Texas Tribune: UT/TT Poll: Most Texans Don't Credit Perry on Economy
On November 1, 2011, the Texas Tribune reported:
A key part of Gov. Rick Perry's pitch to Republican presidential primary voters is the performance of the state's economy — especially in job creation — during his tenure as governor. But Texas voters, for the most part, are more likely to see him as a bystander to the state's success than its driver, according to the new University of Texas/Texas Tribune poll.
Discussing #Occupy Movement, Rick Perry Repeats Fake Quote From Canadian Satirical Article
On October 31, 2011, Mediaite reported on a humorous trend in the conservative blogosphere: bloggers citing fake quotes from a satirical column in Canada's Globe and Mail.
Over the last week, bloggers, emailers, commenters, and posters have shared the words of a 38 year-old slacker Toronto resident named Jeremy, who took part in the Occupy Toronto protests:What they don’t realize is that the quote was one of many featured in a satirical piece by The Toronto Globe and Mail’s Mark Schatzker. 38 year-old Jeremy doesn’t exist. It turns out that bloggers weren't the only ones duped. During a radio interview on October 28, Rick Perry cited this very same 38-year-old "Jeremy." American Bridge caught it on tape. Take a look:“It’s weird protesting on Bay Street. You get there at 9 a.m. and the rich bankers who you want to hurl insults at and change their worldview have been at work for two hours already. And then when it’s time to go, they’re still there. I guess that’s why they call them the one per cent. I mean, who wants to work those kinds of hours? That’s the power of greed.”
WSJ: Satire on Occupy Wall Street Trips Up Rick Perry
On November 1, 2011, the Wall Street Journal reported:
"Satire may not be Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s thing. Last Friday, at the swanky Barley House tavern in Concord, N.H., Mr. Perry took a little jab at the Occupy Wall Street crowd, referencing an amusing quote his son had sent him from a protester occupying Toronto..."
The Atlantic: A Tour of Mitt Romney's New Hampshire Mansion
On October 28, 2011, the Atlantic reported: Autumn is in the air in New Hampshire, which means the political rhetoric…
CBS News: Mitt Romney's shifting views on climate change
On October 28, 20111, CBS News reported:
The longer he runs for president, the more doubts Republican front-runner Mitt Romney seems to have about the science behind global climate change...
Paul Ryan Townhall – 10/28/11
The following video was recorded at a Paul Ryan townhall event in Wisconsin on October 28, 2011.
AP: State issues can be tricky for presidential field
On October 27, 2011, the Associated Press reported:
Mitt Romney gingerly distanced himself from a labor issue on the Ohio ballot one day. The next, he embraced the initiative "110 percent."The equivocation not only highlighted his record of shifting positions but also underscored the local political minefields national candidates often confront in their state-by-state path to the presidency.VIDEO: Scott Brown: Tea Party Patriarch
As you surely saw yesterday, Scott Brown's allies released a video titled "Matriarch of Mayhem" seeking to tie Elizabeth Warren to the most extreme elements of the Occupy Wall Street protests.
If Massachusetts Republicans believe speaking approvingly about a large movement's underlying values ties someone to that movement's most extreme elements, they should have no problem with this video we just put together.
Here is American Bridge's newest video: "Scott Brown: Tea Party Patriarch."
Boston Globe: Senator Scott Brown branded ‘Tea Party Patriarch’ by liberal group
On October 28, 2011, the Boston Globe reported:
"A day after a Republican video mocked Democratic US Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren as the “Matriarch of Mayhem” for claiming significant credit for the Occupy Wall Street movement, a Democratic leaning political action committee has released “Scott Brown: Tea Party Patriarch.” The liberal video uses similar production techniques as the conservative video -- splicing images of Brown, a Republican senator, making sympathetic comments about the Tea Party movement, with footage of the movement’s most radical elements played over ominous music. [...] The video is being released by American Bridge 21st Century. It’s president, Rodell Mollineau, said in a statement that the video is “a warning that unfair, inflammatory, and inaccurate attacks will not go unanswered.”AP: Going Off-The-Cuff, Romney Does Himself Few Favors
On October 28, 2011, the Associated Press reported:
"Mitt Romney may need a censor. For himself. In the last few weeks in Nevada, the man who owns several homes told the state hit tough by the housing crisis: "Don't try and stop the foreclosure process. Let it run its course and hit the bottom." At one point in Iowa, earlier this year, the former venture capitalist uttered, "Corporations are people," with the country in the midst of a debate over Wall Street vs. Main Street. At an event in economically suffering Florida, the retiree — who is a multimillionaire many times over — told out-of-work voters, "I'm also unemployed." Over the past year, the Republican presidential candidate has amassed a collection of off-the-cuff comments that expose his vulnerabilities and, taken together, cast him as out-of-touch with Americans who face staggering unemployment, widespread foreclosures and a dire outlook on the economy..."