December 1, 2008
Morning Joe
News You Can't Use
Willie's talking about a study naming the Most Promiscuous Countries. As it turns out UK is #1 followed by Germany, Netherlands, Czech Republic, Australia and then the US. UK? Teeth in the light of day...
MIKA: What? This is all not good.
MARK HALPERIN (He is a homely sort, isn't he? Like a friend invited over to fill a place at the table or a card game.): News Mika can't stomach.
Then Joe asks for the top three and after Willie answers Mika says: Got your vacations plans set?!
BUCHANAN jumps in: He's got his tour lined up!
MIKA: Can't believe it's Joe raising the bar on this conversation!
She occasionally gets a zinger in - albeit in a parallel conversation - while they talk over her. I find this show entertaining because of how Mika gets played and day after day she lets them. Does her husband find this funny, too?
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Monday, December 1, 2008
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Hasselback finally gets to speak to a non-hostile crowd
October 26, 2008
Tampa, Florida
Elisabeth Hasselback got to speak without being personally attacked...for once. She is verbally assaulted every single day at her place of employment, not only by her co-hosts, the audience and production crew, but also by the show's creator and once well-respected journalist. And worse, to prove the utter classlessness of barry supporters, some of the guests snub her without having the 'decency' to make it look accidental. All the while Barbara Walters does nothing to stop it. The ones who snub Elisabeth are people who think that barry VOTED AGAINST Iraq or at least had a say. HE DIDN'T. And what he claims he said (there are no recordings of any sort) was, in typical obamanating fashion, not followed by action action.
Why do people think that is suddenly going to change at 12:01 on January 21, 2009? As Dr Phil is wont to say: the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior. barry's past behavior reveals not one instance where has he stood up and made an independent critical decision with consequences. If anyone can give me an example, please enlighten me, and I will retract my statements. I am not worried this will happen - it's an impossibility.
Hannity, FOX TV and Howard Stern interviewed people on the street and asked if they could describe anything barry had done. All they could come up with was CHANGE! And Stern's interviewees were asked if they were ok with barry's choice of Sarah Palin for VP. The answer? Yes.
What is the definition of work place harassment? Does it not include what the Viewbots are doing everyday to Elisabeth? They dismiss her, make her feel less than and stupid (aka blonde), call her names, sigh and make faces, vehemently challenge her personal views and ridicule barry's opponent, John McCain, and their fellow working mother, Governor Palin.
Who in the hell is Barbara Walters anymore? Where has the hard-hitting, objective journalist gone? She's an embarrassment to women everywhere. Her "entertainment" show has been reduced to cattiness and one-sided piling-on attacks on the youngest member of the group. (Hasselback 31, Shepherd 41, Goldberg 52, Behar 66, Walters 79)
Elisabeth has ONE vote. Is it worth destroying her - in public for all the entire world to see - for one vote? Just like the bots did to Joe the Plumber. I'm embarrassed watching these women. They're a pack of nasty-mouthed cougars circling the youngest member of the herd waiting to completely tear her apart. They've already sunk their teeth into her neck.
Forget Elisabeth's politics for a moment. Which member of the group has the courage to stand up for her beliefs without belittling her fellow cohosts? Where is Walters' integrity as the producer/originator of the show? As the senior member of the group and someone who understands the technique and personal restraint of interviewing and cohosting, she should understand what she is doing. She should be objective enough to see that the aggressiveness, which she is sanctioning, is reflecting poorly on her and her fellow jackals.
It must be, as Joy pointed out to O'Reilly, because the show has been getting a lot of press. Why bother with respect and kindness when their lack leads to increased fame, ratings and money.
Why doesn't Barbara care that one of her employees endures daily harassment by her coworkers? Coworkers who are supposedly her equals? Can you imagine this happening in another workplace?
It seems this went the way of a rant. Anyway. Elisabeth sounded off on the diversion from Biden's monumentally stupid (but honest and something he said during the debate) comment by discussing Palin's wardrobe.
HASSELBACK: "Instead of the issues, THEY are focused, fixated, on her wardrobe. Now with everything going on in the world it seems a little but odd. Let me tell you, this is deliberately sexist..I have a hard time not being sassy...I'm actually, personally, most impressed by her accessories - like the flag pin she wears in honor of her son and our military men and women fighting abroad. And they fight for our very right to be here today in her support. Now, they didn't list that accessory and it's value in their reports, did they? You know why? Because they know it's priceless!"
Palin initially said it was ridiculous but then launched into an explanation. I wonder if there is some truth to the democratic driven "I've heard from a person close to the campaign" story of Palin going rogue. She's a maverick, a hunter from a wilderness state and a beautiful woman who is being attacked about her appearance. What in the hell else would you expect?
