Monthly Archives: July 2012

Americans Are Not Stupid … But the Obama Administration Is | USNew.com | 07.28.12

There is a web video making the rounds. According to the YouTube counter it has been up for five years and received 31 million views. Its title is “Americans are not stupid—WITH SUBTITLES.” Perhaps you’ve seen it. An interviewer stumps people on the street with questions such as: “Name a country whose first name begins […]
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Does White House Post on Churchill Bust Give Clue to Secret Social Media Campaign to Discredit Critics? | HughHewitt.com | 07.30.12

Last Friday presidential communications director Dan Pfeiffer posted a diatribe on the White House blog.  Did it point to an undercover part of the administration’s reelection campaign, a secret social media section assigned not just to rebut charges but to discredit critics? The post was the now-famous mistaken denial that the president had ever had […]
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Obama Rant Reflects Dangerous and Exactly Wrong View of Government | HughHewitt.com | 07.24.12

In last week’s incredible gaffe (“If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that.  Somebody else made that happen.”) President Obama expressed an idea about the government and the people that most Americans do not accept.  And it wasn’t his idea alone. Elizabeth Warren, the ultra-liberal Massachusetts Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, used […]
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Is the Bain Bashing Campaign Backfiring on the President? | HughHewitt.com | 7.17.12

Team Obama has spent the last couple of weeks pummeling Mitt Romney over his long-ago leadership of Bain Capital and that Romney is (wasn’t this the revelation of the year) wealthy. Yesterday the Obama people were comparing Romney’s former company to the villain in the new Batman movie, whose name is the  homonym Bane.  The […]
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Communications Advice for the Romney Campaign | HughHewitt.com | 07.10.12

Anyone who has been in a presidential campaign knows that everyone has advice for how you can do better.  Right now everyone is telling Mitt Romney: You need to do a better job of connecting.  Not me.  Yes, I have advice – just not that advice. The campaign is in its battle of the agendas […]
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The Best Alternative to Obamacare | USNews.com | 07.09.12

“Repeal and replace” has become the GOP slogan for how to deal with President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act, now that the Supreme Court has declined to declare unconstitutional the unprecedented U.S. government takeover of one-sixth of the economy. But replace it with what? In fact a plan has been circulating on Capitol Hill for […]
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How Chief Justice John Roberts Decoded Obamacare | HughHewitt.com | 07.02.12

Whatever else it did or didn’t do, Chief Justice John Roberts’s Obamacare opinion had the effect of cutting away major deceptions and hypocrisies surrounding the president’s health industry takeover legislation. For from the first, the administration has attempted to protect the truth about the 2,700-page Affordable Care Act with – in Winston Churchill’s characterization of […]
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