Displaying its usual scrupulousness about facts, the Post editorializes about Charlie Rangel's non-existent challenge of Clyde Williams' petitions.
Rangel never filed any specific objections, which is the real initiation point of any challenge. Rangel did take the insignificant pro forma step of filing general objections, which amounts to little more than reserving one’s rights, but by the time the Post noticed, Williams was home free.
The Post also takes time to complain about Rangel's politically gerrymandered district, which was drawn by a neutral court appointed master who did not draw lines to Rangel's advantage.
Also, where did the Post get the idea that a White House aide to two Presidents is any sort of outsider? Outsiders need not apply www.nypost.com
Don't get me wrong, I've probably been harsher than any NYC blogger on NYC pols who, support, defend or apologize for totalitarians, authoritarians, and those who commit or facilitate genocide—Just ask Charles Barron or David Storobin.
And make no mistake, John Choe surely belongs on this list of human garbage.
But for the second time in the same day the Post demonstrates its lack of knowledge concerning nominating petitions.
Choe was the witness for 20 signatures on Grace Meng's petitions–a task which could have taken him anywhere from ten minutes (if he collected them at a senior center) to two hours (in the unlikely event he actually went door to door).
Meng’s 4300 signatures were collected by over 100 different people working at probably a dozen different club houses. Given the math, almost all of those 100 or so people collected more signatures than John Choe.
This is a preposterous non-story story. Kim pal aids pol www.nypost.com
Though I am no fan of John Sampson’s, one has to wonder about why Paul Rivera was so specifically targeted for a hit when he was and is merely one example of a widespread bi-partisan and bicameral phenomenon.
Nice for the Daily News to finally own up, but the real story here to me is why they walked into Rick's cafe and gave a gambling summons only to the poor Romanian couple trying to buy an exit visa. Full salaries for Albany part-timers make for gross pay www.nydailynews.com
I have recently noted recently noted, the phenomena of Republicans who make reasonable gestures (and sometimes substantive moves) in the direction of reasonableness on social issues while simultaneously using those very same social issues to viciously stir up hatred against Democrats.
Devoid of this context, I would say that calling Eric Ulrich a hypocrite on same sex marriage for voting for a bill which required the City Clerk to post signs "You can't get married here; please go somewhere else–here's a list" was unfair.
But it is not unfair to call him a hypocrite on such matters when the same people who put him up viciously attacked Lew Fidler for taking the exact same vote, especially when same sex marriage would not be law but for the acquiescence of the same people who are now putting up Ulrich.
And yet, they still churn up and exploit hatred.
From now on, I am calling such hypocrites "Closet Case Republicans," and dubbing their leader, Dean Skelos, "The King (or is it Queen?) of the Closet case Republicans" For Eric Ulrich, gay marriage an attack line and a potential liability | City and State www.cityandstateny.com
Wieseltier: "SO ISRAEL MUST be defended and Israel must be criticized. Almost nobody any longer practices the lost art of doing both at the same time, with similar emphasis, out of equally intense convictions, in a single breath"
Actually, I can think of a few others (Goldberg for starters), but no one does it better than Leon. Leon Wieseltier: The Lost Art | The New Republic www.tnr.com
Are Mormons allowed to take steroids? Bill Clinton: Romney is Bush policies 'on steroids' www.politico.com