FOX News Sunday: What the hell is Rick Davis smoking?
By SilentPatriot Monday Nov 03, 2008 9:00am
I understand that McCain campaign manager Rick Davis has a responsibility to go out there and paint things in the most positive light possible for his candidate. But there's a difference between "spin" and flat out denying reality. Davis on FOX News Sunday this morning illustrated this dementia quite profoundly.
Let's take a look at one of Davis' claims, and how it stacks up against the actual polling numbers.
Davis: The race is tightening in the Southwest and McCain is structuraly tied in Nevada, Colorado and New Mexico."
Reality: In Nevada, Barack Obama leads in the last eight polls, with a margin between 4 and 12 points.
In Colorado, excluding John Zogby's garbage internet polls, Barack Obama has lead in every single poll taken since the end of September. What's more, the most recent PPP poll has him up a staggering 10 points.
And in New Mexico, Obama leads in every poll since the second week in September. The last four polls average out to a 10.5 Obama lead.
Now, it's possible (although higly unlikely) that all these polls are wrong. But that's not the point. The point is that Rick Davis is permitted to go on television and pull "facts" out of his ass with no retribution. The McCainiacs can delude themselves all they want, but shouldn't it be the responsibility of a "legitimate" news organization to call foul on such blatant lies? Perhaps Davis is relying only on internal polls are Karl Rove-type "math". If that's the case, all that stands between Barack Obama and the presidency is some solid GOTV. Do your part.
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my God this man is ugly!
a large, ungainly duck that got its beak bitten off by a snapping turtle...
I suspect the outer ugliness mirrors an inner corruption beyond the measure of most normal humans...
Does he have green hair??!
It's just picking up his tie.
I went to HS with a girl who couldn't wear green b/c it would show up on her face.
but I'm not.
Niiiiiiiice screen capture.
doesn't it look like a turd is going to come out? and then you listen to him and you find that is exactly what came out! is that life copy-cat'n on art or art copy-cat'n on life?
he's doing a no. 2 in his pants like a 2 year old.
I bet they're related. Notice the body language. Notice his facial feathres when he speaks. He's got to be related to Rove. They both look like Nazi's, but Davis even more so.
Davis sounds like Rove too. Definitely common blood between these two. Has to be.
in Davis' or any other Pukes' claims, they'd be accused of being pro-Obama
I've always said, put a monocle over his eye, a top hat on his head and put a cigarette holder in his mouth he would look just like the Penguin.
Davis is a lobbyist and probably brings his own reality-distorting mathematics to the game.
Though with FOX News, it reminds me more of the Star Trek: Next Generation episode where a Cardassian is torturing Picard.
"How many lights are there, Captain?"
"Four! There are FOUR lights!"
I did a bit of research and boiled the election down to just a few "states to watch"
D'ya use a Halloween witch's cauldron?
Didn't his mamma tell him if you make faces like that, it'll set that way?
I think they call Davis' kind of looks "Sinister".
Fox News:
Pro-American Patriot: McCain is closing the gap and is certain to win the Electoral Vote. God bless him.
Bed-Wetting Lib’rul: Hussein Obama still has a chance. If that's what you want.
Fair and Balanced in action.
is not just a river in Egypt.
GOBAMA
Isn't he under indictment...or is he getting the Sen. Steven's justice?
I've been hearing that he wanted his court date moved up prior to the election not because he thought that he could win, but so that after he gets found guilty and sentenced that Bush will still be in office and can pardon him.
There's no telling what kind of bullshit Incurious George will get up to with his "Decider/Pardoner" pen in his last days in office.
You know how they take a cardboard face of someone and then a real person sticks their lips through a hole where the mouth should be? That's what he looks like to me. His mouth does all this crazy moving but the rest of his face is still.
I just heard another McCain talking head say almost this same stuff. They have their talking points and to hell with reality and facts.
Facts are kryptonite to these people.
Did you really expect them to acknowledge the truth?
Considering they can make court proceedings, legal actions and convictions just disappear by ignoring them? No I expect they consider the truth 'un-merkan'.
Extra points to C&L for the completely ridiculous picture of the statistically challenged! LOL!
I expect the headline for the rnc will be something akin to :
mclame comes second. The other guy came next to last.
HA!
