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MSM, GOP and NY23

Posted on | February 16, 2010 | 13 Comments

In an article about the Tea Party movement, the Los Angeles Times re-writes the history of Doug Hoffman’s campaign last year in New York’s 23rd District:

Many Republican Party leaders have welcomed [Tea Party involvement in local GOP organizations], particularly because they worried that the energy driving the tea party movement might create a third party that would split the conservative vote.
That scenario played out in New York’s 23rd Congressional District in a special election last year, a cautionary tale in Republican circles because it led to a Democrat capturing a longtime GOP House seat. . . .

Having spent so long covering that campaign, this blame-the-conservatives revisionism angered me, and I responded in the Hot Air Green Room:

From start to finish of the NY23 campaign, then, the Republican Party was exclusively responsible for electing the Democrat.
Any attempt to foist blame for the Democratic victory in NY23 onto Hoffman and his supporters is a willful perversion of the actual history of that campaign. . . .

Please read the whole thing. Don’t let yourself be bamboozled and misled by MSM spin.

Category: Congress, Election, Media Bias, New York, Republicans, Tea Party

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13 Responses to “MSM, GOP and NY23”

  1. uberVU - social comments
    February 16th, 2010 @ 10:56 am

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  2. Joe
    February 16th, 2010 @ 6:08 pm

    From NY-23, to the Taxachusetts Brown Revolt, to Indiana as a toss up.

    Given it is Carnivale in Rio, this ditty popped into my head today:

    Not so tall or tan, but lovely,
    The girl named D’Ippolito goes running,
    And when she’s running, the GOP goes aaaaahhh!

    A far left girl in the general will get beat,
    The GOP will pick up another Senate seat,
    So if you are GOP sign the girl’s petition,
    Especiall if you’re conservative orientation,

    And if not so, it is okay too.
    The Baron is a dick and YouTube shows it soo,
    A primary race only makes him spend money there.

  3. Joe
    February 16th, 2010 @ 6:08 pm

    From NY-23, to the Taxachusetts Brown Revolt, to Indiana as a toss up.

    Given it is Carnivale in Rio, this ditty popped into my head today:

    Not so tall or tan, but lovely,
    The girl named D’Ippolito goes running,
    And when she’s running, the GOP goes aaaaahhh!

    A far left girl in the general will get beat,
    The GOP will pick up another Senate seat,
    So if you are GOP sign the girl’s petition,
    Especiall if you’re conservative orientation,

    And if not so, it is okay too.
    The Baron is a dick and YouTube shows it soo,
    A primary race only makes him spend money there.

  4. Joe
    February 16th, 2010 @ 1:08 pm

    From NY-23, to the Taxachusetts Brown Revolt, to Indiana as a toss up.

    Given it is Carnivale in Rio, this ditty popped into my head today:

    Not so tall or tan, but lovely,
    The girl named D’Ippolito goes running,
    And when she’s running, the GOP goes aaaaahhh!

    A far left girl in the general will get beat,
    The GOP will pick up another Senate seat,
    So if you are GOP sign the girl’s petition,
    Especiall if you’re conservative orientation,

    And if not so, it is okay too.
    The Baron is a dick and YouTube shows it soo,
    A primary race only makes him spend money there.

  5. Joe
    February 16th, 2010 @ 6:44 pm

    And the LA Times is either overtly lying or lying to itself. Scozzafava probably would have won if conservatives did not speak up. So what? She is a traitorous backstabbing two timer.

    The lesson of NY-23 is the local party should have picked a Hoffman in the first place and not a complete failure like Scozzafava. Can’t blame the Dems on this one, this was an unforced error.

    Oh and Newt? How does it feel to be the winner of The Biggest Loser? You are on the same page as the LA Times. How does that feel big guy? Good luck getting any base support going forward.

  6. Joe
    February 16th, 2010 @ 6:44 pm

    And the LA Times is either overtly lying or lying to itself. Scozzafava probably would have won if conservatives did not speak up. So what? She is a traitorous backstabbing two timer.

    The lesson of NY-23 is the local party should have picked a Hoffman in the first place and not a complete failure like Scozzafava. Can’t blame the Dems on this one, this was an unforced error.

    Oh and Newt? How does it feel to be the winner of The Biggest Loser? You are on the same page as the LA Times. How does that feel big guy? Good luck getting any base support going forward.

  7. Joe
    February 16th, 2010 @ 1:44 pm

    And the LA Times is either overtly lying or lying to itself. Scozzafava probably would have won if conservatives did not speak up. So what? She is a traitorous backstabbing two timer.

    The lesson of NY-23 is the local party should have picked a Hoffman in the first place and not a complete failure like Scozzafava. Can’t blame the Dems on this one, this was an unforced error.

    Oh and Newt? How does it feel to be the winner of The Biggest Loser? You are on the same page as the LA Times. How does that feel big guy? Good luck getting any base support going forward.

  8. Joe
    February 16th, 2010 @ 9:17 pm

    Not electing Scozzafava is like not marrying Scozzafava (or rather waking up hung over in Vegas and finding out you just married Scozzafava the night before and “sealed the deal” so to speak). You are better off.

    Way better off.

  9. Joe
    February 16th, 2010 @ 9:17 pm

    Not electing Scozzafava is like not marrying Scozzafava (or rather waking up hung over in Vegas and finding out you just married Scozzafava the night before and “sealed the deal” so to speak). You are better off.

    Way better off.

  10. Joe
    February 16th, 2010 @ 4:17 pm

    Not electing Scozzafava is like not marrying Scozzafava (or rather waking up hung over in Vegas and finding out you just married Scozzafava the night before and “sealed the deal” so to speak). You are better off.

    Way better off.

  11. Thomas L. Knapp
    February 17th, 2010 @ 11:53 am

    In NY 23, the “Tea Party” types abandoned GOP establishment hack Scozzafava and cost the GOP a reliable US House seat.

    In Massachusetts, the “Tea Party” types rallied to Scozzafava’s separated-at-birth fraternal twin and got a Republican pickup in the Senate.

    The former incident indicated that the “Tea Party” types might have standards they’d be adamant about sticking to. The latter proved that that was a false hope.

  12. Thomas L. Knapp
    February 17th, 2010 @ 11:53 am

    In NY 23, the “Tea Party” types abandoned GOP establishment hack Scozzafava and cost the GOP a reliable US House seat.

    In Massachusetts, the “Tea Party” types rallied to Scozzafava’s separated-at-birth fraternal twin and got a Republican pickup in the Senate.

    The former incident indicated that the “Tea Party” types might have standards they’d be adamant about sticking to. The latter proved that that was a false hope.

  13. Thomas L. Knapp
    February 17th, 2010 @ 6:53 am

    In NY 23, the “Tea Party” types abandoned GOP establishment hack Scozzafava and cost the GOP a reliable US House seat.

    In Massachusetts, the “Tea Party” types rallied to Scozzafava’s separated-at-birth fraternal twin and got a Republican pickup in the Senate.

    The former incident indicated that the “Tea Party” types might have standards they’d be adamant about sticking to. The latter proved that that was a false hope.