Matthews vs. McCain's Proxies on the media's vetting of Palin
By SilentPatriot Tuesday Sep 02, 2008 9:30pm
The very erratic Chris Matthews actually gets this one right and goes toe-to-toe with McCain's political director, Mike Duhaime, and Republican Rep. Adam Putnam on the right-wing fantasy that the media is unfairly attacking Sarah Palin.
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Since the Republican Party realizes they simply can't defend Sarah Palin's "qualifications" for Vice President (where does she stand on, oh, any issue other than abortion?), they have to resort to attacking the media for vetting Sarah Palin -- something John McCain clearly neglected to do.
Pathetic.
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need. new. thread. must. have.
Better get another convention thread up soon!
Bad media, tsk, tsk, tsk
know what? Media types don't take to kindly to getting scolded by partisan hacks especially just before election time...
Unleash the hounds!
I heard most of this and those two are prattling, mindless mouthpieces. They kept trying to avoid answering but they only kept digging themselves deeper.
They had to do it because they need to "hate" someone to get their base excited.
This will play well in Peoria.
Quite well.
Another Shocker: Palin Tried to Cover Up Her Dog’s Litter
Attacking her for what? Her record speaks for itself: a gun-toting Hockey Mom who likes to shoot wolves and polar bears.
Maybe if the McCain campaign would allow Sarah Palin to talk to the press, she could answer a lot of the questions. Why are they hiding her? Was Biden kept hidden for days on end after Obama announced him as his pick for VP?
Will Sarah Palin start talking to the press after tonight? If she's not ready to face the media, how can she be ready to lead the country?
Obama backs less efficient, more expensive, dirty and wasteful corn based ethanol as opposed to sugar SOURCE NEW YORK TIMES
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/23/us/politics/23ethanol.html?_r=1&pagewa...
100% wrong on this issue!
ldzppln @ 8:
It'll take some time for her to memorize the new Sarah Palin Life Story the McCain camp will be feeding her.
Two idiots who can't answer the questions posed to them. Typical, typical and typical repubs.
Matthews does a good job here, but then follows up with "I might fall in love with her." Blech!
I cannot imagine loving a warmongering, gun-toting redneck from Alaska. What terribly regressive views she possesses.
CWebb @ 9:
This is misleading, Obama has said repeatedly he is for all types of sources of energy.Till we find the best alternative.
Two very empty heads.
john mccain is the same man wherever he goes. A lying, two-faced, egotistical hypocrite.
Ooh! I guess the McCain camp will have to fein outrage, and vow never to go on Tweety's show. Pretty soon they'll be outraged with ALL the network shows for asking them unfair questions, and the only places they'll appear are on Faux News and hate Radio. Very convenient.
We've gone from the Republican war on terror to the Republican war on the media. Great.
They are like fucking trained talking pigs. Took a couple of days to train em, but they sure got the propaganda down pat.
What a disgusting piece of shit, this entity that calls itself the Republican Party!!
putnam, aka Howdy Doody is about as low as you can go for information.
This mindless little twerp never had an honest thought about pollitics the entire time he has been a professional republican pollitician translation, someone willing to lie cheat steal and turn a blind eye to murder to get elected.
If you believe what putnam says you have serious problems that we won't be able to address in this comment it would take years to find out how someone gets to be so stupid to believe this man, thing.
I think this had a little to do with the McCain camps attack on the media. You don't bite the hand that feeds you. Big mistake by the McCain lobbyist. 10 to 1 odds people in his campaign get replaced by Oct 15.
Dennis, walking pathos. Told you I feel sorry for you and your ilk.
Doesnt make them look like morons when they try and claim that because she hunts moose that we will want her to be VP. what a bunch of IDIOTS
Typical Matthews.
He has two chumps on and gets bogged down on some Nexis search about when these two chowderheads talked about Annie Oakley. Newsflash for Chris, she wasn't against the Bridge to Nowhere -- she wasn't even in office then.
By the end of this interview, Matthews' loins were burnin' again at the thought of Gov. Tina Fey showing up tonite in an Italian T-shirt, with a Lucky Strike dangling from her mouth and a machine gun strapped to her back.
