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Touré On Geraldo Rivera’s Senate
Bid: He ‘Is A Joke,’ Has Been A
‘Punch Line’ For ’20-Some Years’
Mediaite, by Noah Rothman
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Posted By:KarenJ1, 2/1/2013 9:43:50 PM
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| During an appearance on Martin Bashir’s MSNBC program, The Cycle co-host Touré tore into the notion that Fox News Channel host Geraldo Rivera could be taken seriously as a Republican candidate for Senate in New Jersey. Touré called Rivera a “joke” and a “punch line,” and added that Rivera’s moderate social values are not compatible with the present Republican Party. (Snip) “Geraldo Rivera is a joke,” Touré said bluntly when asked about his electoral prospects. “Especially going to a serious political context – a total joke.” “Pro-immigration, pro-marriage equality, pro-choice – that doesn’t sound like a Republican to
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In my wildest dreams I never thought I would ever agree with this guy. I never dreamed Gerald would run as a Republican. That is a really sick joke. He would have to go down in history of the worst RINO ever. As if Republicans don´t have enough to worry about.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Nimby, 2/1/2013 9:46:22 PM (No. 9153329)
As though Obama isn´t ?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
afherkdriver, 2/1/2013 10:00:04 PM (No. 9153345)
Al Franken is serious?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
kanphil, 2/1/2013 10:02:41 PM (No. 9153348)
What is Geraldo, anyway? He´s certainly not a hard news reporter. He´s not a conservative. I guess he would best be described as a "personality". On that basis, I don´t see how he can win. But then, there is the Al Franken example.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
dolphin, 2/1/2013 10:34:14 PM (No. 9153386)
It´s like some horrible nightmare I can´t wake up from. And it keeps getting worse.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Crosscut, 2/1/2013 11:16:26 PM (No. 9153440)
Surely there is room for one more in the Democrat clown car.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Safari Man, 2/2/2013 1:26:38 AM (No. 9153522)
Geraldo calls himself a republican, but he´s not what I would call a republican.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
M Stuart, 2/2/2013 1:33:21 AM (No. 9153524)
He´ll fit in in Joisey.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Trigger2, 2/2/2013 3:33:08 AM (No. 9153576)
For once, MSNBC got it right.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
4Justice, 2/2/2013 4:42:11 AM (No. 9153613)
#2, that´s what I was wondering... I suppose "Toure" thinks Franken is serious, has gravitas, and is a consummate statesman, eh?? Touring needs to get a life and a name. Yes, Jerry Rivers is a joke, but no more than any other Democrat in office...
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
floridagator, 2/2/2013 7:52:07 AM (No. 9153735)
Will Jerry Rivers go after Toure? No. Toure is a person of color, therefore, Racist Jerry will not go after him. Only white people who want people of color to follow the law are bad to Ms. Rivers.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
zoidberg, 2/2/2013 9:08:18 AM (No. 9153886)
He suffers from Touré syndrome.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Old Army Vet, 2/2/2013 3:25:54 PM (No. 9154678)
Rivers is a joke, always has been, always will be.
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Daily Mail [UK], by Helen Pow
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The Pentagon for the first time has officially recognized transgender service members in a significant step being hailed by the LGBT community. The acknowledgement came in the form of a letter to veteran and transgender activist Autumn Sandeen confirming that the Navy had updated its records to show she is a woman. While still a long way from open transgender service in the military, OutServe-SLDN, an organization for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender service members and their families labeled the move ´symbolic.´ The letter from the Navy official, dated May 2, read:
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Obama Picks White House Budget
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Megyn Kelly Lashes Out
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CNN Legal Analyst Scoffs at Notion
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CNN´s senior legal analyst thinks there´s too much "hysteria" over the IRS scandal and that it really may not have been that big of a story to begin with. He argued thus on the 11 a.m. ET hour of Thursday´s Newsroom. CNN´s Jeffrey Toobin´s spin went as follows: "the IRS is required by law to investigate these organizations," and "it´s not clear that there were liberal organizations applying, certainly, in the numbers that the Tea Party were," and "A lot of these organizations that are complaining wound up getting approved for 501(c)(4) status. So what are their damages?" Ergo,
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Nice try, Mr. President. Feigning anger, firing an unknown bureaucrat and fleeing the podium won’t cut it with voters, or stop the hemorrhaging of the scandals that have spawned a Watergate-like feel around the Obama administration. There was a certain panicky look about the way the president quickly delivered a rare evening White House statement to try to quell the growing outrage over the IRS targeting of Tea Party groups. The move showed how damaging the scandal has become to Obama’s second term and maybe even his presidency. But Obama took no questions and, more importantly,
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Obama, the uninterested president
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President Passerby needs urgently to become a participant in his presidency. Late Monday came the breathtaking news of a full-frontal assault on the First Amendment by his administration: word that the Justice Department had gone on a fishing expedition through months of phone records of Associated Press reporters. And yet President Obama reacted much as he did to the equally astonishing revelation on Friday that the IRS had targeted conservative groups based on their ideology: He responded as though he were just some bloke on a bar stool, getting his information from the evening news.