Or is Rick Davis the ugliest son of a bitch to fall out of the ugly tree?
I think he looks like a neo-con version of Mr. Bean.
I can almost hear Ruppert Murdoch in the background yelling..."I told you to swallow it, you little shit. Swallow it!"
Just before lunch I've got a picture of Davis drinking Murdoch's half-baby sauce....wonderful...I will save about $7.50 today.
rick davis is a huge lobbyist. he goes in and out of his lobbyist position to appear to have no lobbyist type
agenda. davis understands marketing and human psychology. davis will lie about his opponents and lie to
his own team members to instill self-deception. davis is the type that wants to compete with NO rules.
I would hope that this election is a eye opener for many people on the double standard that is not only FOX but all the rest of the corporate media. If this was an Obama campaign manager and things were reversed he would be shouted down before he could finish the lie. A great example in my mind is if Obama had a 17 year old daughter and we found out she were pregnant just imagine the outrage and screams that would be coming from the "news media". Liberal media indeed!
Problem is it's not their Goal, their at the wrong end of the field.
still looks like Jeffrey Dahmer to me.
Jeffrey Dahmer -- German. Nazi. Davis. Nazi. Texas is full of Americans of German descent.
Davis would look good in a Dr. Hannibal Lector mask.
I hope and pray Davis is wrong, the day of reckoning is at hand. I never was a big Obama fan, but God help us if McCain gets the prize. If the true masters of this country want to start WWIII, then McCain will be installed. Bush has succeeded in propagating anti-Muslim sentiments in the U.S, gathered near dictatorial powers into the U.S. Presidency, destabilized the Middle East, completely destroyed any respect and trust our nation has ever had, and also successfully destroyed our economy and making the economies of other counties shaky at best, excluding China and Russia. This makes for the perfect recipe to plunge the globe into another world war. I can't help thinking of the last two elections. Don't count your chickens kids.
This individual looks like some sort of strange puppet-human mutant,
and acts like "Bagdad Bob". The world these people(?) live in may soon come to and end when the reality piano falls from the 2008th floor of the real world skyscraper.
Sounds to close to my name. Had to read that twice. LOL
If anyone remembers the Movie Harold and Maude, the guy that played Harold's Uncle, the Army General.
Wallace the Lesser: With the reliable polls showing you way behind, how is it John McCain is going to be able to win this election?
Whoooooosh
INSIDE RICK DAVIS' "BRAIN"
Davis: Actually, the polls show us ahead, and winning this election if you look at the data and trends, Chris.
Wallace the Lesser: Well, let's take a look at that, because the numbers really have you behind.
Whoooooosh
INSIDE RICK DAVIS' "BRAIN"
Need more of this :D Very funny!
REminds me of Robin William's routine when he was first starting out. "Come inside my brain!" or something like that.
He looks bumbed,as he should, but he must be thinking about his next lobby job he isn't going get or #2 why,why,why, did I take this job!
Let the whining begin in 3 - 2 - 1....republicans..WAAAAAAAAA. I want to watch fox cry foul, and cry....lol.
He kept claiming that there were no bombs falling, when you could see bombs falling in the background. I forget his name, but Davis has got the same mindset.
All of the goppers look haggard lately. Like they’re sitting on pins and needles or something.
The truth is, O'lielly and Limpballs have the same constipated look.
So I think for the election night party where Rick Davis' predictions will likely be served cold, people should come up with fun, innovative and totally biased election fare. I am making the super-easy Palin-eroles, a twist on profiteroles. The recipe and explanation can be found here
People should get really creative, whether throwing a party or going to one.
Rick Davis and others are setting up the meme for contesting outcomes. "You can't trust the current polls." "You can't trust the exit polls." If any state outcomes are close (i.e., with a slight Obama lead) then they can swoop in and claim that the particular state was stolen. Because it certainly doesn't match all the polling that the Republicans have done. Then the outcome will be litigated (and also protested a la Florida).
Other than the fact that Rick Davis looks like a clone of Jeffrey Dahmer.......His Karl Rove type math may include the tricks that he and his computer genius Mike Connell used with the voting machines in 2004. Is this over confidence just a warning that we should expect the unexpected "come from behinder" Wednesday morning. Amy Goodman discusses this at democracynow.org today.
