Please stop giving us Russert's Sunday morning douches. Ignore him and maybe he'll just go away....

The garbage GOP's own mindless rhetoric-spewing mannequin , Mary Matalin , is at it once again............

Damn, now I am confused. I thought the economic condition was directly related to the Republican's favoritism and spend programs. Then Sam Zell (owner of Chicago Tribune and LA times) told us in a Squawkbox interview it was really Clinton and Obama that caused this mess. NOW I find out it was really the media that has created this economic condition. I wonder who is going to get the blame next? (snark)

"because they are being bombarded with 'number' from the media."

Well, Mary, our household has a statement that comes every month. And the numbers on that statement say down 15 to 20% from one year ago.

Numbers were supposed to be the last objective science we could use with conservative hacks. Now those are useless as well.

That's right. Al Queade is our one ray of economic sunshine. With out them, no war and thousands of unemployed soldiers and soldiers of fortune.

lemme see if i follow the logic: if the press tells us the truth we might get upset...therefore the press should not tell the truth.
got it.

Hmmm blame the media huh? Is the media making it up or does it get its data from some where? The federal government? The government reports on manufacturing activity, consumer spending and income and other such vital economic statistics. Additionally, there are several independent organizations that provide information on consumer confidence etc.

Matalin blames the media for reporting on such economic statistics that the federal government and others report on by surveying American companies and the public. The media is to blame for something here ... allowing people like Matalin _ who are, at best, ignorant, and, at worst, deceptive _ a forum for their continued existence.

"...and like most of the media, allows the right wing lies and distortions to go unchallenged.---So sayeth Logan.

I am now truly in the bizarro world. Until you realize that this same bias is claimed (and not entirely without reason) by both sides you will continue to chase your tails.

Get right.

RHM

She is repulsive. How any one could bed down night after to night with a war criminal is beyond me. Nice integrity Carville.

And we all know she's an idiot.

Next.

I watched this mess today and it reminded me of Jurassic Park. Dinosaurs...each and every one of them. Not one on the panel seemed to have a clue as to why an upstart Senator could inspire and motivate so many people so fast.

"Get right."?!?!?

gawd, no thanks...
EVERYone knows now - the TRUTH has a LIBERAL BIAS.

it's also the easiest...

Just clap your feet together, and the economy will improve. Don't let the media tell you otherwise with "facts" and "figures".

mary has learned alot from rove

if the polls dont say what you want...make up your own

Good.

With that strategy from the right we are looking at a New New Deal very soon.

Shame on you Mary, insulting everyone's intelligence. People are truly hurting out here you lying ass ugly bitch. I sat down this morning and tried to listen to Matlin's bullshit. Russert must have had a bagel in his mouth during Matlin's crazy rant. And Mary, get a refund on that face work.

Danger! Teddy Phuf. Danger!

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Carver and Matalin are a tag team couple making money off of appearing and supporting opposing parties.

PLAIN AND SIMPLE.
They are using the system because they can.
Where there is, the other is sure to follow...

I refuse to give them the credit they desire.
I can imagine their sex goes something like...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwCuMJS5JwU

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On my way back from Savannah last Monday, I had to drive through Atlanta during rush hour, and tuned to the talk radio station to get the every 10 minute traffic update.. I got to hear the odious Neil Boortz claiming that the whole banking crisis was caused by "liberal community groups, who made banks give out loans to unqualified minority borrowers, under a Jimmy Carter era law." There is nothing that the Right in this country can't come up with some reason that it's the Liberals' fault (I mean, Liberals have kept moderates and conservative from running the country and controlling the Presidency and Congress and the Courts since, when?). And there is a ready audience of the conservative Borg that will believe them.

chris @ 34:

Most Americans don't know anything about the Economy, for example, there is 5.2 unemployment, which is considered full employment. She's right. the media keep screaming of a meltdown and thats all people here....

But most Americans know when gas hits 4 dollars a gallon.

For three months now I've been living in a dumpster, just off the interstate, behind Walmart. Me, I blame the librul media for hyping the scare. The economy is wonderful. Vote Republican.

(I couldn't help but imagine those two in bed. I had to turn it off, cuz it was makin' me sick.)

chris @ 34:

Most Americans don't know anything about the Economy, for example, there is 5.2 unemployment, which is considered full employment. She's right. the media keep screaming of a meltdown and thats all people here....