Another lame showdown from Tweety.
I wish they would introduce a device to zap these guys every time they lock up into talking point mode. How disgusted would our founding fathers be when even the bought and paid for media can't get these guys to account for anything?
She didn't write her speech.
Wow,Chris stops the fast talking GOP liars in their tracks,,,congratulations.
She's lying about the raising of taxes by democrats already.
American ingenuity, American oil brought to you by American workers. Right, they really, really respect American workers.
Ron @ 27:
Guess maths isn't their strong point either. Maybe they're using the math.
chicano2nd @ 15:
you said it!!!
Ron @ 27:
At which point I screamed and turned the frickin' TV off! Eff those lying effers, each and every republican one of 'em!!
These little twerps really can't cope with even a little scrutiny-- it's so pathetic.
I think it's because the GOP has been so coddled by the corporate media for so long, they've all gone soft. They've got a bunch of people in their organization who just don't know what to do when someone questions their bullshit. No doubt they shook all the right hands when they were Young Republicans, but that's it.
Just like the party in general, when you think about it. The modern GOP is filled with David Vitters and Sarah Palins and Monica Goodlings. Idiots whose only qualification is their rolodex.
I am watching a portion of the Palin speech and am nonplussed except to say the woman really IS a hockey mom. She should go back to Alaska and continue being so. Whoever wrote her speech -- so obviously memorized -- shouldn't have brought up the Hanoi Hilton. Vets are getting the curious notion that McShame is cheapening his service by making Noun Verb POW a part of his litany of "accomplishments."
Bwahahahahaha. This is so frigging entertaining. Does everyone have plenty of popcorn?
It's all pretty clear to me. "Knocked up" is the new "virtuous." Black is white. Up is down. Poison is good for you. etc.
The feigned excitement is pretty dull. That's the best they can do?
Oh my god - I never thought I would hear myself say this - but tonight I totally love Chris Matthews. If only he called a spade a spade all the time.
Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction and we know where they are. Trust me and stop asking stupid questions about it. Sarah Palin is the best qualified person for this job, trust me and stop asking stupid questions about her. The oil interests picked her because she wants to drill drill drill. I doubt McCain had anything to do with vetting her other than giving his official stamp of approval. He wasn't even for off-shore drilling untill the oil companys donated one million dollars to his campaign. When the strings move, I move.
right on! @ 31:
It's called "red meat." This is what Obama's "nice guy" inspirational, say-nothing-mean time-waster was lacking. Kerry made the same mistake. It's why Obama may lose. The dems are complete tards about political strategy.. sticking with boilerplate sincerity for 60 years and losing almost every time.
Well Dennis you were completely, completely wrong. The Clintonites will run to Obama after that crappy, hate-filled, half-baked, twisted truth speech. It was typical rabid right.
that's it! the gloves are off! Steve Schmidt DEMANDED Palin turn and hold her five-month old son to the cameras, and HER FAMILY IS OFF LIMITS???? #$%^&#@$#!! THAT!!
AMERICA VETTS PALIN:
DO YOU RECOGNIZE THE UNIVERSALLY-RECOGNIZED WORLD STANDARD THAT FAMILY PLANNING INCLUDE A WOMAN'S RIGHT TO CHOOSE ?
DO YOU BELIEVE IN DOMINION THEORY ??
DO YOU BELIEVE IN 'AN END TIMES'??? ARE WE IN IT ????
JUST WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE ?????
McCain had better watch out! The only thing holding his sh*tshow campaign together and keeping it polling next to Obama's was the media.
G0D........these guys will say anything. They are so bizarrely robotic, just trying to squeeze "Palins a goddess" in every single available millisecond of the interview....make me puke! What garbage, what a cheap, unsophisticated society we live in where this kind of hyperbole and BS stands for serious politicking.
This is what makes our elections a big fake, phony, farcical, freakin food fight! Absolutely embarrassing, asinine and ridiculous! I think Chris Mathews did an A+ job putting these two jokers in their place!
There's nothing uglier than a couple of manipulative liars like this!
Would just ONE talking head point out hockey mom was all for the bridge to nowhere until uncle sam said pay for it yourself?
