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Politinerds: Ambassador John Bolton
2/6/2015 10:01:48 AM  Jazz Shaw
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This week on Politinerds, Doug and I talk with former UN Ambassador (and potential presidential candidate) John Bolton, fresh from a trip to New Hampshire where he was discussing a run for the White House. Bolton is a fascinating person to interview,
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Brian Williams may have Dan Rather, but he's lost Tom Brokaw
2/6/2015 9:21:54 AM  Noah Rothman
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Following Brian Williams' admission that a story he had been telling for years involving a helicopter in which he was riding over Baghdad in 2003 being struck by a rocket-propelled grenade was mostly fabricated, Williams found that he had few defenders
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January jobs report: 257K jobs added, U-3 rises to 5.7%
2/6/2015 8:41:50 AM  Ed Morrissey
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The US economy did better than expected in January, according to the jobs report released this morning. Beating expectations, employers added 257,000 jobs in the month, while the workforce participation rate went up by two-tenths of a point to climb off
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The next attack on Chris Christie
2/6/2015 8:01:45 AM  Jazz Shaw
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Bridgegate didn’t go anywhere, so it appears that a new line of attack has been opened on New Jersey Governor Chris Christie as he prepares a possible run for the presidency. The as yet un-gated story revolves around a prosecutor who was fired more
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Quotes of the day
2/5/2015 10:41:36 PM  Allahpundit
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It’s hard to see how Williams gets past this, and how he survives as the face of NBC News. An anchor’s No. 1 requirement is that he or she has credibility. If we don’t believe what an anchor tells us, what’s the point?… I
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Variety's buried lede: "Senior" NBC News execs "counseled" Williams to stop telling helicopter story
2/5/2015 10:01:48 PM  Ed Morrissey
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The trade magazine Variety provided an interesting twist to the Brian Williams debacle earlier today, although one had to practically use a backhoe to find the buried lede. Brian Steinberg starts off noting the many challenges NBC News already faces,
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More Obama: Freedom of speech obligates us to condemn insults to religion
2/5/2015 9:21:51 PM  Allahpundit
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Noah already blogged the lowlight of this morning’s National Prayer Breakfast speech but don’t overlook this passage. The Washington Times didn’t. There's wisdom in our founders writing in those documents that help found this nation
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Hey, ISIS, Jordan can make slick videos, too
2/5/2015 8:41:02 PM  Noah Rothman
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There's a new front opening up in the war against ISIS: a multimedia front. When ISIS revealed its latest atrocity, it did so by releasing a slickly-produced film with significant production values. The video, which featured high resolution footage,
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David Frum: Let's face it, Jeb Bush thinks immigrants are more enterprising than Americans
2/5/2015 8:01:54 PM  Allahpundit
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Not a criticism you might expect from a Republican who’s notable for his loud-and-proud centrism (and who worked for Jeb’s brother in the White House, of course), but it’s less surprising than it might seem. Frum’s a lot like
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Helo-gate Day 2: Brian Williams mum on newscast as questions raised about Katrina stories
2/5/2015 7:21:51 PM  Mary Katharine Ham
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It looks like NBC anchor will attempt to run out the clock on anger among the unwashed Internet efficiency-apartment dwellers named Vinny, and NBC doesn’t look to be moving to punish him in any way. Williams’ debunked story about taking RPG
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GOP inviting the Pope to address Congress brilliantly exposes Dem's Netanyahu hatred
2/5/2015 6:41:33 PM  Noah Rothman
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President Barack Obama put his fellow Democrats in a perilous and unsustainable position when the White House signaled that attending Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's address to a joint session of Congress was tantamount to shedding their
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Scarborough: The GOP has learned from Obama not to nominate a first-term senator
2/5/2015 6:01:23 PM  Allahpundit
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Is this true? I’ve heard the argument before. If you think Obama’s youth and inexperience as an executive contributed to the crapulence of Hopenchange, why would you turn around and nominate someone who’s … young and lacks
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Poll: Support for gay marriage rights doesn't mean support for trampling on religious convictions
2/5/2015 5:21:27 PM  Noah Rothman
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Public opinion has evolved rapidly on the matter of same-sex marriage rights over the course of less than a decade. It was only just over six years ago that millions of liberal voters in California turned out to both vote Barack Obama into office and to
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Video: Largest hacker breach ever? Anthem says 80 million records exposed
2/5/2015 4:41:48 PM  Ed Morrissey
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Hackers have turned their attention from retailers and financial records to health insurance and medical records. Anthem reports that up to 80 million records — including those of its employees — may have been exposed in a breach. They
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Next media attack on Scott Walker: "Too Midwestern"
2/5/2015 4:01:05 PM  Jazz Shaw
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If this is the best that the Chicago Tribune staff can come up with to preemptively attack Scott Walker’s potential presidential bid, he may be in better shape than I thought. Aaron Blake burns up a bit of ink to ponder whether the Walker campaign
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Did Brian Williams lie about his Katrina experience, too?
