Anderson Cooper Asks Krugman and Matalin Whether Obama Has Lost His "Mojo"
By Nicole Belle Tuesday Oct 06, 2009 3:00pm
Argh, there's so much wrong with this clip that it's all I can do to keep typing and not smacking my head against the desktop. First of all, they ask on Krugman to discuss his NY Times column talking about how GOP obstructionism has reached cartoonish levels and they decide to frame the segment on whether Obama lost his "MOJO"? Seriously? A major news organization ignores the absurdity of the GOP overarching need to find things with which to smear Obama and instead frames the issue for the President of the United States as an Austin Powers plot? And no one but a hyper-partisan conservative "party before country" cheerleader thinks that the IOC selecting Rio for the 2016 games has something to do with a failing on any kind on the part of Obama. Cheers to Anderson Cooper for validating what Krugman so aptly described as "bratty 13 year old" behavior and using a Nobel Laureate to do it. Way to keep on top of the issues of the day, Anderson.
And there's that issue of media's bizarre notion of balance again. Sweet Jesus, why on earth would anyone need Mary Matalin's opinion on Obama's "mojo"? The woman has spent years advising Dick Cheney, fer cryin' out loud, what exactly is her expertise in mojo? As would be expected, Matalin never answers anything directly, resorting to the familiar GOP projection and mean-spritied insinuations, saying she's never drunk the kool-aid on the messiah-like qualities of Obama.
Watch as Krugman acknowledges that Obama hasn't done everything perfectly and that there's still far to go, but that the level of discourse from the right prevents any actual adult-level dialog. And Matalin proves him right by devolving into fingerpointing and bringing in one non sequitur after another. Of course, everything that Obama has been hit with has an equivalence in Matalin's mind to that poor, misunderestimated George W. Bush. If you believe Matalin, the Democrats did nothing but screamed "Liar!" and "Loser" to Bush. Constantly. Hmmm....funny that, I don't remember it that way, but maybe that's because I'm part of the reality-based community.
But hey, how much honest analysis can you get from someone who openly admits she reveres the Fat Bastard himself, Rush Limbaugh? For that alone, she should be laughed off camera.
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As sincere as he may seem on the outside, Cooper Anderson has his ass crazy glued to the genitals of tabloid sensationalism. That's where he will remain, even at the price of objective, reasoned discourse. $
You see I don't watch CNN and haven't watched it but for about 3 hours since 2005. One of those hours I watched Al Gore on Larry King Live. I don't recall much of the other 2 hours except for watching a little about the funeral of Ted Kennedy.
I don't watch CNN, nor do I watch FOX. If I watch MSNBC I only watch Countdown with Keith Olbermann and I can only watch MSNBC from PODCASTS. It appears that Verizon doesn't have MSNBC because their competitor Cablevision has an exclusive contract to show MSNBC here in New York where I live.
If I watch political news, I watch CSPAN. I watch NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams as I trust him more than Katy Couric and Mr. Gibson who will get replaced by Nixon aide Sally next year.
CNN appears a waste of effort to me.
Except I haven't watch since 2004.
CNN (and the rest) are worse than a waste of time - they are mas media manipulators who push a corporate agenda.
Eff them
..they have the contract but if you don't have a Cablevision CABLE BOX, you don't have MSNBC on the Basic Cable Package. Only now, I'm starting to understand why that is! Clever ba$tard$!
thing Cooper did was throw on the raingear and let a hurricaine blow him (around)
Put a nude picture of her in the cells of sex offenders...problem solved.
some and her face doesn't look like it's about to spring across the room at any moment. --meow-- ^^
Botox, because she actually can move her eyebrows now, but I thought that was a little unnecessarily bitchy.
. LOL
I used to say way back in the day regarding the Gloria Vanderbilt commercials, that if she got one more face-lift her eyebrows and hairline would be the same.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXw-Sz3PU78
or any of the others..I like Matalin...she at least does not devolve into abject lies --like the other liars on the right wingnut side...She makes the cogent thought but with efficient and reasoned though incorrect logic!
Krugman nailed her but look who let it pass! Think of this-- if all lies were called out---MSM would have no ratings at all! Nothing to report on the sensational...Just truth..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4yRcFgpnpw
I sincerely believe that most of the people who see Mary Matalin on TV do not have a very high opinion of her for many reasons. There is nothing to like about her. Of course if you are a Dick Cheney fan you would probably agree with her but there is no hope for you anyway is there. So I think that in the end Matalin brings nothing except items to put into the negative file. Keep it up you blood sucker Matalin.
