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MARCO:I get attacked by everybody because I believe our message is one that appeals to voters across the Republican Party. And so, I think that's why ultimately I am the only one left in this race that can bring this party together quickly and then grow the conservative movement. So I've never viewed myself in a one-on-one competition with anyone on that debate stage last night. I have a message that I believe appeals to voters supporting every one of these candidates.
MARCO:I'm very proud of my debate performances consistently throughout this process and again last night. And here's the key: if I'm the nominee, I look forward to debating Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders. One of the points I'm making is, I should be the nominee because not only am I as conservative as anyone running, I'm the conservative that wins. I consistently beat Hillary Clinton in poll after poll, and I think last night with the passing of Justice Scalia we are reminded of how important this election truly is, how high the stakes are, and why we must win. I am the conservative that unites the Republican Party, that grows it, that wins this election, and that begins the important work of undoing the damage Barack Obama has done to us.
MARCO:But in the end, I'm not running against any of these other Republicans, I'm running because I want to be president of the United States. And -- but if you're attacked, I think it's important to respond. And, so if I'm attacked at a debate, I'm going to respond. And last night, as you saw, an exchange with Ted Cruz, you know, there is a situation happening now where Ted is literally saying things that aren't true habitually now in this campaign on issue after issue. You know, he's -- just in the last week, he hasn't told the truth about my position on Planned Parenthood, on marriage. He didn't tell the truth about his previous stance on immigration. So these things have to be clarified and -- and they need to be addressed.
MARCO:The next president will have a chance to appoint somebody, and when I'm President of the United States, I'm going to look for someone like Justice Scalia. They're hard to find, but there's a lot of young jurists who have been inspired by his service and his writings, and these are the sorts of people I'd like to see on the Supreme Court.
MARCO:We're going to have an election, there's going to be a new president. I believe it's going to be me, and we're going to look for someone that most resembles Scalia to replace him.
Can you trust the media if only 7% of journalists are Republicans, while 28% are Democrats? If so, what accounts for the rise of news outlets like Fox News, and collapse of traditional outlets? Find out as Scott Ott and Stephen Kruiser join John Phillips to discuss the problem.
One fact that doesn't appear anywhere in the lengthy Times piece: The reforms worked. Wisconsin taxpayers saved $3 billion dollars as a result of the budget reforms Walker implemented.
It's as if the reporters believe effective governance is irrelevant to electoral success. Or, to put it more accurately, it's as if the reporters believe effective conservative governance is irrelevant to electoral success.
Here's an alternative to the Times's narrative on Walker:
A reform-minded conservative, frustrated by special interests in his attempts to bring change to county government, implemented aggressive reforms at the state-level. The reforms limited the ability of those special interests to drive taxpayer spending further into the red. And, importantly, the reforms worked. Voters, no doubt influenced by paid media, recognized that fact and reelected him.
Perhaps the story isn't so much radical right-wingers bankrolling an ambitious politician who "always liked going to the extremes" as it is a rare example of a politician making good on promises made and voters rewarding him?
And perhaps an article that purports to elucidate "the reasons for Mr. Walker's success" ought to mention, at least in passing, that the reforms at the heart of his governorship and his imminent presidential candidacy, actually worked.
ABC anchor George Stephanopoulos donated $75,000 to the Clinton Foundation. Does this disqualify the former Clinton Administration veteran from acting as a news anchor? Is ABC News tarnished as a biased news outlet? Find out.
John Phillips, Stephen Kruiser and Scott Ott discuss Brian Williams's recent "severe and appropriate" suspension from NBC. Also, hear what we have to say about Rick Perry's campaign makeover and more.
The Daily Show was probably ultimately harmed by fans and public intellectuals declaring that Stewart was the Walter Cronkite of his generation, or that the program represented some of the most important and consequential "real journalism" of the Bush era, and other hyperbolic salutes to its alleged real-world consequences. Comedy is hard; it's nearly impossible if you're simultaneously trying to make a Grand Statement About the World and How Things Ought to Be.
A lot of the blame can be laid at the viewers who concluded that the Daily Show represented actual news, and not a satire of news, and that watching comedians joke about what was going on in the world was enough to stay informed about what was going on in the world.
When reviewing Aaron Sorkin's HBO program The Newsroom, Jake Tapper wrote, "At a time when Democrats controlled the White House and both houses of Congress, it's telling that [protagonist Will] McAvoy and Sorkin aim their sights at conservatives seeking power - not moderates and liberals wielding it." Satirists reveal a lot about themselves in their choice of targets, and in the eyes of the Daily Show crew, the biggest menace in American life came not from lawmakers with their official authorities, massive budgets and temptations of power but by those who appeared on cable news to critique them – a particularly strange target for a cable-based comedy show.
