White House Pitching the Heck Out of NYT Hit Piece on John Boehner
**Written by Doug Powers
The New York Times is running a front-page negative story about the politician who is a “perpetually tan golfer who smokes and accepts lots of money from Goldman Sachs and Google.” No, not that one — the Republican one, of course:
That sort of alliance — they won a few skirmishes, though they lost the war on the regulatory bill — is business as usual for Mr. Boehner, the House minority leader and would-be speaker if Republicans win the House in November. He maintains especially tight ties with a circle of lobbyists and former aides representing some of the nation’s biggest businesses, including Goldman Sachs, Google, Citigroup, R. J. Reynolds, MillerCoors and UPS.
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Mr. Boehner — a 60-year-old, perpetually tanned, sharply tailored, chain-smoking golfer — is not as fiery as Newt Gingrich or as unrelenting an arm-twister as Tom DeLay, two of his Republican predecessors in top House posts. It is his reputation as a “Chamber of Commerce” Republican and his fund-raising skills — he has raised $36 million for Republican causes during this election cycle, more than almost anyone else in his party — that explain, in part, his rise.
Robert Gibbs is pitching the Times’ Boehner piece on Twitter like the Sham-Wow guy:
Boehner gets money from Goldman Sachs, Google and Citigroup? At least he’s in good company:
This table lists the top donors to this candidate [Barack Obama] in the 2008 election cycle. The organizations themselves did not donate , rather the money came from the organization’s PAC, its individual members or employees or owners, and those individuals’ immediate families.
University of California $1,591,395
Goldman Sachs $994,795
Harvard University $854,747
Microsoft Corp $833,617
Google Inc $803,436
Citigroup Inc $701,290
As HAP points out, on the same day the Times published a negative feature about Boehner, the DNC released an attack ad against him. What a coincidence:
Late last week, President Obama mentioned John Boehner at least eight times in his speech in Ohio. It’s nice to see that the New York Times is running nicely with the Democrats’ coordinated effort — not that they ever weren’t.
The Times lists a litany of things that Boehner has done, all of which they’re forced to admit fall within House guidelines that Nancy Pelosi has helped set in order to create “the most ethical House ever.” So if the Times has an issue with what Rep. Boehner is allowed to do under current rules, maybe they should have a chat with Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker who helped ram through the Obama initiatives that are the reason John Boehner might be the next Speaker of the House.
As for the Dems, if they think, almost two years of all-out power grabs, record debt, takeovers, confiscations, union & special interest bailouts and spending that dwarfs even Bush’s “dangerous” outlays, that making an issue of John Boehner’s tan, smoking habits and green fees paid for by XYZ Corp lobbyists is going to help halt a looming landslide in November, then they just don’t understand the scope of the nightmare they’ve created and voters’ desperation to wake up from that nightmare.
In the end, what do anti-Boehner Democrats really have to work with? “He tried to block all that stuff that ultimately passed that a majority of Americans didn’t want in the first place”? I’ve heard better sales pitches.
**Written by Doug Powers
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This is the lap-dance media in action..
To be the new and most imminent Obama-Pelosi-NYT-Gumby Gibbs bogyman is indeed an honor to be relished. I can see the ads now:
HE TOOK MONEY FROM THE SAME PEOPLE I DID!
HE PLAYS GOLF ALMOST AS MUCH AS ME!
Liberals: every day and in every way they give me new reasons to hate them.
Well at least they are leaving Rush, Fox, Glenn, and Sarah alone today! They have to have something to grip about every single day but not how they are cratering our Republic. This bho poll numbers are still going down and they have to take the spotlight off him.
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The Alinsky Machine is booting up. It’s almost as if you can see the status bar going across the screen:
“Picking Target” (55%, then 60%, then the bar continues working its way up to 100%), then
“Freezing Target” (etc., etc.)
The NYT does a hit piece on BOEHNER??? Isn’t that the same NYT that endorsed OL’ JUAN during the GOP POTUS campaign… Yeah, right, I’ll take them at face value!!! Hell, if I read “BEETLE BAILEY” on their funny pages, I would double check somewhere else to make sure they did not alter BEETLE!!!
Chicago thug politics again and again and again. Nothing new, just the same old recycling of intimidation tactics from the mobster wantabes in the administration. Line up, take a number and wait for the thugs to move down the list. The longer the list, the more pathetic the thugs become. Saul Alinskys’ rules don’t have any methods for when the intimidation fails to work. There are no guidelines for moving past what has been accomplished so far. bho complains that the GOP has no new ideas, when he’s holding tight to ideas which were never designed to work, won’t work now and never worked in the past. Power designed to control won’t lead to salvation, equality or prosperity. It leads to destruction and death.