PALIN: "Those clothes, they are not my property. Just like the lighting and the staging and everything else that the RNC purchased, I'm not taking them with me."
Then she mentioned her clothes from a consignment shop in Alaska, earrings from her Yupik Eskimo mother-in-law, her $35 wedding ring (that she bought herself) and her blue star mom pin she wears "in honor of my son who is fighting over in Iraq right now defending all of you."
And the final zinger: "Barack Obama and I, we both have spent quite some time on the basketball court, but where I come from, you have to win the game before you start cutting down the nets."
Read here for her running mate's comments on barry's premature inauguration speech.
Tampa, Florida
Elisabeth Hasselback got to speak without being personally attacked...for once. She is verbally assaulted every single day at her place of employment, not only by her co-hosts, the audience and production crew, but also by the show's creator and once well-respected journalist. And worse, to prove the utter classlessness of barry supporters, some of the guests snub her without having the 'decency' to make it look accidental. All the while Barbara Walters does nothing to stop it. The ones who snub Elisabeth are people who think that barry VOTED AGAINST Iraq or at least had a say. HE DIDN'T. And what he claims he said (there are no recordings of any sort) was, in typical obamanating fashion, not followed by action action.
Why do people think that is suddenly going to change at 12:01 on January 21, 2009? As Dr Phil is wont to say: the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior. barry's past behavior reveals not one instance where has he stood up and made an independent critical decision with consequences. If anyone can give me an example, please enlighten me, and I will retract my statements. I am not worried this will happen - it's an impossibility.
Hannity, FOX TV and Howard Stern interviewed people on the street and asked if they could describe anything barry had done. All they could come up with was CHANGE! And Stern's interviewees were asked if they were ok with barry's choice of Sarah Palin for VP. The answer? Yes.
What is the definition of work place harassment? Does it not include what the Viewbots are doing everyday to Elisabeth? They dismiss her, make her feel less than and stupid (aka blonde), call her names, sigh and make faces, vehemently challenge her personal views and ridicule barry's opponent, John McCain, and their fellow working mother, Governor Palin.
Who in the hell is Barbara Walters anymore? Where has the hard-hitting, objective journalist gone? She's an embarrassment to women everywhere. Her "entertainment" show has been reduced to cattiness and one-sided piling-on attacks on the youngest member of the group. (Hasselback 31, Shepherd 41, Goldberg 52, Behar 66, Walters 79)
Elisabeth has ONE vote. Is it worth destroying her - in public for all the entire world to see - for one vote? Just like the bots did to Joe the Plumber. I'm embarrassed watching these women. They're a pack of nasty-mouthed cougars circling the youngest member of the herd waiting to completely tear her apart. They've already sunk their teeth into her neck.
Forget Elisabeth's politics for a moment. Which member of the group has the courage to stand up for her beliefs without belittling her fellow cohosts? Where is Walters' integrity as the producer/originator of the show? As the senior member of the group and someone who understands the technique and personal restraint of interviewing and cohosting, she should understand what she is doing. She should be objective enough to see that the aggressiveness, which she is sanctioning, is reflecting poorly on her and her fellow jackals.
It must be, as Joy pointed out to O'Reilly, because the show has been getting a lot of press. Why bother with respect and kindness when their lack leads to increased fame, ratings and money.
Why doesn't Barbara care that one of her employees endures daily harassment by her coworkers? Coworkers who are supposedly her equals? Can you imagine this happening in another workplace?
It seems this went the way of a rant. Anyway. Elisabeth sounded off on the diversion from Biden's monumentally stupid (but honest and something he said during the debate) comment by discussing Palin's wardrobe.
HASSELBACK: "Instead of the issues, THEY are focused, fixated, on her wardrobe. Now with everything going on in the world it seems a little but odd. Let me tell you, this is deliberately sexist..I have a hard time not being sassy...I'm actually, personally, most impressed by her accessories - like the flag pin she wears in honor of her son and our military men and women fighting abroad. And they fight for our very right to be here today in her support. Now, they didn't list that accessory and it's value in their reports, did they? You know why? Because they know it's priceless!"
Palin initially said it was ridiculous but then launched into an explanation. I wonder if there is some truth to the democratic driven "I've heard from a person close to the campaign" story of Palin going rogue. She's a maverick, a hunter from a wilderness state and a beautiful woman who is being attacked about her appearance. What in the hell else would you expect?
PALIN: "Those clothes, they are not my property. Just like the lighting and the staging and everything else that the RNC purchased, I'm not taking them with me."
Then she mentioned her clothes from a consignment shop in Alaska, earrings from her Yupik Eskimo mother-in-law, her $35 wedding ring (that she bought herself) and her blue star mom pin she wears "in honor of my son who is fighting over in Iraq right now defending all of you."
