late-night open letter on his Facebook page in which he defends his lack of political experience and describes a hardscrabble childhood
Retired surgeon claims his ancestors were slaves, says he knows ‘the pain of poverty’
Carson has recently also described a wild temper in his youth that once led him to attempt to murder a classmate and attack his own mother with a hammer
Several of Carson’s boyhood friends say they have no recollection of such instances
DR. CARSON ONCE CALIMED THE PYRAMIDS WERE BUILT BY JOSEPH TO HOUSE GRAIN,NOT AS TOMBS FOR PHARAOHS. HE ALSO CLAIMS NO ANIMAL EVER EVOLVED INTO A DIFFERENT ANIMAL.
Condescending CNN Anchor to Ben Carson: ‘Was U.S. a Communist Country Before Fox News?’
Surging Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson had a contentious interview Friday morning with CNN anchor Alisyn Camerota on the New Day morning show.
Before talking about the Fox comment, Camerota went after Dr. Carson for another quote from the same speech in which he said many Americans are “stupid.” In context, Carson was saying the American people overall are smarter than the leftist elites think they are, but that there are many who are smart.
“They can twist and turn things as much as they want. But what they don’t understand—and they miscalculated. They were doing a great job in terms of fundamentally changing this nation. In terms of infiltrating the school systems. In terms of infiltrating the media. All of this—they’ve done a great job. Everything was perfect. Except they underestimated the intelligence of the American people. The people are not as stupid as they think they are. Many of them are stupid. Okay. But I’m talking about overall.”
Camerota introduced the Fox comment when Carson brought up that she used to work at Fox. Carson was exasperated at Camerota for trying to “put words in (his) mouth”, saying to her:
“I can’t believe that you used to work on Fox and you’ve turned into that, I can’t believe it.”
THEY’RE TRYING TO SHOW HE DOESN’T HAVE THE TEMPERMENT TO BE PRESIDENT…UNLIKE OBAMA.
Condescending CNN Anchor to Ben Carson: ‘Was U.S. a Communist Country Before Fox News?’
Scarborough: Does ‘Quirky’ Carson with ‘Crazy’ Theory Have ‘Character’ to be President? – See more at: http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/mark-finkelstein/2015/11/06/scarborough-does-quirky-carson-crazy-theory-have-character-be#sthash.FnAYf6Cu.dpuf
MSDNC’S TOKEN RINO CHIMES IN:
On today’s Morning Joe, Scarborough twice suggested Carson was “quirky” and said his theory on the pyramids is “crazy.” Scarborough suggestively asked whether Carson “has the temperament, whether he has the character to be President of the United States?”
http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/mark-finkelstein/2015/11/06/scarborough-does-quirky-carson-crazy-theory-have-character-be#sthash.FnAYf6Cu.dpuf
DIANNY SPEAKS:
Alisyn Camerota: Making Emily Litella look good
If Emily Litella could get up in arms over the Eagle Rights Amendment or Violins on television, I suppose it’s nothing for Alisyn Camerota to get up in arms over Ben Carson saying without Fox News, we’d be Cuba.
The only difference is, eventually Emily realized she was wrong and would quietly say, “Never mind.”
I don’t know about you, but I won’t be holding my breath waiting for Alisyn Camerota to say “never mind” when somebody finally manages to explain to her that Ben Carson was making what we on Planet Earth call, “A joke.”
http://patriotretort.com/alisyn-camerota-making-emily-litella-look-good/
CNN: Idiots on Parade
CURMUDGEON IS ON POINT
So, CNN thinks they’ve destroyed Dr. Ben Carson by declaring they’ve proven his accounts of his youth (over fifty years ago) are lies because they can’t find anyone to confirm or deny they happened.
Wow. They’ve really blown the lid of this, haven’t they
This is CNN.
A network so fully invested in destroying anyone who threatens the Democrat Party Agenda they will beclown themselves in their reporting to do it.
Let’s be honest. A successful, brilliant black man who overcame a life of poverty and hardship through faith in God aspiring to be President of the United States on the Republican ticket must be destroyed because his very existence flies in the face of Liberal belief.
Of course CNN is doing this. You think they didn’t notice that Dr. Carson is beating Hillary in a one-on-one match-up by nine points?
The Enslaved Press exist to advance one political party while destroying another.
http://patriotretort.com/cnn-idiots-on-parade/
Filed under Ben Carson, Debates, Elections, Media Bias
Leadership of Commission on Presidential Debates
The Commission that plans presidential debates advertises itself as “non-partisan” and lists politically neutral associations for all commission leadership members, even for people who have been very active in politics.
For example, Leon Panetta’s bio lists him only as “Chairman, Panetta Institute for Public Policy.” Puh-leeze. Panetta served eight terms (1994 to 1997) as the Representative (D) for CA-17. Then, he went on to serve in not one, but three high level positions within Democrat presidential administrations!
- 1994-1997: Clinton’s WH Chief of Staff
- 2009-2011: Obama’s CIA Director
- 2011-2013: Obama’s Defense Secretary
They also list four former presidents as Honorary Co-Chairmen; however, none of them are the two still-living Republicans. N.b., I removed the two dead Republicans from the list when I made this graphic.
Sources:
- http://www.debates.org/index.php?page=commission-leadership
- http://www.debates.org/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01articleid=55&cntnt01origid=27&cntnt01detailtemplate=newspage&cntnt01returnid=80 < Commission advertises itself as non-partisan and lists neutral associations for all commission leadership members, despite most of them having very decided party associations in their bios.
