Blunt: Media Drove Leadership Race Outcome

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A day after his loss in the race for House majority leader, Missouri Rep. Roy Blunt (news, bio, voting record) said Friday that media calls for a new face in the party's leadership rather than a desire by Republicans for change drove the outcome.

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Blunt said House members reacted to a daily drumbeat of negative news stories stoked by a few Republicans who did not speak for the party as a whole.

"The five or six people that will talk to the media about what bad shape we're in are not reflective of 225 of their colleagues," Blunt said.

"I don't want to say the media is to blame but ... if you can find a story that focused on anything but change, you come and show it to me," he said.

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Cry some big crocodile tears for us Roy! :nopity: :rofl:

[tularetom]

1. Shows how much they want to distance themselves

from Delay. Boner is just as sleazy as blunt but he wasn't tainted by association with the now disgraced bugman.

[badgervan]

4. AAAWWWW!

Do any of these guys ever lose gracefully? Its never their own damn fault; always "extenuating" circumstances. I swear, I hate these selfish people more and more every day. 9 more months of hypocrisy and laying all blame on others. Gotta have patience - gotta have patience - gotta have.....

[cantstandbush]

2. The Rethugs are never to blame for anything...it's everyone else's fault.

this is pitiful and such whinning ought to prove to the Rethugs themselves that they are no good.

[wicket]

6. If they aren't blaming the "liberal media" for their problems...

...they blame Clinton! It's getting so old :eyes:

[MADem]

10. Yeah, I guess Clinton's PENIS sneaked into that conference room

...and VOTED!!!! Because on the first ballot, there were MORE BALLOTS than there were REPS in the room!

Good old GOP voting!!!

[tinfoilinfor2005]

3. Nah. They just wanted to make sure that they picked the right guy.

So that should tell us loudly and clearly who was the slipperiest and sleaziest of the two.

[CAG]

5. Of course; that ol' librul media would expend SO much effort to

campaign against one candidate one degree to the RIGHT of attilla the hun for another candidate one degree to the LEFT of attilla the hun.

One of these days when the repubs get a hold of the White House, the House, the Senate, K street lobbyists, and corporate media, they're really going to stick it to the 'Murkin people.... oh, wait...

[greekspeak]

7. Oh Roy Roy Roy...you poor little ragamuffin

Save a few tears for your son, the miserable failure of a governor with which Missouri is stuck. God these crybabies are a pain in the ass.

:nopity:

[tanyev]

8. Bet he wouldn't have said that if he'd won the election.

No fair! :cry::cry:

[fshrink]

9. Now, what if you are the vector for change?

Nooo.... Too dangerous. US politicians have massively contributed to the reign of form over, or even without, content (aka reframing). So wysiwyg.

[boobooday]

11. Da poor baby!!!!!

Whassa matter, BLUNT? Did the big bad media smoke ya?

:cry:

[Fovea]

12. O tempora, O mores!

O STFU, fascist pigdog!