New York Times Discovers Republican Win Across the East River in Brooklyn & Queens: Files News at 11:07 A.M. Today
Well, it was sure looking as if the readers of that old gray mare would never have to face the awful truth of it all — that where Anthony Weiner once sat and Tweeted a Republican would now hold office. At midnight last night when it was obvious that Bob Turner had won, New York Times readers were still in the dark, online when the Associated Press had called the race.
Now, we see: G.O.P. Scores Upset, Claims Win as Omen for Obama By THOMAS KAPLAN 11:07 AM ET
Wow! What fast news-gathering The Times was able to do. Is a Pulitzer for local spot reporting in the offing? Eleven hours after the fact, the tremulous liberal readers of the once-revered “newspaper of record” learn the awful truth. One of their own has lost the seat once warmed by Charles Schumer himself. Oh, the horror, the horror.
And here’s the perfectly predictable spin the Times puts on this straightforward Republican victory, making it sound as though Congressman-elect Turner had crawled out from under some rock in Queens to win this race:
A little-known Republican businessman from Queens, channeling voter discontent with President Obama into an upset, won election to Congress on Tuesday from the heavily Democratic district in New York City last represented by Anthony D. Weiner.
National Republican leaders immediately trumpeted the victory as a sign of trouble for Mr. Obama’s re-election effort. “An unpopular President Obama is now a liability for Democrats nationwide,” Representative Pete Sessions of Texas, the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, said in a statement.
But Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida, the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, said the district’s large concentration of Orthodox Jews made it unusual and meant the race had few national ramifications.
“In this district, there is a large number of people who went to the polls tonight who didn’t support the president to begin with and don’t support Democrats — and it’s nothing more than that,” she said in a telephone interview.
As Mr. Turner declared that the election had been a referendum on the president, his buoyant supporters, gathered at a restaurant in Howard Beach, Queens, shouted “Yes, we can,” appropriating the galvanizing phrase of Mr. Obama’s 2008 campaign. Mr. Turner predicted that voters elsewhere would also rebuke Mr. Obama in the elections next year.
“We have lit one candle today,” he said. “It’s going to be a bonfire pretty soon.”
Just keep telling yourself that, Debbie. And keep whistling in the dark all the way to January, 2013. It’s fine with me if the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee is in a state of perpetual denial and if The New York Times falls into the sea, sunk by its own slanted or censored news.
Ms Rogers:
“But Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida, the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, said the district’s large concentration of Orthodox Jews made it unusual and meant the race had few national ramifications.
“In this district, there is a large number of people who went to the polls tonight who didn’t support the president to begin with and don’t support Democrats — and it’s nothing more than that,” she said in a telephone interview.”
Not to be too vulgar, but it should be borne in mind that Ms. Wasserman-Schultz of Florida, being a woman, very likely has had to share a toilet seat with Congresswoman Pelosi in the common Ladies’ rooms of the House.
It just may be that there’s something she may have caught there.
I hope Ms. Wasserman-Schultz gets herself checked out by a competent physician.
and until she gets a clean bill of health, I wouldn’t hold her “Sergeant Schultz” declarations against her.
Not only is Debbie Wasserman-Shultz’s grammar awful (she said, “In this district, there is a large number of people … ” be should have said “In this district, there ARE a large number of people … “) but so is her memory. According to what I’ve read, District 9 went 55% for Obama in 2008.
Hate to disagree, but her grammar is correct.
“There is” refers to “a large number”, which is singular.
More importantly, notice how she goes to the leftist default: blame religious people, and blame the Jews.
Here, Debbie, I’ll rewrite your phone interview for November 7, 2012:
“In this country, there is a large number of people who went to the polls tonight who didn’t support the president to begin with and don’t support Democrats — and it’s nothing more than that,”
NY – 9 stats:
- The district hasn’t gone Republican since the 1920′s (that is 90+ years!!!)
- Here are the last 3 election results for the district:
Gore = 67%
Bush = 30%
Kerry = 56%
Bush = 44%
Obama = 55%
McCain = 44%
…but Obama’s approval rating in the district as of 09/11 stood at 31% approve – 56% disapprove (national average = 42% approve – 49% disapprove) so the districts disapproval is above the national average.
DWS is delusional.
DWS was set up as a Bidenesque character to make Obama look brilliant by comparison and to come out with these “that’s just Debbie being Debbie” declarations.
And after all, attacking her is obviously sexist and anti-Semitic.
She lost credibility with major portions of the Jewish community when she
pronounced that Obama was good for Israel. If she was placed as a magnet
for Jewish votes, that was a move that ranks up there with the various Stimuli and the “Jobs [read, tax]” plan for sheer stupidity and being counterproductive.
Briliant Analysis defined…
If only more people had voted for the democrat than the republican the democrat would have won.
However, more people who voted for the Republican than the Democrat in this case so that’s why the Republican won.
You see, it’s as simple as that.
(Please make note: so many more people showed up and voted for the republican that the fraudulant – dead, acorn fictional et al – voters could not muster enough numbers to overcome that quantity – as they normall would – was also a contributing factor.)
jd: People often say they LOL but I actually did laugh out loud when I read:
“If only more people had voted for the democrat than the republican the democrat would have won.”
A great talking point, and if Debbie is a very smart person (quite an “if,” I know) she’ll adopt it for the next 14 months. May she use it again and again and again. She can’t say it enough.
Baghdad Bob could spin way better than Wasserman-Schultz. He was and still is the Master.
It took them 11 hours to report the result because they decided the original story featuring 40 column inches of the work “F–K” repeated over and over again needed some editing.
This unexpected loss in a overwhelmingly democratic district just highlights the need to oppose these nefarious voter identification laws.
Eric Holder.
I gather that if people care about what’s going on in New York, city or state, anywhere outside of the Upper West Side and the Hamptons, they read the Post or the Daily News or, God help them, Newsday.
But this race was widely watched, a story of national interest over the last few weeks as Turner crept up on Weprin and then surpassed him in the polls. I’m astounded that the Times can’t even recycle straight news that it pulls right off the wires. The AP called this race last night around 11 pm EDT, I think.
This is an excellent catch, Belladonna. Still, I guess, just another indication of the NYT’s sad decline.
“Decline” my arss. The NYT is nothing more than a mouthpiece for the DNC!!!! This is more like a sellout to the Progressive Movement.
Better yet, The NYT did not remind the readers they backed the loser LOL.