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MSNBC Mad Dog Ed Schultz Warns Tea Party Bullies Will Use Violence On Election Day
Tired crapola from a scared, lefty loser… (Mediaite) - As Election Day nears, the innumerable accusations of Voter Intimidation only seem to multiply, and while many dismiss accusations of aggression at the polls as Right-wing Propaganda, many Liberals seem equally fearful of threats of violence. Take MSNBC’s Ed Schultz, for example, who is accusing a Texas Tea Party group of “sending out their goons to stand directly behind Voters,” among other violations. “Tea Party g

Should Liberals Appear On Fox News? Ctd
A reader writes: Addressing your reader who compares MSNBC's lack of conservative voices to FNC, I think the difference is between an echo chamber and a propagandist. It is one thing to not have guests of opposing viewpoints - the claim against MSNBC - but quite another to claim a balance the way FNC does. I'm sure FNC has finally stopped listing Dick Morris as a Democratic pollster on his chyron now, but they certainly did for years while he bashed Democrats mercilessly. The same is t...

Rand's Race: Matthews Plays The Nazi Card
The guy who put his foot on an anti-Paul Protester and pushed should be made to answer to the law. Period. That doesn't mean Chris Matthews had to break out the tired Nazi metaphor. But he did. On this evening's Hardball, after rolling tape of the incident that occurred outside the Kentucky senatorial debate last night, Matthews dredged up the creakiest cliché in politics. View video after the jump. Chris MATTHEWS: Wo-w-w-w. I don' t know what to make of that, but it reminds m...

Matthews: How Long Before We See Tea Partiers Start Showing Up in Uniform, 1930s Style?
Chris Matthews, on Wednesday's Hardball, not so cryptically compared the actions of Republican volunteers to that of Nazi-style tactics from the 1930s as he claimed the restraining of a MoveOn.org Activist by a Rand Paul supporter reminded him of what "we saw from hoodlums in the thirties in another country I will not mention" and added: "I mean it isn't far from what we saw in the thirties, where all of a sudden, political parties started showing up in...

Halloween pledge: No more Frankens
More Halloween demons: What's scarier than Al Franken in the Senate? More Al Frankens in the Senate. Or should I say, Frankensteins? After all, Halloween is tomorrow. WASHINGTON - The Republican National Committee (RNC) launched a new web site to highlight the importance of funding our Republican Victory program to help our Candidates succeed and remind voters what is at stake on November 2nd. The web site, titled "No More Frankens," can be viewed here. "With Democrat lawyers, liberal s...

Wisconsin Senate - FiveThirtyEight Election Forecasts and Polls - Election 2010 - The New York Times
Feingold vs. Johnson Based on polling and demographic data, this is the prediction of how the state will vote on Election Day. In order to view this feature, you must download the latest version of flash player here. The chance that each Candidate will win based on 100,000 simulations with random variation in the local and national political environment. In order to view this feature, you must download the latest version of flash player here. The poll weight shows how much each poll has been...

Chris Matthews has a Nazi relapse
In April. Chris Matthews pleaded for an end to Nazi references. That was April. Now that we are only a few days from an election that is looking apocalyptic for Democrats, Nazi references are back in vogue with 'Tingles.' Carol's Blog! Funny Halloween video: Jack-o-Lobotomy #funny #Halloween - Halloween fans will love this hilariously funny video Halloween video. Jack-o-Lobotomy - watch more funny videos Is Touch Screen Voting Accurate? - There have been many reports of touch screen voti...

Rah Rah Rah! MSNBC Leans Forward
Last night when network execs, on-air personalities and hungry young producers stepped out of the elevator to the party celebrating MSNBC's new slogan "Lean Forward" on the 49th floor of 7 World Trade Center, they were immediately blinded by yellow spotlights. The entire space was encased on all sides by floor-to-ceiling windows offering an uptown-facing view of Manhattan. The new slogan was everywhere, on various screens around the room, on little drinks-special-like stands on the ...

