Someone mentioned this in an earlier thread. I have not even seen it yet but wanted to say thanks C&L for getting it up. Great job as usual.

Oh yeah, "frist"

Damn you.

Oh my Melanie...myself, I think you would look good kneeling before The Colossus of the CodPiece

But hey!

Thas just me.

As fer you?

You are a coward Melanie and I think everyone is hip to that fact now.

Mathews ties Iraq to 9-11 at the start. What a tool.

The Brown Horde (the turbaned variety or the South of the Border variety) is the new Red Scare. We're talking about a class of people who think Ted Bell novels are "eerily prescient".

Morgan: You’re gonna look great in a burka—you’re going to look super in a burka.

Same can't be said for the speaker here. You can't cover up her kind of ugly under mere textiles.

According to what i have been told over the years by fear mongers of the last few generations i would be speaking German, Russian and Chinese by now. I would be alive only if i had become a Nazi, a Stalinist or one of the "Yellow Hoard" and now they want to dress me up in a Burka?

Not sure if it's included in this clip, but she also said, to the effect, that it doesn't matter how we obtain permission to wiretap because if we don't Americans will die.

This is how they move the whole conversation and frame to the right.

It's hiding, but it's the form of a dare: "how far away from me are you willing to be?"

Note that she keeps getting face time on the tube though she's obviously spouting a lunatic point-of-view.

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xoites defends Constitution @ 13:

According to what i have been told over the years by fear mongers of the last few generations i would be speaking German, Russian and Chinese by now. I would be alive only if i had become a Nazi, a Stalinist or one of the "Yellow Hoard" and now they want to dress me up in a Burka?

Hey, ya left out Spanish! Those brown masses to the south are just waitin' to jump in, xoites. Get yerself fitted fer a serape and a sombrero!

I don't know if you saw the live airing of the show but the Matthews show cut her feed and her screen went blank! Matthews comment? "Good" In the replay of the show they cut that out...

Oh Boy, will it never stop? How in the hell can anyone stand up for this administration anymore?

By the way, Craig Crawford drives me nutz when he talks

Dr. Matt @ 15:

Not sure if it's included in this clip, but she also said, to the effect, that it doesn't matter how we obtain permission to wiretap because if we don't Americans will die.

Obviously they are not dying now. In fact since 9/11 when Bush lost his tiny little mind (not a very difficult thing to do) not one American has died due to lack of affordable health care, affordable housing or body armor or for any other reason. Frankly i can't wait until he is out of office. The guy next door is 112 and suffering terribly.

while the nutjob screams his/her head off

The problem is exasperated when there is a nutjob "moderating" the conversations such as we see on Fixed Noise which Michelle Malkin, Seán Hannity, and the Culture Warrior from Levittown.

How do they and Ms. Morgan get jobs in the media communications industry?

What's wrong with a burka? Why just imagine all the things you could be doing under there in public and no one would be the wiser.

Cheney reminds me of the guy who was interviewing for a high school geography teacher position. One of the board members asked him, “Do you believe the world is flat or round?” And, he replies, “I can teach it either way.”

LMAO!!!

Morgan: You’re gonna look great in a burka—you’re going to look super in a burka.

And you would look great in prison stripes.

Which is where propagandists belong.

Dave @27-

Not that I'm from there, but please leave Levittown outta it. The Culture Warrior isn't from there.

Oh no! Look out, Melanie! There's scary brown people over there! Quick! Hide the freedom! Quiiiiiiick!

What a fool.

Ya wanna know what's really sad, I remember seeing a special on Bin Laden years ago, about the time he was on 60 Minutes and declared a jihad on America and Trent Lott said that Clinton was wagging the dog by bringing him up...aaaaanyhoo, Bin laden said he was a student of Sun Tzu, The Art of War guy. And one of the creeds he talks about is never occupying a hostile country. Go figure. PS this Melanie chick AND bushboy have obviously never read The Art Of War.

Let Morgan speak, I say. That 28% will dwindle down to 23% shortly.

DAMN!

What was Matthews about to say at the end when he said "By the way, Melanie..."?

Searching for this clip earlier, I happened on another talking heads clip where Melanie spewed on and on. Her (presumably "liberal") counter point guest just stayed quiet. When the moderator finally turned to the lefty, her first works were to the effect, paraphrasing here " I don't need to say anything, just letting Melanie continue to talk is damning enough" LOVED IT!

And Melanie would look great in a straight jacket. White is her color, isn't it?

[deleted - do not advocate violence here]. She needs it refocus and I don't think she can do on her own. No willpower.

xoites defends Constitution @ 34:

What we need here is a Burka Protest. One maybe two million Americans march on DC in burkas and Ulilate!

