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August 24, 2012
Sherrod Brown?s Attack Ad Hypocrisy & David Brock’s Dog Collar
In Ohio?s Senate race, incumbent nut case Sherrod Brown recently complained on his website about all the outside groups running ads against him. And why not? Brown?s average polling lead on my friend Josh Mandel is roughly within the margin of error less than 75 days out, with RealClearPolitics calling the race a toss-up in a key battleground state for the presidential candidates. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are virtually tied in Ohio, too. Blaming conservatives for their own dismal records is the strategy du cycle for Democrats.
But is making the Ohio Senate election about outside groups what Sherrod Brown really wants to do?
Josh Mandel should be happy to engage Senator Brown, especially in an election cycle during which a ?journalist? accused Mitt Romney of the ?n**gerization? of Barack Obama?s campaign, or a super PAC run by a former White House staffer accused Mitt Romney of giving a blue collar worker?s wife terminal cancer. Democrats are willing to win no matter the cost as the tide of American politics turns against them, and Ohio is a great place to see it in action.
Josh Mandel has been the subject of vicious attacks that cross the line of what?s appropriate in American politics, and the mastermind behind them ? Media Matters founder David Brock ? is largely to blame for how emboldened the rest of the left has become.
Liberal super PAC American Bridge for the 21st Century, founded by David Brock (who still acts as its treasurer), began smearing Josh Mandel in the Politico before Mandel even formally announced his run for U.S. Senate. His crime? He accepted a meager $1,000 donation from Rich Iott:
“Rich Iott, the Nazi reenactor who ran unsuccessfully for Congress, donated $1,000 to Josh Mandel?s Ohio Senate campaign, according to the Republican?s campaign finance filing provided to POLITICO by the Democratic group American Bridge.”
Remember, Politico is a David Brock ally, according to an expos? on Media Matters by The Daily Caller. So it’s no surprise they actually explicitly get credit from the Politico for bringing the story up. You can also see the story linked on American Bridge?s website in a directory called ?A.B. in the News.? That?s how David Brock brags to donors like George Soros about the vile work they do to tear down opponents personally.
What?s so offensive about attacking Mandel for taking a donation from Iott? Josh is Jewish, and that?s what makes it so offensive. Of course, that doesn?t matter to David Brock?s gang, who openly declared in their Media Matters application to the IRS for tax exemption that they were waging a war on religion. It should also be no surprise that Brock?s American Bridge revived its Nazi-themed attacks on Mandel in a Christmas-themed attack on 12 Republicans last December. You know, because those holly-jolly Nazis sure were funny, weren?t they?
Adding insult to injury, American Bridge later coordinated with ProgressOhio to try to shame Mandel as a bad Jew, prodding him to give the $1,000 donation either to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which recently labeled the Family Research Council a ?hate group? because FRC?s mission disagrees with liberal orthodoxy, or to the Simon Wiesenthal Center, an organization dedicated to Holocaust education:
“The liberal issue advocacy group ProgressOhio said Mr. Mandel should donate the contribution to a charity, such as the Wiesenthal Center or the Southern Poverty Law Center.”
The irony here is delicious ? not only is it patently absurd to accuse a Jewish member of AIPAC who strongly supports Israel of being somehow insensitive to the memory of the Holocaust, but the Simon Wiesenthal Center has openly condemned David Brock and his anti-Semitic organizations:
“The Wiesenthal Center took offense with several articles and Tweets written by CAP and Media Matters writers, as well as their use of the expression ‘Israel firsters.’ While CAP blogger Zaid Jilani has apologized for using the term on Twitter, saying that he didn?t understand its connotation, Media Matters Senior Fellow MJ Rosenberg still continues to use it.”
