Among the things to me that are noteworthy in this piece from last week's Washington Post The Fix blog, about whether the Libertarian Party is cannibalizing the GOP, is that in also making the point that non-presidential Libertarian candidates did well in some places -which is news to me and other South Florida news consumers since the local media down here have yet to report this fact- is their
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Reading post-election tea leaves - Was the Libertarian Party's successful pick-up of some dissatisfied GOP voters in non-presidential races a worrying sign for GOP, or just a reaction to some GOP candidates underperforming and voters not wanting to vote Democrat?
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Glenn Kessler of Wash. Post ponders the continual "Overselling" of the the importance of Independent Voters in Presidential politics, and Kessler's piece support's Rush Limbaugh's longtime contention re GOP consultants fixation on Independents to the exclusion of core voters and GOTV
Two weeks after the Obama-Romney presidential election we are finally starting to get a more-nuanced, fact-based picture of what actually took place that day and in the lead-up to it, and part of what we're seeing is that some long cherished myths and notions among the professional political class may now be gone with the wind, because they can not be proven with real voters anymore.
The
James Poulos adroitly connects-the-dots at Forbes.com re 2012 GOP's campaign's strategic/marketing mistakes, and suggests that while much of what Romney criticized (lamented) about Obama playing Identity Politics and patronizing Santa Claus to many niche voters is 100% true, GOP can't win by singing Blues re Obamanomics or chorus of "How Do You Solve a Problem Like Needy, Young & Dumb Single Women Voters?"; @jamespoulos
VOAvideo YouTube Channel: VOA's Jeffrey Young examines so-called "Identity Politics" in this segment of "How America Elects." Uploaded June 20, 2012.
http://youtu.be/a0Hui4sEBfI
James Poulos adroitly connects-the-dots at Forbes.com re 2012 GOP's campaign's strategic/marketing mistakes, and suggests that while much of what Romney criticized (lamented) about Obama playing Identity Politics and
Bobby Jindal's looming Mainstream Media "Mirror Mirror" problems are closer at hand than I thought; Mark Hendrickson at Forbes.com on -what I see as Jindal's needless- "Jab At Mitt Romney Underscores Republicans' Dilemma"; Jindal is proving Rush Limbaugh's point about GOP self-regard
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal gets played and walks into quicksand, led by CNN's Wolf Blitzer in his condemnation of Mitt Romney: 'We Don't Win Elections By Insulting Voters.' Jindal doesn't seem to fully appreciate the fact that if he were being equally critical of President Obama in his public comments as he was of Mitt Romney prior to his appearance here, he wouldn't be appearing on TV at
Video: Triumph the Insult Comic Dog hits the U.S. presidential debate in Boca Raton and immediately heads for the media spin room in search of political nuance and intelligent discussion among the assembled media hordes and the party's surrogates...for Triumph to poop on!; Robert Smigel's comic genius returns to the small screen again!
TEAMCOCO video: Conan O'Brien Show on WTBS: Triumph the Insult Comic Dog hits the last of the three U.S. presidential debates held at Lynn University in Boca Raton, and immediately heads for the media spin room in search of political nuance and intelligent discussion among the assembled media hordes and the party's surrogates...for Triumph to poop on! Uploaded October 26, 2012.
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HEADLINES: Second presidential debate tonight; Fey and Poehler named Golden Globes hosts
There are several broadcasting stories of interest floating around the interwebs this morning; here are the ones I consider the most important:
SECOND PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE SET FOR TONIGHT
President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney will meet at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y. for the second of three Presidential debates. Candy Crowley of CNN will moderate tonight's debate, which will be in the town hall format. Citizens will ask questions of the candidates on foreign and domestic issues. Candidates each will have two minutes to respond, and an additional minute for the moderator to facilitate a discussion. The town meeting participants will be undecided voters selected by the Gallup Organization. The debate begins at 8 p.m. CT (9 ET) tonight and will air on the usual channels.
