Who’s going to write the piece about the Politico using most of its ‘media coverage’ to attack its competitors? Any takers?
The NYT kinda, sorta admits it goofed when it quoted the executive director of the Gulf of Mexico Foundation about the severity of the oil spill without mentioning the group’s ties to Big Oil — but oddly still doesn’t mention that one of the group’s board members is an executive with Transocean, the owner of the sunken and leaking rig, or that Transocean hosted the group’s last board meeting.
The FBI had the suspected Times Square bomber under surveillance Monday afternoon at his home in Connecticut but somehow lost track of him as he drove to JFK and boarded a flight to Dubai.
In many ways Samuel “Joe the Plumber” Wurzelbacher was the proto-Tea Partier. Sort of the John the Baptist to whoever the Jesus of Tea Partying is.
But now it seems, he’s gone mainstream. In the elections held today in Ohio, Samuel ran and won a seat on the Republican Party Central Committee from his precinct in Springfield Township. From the story in the Toledo Blade, it seems “Joe” has been drawn in to some sort of faction fight between the current head of the Lucas County GOP, Jon Stainbrook and a Toledo lawyer, Jeff Simpson, who wants the job.
The AP has called the Ohio Democratic primary for U.S. Senate for Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher, who defeats Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner. Fisher will face Republican Rob Portman in November for the open seat of retiring Sen. George Voinovich (R).
In the Democratic primary in North Carolina, Secretary of State Elaine Marshall and Iraq War vet Cal Cunningham get to do all over again — in a runoff to see who faces U.S. Sen. Richard Burr (R) in November. The AP is projecting that neither candidate was able to muster 40% of the vote in tonight’s three-way election, which under state law would have avoided a runoff.
In Indiana, it’ll be former Sen. Dan Coats (R) versus Rep. Brad Ellsworth (D) in the general election to succeed the retiring Sen. Evan Bayh (D), after Coats’ victory tonight in the GOP primary. Ellsworth is the presumptive Democratic nominee (recall that Bayh announced his decision not to run too late for there to be a Democratic primary, so the party’s central committee will select the nominee, but Ellsworth is the only contender). Coats held this seat until he retired in 1998. Now after 12 years in the lucrative lobbying business, he’s got a chance to get his old seat back.
Coming off his Fox appearance yesterday, in which he claimed that President Obama had sprung the Gulf oil spill to advance his environmentalist agenda, Michael “Brownie” Brown just made an appearance on Hardball and doubled down on the claim. Matthews asked him whether he didn’t think people might suspect he was insane.
Matthews: “But don’t you know that what you’re saying, to a third party, not somebody like myself or somebody like yourself listening to you, thinks that you’re sounding insane.”
Doesn’t Matthews think he sounds insane too?
Video here.
Gibbs goes nuclear on Fox for having Brownie on to say President Obama sprung the oil leak on purpose in a sinister plot to advance the green energy agenda. See the video.