Some may argue that it isn?t fair to continue to hold Brock to M.J. Rosenberg?s insane, anti-Semitic rants after Media Matters fired Rosenberg (by the way: Rosenberg?s anti-Israel screeds are frequently cross-posted on white nationalist websites ? see the video that got Rosenberg fired for more. This is made more ironic considering Rosenberg slandered RedState co-founder Josh Trevino as a white supremacist). I disagree with those people, because according to recent Federal Election Commission disclosures, Media Matters?s Rosenberg replacement Walid Zafar, who Breitbart News exposed this spring, is also an American Bridge employee:
$862.65 to “Walid Zafor” of Silver Spring, MD on 06/29/12 for “Salary”
$862.65 to “Walid Zafor” of Silver Spring, MD on 06/15/12 for “Salary”
$862.64 to “Walid Zafor” of Silver Spring, MD on 05/31/12 for “Salary”
$862.65 to “Walid Zafor” of Silver Spring, MD on 05/15/12 for “Salary”
$862.64 to “Walid Zafor” of Silver Spring, MD on 04/30/12 for “Salary”
$862.65 to “Walid Zafor” of Silver Spring, MD on 04/13/12 for “Salary”
Depending on how much time Zafar spends working on projects for each organization, he could be violating non-profit law. And isn’t it curious that American Bridge has a ?Walid Zafor? on the payroll and Media Matters has a ?Walid Zafar,? when anti-Semitic themes emanate from both organizations? The close-but-not-perfect spelling of Zafar?s last name also raises an interesting point: did American Bridge deliberately misspell Zafar?s name on their FEC filing so he wouldn’t be easily discovered by document searches? I ask because Brock?s cabal is very vulnerable on their anti-Semitism; just ask liberal law professor Alan Dershowitz, who promised to campaign against Barack Obama if he didn?t renounce his association to Brock?s groups. You could also examine before and after screenshots of Media Matters?s ?Political Correction? site, and see that they have scrubbed the ?Foreign Policy Matters? section where Rosenberg and Zafar regularly promoted the Ahmadinejad regime in Iran.
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Media Matters also has an extensive library of content defending Sherrod Brown so let?s drop this distinction-without-difference between David Brock?s overtly political, anti-Semitic organizations.
American Bridge?s latest stunt has been to sic its lawyers on Mandel?s office, attempting to bully him into disclosing ?basic employment information? about Ohio state employees. This is a frivolous fishing expedition that aims to distract from Sherrod Brown?s abysmal record on the economy and his complicity in Harry Reid?s refusal to propose a budget in the Senate. Interestingly, American Bridge calls on Mandel for transparency, but don?t say in their letter which records they seek, why they seek them, or what bearing the records have on the election.
This is Harry Reid?s ?source? on Mitt Romney?s tax returns on a smaller scale. It?s up to Republicans to prove they aren?t guilty of something ? anything!
American Bridge also has its own problems with donor transparency; according to OpenSecrets, American Bridge 21st Century (the super PAC) has received $416,016 from American Bridge 21st Century Foundation (the sister 501(c)(4) to the super PAC, which doesn’t have to disclose its donors) since August 30, 2011, with over $234,000 of that total coming in June 2012. Brock calls for transparency from Republican candidates and conservative organizations, but uses a black box to secretly move almost half a million dollars from liberal donors into his super PAC.
Finally, according to an American Bridge memo, Mandel received contributions from employees of an Ohio company that distributes over-the-counter ?male enhancement? supplements:
“Suarez Corporation Subsidiary Sold ‘Performance For Him’ Supplement. According to their website, Biotech Research, a division of Suarez Corporation Industries, sells ‘Performance for Him,’ an all-natural male supplement. The ingredients in Performance for Him naturally help increase the male libido without a doctor?s prescription.? [Biotech Research, accessed 8/30/11]”
Does a guy who wears dog collars in pictures with Barney Frank really want to make a political issue of other men’s penises?
