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Bully Pulpit

The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

CNN Helps Dems Attack John Boehner



(Breitbart.tv) - CNN airs the DNC's negative ad on John Boehner and the reporter repeats the claims made in it so his audience is sure to get the full impact of the attack. As an aside, and an attempt at moral equivalence, the reporter then says that the ad was "much like how Republicans are trying to villainize Nancy Pelosi" but he offers no comparable example of the vilification or any of the substance behind the GOP criticism of Pelosi. The viewer is left with a two-fisted attack on Boehner, both left fists in this case.

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