Both the Winston-Salem Journal and the N&R profile Rep. Virginia Foxx, who’s ‘ruffling more than a few feathers’ these days.
Mark Binker’s balanced piece touches on liberal reaction to Foxx’s controversial comments:
What seems like a torrent of unfriendly attention over the past year doesn’t seem to faze Foxx much.
“First of all, I wouldn’t know Keith Olbermann or Rachel Maddow if they walked into this room right now,” Foxx said in a recent interview. “It’s obvious that I have a very conservative philosophy, and it’s my understanding that’s opposite their philosophy.”
If I didn’t know who Keith Olbermann was, then I wouldn’t have wasted precious minutes of my life trying figure out exactly what he was saying about Afghanistan last night. O’Reilly ran about four segments on his show as Olbermann talked on and on. Two things I heard —we need to get out of Afghanistan and it’s all George Bush’s fault.
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