...they fell asleep before the convention and then just plagiarized FOX.

Sour grapes. I'm surprised they didn't mention his tie.

Too busy talking about Michelle's dress.


Could you imagine ...if someone (anyone) had grown a beard?

I hope he got smacked at some point.

some of the most horrendous GOP lies. Kristina vanden Heuvel tried, but it's easy to get shouted down, or overtalked on Maher's show if you're not a rude person.

When the right wing shills come face-to-face with their own bs, all they can do is say the other side does it, too.

gee... i get to use that reply title again!

in the grand scheme of things...politico is just another collection of opinions that carries no more weight than any other site

I don't trust them for a minute. Gannon gone and politico arrives. If the truth was known I'd bet some of the same assholes were with talon and now politico

Apparently his internship with Herb Kohl didn't teach him anything about integrity, he's just a pro at sucking up.

This time around, fewer people are in doubt about who to vote for.


rocktvity

Watched C-span along with a lot of people.

...ad nauseum...over the actual convention events and speakers. Who wants to watch their spin for six hours a day?

The TV I have just sits there unless I want to watch a DVD....otherwise i can get all I want with my computing machine.

Started watching via MSNBC and was quickly frustrated with the jabber obstructing the speakers. C-span was a blessing, and it's so nice on a large screen. While I DO get alot of my news and politics online, the crappy internet service we have out here in trhe sticks can really piss me off as something I'm into stops repeatedly to "buffer". Heck, I'd dump Direct TV in a hearbeat if we had a solid reliable internet connection. But at least for the convention - DTV and C-span made it fun to watch.

Seems to be coming increasingly right wing.

Albriton---->Riggs---> Riggs Bank Scandal....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riggs_Bank

http://www.muckety.com/Politico/5003676.muckety. Just expand some of the names, Google around. Explains everything.

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Rotten roots.

Maher was slapping his stupid 'both sides are guilty of X' down.

i didnt realize how in the tank they were for the gop till recently.

I think the media is in shock and can't admit that the Dems took the fight the repugs and put the boots to em.

I've had people tell me that Politico doesn't have a Right Wing bent, those people are full of shit too.

I remember when they first popped up and tried to disguise themselves as middle-of-the-road but once you start tracing the money, the sources, the owners - well, there is nothing objective or moderate about them.

Over the years, their mask slipped off a few times and one could easily see who they really are and who they represent.

I noticed after the DNC Conventions, on C-SPAN - the Politico panel came off as a bunch of brown haired, frothing, full blown right-wingers but lacking the theater finesse (for lack of a better phrase) of Fox News.

It was in no sense "one of the best political conventions of all time"...

... The difference is that Politico pretends to be a news organization, while the author of this piece does not, and doesn't pretend to be unbiased.

There are other democrats (teachers and other some other unions) who don't seem as pleased.

But that hardly matters. "Best of all time" would necessarily include a dramatic impact on the race (especially since the RNC convention was such a dud)... Would avoid the moderately embarrassing screw-ups (god/israel vote and the venue handling)... and would have the kind of call to action final address that marked one of the great presidencies.

The convention was fine... and there's every reason to believe that we can win in November. But "one of the best of all time" has to come from a author who is attending his first (especially since 2008 was far better).

I'm sure there were african americans speaking at the RNC convention. Does that prove they're happy?

Take a look at the Education group here on DU or any number of posts by teachers union members.

"I'm sure there were african americans speaking at the RNC convention. Does that prove they're happy"

The mindless idiots who were there probably thought they'd died and gone to heaven.

You appear to be confusing the belief that the convention was one of the best and a tremendous succes with happiness in life.

Someone taking issue with a policy has nothing to do with whether or not the convention was one of the best.

than the convention. I thought the convention itself was pretty good. Loved most of the speeches. Clinton was awesome. But the party's platform on education sucks eggs. Of course I don't think any of us teachers expected a sudden turnaround from the DNC.

But I can still appreciate a good show put on by Democrats.

Real Time. He didn't say a whole lot. He did get a dig in about Dems talking too much about "abortion and gays" at their convention other than Clinton who did not. Here's what alot of republicans are not getting-they don't own foreign policy, the military or social issues anymore. The only thing they have going for them is their twisted argument on the economy..that's it. And they know it on some level which is why Ann Romney didn't want to talk social issues. However, some of them still think those wedge issues work when in fact I think it shows them to be out of touch with alot of the country who aren't rabid ring wingers.

