Rubio staffer allegedly punches out Rand Paul aide at Michigan bar.
Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) on his plans to boycott Pope Francis’ speech to Congress: “[W]hen the Pope chooses to act and talk like a leftist politician, then he can expect to be treated like one.”
Special bonus quote: “If the Pope wants to devote his life to fighting climate change then he can do so in his personal time.”
Press failures, especially massive ones, tend to be right there in plain site and yet totally invisible, entirely ignored. And yet we have a massive one coming out of Wednesday night’s Republican debate that the press seems inclined or insisting on totally ignoring. Commentators are toasting Carly Fiorina as the break-out winner of the debate. And yet she not only made a string of false statements, or claims that showed a willful disregard for or ignorance of reality, she almost certainly manufactured a bogus memory entirely out of whole cloth. And all of this is cast into particularly high relief since Fiorina went into the debate intent on branding Hillary Clinton as a liar. “Her track record of lying about Benghazi, of lying about her e- mails, about lying about her servers,” is something Hillary will have to answer for, Fiorina bellowed in the debate.
Surveillance video of Paul/Rubio staffer brawl emerges. And, well, if this what Team Rubio calls a “punch” I think the national security numbers may begin to fall. Watch!
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A new Insight poll of our readers.
We asked 2800 respondents, “If you were convinced that the only way to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon was to launch a military strike to destroy its weapons facilities, would you support such an action?”
Results after the jump.
A new CNN poll out today shows a sudden rise for Carly Fiorina and at least some drop in support for Donald Trump. But I would argue that the real news from the poll is tied to Marco Rubio and to a lesser degree to the abysmal showing of Scott Walker who has been falling fast and now comes in at under 1%.
After a week of apologies and celebration of the young Irving, Texas, student, the Ahmed-Truth movement is now underway.
Pro-Confederate flag group trolls civil rights rally with a civil rights rally with aerial overflight message extolling the Confederacy. Alas, they misspelled the message.
Jeb Bush says a new TV ad attacking his brother, put together by an outside Democratic group, is “disgraceful.” This comes after Jeb himself put out a meme after last week’s debate embracing his “he kept us” safe line from his exchange with celebrity businessman Donald Trump. It’s hard to see what exactly is “disgraceful” about criticizing the record of a former president just because he happens to be another candidate’s brother. Indeed, as Amanda Marcotte notes here, the “he kept us safe” line is problematic on the merits, unless you consider the catastrophic 9/11 attacks the world’s most epic presidential mulligan. Even post-9/11, which of course is what the defenders want to focus on, getting the country embroiled in the catastrophic and terrorism irrelevant Iraq War doesn’t look like such a great idea in retrospect either.
But for the purposes of 2016, I’d argue that all these substantive points are borderline irrelevant.