..bring anything intelligent, ever, to the table. Its just not in her. She is a Professional Shill being paid off by the gop, nothing more or less. Would you say the guy paying your salary is an asshole to his face? NO and neither would matalin. One day, the Democrats will pay her salary and then, nothing the gop does will be right. Tell me how she's any different from beck or rush not counting genitalia?
as a personification conduit of exactly what is wrong with politics in this country.
Sleeping with the enemy?
With mary matalin?
Nobody sleeps with Mary Matalin. . .
They mutually screw eachother and get up and pretend they never met. Yet they do it continuously -- and deny it.
We're like the worn out mattress and the neighbor whose bedroom wall is shared with theirs.
We wake the next morning thinking, 'WTF? I didn't sleep at all, feel like I've been stomped on all night and I look around and there's no evidence that anyone was here.?'
The news media treats the Obama's as if they are the new "britney spears". It's all about sensationalism with the media. Since they don't have anything of real substance, they make up stupid things to talk about. The 24 hours news channels have just about destroyed real journalism. The description of these channels should be changed to "24 hours of gossip".
The right wing makes it up and the media propels it. It's not because they don't have anything else to talk about. It's because it is all they want to talk about. If their is no conflict there is no story in their eyes. Baggers give'm what they want. New ideas and dreams of the future are hostage to name calling and sensationalized soap opera drama. Heros and villians and bears, oh my!
Conservatives are better than liberals. If this were not true, why does every Beltway pundit seem to hate President Obama & the Democrats? The MSM thought President Bush was perfect & never made mistakes. The MSM took its cue from Republicans in Congress, who lauded over him as if he were a god or rock star.
Big business is better than big government. The MSM is a big business & loves Republicans & hates Democrats. More importantly, Republicans support big business & will do everything in their power to keep big business unregulated. Big business is never held accountable for anything. I saw Dylan Rattigan on MSNBC this morning & he talked about "corporate Communism" where big business is running the country & that is not good for America. But it is good for the Republicans because they are wealthy & do not have to be accountable to anybody.
Republicans can do whatever they want to & do not have to answer to anybody, while Democrats have to suffer constant blows from the MSM. I get put upon a bit by people saying this is just snark. Well, there have been so many times I have wanted to throw something at the TV whenever a conservative comes on & bring Obama down. I can see a title for this show: "Everybody Hates Obama"
Did you see Ratigan "interview" Betsy McCaughey and Anthony Weiner this a.m.? She said it would go on record as the most browbeating interview ever. Good. That's what's needed.
Matalin is the one who has no mojo, and who cares?
She apparently not just respects the idiot but "reviers? sp" the pos. According to this oh so intelligent pundit this criticism somehow makes rush more relevant. I don't really know much but that statement seems slightly ignorant. Which party did rush endorse last yuear? Did that party win? No to both ?'s. Maybe Ms. Matalin should drank the kool-aid she claims to have avioded and drank it instead. But wtf do i know? peace
There are no news organizations in the Corporate Media. Major or otherwise.
They are instruments of Corporate propaganda.
But the press has lost all sense of dignity, honor and integrity.
By god I believe they are republicans.
republicanism is a mental illness!
They put their 'media company first' and country second.
They want smaller government - well here's to smaller corporations!
Now that's a bumper sticker slogan if I ever saw one.
Agreed and to big to fail ought to be a teachable moment and a beginning on the process but is anybody saying or doing anything about it? Well are they!!!???? Any congress person want to stand up? Give this a boost?
Funny how it's always someone on the right who tries to dismiss a troublesome issue by saying, both sides do it.
please, hardly. reagan this and reagan that. its the GOP who thinks Reagan is a christing Messiah. yes i intended the pun. they have rewritten him to make him a friggin archangel or prophet. i mean please.
Who cares about the issues... booor-ing. What the American people need to know is what Obama's choice of tie color says about his future prospects, or what he had for breakfast. Did somebody say something scandalous on twitter? Please tell us about the twittered responses to the scandalous twitter, in detail. Let's discuss the inappropriate use of the word 'holocaust' through history (and please stay on topic - if you start talking about dead people or how they died, I'll just switch over to Entertainment Tonight).
