As David Brauer and Emily Kaiser both point out, Michele Bachmann’s Tuesday appearance on Hannity & Colmes also included another “retread”: the now-disproven story about 32 ballots being left in Minneapolis election director…
“The recount has not even started in Minnesota and somehow Al Franken has already shaved nearly 500 votes off the incumbent lead.” So said Sean Hannity on Fox’s Hannity & Holmes yesterday, in a segment featuring Gov. Tim Pawlenty. While Pawlenty pointed out concerns about “statistical irregularities” in the changing vote tally in the race between Al Franken and Norm Coleman, he repeatedly said there’s no evidence of wrongdoing. Still, Hannity continued questioning that: “Is the fix in? … Do you suspect cheating is going on?”
What Hannity — and to a lesser degree, Pawlenty — fail to acknowledge is the history of vote tallies changing pre-certification. And both pass on the lie that Minneapolis’ election director found, as Hannity erroneously puts it, “32 absentee ballots hiding in the trunk of her car — all of them conveniently going to Al Franken.”
When I was traveling around the state last week in pursuit of Todd Palin, a frequent topic of conservative talk radio was Michelle Obama’s lavish, mid-afternoon room-service purchase of champagne, lobster and caviar at the Waldorf-Astoria in New…
He’s no Jeremiah Wright or Bill Ayers, but Palestinian academic and Columbia University professor Rashid Khalidi (pictured) may be next in the parade of radical ghosts from Obama’s past.
To prepare for tonight’s VP debate, Talking Points Memo has put together a compilation of Sarah Palin’s most fabulous moments from recent interviews. Favorite segment: Sean Hannity attempting to look profoundly interested as Palin babbles on and on about being…
Norm Coleman was having a rollicking good time between RNC floor speeches Wednesday night with Fox’s Sean Hannity and Alan Colmes — bragging about dropping the Xcel’s first puck and tearing into the Dems — until talk…
Some random observations from this afternoon at the Ron Paul counter-convention:
The Target Center is between a third and a half full. One of the volunteers asked another if any more tickets were needed because she still had 15…
The American political scene is truly remarkable. As we all know, we’re at war, in the midst of a conflict in Iraq that has cost hundreds of billions of dollars and thousands of American lives. While one…
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