The discussion was about the US Senate elections coming up later on this year and whether or not control would shift to to the Republicans…
Sidenote: and Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.com is now saying that is a 60% chance that will happen; I’m unsure of that percentage but probably good with his assessment that even with the advent of Scott Brown’s entry into the race, the chances of the NH GOP capturing Jeanne Shaheen’s seat is only 25%. Even if the percentage is higher, there are a lot of Conservatives asking themselves “less of two – again” even as the Establishment seems to be in a pre-tweener swoon over his candidacy.
…but there was one exchange that really sat wrong where the phrase “Democrats with bylines” really reared its media-bias head:
Cokie Roberts (“journalist”) on This week:
But the fact is, uh, there are a lot of things that have to happen and one of them is republican primaries have to come out the way that Republicans want and now some States can nominate Yahoos and the Yahoos will win. But other states, if they nominate Yahoos, the Democrat is likely to win, so they…
Martha Raddatz (“journalist” pointing to Tom Cole (R-Ok)): You got that, you got that…. (bolded, as she was really “excited” when she blurted that out.
Roberts:…have to be careful…
Democrats with bylines. Like there are no Yahoos on the Left – only on the Right? I bet that deep down in their hearts, they believe this, they really do. Just like there is no such thing as reverse racism because only whites can be racists or that the reason why Putin has invaded the Ukraine was that the West embarrassed him into it – oh wait, wouldn’t that be Yahoo type thinking???