It?s probably pointless to ask someone as far leftwing as Sherrod Brown to renounce David Brock?s thuggish brand of over-the-line politics, even though he?s complaining about the meanies on our side. But the Mandel campaign should welcome the opportunity to talk about the issue of outside groups carrying water for candidates. Because with friends like David Brock, who needs political opponents?
Sherrod Brown’s Attack Ad Hypocrisy & David Brock’s Dog Collar
In Ohio’s Senate race, incumbent nut case Sherrod Brown recently complained on his website about all the outside groups running ads against him. And why not? Brown’s average polling lead on my friend Josh Mandel is roughly within the margin of error less than 75 days out, with RealClearPolitics calling the race a toss-up in a key battleground state for the presidential candidates. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are virtually tied in Ohio, too. Blaming conservatives for their own dismal records is the strategy du cycle for Democrats.
But is making the Ohio Senate election about outside groups what Sherrod Brown really wants to do?
Josh Mandel should be happy to engage Senator Brown, especially in an election cycle during which a “journalist” accused Mitt Romney of the “n**gerization” of Barack Obama’s campaign, or a super PAC run by a former White House staffer accused Mitt Romney of giving a blue collar worker’s wife terminal cancer. Democrats are willing to win no matter the cost as the tide of American politics turns against them, and Ohio is a great place to see it in action.
Josh Mandel has been the subject of vicious attacks that cross the line of what’s appropriate in American politics, and the mastermind behind them – Media Matters founder David Brock – is largely to blame for how emboldened the rest of the left has become.
Liberal super PAC American Bridge for the 21st Century, founded by David Brock (who still acts as its treasurer), began smearing Josh Mandel in the Politico before Mandel even formally announced his run for U.S. Senate. His crime? He accepted a meager $1,000 donation from Rich Iott:
“Rich Iott, the Nazi reenactor who ran unsuccessfully for Congress, donated $1,000 to Josh Mandel’s Ohio Senate campaign, according to the Republican’s campaign finance filing provided to POLITICO by the Democratic group American Bridge.”
Remember, Politico is a David Brock ally, according to an exposé on Media Matters by The Daily Caller. So it’s no surprise they actually explicitly get credit from the Politico for bringing the story up. You can also see the story linked on American Bridge’s website in a directory called “A.B. in the News.” That’s how David Brock brags to donors like George Soros about the vile work they do to tear down opponents personally.
What’s so offensive about attacking Mandel for taking a donation from Iott? Josh is Jewish, and that’s what makes it so offensive. Of course, that doesn’t matter to David Brock’s gang, who openly declared in their Media Matters application to the IRS for tax exemption that they were waging a war on religion. It should also be no surprise that Brock’s American Bridge revived its Nazi-themed attacks on Mandel in a Christmas-themed attack on 12 Republicans last December. You know, because those holly-jolly Nazis sure were funny, weren’t they?
Adding insult to injury, American Bridge later coordinated with ProgressOhio to try to shame Mandel as a bad Jew, prodding him to give the $1,000 donation either to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which recently labeled the Family Research Council a “hate group” because FRC’s mission disagrees with liberal orthodoxy, or to the Simon Wiesenthal Center, an organization dedicated to Holocaust education:
“The liberal issue advocacy group ProgressOhio said Mr. Mandel should donate the contribution to a charity, such as the Wiesenthal Center or the Southern Poverty Law Center.”
The irony here is delicious – not only is it patently absurd to accuse a Jewish member of AIPAC who strongly supports Israel of being somehow insensitive to the memory of the Holocaust, but the Simon Wiesenthal Center has openly condemned David Brock and his anti-Semitic organizations:
“The Wiesenthal Center took offense with several articles and Tweets written by CAP and Media Matters writers, as well as their use of the expression ‘Israel firsters.’ While CAP blogger Zaid Jilani has apologized for using the term on Twitter, saying that he didn’t understand its connotation, Media Matters Senior Fellow MJ Rosenberg still continues to use it.”