I knew this from the very get-go when Chris Matthews was using them as a news source way back when Keith Olbermann just began to push progressive reporting into his show.

Politico was somewhat neutral in the beginning (as most new media tend to be), but when the founder and the funders are Reaganites and CONservatives, I knew it was only a matter of time before they did their trusty ol' bait 'n' switch and allow their (always-wrong)Rightwing ideology to take precedent in the majority of the articles.

I never took Politico seriously.

You can get away with a lot of spin sometimes, but not when anyone who cares can still watch the DNC speeches online. These hacks are still in the TV age when they could limit access to the event and get away with this. The only people who will believe this crap are the ones who need no evidence.

Here is my take on the GOP and their enablers.

It's called INTOLERANCE. It beats out that infamous ugliness that still is perversive in our lovely divided Melting Pot Country.

It's a shameful and ugly side of our society and is perpetuated by people who want nothing more then having us believe in their form of everything.


Where I work we have had diversity training classes but that ugly word INTOLERANCE is still lurking about.


I hear it at work from men, women and it really bad when people who would be hurt by a Republican Administration vote for these folks.

So my advice is we may not agree on a lot of issues but this form of Democracy is pretty unique so lets invest in the word TOLERANT, Tolerant of other citizens views.

PS I am a Navy Vietnam Veteran.

Also saw Bill Maher last night & also surprised that Politico's Jim Vanderschmuck was echoing the GOP talking points about DNC Convention. Steve Schmidt was also on & he acknowledged that the Democrats have taken Foreign Policy issue away from Republicans. Bill Maher also had on Christine O'Donnell & it was evident how frustrated he was with her lies. Bill called out her lies but she kept on talking. Thanks for the info on Politico as I knew very little about them!!!i

No wonder some folks call politics the online newsletter of the Romney campaign

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from their beginning back in 04/05 I never trusted them. We are seeing their betrayal now.

my memory is a little fuzzy, but yes, they came to DU acting all progressive and liberal while sticking it to Move-on
and Truth-out. I remember that debate here.

and he was similarly pukey, RNC defender - DNC party pooper. He's a gloomy Gus

I was going to point this out

He is so inside the echo-chamber (conduit for the Drudge report) that he didn't know what to say to even the slightest disruption in the talking points he is paid to repeat.

Talon News. It has been a repub propaganda vehicle since it's inception, the only difference is they sometimes used more subtlety than did Talon News and it seemingly worked when it came to the MSM using them as a credible source.

They have thrown off any use of subtlety and are now going on a full bore attack on the President and Democrats, their bias, once somewhat under cover, is now out for ALL to see.

what they did back in the day was to discredit Move-on and Truth-out to become the most trusted, I actually warned
people back then on DU that they can't be trusted especially with the way they back stab Move-on and Truth-out.

that was known to have signed into the White House one day during the * admin and didn't sign out til several weeks later?

as big a slimeball as one could imagine. After the facts about him became public, Talon News shut down, it was in February, 2005. Politico was started in January, 2007 and is owned by Allbritton Communications which is, in turn, owned and run by Robert Allbritton, a right wing republican.

after the speeches at the DNC Convention, and she had on a GOP hack who said that E. Warren was a very angry wo-men and I just had to chuckle. Seriously, really?

CNN's main coverage was the omitting of "GOD" and "Jerusalem", hearing Wolf state this was a major issue that will hinder the DNC Convention forever! The only positives about the convention seem to comes from MSNBC and Current.

Most the the people's media is actually the corporate media, and therefore, they hate anything that is not GOP, guns, GAWD, and pro-life. The corporate media is no longer journalism but a propaganda machine for the 1-2%.

I thought I was the only one that saw how positive Politico was to Romney and how negative every article was about Obama. They even left out the Gallup numbers. They lost alot of credibility with me. It's weird how the Obame Fell Flat was kept for at least 24 hours and how Roger Simon was the original author then they added more authors to the article. That seems very strange to me.

that plays up the "centrist" (ahem...corporate, security state, neocon) angle rather than the "red meat" theocrat, bigot, rabid anti-government (more reserved versions of anti-government, they can work with) sections of the TeaPubliKlan orchestra.

