“The federal government is running a Ponzi scheme,” Gov. Pawlenty told a New Hampshire radio audience Wednesday, and if pending reforms are enacted, federal health care programs are destined for bankruptcy.
Pawlenty was interviewed by phone on WGIR-AM ahead of an in-person appearance in the [...]
I first noticed the streaming banner Fox News ran over Bachmann while looking into her nomination as a finalist for PolitiFact.com's "2009 Lie Of The Year."
Here's that screenshot, once more, from Bachmann MotorMouth Overdrive's appearance on Faux News' Sean insHannity Show:
Check out that caption, above Bachmann: "Universal Nightmare."
I [...]
Dave Prychitko finds a nugget in Council of Economic Advisers chair Christina Romer's appearance on Meet The Press yesterday:
MR. GREGORY: When do you expect you will be able to say the recession is over?
Going Rogue by the numbers (source: Mall of America):
2500: Number of copies of Going Rogue signed by Sarah Palin at her Barnes & Noble Mall of America appearance on December 7. The previous mall record for books signed was held by Twilight author [...]
Hundreds of Minnesotans braved Alaskan temperatures outside the Mall of America before dawn Monday, waiting for Sarah Palin to sign copies of her book, “Going Rogue.” They warmed up when talking about Palin with the Minnesota Independent.
As at Palin’s appearance with [...]
Mara Liasson is National Public Radio's top political correspondent. She also helps hold down the left flank on panels where she appears as a FOX News contributor such as Special Report with Bret Baier. Josh Gerstein reports that NPR management has asked Liasson to reconsider her appearances on Fox [...]
The farce of the century opens today in Copenhagen and will be with us for two long, painful weeks, the second of which will include an appearance by President Obama. MC isn't sure it can bear both his acceptance of the laughable Nobel Peace Prize and' [...] 
Televangelist Pat Robertson gushed over Rep. Michele Bachmann’s rise in the Republican party in an interview with Bachmann on Robertson’s 700 Club on Thursday. The appearance comes a week after another religious right leader, Phyllis Schlafly, gave Bachmann accolades in a letter of support.
“This [...]
Photo: René Sinn
News of now-abandoned plans for Sarah Palin’s Dec. 7 appearance at the Mall of America that would have banned non-English-language media and required reporters to call Palin “governor” rekindles questions about free speech rights at the mall.
“This is outrageous,” says Minneapolis [...]
While Coleman has remained publicly coy about his intentions, the [...]
Tarryl Clark, Michele Bachmann
Just as DFL congressional candidate Tarryl Clark uses Rep. Michele Bachmann’s appearance at a conservative conference in Florida in a fundraising appeal, word comes out that Bachmann will be showcased at yet another such affair: the National Tea [...]
Recent criticisms of Tim Pawlenty’s nascent (if undeclared) presidential campaign have focused on the governor’s strategy of trying to appeal to far-right Republicans instead of being true to his more moderate past (his “Romneyfication,” if you will). Yet during his appearance on Sean Hannity’s show yesterday it’s Pawlenty who [...]
- Little Timmy was on Hannity Monday evening, spewing predictable talking points. I'll rarely mention appearances' [...]
The circumstances surrounding the disappearance of dozens of young Somali men from Minneapolis took an expectedly ominous turn yesterday with the indictments of eight men on terrorism-related charges. As suspected, the men arranged to send the young Somalis back to their home country to conduct terrorist attacks, after being [...]
Local doctor Maureen Hackett jumped head first into the CD3 DFL battle last week with an appearance on a local DFL Cable Access TV show and an interview with MPR’s Polinaut.
Listen to Hackett stumble through and avoid questions with MPR here.
Hackett: “I like to support good ideas…I like Ralph [...]
Yes, MC knows, calling someone a fool is hardly elevated discourse, incisive analysis or shrewd observation. It's akin to "Shut up," he explained. Still, MC goes with fool and so will you when you read about the Attorney General's appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee today. [...] North Star Liberal, which decided to launch by calling Margaret Anderson Kelliher fat and mannish. Of course, it’s okay because they also mocked the appearances of male politicians, which, er, only makes things worse. Also, it’s “snarky,” which is evidently now code for “place where people who claim [...]
She sends a videotaped message instead. Kudos to Andy Birkey from Minnesota Independent for attending and reporting on this event. [...] 
