Late Edition: Suzanne Malveaux Says "Some" Are Worried About Obama's Audacity
By Nicole Belle Sunday Jul 27, 2008 8:45am 
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You gotta love the predictability of the framing from McCain's Media. John McCain challenges Barack Obama to go to Iraq, and so he goes. Then he makes the exact same courtesy calls with other heads of state with whom he would be in close contact should he win the presidency that John McCain made just a couple of months ago, but according to Suzanne Malveaux on CNN's Late Edition, "some people" are worried that Obama is just a little audacious for making this trip. Riiiiigggghhhhttt. Just who would be these people, Malveaux? Would they be those same GOP/RNC types that have been whispering these ridiculous slurs because Obama's trip was so successful and made their candidate look like an intemperate, ill-prepared and out of touch amateur?
Senator, I want to use a word that you love to use, "audacity." A lot of people looked at the trip and they saw the palaces, the world leaders, the 200,000 that were gathered in Berlin, and they said, "The audacity of this trip, it looks like he is running for president of the world."
Are we quoting Krauthammer and Brooks again on another media outlet? It appears so. The question goes out to McCain's Media yet again: by what standard have these two chuckleheads--who have yet to be right on anything, mind you--earned the privilege of framing the debate of this race?
Kudos to Obama for responding the only way you should to these intelligence-insulting media narratives.
OBAMA: Well, let me make a couple points. First of all, I basically met with the same folks that John McCain met with after he won the nomination. He met with all these leaders. He also added a trip to Mexico, a trip to Canada, a trip to Colombia, and nobody suggested that that was "audacious."
I think people assumed that what he was doing was to talk to world leaders who we may have deal with should we become president. That's part of the job that I'm applying for.
And so -- so I was puzzled by this notion that somehow what we were doing was in any way different from what Senator McCain or a lot of presidential candidates have done in the past.
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MALVEAUX: Senator, I want to use a word that you love to use, "audacity." A lot of people looked at the trip and they saw the palaces, the world leaders, the 200,000 that were gathered in Berlin, and they said, "The audacity of this trip, it looks like he is running for president of the world."
And a lot of people looked and they want to know, what out of this trip did you take away that you feel makes you a stronger candidate to be a leader here?
OBAMA: Well, let me make a couple points. First of all, I basically met with the same folks that John McCain met with after he won the nomination. He met with all these leaders. He also added a trip to Mexico, a trip to Canada, a trip to Colombia, and nobody suggested that that was "audacious."
I think people assumed that what he was doing was...
(APPLAUSE)
... talk to world leaders who we may have deal with should we become president. That's part of the job that I'm applying for.
(LAUGHTER)
And so -- so I was puzzled by this notion that somehow what we were doing was in any way different from what Senator McCain or a lot of presidential candidates have done in the past. Now, I admit we did it really well.
(LAUGHTER)
(APPLAUSE)
But that shouldn't be a strike against me. You know, if I was bumbling and fumbling through this thing, I would have been criticized for that. And so -- so that's point number one.
I don't know the political effect of this when I come back. You know, I think people are worried about gas prices; they're worried about job security; they're worried about their retirement fund, as the stock market goes down.
So probably a week of me focusing on international issues doesn't necessarily translate into higher poll numbers here in the United States, because people are understandably concerned about the immediate effects of the economy. And that's what we will be talking about for the duration.
I do think that, in terms of me governing, being an effective president, that that trip was helpful, because I think I've established relationships and a certain bond of trust with key leaders around the world who have taken measure of my positions and how I operate and I think can come away with some confidence that this is somebody I can deal with.
MALVEAUX: Senator Obama, hold on to that thought. We're going to take a quick break.
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Makes me glad I don't watch the boob-tube anymore.
(Although I'm sad I miss out on Colbert.)
sorry, to post again but i repeat
Who does the media really love? not who you think.
Attention Vs Media love
(Obama is interesting) Vs (McCain, boring but free donuts)
I have this ugly feeling that we're going to hear "audacious" being used as a synonym for "uppity."
According to the GOP/RNC, Obama is the anti-christ while the Senator from Arizona is right on point with everything! Do I expect anything else from these morons?