That would be funny and it would work too - we'd finally get news coverage. unfortunately, all the American public would see is a bunch of "Muslims" in burka's getting beat down by a valiant homeland security. They'd probably dub Arabic speech/sound in as well.

Wow! I'm not going to get all PHD on you all but talk about playing the fear card.

Bow down to Cheney or you will be wearing a Burka. Seriously you will. Cheney will save our women from wearing a head cover. That's why I like him. I like to see my bitches faces. You can tell when they're lying about the money they made.

Thanks Dick, pimping ain't easy.

Do you think Middle Easterns scare their public by stating, "Hey you gonna look good in a suit and tie?

Are there really people out there who think that she is lucid and sensible? That think that she presents a positive image for the conservative movement?

[C&L does not advocate violence against anyone. When the few anonymous comments do arise we delete them]

Just something to think about.

I’d like to dedicate this song to Melanie Morgan:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-HJS1X8bNc

PS: You’re going to look good in a straight jacket.

Sometimes the only thoughtful analysis one can provide is "you gotta be fucking kidding me".

I knew once the Rightards started losing elections, that they'd become even more vile, evil and especially unhinged.
And boy was I ever right.
These far Rightards are making things even worse for themselves with their fanatical, extreme media appearences. Americans don't usually like crazy people.
Yesterday it was Mark Williams. Today it's Melanie Morgan. Watching them become unhinged, you're almost waiting for someone with a white jacket and a butterfly net to enter the scene and haul them off stage.
Have you seen Jackie Mason go bonkers yet?
Poor guy has OD'ed on Fox "News" and right wing hate speech radio.
Now he's ready for the looney bin. Hopefully he won't hurt himself and have a stroke.
He needs someone who loves him to give him an intervention and take away his television and radio.
See for yourself:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDUV2ZyDBTI&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fhotair%2Eco...

Mike @ 43:

DAMN!

What was Matthews about to say at the end when he said "By the way, Melanie..."?

Loosely, he said, "...I hate this war and I've never felt more disaffected from my government."

Matthews has his moments.

Dangerous people.

Both M(organ) for her lies and Tweety for putting them on the air.

Tweety does have his moments, but as someone brilliantly said in another thread, he needs to pick a lane!
At this point, wingc*nts like Melanie Morgan are just jokes. The republican wall is crumbling and they're just going to get louder and more inane.

Umm...right.

Cheney wanted to invade Iraq BEFORE 9/11...so the meme that "9/11 changed everything" is a huge stinking pile of bullshit.

Melanie Morgan is either ignorant, a liar, or, most likely, BOTH.

Why does Matthews have her on Lardball? Because she is an ignorant liar. Perfect for TV.

I'm almost willing to submit to sharia law if it will get Morgan into a Burka and to STFU.

What a horribly unattractive spokesperson for the wing nuts!

Melanie's right.

Naomi would look great in a burka. Hell, Naomi would look good in a giant chicken costume!

(Am I the only one here who think Naomi's hot!?)

How can people actually stick up for this administration? I mean really, is there a special place in hell or am I already there...? It defies logic or reason.

Tweety was really hammering that cheney video.

It was big oil that got to cheney.

KO calling for her arrest was great stuff.

The scared to death wingnuts should worry about China and Russia when dick bombs Iran.

They sent dick a message today with their war games.

It looked like a technical problem that cut her feed. I'll have a good Caption contest tomorrow...

This Morgan woman, whoever she is, made not one factual statement.
And the thing I resent is how she postures as if she is factual and insults opposition who speak factually.
This describes neocons everytime they appear on television.

if she had any real argument then she wouldn't have had to go to the Burka comment...but if the republicans tried to argue their point with anyone they would instantly be made to look ridiculous so they have to use these sorry ass tactics that seem to work on the America people more then they should, it says something about living in an Idol Nation.

Chris to morgan: Here's Your ass... You dumbfuck lying bitch!
And when morgan says "You're going to look great in a burka" I wish Naomi Wolf could have been able to say Hey.. Fuck You You lunatic Twit!

Damn. The rats are jumping faster than you can count. http://news.yahoo.com/s/cq/20070817/pl_cq_politics/retirementwavebuildin...

There is hope for America after all.

Dave @ 50:

Not that I’m from there, but please leave Levittown outta it. The Culture Warrior isn’t from there.

No? Then from where in the culturally rich realm of Lawn Guyland is he?

He's from Westbury, the more affluent neighbor(at least durin' BillO's childhood) of Levittown:

http://maps.google.com/maps?spn=0.059179,0.120352&saddr=Levittown+NY&dad...

BillO uses the Levittown story in an attempt to re-make himself as "of the working class". Hell, his own mom says they were in Westbury!

The confusion lies in the fact that postal zip code territories overlap local governmental boudaries at times:

http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/NYNASSAU/2005-10/1130636206

This is a great illustration of how the politics of fear works.

