Why won't the cable news networks televise the RNC resolution debate over the "Democrat Socialist Party?"
By John Amato Wednesday May 20, 2009 11:00am
The cable networks were all over promoting Michael Steele's speech to the RNC yesterday. (d-day asked if they ever televised Howard Dean's speeches to the DNC when he was elected, but I digress.) They gave Steele unfettered access to our airwaves and allowed him to give a partisan attack speech for almost thirty minutes to a man who is the laughingstock of the GOP and needs all the support he can get.
Giving him free, unpaid airtime to make a lengthy statement denigrating President Obama devoid of ideas, I guess, seemed like a good thing for Steele, but if they really wanted to show us what the RNC is all about, why didn't they televise the debate they had about their resolution which would have branded the Democratic Party the “Democrat Socialist Party"?
This would have been a much clearer window into the minds and hearts of the Republican Party, which has been the party of know-nothings and do-nothings and extremist rhetoric since the day Obama took office.
In the video above, you can get a glimpse of this internal debate: Neil Cavuto on Sunday absolutely castigated Republican National Committeewoman Cathie Adams for proposing the resolution.
Well, it looks like they are toning it down somewhat:
Members of the Republican National Committee appear to have reached a compromise that would let GOP leaders avoid a possible dispute over a controversial resolution that calls on Democrats to re-name their party the "Democrat Socialist party."
Steele has come out against the resolution, calling it "not an appropriate way to express our views on the issues of the day." One of Steele's allies on the committee, Florida GOP chairman Jim Greer, told CNN the resolution is "stupid" and "ridiculous."
However, New Jersey committeeman David Norcross, one of the sponsors of the resolution, told CNN the language is being massaged so that Steele and others on the committee will be more receptive. "The language is being changed so that the proposers and chairman Steele are on the same page," Norcross said.
He said that as of Tuesday afternoon, the chairman of the RNC Standing Committee on Resolutions had changed the language to "condemn the Democrats' march to socialism" instead of "talking about the 'Democrat Socialist' party."
The change was made, Norcross said, so that members "wouldn't have to fight about it, and I think everybody agreed."
Steele figures that just calling Obama and the Democratic party socialists all day long in print and on TV is good enough because the talking heads will not call them out on it. Why go to the effort when their media enablers are happy to handle the chore?
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Why didn't the Democrats under the last pretendership condemn the reichwing's march to fascism?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPNnwwaaceQ
cause the Democratic Pretendership is weak, and they won't even back the president on Gitmo.
I'm getting sick of them...we need more people like Barney Frank who don't give a F*** and tell it like it is
1: THE GOPranos. Yeah you can google the word. I coined it.
2. The REPUBLIKLAN Party. You can google that too.
Only about 79 progressives exist in the congressional Democratic caucus as evidenced by 79 progressives who voted against an amendment to allow gun owners to carry a concealed weapon in a national park!
What do up and coming disciples of Timothy McVeigh plan to do with concealed guns in a national park? Shoot tourists?
Yes the NRA and the GOPranos want to promote tourism,or perhaps Terrorism.
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from a weak party about the Dem's spineless stand but not 'socialist'...that word is just scare tactics by the loser repub's.! Just a grain of truth about weakness of the Dem leadership ---has the media running with it!!!
John, please try to get the "word" clip from last night's Colbert show. It's on this very topic and funny as hell. His final solution for the republicans is to rename the Democratic Party the Republican Party.
This renaming thing has to be right up there with some of the stupidest things the republicans have come up with lately. WTF were they thinking? When a zillion people have no home, no job and not much of anything, do they really think something like this will take off. Okay maybe those that are wearing tea bags on their glasses and hats might dig it, most sane people just shake their heads.
He's got it up in the Video Cafe.
Please don't forget to check it out daily. Heather and the crew post a lot of good stuff that we don't front page.
Thanks John, I was not aware of that. It's true, you can learn something every day. :)
Last place team responding to their many defeats by calling the Champions names...that'll surely win fans over.
they are not big on originality and have always utilized name calling. They've always struck me as a bunch of middle school bullies that never seem or want to be able to grow out of it.
The RNC is populated by the kids who even the bullies ignored in middle school. How else do you explain the strident bitterness.
Cavuto, give her the keys to the backhoe.
Hilarious! The NO new ideas Reslugs just keep coming up with more lies appearantly that they think will work.
it will show the world how truly immature and petty the GOP really is!
Now let's see which cable news shows air cheney's speech tomorrow.
