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    Day By Day by Chris Muir June 12, 2009 – Contemporaries

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    Day By Day by Chris Muir

    The David Letterman – Sarah Palin Flap really has illustrated the hatred of the LEFT dominated MSM for conservative leaders, especially THAT CLOWN Letterman.

    Remember when they used to ridicule Ronald Reagan before his performance made him an American hero?

    Sarah Palin went on the offensive today with an interview on NBC’s Today Show. Watch below and wonder who has come out ahead in this flap?

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    • Moderate Republican Olympia Snowe, a key swing vote in the U.S. Senate, told NBC's Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell reports that she would be open to some public/government insurance option.

      "I don't think that a public national plan needs to be constructed that goes head to head with the private insurers," Snowe said, adding, however, that she thinks a fallback plan is necessary in the event private insurers don't provide adequate coverage. "I know some on my side view that as a government option as well."

      (tags: olympia_snow)
    • Back in March, I took a look at a Portfolio article on Alaska governor Sarah Palin's plan for a natural-gas pipeline. Among the article's criticisms of Palin was that she had effectively shut out the oil companies whose cooperation was necessary for completion of the project.

      One of her defenders credited her plan for bringing "three of the four key players into alignment: the U.S. government, the Canadian government, and the state of Alaska," adding, "the fourth player, the producers, are going to have to deal with that reality."

      Well, today TransCanada (the pipeline builders) and ExxonMobil (one of the producers) have reached an agreement to work together on an Alaska gas pipeline.

      (tags: sarah_palin)
    • RNC Chairman Michael Steele faced criticism from Hispanic Republicans, as I wrote last month, in part because the committee hadn't hired a senior Hispanic operative to work on turning around that key constituency.

      The Party has now filled the job, an RNC source said, with Manny Rosales, who a former assistant administrator of the Small Business Administration under President George W. Bush who was most recently the director of the Washington office of The Latino Coalition, a right-leaning pro-business Hispanic group. Rosales was born in Nicaragua and had been chairman of the California Hispanic Chamber of Commerce while in the private sector.

      “I am extremely pleased to announce that Manny Rosales is joining my staff as the new Deputy Director of Coalitions. Manny’s experience in the Hispanic community and his work with small business leaders, veterans and the Catholic community will be exceptionally valuable as the RNC works to communicate our party’s principles and expand the

    • Tami Farrell, the newly crowned beauty queen who is replacing the ousted Carrie Prejean as Miss California, apparently holds the same view as her predecessor, Carrie Prejean, that marriage should be between a man and a woman.

      Fox News host Neil Cavuto asked Farrell, who is Christian, on his show today:

      "[Prejean] went out and said that a marriage is between a man and a woman. Do you share that view?"

      Farrell responded in the affirmative with a simple, "Uh huh."

      "You do, OK," said Cavuto.

      Farrell quickly added: "I don't think that I have the right or anybody has a right to tell somebody who they can or can't love. And I think that this is a civil rights issue. And I think that the right thing to do is let the voters decide."

    • Alaska Governor talks to Matt Lauer Friday morning.
      (tags: sarah_palin)
    • Conan O'Brien's "Tonight Show" reversed its ratings decline and showed growth for the first time Wednesday night. Also, new ratings for O'Brien's first week behind the "Tonight" desk give NBC a record-setting lead over CBS' "Late Show" among adults 18-49.

      After seven nights of drops, NBC's "Tonight" may have found its bottom. The talk show rebounded 10% from Monday's performance, climbing to a 3.2 last night in the household ratings.

      That was enough to edge out David Letterman's "Late Show," which had bested O'Brien's "Tonight" in the overnights for the first time Tuesday evening. Letterman pulled a 3.1 rating, dropping slightly from the previous night.

    • Russia said on Thursday that full dialogue with the United States on missile threats could only begin if Washington dropped its plans to deploy a missile defense system in Europe.

      "Only a rejection by the United States of plans to create a … missile defense system in Europe could lay the groundwork for our fully fledged dialogue on questions of cooperation in reacting to potential missile risks," Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko told reporters.

      He said that Moscow viewed the U.S. missile plans as a way to counter Russia's strategic forces, but he added that Moscow hoped to find a way to reach a compromise with Washington.

      U.S. officials say the planned deployment of interceptor missiles and a radar system in Eastern Europe is aimed at preventing potential attacks from countries like Iran.

    • Colleges in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh said Wednesday that female students would be banned from wearing jeans and other Western clothes to halt sexual harassment by male classmates.

      "Girls who choose to wear jeans will be expelled from the college," Meeta Jamal, principal of the Dayanand girls' college in Kanpur city told AFP. "This is the only way to stop crime against women."

      A growing number of colleges in Uttar Pradesh have decided to outlaw jeans, shorts, tight blouses and miniskirts on campus in an attempt to crack down on "Eve-teasing" — as sexual harassment is known in India.

      But many of the students, who are aged between 17 and 20, said the new rules punished innocent females rather than tackling the men who treated women badly.

      (tags: India sexism)
    • As the health care debate heats up, the American Medical Association is letting Congress know that it will oppose creation of a government-sponsored insurance plan, which President Obama and many other Democrats see as an essential element of legislation to remake the health care system.
      The opposition, which comes as Mr. Obama prepares to address the powerful doctors’ group on Monday in Chicago, could be a major hurdle for advocates of a public insurance plan. The A.M.A., with about 250,000 members, is America’s largest physician organization.
      (tags: Obamacare AMA)
    • President Obama turned the page on 100 days in office with an iffy boast about job creation and claims of fiscal prudence that are hard to square with his spending.

      Obama spoke with abundant confidence about his chances for achieving the big-ticket items on his agenda despite economic calamity:

      — His assertion that his proposed budget "will cut the deficit in half by the end of my first term" is an eyeball-roller for many economists, given the uncharted terrain of trillion-dollar deficits the government is negotiating.

      — He promised vast savings from increased spending on preventive health care in the face of doubts that such an effort, however laudable it might be for public welfare, can pay for itself, let alone yield huge savings.

      — He pitched a remedy for Social Security's long-term crisis that analysts say won't fix half the problem.

      (tags: barack_obama)