You know, I have heard a lot of excuses during my lifetime, but I have to say that this from Tim Russert may be the weakest crap I have ever heard. Via CJR:
…why have Wright’s way-out words received wall-to-wall coverage while Hagee’s hateful homilies have hardly been mentioned?
IMUS: Big stretch for Frank Rich to suggest that Rev. Hagee, that somehow McCain has the same relationship with him as Obama had with Rev. Wright but he did run it up the flag pole yesterday, didn’t he.
RUSSERT: He sure did. There’s been a lot of chatter on that, you know, about Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson’s comments after September 11th. If there was video of Hagee, it makes all the difference in the world….
If only there were video of Hagee. Then the Russerts of the world, Russert seems to imply, might have paid a bit more attention to him. Readily-available visual clips, you see, would have made “all the difference in the world.”
Clips like… this one? There for the taking since January on YouTube (a fact that Frank Rich led with in the column that Imus and Russert were discussing— complete with instructions for the uninitiated on exactly how to summon a Hagee clip on the YouTubes)?
Russert continued:
It’s interesting the Wright story was around, had been talked about a bit. At the Cleveland debate… I asked Obama about Farrakhan and Wright. What really broke it out though was that video that got on the reel and it kept playing over and over and over again. And because, as you point out, the 20-year relationship [Obama had with Wright]… but I don’t think the Hagee thing, McCain hasn’t been questioned, has not been scrutinized about that… He’s really been given this grace period to go around the country…
Translation: Of course I, Tim Russert, helped to nudge the Wright story into the mainstream with one of my signature timely, hard-driving debate questions but, in fairness, what really “broke it out” was “that video that got on the reel and it kept playing over and over and over again” (How did that video get on that reel and manage to play itself repeatedly? On my show, even?). Meanwhile, McCain has “been given this grace period” by…well, by me and my peers. (emphasis mine)
Jeebus, unless Tim Russert — the NBC News Washington Bureau Chief — is employing his entire staff from the Ted Stevens Toobz Temp Agency (Hulk smash media?!?), there really is no excuse for this level of boobery. Unless, of course, it’s a deliberately willful obtuseness fueled by a desire to not do one’s job properly, to remain ignorant of how the scary internets and Teh Google work, or some sort of weird rib fugue.
That quote from Jonathon Alter on MSNBC’s Countdown makes so much more sense in this context, doesn’t it?
MADDOW:…But, why do you think that he is still treated as a maverick in the media as if he‘s offering some substantial departure from the status quo?
ALTER: Well, I think it‘s because the battle hasn‘t really been joined. You know, it‘s up to the Democrats, and this is what politics is about, to portray him as, you know, Abe Simpson, you know, Bart‘s grandfather, that krotchy (ph), the old guy who wants to foreclose on your house.
You know, that‘s not the job of the media to do. That will come out of our politics. I think it‘s only a matter of time because, you know, McCain made a speech recently that was very unsympathetic to people who had been victimized by predatory lending. His health care plan does nothing for those who were discriminated against because of pre-existing conditions, and that‘s a lot of Americans.
So, there are certain issues where he is really out of step with the American public, but the American public doesn‘t quite know it yet because the general election campaign hasn‘t really gotten going. (emphasis mine)
It’s going to be a long, stupid slog to November…
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Zed Zed Punkin’ head!
teh stoopid … it makes my head hurt.
The “if only there was video” quote has to be one of the dumbest things I’ve seen in ages. Timmeh, meet teh Google. Using such scary, incomprehensible search terms as “Hagee video.”
Thank you, I’ll be here all week with my magic internets skillz…
Yep..right up there with “my dog ate my homework.”
The stupid, it burns…
If Timmeh learned to use teh google he’s learn that he’s just a legend in his own mind (and Howard Kurtz’s mind too)
Believe it or not, CNN has had a link on its front page for a few days now to an interesting piece by Roland Martin where he points out how Hagee could and should damage McCain’s candidacy.
Even more astonishingly, Martin places the blame for the double standard squarely at the feet of the media’s darling pundits:
OT
Harry Reid is going to be on Brian Lehrer on wnyc.org tomorrow. Let’s get some good Qs for the associated blog.