"Look at what this Fox News host, guest, or contributor said!" became an increasingly tedious crutch, probably because it was such an easy target.
In Obama's second term, Stewart's late segment pivot from "can you believe what the Obama administration did?" to "can you believe what the hosts on Fox News said about this?" was predictable and a bit of a comforting dodge for his audience. It was the comedic equivalent of the "but aren't Republicans in danger of overreaching?" narrative-shift that pops up with irritating frequency during Democratic scandals or embarrassments.
Secondly, for a program that allegedly was one of the most powerful, if not the most powerful and important satirical voice in America today, it sure as heck had no problem punching down. God help you if you're some no-name Tucson school board member taking a stance the producers of the show find laughable. If you're an Idaho pastor claiming evangelical Christians are bullied by the culture at large, don't worry, a Daily Show correspondent will fly out to Boise to showcase you to the world. Washington Redskins fans who wanted to keep their team's name were asked, without warning, to justify the name to angry Native Americans on camera. Are these really the Americans most deserving of nationally-televised on-camera rebuke and humiliation?
One has to wonder if Stewart found doing the show enjoyable as it wore on. Those featured segments got awfully formulaic: Someone in the Republican realm would get caught in a scandal or saying something stupid; Stewart would stare at the camera in wide-eyed disbelief; tap his pencil in barely-contained incredulity or irritation, and then bellow out, "What the [BLEEP] is wrong with you?!" or some other outburst that inevitably generated audience applause.
Every segment was destined to generate blog posts from liberals declaring the show had DESTROYED or DEMOLISHED the target of mockery.When you control what the audience sees of your opponent's argument, and are given ample time to give an uninterrupted counter-argument before a live audience that adores you, there's really no excuse for not demolishing or destroying the opponent, no? At least when you're shooting fish in a barrel, the fish have a little bit of room to swim around...
The move on Saturday, developed in consultation with the NBC brass, was not a thinly disguised suspension. In fact, no one, including NBC News President Deborah Turness, suggested that Williams take time off, this person says.
What's more, according to the source, NBC is not conducting an internal investigation of its anchor, as has been widely reported. The network is engaging in journalistic fact-gathering so it can respond to questions about the crisis created by Williams' false story about having been in a helicopter in Iraq that was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade. That means there will be no report with a finding on his conduct, this person says.
If you think about it, though, it does make perfect sense.
There have been numerous reports about how Williams, like no other news anchor before him, "fervently courted celebrity." And it now appears as though that is exactly how Williams sees himself — not as a news man and managing editor of the most-watched nightly news telecast on television; but as Hugh Grant — a celebrity, a star — a guy who can run to a comedy show and HumbleCharm his way out of a career-ending scandal by taking some pre-scripted barbs from a comedian.
Reading a teleprompter for 20 minutes a night is only part of Brian Williams' celebrity job. The main part is yukking it up with David Letterman and Jon Stewart and Jimmy Fallon with slow jams, exaggerated "war hero" anecdotes, and digging-his-toe-in-the-dirt confessionals to get out of career jail.
Amid talk of the incoming fire, Williams supplied this detail: "Our captain took a Purple Heart injury to his ear in the cockpit."
The Purple Heart is a military decoration for those who are killed or wounded in combat. Chris Simeone, in a first-person piece in the New York Post, claims to have piloted the Chinook that transported Williams and his NBC News crew. Contrary to Williams's claims — in that Letterman appearance, among other venues — that his helicopter sustained "AK-47 and RPG" fire from the enemy on the ground, Simeone says the flight was "uneventful." That means no injuries, which also means … "I do not have a Purple Heart, and my ears are just fine," wrote Simeone in the New York Post.
Other members of the Chinook crew that allegedly transported Williams & Co. insist that the helicopter took absolutely no incoming fire. "No we were not shot at. We took NO enemy fire," Joseph Miller told the Omaha World-Herald.
Do you think @Salon actually receives marching orders from the Democratic Party, or does sycophancy just come naturally? @AaronWorthing
— BattleSwarm (@BattleSwarmBlog) February 8, 2015
President Obama gave Vox an interview? That's worse than the Youtube interviews.
— AG (@AG_Conservative) February 8, 2015
I have never read a Vox foreign policy post that didn't require major corrections so I'm sure their questions to Obama will be great.
