http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/whispercampaign/ en-us Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:27:12 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2229051/posts MSNBC prides itself as being the place for politics, the seemingly clever marketing slogan could be used to describe the network as the place where hosts try to use dirty humor about important political events. David Shuster, filling in for MSNBC loose-cannon Keith Olbermann on his April 13 broadcast, and his writers probably thought they were pretty clever when they pieced an item denigrating the tax protests by using the sexual term “teabagging.” Urbandictionary.com, cited multiple times by one MSNBC guest, describes it as when a man places his testicles “onto someone’s face, or into their mouth.” “For most Americans,... businessandmedia.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2229051/posts#comment Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:27:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2194495/posts One has to wonder about the thought process of some people. Dan Gilgoff, Faith reporter with U.S. News and World Report and Huffington Post writer, is a perfect example of what I am talking about. After a February 23 posting on Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal's Catholic faith, Gilgoff followed up the next day with a post claiming that Sarah Palin fans were smearing Jindal over his supposedly "secret Muslim" faith. Where did Gilgoff get such a ridiculous idea? Why, from just two commenters that posted on his entry of the 23rd, that's where. That's right, just two people claiming in... Publius' Forum http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2194495/posts#comment Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:23:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2164514/posts An obligatory link on a day when she’s ripping “pathetic” smearmongering bloggers in the pages of Esquire and the Trig Truther-in-chief is poised to win Best Blog. She serves: [I]s your paper really still pursuing the sensational lie that I am not Trig’s mother? Is it true you have a reporter still bothering my state office, my very busy doctor (who’s already set the record straight for you), and the school district, in pursuit of your ridiculous conspiracy?…Come on Mr. Doyle and Mr. Dougherty, I so desperately want to have even a tiny bit of faith in the ADN. And... Hot Air http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2164514/posts#comment Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:05:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2104457/posts One of the fallacies this election season is that if Barack Obama is paying an electoral price for his skin tone, it must be because of racists. On the contrary, the evidence is that Mr. Obama is facing what scholars have dubbed "racism without racists." The racism is difficult to measure, but a careful survey completed last month by Stanford University, with The Associated Press and Yahoo, suggested that Mr. Obama's support would be about 6 percentage points higher if he were white. That's significant but surmountable. Most of the lost votes aren't those of dyed-in-the-wool racists. Such racists account... The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2104457/posts#comment Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:33:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2101046/posts You cannot parody these people. You just can’t: “Palin is wearing white again, inciting the racist crowds. She should just drop all pretense and put on her white hood and light up a cross. She is a despicable human being.” A sample of comments in the PDS-infected thread at the Democratic Underground: Coming next: The Associated Press publishes an “analysis” of Sarah Palin’s “racially-tinged” wardrobe. michellemalkin http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2101046/posts#comment Thu, 9 Oct 2008 02:49:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2096786/posts Back in the 1980s, one of the top-level swimmers in California adopted a rather unusual method of getting himself psyched up for his events. Half an hour before his race, he'd start chanting softly to himself, “I'm gonna win, I'm gonna win, I'm gonna win.” His chants gradually got louder and louder, and, from the time he entered the ready area until he took his place on the starting block, everyone around him was treated to his constant mantra, “I'm gonna win, I'm gonna win, I'm gonna win.” The strategy worked to a certain extent. His chanting often threw competitors... Aberdeen American News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2096786/posts#comment Fri, 3 Oct 2008 17:37:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2067628/posts Seeing yourself talk about the break-up of your marriage on the big screen is probably not what John McCain expected when he went to church this morning. But that’s exactly what happened at the North Phoenix Baptist Church today, when Pastor Dan Yeary played a clip from Rick Warren’s interview with McCain last weekend where he asked him what his “greatest moral failing” was. "The failure of my first marriage," McCain told Warren. “It's my greatest moral failure." McCain and his wife Cindy both looked visibly uncomfortable during the presentation, which was played on big screens in the sanctuary where... CBS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2067628/posts#comment Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:55:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2064172/posts Rev. Rick Warren strongly denied rumors GOP presidential candidate John McCain had “cheated” at a political forum he hosted at his church Saturday evening. “That's absolutely a lie, absolutely a lie,” Warren said in an interview with BeliefNet. “That room was totally free, with no monitors--a flat out lie.” itchell said on Meet the Press Sunday, “The Obama people must feel that he didn't do quite as well as they might have wanted to in that context, because that -- what they're putting out privately is that McCain may not have been in the cone of silence and may have... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2064172/posts#comment Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:50:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037829/posts A recent article on OneNewsNow featured comments by Methodist pastor Kirbyjon Caldwell, a Barack Obama supporter. The pastor took issue with James Dobson's contention that Obama distorts the Bible with his theological views. Caldwell, who is affiliated with the website JamesDobsonDoesntSpeakForMe.com, initially told OneNewsNow that the website was operated by Matthew 25, a political action committee working with Obama supporters. However, upon investigation, it was found that the site was actually registered to Alyssa Martin, an intern in the Obama campaign's "religious affairs" department. The domain registration has since been changed to Pastor Caldwell's name. In an earlier interview, Caldwell... OneNewsNow.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037829/posts#comment Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:08:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035402/posts On Friday, Senator Obama warned a cheering audience about the Republicans. “They’re going to try to make you afraid of me. He’s young and inexperienced and he’s got a funny name. And did I mention he’s black?” A few months ago, historian Sean Wilentz dubbed this tactic the “race-baiter card.” Smear your opponents as racists, and if there’s no evidence for the claim, accuse them of using “coded language.” There is no authoritative racial codebook, so the charge is easy to lodge. The campaign need not make such accusations directly, since sympathetic writers will do so. Consider Senator Clinton’s “3... nationalreview.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035402/posts#comment Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:20:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026694/posts Obama denies a rumor and questions the question Sen. Barack Obama on Thursday batted down rumors circulating on the Internet and mentioned on some cable news shows of the existence of a video of his wife using a derogatory term for white people, and criticized a reporter for asking him about the rumor, which has not a shred of evidence to support it. “We have seen this before. There is dirt and lies that are circulated in e-mails and they pump them out long enough until finally you, a mainstream reporter, asks me about it,” Obama said to the McClatchy... The Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026694/posts#comment Thu, 5 Jun 2008 21:21:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026175/posts As the price of GAS is the subject of every conversation and the effects have stretched far and wide to every corner of this great country, we are desperately in need of relief. I received an e-mail today referring to a earlier post on Free Republic regarding the Democrats keeping the price of gas inflated and attached to the bottom of the e-mail was a piece about how the price of gas in Venezeula is 12 cents a gallon. It also went on to say about the possibility of gas in this country being around 53 cents a gallon in... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026175/posts#comment Thu, 5 Jun 2008 00:28:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024782/posts This is pure rumor: Reported verbiage from Michelle Obama’s tape Michelle Obama, “Once again, the white man keeps us down, what’s up with Whitey, Why’d he attack Iraq, Why’d he let Katrina happen, Why’d he leave millions of children behind. This is the legacy the white man gives us.” Again the above is an alleged quote from a rumored video featuring Michelle Obama. mikefrancesa.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024782/posts#comment Mon, 2 Jun 2008 13:48:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1999752/posts Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) got glowing reviews when he addressed the issue of race last month in Philadelphia. But there are aspects of the race issue in this campaign that still make people nervous. Recently I called a number of political strategists of both parties, as well as unaffiliated experts, to ask whether Democrats have been voting along racial lines in this year's primary season. After all, 92 percent of black Democrats in Mississippi voted for Obama, while 91 percent of black Democrats in Wisconsin did the same. And 70 percent of white Democrats in Mississippi voted for Sen. Hillary... The HIll http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1999752/posts#comment Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:41:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1992940/posts Leave it to liberals to pile on Sen. John McCain with cheap shots about his age, and we're not talking making jokes about him serving in the Civil War or what not. Mocking John McCain's age, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann imagined that the senator could easily segue from talking about foreign policy or the economy to talking about "buying more Depends or something like that." (h/t Conservative Punk) "You can dissassociate yourself from that remark if you wish," Olbermann immediately added in his exchange with Rachel Maddow of the liberal Air America radio network. Yesterday NewsBusters noted a liberal blogger who... News Busters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1992940/posts#comment Fri, 28 Mar 2008 04:57:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1978102/posts RICHARDSON, Texas (AP) — Republican presidential hopeful John McCain said Thursday the question of whether he can run for president, despite being born in the Panama Canal Zone, was put to rest 44 years ago in Barry Goldwater's run for the White House.McCain added that he doesn't know why his campaign sought legal analysis of whether his birth outside the continental United States might disqualify him from the presidency.The Constitution says only a "natural-born citizen" may serve as president.McCain's campaign asked former Solicitor General Ted Olson for a legal interpretation of the issue.McCain himself insists the issue was put to... Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1978102/posts#comment Fri, 29 Feb 2008 05:07:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1977502/posts WASHINGTON — The question has nagged at the parents of Americans born outside the continental United States for generations: Dare their children aspire to grow up and become president? In the case of Senator John McCain of Arizona, the issue is becoming more than a matter of parental daydreaming. Mr. McCain’s likely nomination as the Republican candidate for president and the happenstance of his birth in the Panama Canal Zone in 1936 are reviving a musty debate that has surfaced periodically since the founders first set quill to parchment and declared that only a “natural-born citizen” can hold the nation’s... New York Slimes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1977502/posts#comment Thu, 28 Feb 2008 04:24:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1977458/posts NYT: MCCAIN'S BIRTHPLACE IN CANAL ZONE RAISES ELIGIBILITY QUESTIONS... Drudge http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1977458/posts#comment Thu, 28 Feb 2008 02:12:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1973773/posts The liberal New York Times is wasting no time in smearing John McCain, the Republican Party nominee for President. Late Wednesday, the Times published to its website a story set to hit print editions Thursday, linking McCain to a female lobbyist. The paper suggested the Arizona Senator has been engaged in an illicit relationship. "A female lobbyist had been turning up with him at fund-raisers, visiting his offices and accompanying him on a client’s corporate jet," the Times reported. "Convinced the relationship had become romantic, some of his top advisers intervened to protect the candidate from himself — instructing staff... newsmax.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1973773/posts#comment Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:54:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1962093/posts DENVER, Jan. 28 /Christian Newswire/ -- A new 527 political group, American Right To Life Action (ARTLaction.com), has sent 524,000 anti-Romney emails targeted primarily to Florida registered Republican voters. The text of that email: American Right To Life: Evidence proves Romney is Pro-abortion American Right To Life Action is proving to voters that Mitt Romney's record, below, is recently and aggressively pro-abortion. The group's ARTLaction.com site documents Romney's recent promotion of abortion with links to official government websites, Romney's own campaign, mainstream sources, and audio and video clips of the candidate himself. Mitt Romney claims, "On every piece of legislation,... Christian Newswire http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1962093/posts#comment Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:05:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1958419/posts (CNN) – Bill Clinton became visibly upset Wednesday over comments by a prominent South Carolina Democrat that compared the former president's actions on the trail to those of infamous Republican strategist Lee Atwater. In an interview with CNN's Jessica Yellin, Dick Harpootlian, a former chairman of the South Carolina Democratic Party and a supporter of Barack Obama, said some of Bill Clinton's recent remarks on the campaign trail were appeals based on race and gender. He said the comments were meant to "suppresses the vote, demoralize voters, and distort the record," and said they were "reminiscent of Lee Atwater." cnn http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1958419/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:57:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1956965/posts Let's debunk the biggest myths of the anti-immigration movement that has swept this country and may still have an impact on the 2008 presidential race: that it is not anti-Hispanic, that it doesn't oppose legal immigration and that it's against only "illegal" immigration. Most U.S. Republican presidential hopefuls -- with the exception of Sen. John McCain -- and cable television anti-immigration crusaders on CNN and Fox News are deceiving the public with their claim that they are only against "illegal" immigration. • Myth No. 1: "We are only against illegal immigration. Undocumented immigrants should get in line for visas." That's... Pittsburgh Tribune-Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1956965/posts#comment Mon, 21 Jan 2008 06:57:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1955908/posts The Republican presidential candidates on Thursday moved to appeal to different types of conservative voters before the South Carolina primary, with Mike Huckabee using colorful language to declare the Confederate flag a states’ rights issue and Senator John McCain embracing a supply-side tax cut proposal. “You don’t like people from outside the state coming in and telling you what to do with your flag,” Mr. Huckabee, a former governor of Arkansas, told supporters in Myrtle Beach, according to The Associated Press. “In fact,” he said, “if somebody came to Arkansas and told us what to do with our flag, we’d... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1955908/posts#comment Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:40:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1951728/posts I agree Mr. Stathis! I have some good news for you and other Republicans or Americans who are disillusioned with the candidates at large. There is a candidate that fits so much of what the conservative base wants. I think he is such a good fit that he is being completely ignored by the national media. I am severely disappointed in the national Republican Party that they have not done more to hold this candidate up. Base Republicans do not want RINOS such as McCain, Huckabee or Guiliani. I know it is a long shot, as this man has not... Hernando Today http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1951728/posts#comment Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:04:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1939103/posts Clinton Adviser Resigns Over Obama Comments Obama Reveals Teen Drug Use In His Memoir POSTED: 9:51 am EST December 13, 2007 CONCORD, N.H. -- Bill Shaheen has resigned as co-chairman of Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign, reported WMUR-TV in Manchester, N.H. The resignation comes in the midst of fallout over comments Shaheen made regarding candidate Barack Obama's past drug use. Shaheen earlier said he regrets having made the comments. In an interview with The Washington Post, Shaheen said the Democratic party should beware of picking Obama as its candidate because Republicans could dredge up his past. In his memoir, "Dreams... WNBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1939103/posts#comment Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:35:59 GMT