Also OT
Sanchez is also going to be on Leonard Lopate on wnyc.org after the news (about 5-6 minutes).
So what are the minimum requirements for a TV pundit? Ability to research? Nope. Ability to analyze? Nope. Ability to stand upright enough that knuckles don’t scrape the floor? Sometimes. Who are these people???
life keeps me from commenting much these days, but i must say i HAVE to read the posts here (and as many of the comments as i have time for) … the intelligence, wit and passion are always a balm to the stoopid that abrades my soul.
I swear, the stupidity and inanity displayed by various bobbleheads is proof that there is no Intelligent Design. If there is, the plan was badly misread when some of those specimens were produced.
Arianna just doesn’t understand the Timmeh…/s
apparently, g.e.’s media outlets have no research staff available — nor even lowly interns to search media archives. perhaps the daily show could loan them their video guy:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..27_pf.html
Well, if you’re a woman you must be spectacular looking and blond. If you’re a guy, not so much.
Timmeh reportedly won’t allow any of the NBC or MSNBC shows to book Arianna for her book tour, either. She reportedly had bookings with Countdown and with the MSNBC morning folks, and he had them both canceled.
So boobs matter, male pattern baldness doesn’t?
More like, Timmeh, meet the intern with internets skillz. I’m sure someone could find it. You have only to ask.
Terry McAuliffe on MSNBC is spouting the HRC line about her staying in the race and how Obama can’t win.
McAuliffe is a tool, there’s no doubt about it. According to him WV, KY and Puerto Rico will put HRC over the top.
i think it was martin who also posted the complete audios of the two wright sermons (911 and confusing god and government). good for him.
Every time I see Russert on the television screen I swear it looks like his nose is about to take over his face..
Perhaps we should start a petition drive demanding major network news companies post a job description on the internet for each individual on their staff.
What IS your job, Mr. Alter?
it’s not stupid though, it’s by design
they will always find an excuse to punish the democrat and ignore the republican given the same information
it’s not stupid it’s by design
Yes, that is for why the snark!
Something like that. Sigh.
came in late last night, and this was the first thing I saw on the box -
am so glad C & L caught it – should prove useful “in time” :D
I don’t watch TV, but when I see a photo of him, I find myself wondering if he’s just finished or getting ready to bit his own ear.
HRC loans cash to their campaign via her checkbook. She is not “elitist” though, right?
what about manboobs?
A straight line that deserves a thoughtful reply . . . stand by . . . .
But…but…that asking is hard work… *g*
It’s typical MSM inanity and dishonesty. They manufacture a story, hype it endlessly, and then refuse to take any responsibility for the fallout from it.
This brings up an issue. The Democratic nominee (and that probably means Obama) is going to have to run against not just John McCain but the Russert filled media, and once in office is going to have to govern with these same nitwits mindlessly bloviating over every move he makes.
Even Noron smells blood in the water with respect to HRC. If that dimwit can figure it out, certainly an actual Clinton will break the code.
You know, ES, this is a great point (you’re welcome :P)
These pundits, why are they qualified to bring us the news wrapped in their opinions and not the (gasp) blogs? because it’s schoolyard snobbery. My opinion counts, yours doesn’t.
What a bunch of crap. Scrape the whole bunch.
It’s going to be a long, stupid slog to November…
On MSNBC, George McGovern was just interviewed. He has called Bill Clinton advising him that the campaign should end, and got from the Big Dawg, a fat, resounding “NO!”
Jeebus – she needs 75% of the outstanding delegates, an impossibility, and she won’t go away.
At this point, she is officially hurting the party.
loosely related topic -
Tweety cops to MSNBC being “pro-war”
HuffPo
ooooh, bonus for that Hamsher woman – Len Downie taking WaPo buyout
link
Well, and there is that youth thing, too. The last female reporter who I think actually looked her age (I do not think Barbra Walters counts because she hasn’t looked her age in years) is…Aline Saarinen(remember her – the Today Show, early 60s).
it’s not for bill to break the story it’s for hillary, bill needs to just keep saying she’s in it until she says she is not
let’s see what she says, though I fear you are right
Absolutely. I think Obama could be the Jackie Robinson of national politics. JR had to be an awesome baseball player and a strong enough character to stand up to the extra crap coming his way.