Some may argue that it isn’t fair to continue to hold Brock to M.J. Rosenberg’s insane, anti-Semitic rants after Media Matters fired Rosenberg (by the way: Rosenberg’s anti-Israel screeds are frequently cross-posted on white nationalist websites – see the video that got Rosenberg fired for more. This is made more ironic considering Rosenberg slandered RedState co-founder Josh Trevino as a white supremacist). I disagree with those people, because according to recent Federal Election Commission disclosures, Media Matters’s Rosenberg replacement Walid Zafar, who Breitbart News exposed this spring, is also an American Bridge employee:
$862.65 to “Walid Zafor” of Silver Spring, MD on 06/29/12 for “Salary”
$862.65 to “Walid Zafor” of Silver Spring, MD on 06/15/12 for “Salary”
$862.64 to “Walid Zafor” of Silver Spring, MD on 05/31/12 for “Salary”
$862.65 to “Walid Zafor” of Silver Spring, MD on 05/15/12 for “Salary”
$862.64 to “Walid Zafor” of Silver Spring, MD on 04/30/12 for “Salary”
$862.65 to “Walid Zafor” of Silver Spring, MD on 04/13/12 for “Salary”
Depending on how much time Zafar spends working on projects for each organization, he could be violating non-profit law. And isn’t it curious that American Bridge has a “Walid Zafor” on the payroll and Media Matters has a “Walid Zafar,” when anti-Semitic themes emanate from both organizations? The close-but-not-perfect spelling of Zafar’s last name also raises an interesting point: did American Bridge deliberately misspell Zafar’s name on their FEC filing so he wouldn’t be easily discovered by document searches? I ask because Brock’s cabal is very vulnerable on their anti-Semitism; just ask liberal law professor Alan Dershowitz, who promised to campaign against Barack Obama if he didn’t renounce his association to Brock’s groups. You could also examine before and after screenshots of Media Matters’s “Political Correction” site, and see that they have scrubbed the “Foreign Policy Matters” section where Rosenberg and Zafar regularly promoted the Ahmadinejad regime in Iran.
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Media Matters also has an extensive library of content defending Sherrod Brown so let’s drop this distinction-without-difference between David Brock’s overtly political, anti-Semitic organizations.
American Bridge’s latest stunt has been to sic its lawyers on Mandel’s office, attempting to bully him into disclosing “basic employment information” about Ohio state employees. This is a frivolous fishing expedition that aims to distract from Sherrod Brown’s abysmal record on the economy and his complicity in Harry Reid’s refusal to propose a budget in the Senate. Interestingly, American Bridge calls on Mandel for transparency, but don’t say in their letter which records they seek, why they seek them, or what bearing the records have on the election.
This is Harry Reid’s “source” on Mitt Romney’s tax returns on a smaller scale. It’s up to Republicans to prove they aren’t guilty of something – anything!
American Bridge also has its own problems with donor transparency; according to OpenSecrets, American Bridge 21st Century (the super PAC) has received $416,016 from American Bridge 21st Century Foundation (the sister 501(c)(4) to the super PAC, which doesn’t have to disclose its donors) since August 30, 2011, with over $234,000 of that total coming in June 2012. Brock calls for transparency from Republican candidates and conservative organizations, but uses a black box to secretly move almost half a million dollars from liberal donors into his super PAC.
Finally, according to an American Bridge memo, Mandel received contributions from employees of an Ohio company that distributes over-the-counter “male enhancement” supplements:
“Suarez Corporation Subsidiary Sold ‘Performance For Him’ Supplement. According to their website, Biotech Research, a division of Suarez Corporation Industries, sells ‘Performance for Him,’ an all-natural male supplement. The ingredients in Performance for Him naturally help increase the male libido without a doctor’s prescription.” [Biotech Research, accessed 8/30/11]”
Does a guy who wears dog collars in pictures with Barney Frank really want to make a political issue of other men’s penises?
