At the Capitol Hill rally against nationalized health care on Thursday, talk-radio host and author Mark Levin talked to the press: "These are citizen patriots out here, and I’m tired of them being smeared." Some didn’t get the message. In Friday’s Washington Post, columnist DanaMilbank played the usual game of quoting the wackiest signs and smearing thousands...
DanaMilbank overweening prig : Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele was doing a victory lap on the morning shows Wednesday after the GOP gubernatorial candidates won in New Jersey and Virginia. "Look at the stories we're talking about today," he told CBS's Harry Smith, "and I think it's about a transcendent party." Presumably, the chairman meant that...
... play the race card? Why, the reaction would be instantaneous and severe!Look, you RACIST! bastard DanaMilbank, you can't get away with this sort of thing, especially since you're the SOB who that Sarah Palin's supporters shouted racial slurs during a campaign rally last October. You think that's forgotten, asshole?Think of Milbank as the sphincter of journalistic integrity.To...
Observing the Nov. 5 protest march against Obamacare on Capitol Hill, DanaMilbank of the Washington Post momentarily turned his attention from signs that said "Stop Obamunism" and "National Socialist Healthcare, Dachau, Germany, 1945" to "a man standing just beyond the TV cameras" who "apparently suffered a heart attack 20 minutes after [the] event...
Rachel Maddow points out the cast of characters attending Michelle Bachmann's health care teabagger rally yesterday. Watch, AFTER THE JUMP... Writes DanaMilbank in the WaPo: "Many of the demonstrators chanted 'Weasel Queen,' their pet name for the speaker of...
Thousands of protesters came to Capitol Hill yesterday for Rep. Michele Bachmann’s (R-MN) protest against health care reform, capping months of fear-mongering about the dangers of so-called “socialized” medicine. However, the Washington Post’s DanaMilbank notes that at one point, one of the protesters had a heart attack. Luckily, federally-employed medical personnel...
THANK GOODNESS FOR GOVERNMENT-RUN HEALTH CARE ON CAPITOL HILL.... About 20 minutes into yesterday's right-wing rally on the Hill in opposition to health care reform, one of the protestors suffered a heart attack. Fortunately, as DanaMilbank reported, medical professionals...
Okay, I don't often link to DanaMilbank , but today, he has some of the color from the teabagger rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. I found this particularly interesting: More ominously, a man standing just beyond the TV cameras apparently suffered a heart attack 20 minutes after event began. Medical personnel from the Capitol physician's office -- an entity that could, quite accurately,...
Former President George W. Bush will deliver a keynote address at SMU on Nov. 12 outlining his vision for his policy institute, which will be part of the George W. Bush Presidential Center, his office said yesterday. DanaMilbank on yesterday's Tea Party protestors: "Many of the demonstrators chanted 'Weasel Queen,' their pet name for the speaker of the House. Others wore masks of...
By DanaMilbank WashPost Friday, November 6, 2009 The call to arms went out last week. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), who made her name suggesting that Barack Obama and other Democrats have "anti-American" views, appeared on Fox News on Friday night and urged Americans to come to Washington to protest: "We need to pay a house call on Nancy Pelosi and tell her what she...
By DanaMilbank WashPost Thursday, November 5, 2009 Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele was doing a victory lap on the morning shows Wednesday after the GOP gubernatorial candidates won in New Jersey and Virginia. "Look at the stories we're talking about today," he told CBS's Harry Smith, "and I think it's about a transcendent party." Presumably,...
DanaMilbank relates a telling exchange that took place at the (mostly) GOP-boycotted Senate Environment and Public Works Committee meeting to mark up the Senate's "climate-change" bill:As Specter spoke, the distinguished Sen. George Voinovich of Ohio -- a Republican! -- made his way toward the table. Voinovich, who is retiring next year, delivered an emotional appeal to halt...
Remember James Inhofe, global warming denialist extraordinaire? Well, everybody ought to read DanaMilbank’s sad account from a few days back of Inhofe’s increasing marginalization, even among his GOP peers–and of his increasing shrillness as this occurs. Given his track record, at this point it seems unlikely that Inhofe will ever admit that global warming is real [...]...
... dignity and honesty to government. In any case, the video, with Mark Ambinder of the Atlantic, and DanaMilbank of the Washington Post, is an espcially good example of Beltway cocooning effect - i.e., extremely well-concecting commentators who still don't fully get what's happening on the ground. More tonight ...
... analyst said this is the race that he will be watching tonight. Washington Post columnist DanaMilbank, meanwhile, joked about media and analysts reading too much into these races. "Of course it is a referendum," he said, "because we will all be sitting here saying it is a referendum on way or the other." "We are always looking for a story here and let's face it these are kind of...