NO
mclame doesn't have the guts to meet with the journalists of color at the Unity Confeerence this past weekend. He chicked out.
eric @ 5:
Oops
Sour grapes. Nothing more. If McCain didn't come off as a slighly higher functioning mowroon than w and had anything positive to say or for his supporters to be excited by, they wouldn't feel the need to dig deep,deep,deep to try and find something to attack Barack about.
Sanjiv Sarwate @ 3:
As "exotic" was substituted for "black". The RNC needs to launder their own sheets never mind trying to cloak anyone else in them.
You do have to love the way he makes these ignorant fools look like the childish idiots they truly are. Like trying to have an intelligent conversation with a game show host.
As usual, Obama handles the issue with grace and style while at the same time, dismissing the criticism as ridiculous.
The guy's a master!
displaced @ 1:
Same here. Now and then when I'm really feeling ambitious I'll watch clips of that and the daily show but these days I turn it off unless I've got an episode of Doctor Who to see.
if there ever is to be an undoing for Obama, it will be his charisma and popularity. the right already are painting him as TOO powerful, and must be stopped. (they associate him to hitlers rise to power)
“The audacity of this trip, it looks like he is running for president of the world.”
He'll be Leader of the Free World, doesn't that dingbat know that?
The members of the media are just giving talking points to one another. One of them says something and somehow that gets translated into something the public is talking about. I get so angry when I hear one of them ask another of them, what do Americans think? They have no idea because they aren't talking to people like you and me, they are simply conversing amongst themselves.
I think it's great how Sen. Obama takes these loaded questions and responds to them the way he does. He gently and with humor points out how ridiculous they are.
sort of a devil's advocate thing here, but the media often willingly play the straight man by asking a confrontational question and allowing the candidate to "hit it out of the park" as Carl Cameron described his interaction with Ron Paul during the Republican primary debates.
just something to keep in mind.
cuz, does ANYONE think that Suzanne Malveaux is a McCain supporter?
anyways, as always, the most important aspect to remember is that cable news is not primarily news and never will be. cable news programs are like the Jerry Springer Show with more important guests. fundamentally they perform the same service.
it's up to the American people to allow news outlets to make money "the old fashioned way" by only supporting those outlets that deserve it. that group certainly does not include cable news at this time, so if you watch these jokers you're part of the problem.
- cold turkey for 7 months and loving it
eric @ 6:
Plus Sen. Obama had just flown back from his trip the night before. The guy had to be tired as hell yesterday morning but he made it to the conference anyway. What was McCain doing?
I'd also like to point out how odd it is that "president of the world" is now being used as a slander. It wasn't all that long ago that one of the common patriotic descriptors for the president was "leader of the free world" and this was meant as a great responsibility.
There was a post here (or somewhere in Leftern Blogistan) about the increased use of "Commander in Chief" as a sign of militarization of the office. I wonder if a Lexus Nexus search would show an inverse correlation in those terms. If that bears out, we can extend the argument for militarizing the presidency to also include increased isolationism.
The Republicans have shifted the global position of the oval office from a "shining beacon of freedom" to a paranoid self-isolating garrison.
displaced @ 1:
You can catch John Stewart on Veoh.com. Not a site ripe, but the actual show.
Take THAT, cable!
eric @ 13:
No he won't.
He isn't the prime minister of Canada or Britain or Germany or France or the endless number of countries that are free democratic societies. That misnomer is ridiculous and ignorant. He'll be president of the USA. Period.
eric @ 13:
reich-wingers are stupid enough to believe there is a position of " president of the world."
BTW, the shooter in Knoxville said the reason why he wanted to kill was because of his hatred for gays and liberals. He's the newest hero of princess, faux, and drugbaugh.
Nada @ 11:
W00t!
Media clown smackdown!
I am so furious with CNN that I just had to let it rip this morning. Read more. http://www.tagg-lines.com/2008/07/cnn-fair-and-unbalanced.html
I am worried about Obama's lack of audacity.
O is pure class.
Most of the right-wingers do not know what audacious means. So, that could lead anywhere.
It appears the Tenn. church shooting was done by a right-wing nut job.
Bravo, Obama! Exquisite answer...polite, intelligent, and articulate. You answered the question by turning it right back on the interviewer and pointed out that McCain has done the same thing before you and IT WAS NOT A BIG DEAL!
Bravo!
Sounds like Dean to me!
The only thing missing is "somebody with backbone!"
