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Recorded in Bettendorf, Iowa on 2/10/23

On November 3, 2020, as election night rolled into election morning, Jill and Joseph Biden walked out alone on stage to stand before a crowd of brand-new Jeeps. “We feel good about where we are. We really do,” Joe Biden said to the occasional honk from the vehicles. It was an odd scene on an odd election night—with Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, Nevada, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania determined too close to call. Just as oddsmakers and media pundits began tipping their hand—that somehow Trump had managed to pull it off again—network broadcasts announced, almost in unison, that states were largely done...

Like pretty much else in this race for the White House as it pertains to Donald Trump, this Muslims-celebrating-in-Jersey-after-9/11-story dominating the narrative for days is a fascinating study in media process. Before we continue, a little background from the author: I was in New York on 9/11. I lived in Jersey (still do) at the time. I, like the rest of the country, watched the news non-stop for days, weeks after the attacks. And while I do vividly remember images coming out of the Middle East of people openly celebrating the attacks (that one older woman with big glasses snapping...

I hear a lot of people sticking up for bayonets, how about someone calling attention to the fact that Obama made a glaring error by mocking horses, when they were an important part of the war he says is the one we need to focus on, Afghanistan? http://video.foxnews.com/v/1912138721001/horse-soldier-memorial-unveiled-at-ground-zero/ This is the link for Fox, but there was also lots of other coverage about the Horse Memorial at Ground Zero.

Republican Congressman Denny Rehberg continues to hold a modest lead over incumbent Jon Tester in Montana’s U.S. Senate race. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Montana Voters shows Rehberg with 47% support to Tester’s 43%. Five percent (5%) prefer some other candidate, and five percent (5%) are undecided.

Senator Barack Obama's $4 million-plus bought him a rating of 21.7 Wednesday night (Oct. 29) among the top 56 local TV markets measured by electronic meters, according to Nielsen. The half-hour informercial, aired at 8 p.m. on four networks, CBS, NBC, Univision and Fox, plus MSNBC and NY1. (The Nielsen data does not include BET, which aired the infomercial during different time periods.) Fox delayed the airing of the final game of the World Series by one-half hour to accommodate Obama's informercial. Only ABC ran its regularly-scheduled program, Pushing Daisies. An unusual presidential media tactic, Obama's infomercial was the first...

Welcome to Toastmasters, June 13, 2033. That's right: 2033. Today Rick Campbell, one of our senior members at age 87, is here to reminisce a bit and give us a history lesson. He says he is so old that he learned to drive an internal combustion engine car (remember those) with a manual transmission. He once owned a typewriter. He remembers when bicycles had one speed, phones had two-party lines, and cameras had something called film. As incredible as this may seem, he says that when he was young, it was common for people to smoke in restaurants and public...

We are in the eye of the hurricane; past the primaries and caucuses, not quite to the conventions, debates and the general election. This should be a time for both candidates to be pounding home their messages. Barack Obama is getting all the support he needs from the mainstream media. They love him, adore him, worship him. He is the second coming of Christ, or so it is believed. But what of John McCain? During the primary season, when McCain had already wrapped up the Republican nomination, and Clinton and Obama were duking it out, several pundits were saying John...

WASHINGTON -- Stepping back from the febrile blare that the political classes have orchestrated around the Iowa caucuses and now the New Hampshire primary, allow me to make an observation that some will say is lacking in humility. Well, to be honest, of all the virtues, humility is the one that I simply cannot stick. I mean, what is the point of it? Now that we have two presidential contests behind us and the Clintons thrashing to maintain a one-digit lead nationally over Senator Barack Obama, where only a couple of weeks back the lead was in the double digits,...

After former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson acknowledged in mid-March that he was considering a run for the Republican presidential nomination, supporters of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney were quietly acknowledging the obvious: Their candidate was political roadkill if Thompson entered the contest anytime soon. But things look very different now. Thompson's decision to delay his entry into the contest until this week not only damaged his own prospects but, more importantly, breathed life into a Romney candidacy that easily could have been snuffed out before it had begun. Initially, coming from the right side of the ideological spectrum, Thompson appeared...

The US military and Iraqi government have drafted a security plan to put 100,000 Iraqi forces on the streets in an effort to stave off a bloodbath on election day exactly one month from now, officials said. They said they were hoping that an increase in offensives against insurgents coupled with airtight security on January 30 will allow voting to go ahead nationwide despite fears of attacks. Brigadier General Erv Lessel, the US-led military's deputy director of operations, bluntly listed the potential election day hazards. "They (insurgents) will make attempts to try to disrupt the process by attacking election...

10 DAYS TO GO We face the most Important Issue of our lifetime! What are you doing to help re-elect President Bush and Vice President Cheney? and BLOW KERRY AND HIS GOONS AWAY!   

<p>BATON ROUGE — Republican Bobby Jindal, leading Democrat Kathleen Blanco by five points, was nearing the 50 percent majority with likely voters, according to a Daily Advertiser/Louisiana Gannett poll taken this week.</p> <p>Forty-eight percent favored Jindal, and 43 percent Blanco.</p>

Regardless of what we may think about the NJ Court ruling allowing Lautenberg to substitute for Toricelli,the time has come for Doug Forrester to say something besides : " I'm not Toricelli. " Does he have something to say , or is he simply a decent man who put all his campaign eggs in one basket ? There's already considerable doubt the Supreme Court of the US will intervene in this matter , and the Forrester people should be proceeding as if Federal intervention was unlikely. Attempts at tying Lautenberg and The Torch together aren't going to fly. The two...

<p>WASHINGTON — Tuesday is primary day in the states of Kansas, Michigan and Missouri as the political winnowing process continues and several races are key for seat counters.</p> <p>The Michigan Democratic primary race for the gubernatorial nomination pits Rep. David Bonior, who lost his seat to redistricting, against former Michigan governor James J. Blanchard and the state's Attorney General Jennifer Granholm.</p>