Chris, are you able to afford your heating bills, gas bill, and all your other bills like Mary Matalin can? If so, then who the hell are you and Mary to say that everything is fine for ALL Americans? To someone like Mary Matalin, life is hunkydory so she can't see the forest through the trees at this point.

MR Bill @ 37:

On my way back from Savannah last Monday, I had to drive through Atlanta during rush hour, and tuned to the talk radio station to get the every 10 minute traffic update.. I got to hear the odious Neil Boortz claiming that the whole banking crisis was caused by "liberal community groups, who made banks give out loans to unqualified minority borrowers, under a Jimmy Carter era law." There is nothing that the Right in this country can't come up with some reason that it's the Liberals' fault (I mean, Liberals have kept moderates and conservative from running the country and controlling the Presidency and Congress and the Courts since, when?). And there is a ready audience of the conservative Borg that will believe them.

When the housing boom was at its peak and more minorities and Americans were home owners than ever before, herr dubyah took credit and his reich-wing hacks on Faux and hate radio all gave their king praise.

The 16% that think the economy is good/excellent are the uber-rich. They're the ones that got tax cuts and have friends in the GOP. They got no bid contracts to rape Iraq-- and, by extension, the American people.

Dr. Matt @ 40:

RHM @ 15:

"...and like most of the media, allows the right wing lies and distortions to go unchallenged.---So sayeth Logan.

I am now truly in the bizarro world. Until you realize that this same bias is claimed (and not entirely without reason) by both sides you will continue to chase your tails.

We all completely agree that you are indeed in bizarro world with your perverse and blatantly distorted view of reality.

Dr. Matt @ 40:

RHM @ 15:

"...and like most of the media, allows the right wing lies and distortions to go unchallenged.---So sayeth Logan.

I am now truly in the bizarro world. Until you realize that this same bias is claimed (and not entirely without reason) by both sides you will continue to chase your tails.

We all completely agree that you are indeed in bizarro world with your perverse and blatantly distorted view of reality.

What happened, Dr. Matt? You couldn't squeeze in the word "obtuse" again today?

Evidently that is your "word of the day" on your "how to try and sound smart" calendar.

Oh God...now I've been sucked in.

Just ignore me and I'll go away soon. (and yes...I promise)

RHM

Dr. Matt @ 46:

RHM @ 42:

Max-1 @ 35:

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Carver and Matalin are a tag team couple making money off of appearing and supporting opposing parties.

PLAIN AND SIMPLE.
They are using the system because they can.
Where there is, the other is sure to follow...

I refuse to give them the credit they desire.
I can imagine their sex goes something like...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwCuMJS5JwU

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It is simply not possible to be happily married (presumably) and have such opposite values.

Why do you reich-wingers always "think" you speak for others?

Are you referring to me or Max? And which of us claimed to "think" for others?

RHM

it’s the evil liberal media that’s giving them the perception that the economy is tanking.

Wish these talking experts would get their facts straight. ReThugs say the media is liberal, and Hillary says it is biased against her. Well if Hillary is supposed to be liberal and the media is supposed to be liberal, shouldn't the media luv themselves some Hillary? My ears hurt when they open their mouths.

And isn't it cute Mary wore pink today? What was that all about?

As the year goes on, especially as we move towards November, this lie from the neo-fascists won't fly this time. As the economy gets worse (and this is only the beginning of the worse economic debacle since the Great Depression), more and more people KNOW someone who lost their house, job, experience economic pain....whether it's friends, other family members, or neighbors...even if they, themselves, are doing alright financially. It's something you just cannot hide, irregardless of what's reported in the media. Anyone who was around in the 1970's can attest to this. (And again, the inflationary spiral experienced then will be a picnic compared to what's coming.)

Joe Six-Pack doesn't pay attention to very much, but when his beer doubles in price or he can't afford it any longer, it's a different story.

Dr. Matt @ 46:

RHM @ 42:

Max-1 @ 35:

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Carver and Matalin are a tag team couple making money off of appearing and supporting opposing parties.

PLAIN AND SIMPLE.
They are using the system because they can.
Where there is, the other is sure to follow...

I refuse to give them the credit they desire.
I can imagine their sex goes something like...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwCuMJS5JwU

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It is simply not possible to be happily married (presumably) and have such opposite values.

Why do you reich-wingers always "think" you speak for others?

To RHM:
It's a comedy sketch... a bit racey and suggestive but nothing we've known. Rated PG17

To Dr. Matt:
WHO?