Obama/Dean 08
"Win/Win!"
McCain’s Cronies: Big Oil Money And A Big “Straight Talk” Fraud
So much for the "mavericky" persona. First, it was the Freudian slip of his "oil executives" tongue on off-shore drilling. Now? We see what's been greasing up more than just the "Straight Talk" bus:
http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/28/mccains-cronies-big-oil-money-and-a-bi...
some of us out here in viewerland think that suzanne malveaux has had plastic surgery to keep that young, vibrant look so desperately craved by the cnn chatterbunnies.
Kathleen Parker has an op-ed in todays Dallas Morning Nudes that Obama should apologize for not thinking the surge would work.
One: I'm wasn't sure how successful it could be since it seemed to be limited to around the Green Zone.
Two: It's only one siege of many.
Three: booshco excused the higher American casualty rate earlier in the year to the surge, thus proving Obama's view it would increase the violence.
Four: Yahoo news is reporting another bombing in Baghdad that killed around fifty and wounded around 150.
Television. Hmmph.
For those of you who have permanently turned it off, congratulations! Don't you feel better already?
For the rest of you, I've said it before but it bears repeating: Why do you think it's called "programming"? --MaryK
For the first time in the past eight years, I'm proud to be an American!
Attacking Obama on stupid stuff allows the White House to skip over the fact Bush has wasted 500 Billion dollars in 2008 and will leave a debt of 12 Trillion dollars. As Americans and the GOP call Bill Clinton every name in the book, we forget Bill left the White House with a 128 Billion Dollar Surplus. Now with the Bush Recession it seems Americans are willing to stay the White House course of stealing, borrowing and giving billions to War Profiteers. The big Oil Companies know who will let them continue to get their big Quarterly profits as they have given millions to the McCain campaign. Like Bush said he didn't know what the gas price was, then he found out and said what's the problem England gas price is 7 dollars. Being as dumb as he is and of course his alcoholic/drug problem he did know England uses less cars and most take public transportation.
Obama: Poise, self-control, articulate, humorous, intelligent...
Change you can believe in.
Did he hold on to that thought, or did they change the subject since it was making them appear like limp wads?
A non-white guy running running for president ?? Such audacity !!
Such a young guy running for president? Such audacity !!
Making wise cracks when Suzanne Malveaux was asking serious questions !! Such audacity !!
Well now, this young confident black guy has more nerve than Nancy Pelosi !!
GOOD !! Because he'll need it in November when there's a post-election POST -ELECTION showdown like what occurred in 2004 and 2000 (Kerry/Bush) (Al Gore/Bush).
McCain and the repigs must have all kinds of tricks ready that we have not yet imagines.
Let's hope that Obama has tons of audacity !!
No doubt : the first time FOX sees any tiny window of opportunity -they'll announce a McCain victory.
hah! You'd think meeting world leaders would happen in the city slums over cheap ripple? Welcome to the GOP Douchebag Talking Points Hour!
Malveauwned
Barrett D @ 12:
Being popular, intelligent, and resourceful are the qualities a GOOD president should have. Dubya Bush was 'popular' enough to have an election stolen with the help of Diebold, and is neither intelligent, or resourceful (unless if for getting no-bid contracts, and tax breaks for corporate crooks).
For republicans, it's something frightening. A good president this short a time after Bush, will show just how morally and politically bankrupt the republicans are. A black president will also break down the walls on some racial barriers, and racial tension is something that republicans have relied on for some time. They NEED racism. How else are they going to validate killing brown people?
There are so many reasons why they're terrified of Obama. But, they're all such contemptable reasons that they HAVE to talk about it in a kind of code:
Elitist: (Translation) Educated, informed, and Intelligent. Three things that they don't want the American people to be.
Exotic: (translation) N*gger... I'm sorry if that's offensive, but there's no other way to say it. In fact, Pat Buchanan, who first referred to Obama this way, regularly attends White Supremacist gatherings. He also often quotes from their literature.
See link the following link. http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2007/08/22/pat-buchanan-again-cites-racist...