It’s probably pointless to ask someone as far leftwing as Sherrod Brown to renounce David Brock’s thuggish brand of over-the-line politics, even though he’s complaining about the meanies on our side. But the Mandel campaign should welcome the opportunity to talk about the issue of outside groups carrying water for candidates. Because with friends like David Brock, who needs political opponents?
Chairman of the Associated Press . . . Lewinskies Obama . . . Or Something Like That
You were expecting objectivity? Here’s the Chairman of the Associated Press introducing Barack Obama to an Associated Press meeting:
I get the desire to flatter the President of the United States, but really? He might as well have pulled out a blue dress and a cigar.
By the way, it is funny to think of the groups that Barack Obama has not deigned to visit and those he has. He felt no need to speak, for example, to the NAACP. But he is a repeat visitor to the Associated Press.
The American media establishment really is going all in for this guy and it is no wonder. The only silver lining is we are starting to see more and more good journalists embarrassed by their own kind and we continue to see some bright lights who are willing to be just as tough on both sides. But in the Gang of 500 — the political press corps and pundits in the Beltway, Barack Obama has many a soulmate.
Hat tip, by the way, to Complete Colorado for tracking this down.
On Lance Armstrong
If you haven’t heard yet, Lance Armstrong has given up on fighting the US Anti-Doping Agency. He’s throwing in the towel.
I don’t really have a dog in the fight. I’m never cared much for competitive cycling. But it really does seem horrendous and un-American to me that a quasi-government agency, mostly funded by the government, gets to pretend it is not a part of the government and throw out due process to harass an athlete after he’s largely left the sport and all prior investigations turned up in his favor.
The USADA has gone back decades to reinvestigate doping allegations against Armstrong who is probably the most tested athlete in history. He’s surrendered blood and urine and everything else they’ve asked for over and over at frequently unannounced visits and somehow, if you believe the USADA, beaten them every time.
Or . . . he wasn’t doping.
There’s a lot of jealousy in the world. I don’t know whether Armstrong cheated or it is all jealousy. But he tested clean every time and the USADA has ignored its own statute of limitations to make an example of Armstrong.
The horror stories of professional athletes and the abuse they suffer at the hands of anti-doping bureaucrats can boggle the mind. There’s something very much of the feel of a witch hunt to this. If Armstrong was doping, then by God take away his awards and give him a medal for being the smartest damn athlete on the planet.
You can read Lance Armstrong’s statement here. Again, I’ve got no dog in the fight and I haven’t much cared for Lance Armstrong since he left his family for Sheryl “one piece of toilet paper” Crowe. But objectively, it seems the investigation of the USADA amounts to holding Armstrong under water until he dies to declare him human or, should he survive, burning him at the stake for being a witch. In the process they’ve taken a sport made relevant by Lance Armstrong and put the whole thing under a cloud of suspicion that the anti-doping bureaucrats’ tests can’t even beat Lance Armstrong.
Michael Phelps better watch his back with this as precedent.
Exit point: if we’re going to go through this witch hunt every time an athlete gets too famous, maybe we should just let them dope and then, on the same competitive level, see who is best.
Not the Behavior of a Winning Campaign
The media keeps showing its rear end. Let me just make that clear. If you are a competent reporter, I’m not sure how you cannot be embarrassed by the majority of those in your profession right now covering politics.
From Mark Halperin, to Jake Tapper, to Chuck Todd, more journalists are actually now admitting just how pliable the media is when it comes to Barack Obama’s spin. All week long, as the economy deteriorates, most every anchor at most every news outlet, most every editorialist in most every paper, and most every “centrist” and liberal pundit has been pointing out the GOP’s extremist abortion position.
