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Blame the organizers for the snafu at the Iowa tea-party rally, not Palin
Mistakes. Tina touched on this point before, but here’s Dave Weigel noting something that drives it home: I met [organizer Ken] Crow in Iowa this month (I’ve been unsuccessful reaching him today) and...
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Shocker: William Daley not exactly rescuing Obama presidency
The failure of Chicago-sur-le-Potomac. Yesterday, Dave Weigel tweeted, “Remember how Chief of Staff Bill Daley was going to save Obama and get credibility with businesses?” Today, Politico catches up...
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Obama to abandon white working class?
Waving the white flag? Not quite. Slate’s resident JournoLister, Dave Weigel, apparently thinks it’s raaaacist of FoxNation to highlight the most provocative part of an NYT post by Thomas Edsall...
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Drama: Bachmann’s Iowa chairman endorses Ron Paul — three hours after...
Farewell. Dave Weigel snarks, “This changes everything. Instead of having to drop out on January 4, Bachmann will have to drop out on January 4.” The official statement from now-former Bachmann chair...
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Paul: I did write parts of the newsletters, but not the bad parts
Responsibility. Dave Weigel has the transcript from a radio interview in Iowa. CALLER: Dr. Paul, how confident were you at the time that the newsletters that bore your name were representative of your...
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Pete Hoekstra now fundraising off of controversial ad about China
Threat. A follow-up to Jazz’s post last night about the outrageous outrage du jour. According to Dave Weigel, Hoekstra’s set to surf the backlash: Here we go again. We dared to take on Debbie Stabenow...
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Rush Limbaugh: How did Brian Ross’s tea-party “scoop” about Aurora make it on...
“They didn’t care whether it was true or not.” Via the Daily Rushbo, belated reaction to the media’s latest attempt to bash a square peg into a round narrative hole. Over at Slate, Dave Weigel says...
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Not a single mention of the tea party in primetime at the convention so far?
Silence. Via Doug Mataconis, so says BuzzFeed after studying the transcripts. Dave Weigel had already noticed a conspicuous absence of TP mentions on Tuesday night, when Ted Cruz alluded to a “great...
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