NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
"Special Report" host Bret Baier thinks Tuesday's election results changed the White House's view on the Fox News Channel. He further believes that Obama senior adviser David Axelrod's interview with Fox's Major Garrett Wednesday was a sign "they’re gonna start playing ball on the news side." During his Thursday chat with WOR radio's Steve Malzberg, Baier also agreed that...
Heavy-Handed Politics (Free subscription) | yesterday
Robert Ringer's Voice of Sanity Blog By Robert Ringer Those commentators on Fox News who like to play it down the middle keep saying that they believe BHO’s strategy of trying to marginalize the most successful TV network in the country is unwise. Unwise? They’ve been inside the Beltway too long. The Duplicitous Despot and his criminal minions — most notably David Axelrod, Rahm Emanuel,...
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | yesterday
David Axelrod's appearance on Fox News Wednesday apparently wasn't a sign of a truce between the Obama administration and the cable news network as it appears the White House is putting pressure on Democrat consultants to avoid the station at all costs. For its part, the White House has denied these allegations. Such was reported Friday by the Los Angeles Times (h/t NBer Gary Hall): At least one Democratic...
Heavy-Handed Politics (Free subscription) | yesterday
Robert Ringer's Voice of Sanity Blog By Robert Ringer I caught the last part of Chris Wallace’s interview with Rush Limbaugh last Sunday and was pleased to have it confirmed as being a huge success. That confirmation came from David Axelrod on CBS’ Face the Nation when he dismissed Limbaugh as an entertainer. Said Axelrod, “He does it every day on radio. He’s marketing the outrageous....
Red State (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
In the flurry of news this week, you may have missed another body tossed under the insatiable Obama bus : Internet Czar Susan Crawford. The Obama administration has faced a vocal and growing opposition to the radical so-called net neutrality advocated by folks like Crawford and FCC Chair Julius Genachowski. Bi-partisan opposition , I hasten to add. The radicals in the administration, whose views are...
Sister Toldjah (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Via Fishbowl DC: Politico reports that CNN’s David Gergen, WaPo’s Chris Cillizza, Newsweek’s Jon Meacham and Howard Fineman, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Cynthia Tucker, Politico’s Mike Allen, NPR/Fox’s Mara Liasson, TPM’s Josh Marshall and NYT’s David Brooks, Andy Rosenthal, and Gail Collins joined the President, David Axelrod, Anita Dunn, Bill...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
If you're certain White House reporters, the answer could be lunch with President Obama... Politico reports that CNN's David Gergen , WaPo 's Chris Cillizza , Newsweek 's Jon Meacham and Howard Fineman , the Atlanta Journal-Constitution 's Cynthia Tucker , Politico 's Mike Allen , NPR/Fox's Mara Liasson , TPM 's Josh Marshall and NYT 's David Brooks , Andy Rosenthal , and Gail Collins joined the President,...
Blue Jersey: Covering NJ like a rug (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Promoted by Jason Springer: Here is JRB's take. The White House wants David Paterson out of the running for New York's 2010 gubernatorial election. Paterson hopes they'll reconsider. Because hey -- it worked for Jon Corzine . In early August, David Axelrod and Patrick Gaspard met at a New York City hotel with Corzine's campaign staffers, asking whether or not the incumbent governor could actually...
National Review Online (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
EDITOR’S NOTE: This column is available exclusively through King Features Syndicate. For permission to reprint or excerpt this copyrighted material, please contact: kfsreprint@hearstsc.com , or phone 800-708-7311, ext. 246. O n November 3, the fairy tale died. The election results in Virginia and New Jersey dismantled the self-satisfied, just-so story that Democrats have been telling themselves...
Power Line (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Earlier Paul described Sen. Lindsey Graham's observations on Tuesday's elections as the "least cogent commentary about New York-23" that he'd seen. Paul probably hadn't read this column by E.J. Dionne. Of Tuesday's results, Dionne, spinning furiously on behalf of his beloved Democratic Party, writes that "[t]he night's biggest loser was the national conservative political machine --...
Gay Patriot (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
. . . and Rahm Emanuel and Anita Dunn and David Axelrod. Fox News pulls huge election day ratings. Mr. President, White House aides, they couldn’t have done it without your support, er, condemnation. On election night this week, Between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. (8 p.m. to 11 p.m. Eastern time), Fox News grabbed [...]
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Just how bad for Obama were Tuesday's election results? So bad White House senior adviser David Axelrod went on Fox News Wednesday to try and spin it? In case you've forgotten, this is about two weeks after Axelrod told ABC's George Stephanopoulos, " [T]hey're not really a news station ." I guess that's changed now that the Republicans have come back to life (video of Major Garrett's unedited...
First Read (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, Domenico Montanaro, and Ali Weinberg*** Owning the results: By yesterday offering up two top White House aides -- David Axelrod and Robert Gibbs -- to talk about Tuesday’s elections, the White House decided to own the results. And the move seemed to send two signals: 1) they believe the outcomes weren’t as disastrous as some in the chattering class were making...
The Corner (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Tuesday’s election results were a disaster for the White House and the Democratic party. Not only did the Obama coalition of young voters and minorities not return to the polls (African-American turnout fell from 20 to 16 percent of the electorate in Virginia, for example, while the youth vote fell by 50 percent from 2008), but independents abandoned Obama’s favored candidates in droves....
Flopping Aces (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Just as many of us predicted the Democrat leadership is frantically spinning yesterdays election saying that Virginia and New Jersey are no big deal while NY-23 should….get this….actually reassure bluedog Dem’s: Centrist, Blue Dog Democrats should be reassured on their healthcare vote by last night’s election, White House senior advisor David Axelrod said Wednesday. Axelrod...
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