Sunday Morning Bobblehead Thread
By Nicole Belle Sunday Feb 07, 2010 6:00amMen on Football...not necessarily safe for work
Okay, we got beer chilling, the margarita mix standing by, some of my husband's incredible queso dip and chips and barbecued pulled pork sandwiches ready to go, HDTV fired up...it's SUPER BOWL TIME!!!!! Naturally, it's taking a little more than normal concentration to look at what's happening Sunday morning with the anticipation of getting together with friends and family to enjoy the Super Bowl. Nevertheless, concentrate we must, because it's a wide array of bobbleheads this morning, from new State of the Union host Candy Crowley with Hillary Clinton to temporary This Week host Jake Tapper with Timothy Geithner to sell out Fox News Sunday host Mike Wallace with Sarah Palin. Let the games begin.
ABC's "This Week" - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.
CBS' "Face the Nation" - NFL commissioner Roger Goodell.
NBC's "Meet the Press" - John Brennan, President Barack Obama's top counterterrorism adviser; former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson; former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan; Ed Gillespie, former Bush White House counselor; Dee Dee Myers, former press secretary for President Bill Clinton.
NBC's "The Chris Matthews Show" - Panel: Kathleen Parker, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Michael Duffy, Norah O'Donnell. Topics: How President Obama Plans to Recapture His Momentum; Obama's Advice: Ignore the 24/7 Cable and Blogosphere Trash Talk.
CNN's "State of the Union" - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton
CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS" - Is peace in the Middle East still an option? King Abdullah II of Jordan gives Fareed a rare and exclusive interview. Plus, Fareed sits down with (John Yoo,) the man who wrote the infamous "torture memos" for President Bush. It will be a fascinating discussion on terrorism, Guantanamo, and Presidential power.
CNN's "Amanpour" - Veiled Hatred? As France moves closer to a partial ban on the burqa, a leading European lawmaker declared Wednesday that the full Muslim veil is a symbol of political Islam and has no place in Europe. New Global Threat: former US National Security Advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski talks about the US and others turning their focus to defending interests of "public spaces."
"Fox News Sunday" - Former Gov. Sarah Palin, R-Alaska; Mark Skoda, a talk radio host who helped organize the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville, Tenn.
So, what's catching your eye this morning?
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ask Palin about the notes she had written on her hand to remind her of the answers to the pre-planned questions? Somehow, I doubt he will ask her that........she might not know the answer......:)
The notes written on the palm of her left hand we SO third grade!!
The video was, to my mind, the gay equivalent of Amos and Andy, and just as offensive.
lighten up..........as a gay man I thought it was hysterical.......much better than watching the super bowl......:) to each his own, I guess.........thanks Nicole for the funny video.
.."Lighten up", indeed! And excuse me for liking Amos and Andy, too!
That was hilarious!
ps, I love the cute little football hat. So jaunty and carefree!
Couldn't agree more with the OP.
Damon or David, not sure which, saying that watched the skit in a gar bar one time and said people were in hysterics. Some people liked it.
and attitudes change. Amos and Andy was funny in it's day, to be sure. And black folk were very happy to see black folk in movies and hear them on the radio. they were being represented, not invisible or ignored.
Martin Luther King used the word 'Negro' to describe his own people and a few days ago, everyone is jumping on Harry Reid for using 'Negro' in reference to Obama.
would you have been as offended if they were white?
Yes, I believe so. As an openly gay professional man, it is my feeling that these stereotypes undermine the dignity of gay people. I couldn't imagine watching this video with my family or employees or students--or any straight people, for that matter. Perhaps at a gay bar it might get some laughs, the way a drag show would, for the double entendres.
I see it as insulting. However, like the original Amos and Andy, I don't think it was the intention of the creators of the skit to insult.
"black folks" on the radio, right?
Still, the radio shows were very funny, despite being overly broad comedy.
As are the "Men on..." skits.
My black mother enjoyed the old Amos and Andy shows as a child.
My gay cousin loved "Men on..." as well.
Comedy's only absolute rule is that it be funny.
Really offensive stuff is seriously unfunny.
to television, where there were black actors in the roles. But you are right, they were originally part of the tradition of vaudeville black face, which was one of the reasons, I think, that they grew so out of favor in later years. In times to come, when the stereotypes of gays become less and less prominent in society, people like me will regain our sense of humor. Unfortunately, at this time, I think the image of the flaming queen remains a vicious slander.
finally put Sarah Palin out of her misery?
He should ask himself "How would my legendary journalist dad treat this money-mad phony? What questions would he prod her with if he had her on 60 Minutes?".
would think of his working for the propaganda spewing Faux News.
publicly.
..she needed to have Alaskans pay for a jet to get her kids to the todd's family home and thought it outrageous she couldn't have one for personal reasons?