Dayum! Did he ever bitch-slap Malveaux's head off her shoulders!
ysbaddaden @ 31:
But the 50 killed in Baghdad were Iraqi - so they don't count to most Americans. In their minds - the surge is working because fewer Americans are being killed.
rcm @ 38:
Knowing the media, they think that Obama was going to invite them to a dingy alley with some 40oz Colt 45's.
eric @ 5:
John McCain doesn't work weekends
Simon White-Thatch Potentloins @ 10:
He is and although I did not see this pathetic interview (I have gone to NPR) I did send an e-mail letting the woman know how pathetic such comments were. Who are the "some" she is reporting about...probably the big wigs than run them telling them what to say.
Barrett D @ 12:
yeah, funny thing that ...
apparently we've discovered another secret rule of the world according to the never-right: no one can be more "popular" than a republican, because it's just not fair!
Sheep
Obama can handle himself when dealing with the McCain Media. Obama taking a big audicity all over Tom Brokaw and David Brooks. He points out that there are nine good reviews of his Berlin speech to every negative one, and asks why Brokaw chose the one by Mel...I mean David Brooks.
A society primed for implosion.
pissed off patricia @ 16:
Trying to pee.
L.A. Confidential @ 47:
Is that what you're raping right now? Hillary lost, thank God, get over it....or go on a church shooting rampage.
Piss on the teevee.(unplug first) We cut the cable 3-4 years ago when we realised that we hardly ever watched it anyway. I mostly just hollered and sputtered at the pretty little talking pointy headed bampots.
Here in PHX AZ the reception for network teevee is so poor that we don't get that either.
Do your part to help the pundits make teevee irrelevent - CUT THE CABLE TODAY!
Dr. Hussein Matt @ 51:
Glad I don't blindly follow your leadership or advise.
NoGWBpolicyleftinplace @ 50:
Getting prepared for his next fake outrage against Obama....this week it will be the audacity of wearing diagonal stripes with vertical stripes.
L.A. Confidential @ 53:
Sure you are....you're blindly following the failed campaign of Hillary, sheep.
This woman actually shows how out of touch she is since he basically is running for President of the world. It's why a number of citizens from other countries find callous attitudes towards American elections so puzzling. We get hung up on issues as silly as haircuts for people running for President of the US which, as leader of the strongest world in the nation, with great power in every international institution, is very much a President of the world. It's refreshing seeing someone take on the role by giving respect to other people in the world, rather than simply barking orders at them to get on board with whatever the US wants to do or else. It's called acting like an experienced adult rather than a petulant child.
The only people "concerned" are the GOP sub-humans.
Dr. Hussein Matt @ 55:
Better see a shrink Matt
I really hate that "a lot of people" trick. All it takes is for a few blowhards to start some smear and then sit back and let their dittoheads repeat it. There are "a lot of people" saying that Obama is behind a series of murders dating back to when he was about ten years old, too. Will the media be asking him about that next? How about those accusations that he's the anti-Christ? It's just a lousy line of questioning no matter whom it's used on. If they can't cite sources, it should be a sign that something is up.
displaced @ 1:
You can watch full episodes on the comedy central website.
Let me get this straight. C&L is pro-Obama, no? The trip was audacious because Obama hasn't secured his nomination yet; And I'm pretty sure the Germans were there for the beer and brats and have no idea what the FISA bill was all about. I'm a lifetime democrat and, quite frankly, as light as CNN has been on Obama's rookie mistakes, it's about time they started asking somewhat tougher questions. This 'nominee' has been quite 'presumptive' this entire election cycle. What is this? Change you can't believe? The FISA 180 and the 180 on campaign finance could be enough o make Obama, just another Crook and Liar, so stop drinking the friggin kool-aide, guys. I expect more from you!
Scy @ 57:
Corrected.
L.A. Confidential @ 58:
Quite a bit of self-projection. How typical of a reich-winger. You're the one that can't get over the failed campaign of Hillary, sheep.
Malveux "Senator I want to use a word you love to use "audacity". I for one have never heard Obama use that word.
Just wonder why Maleveux obviously does not have the ability to think of or ask Obama another question that has not been repeated in the MSM during the last four days. yawn
Love Obama's response
"I admit we did it really well"
displaced @ 1:
I don't watch boob-tube anymore either but no reason to miss Colbert. You can see episodes at Comedy Central's web site: http://www.comedycentral.com/colbertreport/full-episodes/
Their online episodes used to be slow and unreliable, especially on Macs, but lately they are much better. I used to get them on iTunes but I got sick of iTunes delivering them a day or more after they aired. You have to watch one commercial which you can of course turn the sound off of (although even with the sound off the commercial for Step Brothers got really annoying).