MOONVES EXTENDS CBS DEAL THROUGH JUNE '17
Les Moonves, CBS' president and CEO, has received a 2-year extension on his contract that will give him control over things through June 2017. His base salary won't go up, but he will have opportunities to receive bonuses. [TVNewsCheck]
KARDASHIAN TO BE A JUDGE ON 'THE X FACTOR'
Nope, not Kim. (Sorry.) Khloe Kardashian Odom will be the newest judge on Fox's The X Factor. I can sense that your enthusiasm is roughly equal to my own. [UPI]
JIMMY KIMMEL BOOKS LIFELONG IDOL DAVID LETTERMAN ON HIS SHOW
ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel will finally get to interview his idol. David Letterman, host of CBS' The Late Show with David Letterman, will appear on Jimmy Kimmel Live when the show airs from Brooklyn later this month. Kimmel will go head-to-head with his idol beginning in January when JKL moves to 10:35 p.m. CT (11:35 ET), swapping places with Nightline. [The Hollywood Reporter]
TINA FEY, AMY POEHLER TO HOST GOLDEN GLOBES
Two of America's favorite funny ladies will take over hosting duties for the 70th anniversary edition of the Golden Globes. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, who are two of the only reasons NBC still exists, will host the show that's set to air on Jan. 13. They replace - at last - Ricky Gervais, who has inexplicably hosted the program for the past three years. [TVNewsCheck]
Fred Barnes dribble drives, shoots and scores: "The canard that never dies—despite the total absence of facts to back it up" -Obama saved the U.S. from another Great Depression. Yes, he saved us from the thing that nobody predicted would happen -and which never was going to happen; #ThomasPeterffy
Thomas Peterffy video: Thomas Peterffy - Freedom To Succeed.
"America's wealth comes from the efforts of people striving for success. Take away their incentive with badmouthing success and you take away the wealth that helps us take care of the needy. Yes, in socialism the rich will be poorer -but the poor will also be poorer. People will lose interest in really working hard and creating
Frontline's The Choice 2012 set to air tonight on PBS
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Program to give viewers "the rest of the story" on President Obama, Governor Romney
Rarely in American politics have voters been offered two presidential candidates more different than Mitt Romney and Barack Obama. Just how different is the subject of The Choice 2012, Frontline's quadrennial biography of the two presidential candidates, airing tonight at 8 p.m. CT on PBS (check local listings). The film will also be available the night of the broadcast debut at pbs.org/frontline, video.pbs.org and on YouTube, in both English and Spanish.
As the candidates spend hundreds of millions of dollars to tell their own stories, Frontline's top political reporting team spent the last year gathering the rest of the story. More than 100 in-depth interviews with friends, family, authors and journalists contribute to the most ambitious television biographies of the candidates ever created.
To get the whole story, veteran Frontline producer Michael Kirk and his award-winning team take a fresh, contemporary look at the candidates’ lives and their political histories. “We’re trying to get to the core of these men—their life’s method—creating a richer view of them both personally and professionally,” says Kirk.
As the candidates spend hundreds of millions of dollars to tell their own stories, Frontline's top political reporting team spent the last year gathering the rest of the story. More than 100 in-depth interviews with friends, family, authors and journalists contribute to the most ambitious television biographies of the candidates ever created.
To get the whole story, veteran Frontline producer Michael Kirk and his award-winning team take a fresh, contemporary look at the candidates’ lives and their political histories. “We’re trying to get to the core of these men—their life’s method—creating a richer view of them both personally and professionally,” says Kirk.
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The Choice 2012 intimately follows the odyssey of young Barry Obama from near-poverty in Indonesia to his marijuana-smoking “Choom Gang” days in Hawaii, then to college in California and New York, where he moved inexorably toward finding a home in Chicago’s black community.
Consumed by youthful angst, Obama’s own journals and letters reveal a confused young man on an identity quest. By the end of his journey, Barry becomes Barack, and a political method is born.
“He comes from a multicultural background. He has a black father and a white mother and the experiences of Indonesia and Pakistan and California, New York, all of that,” says Obama’s college friend Phil Boerner. “At that time that I knew him, he was trying to say let’s unite around what we share, not what’s different about us.”
Mitt Romney grew up in an entirely different milieu, in a childhood defined by stability. The son of a powerful automobile executive and moderate Republican governor, young Mitt lived a privileged life of private schools and carefully guarded ideas.
A Mormon, Romney spent more than two years as a missionary in France, fulfilling his obligation to the church while trying to complete the Sisyphean task of making abstinence from alcohol palatable in Bordeaux, of all places. While Mitt didn’t make many converts on his mission, friends and family say that after almost dying in an automobile accident, he was reborn as a more serious man with a strong faith and a belief in his own life’s purpose.
“He made a commitment to himself to work hard,” says his brother, Scott Romney. “And I think part of that comes from that experience of going overseas and seeing other people, and having life-threatening experiences and deciding what you’re going to make out of your life. ”
Despite his success in business, Romney believed his destiny was in politics. He would eventually sell himself and his evolving political identity to voters. Lengthy interviews with family, close friends, colleagues and political associates reveal a fuller picture of the real Mitt Romney.