..why she didn't pay her taxes?
..why she quit every office she ever held?
..why she supports socialism? (Oil company checks to Alaskans)
..why she thinks abstinence works?
..why she thinks exorcisms work?
..does she think?
..whether she figured out the bush doctrine yet?
..how she feels about associating with a racist group? (ala tom tancredo's speech)
Is wallace going to ask his network's newest talking news-bunny anything of any substance? Are you kidding? That may just prove how stupid she really is. It would be nice though if faux used a voice synthesizer so no one would have to listen to the fingernails on the chalkboard.
If *they* think it, it's not racist, see? It's just asking for people to take a special test before they can vote, just like in the post-segregation south. You'd probably have a problem with Jews being forced to wear colorful badges, too, right?
I can think of SO many questions Sarah needs to be asked... starting with Todd's role in her Governorship... not that we'd get an honest answer. And why she didn't reprimand Beck & Limbaugh as harshly as she condemned Emanual.
But I can't get past the image of her doing the entire interview from Wallace's lap. :(
But then again, we already knew that.
would be the boner he got with Palin on his lap!
Question: If a liberal "third" party movement were to have a convention, would Fox News devote as much time and interview its featured speaker?
FnS Live from the TEA Party Convention in Nashville.
"NO, we're not promoting these events!"
proceedings yesterday was nearly indiscernable from Fux's.
FnS plays a clip of Palin's speech announcing:
"We are at war. We need a commander in Chief, not a professor of law."
You know, like Lincoln.
.
This for starters.
"She has one year left under COBRA health coverage, but she was issued a lifetime denial from every other health insurance carrier."
And the beat goes on.But there are some shockers.
Of course as expected, the comments at Drudge are telling. Not all mind you.
This woman just can't get enough. To bad she didn't think of getting enough education. Cause she sure as hell comes off as a complete dumbass.
I knew there was a reason for not going to Karaoke bars. Don't sing My Way. Not if you're in the western pacific.
Ulster. We'll see.
Meanwhile, in Anartica.
Ok, Press the Meat in on. And what do they start with? Booo!
The nasty boogie men are after us. I mean really!
They have been planning attacks against us for over 50 years.
And this ass backwards dickhead is going to try to scare me with some bullshit about how they are going to attack us in the next few months? This is news? Jeeezz. Someone get this asswipe a newspaper.
Palin: "Obama needs to listen.
We don't need someone up there telling us we need Government run Health care..."
Excuse me, but when did Obama come out in support of "government run health care"? I must have missed that one.
WHO needs to "listen", Sarah?
Everything Palin attacks Obama for, took place under Bush, not Obama.
what else could we have expected since they are already trying to help her run for president.
Classic.
I miss those guys teaming up and doin their thing. Those guys were two of the funniest comedians to ever walk on a stage.
Damon Wayans is a great dramatic actor, too.
:)
According to Palin, resigning as governor was a victory because she denied her attackers the opportunity to derail her administration from having to defend her against dozens of "frivolous lawsuits."
"Never revealed anything confidential."
Palin also claims Todd "never got into the minutia of politics."
When Limbaugh called Democrats "retards", it was okay because "he was using satire."
But Emanuel said "F-ing retards". So apparently, her problem is with the CONTEXT, not the word itself. Oh... but she denounces "political correctness."
Yeah, I don't buy it either.
..."from a group of advisers working in the government."
.
WHO??? This is something that needs to be pursued!
One has to wonder what level "Security clearance" Palin has to be receiving such information?
Someone is likely breaking some VERY serious laws by disclosing secret information to someone with no clearance (not even "an elected official" any more. She's a private citizen.)
..."if he declared war on Iran", according to Palin.
Please. Make it stop!
Teh St00pid. It's excruciating!
If you listen closely to her comment, she suggests Obama might invade Iran simply to win re-election, which is either:
1) A subtle slam of Bush for invading Iraq.
OR
2) She's a clueless moron that doesn't get that THAT is EXACTLY what George did.
I'll take Door #2, Monty.
I think I'm going back to bed...,
I was going to watch a little, but I feel it is more important to take a stand on this issue, and let the network and its advertisers know.
But I hate American religions anyway, and Pro Football is second only to Greed as an American Religion. The child raping Catholic Church is probably about #3.
"...than the American people."
..heaven forbid you actually know anything.
Packers vs Oilers...classic.
Palin said AG Eric Holder "should step down for giving the Constitutional Rights of Americans to terrorists."
Lemme count the number of problems with that statement:
1) She's convicted people of terrorism before even being tried.
2) George Washington gave "Constitutional Rights" to British POWs.
3) The U.S. gave the Nazi's lawyers and the right of a trial after WWII.
4) The Supreme Court had no problem giving "Constitutional Rights" to foreign owned corporations.