OT-Terry McAuliffe just said on MSNBC that Hillary WILL NOT be dropping out. Either she has a coup in mind, or she simply want to destroy Obama so the path is clear for her in 2012. There is no other reason for her to go on.
Word is that she has several meetings with supporters and pledged superdelegate types today and tomorrow. It’s going to take more than just McGovern saying she needs to get out — but you are absolutely correct that Bill (or any other person close to her, for that matter) isn’t going to break that news. If and when it comes, she will be the one to break it…
Notice that knowledge and intelligence has no role in being a talking head.
(In my own small way, I tried to add intelligence & look my age when I was a Wall St. talking head economist. But that’s just me.)
Yes, a dinner guest that brought her toothbrush and a clean pair of underwear…
“…there really is no excuse for this level of boobery.”
Well, you know what the say, the bigger the boobs the dumber the man.
Well, look at it this way – except for the doctors doing medical and healthcare reporting, how many actualy experts are there out there reporting on their field in either tv or radio? At Firedoglake, we have actual economists and attorneys — that puts us way ahead.
They have quite a few attorneys doing legal reporting, but I can’t say how many of them have actual trial or appellate experience, to be honest. And, quite frankly, I cannot watch Nancy Grace or “Judge Judy” types, so I can’t speak to that…
And talk through your nose….that seems to have become an additional job requirement these days. :-(
And all along I thought they were talking thru their asses.
Most of what I’ve been hearing lately seems to be from a source bit further south…
o/t I loved it when Arianna went on an early episode of Colbert. She was imploring him to come onto HP. “Join us, Stephen, come with us” reaching out to put her hand on his.
His reply?
“Your touch burns me.”
Jeez. I’m starting to have visions of them in a small frame house in Denver, surrounded by delegates trying to talk them out with a bullhorn.
Not that you went around asking the reporters at the Libby trial – I wonder how many of them had the background to do the job that YOU did for us there? As I recall, weren’t more than a few of them reading your live blogging?
Wow. What a convenient excuse for teh timmeh who has to explain why the unbalanced coverage of Hagee and Wright. Too bad it isn’t true. Asshat.
You owe me a diet Pepsi.
You beat me to that one.
Mweee heeee — Now that should have come with a spew warning…
Well, it would take some intelligence to dig deep and say, “well, it’s different when it’s a Republican.”
btw Christy –
that celebrity plastic surgery slide show left Timmeh out – allow me
“eyebrows excessively elevated and arched possibly due to an endoscopic browlift, facial skin too smooth for his age, his skin is excessively smooth as if he’s had laser treatments and chemical peels”
Yeah, I plugged FDL on Green 960 when they were doing a show about blogs last week. TeddySF tossed me a biscuit for being a good firepup. I mentioned the Libby trial and rule of law stuff and the terrific community here.
Blogs will save us!
Can we start a campaign to send YouTubes of Hagee’s comments to Timmeh? Surely they’re out there somewhere, and maybe if MSNBC is deluged with them…
Oh, nevermind. Timmeh will just find another excuse, won’t he?
Not many of them had legal background, that’s true. And a number of them told us they were reading the blog for legal definitions and analysis so they could understand what had been going on in the lead up to the trial — and also for Marcy’s background during the liveblogging and my sum ups and such. I know there were several who asked questions during the course of the trial — in person and via e-mail.
But, honestly, I’d rather them ask or try to find it out and tried to encourage that by giving straight out answers and not trying to spin them on what the law or the facts were. The ones who were asking questions or reading were much, much better than the ones who could have given a shit whether they got it right and were, instead, serving as spin steno…
btw firedogs -
there was some talk last night about HRC remaining in through WV – so as to save BO embarassment at losing there to a non competitor – way above my paygrade but that might be what is going on
Or at least make our demise less lonely.
Don’t forget the FOX episode last week where the intern went looking for a video clip of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates and couldn’t find one!
S/he did return with a picture of Frederick Douglass, though to show that Abe ran against a Negro!
