Cokie Roberts Tsk Tsks Democratic "Scandals"; Ignores the, um, Elephant in the Room
Isn't it interesting that Cokie Roberts spends her Monday morning segment on NPR talking about two admittedly disgraced Democrats who will not be holding their positions come Election Day.
Charlie Rangel and David Patterson are an admitted embarrassment to the Democrats. Rangel, like much of Congress, is long overdue for retirement, and Patterson's made such a mess of his career the sooner gone the better.
But why other than pure partisan hackery would Cokie Roberts spend her Monday morning spot talking about them and not mention that Ensign, Vitter, and Sanford still have jobs? Ensign paid off his mistress's family, Vitter was involved with a prostitute, and Sanford was MIA from his job for days on end. These guys still have the backing of their party? Family values much?
Cokie can always be counted on to live up to the old joke by Driftglass:
Dick Cheney is caught setting kittens on fire and throwing them at homeless veterans. What are the first three words out of Cokie Robert's mouth?
"But the Democrats..."
Next she'll be explaining how much Republican scandals help Mitt Romney. Sigh.




Typical biased, hypocritical crap from the ignorant mouth of a Reslug whore.
Speaking of hypocritical crap - check this out:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/08/pali...
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
George Carlin
And he called Kucinich the Raplph Nader of health care.
This is another reason why I don't visit there.
As for Roberts, why do you think we call it National Propaganda Radio?
"Someday somebody related to some of these sufferers, these victims, these collaterally damaged souls, may try to kill you. And I have to tell you, I think you’ll have it coming." - Christopher Cooper
Obama should vacation in a place like Myrtle Beach instead of some far off exotic place like Hawaii.
blacks pulled themselves up with boots stuck in their backs.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
Why shouldn't Cokie Roberts ignore the crimes Republicans commit? The president surely does the same thing.
"But why other than pure partisan hackery would Cokie Roberts spend her Monday morning spot talking about them and not mention that Ensign, Vitter, and Sanford still have jobs?"
Because the latter are more likely to be dinner guests at Cokie's table in Myrtle Beach and the former would be lucky to be serving the meal because of Cokie's fear of missing silverware?
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
with Republican "family values"? She defends her family and pisses on everyone else's.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
old hag. She needs to get the hell out of this country.....Rushbo just said yesterday that if the healthcare bill passes, he's moving to Costa Rica (where they have national healthcare!!!! Guess he'll refuse it), so I think she should go along with him. Obviously, she hates America since Obama has become President---I don't remember her being so vocally nasty during the halcyon Bush years.
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
I'll chip in for a one-way ticket for either/both of them. I feel bad for Costa Rica though.
..bespoil that beautiful country. The only good that might come out of it is if he ran into the business end of a Fer de Lance.
Pura Vida
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
Rush will have to use Juan Valdez's donkey express to get his 8 track tapes of his show over to Mexico where a '49 Buick will get the tapes to San Diego via Tijuana, then satellite them to Dixieland.
If he has any more chest pains, the Costa Ricans can send to Raul or the Bush Cartel for some brown sugar heroin.
..down and then when going over El Cerro del Muerte..the road will have washed away and he'll lose the battle with the semi barreling down on him.
I love Costa Rica and I really don't want to see rush move there but I do know some rather heavy places where tourists should not travel that I'd be happy to point him towards.
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
but cokie will decide which scandals matter to the american people, thank you
...between Democratic and Republican scandals?
Democrats get caught in many fewer (and usually less severe) scandals.
Democrats don't try to cover it up. They usually get caught trying to fix the issue.
Democrats take responsibility. They don't blame 'God's Plan' for their behavior.
Democrats usually resign afterward.
Not a scientific observation, just an observation. I'm sure one could point out a dozen Democrats that don't fit this profile, and I could point out 100 or so 'Family Values' Republicans that are caught cheating on their wives, usually with men, who are often paid for the privilege, many times with illegal drugs in the mix, and are alarmingly often underage, almost always a day or two after speaking out against gay rights, who then say they need more God to cast out the "Gay Demons" (though it's funny how non-religious people never seem to be afflicted), and still keep their jobs because they are better than some LIBERAL!
Democrats usually do not get caught in scandals THAT THEY HAVE BEEN SO VOCALLY CONDEMNING THEIR ENTIRE LIVES!! (Homosexuality, taxes, marital infidelity--to name a few.)
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
You know what's better than Cokie?
Experience.
From Mark Halperin at Time: "This is good news for John McCain . . ."
Cokie:
http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/images...
Ruby:
http://afrocityblog.files.wordpress.com/2009/...
Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs[1] was born on December 27, 1943 in New Orleans, Louisiana. She... is the fourth child of.. ambassador..and Democratic Congresswoman from Louisiana Lindy Boggs and of..Hale Boggs, also a Democratic Congressman from Louisiana who was Majority Leader.
(She) attended the Academy of the Sacred Heart, an all-girls school in New Orleans, before graduating from the Stone Ridge School, an all-girls school outside Washington, D.C. in 1960[4] and then Wellesley College in 1964.
She is the author of the national bestseller We Are Our Mother's Daughters as well as Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation.
While Cokie was graduating High School in 1960, another young girl was walking to school in her hometown, Ruby Bridges, the first African-American child to attend an all-white elementary school in the South.
Bridges was assigned to William Frantz School. Her father initially was reluctant, but her mother felt strongly that the move was needed not only to give her own daughter a better education, but to "take this step forward ... for all African-American children."
The court-ordered first day of integrated schools in New Orleans, November 14, 1960, was commemorated by Norman Rockwell in the painting The Problem We All Live With. As Bridges describes it, "Driving up I could see the crowd, but living in New Orleans, I actually thought it was Mardi Gras. There was a large crowd of people outside of the school. They were throwing things and shouting, and that sort of goes on in New Orleans at Mardi Gras. As soon as Ruby Bridges got into the school, white parents went in and brought their own children out; all but one of the white teachers also refused to teach while a black child was enrolled. Only Barbara Henry, from Boston, Massachusetts, was willing to teach Bridges, and for over a year Mrs. Henry taught her alone, "as if she were teaching a whole class."
Do we need Part III?
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
however, i believe you refer to the wrong "family". the correct one would be the "Soprano Family".
No comment on K Street huh?
Don't Ask, Don't K-Tel?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSDh94eQTAk
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
....whore, media and otherwise. That was one of the many factors that led me to stop giving money to NPR many years ago.
Cokie just put Sally Quinn on notice: There's a new Queen Bee* in town.
*TM Digby
Ms. Robert's oral appearance every Monday on NPR is a DISGRACE---
she used to highly irritate me during the Clinton years when one
could hear her salivating and doing A LOT of TSK,TSKING over the
alleged ghastly scancals.Her parents were highly involved Democrats,
so I don't understand her "snake in the grass" approach.She likes
to masquerade as a neutral, non-partisan commentator,but her comments are an insult to a more intelligent listener.NPR should
be ashamed of letting a person of her ilk comment on the political
scene in a right wing oriented manner-I guess the perks and payoffs
make it all worthwhile for her. What chutzpe.!!!!
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