The website counterpunch is a little far left for my taste.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Bolten ‘Recovery Plan’ Calls on Bush to Rattle Sabers at Iran For Domestic Political Gain] Reference

As I look at what happened this week, I've always believed in politics that the counterpunch is more effective than the punch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Huckabee on McCain vs. Obama - Real Clear Politics – TIME.com] Reference

Osama Obama's "counterpunch" will be a farrago of "ummms" and outright lies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hot Air » Top Picks] Reference

Howard, was that the best counterpunch and strategy?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 9, 2008] Reference

We ` ll get into that counterpunch in just a second.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 7, 2008] Reference

People will always give you, I think, a counterpunch.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 5, 2007] Reference

We ` re going to have a lot more punch and counterpunch.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 16, 2008] Reference

COOPER: Barack Obama throwing a counterpunch on the trail.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 21, 2008] Reference

You know, have a counterpunch and show what you're made of.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 11, 2008] Reference

Do they not realize that for every punch, there is a counterpunch?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama Radio Ad: Hillary Will Say Anything To Get Elected] Reference

We will talk about the punch and the counterpunch in just a moment.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 29, 2008] Reference

CNN's Mary Snow takes a look at the Republican's planned counterpunch.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 29, 2008] Reference

And not let any unsubstantiated fact sit out there without a counterpunch.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 15, 2008] Reference

I keep waiting for a knock-out counterpunch but it's not coming, do you know why?.    From Wordnik.com.  [McCain Camp's Debate Response: Our Town-Hall Proposal Is "Beneath A Worldwide Celebrity"] Reference

Two years of punch and counterpunch, which verbal jabs will you remember the best?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 7, 2008] Reference

The political counterpunch is that this is wildly exaggerated in its significance.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 12, 2006] Reference

You know the principle in a debate, it's better to counterpunch than it is to punch.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 27, 2004] Reference

For some excellent articles on g.w., see Alexander Cockburn at www. counterpunch.org.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

VARGAS: A little punch-counterpunch on a night that belonged to "Million Dollar Baby.".    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 28, 2005] Reference

But during the radio interview, Palin was also set up to counterpunch the mainstream media.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 1, 2008] Reference

I hated the debates, I hated getting prepared to try to punch and counterpunch and all that.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 3, 2002] Reference

And now we have the counterpunch coming from deputy White House press secretary Tony Fratto.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 26, 2007] Reference

So he wouldn ` t push this thing forward unless he thought he could counterpunch effectively.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 7, 2008] Reference

HEMMER: So then the punch-counterpunch continues, and the punch is toward his own credibility.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 25, 2004] Reference

Also John McCain landing a clean punch on Senator Obama then taking a counterpunch to the chin.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 27, 2008] Reference

Also, John McCain landing a clean punch on Senator Obama, then taking a counterpunch to the chin.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 27, 2008] Reference

TODD (voice-over): In a razor's edge race in Florida, John McCain and Mitt Romney counterpunch on Iraq.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 28, 2008] Reference

I would say, generally, the strategy is the one Carville was talking about, which is, you counterpunch: That's a lie.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 1, 2006] Reference

BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): In a razor's edge race in Florida, John McCain and Mitt Romney counterpunch on Iraq.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 29, 2008] Reference

But if attacked, democrats have been really worried, at least I have been, whether Barack Obama will be tough enough to counterpunch.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 7, 2008] Reference