Newsweek hires Markos “Daily Kos” Moulitsas as a contributor for their 2008 election coverage
And Jim Hoft has the definitive response to the news.
The Hillary media-control machine: An inside look (MORE: BLITZER ALLEGEDLY WARNED BY HILLARY ON UPCOMING DEBATE)
How many times have conservatives heard over the years reports about GWB’s love/hate relationship with the press, and heard from the Usual Suspects on how the Bush administration supposedly works “unsually hard” at controlling media access to high ranking admin officials, including the President himself? That the Bush administration’s alleged “heavy-handed” approaches over what they allow to be filtered down to the news media versus what they want to “keep secret” are “assaults” on the “independent media” and “sweeping and dangerous attacks by this administration on investigative journalism“? Quite frankly, I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve heard such arguments, but we all know they are voluminous. The underlying implication of all of the assertions being made by these “champions of free speech” is that the Bush administration has engaged in “unprecedented” and “chilling” tactics designed to “undermine” the watchdog role of the mainstream press.
Rudy gets endorsement from Pat Robertson
Chris Cillizza reports this morning that influential Christian conservative Pat Robertson has endorsed Rudy Giuliani:
The fallout from Hillary’s victim card playing: The week after
The discussions over Hillary Clinton’s use of the victim card after her poor performance at last week’s Democratic presidential candidate debate haven’t died down. In fact, they seem to be intensifying.
A rare word of praise for Senator Obama (MORE: HILLARY NO STRANGER TO PILING ON?)
Last night, I blogged about Team Hillary and her supporters phonily playing the victim card by portraying her as a poor lil’ defenseless woman being “ganged up on” by six men (well, actually it was only five, if you count John Edwards).