RNC
Real Nutty Cretins
Reality Not Considered
how about The Torture Party, Haters R Us, It's All Ours Party, It's Mine Party, The Dick Party etc.
the Corporate-Republic Party
The republicans earned the name so let's give it to them. The tea bagging party.
good thing steele said the era of apologizing to republicans is over. oh wait!
this is at first glance ridiculous and then the tiny wheels start turning. what this does is at least continue the word "socialist"/"socialism". they want this word ingrained in people's brains. you hear it daily on fixx news and cNBC. the president is telling us from what car to drive to getting involved in credit card relationships. even if this does NOT take obvious form it will take mental form for the simpletons. this is what they want. give the simpletons a one way thought process that is anti-obama and anti-democrat. they will always emphasize the negative which is what some people are addicted to.
I wish I had a credit card relationship :)
seriously, this is all they got. they're hackneyed use of language and brainwashing techniques.
I have to wonder how many of these people could define socialism before Beck, with all his wisdom, explained it to them.
That woman is such a dingbat. Her web site provides a quote from Phyllis Schlafly about Ms. Adams: "She is a leader in the battle for God, Family, and Country." And, this woman is from Texas....go figure (all due respect to Texas Democrats.)
To some extent, she very much has the characteristics of Michelle Bachmann who staunchly defended Palin's foreign policy "experience" by saying Palin can see Russia from Alaska. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
I still cannot believe people like this exist.
You know you're being really childish and stupid when your own propaganda network is calling you childish and stupid. I can't believe I agreed with everything Cavuto said. This country has problems and they're wasting their time voting on labeling/calling names the opposition party. People see this for what it's worth. A desperate party with no ideas so they're hoping that a label will catch on. They're going to lose the next five to ten elections if this is all they can do. I'm sure this woman thought she was going to come on FOX and they would kiss her ass.
The Republican Party is a fatally damaged brand,so of course the logical move here is to insist that the DEMs re-brand their party.
M-kay...
Look wingnuts,I'll help you out.How about you PUGs call yourselves the New Autocratic Authoritarian Storm Front Pedophiles for Jesus?
Has a nice ring to it.
Not gonna work, even if you go by the letters it's to hard for conservative voters to remember. It's gotta sound like something.
I guess you're right.
Oh well,I tried.
How about the DNC re-names them the:
Hoover-Reagan Confederate Nationalist-Authoritarian-Zoophilic-Incest Party
which shortens to: "HRC NAZI Party" - I bet they can remember those two acronyms. As an added bonus, in the minds of GOP troglodytes, "HRC" & "NAZI" are equivalent insults.
I think what the republicans are missing is that their old ways are just that, old. Young people are growing up today not giving a shit about what Reagan did, they have gone to mixed race schools all their life, they have friends who are gay and straight so they don't see the world through the tired and old eyes of the GOP.
...because it's DUMB?
I guess Cavuto now knows what it's like to talk to a brick wall with talking points written on it.
obama centrist pragmatic technocrat approach is disarming the RIGHT. the BUSH legacy of economic crisis, HUGE deficit, UNemployment, financial crisis, automaker crisis, war(s) to name a few is a REAL UNdeniable problem for the RIGHT. in order for the rnc to find identity they are looking for obama to recreate them. because he's attempting to bipartianship the (r) is desperate. the same people that blamed
CLINTON for everything up until a few days ago want to be done with the BUSH legacy. i say NOT so fast.
i've seen on this site people suggesting obama will be a "lame duck" if the economy is NOT corrected by the end of the year. this is what the RIGHT/financial elite want people to believe. that they can cause the problem(s) and they can dictate how they should be managed.
and has no idea what conservativism is, socialism is, or how to address and solve real problems. Just dick around and be pigheadedly devisive. Cathie, that's great. Just concern yourselves with the repair of your own little bizarro world. We don't need you and your type making things worse for the rest of us, the adults.
"You're not getting the right spin on this..." Right. You need the proper 'spin' to explain the stupidity of your actions.
That was hilarious! She should have said, "Neil, you are way off script!"
Let's see -
party in shambles
evil specter of dead administration haunting the survivors in a devastated land of the republican apocalypse
bungling everything for 10 years straight - just long enough to register on the public radar so that our tried and true wedge issues don't work or just don't seem to matter anymore.
The head of the party is nothing but an "entertainer" - I'll let you decide which one I mean.
So let's impress the American people with our plan at our "big" convention.
Step 1. - rename Democratic opponents - Democrat socialist party.
wha?
Sounds like the thug element from the t-parties is in charge now.
Who's a bigger threat to children? Teh gays or the religious?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090520/ap_on_re_...
Catholic marriage?
LOL!
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Definitely the religious are more dangerous.
We raised our children without faith - and we had to beat "well-intentioned" believers off the entire time. Not in terms of discussion or discourse on the topic -- these people wanted to haul our children to church every sunday with them. It was AMAZING! They all thought that since we weren't "using" our children's "souls" -- they had an automatic right to it.
We had to fight them off during the entire vulnerable portion or their childhood - when they would have been most susceptible to the brainwashing and before they could defend themselves against it. It was disgusting and offensive.
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I didn't know The Munsters were back in rerun...and coloriz..uh...ummm...ohhh...that's Cavuto...never mind.
