David Shuster is trying to be like Big Brother Herr Olbermann and Little Sister Righteous Rachel Maddow in his gotcha "Hypocrisy Watch" segment. He rants about how Rove said what barry is doing is not what he promised and is the same old Washington politics. An absolutely 100% true statement. Shuster then goes into detailing all the things Rove politicized as a way of counterpoint.
What Shuster neglects to realize is barry said he would do none of that. He stumped on it over and over and still lies about it. So nothing Rove did or does or didn't do has any bearing on what barry's minions are doing.
Why can't they get past their blind devotion and see that barry's words do not - nor have they ever - match up with his actions?
It’s a new month and time for a new feature: barry flashbacks. A look now at what he said then to demonstrate what the mindless chanters bought into. The most ridiculous, of course, was the notion that Hillary Clinton had no foreign policy experience save sipping tea with ambassadors - even though she had traveled to 43% of the countries on the planet and is the most recognizable female face on the global stage - and that barry was ready to lead because of his “judgment on Iraq”.
Which judgment? Which plan? The one that would have gotten all the combat troops home before the Pennsylvania primary? The sixteen months he swore by? Or his most recent plan for withdrawal - what President Bush had agreed to do with Iraq?
BARRY: Sen Clinton is claiming basically the entire eight years of the Clinton presidency as her own, except for the stuff that didn’t work out (laughs dismissively) in which case she says she had nothing to do with. (laugh)
SCHUSTER: She picked up the support of 60 black ministers.
CLINTON: There are lots of ways in which what I did was the face of American when I was there, when I was representing not only my husband but the country.
SCHUSTER: Obama then pounced.
BARRY: If she wants to tout her experience by having visited countries - that’s fine. I-I-I don’t think that Madeline Albright would think that Hillary Clinton was the face of foreign policy during the Clinton administration - but maybe she’ll disagree with that.
ALBRIGHT statement: Hillary Clinton represented American interests and values in her visits to more than 80 countries with presidents, prime ministers and leaders of civil societies…her seven years as US Senator has further deepened her experience…she will be ready from the very first day to lead our nation in a very difficult and dangerous world.
David Schuster is talking to Kelly O'Donnell about Roland Burris and the press corps entourage. Schuster brings up Burris' I am the Magic Man comment. Burris said he won't make a scene but the media has their own idea. No drama proobamedia have found their next fresh piece of meat. Burris, of course, is more than happy to oblige. Why not? He was legally appointed to the seat.
KELLY O'DONNELL: Burris is walking a really fine line. On the one hand he is saying he doesn't want to be disruptive - doesn't want to cause a confrontation and yet he's doing all the the politically theatrical things that bring all of that attention. And the atmosphere we saw as he arrived today...kind of the making of the sausage moment of how things are covered here in Washington where you saw all the chaos.
I'm not sure what she meant by this - whether it's a political thing or not - but several things come to mind. How many people have seen a sausage made and what type? Maybe she meant this. If not, there's nothing like Kramer and Neuman taking over Jerry's kitchen.
