January 31, 2011

Fox News Kremlin-watchers and tea-leaf readers take note. On Friday night, Fox’s second most popular host said something critical of the top elected official in the network’s own party. That’s right, Bill O’Reilly lambasted House Speaker John Boehner — for crying:

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Verbatim

January 31, 2011 Buck Banks

Oh, why do you bring this up again? Smoking. Listen, it’s bad habit, but I have it. It’s a legal product. I choose to smoke. Leave me alone.

— House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), in a Fox News Sunday interview, showing annoyance when host Chris Wallace asked, “Why don’t you stop smoking?”

Hilary Clinton Completes a ‘Full Ginsburg’

January 31, 2011January 31, 2011 Buck Banks

Full GinsburgTo appear on all five of the major Sunday political talk shows in a single day. Named after Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who completed the rounds following her appointment to the Supreme Court. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton did a full Ginsburg yesterday, Jan. 30, 2011.

Verbatim

January 31, 2011 Buck Banks

Heck, all they needed to do was to ask him, ‘Hey, Todd, have you been hanging out with hookers in Anchorage?’

— Polebrity Sarah Palin, quoted by the New York Daily News, about the “recent B.S. about Todd being all caught up in this prostitution ring in Anchorage.”

Republicans Believe Congress Should Take Tea Party Seriously

January 31, 2011 Buck Banks

88%

Share of Republicans who say it’s important that Republican leaders in Congress take the Tea Party movement’s positions and objectives into account as they address the nation’s problems.

Day: January 31, 2011

Obama Hawking KFC Fish Sandwich in China

Fox Finally Criticizes a Republican Leader – For Crying

Verbatim

Oh, why do you bring this up again? Smoking. Listen, it’s bad habit, but I have it. It’s a legal product. I choose to smoke. Leave me alone.

— House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), in a Fox News Sunday interview, showing annoyance when host Chris Wallace asked, “Why don’t you stop smoking?”

Hilary Clinton Completes a ‘Full Ginsburg’

Verbatim

Heck, all they needed to do was to ask him, ‘Hey, Todd, have you been hanging out with hookers in Anchorage?’

— Polebrity Sarah Palin, quoted by the New York Daily News, about the “recent B.S. about Todd being all caught up in this prostitution ring in Anchorage.”

Republicans Believe Congress Should Take Tea Party Seriously

88%

Share of Republicans who say it’s important that Republican leaders in Congress take the Tea Party movement’s positions and objectives into account as they address the nation’s problems.

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“If you are committing fraud against the American people, all of us in public leadership should be trying to stop it and throw you in prison for enriching yourself off the American taxpayer.”

— Vice President JD Vance, on Fox News.

“Your generation has a great bullshit meter, because you’re fed bullshit online all day. And the Democratic Party brand right now is so bullshit.”

— Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D), quoted by The Atlantic, speaking to college students.

“We are done, Americans are done with endless conflict in the Middle East, spending trillions of dollars, American lives… this is insane and we have to call it for what it is.”

— Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO), on CNN.

Numerati

+175,000

“The U.S. State Department announced on Monday that it has revoked more than 175,000 visas during President Donald Trump’s administration so far,” Fox News reports.

$4,600

11

30%

A new American Research Group poll finds just 30% of Americans say they approve of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president and 67% say they disapprove.

61% to 35%