The people who decide how these narratives should play seem to have developed amnesia with regard to this, but Reagan's defense buildup wasn't some brilliant strategy to bankrupt the USSR. A lot of people genuinely feared that the Soviets would invade, like Hitler had done. All we had to do was fail to support the Contras and *bam!* Central America would fall like dominoes until the Soviets were right in our backyard, massing their armies on the Rio Grande. It seems ridiculous now, but people seriously feared this. I sure did--but my excuse is that I was around 8 years old at the time.

the thing about people like her is that you can just tell she knows she is full of it and just likes being on tv. i don't think she really know what she is saying, she is just spouting bizarre talking points that are one tiny step to the left of michael savage.

If that lip-injection freak Melanie Morgan had told ME I'm gonna look good in a burka, I'd've said, "Yeah, so will you, hun. The burka will cover up that bad lip job!"

Toes @ 98:

Could someone please explain to me exactly what fucking qualifications this bitch has to comment on public affairs?

Hey, maybe that's it---fucking qualifications

Her wikipedia entry says she's a college drop out and she's racked up an impressive list of public threats and wishing people were dead.

dogeatdogi @ 21:

I don't know if you saw the live airing of the show but the Matthews show cut her feed and her screen went blank! Matthews comment? "Good" In the replay of the show they cut that out...

Saw Hardball live here on Florida's west cst, they did cut to a test pattern at the very end on her feed. Watched 7pm est replay and they edited out the test-pattern. Dogeatdog got it right. Though from Mathews reaction, seemed to me he did not make the call to cut her feed. Did catch Chris', "Good". i thought someone should put a mirror in her face to cover that smirk as she accused Mathews of the non-existent gleam in his eye.. Haven't seen anyone make mention of Lady Macbeth's reference to Saddam being killed by U.S. Forces. I get that rants make ratings but its more face time for right-wing lunacy. Just last week wrote a long overdue email to Hardball because of Ron Christie's rude interruptions and unchallenged lies. Republicans are lost til they stop following the pied-piper. Rove is abandoning with the rats. In case there is someone yet to notice, we are taking on water. After all, it is our ship they are sinking. There's a boil on the ass of conservatism, and we are past due for its lancing. Call or write, communicate in any and every form necessary to your local, state, federal representatives and the fourth estate. Free press is an endangered species. Vote daily with your dollar, buy locally. Support labor, globally! Citizenship is like a muscle, use it or lose it!! Sorry for the rant..

Listen guys it'll be ten years since I came to America. I mean I just can't believe the filth that is allowed to get on TV in this most powerful, literate and prosperous country in the world. Is this idiot for real? How vile can a person be? Her looks belie the evil inside. And I say all this as a hardliner against terrorism. Fuck you Melanie Morgan, fuck you talk radio, fuck you the conservative base of this country, fuck you Mitt Romney the chameleon, fuck you immigrant-hating asswipe Fred Thompson.

From a rhetorical standpoint this is good news. The BushCo media is displaying a lack of adaptability moving forward; they're using the same framing techniques and scare tactics as pre-2006. That means our job as honest communicators is simplified. We already know their tricks, and we must continue to expose them in this forum and others.

I consider myself a moderate, but is this what the Republican party has turned into? If you do not agree with them, they will attack you and call you a "traitor" and you're not supporting the war.

So, if you don't support the war, you're not a patriot or supporting the troops?? What a joke.

Whichever party you belong too, it's time to face reality. This was has been lost for a long time. Let's just declare "victory" and get the hell out.

Immigrant @ 107:

Listen guys it'll be ten years since I came to America. I mean I just can't believe the filth that is allowed to get on TV in this most powerful, literate and prosperous country in the world. Is this idiot for real? How vile can a person be? Her looks belie the evil inside. And I say all this as a hardliner against terrorism. Fuck you Melanie Morgan, fuck you talk radio, fuck you the conservative base of this country, fuck you Mitt Romney the chameleon, fuck you immigrant-hating asswipe Fred Thompson.

Sir, I thank you for some of your compliments, but we are not even close to being the most literate country in the world.

What does "you're gonna look great in a burqa" even mean? Is she seriously suggesting the US was going to be taken over by Iraq or Iran...? What is she, 12? Someone buy that idiot a globe and a set of Encyclopedias.

