Marc Ambinder

Summary (posts follow):

Hack blogger for The Atlantic magazine who pretends to be a real reporter but who's actually simply a worthless hack. Occasionally sent press releases and tidbits from politicians. Was present when John McCain was asked a question about Juan Hernandez and not only did not ask McCain a follow-up, in his discussion of the question he didn't reveal that Hernandez had previously been a cabinet-level member of the Mexican government, pretending only that the issue was that his "positions on illegal immigration seem to be more liberal than McCain's".

Last modified Dec 22, 2008

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McCain campaign - not Palin - came up with "palling around"; Schmidt regrets largely true ad - 7/10/2009

Marc Ambinder has an advance copy (link) of a book about the 2008 elections from Dan Balz and Haynes Johnson, and it might contain a good number of behind-the-scenes tidbits. For instance, one of the mistakes that Sarah Palin made was to claim that Barack Obama was "palling around" with Bill Ayers. Except, it was Nicolle Wallace of the McCain campaign - and not Palin - that came up with ...

Republicans that Obama administration listens to include McCain, Schwarzenegger, and Mel Martinez (on immigration) - 6/10/2009

... It's Worth" department, Marc Ambinder of The Atlantic offers "The Six Top Republicans Obama Listens To" [1]. He doesn't provide a source for his information, but it could happen. Especially since all those listed are RINOs. The two in the lead are Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe, followed by Dick Lugar and John McCain, the latter two on foreign policy. Those stellar light...

Michael Steele: Obama wasn't vetted because of his race (Ali Frick /ThinkProgress, Ben Smith, Marc Ambinder) - 5/22/2009

... it's a regular hackfest as Marc Ambinder of The Atlantic raises issues with Steele's "civility" [2] then says: I still know a few Clinton advisers who would, in their heart of hearts, agree with this. In other words, he's more interested in being political correct and not telling the truth then looking into how and why the mainstream media completely failed to vet Obama. ...

Marc Ambinder pretends Obama's citizenship isn't a "legit" topic - 12/03/2008

Marc Ambinder of The Atlantic - a blogger who tries to pretend that he's a real reporter - offers "Discourse Watch: Obama's Citizenship A Legit Topic?" (link) in which he falsely states that questions over where exactly Barack Obama was born are "specious" and have "been convincingly refuted". At his post, the last bit links to Snopes, which is not a reliabl...

Questions for Matt Yglesias - 6/21/2008

Recently, Matt Yglesias of The Atlantic (matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com) has been posting a daily thread soliciting questions that he'll answer from his visitors ("requests"). I've posted a few comments to those threads without an answer, but that just means I'll keep trying. To be frank, the reason I do that is in the hope that one of these days Matthew Yglesias will let...

John McCain still skates on Juan Hernandez issue, again (Matt Lewis) - 6/04/2008

On a conference call today (link via this), Matt Lewis of Townhall asked John McCain about his Hispanic outreach director Juan Hernandez, a former cabinet level official with the Mexican government who worked directly with Vicente Fox.

John McCain's Juan Hernandez almost gets MSM attention (Eunice Moscoso, WashTimes, Marc Ambinder) - 2/15/2008

John McCain's director of Hispanic outreach is a dual U.S.-Mexican citizen who until 2002 worked directly with Vicente Fox as part of his cabinet.

Allez Obama! (the blogs are alive with sock puppets) - 1/21/2008

There seem to be a large number of sock puppets (per Wikipedia an "online identity used for purposes of deception within an Internet community") running loose on various blog sites and leaving comments supporting various candidates such as Barack Obama, Mike Huckabee, and occasionally others.

Matt Yglesias, Ross Douthat, and Marc Ambinder at... The Table - 12/19/2007

This video of the premiere edition of The Atlantic's entry into vlogging is just too funny for words. I was laughing so hard at the intro music plus the hosts turning to the camera that I was unable to listen to the rest (probably for the best). IT WAS ALL JUST A DREAM UPDATE: Now, SansAClue (Yglesias) says the intro was meant to be ironic.

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