Tag: Charles C. W. Cooke

Wait for it! Charles C.W. Cooke predicts lefty reaction to Seattle minimum wage BACKFIRE

The city of Seattle recently decided to establish a $15-per-hour minimum wage to be implemented over time. The wage hasn’t yet reached that level and there are already problems:

Read more: http://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2017/06/26/wait-for-it-charles-c-w-cooke-predicts-lefty-reaction-to-seattle-minimum-wage-backfire/

‘Can a magazine jump a shark?’ The New Republic redefines ‘voter suppression’

“Didja hear how the GOP is suppressing the vote?” “Dogs? Water cannons?”’ “WORSE. They’re, gasp, LEAVING A DEM ON THE BALLOT!” “…”

— Sonny Bunch (@SonnyBunch) September 05, 2014

Welp, give The New Republic points for creativity with this one:

http://twitter.com/#!/tnr/status/507980510405357569

So here’s the deal: Kansas Democrat Chad Taylor has been running against incumbent GOP Senator Pat Roberts, but the Independent candidate is currently beating him in the polls. So, what’s a flailing Dem to do? Why, drop out of the race, of course.

Unfortunately for Taylor, Kansas’ secretary of state isn’t letting him off the hook so easily. And The New Republic really doesn’t like that. Because … voter suppression?

The case will now go to the courts. Election law guru Rick Hasen writes that though Taylor has a case, the question of what the courts will do is a tossup. If they rule for Kobach, then Democrats will have to undertake the awkward task of asking voters not to vote for the Democrat on the ballot. But they’ll also have vouchsafed the strategy Republicans always employ when they fear the electorate isn’t on their side. Normally that means making it hard for Democrats to vote in the first place. This time around it means trying to trick low-information Democrats into voting for a candidate who isn’t running. But it’s still voter suppression.

It is? Since when?

http://twitter.com/#!/charlescwcooke/status/507986048128131072 http://twitter.com/#!/seanagnew/status/507984218106781696 http://twitter.com/#!/tsrblke/status/507984918786228224

Heh.

http://twitter.com/#!/RBPundit/status/507985923012063232 http://twitter.com/#!/DrewMTips/status/507988799876788224 http://twitter.com/#!/SonnyBunch/status/507987463701553152 http://twitter.com/#!/SonnyBunch/status/507985979807129600

Journalism’s come a long way, baby.

http://twitter.com/#!/charlescwcooke/status/507987878283333632

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Related:

Twitchy coverage of The New Republic

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2014/09/05/can-a-magazine-jump-a-shark-the-new-republic-redefines-voter-suppression/

How convenient! MSM ignores that trapped scientists were researching climate change

http://twitter.com/#!/NolteNC/status/419146572694183937

There’s been quite a bit of buzz lately about the plight of scientists trapped in Antarctic ice. But if you were relying purely on the MSM for news, you may very well have missed the fact that those scientists were climate change researchers. For some inexplicable reason, MSMers left that little detail out of their reports.

http://twitter.com/#!/ABC7/status/419047512746385408

CBS opted for the “passengers” designation as well:

http://twitter.com/#!/CBSNews/status/419120292997656576

As did NBC, which also referred to the researchers as “voyagers”:

http://twitter.com/#!/NBCNews/status/419080766744952834

Even Fox News linked to an Associated Press report that revealed only that the “passengers” were scientists — but not what type of scientists they were:

http://twitter.com/#!/FoxNews/status/418733496811913216

In fact, NewsBusters reported that between December 25 and January 2, only one out of 41 network morning and evening reports made any mention of the purpose of the expedition.

What’s up with that?

http://twitter.com/#!/RC5ipple/status/419153115745513472 http://twitter.com/#!/bocabelo/status/419112004108816384 http://twitter.com/#!/CoolCzech1/status/419106933401214976

Do your job, media.

http://twitter.com/#!/charlescwcooke/status/419145944744353792 http://twitter.com/#!/charlescwcooke/status/419146045520896000

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Climate change scientist whose ship got stuck in ice live-tweets rescue [Vine, video]

Key question! Global warming activists rescued from icebound ship, but what about this?

‘Bittersweet irony’: Ship that rescued trapped climate change researchers may be stuck in ice

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2014/01/03/how-convenient-msm-ignores-that-trapped-scientists-were-researching-climate-change/