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One year ago tonight, Thursday, November 20 -- like today, the Thursday one week before Thanksgiving -- MSNBC ridiculously plastered “BREAKING NEWS” on-screen for video of Sarah Palin at a turkey farm just after pardoning one, running more than three minutes of video of some turkeys being slaughtered by a man in the background behind her. Palin, then just weeks off the presidential campaign trail, was simply answering questions from reporters in her role as Governor of Alaska. Filling in as... Read Full Story
The Rev. Jesse Jackson ripped U.S. Rep. Artur Davis, D-Birmingham, for voting against the House health care bill, saying “you can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.”
AP photo/Matt Sayles Rev. Jesse Jackson speaks to news media in Los Angeles on July 7, 2009. Jackson, speaking in Washington, D.C., at a reception for the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, did not mention Davis by name, according to a report in The Hill newspaper. But Davis was the sole member of... Read Full Story
From Eric Dondero: The big political news that broke late Thursday; Rudy Giuliani has decided not to seek the Governorship of New York. Instead, the NY Daily News reported, Giuliani is on the verge of announcing for a Senate run. Coincidentally, the day the news broke a new poll showed him ahead for Senate. New Marist Poll what if Giuliani makes a bid for the U.S. Senate? Giuliani leads U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, the Democrat appointed by Governor David Paterson to fill the vacant seat... Read Full Story
Last weekend, I warned about the dangers of Republican candidates focusing on Iowa during the 2012 Presidential primaries, as Iowa has become a reliable state for Democrats, and if a Republican wants to win the nomination, their focus needs to be directed towards the Southern and Western United States. When the discussion shifts into a possible Sarah Palin run for the Republican nomination, she needs to focus on South Carolina, she needs to direct attention to the Southern states, and... Read Full Story
Polling was conducted by the Siena Research Institute. With the political world erupting over the news Giuliani is leaning towards a run for the United States Senate, a political poll released on Tuesday probably had some effect on Giuliani's reasoning of whether or not a run would be worth it. With under 12 months to the 2010 Senate election, Giuliani leads Gillibrand by a 49-43% margin, this is the first time Gillibrand has posted an over 40% showing in months, however, at that time she... Read Full Story
T he other day, Fox News got caught substituting footage from the Sept. 12 teabagger party in DC and saying it was the crowd at Crazy Old Michelle Bachmann’s Capitol Steps Press Conference Fiasco. Was it the diligent Main Stream Media that caught this obvious mistake, where in one scene the trees were losing their leaves and in the next scene the trees were full and green?
Nope. It was Jon Stewart on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show.”
Sean Hannity actually apologized for this... Read Full Story
Author's note - This political feature will be updated through out the next few years, this is my personal opinion only, and does not necessary reflect the views of Jumping in Pools as a whole. (3) - Mitt Romney The candidate who finished second last year in the 2008 Republican primaries, has remained as silent as a tomb over the past several months, speaking on rare occasions and keeping his main focus on economic issues. While a Romney campaign has not been on the mind of most... Read Full Story
Matt Rooney | November 19, 2009 From the New York Daily News: "Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani has decided not to run for governor next year - but will run for U.S. Senate instead, sources told the Daily News. A source familiar with Giuliani's thinking said the failed presidential candidate has been telling people he plans to run against Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gilli brand in 2010 to fill out the remaining two years of Hillary Clinton 's term. If elected, the source said, he could use that... Read Full Story
Waaaaaah. I don’t like the way the media is covering me and my family. Waaaaaaah. They call me a hypocrite. Waaaaaah. I loved them when they showered me with praise, but as soon as somebody levels criticism, I accuse them of having a problem and never put the blame on myself. Also, I hate my Newsweek cover.
Sarah Palin is currently, among a litany of other complaints and passing the buck and lies in her autobiography that she didn’t write, is complaining about the Newsweek cover story on... Read Full Story
Barack Obama seriously considered picking former foe Hillary Clinton as his vice presidential running mate last year but rejected her because he was worried about controlling Bill Clinton. In a new book, the US president's 2008 campaign manager David Plouffe reveals the behind-the-scenes calculations as Obama searched for a vice presidential nominee and finally settled on Joe Biden. "If his central criterion measured who could be the best VP, she had to be included in that list," Plouffe... Read Full Story