And the final zinger: "Barack Obama and I, we both have spent quite some time on the basketball court, but where I come from, you have to win the game before you start cutting down the nets."
Read here for her running mate's comments on barry's premature inauguration speech.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Quote of the day: "Biden attack-free zone"
October 21, 2008
Morning Joe
It seems Mika isn't trying to hide her obama support like she tried when McCain questioned her. Mika: This is supposed to be a Biden attack-free zone.
MIKA: Well you know it's interesting, because I'm going through the papers. I figure there's got to be, just as you analyzed, Joe, political ramifications to that comment, gaffe, however you want to make it—two in a row, though—but I'm seeing spotty media coverage. I feel like half the media covered this. I'm just going through the papers and seeing if it plays highly, and I'm not finding it in the [Washington] Post so far.
SCARBOROUGH: Would that be above the fold on the front page of the New York Times, the Washington Post? Would that be a lead story? We've got somebody who's an expert in the media who I think, Mika, knows a lot better than we do, Dan Rather. Dan, talk about the double standard. Are there times that you would cover this story differently if Sarah Palin said it rather than Joe Biden? Not you, but the media.
RATHER: Well I think the point is well taken, Joe, that certainly if Sarah Palin had said this it would be above the fold in most newspapers today....But let me point out that what happens on the internet may be as important or more important than what's happening in the newspapers. And I'll be surprised, and you know, Joe, I'm frequently surprised, but I'll be surprised if this doesn't have a run on the internet, with among the points two that you raised. Number one, if Sarah Palin had said this, the newspapers would have jumped all over it and so would have the major television outlets. And number two, they can't be happy inside the Obama campaign about this, and let me emphasize I've not spoken with them this morning.
MIKA: We're gonna have to break the ban. He said it - we question it.
They sit there and laugh but had Palin said it? Senator Clinton? McCain? Double standard is beyond belief. How is the I see Russia on a different plane then the world is waiting to test this young president
HARDWOOD: His youth is a magnet for international crisis. (later repeated)
MITCHELL: I'm just wondering if Biden's been woodshedded. He disappeared from the campaign. They said he was taking the day off, was because of all this?
GIBBS: No he didn't have any scheduled events yesterday.
MITCHELL: Are they keeping him under wraps?
GIBBS: He didn't have any scheduled events. He was on the West coast and he was flying home.
Nicole Wallace (GOP): He's being debriefed.
BUCHANAN:...in an undisclosed location.
SCARBOROUGH: Have no scheduled events till after the inauguration.
They all laugh. And if it were Palin or McCain or Clinton?
MADELINE ALBRIGHT: Nobody's better qualified than Joe Biden. I've worked with him over the years and he really is a very, very smart person on issues of foreign policy, and has the experience and has been to many countries - doesn't just look at them.
Great zinger...doesn't just look at them. And she said it with a complete straight face. Why doesn't she come out of hiding?
Later Scarborough said he was emailing the other networks to see if they were going to run with the story. He said they were waiting to see what McCain was going to do with it. The MSM is impartial? An impartial media doesn't exchange emails with each other to see if they're going to run with a story.
Another irrefutable example of pro-Obama media bias right from the Republican horse's mouth. They don't even try to hide it anymore.
Morning Joe
It seems Mika isn't trying to hide her obama support like she tried when McCain questioned her. Mika: This is supposed to be a Biden attack-free zone.
MIKA: Well you know it's interesting, because I'm going through the papers. I figure there's got to be, just as you analyzed, Joe, political ramifications to that comment, gaffe, however you want to make it—two in a row, though—but I'm seeing spotty media coverage. I feel like half the media covered this. I'm just going through the papers and seeing if it plays highly, and I'm not finding it in the [Washington] Post so far.
SCARBOROUGH: Would that be above the fold on the front page of the New York Times, the Washington Post? Would that be a lead story? We've got somebody who's an expert in the media who I think, Mika, knows a lot better than we do, Dan Rather. Dan, talk about the double standard. Are there times that you would cover this story differently if Sarah Palin said it rather than Joe Biden? Not you, but the media.
RATHER: Well I think the point is well taken, Joe, that certainly if Sarah Palin had said this it would be above the fold in most newspapers today....But let me point out that what happens on the internet may be as important or more important than what's happening in the newspapers. And I'll be surprised, and you know, Joe, I'm frequently surprised, but I'll be surprised if this doesn't have a run on the internet, with among the points two that you raised. Number one, if Sarah Palin had said this, the newspapers would have jumped all over it and so would have the major television outlets. And number two, they can't be happy inside the Obama campaign about this, and let me emphasize I've not spoken with them this morning.
SCARBOROUGH: They are not.