“It sort of mirrored what his dad had done. His dad had become a successful executive in American business and then served in public service as governor. So there was definitely a parallel there,” Romney’s political adviser Charley Manning tells Frontline.
The Choice 2012 also probes the divergent leadership styles of Obama and Romney, focusing on the signature achievement of both men: health care reform. Frontline investigates their approaches to this hot-button issue and what those approaches tell us about how they govern. The film also explores how, while in office, both men were confronted with a reluctant legislature dominated by political opponents. How they each handled that situation reveals much about their distinct political styles.
“Every four years, we always hear from politicians that this is one of the most important elections in our lifetime. In 2012, it really is,” says The New Yorker’s Washington correspondent Ryan Lizza.
Newt Gingrich on President Obama's curious choices and what they mean -placing more importance on meeting the hosts of ABC's 'The View' than practicing traditional U.S. statecraft and actually meeting other countries' leaders -like Netanyahu- at the U.N. And even elements of the MSM are upset
Video at: http://video.foxnews.com/v/1861429922001/
Fox News Channel video: Gingrich's take: Obama at UN, snubs, 'bumps' and more.
Newt Gingrich appeared on Greta Van Sustern's "On the Record" TV show on Tuesday night, September 25th, and opined on all manner of things, most notably, Obama's curious speech before the United Nations General Assembly, his continued use of "the video" as
Dennis Miller says he not only is NOT undecided, he's "over-decided" for Mitt Romney; opines on Sandra Fluke and the contrived issue of the "war on women"; the role of individual responsibility in combating unemployment and slumping U.S. economy and NOT allowing the govt. to have so much control over your life; the 2012 U.S. presidential campaign
Amusing and pithy as always, appearing this past week on Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, Dennis Miller, opinionated comedian and host of the nationally-syndicated radio program, "The Dennis Miller Show," told host Bill O'Reilly that he not only is NOT undecided, he's "over-decided" for Mitt Romney. He also discussed President Obama's appearance on CBS-TV's the "Late Show with David Letterman"
Paul Ryan: Why he matters and needs to be unleashed on Obama and the Dems' treasure trove of bad ideas -he connects with smart, reasonable voters who see that under Obama, we're not just going the wrong direction on too many important issues, our margin of error is getting smaller everyday; DWS on thin ice with Obama HQ in Chicago but Sun-Sentinel is ignoring the story
FoxNewsChannel video: Krauthammer: Romney needs to 'unleash Paul Ryan' August 19, 2012. http://youtu.be/lIhciMhZyIY
The Weekly Standard
Why Ryan Matters
William Kristol
August 27, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 46
Vice presidential picks don’t matter. Except when they do. If John Kerry had chosen Dick -Gephardt instead of John Edwards in 2004, and had then parked Gephardt in Ohio during the general
Obama economy claims newest victim -Scranton branch of Dunder Mifflin Paper Co. to close - Obama blames digital technology for loss of jobs; TheWrap's Tim Molloy & Tim Kenneally report on NBC-TV pulling plug on "The Office" after this coming season, Season 9
MittRomney video: These Hands: Virginia
Melissa Ball of Ball Office Products of Richmond, VA tells what she knows from first-hand experience and how she feels about small companies like hers -in her case, a woman-owned company- being held-up as objects of ridicule under President Obama. Uploaded August 2, 2012. http://youtu.be/sfn6axtWH-I
As one American company that serves office products
Getting the government out of the game of picking winners and losers! It's as if Paul Ryan was reading my mind, and warning the City of Hallandale Beach, as well as the army of lobbyists and Poverty Pimps all over South Florida and Tallahassee who have their hand out and a campaign check at the ready - Video of Rep. Paul Ryan while House Budget Comm. Chairman on Entrepreneurial Capitalism vs Crony Capitalism - #PaulRyan, #RomneyRyan
HouseBudgetCommittee video: House Budget Comm. Chair Paul Ryan: Entrepreneurial Capitalism vs Crony Capitalism. Uploaded August 2, 2012.
http://youtu.be/fDzRFSPglM4
Getting the government out of the game of picking winners and losers!
It's as if Paul Ryan was reading my mind, and warning the City of Hallandale Beach, as well as the army of lobbyists and Poverty Pimps all over South Florida
I'm very psyched -and greatly relieved!- by the selection of Paul Ryan as Mitt Romney's Vice Presidential nominee; Integrity, optimism and a tenacious work-ethic are Ryan's hallmarks
Prosperity Project video: The Crisis. Congressman Paul Ryan, Chairman of the House Budget Committee, outlines the debt crisis we face. Uploaded April 5, 2011.
http://youtu.be/O-QEENKN_9Y
His future plans made clearer, Marco Rubio and his family and friends can now finally breathe again and have a little more personal space, a more normal life, though this necessarily means that many of the
KUDOS: Eyewitness News carries Romney's speech at Stepto's live
Local 7 only local station to broadcast presidential candidate live in Evansville
UPDATE, 3:45 p.m.: 14WFIE did carry the speech on 14news.com. I did not catch that previously, and for that, I apologize. However, Local 7 remains the only station to air it on television. New text is in blue below.