These people are owned by the masters of media who give them their agenda and talking points. Rupert Murdochs mind extension. The media Moguls ideas are oh so ugly that they hire a pretty face to spin their yarns. It is bedtime stories for the Not Think people that are used to being told what to think. It is so much easier that way. no reading, no research np hard decisions. Ya gotta deal with it. And remember the attention span of an imbecile is hard to capture! Just sayin doen’t make it right. You can buy the books but you can not make them read them.
There’s the *perfect* explanation…that image is gonna be in the front of my brain every time I flip thru channels in the future. Unsure whether to say “Thank you” or not. *g*
That was, without a doubt, the funniest damn thing I saw in ages. And I cannot believe that no one — NO ONE — caught it while it was on the air. Just a perfect summary of all that is Faux News…
That was Dana Perino.
Ah Christy! you use one of my very favorite phrase:
Really says it all right there.
yeah true. I’m sure he willfind some new faux outrage to umm (what’s the word I’m looking for…no, it’s not reporting…ummm) enrage the mindless
Methink old Helen of the Whitehouse press corps is one of the most beautiful women in American politics. Give me a courageous mind…beauty is such a trap.
Christy – one of the truly wonderful things about FDL – and everything you and Jane and LHP and Ian and David and(I can’t remember everyone – but there are a lot of truly intelligent, professional commentors as well who bring so much to this forum)everyone does – is that this place has become this really FINE resource for information and analysis. I talk about you whenever I buttonhole the Congress folks and their local assistants – I tell them that this is the place to come if they want the unvarnished stuff, information that is untainted, information that they can use. I appreciate you guys so much.
Shorter bigbrother:
You can bring a horticulture, but you can’t make him think.
Dorothy Parker
I put it in just for you, baby! *g*
is our childrens learning?
you are joking right? I mean no one is that…oh, wait. nevermind.
Just don’t get inTimmehdated when he does.
Aw, thanks, Toby. Much appreciated! We sure do try…
Second that!
O/T Hey Christy
Chelsea and Hillary are in your state today.
;})
The Pinochhio nose that grows when you fib.
Put on your hip waders.
The link you have says that his replacement could likely be Jon Meacham of Newsweek or David Ignatius. Somehow I can’t get too excited about choices like these.
I don’t ever watch him on purpose. ususally I’m somewhere, they have it on and the receptionist can’t find the remote to change the channel
Bill was here last week. I got some pix from the rally that he did — was hoping there would be an Obama one as well, but there hasn’t been one. So I may tra la down to the local Obama HQ and snap some pix for you guys to give you a taste of the circus coming to WV.
I think Hillary and Chelsea are in Charleston, which is a couple hours south of me…
Enjoy the circus! Are folks excited?
it is in Shepherdstown (sp?) WV.
Ahhh..must be Charleston tomorrow, then…
I’m sure he will have a lil someting happening there. I’ll be phonebanking so don’t be surprised if I call ya *g*
They seem to be getting there. I’m starting to see yard signs crop up, and both campaigns have offices in my town with folks making GOTV calls and such. It’s good to see activity during a primary, I have to say…
Oh woe is Timmeh ranked 5th on teh google.
So I may tra la down to the local Obama HQ and snap some pix for you guys to give you a taste of the circus coming to WV.
well, they obviously just left Indiana, so the circus moves on. May I advise – catch all you can in person – it’s a ton of fun.
Thus far, they haven’t scheduled anything — which is a mistake, in my book. Al Gore took WV for granted in the primary in 2000, and it came back to bite him in the ass in the general. I queried the Obama folks this morning on whether they had any WV plans, but nothing is set as yet…
OT there is a good article up at the NYT on Israeli Arabs. It could have used more facts and figures but it is a good overview.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05…..ref=slogin
I hope that they will. Hell, I know they will have some things scheduled. If I hear anything along my grapevine, I’ll give you a heads up
If you want to discuss something nervy and unnerving, here’s what Bob Schieffer said week for his end of show comment! Apparently he hasn’t been paying attention for quite some time but just woke up from a long sleep. (I was more than a little bit pissed, since Russert announced in court what Journalism’s new methods were!)
Go watch the video on the Face the Nation website. The opinion was aired on 5/4/2008. These people seem to be just exhibitionist enough to enjoy running around naked for all the world to see!
Well said Toby.