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D.C. turns on Obama
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Posted By: mitzi- 5/14/2013 9:52:12 PM
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One Democrat who likes Obama and has been around town for many years said elected officials in his own party are no different than Republicans: they think the president is distant and unapproachable. “He has never taken the Democratic chairs up to Camp David to have a drink or to have a discussion,” the longtime Washingtonian said. “You gotta stroke people, and talk to them. It’s like courting: you have to send flowers and candy and have surprises. It’s a constant process. Now they’re saying, ‘He never talked to me in the good times.’ ”
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"Benghazi-gate," "IRS-gate," "AP-gate" -- it would seem the intrepid investigators in the dinosaur media, in an effort to repair their shredded reputations, are finally catching up to the truths known months or years ago to those of us who get our news from the internet. (snip) Hey, dinosaurs, now that we have your attention, we have a hot tip for you: there´s one big Obama lie that´s two years old that you completely missed. In fact, you suppressed the truth.
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Benghazi Emails Directly
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The White House on Wednesday released 94 pages of emails between top administration and intelligence officials who helped shape the talking points about the attacks in Benghazi, Libya, that the CIA would provide to policymakers in both the legislative and executive branches. The documents, first reported by THE WEEKLY STANDARD in articles here and here, directly contradict claims by White House press secretary Jay Carney and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that the revisions of those talking points were driven by the intelligence community and show heavy input from top Obama administration officials, particularly those at the State Department.
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NBC´s Todd Warns: If GOP
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Newsbusters, by Kyle Drennen
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/16/2013 1:51:02 PM
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On Thursday´s NBC Today, in a desperate attempt to deflect from the scandals engulfing the Obama administration, co-host Savannah Guthrie wondered: "I read a headline yesterday that said Republicans see blood in the water. That they see a president who´s very vulnerable politically. Is there a danger that they will overreach?" Chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd agreed with the slanted premise: "There is. I mean, that´s what happened to Republicans in 1998 with Bill Clinton.
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Benghazi emails show State
Department had heavy hand in
watering down account of attack
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Fox News, by Staff
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Posted By: earlybird- 5/15/2013 6:31:11 PM
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WASHINGTON – State Department officials repeatedly objected to -- and tried to water down -- references to Al Qaeda and prior security warnings in Libya in the Obama administration´s initial internal story-line on the Benghazi terror attack, according to dozens of emails and notes released by the White House late Wednesday. The documents were released under pressure after whistle-blowers testified on the Hill and some email excerpts leaked to the media last week. The 100-page file showed that State Department officials were even more heavily involved in editing the "talking points" than was previously known.
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7 Caught Trespassing At Quabbin Reservoir;
Patrols Stepped Up Across State
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Posted By: nhchemist- 5/15/2013 7:01:31 AM
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BELCHERTOWN – Shortly after midnight Tuesday, seven people were caught trespassing at the Quabbin Reservoir. State Police say the five men and two women are from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Singapore, and “cited their education and career interests” for being in the area. The men told police they were chemical engineers and recent college graduates. The Quabbin, in Belchertown, is one of the country’s largest man-made public water supplies.
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Weiner to seek erection,
will announce bid for mayor
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New York Post, by David Seifman
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Posted By: Drive- 5/15/2013 8:55:10 AM
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Anthony Weiner’s bid to rise from the political dead is ready to begin in earnest — the disgraced former congressman will announce he is running for mayor as early as next week, according to sources. “He’s definitely running,” one Weiner ally told The Post. After weeks of hinting at a run, Weiner has taken a major step toward firing up his campaign by hiring a manager to guide his mayoral bid, according to a report. Weiner has tapped political adviser Danny Kedem, who recently worked on a Staten Island congressional race, to run his impending mayoral campaign, according to a report on Politico.com.
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Source: Two ´rogue´ workers principally
behind IRS targeting of conservatives
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CNN, by Dana Bash*
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/15/2013 4:50:18 PM
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Washington -- The Internal Revenue Service has identified two "rogue" employees in the agency´s Cincinnati office as being principally responsible for "overly aggressive" handling of requests by conservative groups for tax-exempt status, a congressional source told CNN. In a meeting on Capitol Hill, acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller described the employees as being "off the reservation," according to the source. It was not clear precisely what the alleged behavior involved. Miller said the staffers have already been disciplined, according to another source familiar with Miller´s discussions with congressional investigators.
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