WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2025
Charlie Hurt gets it wrong: Those were solid Democratic victories in the New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial races.
What will those outcomes signal to the president, but also to his team? That remains to be seen.
With respect to the Fox News Channel, this brings us back to Charlie Hurt's recent performances, including his guest hosting spot on Monday afternoon's The Five.
Over the weekend, President Obama had appeared at a Norfolk rally in support of Candidate Spanberger. The piffle about it was general over The Five's Monday panel.
Producers even had Piers Morgan sitting in the one "Democratic Party / liberal" seat! Kennedy had sat in that seat on the previous Friday. As election day neared, the channel may have been pouring the agitprop on.
In the opening segment of Monday's show, the five like-minded panelists spilled with praise for the president's interview on 60 Minutes. "I give it an A-plus," Emily Compagno said.
In the second segment, the five reliables turned to criticizing Obama's speech in Norfolk. Young Master Gutfeld mentioned "poop" for the second time of the day, and Obama was criticized for the weirdness he displayed by his failure to endorse Spanberger's opponent.
All in all, it was vintage dumbness as practiced on The Five. When his turn came, Hurt said this:
HURT (11/3/25): Now he's pulling for the lady that he agrees with as opposed to the black woman who is extraordinarily successful. He also, at that same event that he did in Norfolk, he campaigned for Jay Jones and lectured to the rest of us about how politics has turned so dark and divisive, and we need to stop our dark, divisive politics, as he's campaigning for a guy who advocated assassinating his political opponents!
"Now he's pulling for the lady he agrees with!" Yes, that's what he said.
Here on campus, we had watched Obama's Norfolk speech. On balance, we thought it was very strong. We didn't remember any reference to Jones, the candidate for attorney general who had run into something resembling an October Surprise.
The past comments by Jones to which Hurt alluded were extremely odd. When the invaluable Rev published this transcript of that speech, we decided to give it a look.
We find no reference to Candidate Jones in Obama's remarks. On the most-watched of our flailing nation's "cable news" shows, piffle of this sort takes place all the time.
Rev has also transcribed Governor-elect Spanberger's victory speech. This morning, Joe Scarborough mentioned one part of what the winning candidate said.
We agree with Scarborough's reaction. A significant bit of electoral theory lies behind her remarks.
How do people win elections? We expect to return to what Spanberger said.
Abolish the filibuster!
ReplyDeleteToday's GOP:
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Boebert, a Republican who represents Colorado’s 4th Congressional District, dressed in a costume meant to be a Mexican woman, complete with sombrero and sign that mocked a Spanish accent and read “Mexican Word of the Day: JUICY. Tell Me If Juicy ICE coming.”
https://coloradonewsline.com/briefs/latino-groups-denounce-rep-lauren-boeberts-racist-halloween-costume/
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ReplyDeleteTurning tricks in front of your kids.
DeleteNancy Mace behaves strangely. I don’t know if she has a mental disorder, but she should resign from the House of Representatives.
ReplyDeleteDavid and Cecelia: defend Nancy Mace.
DeleteThe racist Democrats had the gall to run someone against Winsome Earle-Sears, and then doubled down on their racism by ejecting Spanberger. What a bunch of hypocrites.
ReplyDeleteOh, well. Winsome, lose some.
Electing not ejecting. Damn spell check.
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Trump had hoped to leave the US on the luxury 747 given him by the Emir of Qatar, but once Tuesday’s election results became clear the Arab ruler swiftly withdrew the gift.
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In Buenos Aires, Trump was greeted by an angry anti-immigrant mob."
Bob's a bit sheepish since it started to dawn on him that he is the one out of touch, not the Dems.
ReplyDeleteBob will try to claim victory from defeat by saying some of the Dems that won are centrists, but that is just him putting his head in the sand, since what motivated voters was seeing the Dems finally stand up to Republicans instead of acquiescing to them like how Bob wants.