Few, if any, have pointed out that Barack Obama’s abortion on demand position is extreme. Few, if any, have pointed out how most Americans favor restrictions on abortion. Few, if any, have pointed out that Mitt Romney’s position is actually more mainstream than Barack Obama’s. Few, if any, have wanted to go beyond Politifact’s ham-handed cover for Obama on infanticide and get into what Barack Obama actually said in 2002. Hear him come out for infanticide yourself right here. Remember, the media is hiding behind the left-leaning Politifact (and yes, it does lean left) to avoid having to deal with this.
They cannot help themselves. But why are they doing it?
They are doing it for the exact same reason Joe Biden is claiming the GOP will put black people back in chains and why Barack Obama would rather talk about uteri than jobs — they all know Barack Obama is losing this thing.
Hysteria creeps into campaigns when the campaigns know they are losing. When George H. W. Bush saw the election slipping away in 1992, he took to referring to Bill Clinton and Al Gore as Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum. The invective went up as his poll numbers went down.
Barack Obama and the Democrats are going to throw in the towel on the tradition of sitting on the sidelines during their opponent’s political convention. In the past, the parties did this with each other. Not now. The Obama campaign cannot afford to. It is too close and polling is about to shift from registered voters to likely voters, which will generate negative numbers for him. He must surrender another tradition to engage in more hyper partisan mudslinging because he is losing.
More and more polls are showing Mitt Romney trending upwards in swing states. More and more polls are showing Americans growing more pessimistic about the economy. More and more economists are starting to worry about the economy. Gas prices and milk prices are going up while take home pay is going down.
The hysterics we are seeing from the Democrats come as reality hits everyone. Even I have been convinced that Romney was going to blow this thing. The stupid statement about the Soptics not having the fate they had if they were in Massachusetts could have been game over.
But then Paul Ryan became the veep pick. He has now given Romney purpose. He has defined the campaign. He has put Barack Obama on defense. Consider this — the sage voices of the GOP were convinced the GOP could not win the fight on budgetary and entitlement reform. They were convinced Paul Ryan would sink the ticket.
Then the Democrats tried to define Paul Ryan and failed. They have been failing ever since. Their attempts to define Mitt Romney didn’t do enough and they have yet to settle on a narrative to define Paul Ryan. They are grasping at straws. Now they’d even fight the Associated Press style book to try to go after Paul Ryan.
And that gets us back to the media. At what point will they finally start asking if Barack Obama needs a campaign shake up? Because if it was Mitt Romney in the same boat, they sure as hell would. In fact, there have already been two different media cycles about Romney needing a campaign shake up and not one about Barack Obama.
Why? The simple truth remains the vast majority of the media is more sympathetic to and friendly with Team Obama and would hate to ruffle the feathers of friends. It’s one of the greatest thing Mitt Romney has going for him right now.
Morning Briefing for August 24, 2012
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August 24, 2012
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1. On Lance Armstrong
2. Not the Behavior of a Winning Campaign
3. The First Likely Voter Poll from Fox News Portends Mostly Good News
4. This, This, A Thousand Times This
5. Cayman Islands Based Gawker Media Attacks Mitt Romney for Cayman Island Assets
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1. On Lance Armstrong
If you haven’t heard yet, Lance Armstrong has given up on fighting the US Anti-Doping Agency. He’s throwing in the towel.
I don’t really have a dog in the fight. I’m never cared much for competitive cycling. But it really does seem horrendous and un-American to me that a quasi-government agency, mostly funded by the government, gets to pretend it is not a part of the government and throw out due process to harass an athlete after he’s largely left the sport and all prior investigations turned up in his favor.
The USADA has gone back decades to reinvestigate doping allegations against Armstrong who is probably the most tested athlete in history. He’s surrendered blood and urine and everything else they’ve asked for over and over at frequently unannounced visits and somehow, if you believe the USADA, beaten them every time.
Or . . . he wasn’t doping.
Please click here for the rest of the post.
2. Not the Behavior of a Winning Campaign
The media keeps showing its rear end. Let me just make that clear. If you are a competent reporter, I’m not sure how you cannot be embarrassed by the majority of those in your profession right now covering politics.