I saw the Sheifer interview this morning with Boehner. It was likely the worst interview I’ve ever seen.
The whole thing was the white house talking points against him.
They are trying to create the illusion that R’s are going to fight against tax cuts. Sheifer was amazed (and thought he had an exclusive news flash) when Boehner said he would support tax cuts for the middle class.
The D’s (and Sheiffer) are arguing against themselves. Obama is arguing for tax cuts against theoretical opposition that doesn’t exist. Surprise, R’s like tax cuts.
Then Sheiffer went into a strange diatribe about Boehner smoking cigarettes. I assume he was expecting Boehner to say Obama did it too, but he didn’t. . . Sheiffer offered that information himself.
Again, it was the worst interview I have ever seen by the interviewer. He was no more than a tool of the Obama White House. He shouldn’t have been passed over for anchor after Dan Rather, but he’s a much better anchor than interviewer.
That interview was pathetic and Bob should be professional and objective enough to recognize what he is doing. He is doing himself a disservice.
I forget, weren’t the democrats just talking about tax cuts for businesses? Hmm.
Yet there was no mention of the report that came out on Fox News yesterday that in Washington DC the federal workers owe over one billion dollars in unpaid taxes, and in the White House, WH aides owe over eight hundred thirty thousand dollars in unpaid taxes.
It seems to be that Republicans and Conservatives,tea party members are the only ones they vilify.
I agree with ArizonaNeandrethal, each day in every way they give me reason to hate liberals!!!
Good for Mr. Boehner. November going to be interesting.
Smoke and mirrors to deflect the real issues. They have lost the argument on the economy and every other stupid thing they are doing. They are running scared. All they have left is to demonize the opposition. They are sweating so profusely, I bet Harry Reid can even smell them all the way out in Nevada.
By the way, why are they criticizing Boehner’s skin color? Isn’t that some kind of racism? God help us if we ever criticize Obama’s dark tan. Rage boy would show up at our doorstep.
Boehner, why that is a German name isn’t it? AHA, he’s a Nazi, that’s what he is, a frigging Republican, gun-clutching N A Z I. And I think I heard somebody say that they think they heard somebody else say he might have killed a baby seal once, or said that he wished he had.
Shout it from the rooftops:
Boehner is a baby-seal-killer and a Nazi!!!
60-year-old=Agism
perpetually tanned=racism
sharply tailored=classism (and catty)
chain-smoking=judgemental, intolerant
golfer=just like odumbo
Wow…the NYT sure are masters at consolidating a lot of stupidity in a single sentence!!
NY Times? Are they still around?
Probably not for long. Maybe they can use the NYT building for a mosque. Oh wait…it almost is already!
happy – Great idea! Use the building for a mosque! Post of the Day for you!
Now, THAT’s a mosque in WOULD support!
Nobody bothers reading the NYT anymore, very few tune in to the Boob Sheifer Show, and who in their right minds would believe anything that fell out of Gibberish Gibbs face hole? Bottom line: It no longer matters what these class(less)clowns say, think, or do. It’s over for them.
This is good! The WH is giving Boehner a national platform he didn’t have before. Obama is also “warning” America that if the GOP gets control of Congress, the will “shut down government” as if that is a bad thing! Haven’t we made it clear (read the polls Bamie) that we want Congress to stop passing spending bills?
Give the man a microphone!
I don’t think it will work this time, for either side. Tea parties are growing and Americans are awake to evaluate for themselves all the crap the media and the pols want us to swallow. It is a different world thanks to the tea partyers who refused to be shut down. We are not racists or bigots or homophobes or cretins of any sort. We are people who have had enough!
I’m not saying I agree with Rev Jones previously held plans for disposing of his privately owned stock of K/Qurans on privately owned property, but I’m tired of being branded a knuckle-dragging book-burner – by both sides – for not denouncing this not-so unique brand of protest.
I mean, it’s not like he was planning to eradicate the Q/Kuran from the face of the earth – which is the ultimate goal of a good old fashioned/Fascist book-burning, to erase and hide from mankind the ideas and knowledge with which they disagree – but to, albeit haphazardly, expose and point out the evils of Sharia law and jihadism for others to see.
I thought exposing evil for others to see and hopefully avoid, is what all Christians are supposed to do?
If Repubs win back the House and the Senate, I would love to see a Congressional investigation on how this country no longer has a free impartial press. Given the historical importance of a free unbiased press in this Country, I would think it important enough that we prevent our media from being a propaganda arm of a political party.