But, sometimes, through the facts, and the brilliant analysis it gets here, some hack like me will say that he thinks that “he likes Jane with her present hairdo much more than with the long hair on the fine video featured up top”. ;-))
Speaking of Bad Reporters
Just needed to point out that, of course, Tim Russert is still Dick Cheney’s bitch!
If you want a welcome relief from the thought of russert, Bill Moyers is getting major air time on Democracy Now today. Good stuff!
Man, now that’s juice!
Able to ‘query’ Obama folks. Impressive.
I knew I was hangin’ out at the
rightcorrect place!“tool” is being way too kind. This is a family-oriented blog so I won’t offer a replacement.
I don’t have the stomach to watch the Sunday political shows. Does anyone know what the viewership is like?
That is correct. They are clearly marked.
Russert makes decisions about who appears on other people’s shows???
Well, both campaigns do have internet outreach, so…I just try and take advantage of it to get clarification and information as much as possible. I figure going to the source, rather than relying on anonymous rumors and innuendos is always preferable. *G*
He’s the News bureau chief for DC, so apparently, yes.
Guess that makes you unqualified to be a journalist today.
My monitor melted at the mention of N… G… Damn.
Well, we can’t all be brilliant and OT all the time…part of the wonder of this place is the community aspect…and that gets built with the discussions about hair and breakfasts and mammograms and all of that. Part and Parcel.
I want US to have a Sunday show – no more of this ‘talking heads thread’ -
Your absence has been noted.
Okay. So the “new” Clinton strategy is to go “nuclear,” attempting to leverage (whatever) to bring in MI and FL. Let me get this straight (all help appreciated). FL is always in a category by itself. But HTH can votes for one candidate ever count when the other’s name was not on the ballot? I must be terminally dense.
O/T per TPM
Oh dear.
It’s all about the white people?
Imagine that.
What a novel concept!
Responsible blogging, journalism, whatever.
Here’s hoping the concept catches on.
This quote from Jonathon Alter implies that journalists can’t tell the truth until/unless someone tells them to tell the truth. Else it’s not truth, it’s, what, just their professional observation? Their professional observations certainly couldn’t be news! That’s not what they get paid for, is it? Is it?
This is quite brilliant! Jane and Christy have the clout to make that happen. (And I’m sure they’re dying for something else to do to fill the empty hours. *g*)
And how would you go about accomplishing that? My q is partly snark because it seems so unlikely. But it’s also partly serious because, with the Internet, there might be a way (until they put us out of business by rescinding net neutrality).
I find it magically delicious that Guam and Puerto Rico count more than FL right now. bout time.
LOL. That’s not the only list I’m on. My lack of obeisance to the U.S. military is probably the one they’re focussing on.
Yer showin’ yer age with that one!
I just went over to raw story and there are about five stories saying hillary has the perverbial fork in her
it also says obama is now directing his campaign against mccain
if hillary had done that instead of directing it against obama from the start she might well be in the lead right now
I predict a two day hiatus and then concession
We can multitask. I love our Sunday Talking Heads posts, just want them to cover Jane and Christy’s live television appearances every week.
Wait a minute. If a couple of snarky kids can put up a video a week on ‘threadbangers’ and get all of this advertising money and attention, then I think we should be able to pull something together to give people an intelligent alternative to the Sunday drivel. I realize this makes me sound as if someone just threw me off turnip truck(as we say around here), but how hard is it? What is required to do a video(Youtube folks out there?)? Maybe not a half hour or anything, but we’ve got some amazing brilliant people here and getting a couple of them together on a specific topic – even if it’s just at the kitchen table or something with a whiteboard – would just be fantastic. People could call in questions or comments or they could be run at the bottom of the screen?
I predict a two day hiatus and then concession
crawl on MSNBC – “Clinton meeting today with super-delegates”.
you may end up being right by the end of the day.
they can make it happen on politics now me thinks
She won’t give up, perris. They’re rooting around, conniving even as we speak. Bet you a Caribou Coffee on this.
That is an idea whose time has come.