HuffPost TV: Howard Fineman: Kentucky Head-Stomping A Symptom Of Overwhelmingly Negative Political Climate (VIDEO)
HuffPost Senior Politics Editor Howard Fineman appeared on MSNBC's "Hardball" Friday evening to discuss the case of the Rand Paul supporter who stomped on a Democratic woman's head. "Don't forget, Chris, that virtually every ad that's been on television, every message from every Candidate all year this year, has been negative," Fineman told host Chris Matthews. "It's a short hop, step and a jump from calling somebody evil or Unpatriotic or basically inhuman ... the sanctions are already there ...

Sink forced to defend herself after she's accused of cheating during debate
During a break in the middle of the CNN debate, Sink was shown a Text Message on a cell phone. Scott mentioned it briefly when the debate resumed and said she was breaking the rules that prohibited getting any Messages during the hour-long debate. The incident, while minor in nature, quickly caught fire as national news organizations jumped on the story, with the Washington Post including the video of the gaffe in a list of debate missteps by Candidates over the years. Sink also appeared on Tues...

Bachmann Stays True to Character, Tarryl Not So Much
I could’ve recited much of Tuesday’s Michele Bachmann-Tarryl Clark debate in my sleep. It was that predictable. Three things shined through though. Two of the three items were said by Tarryl. Tarryl denied that she’d vote for EFCA, aka Card Check. She’s been endorsed by every alphabet union imaginable. Ditto with organizations like EdMinn and the Teamsters. Should I believe that the biggest item on the unions’ priority list isn’t a priority anymore? Should I...

Garrison Keillor passes fundraising hat for Bachmann's House challenger
Radio personality Garrison Keillor may be best known for his work on "A Prairie Home Companion," but he went political on Thursday with a Fundraising appeal for Rep. Michele Bachmann's (R-Minn.) Democratic challenger, Tarryl Clark. In the letter, he called Clark a "hard worker in the Amy Klobuchar tradition" and emphasized her "honesty about the challenges we face."  "Her well-financed opponent is from the new breed of politicians who get caught again and again making wildly false statements...

Meet the Candidates: 6th District Congress
Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this audio onto your web page. 6th District Rep. Michele Bachmann Debates her challengers Tarryl Clark and Bob Anderson about the major issues facing the country. Michele Bachmann: 6th district US Representative (R-Minn.) Elected 2006. Tarryl Clark: DFL Candidate for Congress. Minn. Senate Assistant Majority Leader. Chlorine vapor closes St. Louis Park High School The family, friends, and co-workers of Luke Bucklin are allowing us all to experience the he...

Minn. Conservative Group's Voter Fraud Allegations About Five Percent Accurate
A County Attorney in Minnesota -- where Tea Party and conservative groups are staging an anti-voter Fraud push -- has charged 47 individuals in voter Fraud cases stemming from the 2008 election. But Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman told TPMMuckraker that conservative groups have exaggerated the threat of voter Fraud. He also said that their investigation revealed that there was no coordinated campaign to commit voter Fraud. Freeman said that 43 of the cases involve Felons who were...

The UpTake - Today's UpTake: Two More Governor Debates
With just six days remaining before the Midterm Elections, Minnesota’s Gubernatorial Candidates will face off twice more today — first at an IT Candidate forum at noon at the Minneapolis Marriott (only DFL’er Mark Dayton and Independent Tom Horner will attend) and again at 6:30 p.m. at Macalaster College in St. Paul as part of Minnesota Public Radio’s (MPR) “Job Interview for Governor”. The UpTake will cover both. Third Congressional District hopefuls Erik Pau...

Report: Stimulus critic Bachmann sought local cash - BusinessWeek
ST. PAUL, Minn. Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota voted against what she calls "the failed Pelosi Trillion-dollar stimulus," but that didn't stop her from writing letters to federal agencies on behalf of seven grant applications seeking stimulus dollars for her district. The Center for Public Integrity reported Monday that Bachmann was among scores of GOP and Democratic stimulus opponents who wrote behind-the-scenes letters requesting funds for projects. The nonpartisan Wa...