..if it were her son in an iraqi prison being charged with war crimes, can you see her sayin' "well, he committed a crime and should be tortured immediately." OR her daughter walking down a street and arrested in some foreign country for listening to her iPod. Oh yeah lady, F all those rights in that stupid obstructionist Constitution, they don't work, do they? What a stupid imbecile.
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5) It's not an option to deny people their constitutional rights. Beginning and end of conversation.
True, but this was in the context of "foreign 'terrorists' being Mirandized", not American citizens.
But the Founding Fathers said ALL people "are born with certain inalienable rights", of which they clearly believed "due process" was among them.
For all their patriotic flag waving bull$#!+, Palin and the Teabaggerrs have NO concept of what it TRULY means to be an American.
I see MTP is still maintaining the Bush era 2 to 1 Republican to Democratic Party guest ratio. I guess that's because they are still the majority, and have twice the "ideas" ...
..SUPER MINORITY in the Senate now.
Palin cries about a liberal media, Sunday morning is all the proof those fools need to see media is conservative, and corporate.
Juan Williams takes Wallace and Republicans to task for criticizing Mirandizing AbdulMutallab, when the Bush Administration did the same for every "terrorist captured on American soil".
Wallace, in his lead-in to Williams, repeated the "300 people mirandized under Bush" number that (supposedly?) comes from the White House (though this is the first I'm hearing of it), but Sammon then says "no one can get confirmation" of "that 300 number", so it is "likely to be walked back by the White House."
Maybe Sammon was making the argument that he's unsure if '300' is really a number, as opposed to 'two' or 'zt72xa'. That's the sort of fact-free debating we normally get on these shows.
Palin seemed to leave the door open on running in 2012, but as Williams points out, Palin refused to attend CPAC, but is speaking at the TEA Party convention, so how will she run on the GOP ticket?
should join the Teabaggers (or was it the other way around?) (I haven't had coffee yet...)
FnS's "On this Day" clip this week?
The arrest and conviction of the first WTC bomber Ramsay Yuseff, who is now serving Life in Prison.
Mark Scotus, the founder of the TEA Party PAC hosting the convention, after bemoaning high taxes and rampant debt, says they want "a return to the Party of Reagan".
Uh... Mark? Hate to tell you this, but the top tax rate under Reagan was 50%, while he raised taxes 4 of his 8 years in office in a desperate attempt to bring the skyrocketing National Debt under control, which he quadrupled before leaving office.
"Party of Reagan" indeed.
I thought Reagan had raised taxes six times while in office, and yes, Reagan basically bankrupt future generations with the unprecedented debt he left this country with.
I really wish Democrats and Liberals on these talk shows would point this out when Neocons mention the debt this country is accruing. It's almost as if Libs,Dems,and progressives have fallen for the Reagan myth, and thus rarely bring up his name and fiscally irresponsible legacy when the term "debt" is bandied about by these rightwing, hypocritical frauds who have suddenly discovered the federal debt.
I can't cope.
Wow, he was mad.
John Brennan on MtP really laid into Republican critics of how they were handling counter-terrorism, including "briefing members of Congress on sensitive intelligence one day and reading what they were told in the paper the next."
Attention Kitt Bond?
Stressed education and solving Israeli/Palestinian coflict.
Coming up--John Yoo. My TV may not survive....
Oh crap, I was hoping that McCain was going to be on so that he could answer how Shelby could get away with holding up Obama's nominees until Shelby gets his earmarks.
"...to close this deficit."
Quite a reversal since 2001.
and hoping Ollie Northbut goes on Uncle bucks' show and pees his pants.
Not one Senator or Congressman? Not on superbowl Sunday for crying out loud.
We often don't see too many Democrats because they don't like working on Sundays, but the Republicans, sh!t, they're all over the tube over the Christmas Holidays to kill healthcare for citizens, but not for a football game, that would be insane.
Didn't they only sell like 600 tickets, now it seems all the networks are trying to build the Republican party anyway they can
I saw on ABC, 600 is the only number I've seen mentioned in the MSM. I read here at C&L that the number was up to 1,100. Then I saw one report that said they sold out without mentioning any numbers. I'll stick with the ABC report.
Can't wait to see that hard-hitting interview :-(
On a side note about the video, I used to love In Living Color. Got the first 2 seasons on DVD. What makes me mad is that show ended, but SNL still stinks up the airwaves. There's just no justice.
references to a Rasmussen poll saying that 56 percent disapprove of the job President Obama is doing. In addition my skepticism due to the fact that Scott Rasmussen was a paid consultant to the Bush campaign, I'd like to know what percentage of those who disapprove are disenchanted liberals. I've been looking all over teh innerwebz, and none of the polls seem to drill down like that.
.. oh please ..
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