This Man of the Year quote seems appropriate:

Eddie Langston: TV scares me. It makes everything seem credible.
Hemmings: Why is that so bad?
Eddie Langston: If everything seems credible then nothing seems credible. You know, TV puts everybody in those boxes, side-by-side. On one side, there's this certifiable lunatic who says the Holocaust never happened. And next to him is this noted, honored historian who knows all about the Holocaust. And now, there they sit, side-by-side, they look like equals! Everything they say seems to be credible. And so, as it goes on, nothing seems credible anymore! We just stopped listening!

superdude @ 97:

The people who decide how these narratives should play seem to have developed amnesia with regard to this, but Reagan's defense buildup wasn't some brilliant strategy to bankrupt the USSR. A lot of people genuinely feared that the Soviets would invade, like Hitler had done. All we had to do was fail to support the Contras and *bam!* Central America would fall like dominoes until the Soviets were right in our backyard, massing their armies on the Rio Grande. It seems ridiculous now, but people seriously feared this. I sure did--but my excuse is that I was around 8 years old at the time.

WOLVERINES!!!

Melanie Morgan would make a great spokesperson for adult diapers.

And another thing, body language-wise, I can't see how Ms. Morgan can keep her head up with such a large chip on her shoulder.

God she is a desperate fool.

Back when I watched T.V. I liked to leave cc (closed captioned) on. I recall once seeing "I'm Liar Kudlow" once on the Kudlow & Cramer show in cc.

Is there any way to turn cc on in the captured videos. I know I can't do this at my end. But whom ever captured the stuff may be able to replay with it on. And get a quick, unofficial, and sometimes amusing, transcript of what was said.

Why is it so difficult to understand Cheney's about face?

HAL-LI-BUR-TON

OK, so if Cheney decided, despite his earlier predictions, that he wanted to invade anyway for whatever reason, why didn't they act like they understood the difficulties? Why did they ignore all the contingency planning that had been done? Why did they assure us it would be easy?

They clearly knew it would be nearly impossible and still they stumbled into it doing everything wrong. That is this what this particular argument is about. They weren't taken by surprise. They knew this would happen, Cheney said so, and he did it anyway in the most appallingly deceitful and incompetent way.

i want my burka tye dyed with rainbow swirls.

nebtet @ 133:

i want my burka tye dyed with rainbow swirls.

My Goodness, yes! If one has to wear a burkha, one must be FABULOUS!

So many rightwing radio hosts, so much synapse-clogging fast food for the mind. When does the oversaturation of this market start to yield franchise failures?

The best part was that Morgan cut her line feed when Matthews told her at the end that he didn't agree with her. If someone else mentioned this above, I apologize. I checked but didn't see it.

When Tweety goes fishing through his pool to find wingnuts to recite Bush's talking points, he often finds these bottom-feeders, Melanie Morgan, Ron Christie, a black Republican that used to work for Cheney, and Ed Rogers, a southern white guy that whines his ass off.

Now the thing about these wingnuts is that they claim more air-time than the dem counterpart. They are ruder, more aggressive, and interrupt constantly, but in the end, they get more air-time by about 3-1, than the dem.

Why is this? Is it because the dem is more polite, or it's just not in their DNA to interrupt and be rude, like the Republican talking heads?

But this is a CONSTANT, and it happens every time there's supposed to be an equal-time conversation, the wingnut always wins that battle that, and by a lot!

I would like to respectfully request that Melanie Morgan please WEAR a burqua...if she can fit her collagen lips under it.

Melanie Morgan dresses like she has some class but as soon as she says something it is apparent that someone can dress well, where nice makeup and jewelry and have no class. She fits right in with Anne Coulter, Billy O' and the rest of those Neo Con propaganists except she is not as smart. Lots of money to buy nice outfits but not an ounce of true class to go along with it. The pundits that pass for newsworthy in this country are embarrassing. Can't do any better than Melanie Morgan? Chris Matthews oughta be ashamed.

I saw this "live" and I think anyone who has the capability should see the rest of this segment of Tweety-ville. In my opinion, Naomi Wolfe handled herself brilliantly and this clip needs to be studied by anyone who agrees to participate, in any format, with the likes of Melanie (my lips are bleeding) Morgan.

Naomi refuses to let this poor excuse for a talking point get away with diverting the conversation (sic) to her latest , i.e. same old, sound bite but turns without missing a beat back to the subject at hand and beats poor old saggy M over her peroxide-saturated head with it.

Note to anyone who appears on these programs: STUDY THIS CLIP OVER AND OVER and learn how to handle this tired rant.

The bonus to all this is that Ms. Wolfe is DROP DEAD GORGEOUS. How can it be sexist to admire a woman's appearance while respecting her intellectual dexterity and reasoned arguments?

Why has nothing changed with the Right from the Witch Hunts in Salem to the Red Scare to the Civil Rights Era to now...

and yet the people still buy into their bullshit?

The "you'll look good in a burqua" is no different from "that Witch is creating potions to turn you into a frog" or "the Reds are coming burn your Bible" or "the Negros are gonna rape your wife."

They just want to scare everyone into shutting up and handing over their wallets.