The Olbermann Juggernaut

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Thursday November 30, 2006 · 12:23 PM PST

2006/11/30 · 12:23

Front-paged at Booman Tribune and cross-posted at Op-Ed News

November 2006 cable ratings are in, and the Keith Olbermann juggernaut continues unabated.

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Monday November 06, 2006 · 11:25 PM PST

2006/11/06 · 23:25

front paged at Booman Tribune

Voters in Pennsylvania's 16th Congressional district have a chance to make history this Tuesday by tossing out 5-term Republican Congressman Joe Pitts and electing Democrat Lois Herr in his place. Read More

Keith Olbermann Can Rest Easy

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Tuesday October 31, 2006 · 5:57 PM PST

2006/10/31 · 17:57

Front-paged at Booman Tribune and headlined at Op Ed News

The ratings are out for the October broadcast month, the first full month of the 2006-2007 TV season, and for those of you who are fretting about whether the bravery of MSNBC's Keith Olbermann would motivate his bosses at NBC to send him packing a la Phil Donahue, you can probably rest easy. Keith's numbers are quite literally going through the roof, and he seems to be bringing the rest of MSNBC's primetime lineup along for the ride. Read More

A Democratic Romp; Or a Stolen Election?

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Saturday October 28, 2006 · 6:21 AM PDT

2006/10/28 · 06:21

Front-paged at Booman Tribune and headlined at Op Ed News

While Karl Rove expresses confidence that the GOP will maintain control of both the House and the Senate on November 7th and darkly hints about "private polls" containing "the numbers" that assure a GOP triumph, a growing number of not-so-private polls suggest that Rove has little to be cocky about.

The new AP/Ipsos poll out today is such a poll. The AP story (Poll: Middle class voters abandoning GOP) paints a rosy picture of the Democrats' chances for taking the House. Excerpts of the AP story, and more, below the fold: Read More

Joe Lieberman: The GOP's Fair-Haired Boy

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Wednesday August 02, 2006 · 5:57 AM PDT

2006/08/02 · 05:57

Main Headlined at Op-Ed News and Front-Paged at Booman Tribune

Last week Joe Lieberman, Connecticut's Junior Senator currently defending his seat against a primary challenge from insurgent candidate Ned Lamont, reacted testily to charges that he is not a true Democrat. He told NBC's Chip Reid "if people question whether I`m a democratic, the democratic party is in trouble." Perhaps so, But it was conservative Republicans who helped put Joe Lieberman in the Senate in the first place, and Republicans, including some of the most strident and right-wing members of the GOP, have often praised him and allied themselves with him. He has rarely hesitated to ally himself with Republicans nor to heed their call when they have sought his help. Read More

A Ned Lamont Landslide?

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Friday July 28, 2006 · 5:18 AM PDT

2006/07/28 · 05:18

Front-paged at Booman Tribune and Main-Headlined at Op-Ed News

Taking its cue from a press release that accompanied the latest Quinnipiac poll, the mainstream media is predicting a close Connecticut primary contest that could go either way. Ned Lamont holds a narrow 4-point edge over Joe Lieberman, but that falls well within the polls +/- 3.8 percentage point margin of error. Is it really that close? Careful analysis of the data suggests otherwise. In fact, Lamont may be heading for a landslide victory on August 8th. Read More

The Leak None Dared Call Treason

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Monday July 17, 2006 · 6:29 AM PDT

2006/07/17 · 06:29

Front-paged at Booman Tribune and Op-Ed News

The Bush administration is up in arms over disclosure in the New York Times of its surveillance of banking records, even though President Bush and others had previously publicly boasted about the program. Apparently forgotten is a much more dangerous leak two years ago that seriously compromised national security. That story also ran in the Times, and the source was an unidentified official within the Bush administration. Read More

Bill O'Reilly and Malmedy

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Saturday June 03, 2006 · 4:47 AM PDT

2006/06/03 · 04:47

Front-paged at Booman Tribune. (Another diary was posted about this yesterday, but this one includes additional material and clarifies that the 82nd Airborne was, in fact, not involved in the massacre at Malmedy)

If you watched Countdown Thursday night you were witness to a livid Keith Olbermann, devoid of his usual sense of humor, tearing into Bill O'Reilly for turning the facts on end and accusing American soldiers massacred at Malmedy during World War II of having been the perpetrators of the massacre rather than the victims. Calling the latest O'Reilly rant the "Worst O`Reilly mistake ever," Olbermann played a clip from The O'Reilly Factor:

BILL O`REILLY, HOST, "THE O`REILLY FACTOR": In Malmedy, as you know, U.S. forces captured S.S. forces who had their hands in the air, and they were unarmed, and they shot them down.