We have utterly defeated the Satanic troops of the American Invaders!!!!!
"The Democrats are eating their own stomachs at the gates of Florida's polling places!!
Perhaps it was the Diebold polls he was looking at. Too bad for their criminal asses that the margin is far too great for them to get away with their vote flipping this time.
it would look kind of strange if the election was stolen again with such huge pre-election margins for Obama.
America: WTF!!! McCAIN WON? How????
Lying Ass Republican Pundit: "Well, the polls were tightening on the 3rd."
They're too stupid to realize that they are sounding alarms for the potentially lazy Democratic voters to get off their asses and participate.
The Republicans can't do shit right...except unintentional comedy.
That is exactly what I have been thinking. Everytime they say something like this, another angel gets its wings and another Obama voters takes off to go and vote.
I hope to have something similar election night. He seems like he got the good shit.
Great screen capture! Looks like the typical pouting, whining, Republican asshole.
only a mother could love XD
His bluffing sucks. He would be fun to clean out.
But I am glad the talking heads are squaking about a close race. Hopefully, Obama supporters will hear it and not take for granted that this is a lock. Too much complacency and no one will think it is important to wait on those lines.
I will support anything that gets the "gud guys" out to vote.
Yes...he's dillusional, but he's also one twisted, dispicable human being, and I have to listen to his bull shit and hope and pray that he is full of shit up to his eyeballs.
What's with the lips? He he getting bottox (sp?) treatement? He is one ghoulish looking turd.
I don't trust any of these repug/neocon/fascist henchmen any further than I can throw them. I do know their fascist party will stop at nothing to win. His blabber certainly underlines that.
Be afraid...be very afraid. God, I hate these son's of bitches.
On Hardballs yesterday another surrogate/talk show host warned of the Hispanic racism against blacks, and that her sources said Nevandans large Hispanic population will not break for Obama.
Any Hispanic that believes the Tancredos and Roves and Issa's and Mica's -and Palin's of the Republican party will give a damn about Hispanic 'causes', will be shooting themselves in the cajones if they vote for McCain or don't show up to vote.
To the hard line Republican base, Americans are white and well off, - or they're not AMERKANS!
VOTE OBAMA/BIDEN - OR KISS YOUR ASS INTO POVERTY.
And the Zogby poll show they are tied, as well. Mason-Dixon and Zogby are the two most reliable polls out there.
You know, the one in which the reporter asks questions based on the facts and he responds with whatever the hell he wants to say?
is the cosmetic surgery on Mrs. McCain's bootie.
Don't listen to anything Davis says. Look what happened the LAST time America did that...
Hint...Jefferson
I understand why the head of a campaign that is going to get it's butt kicked would resort to "happy speak" the day before the election. However, I don't understand, if he really thought his candidate had any chance of winning at all, why he wouldn't take the opportunity to STRONGLY ENCOURAGE McCain supporters to go to the polls and vote! Nearly every Obama surrogate drives home the point that Obama supporters must not take winning for granted and must got out and vote. Why would Rick Davis fail to encourage FOX News viewers to go out and vote for John McCain? He's either a woefully inferior campaign manager or he's psychologically already thrown in the towel and accepted defeat.
I can't stand Rick Davis, but I confess that I almost (ALMOST) felt sorry for him when I saw this goofy picture of him. He's such an ugly little weasel, isn't he? He's a bad liar too, A disgusting, hateful, and evil liar. It will be a glorious day when this fascist has to go back into his dark, damp hole.
They are setting up their meme to explain the theft of the election. "McCain is the comeback kid" "The Bradley Effect" ITS ALL BULLSHIT. Bush was NEVER legally elected to the Presidency and we let them get away with it. If we let them steal this one, this country is done. Welcome to Fascism, folks.
They dressed better, courtesy of Hugo Boss.
Rick Davis looks like he could use a good bit more fiber in his diet.
With a face that normally looks like he is on the verge of crying like a nine year old girl, I am not looking forward to watching him humiliate himself on Tuesday Night. For goodness sakes, would somebody in the GOP PLEASE stand by with a towel when he is on camera tomorrow night to mop up the flopsweat?
Rick Davis wins the "Baghdad Bob" award of the 2008 campaign for patently unjustified optimism in the face of foregone defeat.