If you wanted to see Mitt Romney's speech at Stepto's BBQ in Evansville live this afternoon, there was just one place to turn on your TV - Local 7.
If you wanted to see Mitt Romney's speech at Stepto's BBQ in Evansville live this afternoon, there was just one place to turn on your TV - Local 7.
Eyewitness News carried the former Massachusetts governor's speech in its entirety as the Republican presidential candidate stumped for U.S. Senate candidate and Vanderburgh County native Richard Mourdock.
14WFIE stayed with its Olympic coverage on 14.1 and weather on 14Xtra, but carried the speech online at 14news.com.
Kudos to the folks at Eyewitness News for giving everyone the opportunity to see what few otherwise would have been able to experience. This was a very good thing.
Wow! Hallandale Beach is in The Washington Post: WaPo's Jason Horowitz ponders Jewish-American voters' feelings towards Mitt Romney and President Obama's treatment of Israel thru the prism of Hallandale Beach. HB's Sage Bagel as the NEW poor man's Algonquin Round Table!
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Above, looking east from in front of the RK Sage Plaza retail strip at Hallandale Beach Blvd. (State Road 858) and S.E. 8th Avenue in Hallandale Beach, FL, home of Sage Bagel and Deli. In the distance is one of the three condo towers from The Related Group's The Beach Club on the beach and State Road A1A. Google Maps' Street View, circa 2011.
Wow! Hallandale Beach is in The
Delicious! CNN Piers Morgan punctures smug CNN afternoon anchorbabe Brooke Baldwin's ill-founded predicate in attack on Romney. Morgan: "He's only been saying what's been happening."; #London2012
No, the predictable -and unexpected- safety, security and logistics problems associated with London hosting something as huge as the 2012 Olympics have NOT exactly been a secret, as this front page Sunday story from The Daily Mail makes clear: Minister's Daughter in Olympic Safety Scandal. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2177018/
Economic fairness is a loser of an issue in 2012 presidential campaign: Bill O'Reilly and pollster Scott Rasmussen, separately, opine on why President Obama's negative TV attack ads on Mitt Romney's re his tenure at Bain Capital, while driving-up Romney's negatives among Democrats, are actually failing to move enough voters his way, as 62% of U.S. puts economic growth ahead of economic fairness
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Fox News Channel's The O'Reilly Factor with Bill O'Reilly
Talking Points: The real Barack Obama has finally stood up
July 19, 2012. http://video.foxnews.com/v/1743930340001/
Pollster Scott Rasmussen opines on why President Obama's negative TV attack ads on Mitt Romney's re his tenure at Bain Capital, while
Why swing state Florida is NOT Obama's for the taking and what Mitt Romney must do to win it; why Obama's TV attack ads against Romney aren't working -it's the economy, stupid!; Local10's Michael Putney to interview President Obama Friday for 6 o'clock newscast in Miami; #LaurenGores, @LaurenABC17
WallStreetJournalDigitalNetwork video: Why Florida May Be a Reach for Obama. Correspondent Arian Campo-Flores reports from Miami and explains why the fickle Sunshine State may not be President Obama's for the taking in November, and what Mitt Romney and the GOP will have to do to win this important swing state. July 19, 2012. http://youtu.be/t8y18Kh6JWA
sandyfrazier9 video: RealClear
Where are all the South Florida reporters? As of 9:48 p.m., the Miami Herald and the South Florida Sun-Sentinel are STILL completely ignoring Debbie Wasserman Schultz income tax/hypocrisy story. She'll always be their Little Debbie who can do no wrong! Drudge Report publicizes stories while Herald & Sun-Sentinel say "What story?" They are NOT watchdogs, they are lapdogs!
http://youtu.be/lGKurJs40bo
Where are all the South Florida reporters? As of 9:48 p.m., the Miami Herald and the South Florida Sun-Sentinel are STILL completely ignoring Debbie Wasserman Schultz income tax/hypocrisy story. She'll always be their Little Debbie who can do no wrong! Drudge Report publicizes stories while Herald & Sun-Sentinel say "What story?" They are not watchdogs, they
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