{"id":6005,"date":"2011-12-23T12:38:29","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T20:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=6005"},"modified":"2011-12-23T12:38:29","modified_gmt":"2011-12-23T20:38:29","slug":"andrew-breitbarts-imaginary-democratic-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=6005","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Breitbart&#8217;s Imaginary Democratic Primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The chronically choleric Andrew Breitbart has published an amusing speculation as to who the Democratic Party could field for president instead of Obama. This is really just an attempt by BigGovernment to sow new discord among the unusually united Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>The article was written by Joel Pollak, the editor-in-chief of Breitbart.com, and features a roster of barely Democratic names who are arguably more conservative than many Republicans (i.e. Harold Ford and Joe Manchin). It also includes a couple of Democrats that would be bitterly opposed by the BigGovernment crowd if there were any real chance of them running (i.e. Hillary Clinton and Andrew Cuomo). However, two names stand out for their surreal presence on any list of of reputed Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>First is the anchor of Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace. Pollak&#8217;s basis for including Wallace on a list of Democrats is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/10\/10\/AR2006101001509.html\" target=\"_blank\">five year old article<\/a> in the Washington Post that reported that Wallace was a registered Democrat. Unfortunately, Pollak didn&#8217;t read the whole article that quoted Wallace as saying&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The reason I&#8217;m a registered Democrat is that in Washington, D.C., there is really only one party,&#8221; Wallace told us yesterday. &#8220;If you want a say in who&#8217;s going to be the next mayor or councilman, you have to vote in the Democratic primary.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So Wallace&#8217;s registration is just his way of being able to influence the outcome of primary elections for a party that he opposes. We know that he opposes the Democrats because of the way speaks about them publicly and slants his reporting. For instance&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Asking the Weekly Standard\u2019s Stephen Hayes <em>\u201cis it unfair to say that this is a president whose heart doesn\u2019t seem to be into winning the war on terror?\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Asking Rush Limbaugh what Obama has done TO the country.<\/li>\n<li>Awarding ACORN pimp, James O\u2019Keefe, the <em>\u201cPower Player of the Week.\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Calling Democrats <em>\u201cdamn fools\u201d<\/em> for declining to appear on Fox News.<\/li>\n<li><strong>[My favorite]<\/strong> Admitting that he <em>\u201cgenerally agrees\u201d<\/em> with Sean Hannity.<\/li>\n<li>Jumping to the defense of George W. Bush after director Ron Howard suggested comparisons to Richard Nixon.<\/li>\n<li>Declaring Sarah Palin to be a <em>\u201cnew star in the political galaxy.\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Asking George Bush if he was <em>\u201cpuzzled by all of the concern in this country about protecting [the] rights of people who want to kill us.\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<li>In a criticism of Democratic health care plans, making the absurd observation that <em>\u201cpeople don\u2019t even contemplate end of life until they\u2019re in an irreversible coma.\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Never mind that Wallace has no experience in politics or government, and has never run any enterprise that might prepare him to be the manager of an Olive Garden, much less the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>But the number one Democratic choice by the BigGovernment editor to replace Barack Obama is &#8212;-> Sen. Joe Lieberman &#8211; who is NOT a Democrat. Lieberman was run out of the Democratic Party by the voters of his own state who chose Ned Lamont in a senate primary. Lieberman&#8217;s ego refused to step aside, so he ran as an independent and was returned to the senate by a majority of Republican voters who abandoned their own nominee in favor of Lieberman.<\/p>\n<p>Pollak&#8217;s article is a joke that has failed to inject a sense of humor. It is his effort to distract Breitbart&#8217;s flock so that they don&#8217;t focus on the hilarity of their own cast of characters running for the GOP nomination. I don&#8217;t blame him. If Democrats were running a pack clowns like those in the GOP, I&#8217;d want a distraction too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chronically choleric Andrew Breitbart has published an amusing speculation as to who the Democratic Party could field for president instead of Obama. This is really just an attempt by BigGovernment to sow new discord among the unusually united Democrats. The article was written by Joel Pollak, the editor-in-chief of Breitbart.com, and features a roster [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[152,1],"tags":[597,738,116,33,441],"class_list":["post-6005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-general","tag-andrew-breitbart","tag-biggovernment","tag-chris-wallace","tag-fox-news","tag-joe-lieberman"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-1yR","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1599,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1599","url_meta":{"origin":6005,"position":0},"title":"Why Does Andrew Breitbart Support Child Molesters?","author":"Mark NC","date":"3\/24\/2010","format":false,"excerpt":"The terminally choleric Andrew Breitbart (or Boogerman as he'd prefer to be known) is featuring a story on his BigGovernment web site that illustrates a disturbing affinity for child sexual abusers. The article is authored by Jason Mattera, who appears to be auditioning to be Bill O'Reilly's next ambush geek.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4612,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=4612","url_meta":{"origin":6005,"position":1},"title":"Andrew Breitbart Is Offended (And Offensive)","author":"Mark NC","date":"6\/8\/2011","format":false,"excerpt":"The New York Times interviewed Andrew Breitbart about the Anthony Weiner affair on Saturday. 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Despite the utter lack of verifiable evidence,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4659,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=4659","url_meta":{"origin":6005,"position":3},"title":"A Smart GOP Would Cancel All MSM Debates and Stage Their Own","author":"Mark NC","date":"6\/14\/2011","format":false,"excerpt":"As I did a week ago with an article by Hugh Hewitt, my headline for this article is taken verbatim from one by John Nolte, editor-in-chief of Andrew Breitbart's BigHollywood. This article appeared on BigGovernment and it is great news. The rightist meme that Republican candidates should not participate in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Election&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Election","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=152"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6058,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=6058","url_meta":{"origin":6005,"position":4},"title":"Andrew Breitbart&#8217;s Imaginary Republican Primary","author":"Mark NC","date":"12\/27\/2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Last week Andrew Breitbart's BigGovernment published an unintentionally hilarious column that sought to offer Democratic alternatives to President Obama. The choices included non-Democrats like Fox News anchor Chris Wallace and Independent senator Joe Lieberman. 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