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At least she spared us from watching her while wearing that god-awful broach that resembles a bathroom key chain from a route 66 Shell station. Sorry, Mary, that's the best I could do in your defense considering the material you left me with.

Carville and Matalin are a perfect metaphor for US politics today. Carville is nowhere close to being even a bit left of center, but because he pretends to disagree with the ridiculously far right B.S. put out by Matalin, he is allowed to define the left-most limit of acceptable political discussion. At the end of the day, they're both in bed together.

chris @ 34:

Most Americans don't know anything about the Economy, for example, there is 5.2 unemployment, which is considered full employment. She's right. the media keep screaming of a meltdown and thats all people here....

Pay no rent in mommy's basement eh? Like Carville said many Americans feel economic hurt in gas,food,mortgage prices, etc. You troll here just to feel smart and pull Matalin like stats out of your sorry flat ass. You Repubs are just filthy liars. I'll bet you change that tune when some desperate fool mugs your butt.

That marriage gives both parties a bad name. Here's a clue Mary as to why those poll numbers would switch if you ask people about their personal finances. People lie! Asking them how the economy is doing is a more accurate gauge of their personal finances

Mary Matalin is exactly right. I don't know about you but I'm still paying 1.79 for a gallon of gas, how much are you paying?

Brian @ 69:

Mary Matalin is exactly right. I don't know about you but I'm still paying 1.79 for a gallon of gas, how much are you paying?

Exactly. Hamburger is no longer $3/pound but is now down to .87cents/pound. Whew. Mary Matalin speaks for us...those damn liberal media types who keep lying to us and making the economy bad! Jees. /snark

miss_kitty @ 58:

chris @ 34:

Most Americans don't know anything about the Economy, for example, there is 5.2 unemployment, which is considered full employment. She's right. the media keep screaming of a meltdown and thats all people here....

And you apparently know NOTHING of unemployment figures. They count people only who are collecting UEI benefits. If you don't qualify for them, or have used them up, you aren't unemployed. In the figuring of the unemployment figures we get served up to show how great the economy is doing, UE figures are virtually useless. That 5% is the amount of the workforce collecting full bennies.

No mention of people who have to get food stamps to help them out with their substandard wages, either. Or the underemployed.

I doubt you'll get it. I mean, based on this and your previous posts. You don't have much going on upstairs now, do ya chris? Other than what you're told to think...

Also unemployment is a lagging indicator. Most companies try to hang onto their employees as long as possible.

When a democarat is in the WH starting on '09 watch the republicans hammer on the high unemployment rate. Unemployment is topic A after the middle innings. We're still in the 2nd or 3rd inning of this crisis.

The only time she should open her trap is when Carville is planted squarely in it.
That's about the only time a Republican's mouth has any practical use.

Oh, sweet bab jeezus, please delive us from these talking corpses...

NoBuddy @ 74:

I think Bernanke and the Federal Reserve lowering interest rates every other week is causing people to believe the economy is weak, rather than the media. It seems to me that the Fed is reacting to something they see over the horizon that isn't visible (to me) yet, something beyond the sub-prime mortgage issue. Channel 4 (Britain)-Dispatched: How the Banks Bet Your Money suggests that the problem lies with "Credit Default Swaps." I believe they stated that problem will be bigger than the sub-prime issue.

It's obvious that inflation has hit the supermarket. Credit card interest rates are rising and available credit is shrinking. We fought a war on credit like Vietnam, and now with high oil prices as a catalyst we appear to be headed for a period of stagflation, just like the 70s.

10% of mortgages exceed the collateralized property. I think most Americans wish there had been increased regulation in the sub-prime mortgage businesses. Borrow and spend economics and the complete abandonment of fiscal responsibility hasn't helped.

There is also a problem with the mindset of many Americans of this self-indulgent "me" generation. Common sense should tell many that if they maintain large credit card balances for a sustained period of time, that they are lowering their standard of living. The too good to be true teaser rates offered by the sub-prime and other mortgages, were too good to be true. I think there is an attitude that money grows on trees that people need to lose. Borrow and spend hasn't been confined to the Federal government.

Anyway, I think by pointing out the borrow and spend policies of the Republicans and the associated stagflation will be a negative for the Republican candidates in the fall. And I mean candidates - we have to expand the focus from the Presidency to the Congress and try to get Clinton or Obama a Congress that won't try to gridlock any reforms.