— AG (@AG_Conservative) February 8, 2015
@deray No, if Sharpton didn't exist, it would be some other grifter trying to hog the press, while others do the work.
— Subcomandante Goatz (@youfoundthecard) February 8, 2015
Good GOD RT: @DrudgeReport Kerry Won't Rule Out Running for President...
— Alicia Turner (@libertyjibbet) February 8, 2015
@FoxNews Clinton & Kerry...I Guess a failed tenure as Secretary of State is one of the qualifications to be Democrat nominee for President?
— Robert Perry (@guineapiggybank) February 8, 2015
I just misremembered. I wasn't on the helicopter that got hit. No... I was the helicopter! Yeah, that's it. pic.twitter.com/TtsxWtjKDf
— Jon Lovitz (@realjonlovitz) February 8, 2015
Daniel Greenfield at Frontpage has good advice for the GOP's 2016 hopefuls:
One of the reasons that Romney lost is that he failed to take on the media. The ultimate lost opportunity came when CNN's debate moderator Candy Crowley directly inserted herself into the argument between Obama and Romney to declare her favorite right and Romney wrong.
Romney had won the Republican primaries, but had failed to absorb the lesson of his most tenacious opponent. Newt Gingrich did not treat the media as a neutral moderator, but as a debate opponent, challenging its premises and agendas. And so Romney was left unprepared for Crowley's attack.
A media smear campaign can't be met with sensible clarifications. They only strengthen the smear. Christie's clarification that he believes in measles vaccinations has allowed the media to begin spinning him as flip-flopping on vaccines. Any further statements explaining his views will be used to continue reporting on the manufactured story of the "Republican vaccine controversy."
The only way to break the cycle is for Republicans to stop explaining themselves and to challenge the narrative. The narrative is a lie, but no one will ever know that if the candidates don't challenge it.
The road to the White House is over the crushed and mangled narratives of the media. A Republican candidate who fails to take on the media will fall wrapped head to toe in lies and scandals. He will go on issuing clarifications and sensible statements while the media accuses him of murdering small children.
The media is not impartial. It is not even a forum. The national media is the political opponent of every Republican running for the White House.
I am shocked, shocked that the guy who sat in Jeremiah Wright's church for 20 years would defend Islamic violence by attacking Christianity.
— Razor (@hale_razor) February 5, 2015
Should anyone be surprised that C.Kyle used word "savages" when referring to AQ in Iraq given what we've now witnessed?
@MonicaCrowley next
— martha maccallum (@marthamaccallum) February 5, 2015
PJTV chronicles the California measles outbreak & explains how anti-vax movement contributes. NYT attacks Chris Christie, Suge Knight arrested and more.
The lie seems more brazen with each telling so let's make sure to flag all of them. Here's a nifty catch by Chuck Ross at the Daily Caller from an interview Williams gave to Alec Baldwin two years ago in which he claimed he "briefly" thought he might die when his chopper suffered an attack that never actually happened — but, see, that's the risk you run when you're a serious newsman, he goes on to say. That bit comes at 54:30, but I recommend listening at 53:00 to hear him grumble about the "haters" online who like to call him a phony populist. How dare they question the common-man bona fides of a multimillionaire who made up a story about nearly dying from enemy fire to steal a little glory from American troops.
To answer Ed's question, though, yes, of course Williams's career will survive. This matrix from Sean Davis will serve you well now and in the future:
In case you're wondering: No, Brian Williams won't lose his job. He plays for the right team. Here's how it works. pic.twitter.com/upSMesqalg
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) February 5, 2015
Davis thinks Williams will take a temporary leave of absence until this blows over, which should be, oh, by the close of weekday business tomorrow. If this were a Fox News newsman who'd been telling phony war stories, we'd be in the "crucifixion" square of Davis's table; as it is, we're in the "wrong lie/right team" square, which means we're already well on our way to "doesn't exist."
Big caveat, though: What if other stories he's been telling about his adventures as a James Bond/Walter Cronkite hybrid start getting challenged? SooperMexican has a clip of him claiming that he stayed in a hotel "overrun with gangs" when he was in New Orleans covering Hurricane Katrina 10 years ago; supposedly, an unnamed policeman rescued him from some sort of attack in a stairwell. Did that happen? Did Williams, as he once claimed, actually see a body floating by from his hotel window?
NBC can tolerate this guy taking a dump once on their pretensions to honesty and integrity in news coverage. Two, three, or four dumps is probably a few too many for comfort, though. That's when they have to flush...