And then later Andrea MITCHELL says: "I did hear Mika say this morning that this is a Biden free fire zone (and Dan Rather) so we don't criticize Joe Biden, so how do we get around it?"MIKA: We're gonna have to break the ban. He said it - we question it.
They sit there and laugh but had Palin said it? Senator Clinton? McCain? Double standard is beyond belief. How is the I see Russia on a different plane then the world is waiting to test this young president
HARDWOOD: His youth is a magnet for international crisis. (later repeated)
MITCHELL: I'm just wondering if Biden's been woodshedded. He disappeared from the campaign. They said he was taking the day off, was because of all this?
GIBBS: No he didn't have any scheduled events yesterday.
MITCHELL: Are they keeping him under wraps?
GIBBS: He didn't have any scheduled events. He was on the West coast and he was flying home.
Nicole Wallace (GOP): He's being debriefed.
BUCHANAN:...in an undisclosed location.
SCARBOROUGH: Have no scheduled events till after the inauguration.
They all laugh. And if it were Palin or McCain or Clinton?
MADELINE ALBRIGHT: Nobody's better qualified than Joe Biden. I've worked with him over the years and he really is a very, very smart person on issues of foreign policy, and has the experience and has been to many countries - doesn't just look at them.
Great zinger...doesn't just look at them. And she said it with a complete straight face. Why doesn't she come out of hiding?
Later Scarborough said he was emailing the other networks to see if they were going to run with the story. He said they were waiting to see what McCain was going to do with it. The MSM is impartial? An impartial media doesn't exchange emails with each other to see if they're going to run with a story.
Another irrefutable example of pro-Obama media bias right from the Republican horse's mouth. They don't even try to hide it anymore.
Monday, September 15, 2008
Zinger of the day: "Tough time for yours, too."
September 15, 2008
Hardball with Chris Mathews
He goes after Ms Nancy Pfotenhauer, a senior McCain advisor, with fangs bared and salivation dripping. Can't someone tell him how gross it is? It spits out. I can see why he loves barry - they both like to talk and not listen. Anyway, she hangs in there until the end (5:00) and then sticks it to him. Best way to tell is watch his face - he blushes when somebody catches him on something.
MATTHEWS: "It's a very tough time for your party to defend itself."
And she doesn't miss a beat, smiling, "Tough time for yours, too."
Yes! You go girl.
Hardball with Chris Mathews
He goes after Ms Nancy Pfotenhauer, a senior McCain advisor, with fangs bared and salivation dripping. Can't someone tell him how gross it is? It spits out. I can see why he loves barry - they both like to talk and not listen. Anyway, she hangs in there until the end (5:00) and then sticks it to him. Best way to tell is watch his face - he blushes when somebody catches him on something.
MATTHEWS: "It's a very tough time for your party to defend itself."
And she doesn't miss a beat, smiling, "Tough time for yours, too."
Yes! You go girl.
Monday, March 3, 2008
Senator Clinton: "Obama has a speech"
March 3, 2008
Senator Clinton Stump
HRC: I think that I have a lifetime of experience that I will bring to the White House. I know Senator McCcain has a life time of experience that he will bring to the White House and Senator Obama has a speech he gave on 2002.
CAFFERTY whines.
BORGER: His answer to that is 'do you think my supporters are delusional'. He said that in a recent debate.
JOHN KING:...consider what she just said there. She's essentially saying that Barack Obama is a fraud. He has a speech and I have a record....
BLITZER: I've always felt that if she does win the nomination, she would have no choice but to ask him to be her running mate because it would rally the democrats, bring the party together, although I'm not convinced he necessarily would have to ask her.
BORGER: No. Definitely not. Laughs.
KING laughs.
CAFFERTY: The answer to that would be real interesting.
I think he is in terrible need of a colonic.
Hmm...barry didn't ask her and where is he now? And what are they whining about now? HRC going out and swaying her voters who are pissed he didn't pick her.
Senator Clinton Stump
HRC: I think that I have a lifetime of experience that I will bring to the White House. I know Senator McCcain has a life time of experience that he will bring to the White House and Senator Obama has a speech he gave on 2002.
CAFFERTY whines.
BORGER: His answer to that is 'do you think my supporters are delusional'. He said that in a recent debate.
JOHN KING:...consider what she just said there. She's essentially saying that Barack Obama is a fraud. He has a speech and I have a record....
BLITZER: I've always felt that if she does win the nomination, she would have no choice but to ask him to be her running mate because it would rally the democrats, bring the party together, although I'm not convinced he necessarily would have to ask her.
BORGER: No. Definitely not. Laughs.
KING laughs.
CAFFERTY: The answer to that would be real interesting.
I think he is in terrible need of a colonic.
Hmm...barry didn't ask her and where is he now? And what are they whining about now? HRC going out and swaying her voters who are pissed he didn't pick her.
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