I hope the circular firing squad gets a piece of this guy too because his snarky attitude definitely cost McCain.
Botox gone bad...
What's funny is sarah thinks she'll be the candidate in 2012, and it looks like the goppers will use current polls to show she hurt mcgramps chances this year.
Not that they were too good to begin with.
CONVENIENT!
CoIntelPro.PronktasticlyAgainst.SCLM.E-Voting.Incumbents
-- might "structurally tied" mean in the first place?
After eight years of George Bush doing everything he can to destroy our Constitution, environment, and what little chances the working poor had to find economic prosperity... if Barack Obama doesn't win tomorrow night I'll feel like what hope I have left for America will be gone. America can not survive another four years of a administration the believes in sacrificing civil rights, the environment, and the lives of the poor, and middle class so that CEO's, corporations, and the investor class can make more millions. 2001 thru 2008 will be historical proof in my life time that trickle down economics do not work, and that absolute power corrupts absolutely. Please do not sit at home November 4th. Vote for Barack Obama on election day.
Woody Harrelson's Bong!
:<[)
CoIntelPro.PronktasticlyAgainst.SCLM.E-Voting.Incumbents
He's obviously been smoking polls, by the looks of his lower lip---not that there's anything wrong with that...
I woulda guessed cheap Scotch.
Are some stump-stupid mutha fuckas!
Dude looks like the Joker.
and the news will stop having redumblicans on a regular basis. Man, my middle finger is getting carpal tunnel syndrome from flipping birds at a the TV.
My feelings about Palin have gone from she's just a joke to she's fu*king dangerous for the future of our country. She is willing to do or say anything if she sees a benefit for herself as a result.
republican, isn't she?
From the garbage coming out of this mans mouth about McCain winning large apposed to the polls and media coverage, I get the feeling like we are going to get screwed once again, voter fraud was rampant in 2000 and than again in 2004, electronic voting can not be trusted. Read the stories about voting irregularities all ready happening in early voting http://www.blackboxvoting.org/, it right on the first page of this blog.
People if what happened in 2004 happens again in 2008 we as the citizens of America need to do what was done in the 60s MASSIVE protests, use the legal system as best we can, but why make it easy to steal our country like we did in 2004.
its your country fight fore it!
This is my pouty little girly-man face.
he does have Moose Lips!!
Moose Lips Spew S**t.
Sometimes, when I'm talking to my sister on the phone she will refer to a trend line from Pollster or an average from Real Clear Politics. Stop, I'll say. Look at the most recent polling. Sometimes the averages are very misleading because they include polls from far enough back that they no longer reflect the current reality.
That said, there is nothing Davis could be "smoking" that would account for the garbage he is spewing. He's a liar and all he's doing is spinning hay into gold.
McCain can win this election -- by stealing it. That's the only game left for the neo-fascists.
What ever Rick is smoking it made him look like an iguana.
Chris Wallace " I am not David Axelrod"
Mr. Wallace you are no David Axelrod
My best guess is that he has been breathing so much methane for so long now that he is starting to believe his own bullshit. Lol wow.
ugly picture of Rick Davis ever! He looks so bad that it's gotta be his evil-on-the-inside-shows-on-the-outside look. Yuck!! It's a good thing there's no little kids around for this. It'd scare the bijeezy outta them!
Or is it Butt Head? I always mix those two up..............
John,"My Fellow Prisoners" McCain will have Rick do some mental somersaults Wednesday morning.
I just can't wait to hear the republican spin on the win by Obama. This is going to be very interesting.
I prefer to call it Laughing Stock Wednesday.
I would think mcgramps would have victoria jackson doing splits.
Especially now that he doesn't have to stick to his diet.
In the words of the fabulous Whitney Houston, "Crack is whack!"
I hope Mr. Davis now realizes this and puts the pipe down.
New slogan for Fox News
I just noticed the maps that are presented at the very beginning of this segment are issued from the "Carl Rove Company". Is that a frequent joke on Fox or...?
that's what the Repugs are. Boy, are they going to be in for a big let down when the results come in election night.
That is, unless they've been f'ing with the voting machines and that's what they anticipate the end results. If that is so, America is f*cked.
Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada toward McCain"
Rick Davis IS a Huge Movement.............
mmm...kiss kisss
HA! Oh he's carrying the heavy water
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