BTW, did anyone see the Chris Wallace interview of Newt this morning? Wallace asked him if he isn’t just advocating a return to Bush economics and Newt pretty much confirmed that it is and he implied that Boehner is in the same camp.
Let’s not forget how we left off with these clowns as we were kicking their asses out of town.
Yes Phil it is so sad that Fox News is helping to prop up the Rino Progressives so aggressively. Newt is doing everything he can to depress conservative voter turnout by loudly proclaiming the greatest republican land slide in history. I so wish these losers would just do the right thing and go away.
There are two obvious reasons why the admin has chosen Boehner to be Obama’s GOP foil: 1.) attacking Sarah Palin for two years straight just wasn’t paying off for them in the poll numbers, so they had to find an “angry white male” in government to take her place; and 2.) they’ve seen how useful majority leader Pelosi has been to the GOP as the self-imposed and promoting face of Democrat avarice and budget breaking excess, and they want to get in on the act.
I’m glad the Dems think this new plan will work for them – it won’t – but I’m glad they’ve got this to keep them occupied for the next two months. Maybe now they’ll be less concentrated on spending money and driving up unemployment like they’ve been since taking control in 2007!
There are a lot of MSM Rolodexes about to be voted out of power. Lots of careers being forced to compete without the advantage of entrenched access.
Thanks, Thunder!
Not to go too far off topic here, but I’ve really been surprised/disappointed by Rags attitude on the Rev Jones-Quran issue.
I would have thought that he’d see past the book burning aspect, and delved into the overt intimidation and appearances of capitulation that permeate the issue.
I was surprised and stunned by the never-before-seen ferocity of, and by the number of quickly hurled, gratuitous insults in, his posts.
The one that caused all the debt and crashed the economy?
Oh wait, Boehner didn’t vote for any of Obama’s crap socialism.
“Yes Phil it is so sad that Fox News is helping to prop up the Rino Progressives so aggressively.”
Sorry but Michelle Bachman is a RINO?
I could go on….
That is an absurd observation. So absurd it as statement illustrates a most negative bias.
The biggest threat to regaining a Republican majority and stopping the Obama agenda is folks like Phil, and some others, who pride themselves on being some purist holier than thou “conservative”. It is from our own side of the aisle that comes this destructive and insane judgementalism.
There is nothing of value or merit of “My way or the highway” often on display from Phil and some others.
It is an imperfect world. We do the best we can. At this moment the best we can do is make sure Obama’s agenda is stopped. We do that by winning majorities in the house and the senate.
If that means we vote for McCain, we vote for McCain. We vote for Mitchell.
At the same time we have DeMint, and others, that are conservative consistently who can move the country even further toward conservative ideals.
You “pat ourselves on the back purist judgementalist” are not friends of the country nor the conservative movement.
Good post, but I think the “tanned” comment by the Toilet Paper of Record was meant to infer class warfare and narcissism; ie: he is such a rich (and thus carefree) guy, he has nothing better to do with his time but tend to his tan, make himself look good, while Americans suffer. Just my opinion.
I agree to the extent that there are several degrees of conservatism practiced by large blocks of Republicans, ranging from the far right, to moderate. While we can shoot for the moon, and hope to place Tea Party conservatives in as many spots as possible, we must be willing to accept (and VOTE FOR) those we deem not conservative enough, if they are the “R” that happens to be on the ballot. Not voting, or making a protest vote for an indep, or a dem is a defeatist (suicidal) strategy. November, IMHO, is the last best chance to turn things around for the Country. It is no time for being an conservative absolutist, and allow this Country to be damaged forever.
that took me by surprise also…seemed almost like a 180 change…his aggressive attitude.
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At this time probably not, house has been on vacation for 6 weeks, coming back for 3 then off again, gotta make a person tired not getting settled in any one place for long. Besides, no doubt he has his district in the bag. A guy can’t work all the time and shouldn’t play all the time like Odopo does.
I couldn’t agree more, if we lose the chance in two months we will lose the country for good, with the exception of a 2nd American revolution.
*P-BO, he also of the perpetual tan, has asserted that if the GOP regains the house, they will shut down the government; He!! yeah, that is exactly what we need, as opposed to Boehner/McCain type comprimises over the next two years; That is why I don’t trust Boehner or McConnell; Dealmaking trumps principles with those two old guard Bush era types; Get Paul Ryan and Jim DeMint in there to get us moving the right way forward!