- http://wtfcpd.blogspot.com/2012/08/who-runs-non-partisan-commission-on.html
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_J._Fahrenkopf,_Jr. < Former RNC chair
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_McCurry_%28press_secretary%29 < Pres Clinton’s Press Sec
- http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/30/opinion/sunday/catching-up-with-the-debates-director-janet-h-brown.html?_r=0 < Janet H. Brown has led the debate commission since its founding in 1987 and previously worked in staff positions at the White House, the Office of Management and Budget, the State Department and the Senate. She was a staff member for John C. Danforth in the Senate.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_G._Kirk < Former DNC chair
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Graham_Buffett < Philanthropist son of Warren Buffet, father of Howard Warren Buffet. Warren and Howard W. are Democrats. Howard G.’s bio does not mention politics and I found no record of political donations for him. However, organizations he is affiliated with, such as National Geographic Council of Advisors and World Wildlife Fund, lean left.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Danforth < GWBush’s Ambassador to United Nations
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_Daniels < Former governor of Indiana
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Gibson < Television journalist, co-anchored Good Morning America
- http://www.mrc.org/profiles-bias/abc%E2%80%99s-charles-gibson-conventional-liberal < MRC analysis of Gibson’s political leanings = “typical media elite liberal.” Reading through the selection of quotations is enlightening. Jimmy Carter “the greatest ex-President of modern times.” Bill Clinton “fascinating.” Republican platform not “open” or “compassionate.” Support for gun control “By my count, we have more states rejecting new gun control legislation than have passed it. We have 15 states that have passed prohibitions on cities suing gun manufacturers. That hardly seems like progress.” There’s lots more.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_%26_Company < Griffen is managing director of Allen & Co, “a small, privately held boutique investment bank” that “specializes in the media and entertainment sectors.” Given the heavy left-wing slant of media and entertainment, I’m guessing he leans left.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Harman < Former U.S. Representative (Dem CA-36).
- https://www.wilsoncenter.org/person/antonia-hern%C3%A1ndez < Antonia Hernandez, President and CEO, California Community Foundation, former President and General Counsel of the Mexican American Legal Defense, former counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, former staff attorney with the Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice. I’m guessing she leans left.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_I._Jenkins < Rev. John I. Jenkins, President of Notre Dame University. Despite claiming a commitment to upholding the Catholic identity of Notre Dame, he invited pro-abortion president Obama to attend Notre Dame’s 2009 commencement ceremony and to receive an honorary degree and allowed performances of The Vagina Monologues and showings of gay films on campus.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Lehrer < Jim Lehrer, former executive editor and a former news anchor for the PBS NewsHour, frequent presidential debate moderator. Although he claims to be “dead serious” about his neutrality, MRC’s analysis of his debate questions shows a pro-Democrat slant.
- http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2008/09/26/jim-lehrer-not-bias-free-moderator < Jim Lehrer analysis.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidley_Austin < Newton N. Minow, Senior Counsel in Chicago Sidley Austin, the law office that employed both Michelle then-Robinson and Barack Obama. The NY office hired Bernardine Dohrn.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton_N._Minow < Minow “has been active in Democratic party politics.”
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Panetta < Long history in high level Democrat politics.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Parsons_%28businessman%29 < Worked for Rockefeller, Ford, Giuliani.
- http://www.nytimes.com/1985/03/12/us/partisan-no-political-you-bet.html < Dorothy S. Ridings, Former President, League of Women Voters of the United States. I can’t find specifics about her political affiliations, but this is in this 1985 interview with the NYT: “‘A lot of people confuse being political, which we surely are, with being partisan, which we surely are not.’ … She finds it amusing that some say the league is partial to Democrats, since demographically its average member is a moderate Republican. In fact, she said, she fits the profile.” She then cites her demographics (age, education, income, marital status, children, race) but NOT her party! It seems to me, if she was a Republican, she would’ve included that in her list of “I’m so typical of LWV membership”, KWIM? Plus, she started out as a journalist and the LWV was founded in Chicago. I think it’s a safe bet she leans left.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Schieffer < Bob Schieffer (retired) – 46 years at CBS, including Face the Nation moderator, CBS Evening News anchor, 60 Minutes host. CBS would like us to believe Schieffer was non-partisan. His record shows him to be a slobbering Democrat who thinks poofing Obama’s pillows is unbiased journalism.
- http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jeffrey-meyer/2015/04/09/cbs-oozes-giant-journalism-amazing-bob-schieffer-retiring < In 2009, Bob Schieffer said of Alaska’s Governor Sarah Palin (who had had the highest approval rating of any governor anywhere anytime), “My guess is she’s not ever going to run for anything and I think if she did, I don’t think she would get very far….I think she’ll be a great attraction out, you know, as an amusement.” In 2013, he said some lines from Obama’s State of the Union speech reminded him of “what Lincoln said in the Gettysburg Address.” In 2014, he asked Obama questions like, “You had a tough summer. We saw the rise of ISIS, the outbreak of Ebola, trouble in the Ukraine, illegal immigrants coming across the border. Did you ever go back to the residence at night and say, ‘Are we ever going to get a break here?’…You came here talking about hope and change. Do you still hope? Is change, was it harder than you thought it would be?” Would you like a foot rub with that, Your Messiah-ship?
- http://www.ontheissues.org/Social/Olympia_Snowe_Principles_+_Values.htm < Olympia Snowe favors abortion and same sex marriage, two very hot button issues dividing the two parties. She’s not likely to be sympathetic to any of the GOP candidates.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_M._Tilghman < Shirley M. Tilghman, Former President, Princeton University, atheist. Hmmm … a Princeton atheist … lemme guess.
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