US Weekly? Are you kidding me? Where else does the public go for informed political content?
Lots of pundits questioned John Edwards running for president while his wife was fighting cancer.
Sarah Palin's family issues are off the table as long as she supports a woman's right to choose...which she never will. You stay out of our bedrooms, we'll leave your family alone, Ms. Palin!
Ooh, that last minute of the clip was brutal.
And bringing up Obama and the end? FAIL.
CWebb @ 9:
Politics trump science. The corn lobby is more powerful than the sugar lobby. Obama owes Iowa big time for that primary victory they gave him
jjasonham @ 42:
and he's kicking the media in the face.
Is C&L NOW allowing discussion of teh NUMBER 1 issue by giving that sign lengthy exposure?:
"Expose the 9/11 cover-up"
...now back to the Hockey mom who can read.
WOOPAA!
bayville @ 23:
Mathews stuck to the bigger issue. He could have nitpicked the false talking points until his head turned blue and the audience forgot what the hell they were talking about in the first place. But what he did is what a professional journalist should do... he stayed on topic and didn't let his guests off the hook while they evaded his original question.
I loved how the one scumbag even tried to say "your question was, can she fail here tonight" Oh really? I thought Mathews' question was "Who's piling onto her in the media?" After his guests refused to give him a credible answer after half a dozen attempts, he just asked the same question in a different way. Because surely, if they're going to criticize the media to his face (he is, after all, one of the media) for saying bad things about her, then maybe they can quote themselves saying something good before, let's say, 4 days ago? No, they couldn't. His one guest said, essentially, well somebody must have said something good about her... maybe even a local paper in Alaska after she won an election there.
i noticed one of the republican talking points is to say that Barack Obama went right from being a community organizer to the US Senate. They always seem to leave out the 7 years he spent as an Illinois Senator.
they repeatedly link him to inexperience and it's become one of the defining words for him. it's a lie, of course.
right on! @ 31:
McA$$hats whole campaign is based on distorting Obama's positions, it's what they do. On the other hand, all Obama has to do is point out McLames real agenda and it's considered slander.
switchgrass @ 49:
that must have seizured a few hardball viewers
Matthews looked like hell at Denver off screen when I saw him. He just looked out of it, although it was probably the fatigue.
Pity Keith wasn't there to rip them a new asshole, he ate up the crowd reaction at Denver when he was getting ready. And Rachel was just embarrassed by all the chanting for her. An aide had to coax everyone to cheer for Pat, after there were chants for everyone else and he gave a Nixon piece sign pose.
DNC coverage was just more fun than this
The ADN has some juicy stories on Palin, including the one of her illegal search of a work colleagues computer.
I love that greasy, doughy shit talking about rugged american idealism
Black_Knight @ 55:
Poor Tweety, imagine the stench and the aura of evil from all that concentrated GOP.
ldzppln @ 8:
Palin has no time and not ready to answer press questions. Palin is going thru an intense crash course on domestic and international issues. I heard Joe Lieberman is one of the people advising her on foreign affairs. I was apathetic about voting until I watched the RNC convention. What a bunch of lying sickening jerks! I am voting now.
Barry @ 26:
I'm kinda speechless.......Chris I'm amazed.....Don't tease me now.......keep it coming
8 years ago, I read a book by Gore Vidal (Dreaming War-Blood For Oil & the Bush/Cheney Junta) and I was intrigued with the opening chapter where he states, after listening to the inaugral speaches, he made the claim- "We're going to War". This was written also in "The Nation" on Jan 8 & 15th/01.
After listening to Romney, Huckabee & Palin speak tonight, the one consistent point aabout Iran, left no mistake in thinking, they are going into Iran. Perhaps Venuzeula too.
I think when they say, "God Bless America", that religous Roght should really, really mean it. Barring Nuclear usage, being in a rush to take on the Arab world is suicide.
I don't think most Americans understand the magnitude of damage and subsequent discomfort "1,000 fucked up, all hell bent for revenge Arabs " could do in a country the size of the States. And there are 1,000 loyal Arabs living in the States....if not here in Canada.