Michele Bachmann: This election is all about the economy «
While Michele Bachmann’s opponent Tarryl Clark is busy insulting Bachmann with idiotic vulgarities and using Bill Clinton to trash the Tea parties and Michele’s Conservatism, Bachmann is focusing what is most important to the electorate: jobs and The Economy. Much in tone of Allen West’s new ad “American Spirit” , Bachmann is the main focus on this ad making the promise to the electorate that cutting taxes, slashing spending, and getting out of the way of the...

The rally | Michael Tomasky
I didn't go to the Jon Stewart rally but watched it on TV. The funny thing was that it wasn't that funny. I thought the serious parts worked far better than the funny parts. What Stewart and Stephen Colbert and their writers put together was a Television special, which is unsurprising, because Television is what they do. But a Television show is a different thing from a rally; pacing is different, timing is different, many things are different. So a lot of it didn't seem to translate. Televisio...

Sunday Morning Comin Down
"Remember, when Conservative Corporate Spokesmodels tell you 'It's not about the Money', hide your wallet" Edition. America's very own Monty Burns was back at the Mouse Circus Sunday, not only upping the ante on the bullshit he trotted out last week by suggesting that the problem in American politics is that we actually have too little Money sloshing around in it but also to state flatly that the "marginal utility of the last Political dollar" is wildly overrated. And so, when "when failing po...

Behar Slams Angle on 'The View' (associatedcontent)
Joy Behar, one of the co-hosts of the popular Television show "The View," has made disparaging remarks about Nevada Senate Candidate Sharron Angle. Her remarks came in response to a Television ad she viewed as Racist. She blasted the ad on live television, saying that Angle was "going to hell." In response to Behar's rant, Angle sent the host flowers, to which Behar responded that those flowers were probably picked by the Illegal Immigrants Angle has been campaigning ag...

Left Spanks Mitch McConnell As A Pinata For Truth Gaffe
Every election cycle Campaign amounts to silly season of Candidates caught in gaffes saying not only stupid things with the resultant backstepping and coverups or media end runs, but occasionally an utterance of unguarded honesty. It is those rare gems of truth that resonate in my mind. In the case of Sen. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, it seems the Left Wing echo chamber led by MSNBCs three apologists Keith Olbermann, Rachael Maddow and Lawrence ODonnell whom I have documented in my...

Audiences Will Be Granted Sparingly, To the Right Kind of People
Future Senator/Queen Sharron Angle allows that she might possibly speak with the “lamestream media” after the election. “And I’m hoping that as we get into this once I get elected senator,” Angle continued, “that they will be much more Civil and we will have a very Civil Discourse.” Angle’s big beef isn’t with Rachel Maddow or Keith Olbermann, it’s with TV stations in her local markets. It was local reporters, not national press, who ...

Lee Brenner: The Election Night Drinking Game: HyperVocal Edition
Game created by HyperVocal Editor-in-Chief, Slade Sohmer, and the HyperVocal team. You’ve heard from the pundits. Relentlessly. You’ve seen the predictions. Reluctantly. You’ve been to the polling place. Presumably. Now there’s only one thing left to do after you vote as you gather your friends to watch Tuesday night’s Midterm Election results: Get rip-roaring drunk. Blitzed, you might say. Before we get started, the usual caveats apply: Drink responsibly. DonR...

Category Model Politics
The shine has come off Barack Obama. His Approval Ratings are falling, fewer people would vote for him today than voted for him in 2008, and pundits interpret all of this as a bad sign for Democrats in Tuesday's Midterm Elections. But, the shine is coming off the Republicans, too... It's hard to watch Cable News shows nowadays without running into a segment on the role of racial prejudice in opposition to Obama's presidency. On MSNBC, Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow are keenly sen...

Theyre at it again
Evidently Pat Caddell and Doug Schoen (“jobs, jobs, jobs“) are not interested in being considered for employment in the Post-election shake up of the Obama White House. Washington Post: Obama is conducting himself in a way alarmingly reminiscent of Nixon’s role in the disastrous 1970 Midterm Campaign. No president has been so persistently personal in his attacks as Obama throughout the fall. He has regularly attacked his predecessor, the House minority leader and - dire...