Boehner–I want to extend the Bush tax cuts and reduce spending–I am willing to sunset all tax breaks after 2 years if you continue them now–I am willing to accept only middle class tax cuts, but think the rich shouldn’t be subjected to a tax increase. When you make up your frickin mind, please let us know. HE and those weak kneed RINOs are why we are where we are today. Keep it up an Ol Nancy will still be swinging that gavel come next session. I don’t want him as leader of the House when he oscillates faster than a 6-speed fan. The current leaders in the Republican party are part of the problem and not the solution–too sad.
jsmiddleton4 said:
“Sorry but Michelle Bachman is a RINO?”
She was not on Fox News Sunday today.
What are you even talking about?
anything to divert the attention from barry’s lack of competence and agenda…watch what the other hand is doing folks!!! and carefully…
“Yes Phil it is so sad that Fox News is helping to prop up the Rino Progressives so aggressively.”
Yes, sooo sad — except when they do not, as with Hannity, Beck, and O’Reilly. Except when they have Bachman, Ryan, DeMint, Palin, and Tea Party people on their shows—as they do regularly.
So claiming that FNS having Newt on their show today is a sign they are “prop up” RINOs is total nonsense.
Myself, I long for “Bush economics”, if only because they were not nearly as bad and destructive as what the Dems and Obama are pushing down our throats.
What economic policy, exactly, did Bush push down our throats??? I grant you, the expansion of Medicare was bad, but…has there ever been a President who has satisified everyone 100%?
What other president could boast of over 50 months of continuous job growth, than GWB?
I’m with jsmiddleton: you guys are ridiculous.
Boehner isn’t my first choice for speaker. He has waffled on repealing the healthcare snatch and grab. I’d like to see most of the long term incumbents go regardless of party.
“I’d like to see most of the long term incumbents go regardless of party.”
My sainted father had an expression: “Wish in one hand and s**t in the other, then see which one gets filled first.”
FACT: There’s no way all long term incumbents are going to be forced from office in a single election.
We want ANYONE who will help us toward achieving our goals, no matter how imperfect they may be. So we might have to hold our noses and vote–as I did for Scott Brown, who is not-quite-a-RINO.
Politics and political purism simply do…not…mix. Attempting to combine them is a recipe for DEFEAT.
Boehner is far from perfect. If Repubs take over, I’m not sure I want him to be speaker.
That said, it’s rich that the Fishwrap is tarring him for taking moolah from the same companies as Dear Leader.
So once again we have the Democrats and the NYT picking out the Republican that is going to be the next leader. In 2008, it was McCain as the Republican POTUS candidate; now it’s Boehner for Speaker. When will the Republicans get the ‘nads to tell the Democrats and the dinosaur media to go pi$$ up a rope?
There’s no law that says the minority leader automatically becomes the speaker if his party takes over the House. I can think of several reps that would be better than Boehner and if the Republicans want to stay in control in the House for more than one cycle, they’ll think long and hard about who should get the top spot.
Hear that, Republicans. For a few minutes take your Stupid Party hat off and do some actual thinking.
Sounds like they think Boehner might run for president.
I hope he does and kicks Obama’s a$$ into the unemployment line.
Only an idiot could possibly accept the argument that Boehner (minority leader in the House) could possibly stop, delay, influence, or in any way impede the majority from doing what they want. But wait, that’s Obama’s base! Brain dead handout leaches AND the politburo. It defies description how stupid the argument is that any minority house member could block legislation the majority wantd to pass. And to think that my vote is being cancelled out by thug thizzle who doesn’t even know that is truly horrifying. Maybe that is why the founding fathers gave voting rights only to landowners.
On September 12th, 2010 at 4:47 pm, jsmiddleton4 said:
“The biggest threat to regaining a Republican majority and stopping the Obama agenda is folks like Phil, and some others, who pride themselves on being some purist holier than thou “conservative”. It is from our own side of the aisle that comes this destructive and insane judgementalism.”
Your idea is to vote for people like John McCain, Linsey Graham, and Newt Gingrich to take back control? WOW!
I am going to vote for those I believe will give us the best chance at restoring liberty. The rino’s have shown me through their actions they will do noting of the sort.
Go ahead and vote for progressives if you like but don’t tell me who I need to vote for.
Attacks on Boehner for his tan are racist against orange people.
I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, yes it’s unfair that the NYT runs an obvious hit piece on a prominent Republican and ignores the problems in the White House.
On the other hand, Boehner is part of the Washington establishment and an example of what’s been wrong with the Republican party for a very long time. I can’t really bring myself to defend him.