One look at circulation and ad sales and it’s plain to see that this kind of advocacy journalism is killing the New York Times:

The Senate primary in Delaware on Tuesday was prompting anxiety among party officials, who feared that a victory by Christine O’Donnell, a candidate backed by the Tea Party, could complicate Republican efforts to win control of the Senate. Republican leaders rushed to the aid of Representative Michael N. Castle, a moderate lawmaker and former governor, as internal party warfare — including accusations of a death threat — intensified on the eve of the primary.

I must admit, after several years of shamelessly open bias, it’s good to see the Times getting back to its more subtle ways of old. It managed to belch out two key DNC talking points for the November elections and almost make it look like real reporting.

Talking Point #1:

“Those crazy Tea Partiers will be the death of the GOP!” You see, according the think-inside-the-boxers (pun completely intended), if Tea Party fave Christine O’Donnell wins, the GOP has no hope of taking back the Senate. Because Mike Castle is mucho electable. But he’s afraid of losing to Christine O’Donnell. It all goes through the looking glass after that.

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The Big Question For Nancy Pelosi has nothing to do with unemployment or taxes or even the nearing financial collapse of her home state and the municipalities she represents.  No sir (and madam), the question often asked of our Speaker is, “What’s your favorite word?”

I have walked on this planet for just over 50 years and would not need to remove my mittens to count the number of times someone looked me in the eye and asked, “Hey Mike, what’s your favorite word?” Nor can I recall any real reporters or journalists asking la Nancy such a question when it comes to public policy, so may she just made the whole thing up.

So I guess that we’re supposed to believe Madam Speaker when she stands and delivers this obviously contrived statement, followed by a small bible passage memorized to support her agenda.

Ms. Pelosi wants us to know that her favorite word of all time is the Word.  Yeah yeah, I know, it’s two words, but hang with her, she’s making a point here.  The Word is her word, so let’s let her have it. (more…)

UPDATE: The bounty is now $100,000 for any audio/video footage of the N-word being hurled at Congressmen John Lewis and Andre Carson.

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After 14 months of committing 100% to health care reform, the day after the signing of the Health Care bill was to mark the Democratic Party’s new primary concern: destroy the uprising, annihilate by all means necessary, the Tea Party movement.

The first sign that a plan was in place was the ham-fisted, high-camp posturing of the most controversial members of the Democratic caucus walking through the peaceful but animated “Tea Party” demonstrators on Capitol Hill. There is no reason for these elected officials to walk above ground through the media circus amid their ideological foes. The natural route is the tunnels between the House office buildings and the Capitol. By crafting a highly symbolic walk of the Congressional Black Caucus through the majority white crowd, the Democratic Party was looking to provoke a negative reaction. They didn’t get it. So they made it up.

The proof that the N-word wasn’t said once, let alone 15 times, as Rep. Andre Carson claimed, is that soon thereafter — even though the press dutifully reported it as truth — Nancy Pelosi followed the alleged hate fest, which allegedly included someone spitting, by walking through the crowd with a gavel in hand and a shit-eating grin on her face. Had the incidents reported by the Congressional Black Caucus actually occurred the Capitol Police would have been negligent to allow the least popular person to that crowd – the Speaker – to put herself in harm’s way.

That crowd was a sea of new-media equipment. Not only were tens of thousands people armed with handicams, BlackBerrys and iPods, so also was the mainstream media there, covering every inch of the event. Why did not one mainstream media outlet raise the specter that perhaps a video would exist to prove the events occurred? I am still dealing with the same press telling me we didn’t prove that ACORN was aiding and abetting criminal activity because we “did not provide enough audio and video evidence.” (Insert laugh track.) Is there not a blatant double standard at play here? Nancy Pelosi tipped her hand that race was a central part of her strategy. She invoked the Civil Rights Act and compared it with the universally reviled health care bill. Her caucus is doubling down on the civil-rights rhetoric. There are no coincidences.

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