Posted on 12/02/2008 4:56:33 PM PST by St. Louis Conservative
Today's run-off election for Georgia's Senate between incumbent Republican Saxby Chambliss and Democrat Jim Martin has attracted a lot of attention, especially because it could put the Democratic majority one seat closer to the 60 seats needed for a filibuster-proof Senate. Michael Grunwald of Time magazine has a story up today about the importance of the outcome of the race, but instead of giving a fair-and-balanced look at how both candidates would affect the Senate, Grunwald uses the piece to attack Chambliss for being a "textbook Bush-Cheney Republican" and praise Martin for potentially being a repudiation of Bush and a "candidate of the middle class."
Grunwald starts off by reminding readers that Georgia is still "an extremely conservative state" despite a Time magazine article from June which wondered if Georgia would be "Obama's Ohio" in the election. The writer uses this characterization of Georgia to frame Martin's potential win as "a crowning embarrassment for the GOP" and attacks Republicans by saying it would "rival Obama's own victory as a repudiation of the Bush agenda of tax cuts for the rich, pork for the well-connected, belt-tightening for the working poor, drill-baby-drill, strict-construction judges and military adventurism." That's when the Chambliss-bashing starts, as Grunwald goes on to say, "not to mention the political cynicism that made Chambliss notorious after his ads in 2002 comparing his opponent, triple-amputee Max Cleland, to Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein."
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Time magazine is still being printed? Who knew?
Apparently there are people;e willing to pay for overt left wing propaganda.
I agree.
Don’t matter, Saxby will win handily.
This is the first election of the 2010 cycle, and its turning out to be a repudiation of Obama.
Well Georgia is a very red state but it’s still very good news.
“...Frets His Win Will Cause Republicans to Shift to the Right...”
I’m not worried. Congress Republicans, save a few, won’t shift. ;)
Save us, Sarah! :)
Time? Sheesh, even my barber finally cancelled that thing.
This column by Grunwald is one of the most childish columns I’ve read in a while. I saw the headline and thought it referred to Mandy Grunwald. Is Michael her kid?
I wouldn't call it that, more a repudiation of Chambliss than Obama. If he hadn't have had such a Rino-like voting record he would have won handily without needing a runoff. Instead, a lot of voters (myself included) either didn't vote for him at all or voted for someone else. Even now I held my nose as I voted because I'd rather have someone who votes with the Repubs some of the time rather than none of the time like Martin would. That doesn't make him a good choice, just the only one we had.
Palin and Jindal - bringing the GOP a cure for the RINO virus. ; )
I wouldn’t call it that, more a repudiation of Chambliss than Obama.
Obama wants sixty, and he ain’t getting it.
Repudiation.
Time magazine is a comic book.
Simply ignore Time. It’s on the way out. RIP.
I hope so. :)
I seriously doubt that when Dems were counting Senate seats before Nov. 2 Georgia was one of the states they expected to pick up. The fact that there was even a runoff at all shows the dissatisfaction with Chambliss. Obama had nothing to do with it.
He (Henry Grunwald) was married twice. His first wife, Beverly Suser, died of breast cancer in 1981; they had three children in a marriage that lasted from 1953 until her death: screenwriter Peter Grunwald, Democratic political consultant Mandy Grunwald (Matthew Cooper’s, (Time reporter’s) wife), and writer Lisa Grunwald. In 1987, he married Manhattan socialite and former Vogue editor Louise Melhado.
That is an insult to a fine genre of literature.
Comic books are a viable literary and artistic form. Time is a blight on the intellectual landscape. Mothers should tell their children that reading Time will rot their brains.
:o)
I’m beginning to believe the only people who read and quote Time Magazine are Freepers.
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