It's not a political party, it's the Church of Saint Milton Friedman.
They are True Believers. No matter the overwhelming evidence that tricklenomics-freemarketry has utterly failed the great majority of people.
They are working for the wealthy. Period.
http://www.subgenius.com/pam1/pamphlet_p1.html
Amen!
whos married to a troll (j carville). all she has is cynicism, and nothing positive or remotely a constructive idea for making the us better. attack obama and hope to win with just doing that, not offering diddly for improving the us. she is the queen of sneer.
Dick Cheney, Liz Mini Me Cheney and Rush Limbaugh have the mojo!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nixR6wVa4HY
Matalin's a freak. The thought of her and Carville having sex makes my gonads jump up next to my lungs. I'd rather watch Rush Limbaugh hide Oxycontin pills under his titties.
ROFLMAO!
I watched this video just after I read an AP story that President Obama's approval ratings have risen for the first time since he took office. Amid concerns.
People also feel better about his handling of the economy and his proposed health care overhaul.
But not about the war. (Afghanistan)
Of course, after less than a year of dealing with a horrendous agenda left by the Bush administration, the righties have already convinced themselves that President Obama is a (sure thing) one term President.
It's bad enough seeing and listening to the main stream media advance the meme of the right wing. But using Saturday Night Live for God's sake?!!
I happen to think it's a good thing that that slutty character from Frasier is gainfully employed. It's so hard for women that age to find good roles these days.
Unlike the jackasses in the House and Senate.
If the bloody congress actually listened to the polls and the election results and let Obama GIVE US WHAT WE ASKED FOR, he would not only NOT lose his mojo, he might actually be the most popular president in history...
Oh, I wish I would lose my mojo like that more often. And to the extent that there are low numbers regarding "the war in Afghanistan," remember that it isn't "the war in Afghanistan," it's George W. Bush's war in Afghanistan, that Bush had 7 years to win and failed to do so.
I think what's so frustrating is that Matalin is a prime exponent of the type of pundit for whom taking sides is just a game. (Hannity, by all accounts, is another. Kind of puts in perspective just how in the tank he is on-air.) "Thanks, Paul" is her sign-off, because for her it's about taking the field and engaging, never mind the content. That's probably why she and Carville can stand each other at home, in fact, though I don't think I'd ever be happy married to someone so fluid in her personality.
...is that Carvill keeps asking her to swallow it.
Who in their right mind would take Mary Matalin seriously? Only the crazies, the uneducated and the incredibly stupid.
The GOP has been inundated by morons, from top to bottom, and they still think they are relevant in the current political climate. Why is the GOP allowing shitheads like Matalin to garner so much attention and to be their mouthpiece?
What is her claim to fame? Marrying another moron like James Carville. What is Carville's claim to fame? Being a moron.
The GOP must be proud of their track record. They can't be proud of anything else.
for learning how to keep a straight face when hacks like Matalin make such absurd arguments based in fantasy rather than fact. He must have been coached... he almost laughed out loud at one point, though, and tried to pretend he was coughing :)
for being able to keep a straight face...
But please don't neglect Mary Matalin's uncanny ability to speak without moving her lips.
terrible editing.
Mary says some ridiculous things - then an obvious editing out of Krugman's response.
Then on to some other point.
Dreadful.
why anybody listens to this douchebag about anything. Anything at all.
Obama's single biggest achievement, by far, is that he has kept the economy from completely nose diving off a cliff and kept the country out of a depression. This towers over everything else. I think people really forgot what terrible economic shape the country was in and where it was headed when Obama took office. Not only is the economy on much more stable footing now, but it is actually starting to recover. Sure unemployement remains high and continues to go up, but that is a lagging indicator and will take some time to recover. Normal for a recession. People should be happy with Obama's economic performance alone to vote for him again.
Given the collapse of the economy just before Obama took office, it completely made him throw his election agenda out the window and made it much harder to get anything else done, as not only did it sap resources, focus, and time from concentrating on other issues, but what was needed to be done with government bail-outs and deficit spending made a lot of people nervous and pulled at his popularity. But, lets not forget who is to blame for the economy and the deficit spending. George Bush. The fact that he is now pushing environmental law, healthcare, immigration, etc. on top of having to deal with the biggest financial crisis since the great depression is really remarkable.
CNN is turning into another Faux Noise, so I have boycotted it for years now.
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