Here’s the WaPo Headline
The 2015 election tightened the Republican stranglehold on state government
Isn’t that special? Not “Republicans increase majority of wins in state government” or even “Republicans increase dominance in state government”
No, we get the emotionally charged, biased stranglehold. It continues:
The 2015 election is over. (You may not have known it was even happening.) And it proved one thing: Republicans have an absolute stranglehold on governorships and state legislatures all across the country.
See? It’s your fault leaving the dastardly Rethuglicans to practically steal their way into government!! Oh why weren’t you paying attention!!
It’s hard to overstate how important those GOP gains — and the consolidation of them we’ve seen in the last few years — are to the relative fates of the two parties. While the story at the national level suggests a Republican Party that is growing increasingly white, old and out of step with the country on social issues, the narrative at the local level is very different. Republicans are prospering at the state level in ways that suggest that the party’s messaging is far from broken.
“Old, white and out-of-step” — please, let’s make sure to reinforce a Left-created media meme at every opportunity while ignoring the bloated donkey in the room.
Small wonder that the Left-media Praetorian Guard is hemorrhaging readers and viewers.
Keep up the good work, Chris.
If we’ve got such a stranglehold on state governments, why then we ought to use it to choke the shit out of the national [stet!] government with the Art. V garrot.
That Politico attempted garroting of Ben Carson today doesn’t — despite the quick and shameful panic of many a purported Republican twitter-fool to lend Politico a hand — appear to have a hope in hell of succeeding. Too many easily refuted lies, Politico. Although, we know you can’t help yourselves, still, it ain’t gonna work. Indeed, it may just rebound to your own death as a news organization, if people pay any attention to what you’re up to.
I think all the is important to the national media is what rich liberal women care about.
That Politico attempted garroting of Ben Carson today –
Romney’s dog could not be reached for comment.
Romney’s dog was already presciently commenting with the drizzly-shits all those years ago: it wouldn’t have issued any better commentary today.
Ben Carson’s whole West Point story was a pile of bullshit. 50, heck even 30 years ago it would have been called out as soon as it hit mainstream. No one, ever, got a “full scholarship” to West Point. You get an appointment. Before that, you need a nomination. Westmoreland, as far as I know, was never awarded the Medal of Honor, wasn’t Carson’s commanding officer, wasn’t in congress, or President or Vice President of the United States. There is no way he could have nominated Carson to attend West Point. Therefore, there is no way he got an appointment. Besides, if he did, and even if he never showed up for R Day, he would have had the damn thing framed. It’s a big fucking deal to just get the appointment. It takes an enormous amount of work, the candidates have to submit to physical tests, background checks, academic standards, leadership requirements and then do it again for the nomination.
The men and women who put themselves through that bullshit, when they could have gone to any college they wanted to, are some impressive people.
And I’m not just saying this because my son did it, I’m saying it because I couldn’t. Not even Navy. Ben Carson can fuck the hell off.
Lickspittle Media.
LMC
with all due respect, a non-military person who has someone trying to recruit them by saying “you won’t have to pay a thing to attend” is going to call that a scholarship.
Maybe a better editor would have caught that.
But Dr. Carson neither claimed he applied for WP (and you know appointments come only after application) or said he was accepted.
Carson is a little older than me … IIRC that would put him looking at college options almost immediately after the Vietnam war.
Trying to get the best & brightest into the military academies during that time was one of active recruitment as there was widespread hate towards the military at the time.
Friendly wrap-up (with extended updates) from Ben Shapiro.
Here
hahaha… sdferr, you beat me to it!! :-)
First, some literature for West Point does indeed say that a successful candidate for admission receives a full government scholarship to the academy which includes tuition, room and board as well as a salary.
Second, I knew General Westmoreland. I can see him offering a recommendation to a smart young man. Remember, a candidate must also have some glowing references as well as their essay and application to their Congressman. What better referral than one from an American hero with four stars on his shoulder.
I personally don’t think Carson is presidential material, but this story is a whole lot of nothing.
You’re wrong. This is about an uppity Negro who needs to be put back in his place, lest by his example others decide to leave the Democrat plantation.
And anyways, he was asking for it.
Not unlike that Carly Fiorina bitch, really.
carson wasn’t west point material he’s a neurotic fruit loop
how many died @ ben ghazzis’s house?
best of joy division
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Fruit loop? The top pediatric neurologist at Johns Hopkins with 1500 surgeries under his belt?
Oh well, if the notorious and anonymous troll says so, it’s must be, am I right
Levin took this bullshit apart on his show tonight. It seems when Carson was 17 the pentagon was running ads promising “full scholarships” to qualified individuals, so naturally that was the language Carson used describing his experience.
You know, wankers, you don’t have to belittle a awesome person just because you don’t want to vote for him.
I like him better today than I did yesterday.
Same here, Ernst.
It’s called Desperation. Not unlike the perfume a seventy-something cougar-wannabe might wear to the local singles bar.
What this country really needs is to re-learn the habit of taking two or three steps back from the Outrage Of The Moment and see how it really relates to the larger picture.
It’s kind of like how you’re better off not tailgating that 18-wheeler.
Like a world class brain surgeon needs to pad his resume.
Would this be called a lie if an athlete worded it the same way?
yes yes a lispy weirdo fruit loop
oh griefer is hammering his lifeydoodle nails again is all
it doesn’t matter that Dr. Carson actually did surgeries on unborn babies and therefore SCIENCE knows that what’s in mommy’s womb isnt a mass of cells
no no no, griefer gotta grief and no one is allowed to even whisper ‘baby’ when it comes to pregnancy least they betray their lifeydoodleness. Infanticide for everyone!
what are you talking about this goofball is not qualified to be president
at best he’s a lispy version of that Dr. House guy what limped around on Fox for years and years – I watched the show a couple times
he was clearly not president material, and neither is lispy fruit loop Ben Carson
plus have you got a load of his wife?
someone beat that hooch with the ugly stick MERCILESSLY
it’s better to understand all this now before you lilaroser fetus fetishists nominate him and we end up with Yet Another Embarrassing Spectacle
“what are you talking about this goofball is not qualified to be president ”
Uh huh. He hasn’t made the whitehouse a rainbow or visited 57 states anything.
Sit, I bet he couldn’t even write ‘Hills Like White Elephants’. He’s in that lower ‘bridge builder’ intellectual tier. Why he probably says “Blessed Be” back to the clerk when he’s at Chick Fil A eating the fried hatred they serve there. He probably owns a homophobic Duck Commander Mossberg shotgun with the momo-Jesus camo pattern.
not being a soros-owned obamacunt = presidential material?
and yet the failmerican people are ill-used to pronouncing the words “president romney”
aim higher, pickleheads
swing for the mother-fucking fences
omg chik fil a breakus biscuits is what i get when i go heavy on the liftings
which is not now cause of i been traveling
but a pikachu can aspire
i got a cold in stupid canada-land
the sun’ll come out tomorrow though
Lemme check…nope, all we got running is human mortals.
Oh well, maybe we can at least get a president that cares more about Americans than criminal foreigners and will quit spending all future generations wealth.
Oh shit, my expectations are almost as silly as the yellow cartoon character waiting for a savior.
Lee, it is clear the griefer is a Moby.
no it’s not you’re just being glib
shame on you
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Hamsters gonna hamst.
Lather.
Rinse.
Repeat.