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Et tu, Brute?
After telling the New York Times Magazine that he wouldn t support the governor in next year s Republican primary, Attorney General Ken Paxton is backtracking. On May 4, the magazine published a lengthy (and we mean lengthy) look at Texas politics, including a quote from Paxton that grabbed headlines across the state. The way this typically works in a primary, is it’s kind of everybody running their own race,” Paxton said when asked about Abbott. “I don’t think he supports me; I don’t support him.”
Ken Paxton Says He Won t Support Greg Abbott s Re-Election, Calls Ensuing Story Fake News
On 5/4/21 at 3:22 PM EDT
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton reportedly said he likely won t support Governor Greg Abbott s 2022 re-election campaign, prompting speculation that criminal investigations into Paxton and rifts over pandemic handling had divided the two far more than Texas Republicans previously believed.
Paxton reportedly told
The New York Times in a recent audiotaped interview published Tuesday that he was unlikely to support Abbott in the upcoming GOP gubernatorial primary. But within hours of the
Times piece being published, Paxton completely denied having said that and instead accused the publication of being fake news. The article homed in on divisions between Texas Republicans who were previously tight during former President Donald Trump s tenure in office. The reporter who wrote the story rebuked the Paxton s claim on Twitter Tuesday afternoon.
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Stephen Collinson is well-known among conservatives as the most hackneyed of the hacks at CNN. The CNN Politics Twitter account promoted his latest online essay with the words “President Biden to showcase his moderate radicalism in his big congressional address.”
“Moderate radicalism”? Doesn’t that make about as much sense as “quiet loudness”?
Collinson argued Biden s quiet radicalism is expressed through a huge pandemic rescue bill, a larger proposal that redefines the concept of infrastructure, and a massive health and child care blueprint.” In other words, a socialist blueprint
Politico gushed with this headline “Biden Just Gave the Most Ideologically Ambitious Speech of Any Democratic President in Generations.” Our socialist media won’t use the S-word. They use words like “bold” and “ambitious” and repeat phrases like “go big or go home.” As if you couldn’t say a Soviet five-year plan was “go big or go home.”
Media Promotes Fake Narrative That Biden a Moderate
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Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org.
Stephen Collinson is well-known among conservatives as the most hackneyed of the hacks at CNN. The Twitter account called CNN Politics promoted Collinson’s latest online essay with the words “President [Joe] Biden to showcase his moderate radicalism in his big congressional address.”
“Moderate radicalism”? Doesn’t that make about as much sense as “quiet loudness”?
Collinson argued: “Biden’s quiet radicalism is expressed through a huge pandemic rescue bill, a larger proposal that redefines the concept of infrastructure, and a massive health and child care blueprint.” In other words, a socialist blueprint.