I second this exceptionally important idea!
it’s tennis thirty, see all later
I just pulled in here.
did somebody already comment on this, from the NYT web page:
FBI raids office of special counsel.
she’s jockeying for a cabinet position and that’s it, she knows she’s done
in my opinion
ianap
(I am not a phsycic
yesterday ET
Don’t know what “threadbangers” is, so can’t relate to your example. But I suspect it relates to some sort of sensationalism or popular culture. If so, big difference between that and unsexy foreign policy & domestic politics. But what you say is the way to go. The issue would be how to get it to go viral.
oopsl, it is now tennis;35
off to play
I will gladly pay you tomorrow for a Caribou Coffee today.
I want you to be right!!!
shows you how much I’ve been able to keep up – sheesh!
Blergh – Mrs. Greenspan interviewing Terry McCauliffe(sp?) right now on MSNBC – sound is muted here. For me, two negatives do *not* end in a positive result.
(ok, so maybe I’m still a bit offended by Mrs. Greenspan’s not knowing what state she was in yesterday). Nah, that’s not it – I just don’t like her.
Al Gore’s “Current TV” already exists and may be what you seek.
The kicker here is that Clinton should have known that there was no real chance of her winning from Super Tuesday onward but she stayed in anyway. Lack of money is what will most likely end her race although there is a possiblity that some outside people in the Democratic Party may intervene and tell her it’s over. But as I have often said of Clinton, she has a marked tendency to persist in her mistakes. In any case, I hope you are right.
Coming in late again. And not agreeing with some people whom I really respect. Oh well, here goes:
It’s not the stupid; it’s not whether not not they can google – not even sarcastically. How about reminding these “professional journalists” that they were able to find those obscure Rev. Wright quotes? The Russerts and Matthews types, and/or their researchers are going out of their way to not find Hagee videos.
There! Got that out of my system. Now to read some of the comments before I go back to work.
Yo, gazoogle queen!! Made love for the Hippo hotness in Hutto.
‘Threadbangers” is a site – young people really – showing how to do a craft technique – mainly making clothing – which is really pointed toward young, hip, do it themselves people. I remember they got an interview with the costume designer from “Sweeney Todd” and showed how to turn some stuff from the Salvation Army store into clothing that aped what this designer had done in the movie. Very clever stuff but I was very impressed with a) that they had gotten the interview and b) that the designer took the whole thing very seriously. But I have another example – there is a woman(name escapes me) who is very active in the FA(fat acceptance) movement and who has now done two Youtube videos which are hilarious. Her first video went viral in about 2 days between the FA blogs, fashion blogs and so on. Everyone wanted to talk about that video.
No FDL, this shit goes is even deeper. Why is Russert so tense and in a sweat lately? Why does Matthews keep looking off stage as he slams Obama.
Why would NBC deliberately alienate so many SNL viewers?
This is the corporate heads giving these guys either the go ahead to attack of their own volition, or forcing them to attack when they’re unwilling to do so.
When Rolling Stone Mag. endorsed Obama and put a nice suited photo of him on their cover, Chris Matthews handled the story this way:
His staff was told (by??) to dig through all of previous RS covers, and pick two that were the most offensive, sensationalist and shocking.
They found the large nude John Lennon photo (laying in a fetal position), and a nude Janet Jackson photo -with just two hands covering the center of the breasts.
So he starts the piece this way, in a dull voice and in a decidedly offended manner:
There was absolutely no doubts that MSNBC took a simple news story, and with real malice twisted it into a profound and derogitory event, simply for their personal intent to diminish the value of both the endorsement and Obama.
FDL should dig out that clip too. And all of them should be shown at the Minnesota Conference.
Lttle late, this may be a repeat, but I loved the way Matt Taibbi/publisher injects Russet into Taibbi’s book promo video. Yet another author who won’t be invited to MTP along with Arianna? Why oh why is Russet afraid of the wimmenz?
I watch the real news sometimes.
I’m sure many of you pups caught the Clinton math on KO but here it is again.
who counts?
Sorry all that should be mad love not…..oh never mind.
Hey! get a room, you two!!
Russert uses the odd explanation that the Wright clips somehow played themselves over and over, not the media played the clips over and over.
-G
have spent the last year roughing out vignettes – someone complains (and rightly so) at the supermarket – cut to telegenic wonks like Jane & Christy ’splaining domestic policy that got us there – simple 60 sec pcs
anyone seen what these folks are doing with 30 secs – cell phone to cell phone – eggsellent!