Any and all confusion about who and what Politico is comes from blind ignorance and/or ideological comfort with corporate power, enabling neocons, and advancing the security state.

None of those things is true. But then, the Republicans don't run things according to pesky fact-checkers.

Fucking Jim Vandehei-Scum!

Mike Allen-Blow Me!

And Jonathan Martin (or J-Mart as your fellow vermin refer to you), Now YOU Blow Jim Vandehei!

Many people use their sites for political info.

"Frederick J. Ryan Jr., former assistant to President Ronald Reagan, is president and chief executive officer" of Politico per wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico.

"RealClearPolitics is a political news and polling data aggregator based in Chicago, Illinois. The site's founders say their goal is to give readers "ideological diversity". hey have described themselves as frustrated with what they perceive as anti-conservative, anti-Christian media bias, and while Patrick Stack of Time magazine has described the commentary as conservative-leaning, the site includes columns and commentary from both sides of the political spectrum.
The site was founded in 2000 by former options trader John McIntyre and former advertising agency account executive Tom Bevan. Forbes Media LLC bought a 51% equity interest in the site in 2007." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealClearPolitics

It helps to know what media sources and online sites are biased in favor of conservatives.

The poll collection data is really good, but like most right-leaning entities, there are often some foul articles posted at RCP: opinions of every hack from Hot Air bloggers to Scott Walker.

Dubya.

thinking people are Noticing it!

Thanks for bringing joelgp's Diary over, ProSense!

"17. Plouffe not expecting bounce (This one is my favorite because while Plouffe is not expecting one, Gallup already found one!!)

And guess who didn’t yet report that bounce which was posted on nearly every political site by 2:00pm yesterday?

You got it!!!

Politico!!!" !!

And I am not joking either.

Don

I finally deleted their app from my phone yesterday.

Who owns those hacks anyway?

Looks like Politico is changing course, somewhat.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/80949.html?hp=t1

The arrival is not evidence of "changing course". It's an appeal to independent voters - for Romney. It list all the issues that Romney is "armed" with on one side and who Obama hopes to appeal to on the other side.

It looked more like a call for Independents to lean R.

It didn't seem pro-Obama or even neutral to me.

Here's my DU piece dated May of 2008.....exposing Politico.


Politico is quickly becoming an "Instant" Web Source-But Who are They, and whom do They Serve?
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/FrenchieCat/244

Twice in as many days, the Seattle Times has run full page pieces on how the Dems have "twisted" information and been "misleading."
Both articles contain the most stupid references: the debt ceiling deal (neither the Boner nor "O" could get their sides to get along so they jettisoned it) was an example of "O" misleading?!?! Or not taking the advise of the committee Lyin' Ryan sabotaged as an example of walking away?!?!?!
Someone at the top REALLY does not want this guy to win.

go to Muckety and type in Politico and run the search (I have a result in my post) then please. do. click around and expand the boxes.

It's all right there in the connections.........

I mean that, too.

If they acknowledge the bounce it will probably be in reference to not being as big a bounce as Obama got in 08. Even if it's only a fraction of a percent off, the report will be Not as big a bounce in '12. When Obama trounces Mittens in the debates the headline will be something like Mittens performs above expectations. By November they will run headlines like We just hate Obama, because that is all they will have left.

the Dems couldn't catch a break this week on NPR/FOX/(and now)POLITICO...

NOW i get it, thanks for this post.

As for the first question, it is owned by the son of the Texas banker who gave George H.W. Bush his first job after Jimmy Carter fired him as CIA Director following the Church Committee Hearings revealed some of the depths of CIA crimes and domestic dirty-tricks. Bush, Sr. was appointed Director of First International Bancshares of Dallas and Luxembourg owned by Joe Allbritton who went on to takeover Riggs Bank of Washington and and ran it as a branch of BCCI that funneled Saudi intelligence support for al-Qaeda until the feds shut Riggs down after 9/11.

Politico is the well-financed new media mouthpiece of the Bush wing of the Republican Party. The Washington Times, owned by the late Rev. Moon, was the old media version run by a rival branch of Right-wing spooks who emerged earlier from the same Bush CIA Saudi-financed media operation.