Ben Stein said it was the Federal Reserve to blame.

NoBuddy @ 74:

I think Bernanke and the Federal Reserve lowering interest rates every other week is causing people to believe the economy is weak, rather than the media. It seems to me that the Fed is reacting to something they see over the horizon that isn't visible (to me) yet, something beyond the sub-prime mortgage issue. Channel 4 (Britain)-Dispatched: How the Banks Bet Your Money suggests that the problem lies with "Credit Default Swaps." I believe they stated that problem will be bigger than the sub-prime issue.

It's obvious that inflation has hit the supermarket. Credit card interest rates are rising and available credit is shrinking. We fought a war on credit like Vietnam, and now with high oil prices as a catalyst we appear to be headed for a period of stagflation, just like the 70s.

10% of mortgages exceed the collateralized property. I think most Americans wish there had been increased regulation in the sub-prime mortgage businesses. Borrow and spend economics and the complete abandonment of fiscal responsibility hasn't helped.

There is also a problem with the mindset of many Americans of this self-indulgent "me" generation. Common sense should tell many that if they maintain large credit card balances for a sustained period of time, that they are lowering their standard of living. The too good to be true teaser rates offered by the sub-prime and other mortgages, were too good to be true. I think there is an attitude that money grows on trees that people need to lose. Borrow and spend hasn't been confined to the Federal government.

Anyway, I think by pointing out the borrow and spend policies of the Republicans and the associated stagflation will be a negative for the Republican candidates in the fall. And I mean candidates - we have to expand the focus from the Presidency to the Congress and try to get Clinton or Obama a Congress that won't try to gridlock any reforms.

The "red phone" moment next year could likely be foreigners refusing to bankroll our deficit are sweetheart prices. I'd like to hear how both Clinton and Obama answer that question.

These neoconservative dipshits are the main reason the US economy is tanking. They blame everything they do wrong or everything that goes wrong for them on the "liberal media". It's fucking pathetic.

I've only recently started reading Crooks and while I find it mildly entertaining, I find the comment section down right scary and hopefully not representative of the Democratic party or liberal minded thinkers.

Politics have always been a hot bed for opinionated people. However, what I don't understand, in this instance, is the need for the flame wars, name calling and outright bashing that borders on "cult-like" behavior from certain participants. In reading through the 60 + comments on this thread, and 100s more on others, there are three or four posts (at most) that provide cogent, well written comments backed by quantitative or qualitative analysis. The rest of the comments seemed to have been vommitted from the writers keyboard with no other intent than to force their poorly explained opinion on others.

If you don't agree with someones opinion, rather than immediately label them a "reich-winger" (what the hell type of insinuation is that anyway?), why not provide a rebuttal with some facts and figures that might help sway their decision. Flame wars, name calling and dramatic unintelligent response do nothing to help any political party and only provide fodder for those whose opinion you are trying to change.

Will the Democrats allow the republican crime syndicate to get away with that bile?

Probably so!

chris @ 80:

DC @ 39:

chris @ 34:

Most Americans don't know anything about the Economy, for example, there is 5.2 unemployment, which is considered full employment. She's right. the media keep screaming of a meltdown and thats all people here....

But most Americans know when gas hits 4 dollars a gallon.

Yea but most Americans don't know its a supply and demand issue, the more China and India grow along with the more Americans drive, the more gas prices will be, nothing to do with those big bad oil companies, well, actually if all the do gooders would have allowed offshore drilling and did not make it so fucking impossible to get a nuclear power plant home heating prices would probably be lower..

I think most americans do understand the connection between what's happening in Asia and the price paid at the pump. What's less understood is the connection between rising food prices and the use of ethanol. The U.S. government's idiotic policy of subsidizing corn for low-grade ethanol is influencing land use choices. Just look what is happening to the price wheat and other grains.

New off-shore drilling doesn't solve our problems. Putting aside all environmental considerations, it still takes years for new oil to come on line. At some point we have to face the music that the future is not in oil, why not take that step now?

Let's see.....Matalin blames the poor economy on the media.

Nobel prize winning economist (Joseph Stiglitz) blames it on the Iraq war.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/28/iraq.afghanistan

Who to believe? Mmmmmmm........