To arbitrarily attempt to seperate and then take on, only the radical Muslims is reason in iteself to think these people wacko. To think all muslims are dark haired and Arab is really ignorant. If JS McCain takes on Muslims, every part of the world is now sitting like that place in the Philipines thatwas blown up......very reachable and vulnerable.
I'm afraid....I'm very afraid if McCain gets in.
huh? @ 53:
So what if she's lying. When you are ignorant of the facts but believe in the person, you'll believe it. Remember, a lie is not a lie until you are convinced of what is the truth.
American politics is so down the middle. If you're on the Right, then you listen to every bit of shit that is spewed from their people of wisdom. The same with the left.
evenplayingfield @ 59:
so now LIEberman has to explain the different factions of iraq to her just like he did for Mcdumbass.
McCain is certifiably crazy. Bush was the sane one of the two of them in 2000. Rove and his crew were right when they vociferously attacked McCain with vile stuff that election year. It's so clear now. they said McCain was addled or off his rocker, in so many mean words of course, and I can only conclude now they were right. McCain must be stopped. he's revealed himself for the power mad war monger he always was. that President in 'The Dead Zone' as played by Martin Sheen, is what I think of McCain and what he could potentially be if he gets that job. no way. no way.
majicman @ 62:
So, why don't YOU tell us all the truth about proper tire inflation. And maybe then we can tackle evolution: truth or fiction?
Noonan: It's over!
She's a sad joke.
It's just incredible how stunningly full of shit these Republican asswipes are.
isitjustme? Says: Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction and we know where they are.
Has? Yikes. Interesting there are 67 comments and not one mention of the Nine Eleven Coverup Sign in the Back,
seven years after the attacks!
Fuckin' pasty, stupid, milk-babies. They couldn't name ONE legit source of piling on. Lying, crying, prevaricating, fantasizing assholes. Fuck 'em, the fuckin' fucks. Go cryin' back t' yer mammas, ya fuckin; losers!
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Sorry, I just watched:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqtgfjkB6Pg
Ya Know, for all of tweety's sexism and man crushes on republicans, you can't deny that know one nails a republican spewing bullshit like he does
More please
Triple Lei @ 47:
Sounds another strain of Clinton Envy. Every time these flabby-faced crybabies get backed into a corner, it was, "But The Clenus! What about him? Huh? HUH??" Now their go-to bitch-blather is to make some crazy non sequitur about Obama. Attack, attack, attack; poke, poke, poke. I swear I used to beat the shit out these exact same assholes every time they started picking on me in grade school.
Matthews is a trip, I swear his meds get mixed around at random.
Let me guess: she was funny, smart, and a tough sounding lady. Which is good for a measure of personality ….sounds like Roseanne. But confidence in competence? Let me watch the thing, I’m silly…….
It's called "red meat." This is what Obama's "nice guy" inspirational, say-nothing-mean time-waster was lacking. Kerry made the same mistake. It's why Obama may lose. The dems are complete tards about political strategy.. sticking with boilerplate sincerity for 60 years and losing almost every time.
Why did he have to say anything? The Repubs are digging their graves just fine without him. If anything, Obama, as always, comes out of this smelling like a rose and is doing some real campaigning. Did you really want him to say something about the knocked-up teenager, the obviously HORRENDOUS choice of Sarah Palin as VP, the Bridge to Nowhere scandal, the misappropriation of funds of said bridge, Troopergate, etc and so on? Well, yes, obviously you do, and you hoped he would. And what did nasty Obama do? HE IGNORED THE BAIT AND PLAYED ROPE A DOPE WITH THE GOP. And now they're tired, and tomorrow night he'll go on O'Reilly (Oh, THIS should be EXCELLENT TELEVISION VIEWING ENJOYMENT) and bitch slap McCain like he did with his acceptance speech and scare the CRAP outta him. AGAIN.
Call me crazy, even ignorant; but has there ever been a time in history where the potential VICE president of one party is compared so adamantly to the potential PRESIDENT of another party? I mean these republicans never give up! They are asked one simple question, (that they can never answer) but off they go comparing Palin to Obama. It's like they must be sure to continue to drive the same old dead non-issue message of her "superior" experience over Obama's over and over again until other simple minded republicans start to repeat the same line of thinking; thus, the same old ignorant B.S....(and Moose hunting!?! Give me a break).
