House GOP Leadership Colluded With National Review To Blunt Criticism Of ‘Pledge To America’

[kpete]

Source: Think Progress

http://dailycaller.com/2010/09/24/conservatives-denounce-gop-pledge-as-sellout-inside-job/print/#ixzz10ZchOAmW

Republican sources told the Daily Caller that the GOP leadership colluded with the National Review in prearranging the editorial:
http://dailycaller.com/2010/09/24/conservatives-denounce-gop-pledge-as-sellout-inside-job/print/#ixzz10ZchOAmW

Two high-level Republican sources said that the National Review editorial had been prearranged, however, by Neil Bradley, a top leadership aide who is close to April Ponnuru, the executive director of the National Review Institute, and Kate O’Beirne, NRI’s president.

“It was a political blowjob,” one Republican aide said of the National Review editorial.

Bradley denied the accusation: “The assertion that I ‘prearranged’ the National Review editorial, or any editorial, is 100 percent false,” he said.

O’Beirne also denied the allegation, calling it “absolutely, categorically false.

Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/2010/09/25/house-gop-national-review-pledge/

[truthisfreedom]

1. Hahahahahahaha haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

I love it.

[The Backlash Cometh]

2. The old colluding with the media trick...

It never gets old.

[LonePirate]

3. Do people actually believe anything they read in the National Review?

[tridim]

4. I assume Faux is giving sloppy seconds?

America is in great danger, and nobody seems care.

[Gman]

5. If they're denying it like that

you can be pretty damn sure it's the truth.

[caledesi]

8. Good one gman....nt

[Brother Buzz]

6. The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

[SpiralHawk]

7. Republicon 'ethics' are totally cess pool crap

as they prove over and over and over and over.

[dogfacedboy]

9. Liars; Thieves; Pedophiles; al Qaeda; Today's Republican party--no difference to me.

[smuglysmiling]

10. I've never found them to be objective

so it's no surprise to me.