At the end Bob Schrum (accurately) states that Bush's economic team is "a circular firing squad" to which Mike Murphy rebuts " Oh Bob, save it for the union hall ! "
So, for ' ashamed ' @ 85, I say : this is why commenters on this blog lose it so often . The dialogue from the right is condescending and patronizing . They don't want debate, they want to tell the left to shut up, the right knows best. Well, the last 7 years have proven that the right knows shit .

ashamed @ 85:

I've only recently started reading Crooks and while I find it mildly entertaining, I find the comment section down right scary and hopefully not representative of the Democratic party or liberal minded thinkers.

Politics have always been a hot bed for opinionated people. However, what I don't understand, in this instance, is the need for the flame wars, name calling and outright bashing that borders on "cult-like" behavior from certain participants. In reading through the 60 + comments on this thread, and 100s more on others, there are three or four posts (at most) that provide cogent, well written comments backed by quantitative or qualitative analysis. The rest of the comments seemed to have been vommitted from the writers keyboard with no other intent than to force their poorly explained opinion on others.

If you don't agree with someones opinion, rather than immediately label them a "reich-winger" (what the hell type of insinuation is that anyway?), why not provide a rebuttal with some facts and figures that might help sway their decision. Flame wars, name calling and dramatic unintelligent response do nothing to help any political party and only provide fodder for those whose opinion you are trying to change.

Visit any right-wing blog, compare the two and get back to us.

Don't worry your money is going to rebuild the infrastructure.
http://tinyurl.com/34phll

This is the reason they allowed the six bastards to own all our media. They have little or no intention of allowing any kind of truthful investigative media coverage to come out. The six thugs that own all of them are paying them very well to screw up our minds with this daily shit.

They promote these lying ass polling firms to just spew all of this wrong data, to cover for the real substance of them screwing around the back rooms of polling precincts that harbor these corrupt voting machines, for only one reason folks. To cheat.

When are we going to get so dame sick and tired of these freaks, we can't take it anymore and that we just do what really needs to be done and fire these bastards up.

I am desperately trying to be polite when I say this, if you know what I mean.

Timmie used to be a half way decent guy before they took him behind the door and read him the riot act. I remember the first day that Mr. Timmie went south on us, was when Bush invited him and a team of these right wing media thugs to the white house. What ever they said to him, it worked because he has been a complete ass hole every sense.

They are going to keep this shit up to the point they are going to scare off all the young people, Senator Obama has managed to get the attention of, right out of the mix.

Yes I am saying that Obamas campaign strategy has done what no other political candidate has ever been able to do and no matter how much they attempt to blow smoke up our asses, they cannot take that fact away, but the reality will reach out and slap the hell out of all of them if they manage to do what they have been doing in the last few elections and steal it.

It is clear what they are up to as they have been running Hillary none stop 24/7, to the point we are sick to our stomachs of seeing her all over our TV sets and this on going winning she is doing in her claims of the media being so good to Senator Obama is just part of the bull shit from her camp.

They are giving them selves license to come out with all of the most raciest, disrespectful and degrading antics about him, they can think of, but it is not going UN noticed by the people who support him and many people watching this crap that did not support him then but don't like what they see at all.

If they consider there actions towards him kind, then I would hate to see them mistreat him.

We all understand that they have just a few days to play around with this election to the point they really believe they will have beat this notion into our systems that we think Hillary is the best choice, after we have put up with Bush for the last eight years. They have got to be out of their dame minds.

The only problem with this notion of theirs is that they haven't figured out yet, that none of us are moved at all. We know what real change is and we all understand that Hillary Clinton is not it.

Is it just me, or are all three of these people ever-more boring and totally irrelevent?

The Republican Party is the biggest criminal conspiracy in the nations history and the MSM are complicit. The Republicans have proven themselves worthy of nothing less than electoral euthansia.

Russert is utterly useless. A monkey could oversee Meet The Press better than Russert and be more knowledgeable and entertaining.

motorfingaz @ 88:

vonrking @ 86:

Hulk @ 2:

How do lying bitches like this sleep at night??

That's the scary part. She isn't lying. She actually believes what she's saying.

She doesn't sleep at night! The heiffer sleeps upside down in her basement during the day time hours.

that would make her a web-legged, blood-sucking vampire-cow. LOL

Basically, if everyone lived in isolation & ignorance, they wouldn't KNOW they weren't doing so well. Its the liberal media who is ruining it by informing people!

In an obscure way, I can actually understand where she is coming from.
The fact is that it is silly, anti-reality, unworkable, backwards & will only result in a lesser America doesn't seem to occur to her.