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Thursday May 04, 2006 · 2:48 PM PDT

2006/05/04 · 14:48

Front-paged at Booman Tribune

The new Keystone poll just out today has got to be sending some very nervous tremors through the halls of the DSCC, the DNC, and the Bob Casey for Senate campaign. Even while confirming that Rick Santorum remains very vulnerable in the upcoming Pennsylvania Senate race, the poll suggests that the DSCC-annointed Democratic candidate, Bob Casey jr., will have a very difficult time defeating Santorum this fall if he wins the primary on May 16th.

In a nutshell: Casey's once-dominant double-digit lead over Santorum is in a free-fall. As undecideds learn more about Casey they are overwhelmingly opting for Santorum in a hypothetical (until the voters decide in the May 16th primary) Casey v Santorum Senate race, this despite the fact that a growing majority of Pennsylvanians want someone other than Santorum to represent them in the Senate. Read More

Quinnipiac Spins For Bob Casey Jr.

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Friday April 07, 2006 · 4:21 AM PDT

2006/04/07 · 04:21

Front-Paged at Booman Tribune

A war of words erupted recently between Pennsylvania Senate Candidate Chuck Pennacchio and three prominent pollsters: Muhlenberg College, Franklin & Marshall's Keystone Poll, and the Quinnipiac poll. Pennacchio had charged that the polls were deceptively tailored to sway voter opinion in favor of the DSCC annointed candidate Bob Casey Jr. The pollsters in turn responded in a joint statement, branding Pennacchio's charges "unsubstantiated and reckless."

Yet the latest Quinnipiac Poll released Thursday April 6th, in particular the press release that accompanied it, would seem to add considerable credibility to Pennacchio's case, and it would appear to leave the Quinnipiac Poll with some explaining to do.
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The Quotable Bob Casey Jr.

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Monday April 03, 2006 · 4:55 AM PDT

2006/04/03 · 04:55

Front-paged at Booman Tribune

When I attended the Pennsylvania State Democratic Party Endorsement Convention last weekend (March 24-25, 2006) in Grantville, Pa. I was astonished to hear Bob Casey Jr. repeatedly referred to as a moderate Democrat. Casey supporter after Casey supporter I spoke with displayed an abysmal ignorance about how similar Bob Casey Jr. and Rick Santorum are on a host of critical social issues. Many reacted angrily when told about his stand on the Schiavo case, the war in Iraq, the Patriot Act, his ambiguous stand on civil unions, the role of religion in government, Roe v Wade, warrantless wiretaps, et al, often claiming that Casey's positions on those and other issues are being grossly misrepresented.

And so, ladies and gentlemen, I bring you Bob Casey Jr. in his own words: Read More

Bob Casey Does it Again

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Tuesday March 21, 2006 · 6:09 AM PST

2006/03/21 · 06:09

Front-paged at Booman Tribune

It isn't often that Bob Casey Jr., -- the would-be Democratic Senate candidate for Pennsylvania hand chosen by Chuck Schumer and the DSCC -- takes a public stand on anything, a fact not lost on the Santorum campaign's new website, Where's Bob Casey?

As the web site of Casey's principle opponent for the nomination, Chuck Pennacchio, points out, Casey's views are usually closer to those of Rick Santorum (especially on social issues like abortion rights, gun control, an exit strategy from Iraq, stem cell research, congressional intervention in the Schiavo case, the Patriot Act, et al) than they are to rank-and-file Democrats. Read More

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Bill O'Reilly and Malmedy

New Keystone Poll spells trouble for Bob Casey Jr.

Quinnipiac Spins For Bob Casey Jr.

The Quotable Bob Casey Jr.

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