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Showdown by David Corn
Showdown by David Corn





Corn “broke” the story is a bit of a stretch. The Democrats are more or less the same but not as retrograde on social issues.)īut to say Mr. (In fact, the GOP can’t win elections primarily because they are mostly retrograde lunatics who hate women, gays and minorities. Corn is best known for breaking the story of the secret videotape in which Mitt Romney told a group of GOP donors that 47 percent of the American people were freeloaders and would always vote for Democrats so it would be hard for the GOP ever to win an election. Kelly told him, and I am paraphrasing again, “Shut the fuck up.”) Rove tried to convince Fox News viewers that Mitt Romney was going to win the election and Ms. I loved the way she shamed the brainless Karl Rove on election night in 2012, when Mr. The Fox News host who I most admire is Megyn Kelly, who is clearly smart and brave. Also, Bill O’Reilly is a world-class idiot or he pretends to be one on TV. (Disclosure: I wrote for Mother Jones for a long time but no longer do and guess I probably won’t in the future. He published it only because a source dropped the videotape in his lap Corn “broke” the 47% story is a bit of a stretch.

Showdown by David Corn

And why? Only because I’m doing my job as a reporter in Washington, D.C., not in a war zone, and yet they now fear that, you know, that language like that might have repercussions.”) concluded, and I am paraphrasing here, that both Mr. Corn: “I have family members, I have friends who are concerned about me now. Corn took to the airwaves-courtesy of the equally predictable Rachel Maddow-to absurdly suggest that his life was being threatened by Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly, who he had accused of exaggerating his bravery while covering the 1980 Falklands War.

Showdown by David Corn

It is a reporting-driven tale of how President Barack Obama got his groove back in time for the reelection campaign.” (Note to Ambien addicts: Buy this book, you’ll sleep like a baby.)Įarlier this year, Mr. Bush: Mastering the Politics of Deception and Showdown: The Inside Story of How Obama Fought Back Against Boehner, Cantor, and the Tea Party, which he described as “a behind-the-scenes narrative covering the White House from the disastrous 2010 midterm elections until the promising start of 2012. Corn is the author of a number of predictably dull books, for example The Lies of George W.







Showdown by David Corn