..P.S. In case anyone didn't notice, there ARE quotes around the word "superior".
10. 10 DIFFERENCES BETWEEN SARAH PALIN AND A PITBULL
1) pitbull has more experience in international matters
2) lipstick
3) pitbull won't hump her way to the top
4) pitbull didn't vote FOR A BRIDGE TO NOWHERE before voting AGAINST A BRIDGE TO NOWHERE
5) pitbull HAS A BETTER CHANCE of being in the whitehouse in 2009.... obama needs to buy a dog
6) if you have sex and your balls are still there... it was a pitbull
7) pitbull favors stem cell research, understands global warming, and wants women to have the right to choose
8) pitbull doesn't look as good in a wet T-Shirt
9) pitbull doesn't have a husband working for the OIL INDUSTRY
10) pitbull isn't about to get ripped apart in the next two months
For the record, the incumbent governor that Palin beat, Frank Murkowski, was the most hated Governor in Alaskan history, and had the second lowest approval ratings of any governor in the USA at the end of his term. Any Republican with a pulse could have beat him. To tout that as an achievement is absurd.
It's the same reason her approval ratings are so high. All she had to do was undo a couple of Murkowski's more grievous policies and she's beloved. Give her some time and reality will set in.
Wait a minute, did he just respond to Matthews statement that Palin was unknown before THIS WEEK -- by saying "well, Obama was unknown before 4 YEARS AGO?" Huh?!!! This woman may be vice president elect in two months! God help us.
What's truly remarkable about this exchange is that the Republicans can't defend Palin without throwing the rest of the Party under the bus both collectively and individually. She rejected the bridge to nowhere - fellow Republican Ted Steven's bridge. She defeated Murkowski, another fellow Republican. She stood up to the corruption in Republican-dominated Washington. This is how totally desperate this party is right now.
I could have SO used this clip in a post I did earlier today:
Latest Republican Talking Point: "...Please, Please Forget That We ARE Republicans."
Seriously, this is like watching a train go over a cliff in slow motion.
Granted, Matthews looks good here, but he's dealing with a pair of lower echelon ass-wipers.
You can bet they went to the bar and had a stiff one after this.
Wait a minute. I'm supposed to vote for the Palin ticket because she gets up in the morning to go moose hunting?
Please, somone save us.
Let me see if I have this right - the Republican argument for voting for their ticket is that it is composed of two Republican mavericks that are not afraid to take on the Republican party and the mess it created the last 8 years.
And the getting up in the morning to hunt moose thing.
Did I get that right?
I have new respect for Tweety. He finally did his job, and they were speechless.
referring to post 80
"Seriously, this is like watching a train go over a cliff in slow motion."
I hope to God that we're not in it when this happens.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074292/
(for post 85)
(for addition to post 85)
Typical partisan hackery. When confronted with their BS they can't answer the question.
Here's this guy saying how sick America is of "Politics in Washington" which is why Gov. Palin is such a good choice for VP. What he doesn't say is that the GOP has had Bush in the WH for almost eight years, the Senate and House have been GOP-controlled until 2007 and there was no filibuster-proof majority since the Dems did take over. So yeah, change in Washington is exactly what we the people are looking for! I just think that its not change-back to the way it was.
So another funny thing on NPR this morning:
Gov. Palin who said no to the bridge to nowhere after she said yes used the earmarks she hates from the bridge for other projects and the road to the bridge to the bridge to nowhere ($38 Billion in earmarks) is currently being built.
Chris Matthews is still a punk.
He has no balance as a journalist whether he's interviewing a Repub or a Demo. Tweety's only harder on Repubs now because he knows where his bread is buttered. Where was Tweety when Tom Delay came calling or when there was weapons of mass deception in Iraq? Matthews is the epitome of what's wrong with the beltway. These joker Repubs only got as far as they did with the likes of Beltway pundits like Matthews. Thank the heavens for Olbermann and now, Maddow.
