Sex quote of the day: "she's someone who is functionally illiterate."

November 7, 2008
Morning Joe

Discussing the trashing of Governor Palin by "anonymous" McCain's sources. Mika is suddenly sympathetic as she was last night filling in for Gregory. Joe thinks trashing her only makes them look worse for having chosen her.

If they think about it longer than a second they would have figured it out but they're too desperate to lay the blame somewhere else. With Sen Clinton the media did it for them. Now Newsweek is doing it for the republicans. Newsweek is not satisfied deifying barry - they have to make his opponents satanic beasts to literally destroy them. What does it say about their candidate that they feel they need to keep doing this? That they have to trash everyone even after he won the election? It's what barry has always done. Win by destroying his opponents. Every election. The only time he didn't win he got trounced by ex-Black Panther, Bobby Rush. Barry paid him back by going to Hawaii so as not to have to vote on handguns.

Larry O'Donnell doesn't seem so infatuated anymore.
He's probably embarrassed his buddies are ragging at him for falling for a blonde with a dye job.

JOE: They're only assuring she'll come to Washington as a hero. They're making a terrible mistake.

SEXIST LARRY: They're not making her look more sympathetic. These stories IF TRUE are hugely condemning of Sarah Palin just as a citizen. Just as someone who is FUNCTIONALLY ILLITERATE about what is going on in her own country and the world.

MIKA: Larry they hired her.

LARRY: I agree.

MIKA: I mean c'mon-

LARRY: Your point is absolutely true. IF THESE THINGS ARE ALL TRUE - it is a devastating statement about John McCain and everyone else who selected her as VP.

MIKA: And let me say, John McCain-

LARRY: The reason we know this is is because REALLY GOOD REPORTERS are pumping their sources. [aka howie fineman, evan thomas, richard wolffe, jon meacham, jonjon alter]

MIKA: Ok, but here's the deal-

LARRY: Really good reporters make sure something is true. These aren't people OUT there running to find-

MIKA: If John McCain-

JOE: Hold on a second.

MIKA: Ok. [Yes, says mommie.]

JOE: Really good reporters aren't pumping their sources. These people are letting the sewage out out of their house because it's up to their necks and they're trying to save their own hides. So all of that sludge is being spewed into print and Larry this is just what people did to Ronald Reagan...

LARRY: They never wrote if Africa was a country or a continent. (laughs)

Let's see. The president elect thinks there's at least 57 states and that Kentucky borders Arkansas. Jonathan Capehart doesn't know where Ohio is in relation to Illionois and Bob Herbert doesn't recognize the phallic symbol:

MIKA: Larry, if John McCain left the reservation and did this himself, it's still a bad statement on all these people leaking these things about her - because they clearly didn't have what was needed [Implied: cojones] to talk him out of it. So if he did it on his own, that says something about their weakness. And if they were part of it and IF THESE THINGS ARE TRUE - they're complete idiots. I don't think they are true.

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LARRY: If this is the material inside the campaign -- this is what will come out. If the truth of it was, boy, Sarah Palin is really brilliant' that would be coming out too.

Yeah right. Did we hear that about Senator Clinton, of which it is true? No. She was stupid too.

MIKA: Yeah there are so many sinister dimensions to this given the fact she's a woman-

LARRY: Are we advocating on this show that we wish the people working in the McCain camp would lie about Sarah Palin and say she was fully prepared?

MIKA: I wish they would not lie about their vetting process.

JOE goes on to say that these type of people are mercenaries and they lie to save themselves and get reelected.

MIKA: Somewhere in the middle is the true. I think she will get that last laugh. Just wait. Even if some of these things are true and some of them appear to be - she will get the last laugh. This is a very talented person given a very raw deal. That's just "MOMMIE" talking on a Friday.

This cracks me up. One minute she's complaining Palin's getting trashed because she's a woman and the next she's calling herself Mommie, Joe's sidekick.