Late Night Video — TDS Rips the Media a New One

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Jon Stewart is running his show from Tampa this week covering the RNC convention with their own theme -- The Road to Jeb Bush 2016. In this clip -- he calls to task the media talking heads lamenting how bad Hurricane Issac might be for Republicans in some of the dumbest horserace commentary ever:

Secrecy envelopes RNC’s racist incident

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Two GOP delegates threw nuts at a black CNN camera woman and taunted her saying, "This is how we feed animals." They were ejected, but shortly thereafter the Romney campaign, the GOP and CNN threw a blanket of secrecy over the incident and more than 24 hours later, the secrecy is holding. ...

Wednesday Open Thread [8.29.12]

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"A well-placed Republican source tells Townhall that Oscar-winning director and actor Clint Eastwood will travel to Tampa, Florida to attend Mitt Romney's nominating convention this week... Our source -- who spoke on the condition of anonymity -- could not confirm if Eastwood is, in fact, the intriguing 'to-be-announced' speaker, but stated unequivocally that the Dirty Harry star will arrive in Florida late on Wednesday or early on Thursday, and will return to southern California on Friday."

Wilmington Mayor’s Race — Gloves Coming Off Edition

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There is a crazy amount of campaign material that is coming in my mail on a daily basis and I probably shouldn't admit that I look at all of it. Mainly to assess campaign strategies and wonder at the fact that I sometimes hear more from candidates who are supposed to represent me via these crazy mailings than I do in RL (*cough* Bob Marshall *cough*). Anyway, yesterday's mail produced the first real hit piece I've seen for the Mayor's race -- there may be others that I don't get, but this one made me chuckle.

The Polling Report [8.29.12]

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A small little polling report for you today, after the motherload of polls released yesterday. There is only one state level poll, and that is of Iowa by PPP, which changes Iowa to Lean Obama to Slim Obama. Meanwhile, some national polls are detecting a bounce from the GOP convention .... for President Obama.

Sher Valenzula is a fraud and a liar

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Yes. It is that simple. In her speech to the Wingnut National Convention, she had the opportunity to tell the truth about how she leveraged government programs including recent stimulus funding to build her business, but instead she decided to lie. She blamed the President for keeping her business down by imposing "new regulations" while never acknowledged the government's role in getting her business off the ground. ...

The IC’s Office Resorts to Pay to Vote

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A variation on Pay to Play, to be sure. I don't know that this got much attention by the NJ, but recently, Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart claimed that the Captive Insurance section was suddenly generating a "surplus" AND that she was having that "surplus" returned to the General Fund to be specifically directed to the City of Wilmington. This is a pretty sweet deal and interesting that suddenly this program has a surplus. It is even more interesting that she just sends a big chunk of that "surplus" to the City of Wilmington, which is the source of one of the few Party endorsements she received.