2/5/2015 3:21:01 PM  Noah Rothman
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NBC News anchor Brian Williams is in quite a bit of trouble over his admission that his decade-long claim to have endured heavy fire while flying in a military helicopter over Baghdad in 2003 was a fabrication. Accordingly, journalists are beginning to
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Thursday TEMS: Duane Patterson, Jackie Kucinich, Pete Hoekstra
2/5/2015 2:51:59 PM  Ed Morrissey
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Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (4 pm ET), we have another great lineup for the news of the day! Duane "Generalissimo" Patterson brings us up to date on the week's top stories and gives us a preview of tonight's Hugh Hewitt show. Jackie Kucinich, senior
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Video: When Brian Williams and NBC Nightly News covered Hillary's "Tuzla Dash"
2/5/2015 2:41:38 PM  Ed Morrissey
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As Allahpundit wrote earlier, the scope of the Brian Williams fabulism scandal at NBC News requires an accurate set of data points to truly understand it. More instances of Williams speaking about his up-close-and-personal experiences during an event for
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Brian Williams is an honest man, says … Dan Rather; Update: Contradictory accounts?
2/5/2015 2:01:16 PM  Allahpundit
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When Dan Rather tells you that something is trustworthy, you can take that shizz to the bank. Like Williams, Rather has been the subject of public controversy. In 2004, he was forced to retract a report on George W. Bush’s National Guard service
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Obama: You know, Christians were just as bad as ISIS a few centuries ago
2/5/2015 1:21:43 PM  Noah Rothman
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If you were to engage in a debate about religious violence with your average high school senior, you might encounter the claim that the modern scourge of religiously-inspired barbarity attributable to those who consider themselves Muslims is no
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With the election safely behind, the media is suddenly interested in Oregon Governor's scandals
2/5/2015 12:41:41 PM  Jazz Shaw
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Back in October I asked the entirely hypothetical question of whether or not the shady activities Oregon’s First Lady (the fiance, not wife, of Governor John Kitzhaber) might endanger the Governor’s reelection chances. Of course, in a blue
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Clintons' medical adviser an anti-vaccination activist?
2/5/2015 12:01:34 PM  Ed Morrissey
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Hillary Clinton jumped into the vaccination fray this week with a tweet hashtagged #GrandmothersKnowBest, but does that knowledge extend to the choice of medical adviser? The Daily Caller’s Chuck Ross wonders about that too, considering that the
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Brian Williams 2013: I thought I was going to die when my chopper was fired on
2/5/2015 11:21:57 AM  Allahpundit
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The lie seems more brazen with each telling so let’s make sure to flag all of them. Here’s a nifty catch by Chuck Ross at the Daily Caller from an interview Williams gave to Alec Baldwin two years ago in which he claimed he
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Media in crisis: Can Brian Williams' career survive?; Update: "An NBC News-wide scandal"
2/5/2015 10:41:37 AM  Ed Morrissey
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And should it? The startling admission yesterday by NBC News anchor and managing editor Brian Williams that he falsified a tale that he had been telling for more than a decade about coming under fire in the 2003 invasion of Iraq has the media industry
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