Town Hall Season Is Here! Sen. McCain To Tea Partier On ‘Hobbit’ Quip: ‘I Am Not Sorry’
Congress has been out of session for little more than a week, but it's never too early for boisterous Town Hall meetings where constituents get a chance to lash out at their representatives for their perceived incompetence. First up this year is Sen. John McCain, who confronted an enraged (but polite) Tea Party member who...
AZ Shooting Victim Arrested For ‘Death Threat’ To Tea Party Leader During ABC News Townhall
Merely a week after a crazed gunman shot Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in the head and left several others dead and wounded at a local political event, a Tea Party spokesman in the same area received a public death threat at a town hall meeting-- from one of Jared Loughner's victims.
Sen. Tom Coburn: The Democrats’ ‘Plan Is For [Obamacare] To Fail’
Many Republican legislators have suggested that the recently passed health care reform plan ("Obamacare") is a bad idea that will hurt the nation, but it hadn't yet been articulated that this result was intentional until this soundbite: Republican Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, explaining the concept of "adverse selection" in insurance buyers, claims that "the...
Cue Hysterical Town Hall Mob Over New Black Panther Case
Mission: Accomplished. In a search for a sequel to last year's Summer of Angst over health care reform, the "manufactured menace" of a New Black Panther-controlled election has gripped California's 27th District. In a video featured on Fox News earlier yesterday, Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Ca) was asked about the case, to...
Friendly Fire: Does Yet Another GOP’er Criticizing Fox News Signal A Trend?
Last weekend, David Frum (the former speechwriter for George W. Bush) appeared on ABC's This Week, and made some news by claiming that "Fox (News), like Rush Limbaugh, has an interest in pushing the Republicans to the margins, making people angry." Last night, Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) joined in the "anti-Fox" fray during a...
Joe Scarborough Takes Aim at the Right: “Am I Not Conservative Enough?”
Joe Scarborough is getting a little tired of the accusations that naturally follow from being one of the last remaining conservatives on MSNBC. The Morning Joe host wrote a column on Town Hall making an impassioned defense of his conservative ideals, aptly titled "Am I Not Conservative Enough?", mostly directed at Media Research Center's...
Health Care Debate Gets Racial With “Great White Hope” Comment
Its no mystery that the Health Care debate has raised passions on both sides of the aisles: the conservative movement has cried socialism; the progressive movement has accused the right of no-so-subtle racism. Well the claims of race baiting are about to get a bit louder with news of Kansas Rep...
O’Reilly, Stewart and Kurtz Team Up to Break Navel-Gazing Record
How do you deal with a summer news slump? Engage in an ongoing debate about semantics with another TV Anchor in hopes that a respected media critic will cover it, then report on said critic taking the bait? If this sounds confusing, we'll explain out Jon Stewart, Howard Kurtz and Bill O'Reilly all...