I don't think it is fair that a conservative can be successful whilst never thinking and been given equal hearing to progressives who spend time thinking it through.

=my2c

shantiquax @ 108:

Like the rest of the RiWi Harpies, Mrs. Carville just needs to get laid. Oh, did I say that? That's not mean, is it? That's not Hitleresque is it?

It's like I'm reading an excerpt from "Mein Kampf" ;)

I don't think that Matalin knows what cognitive dissonance is. It refers to attempts to silence conflicting thoughts by performing actions that run opposite to one's beliefs. So in Matalin's world, most Americans feel good about the economy, but their optimism is sabotaged by discouraging empirical data, so to compensate they lie to pollsters.

Okay.

Seek help Mary Matalin. Seek help. I feel sorry for your children.

Oh their falling all over themselves now. It's sessions like this when you wish homey the clown would come into the room and start bopping people on the head.

Mary, the GOP talking points machine (aka liar) should read this: "More Americans using credit cards to stay" afloathttp://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/credit/2008-02-28-credit-cards_N.htm

This is a conservative economy at work. You have 16% in a survey saying their finance are good and 83% saying they are not. That tells any sane person all you need to know. And this conservative scare mongering on raising taxes, won't work as was pointed out, because people know they are talking about people making 250k or more a year, which the vast, vast majority of the country can't even fathom making.

Liberal media? In what alternate universe. why does anybody tune into these propaganda fests?

I'd druther have tax and spend than borrow and spend policies.

It's called paying as you go.

chris @ 98:

ashton @ 95:

ashamed @ 85:

I've only recently started reading Crooks and while I find it mildly entertaining, I find the comment section down right scary and hopefully not representative of the Democratic party or liberal minded thinkers.

Politics have always been a hot bed for opinionated people. However, what I don't understand, in this instance, is the need for the flame wars, name calling and outright bashing that borders on "cult-like" behavior from certain participants. In reading through the 60 + comments on this thread, and 100s more on others, there are three or four posts (at most) that provide cogent, well written comments backed by quantitative or qualitative analysis. The rest of the comments seemed to have been vommitted from the writers keyboard with no other intent than to force their poorly explained opinion on others.

If you don't agree with someones opinion, rather than immediately label them a "reich-winger" (what the hell type of insinuation is that anyway?), why not provide a rebuttal with some facts and figures that might help sway their decision. Flame wars, name calling and dramatic unintelligent response do nothing to help any political party and only provide fodder for those whose opinion you are trying to change.

Visit any right-wing blog, compare the two and get back to us.

Thats the point, Libs don't have any quantitative answers, all they know is blame and whine and lets not forget, higher taxes!!

Is this your attempt at a retort of a "quantitative answer"?

Left&Left @ 118:

This ugly couple make cash hand over fist playing political good cop, bad cop. If I were with a woman who constantly sung the praises of Bush and the GOP, it would creep me out and I wouldn't want to fuck her. These two are political flim flamers.

You think Carville's a flamer?

I am no fan of Matalin, however economics is a philosophy influenced and fueled by perceptions. The media has been pumping up a bad economy for many many months. A tanked economy hasn't happened until recent months but the government will not officially admit a recession until its all over. The recent hysteria in the media's tone increased once recession evidence finally started to surface. As an example, look at the dow average, a market number fluctuation that seems huge but is really only a small percentage of the total. Yet the market follows the dire news reports like a fearful child at a horror flick and the media screams about it as if an atom bomb were dropped on Wall Street.

It's a great debate in a presidential election cycle, and the media needs something to rail about, but now that they helped create a bad economy, by screaming fear perceptions, what will they do to develop hope? Fear sells.

Jiminy Glock @ 126:

LOL at anyone who watches Matalin or Carville, even in clip form.

- 10 weeks and counting, zero seconds of watching cable news or sunday talk shows

I am with you. I just stopped watching all this news. 24 hours of bullshit is getting to me. I watched anything but the news this morning. I all ready feel better.

Shrum: “I think most people are getting very insecure about their personal finances.”

Matalin: “That’s because they’re berated with these numbers. “

Umm.... We are so stupid that we ignore all the money falling out of our pockets and focus on mindless assholes on the tube? You can piss on my leg and tell me it's raining, but I can look at my bank statement and see the negative numbers. People spend less when they have less to spend. People declare bankruptcy and default on loans when they don't have the money to pay their debts.

How fucking stupid you these people think we are?