Chris Matthews, you're still a punk. Punk yourself Tweety!
Saw this yesterday, thought it was pertinent to the current discussion:
If the GOP nominated a wiffle ball...
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"Party loyalists would yammer endlessly about the genius of the ball. It has holes in it so that no matter how hard you hit it, it never goes too far away. It cannot be budged. It is the most brilliant and strong ball in the world. They cost 69 cents. A fiscally conservative ball. A ball that is obviously pro-life, because it loves children and they love it back. It is a ball that understands that faith and family are the most important things in America because they always come in packs of 12.
Neocons would love the ball, too. It has no core, and can be manipulated into doing whatever they want, just like the rest of the GOP.
The Democrats would obviously bitch about the ball being too old and white." -- Caulk Rocket
surfjac @ 88:
i was thinking the same thing! If the rebubs really wanted change THEY WOULDN'T RUN FOR OFFICE!
Personally, Gov. Palin, I still prefer sliced bread.
She's a hockey mom, you know.
seriously, - did anyone do a Lexis-Nexis search?.....they probably need to and post the results....I'd love to see the huge plate of crow these dickheads would be eating.
Adam Putnam is why Florida's 12th District residents should vote for Doug Tudor.
Tudor is a staunch Liberal populist with military service cred, who's really got his stuff together on the issues.
I love how the Smuglicans turned "community organizer" into a negative. We could use a little community organizing. God knows these arrogant devisive fcks aren't going to build community. Their policies outsource community. I was watching the convention waiting for the TV cameras to cut to Leni Riefenstahl filming it for posterity. USA! USA! USA! - "Hockey mom" is right - they were cheering like it was the 1980 Miracle on ice. Jim Craig was yelling "Where's my dad? Where's my dad?" "Uh, Jim, Daddy's not coming home. He was killed in Iraq for a lie."
Not to praise Chris here.
That was an actually decent question from him.
Better than why doesn't Obama wear a falg lapel pin ..
This is one of those interviews where part of what I'd like asked, gets asked and straight foreward.
Yes Chris!
I've been wondering the same thing as Chris expressed during this interview...
1- This new-found VP is completely unknown, so why the profound cheering from the right? NONE of them were talking about her a week ago. She's done nothing spectacular prior to being selected that most of us can see and what they claim (and Palin herself) to be her record are lies (see below).
2- What is McCain so afraid of that he won't allow questions about Palin? Doesn't the public, who will be voting soon, have a right to know who this person is? Obama has been under a microscope for months now, but if anyone asks questions about Palin, McCain calls it sexism.
FACTS: This is what Palin stated during her speech yesterday: I have protected the taxpayers by vetoing wasteful spending ... and championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress. I told the Congress 'thanks but no thanks' for that Bridge to Nowhere."
Palin's claim that she stopped the "Bridge to Nowhere" is sort of a half truth. Her opposition came only after the plan was ridiculed nationally. She even ran her campaign with the slogan: "Build the Bridge!" As mayor of Wasilla, Palin hired a lobbyist and traveled to D.C. annually for earmarks totaling $27 million. In less than two years as governor, she's gone after almost $750 million in special federal spending, by far the LARGEST per-capita request in the nation. Maybe these are the reasons McCain intervenes. The facts are not as they claim.
There is a tendency in the media to kick ourselves, cringe and withdraw, when we are criticized. But I hope my colleagues stand strong in this case: it is important for the public to know that Palin raised taxes as governor, supported the Bridge to Nowhere before she opposed it, pursued pork-barrel projects as mayor, tried to ban books at the local library and thinks the war in Iraq is "a task from God." The attempts by the McCain campaign to bully us into not reporting such things are not only stupidly aggressive, but unprofessional in the extreme. -- Joe Klein
I actually went to school with Mike DuHaime. Was a longtime childhood friend. How far down the rabbit hole he's gone.
Remember, this Mike DuHaime was the very same Mike DuHaime who was responsible for Giuliani's big Florida gamble/mistake. He was Guiliani's head campaign manager. That's good news for the Dems :)
I've always said what this country needs is more polar bear hunter's in Washington D.C.
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