http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/propagandawingofdnc/ en-us Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:44:26 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278908/posts Republicans were just starting to breathe a little easier. The news that Senator John Ensign had had an affair with a former aide who was married to another former aide was fading. Polls showed some voter impatience with President Obama’s policies, if not with the president himself. And the Politico, the insidery Web site that is widely read in the capital’s political precincts, even featured an article exploring the possibility of a Republican Party comeback. Then Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina, a fiscal conservative seen by many Republicans as an attractive standard-bearer for the next presidential campaign, went missing.... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278908/posts#comment Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:44:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2271402/posts Link only, per FR posting policy The Arizona Republic, Phoenix, Ariz. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2271402/posts#comment Sun, 14 Jun 2009 05:43:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2258723/posts Conservative activists are outspoken in their opposition. But Republican senators who will actually vote on her nomination offer muted responses. Some think the party has a chance to reach Latino vote. BY PETER WALLSTEN and RICHARD SIMON Reporting from Washington -- Rush Limbaugh called her a "reverse racist." The conservative Judicial Confirmation Network said she was an activist with a "personal political agenda" and should be blocked from the Supreme Court. . . . . .The Republican senators who will actually vote on her were not following the activists' script. Instead, GOP senators offered muted, sometimes admiring, responses, and seemed... The Los Angeles Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2258723/posts#comment Wed, 27 May 2009 00:52:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2243740/posts The New York Times Co. said last night that it is notifying federal authorities of its plans to shut down the Boston Globe, raising the possibility that New England's most storied newspaper could cease to exist within weeks. After down-to-the-wire negotiations did not produce millions of dollars in union concessions, the Times Co. said that it will file today a required 60-day notice of the planned shutdown under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification law. The move could amount to a negotiating ploy to extract further concessions from the Globe's unions, since the notice does not require the Times Co.... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2243740/posts#comment Mon, 4 May 2009 13:31:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2236012/posts According to a report in the New York Post the venerable New York Times is much worse off financially than anyone predicted. Boycott The New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2236012/posts#comment Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:28:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2232591/posts WASHINGTON (CNN) – Meghan McCain warned a group of gay Republicans Saturday that there was "a war brewing in the Republican Party" – a war between the past and the future. "Most of the old school Republicans are scared s***less of that future," she told a gathering of the Log Cabin Republicans, a group of gay and lesbian party members. The 24-year-old daughter of former GOP presidential candidate John McCain pushed back against critics upset over her comments to CNN that she wanted President Obama to succeed, and played down her recent headline-grabbing feuds with conservative commentators Ann Coulter and... CNN - Political Ticker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2232591/posts#comment Sun, 19 Apr 2009 04:37:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2228513/posts How do you hit the broad side of a barn in a news report when you can't see the core issues? How did we know the report would be misleading and terribly lacking? As you know, I write for non-gun owners. I furnish analysis and facts more on the issue of liberty and citizen authority than guns themselves. Guns, liberty, and our sovereign authority over officials in this country are inextricable, and I have shown why over the years. The armed citizen is not an opinion concept, it is and always has been a safeguard of our way of life.... LA gun rights examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2228513/posts#comment Tue, 14 Apr 2009 02:42:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2228010/posts Meghan McCain: We Need More Gay Republicans! By David Knowles Apr 13th 2009 10:00AM Here's a question: Can Meghan McCain, the blog-a-lot daughter of Senator John McCain, help bring the Republican Party into the twenty-first century? Well, with her column at The Daily Beast, and during her many television interviews, she sure is giving it a go. Today's screed, for instance, attempts to light a fire under the Republican posterior on the matter of including gay rights in the party platform: If the Republican Party has any hope of gaining substantial support from a wider, younger base, we need to... AOL News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2228010/posts#comment Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:54:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2225388/posts