Hm, auto-video. Sounds ominous.
In Great American Hypocrites, Greenwald points out that the media usually gets trash of this sort directly from Drudge or the RWNM blogs. They run it after it falls in their laps; they do nothing to “find” the material. The problem for us is that even when we provide them with evidence from the other side, the result is **crickets***.
I”m sure he meant “mad love” – laughed my ass off when I saw it because he’s the more shy of the two and is probably mortified over his typo – aren’t cha Big Daddy ???
Hillary just said “If we had the rules that Republicans have, I’d have already been the nominee”.
Monstrously sleep-deprived here – can anyone explain that statement to me?
Apparently Hal 2000 is the program director for Fox, CNN and MSNBC.
Ominous indeed.
-G
Winner take all delegates, not proportional.
Jay, she’s said that before. It has to do with the proportional way that Dems allocate delegates. Reps have a bunch of “winner take all” contests.
So if she could have all the delegates from CA, instead of having to give some to Obama, she would have a bunch more, and be ahead.
Corporate media. They’ll never do it.
spacefish & leinie: thanks.
rofl!!! *g*
Well, here’s an idea, Hillary . . . oh, never mind.
Denial is not just a river in Egypt.
To which I say: then run as republican. How’s that working out for ya?
Didn’t catch that when it aired, but I’m not the slightest bit surprised.
The MIC/Warmonger channel(s) are in a bad way now, and will be pulling out all the stops from here to November.
Sen. Obama is all but a DFH to them since he dares suggest talking to vs bombing our enemies. You can’t make money talking, you make money bombing.
See, when you bomb up everything, the bombs have to be replaced (at millions of dollars apiece) & and all the shit you blew up — too bad about the people — has to be replaced as well.
Talking only costs you airfare, long distance charges, and hotel stays.
No real money there.
It was silly of her to say that since we don’t do it that way. Don’t understand why she thought saying it would help her. Or maybe just babbling.
Denial is not just a river in Egypt.
Aha!! Got it.
HA! My *VERY* Republican mother-in-law told me the other night she’d vote for Hillary this fall. Couldn’t vote for Obama, but could vote for Hillary.
I decided Hillary had finally gone neocon enough. After I picked myself up off the floor.
I do like Russert’s “got on the reel” terminology, though, as if he’s talking about newsreels in a theatre.
But we have a new term for Jeremiah Wright, don’t we? He’s the Auto-Rev.
O/T
Speaking just now, Sen Clinton says she is staying in the race until there is a nominee.
I wanna go back and read the transcript of Obama’s speech yesterday, thought I heard him say that we, or possibly oil companies, were funding both sides of the “War on Terror.”
Actually, if we had the rules the GOP has, neither you nor Obama would be the nominee, Hillary. You see, in the GOP, only white men need apply to be at the head of the ticket.
Please see my 146. (still blushing)
hey guys, David N still working hard upstairs after pulling a primary all-nighter…
’sokay – loved seeing it
Laziness, that’s part of it. Parroting takes so few brains, unlike putting one’s own thoughts into words. It’s also ginning up pop culture-derived distractions to take attention away from their bias toward the GOP. A bias that substantially increases the wealth of NBC’s owners, GE.
GE may be mega-conglomerate and military contractor, and not Rupert Murdoch or John D. Rockefeller. But it’s still just putting its assets to work to make money. The more that aim diverges from NBC’s obligation as news broadcaster to inform the public, the harder those distractions have to work.
When Timmeh starts telling us that he likes wearing thongs, we know the administration and GE are hard at work hiding something monstrous. I think we’re getting close.
We’re now about to play the Bill and Hillary version of drunken Limbo, where you drop the bar so low your ass is going to need a creeper to crawl through:
West Virginia
- where only Hillary’s are allowed = ~ 16,000 new registered Democratic voters -SINCE 2006.
Kentucky
- where only Hillary’s are allowed = 13,259 new registered Democrats.
Pennsylvania
-where Hillary’s AND Obama’s are allowed = well over 300,000 newly registered Democratic voters.
Hillary is to inspiration, what Bill is to fidelity.