I still want to see a movie version:
As Granpa
http://images.askmen.com/photos/udo-kier/3456...
As Lilly
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http:/...
As Herman
http://images.askmen.com/galleries/model/arno...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GilAVamn1xU
Because to most of its audience ti would resemble a family gathering and thus be uninteresting?
I hereby put forth a resolution to rename the Republican Party the "Rushthugliklan Gun Nut Bible Thumping Christofascist Confederate Tea Baggers Party"!
All in favor say "I"!
I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I,I, I
Although you left out a mention of their love of multi-national screw the american worker corporations
"Didn't you get the Freaking e-mail!"
"Rupert, oh Rupert."
WTF,
Cathie Adams
Rename them the "Republican Corporate Fascist Party,' and see who hollers uncle first! Hehehehehehehe..............
because they just plain assume Americans are stupid, lazy, and unmotivated.
..Gobblers of Peanuts!
Sometimes, I just think funny!
I don't know why re=Thugs fool themselves that these types of theatrics will help them in any way.
They seem incapable of addressing the real problems of their party - and I DO understand that. Where can they go? How does the party of hatred -- bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, xenophobia, pedophilia and perversion -- suddenly become mainstream and acceptable? It can't.
They have done this terrible damage to themselves with the hateful policies they gleefully embraced for years. Now, trapped and desperate they seek a miracle solution -- labeling had always been a successful strategy for them in the past - they hope it will now too.
The problem is - the voters are on to them now.
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..I thought this was about the problems of America and its citizens.
That's their problem; they're more interested in their own problems than in the problems that we face every day. That's why they lost out bigtime in the last election. People are starting to wake up and they are having a big problem with an electorate that sees and thinks and reads. But that electorate can be fickle and if the Democrats don't act in the best interest of the people, they will become as obsolete as the Republicans.
When the rich are obscenely rich, and everyone else is obscenely poor - their is no problem in GOP land.
They only misgivings they now have, are because they can no longer get elected!
Since when does an outside person NAME a group or family, or person's name?
You can call someone what you want. But if you want to allow one to name the other party, we must call your party THE FOURTH REICH.
republicanism is a mental illness.
just stark raving mad!
Stupid is as stupid does.
You have a problem. Neil Cavuto has an intimate relation with stupid.
He knows.
The Republican Crackup, Part the XXXVIth
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The only demographic holding steady? "Frequent ChurchGoers"
Reslugs hide or cover up any bad news about them.
GOPto Dismal - to help soothe the bloating and cramping from eating too much of a bad thing
Can we start calling the GOP the Boorish Republican Army, or BRA?
Given that they're a bunch of boobs, it sounds appropriate.
Why is the (RNC) Racist Nazi Committee allowed to spread ntheir disinformation and Bigotry and the KNOT HEADS at Nit Wit News say nothin g, case and point when the Talking Monkey bush and the Spineless Gutless, American Traitor were lying us into a war with IRAQ, these Idiots you know the CLOWNS that call themselves reporters (gags 0n ther word)yet when these Bigoted Hate Mongers supporting the (RNC) Racist Nazi Committee, went ass over Tea Kettle to cover 24-7 the IDIOTS against abortion. Duh! does anyone see a bias in the news.
Yet these same Racist Nazi Bigot Hate Mongers claim its a liberal press Right go salivate on your bosses Zipper ask him if he wants you to swallow. Low Life Pukes.
I know there are lots of us who think a little socialism...as in other free countries...might not be such a bad thing.
My take is what we need to do is take a word they are trying to put negative emotions on and turn it into a positive word. Running from them just encourages them. Turn the tables. It's the only way to put them in their place.
let's call it the democratic socialist party, as soon as thay change the name of the National Football League to the Socialist Football League
WTF is with Cavuto here? Obviously he didn't read the talking points memo. He actually thought this name-calling was a stupid idea.
Keep that up, Cavuto, and Rupert will dump your ass. But you might actually be able to live with your conscience again.
this doesnt deserve 5 minutes on any channel
but he let the bitch talk...and called her intelligent
sorry...spewing repuke talking points and showing you have no clue what socialism is, is not intelligent
they already renamed the party "democrat"
they now need to do this formally?
and i want the dems to rename the party...WE WANNA BE JUST LIKE SWEDEN party
cuz america needs more tall, hot, blondes, with cute accents and nice hooters
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Pass a resolution demanding the Republicans rename themselves the Federalist Party, since they're hopefully on their way to beccoming just like the Federalist Party... defunct.
just a bunch of fucking idiots. how does anyone take these clowns seriously? cavuto, who is a fool himself, would have done just as well to fart whenever the prune from the rnc started moving her sphincter-like mouth.
REAL socialists find the suggestion that the Democrats are socialists to be laughable- both the parties are driven by unrestrained capitalism, and are right of center..
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