THOSE OLD Republican hot buttons are growing cold. For proof, check out a recent interview with Mitt Romney, a former presidential candidate and ex-governor of Massachusetts. According to TheHill.com, a congressional newspaper that publishes when Congress is in session, "Romney believes that one way to attract more minorities to the GOP is to pass immigration reform before the next election, saying the issue becomes demagogued by both parties on the campaign trail." The article also quotes Romney as saying, "We have a natural affinity with Hispanic-American voters, Asian-American voters." This could be extreme political repositioning, even for Romney. . .... The Boston Globe http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2225388/posts#comment Thu, 9 Apr 2009 04:21:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2223235/posts After viewing an article on examiner.com that asks the question about the current existance of the “liberal media bias”…. I thought I would share a few thoughts on this. Not long ago (10 or 15 years ago) the big buzz on talk radio was how unfair and completely bias the media was - to the left. In fact it’s only in recent years that this proclamation has died down. But I would say the notion of only 1 side being represented on a given subject - has changed dramatically… and is worth noting. The way news is being covered these... TalkRadioInsiders.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2223235/posts#comment Mon, 6 Apr 2009 13:28:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2222474/posts The Palin family continues to grab headlines, and once again it has nothing to do with politics. This time it surrounds Sarah Palin's sister-in-law, Diana Palin, who was arrested on Thursday for allegedly burglarizing a house. Not once, but twice in a matter of days. And she reportedly brought her 4-year-old daughter along for the heists, according to the Anchorage Daily News. (snip) The New York Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2222474/posts#comment Sat, 4 Apr 2009 22:33:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2218958/posts ~ EXCERPT ~ CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) — The company that owns the Chicago Sun-Times and 58 other newspapers and online sites said Tuesday it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2218958/posts#comment Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:43:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2218125/posts Now that Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina has polished his credentials with the Republican right by recklessly rejecting $700 million in federal education stimulus money, we keep hoping he will change his mind and put the needs of his recession-ravaged state ahead of his political ambitions. It will be up to more responsible political leaders to act if Mr. Sanford sticks by his disastrous choice, which would drive an already depressed state economy deeper into a hole and place even more South Carolinians at risk of losing their homes. The New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2218125/posts#comment Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:10:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2216834/posts Michael Steele is the gift that keeps on giving. His latest entrée unto the absurd comes in the form of an interview with CNN’s Don Lemon. Steele now wants us to believe that his wayward ramblings are part of an elaborate ruse – some sort of Jedi mind trick. Really? The New York Times - By The Numbers http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2216834/posts#comment Sat, 28 Mar 2009 14:41:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2212919/posts “Twilight” author Stephenie Meyer, race car driver Danica Patrick and U.S. Sen. John McCain represent Arizona on the list of finalists for Time magazine’s list of most influential people of 2009. Readers can cast their votes online at www.time.com/time/specials. The Business Journal, Phoenix, Ariz. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2212919/posts#comment Mon, 23 Mar 2009 21:05:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2209294/posts <p>It looks like it's taking people a long time to get the hint that Meghan McCain is rubber, and they are, in fact, glue. The latest media figure to tangle with Meg? Howard Kurtz, Washington Post reporter, and host of CNN's Reliable Sources.</p> New York Post, AOL Political Machine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2209294/posts#comment Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:31:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2206851/posts Beginning Sunday, the White House will harness every part of the Democratic Party’s machinery to defend President Obama’s budget and portray Republicans as reflexively political, according to party strategists. A participant in the planning meetings described the push as a successor to Democrats’ message that Rush Limbaugh is the Republican Party leader. “We have exhausted the use of Rush as an attention-getter,” the official said. David Plouffe, manager of Obama’s presidential race, helped design the strategy, which includes the most extensive activation since November of the campaign’s grassroots network. The database—which includes information for at least 10 million donors, supporters... Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2206851/posts#comment Sun, 15 Mar 2009 04:46:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2197456/posts A new study shows that the states that consume the most porn tend to be more conservative and religious than states with lower levels of consumption. ABC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2197456/posts#comment Mon, 2 Mar 2009 19:41:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2193942/posts SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The San Francisco Chronicle joined the lengthening list of imperiled newspapers Tuesday as its owner set out to purge the payroll and slash other expenses in a last-ditch effort to reverse years of heavy losses. If it can't reduce expenses dramatically within the next few weeks, the Hearst Corp. said it will close or sell the Chronicle, northern California's largest newspaper with a paid weekday circulation of 339,430. Hearst didn't specify a savings target nor a deadline for wringing out the expenses. A Hearst spokesman didn't immediately respond to messages Tuesday. But management made it clear... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2193942/posts#comment Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:41:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2158679/posts Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine has been chosen by President-elect Barack Obama to head the Democratic National Committee, a Democratic official said. Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2158679/posts#comment Sun, 4 Jan 2009 22:47:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2141238/posts WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Bush administration backed off proposed crackdowns on no-money-down, interest-only mortgages years before the economy collapsed, buckling to pressure from some of the same banks that have now failed. It ignored remarkably prescient warnings that foretold the financial meltdown, according to an Associated Press review of regulatory documents. "Expect fallout, expect foreclosures, expect horror stories," California mortgage lender Paris Welch wrote to U.S. regulators in January 2006, about one year before the housing implosion cost her a job. Bowing to aggressive lobbying -- along with assurances from banks that the troubled mortgages were OK -- regulators delayed... CNNMoney.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2141238/posts#comment Tue, 2 Dec 2008 03:55:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2133694/posts When Dan Rather filed suit against CBS 14 months ago — claiming, among other things, that his former employer had commissioned a politically biased investigation into his work on a “60 Minutes” segment about President Bush’s National Guard service — the network predicted the quick and favorable dismissal of the case, which it derided as “old news.” So far, Mr. Rather has spent more than $2 million of his own money on the suit. And according to documents filed recently in court, he may be getting something for his money. Using tools unavailable to him as a reporter — including... The New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2133694/posts#comment Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:43:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2127325/posts ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) – After two months sharpening her conservative rhetoric on the U.S. presidential campaign trail, Gov. Sarah Palin returned to Alaska a star in the Republican party, but weakened at home where people had known her as more centrist. Palin's "pit bull" campaign persona and her strident pitches to the conservative base of the Republican Party were a stark contrast to her nonpartisan, populist style as governor, leaving raw feelings among some Alaskans, experts said. As speculation of a presidential run in 2012 builds, an editorial in Thursday's Anchorage Daily News asked which Palin will return to Alaska:... Reuters via Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2127325/posts#comment Thu, 6 Nov 2008 21:51:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2121009/posts Subject: NEW MARKET: The LA Times Obama Video Intrade We have now opened a market on the LA Times making public a video that reportedly shows Barack Obama praising a Chicago professor who was a PLO spokesman while that organisation was a designated terrorist organisation. This market can be found under Poltiics -- 2008 US Election -- LA Times to make public Obama video tape. Contract Rules: This contract will settle (expire) at 100 ($10.00) if the LA Times makes public the video showing Barack Obama praising former PLO spokesman before 11:59:59pm ET on Nov 4th 2008. The contract will... Intrade http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2121009/posts#comment Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:05:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2114313/posts WASHINGTON (AP) -- An acclaimed celebrity makeup artist for Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin collected more money from John McCain's campaign than his foreign policy adviser. Amy Strozzi, who works on the reality show "So You Think You Can Dance" and has been Palin's traveling stylist, was paid $22,800, according to campaign finance reports for the first two weeks in October. In contrast, McCain's foreign policy adviser, Randy Scheunemann, was paid $12,500, the report showed. In recent days, McCain and his running mate have tried to douse a furor over how their side spent their money. The Republican National... ap on San Diego Union - Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2114313/posts#comment Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:11:57 GMT