From Mark Halperin, to Jake Tapper, to Chuck Todd, more journalists are actually now admitting just how pliable the media is when it comes to Barack Obama’s spin. All week long, as the economy deteriorates, most every anchor at most every news outlet, most every editorialist in most every paper, and most every “centrist” and liberal pundit has been pointing out the GOP’s extremist abortion position.
Few, if any, have pointed out that Barack Obama’s abortion on demand position is extreme. Few, if any, have pointed out how most Americans favor restrictions on abortion. Few, if any, have pointed out that Mitt Romney’s position is actually more mainstream than Barack Obama’s. Few, if any, have wanted to go beyond Politifact’s ham-handed cover for Obama on infanticide and get into what Barack Obama actually said in 2002. Hear him come out for infanticide yourself right here. Remember, the media is hiding behind the left-leaning Politifact (and yes, it does lean left) to avoid having to deal with this.
They cannot help themselves. But why are they doing it?
They are doing it for the exact same reason Joe Biden is claiming the GOP will put black people back in chains and why Barack Obama would rather talk about uteri than jobs — they all know Barack Obama is losing this thing.
Please click here for the rest of the post.
3. The First Likely Voter Poll from Fox News Portends Mostly Good News
Yesterday, Fox News posted their first likely voter poll of the campaign, which shows Mitt Romney leading Barack Obama 45%-44%. Many of us were wondering how the polling would look once the pollsters switch to a likely voter screen – a model which is almost always more favorable to Republicans than a poll of registered voters. This poll of 1,007 likely voters is a far cry from the last Fox News poll of 930 registered voters, which showed Obama with a 9 point lead. Obviously, that poll was taken during the nadir of Romney’s campaign and before he got a boost from picking Paul Ryan as his running mate, but clearly the LV model makes a difference. In this case, it gave Romney a 3-point bump (Obama is up 2 when including RVs).
Please click here for the rest of the post.
4. This, This, A Thousand Times This
Finally, someone has seized upon what I think is THE winning narrative in this election cycle.
It used to be that if you worked hard enough you could be successful in America. But in Barack Obama’s America, you have to work hard and give to Barack Obama. It’s all about the team you are on, not the work you do.
The website Crony Chronicles has put up a video that I think needs to be broken up into 30 second ads and run all over the country.
Please click here for the rest of the post.
5. Cayman Islands Based Gawker Media Attacks Mitt Romney for Cayman Island Assets
This is actually pretty hilarious.
Gawker, the site that has spent lots of time also ridiculing Sarah Palin and Trig Palin and pretty much writing every other offensive thing you can think of, is now attacking Mitt Romney for having assets based in the Cayman Islands.
The Romney camp is gleefully pointing out that Gawker, you may not know, is based in the Cayman Islands.
According to Chris Rovzar at New York Magazine, Gawker is owned by Gawker Media Group, Inc, a Cayman Islands Entity.
August 23, 2012
This, This, A Thousand Times This
Finally, someone has seized upon what I think is THE winning narrative in this election cycle.
It used to be that if you worked hard enough you could be successful in America. But in Barack Obama’s America, you have to work hard and give to Barack Obama. It’s all about the team you are on, not the work you do.
The website Crony Chronicles has put up a video that I think needs to be broken up into 30 second ads and run all over the country.
Cayman Islands Based Gawker Media Attacks Mitt Romney for Cayman Island Assets
This is actually pretty hilarious.
Gawker, the site that has spent lots of time also ridiculing Sarah Palin and Trig Palin and pretty much writing every other offensive thing you can think of, is now attacking Mitt Romney for having assets based in the Cayman Islands.
The Romney camp is gleefully pointing out that Gawker, you may not know, is based in the Cayman Islands.
According to Chris Rovzar at New York Magazine, Gawker is owned by Gawker Media Group, Inc, a Cayman Islands Entity.
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