Dr. Hussein Matt @ 61:
I feel sorry for you. Your everyday life seems so totally beyond your control your reduced to blurting out paranoid hallucinations that don't even exist.
Later kid. Good luck. Your going to need it.
I have heard that SOME people believe that TV News Journalists are frigging airheads. I’ve also heard that SOME people believe TV News Journalists are paid way too much for what little they do. These same SOME people would also like to remain anonymous for fear of also being labeled airheads. And lastly, SOME people really get on my nerves.
Rodneyj43 @ 59:
It is possible that Obama might be better than another four years of Bush. Must drink more Kool-Ade so that I can think for myself and vote for straight-talking maverick McCain....your concern is noted.
Higher pole numbers?
I don't know, my pole got higher...
"Some" in that context is FOx newspeak for "I am about to blow some Rovian taling point up your ass".
These people are sick, sick, sick. And I'm not even kidding.
They are the biggest bunch of true Sociopaths. Read this and that'll be all you need forever to understand how mentally ill and dangerous people like Suzanne Malveaux are. Also - why it's so important to reinstate the rule of law in this country.
They have to be stopped - or this really will be the end of America.
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Does someone with two sphincters have an oddassity?
Larry Johnson and Susanpc over at No Quarter USA spend most of time at their website undermining Barack Obama. Sure has some of us wondering about whose team they are on. Certainly not the Democrats team.
http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/07/28/the-test-of-baracks-character-or...
Johnson wonders about Obama's "character". Johnson and Susan should spend more time turning their shaking index fingers around on themselves. I have directly witnessed Susan over at No Quarter USA making claims that are complete and utter lies. Larry can not stand being challenged in his thinking.
"Some" are worried you are too uppity for your race' is really what she's saying. I love the way Obama counter-punches. It makes the questioner look foolish.
John Kerry, bless his heart, would of just sat there like a bump on a log. That is just one of the reasons Obama will win in November.
Scy @ 57:
You got it. According to N.Y. Times rightwing welfare queen Bloody Kristol's dribble in todays paper, they can see the writing on the wall.
He is terrified the government might actually start to invest the money in the people who actually pay the taxes; the American citizenry. His grand illusion of neocon world dominated fascism is slipping away right before his bloodthirsty eyes! What's a sociopath to do?
Dear GAWD! Some of the MSM hacks make me just wanna reach through my interweb and pimp-slap the lot of 'em!
croatoan @ 44:
So what happens if he becomes president? Will he shut the oval office down and put the phone on auto-answer over the weekend? Now there's a change I don't want to believe in.
missmarple @ 42:
BINGO
Now if we could just figure out who killed Col Ketchup in the pantry with a toilet plunger.
Everyone does know that Malveaux is married to a repug toadie?
Hey yous guys!
You'll never believe this shit! Not in a million years!!!! ;) Way to go McClellan!
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/07/26/mcclellan-fox-talking-points/?Tools
the debates should end this nonsense, right?
We need to start demanding that "journalists" name "some."
Let's lay it on the table: neocon radical rightwing Republicans, Big Oil greedheads, the BushCo White House, John McCain, and their media fellow travelers willing to use racist code words to demonize = "some"
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Fresh Prairie: The Pickens Effect
L.A. Confidential @ 64:
Dude, Dr. is precisely right about you. Gloom, doom, everything's all lost, the fucking sky is falling, what's the use, and of course, NO SOLUTIONS. Actually, you sound like McGeezer.
For anyone who saw Meet The Press yesterday with that soon to be put out to pasture Brokow, it is clear that the media are intent on destroying Obama. Brokow was hitting Obama with some of the most ridiculous race baiting questions I have ever heard. I thought he was interviewing Malcolm X! But we better get used to it, because it will continue even after Obama becomes president.
Sanjiv Sarwate @ 3:
Yep. My thoughts exactly.
Thought to be fair to the "journalists", they do believe that Obama is a credit to his
raceheritage. He just needs to learn his place.Obama has a huge pair of cast-iron audacities. Here's hoping they crush McCain!
Rusty Shackleford @ 83:
Hey, he's 1/2 white. Are they going to refer to him as an audatious white guy? Not.