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Democrats including Dianne Feinstein and Dick Durbin slam Dick Cheney for allegedly duping Congress, Howard Kurtz revisits Obama’s controversial glance, and guess who’s still defending Sarah Palin?
Feinstein Chides Cheney's 'Big Problem'
A number of Democrats came out swinging on Sunday, following a New York Times article claiming that former Vice President Dick Cheney ordered the CIA to withhold information from Congress. One of the loudest voices in the pack was Senate Intelligence Committee chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, who, appearing on Fox News Sunday, says she is not very happy about being left in the dark. But to be fair she WAS briefed on the CIA’s operations… two weeks ago.
McCain: Palin Quit, But She's No Quitter. Got That?
On Meet the Press, Sen. John McCain says that Sarah Palin’s decision to quit as a leader in Alaska was a surprise but not a shock, and is consistent with his own qualities of leadership. The only difference is McCain, who has faced his own fair share of media criticism in addition to physical torture, never quit his office. Confused? So is David Gregory.
Howie Explores the Stimulus Package
Howard Kurtz is the first to criticize news organizations for paying too much attention to the frivolous. But he couldn’t resist giving a moment of Reliable Sources to whether Matt Drudge correctly nailed President Obama for sneaking a peek at a young Brazilian woman’s, uh, posterior region. But credit to Kurtz: He reviews the videotape several times and, upon considering the evidence, decides Obama got an unfair rap. Unlike Sarkozy.
The Right Dumps Carrie
Jacob Bernstein is a senior reporter at The Daily Beast. Previously, he was a features writer at WWD and W Magazine. He has also written for New York magazine, Paper, and The Huffington Post.
Sarah Drops the Act
Tina Brown is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast. She is the author of the 2007 New York Times best seller The Diana Chronicles. Brown is the former editor of Tatler, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and Talk magazines and host of CNBC's Topic A with Tina Brown.
Palin's Gold Mine
Duff McDonald is a contributing editor at New York magazine and a former contributing editor at Condé Nast Portfolio. His book, Last Man Standing, about Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, was published by Simon & Schuster in October.
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OMG John McCain is so lying when he says he respects Sarah Palin. His eyes are going back and forth like a pinball in a hot game. About the only truth is "I cannot tell you the appreciation I have for her." He cannot tell us because it would reveal his total dirty old man lechery and political cynicism in selecting her as his running mate.
Maybe you have been watching too much "Lie to Me" on TV.
Maybe Dixie hit it out of the park!
I don't think Dixie hit it out of the park, I mean obviously McCain became pretty uncomfortable when he says "I cannot tell you the appreciation I have for her." But there's more too this.
To me, this just screams that Sarah is who the Republicans will be supporting for 2012. Politcal positioning at its finest. What you saw here was the former front-runner stepping back and grabbing Sarah and moving her up front. Sorry Romney, Sanford, Jindal, etc...
Step #2 Now Palin will be all over Faux News as the hero and doing the courageous thing. Whoops, looks like Fox got ahead of itself!
Aw, c'mon. She took the blame for his loosing the White House. I bet he appreciates that quite a bit.
OMG, McCain is a "dirty old man" ? That's both ageist AND sexist, you silly girl !!
Senator McCain was very predictable on Meet the Press today. I will say I liked his acknowledgment that he would be willing to talk to the President on Health Care. He stated "we should begin dialogue". I would hope the he follows through. It seems that the President is very collaborative.
Gee, DiFi really showed a lot of indignation about not being briefed about Cheney's program, didn't she.
And McCain is trying to bullshit everbody about Sarah Barracuda and is not succeeding.
Can anyone imagine the debates between Obama and Palin in 2012? Holy crap. It's litterally hard to imagine. It won't matter if it's a Townhall, Standup of Sitdown; those debates will be massacres for the Republican party. Palin can raise money like nobody's business, but she'd struggle to put her ideas where her mouth is.
Listen y'all, Palin will NOT run for office. She is only in it for the money now. After getting the political tar beat out of her in the last election, and her realizing that as an office holder she can no longer fly under the radar because of her sophmoric political incoherence, she has quit office holding for the nut-wing ATM circuit. Why on Earth would she want to be POTUS when millions of dollars are out there for her to gather in?
I agree. She is only leaving the door open for a potential 2012 run because she knows it will put a premium on her speaking engagements. I doubt she'll actually run.
Good thing Obama solved this economic problem!!! Now the Daily Beast can concentrate more on Palin.
I hope she does run in 2012. Obama will get 75% of the vote then. there is just not enough stupid people in America to elect her to anything. McCain is just stupid , but I doubt he would be stupid enough to vote for Palin LOL !!
You only have to look at the amount of comments left on any subject relative to a Palin one to know she generates noise. And noise means dollars. I don't remember who said it but it went; There is no such thing as bad press.
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