Are Sunday political talk shows sabotaging the GOP?

[babylonsister]

Because rethugs show up on them?


Are Sunday political talk shows sabotaging the GOP?
Donald Trump, Louie Gohmert, and Steve King all had headline-making appearances yesterday. That's not a good thing for the Republican brand.
By Peter Weber | 10:25am EST

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This week's Sunday talk shows probably didn't help. On ABC's This Week, Jonathan Karl interviewed Donald Trump in Iowa, where Trump is threatening to run for president. (Watch above.) When Karl asked Trump why people don't take him seriously, Trump said he still isn't sure President Obama was born in the U.S., and also doesn't know if Canadian-born Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) — one of Trump's potential 2016 GOP rivals — is eligible to be president.

This Week also hosted a sparring match between Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) and conservative columnist George Will, in which Gohmert argued in favor of shutting down the government, if necessary, to defund ObamaCare — something Will said would be unwise and counterproductive.

NBC's Meet the Press, meanwhile, had a verbal boxing match between Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) and GOP strategist Ana Navarro. King, who recently suggested that many undocumented immigrants are "drug mules" with "cantaloupe-sized calves" from carrying so much marijuana, said that a Senate immigration bill awaiting action in the House would let in a lot of foreign "drug smugglers up to the age of 35." Navarro shot back that "King should get some therapy for his melon fixation."

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It's not a coincidence that the producers at the network talk shows booked "orange-skinned huckster-clown" Trump, off-message government shutdown proponent Gohmert, and "ol' Representative Cantaloupe Calves" King on their marquee political programs, says Jason Linkins at The Huffington Post.

Here is a message to the Republican Party, from me: Guys, I don't know if you've noticed this, but you are getting rooked pretty badly by the Sunday shows. Did y'all wake up today thinking that the best thing for your message was to have it carried by guys like Trump and Gohmert and King? I am guessing that's not the case. But that's who got booked, because nothing is better for ratings than a bunch of hot messes on the teevee....


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[DinahMoeHum]

1. aka The Sunday Morning Circle Jerk. . .

. . .Social Incest On The Beltway. . .Mutual Masturbation. . .etc.

'cause these GOP politicians and pundits don't really talk to anybody except each other.

[Enrique]

2. they are shifting the debate

making solid conservatives like George Will look "moderate".

Where do liberals fit in anymore? Who were the representatives of a liberal position yesterday?

[bravenak]

3. A parade of racist elephants is my Sunday morning pleasure.

Please please keep them talking. They're minting new dems on the daily.

[Warpy]

5. Not only that, but they're showing the crack in that party is now a chasm

as the Reagan coalition of the party with the crazy people breaks down.

Remember the 11th commandment, never speak ill of a fellow Republican? The fact that it is no longer being honored in public is huge.

[bravenak]

8. There are now 2 separate republican parties and they hate each other.

I blame/thank Obama. My tea party repub loving neighbor downstairs is now a democrat. She has heart problems and was going broke paying for medication. She is now covered and gets some of her meds almost free. She literally believed in death panels. She said Obamacare in a nasty manner.
Now she's identifying with his mother and says he's the only man in Washington who likes women. And Paul Ryan tried to privatize Medicare and she hates him.

[CTyankee]

4. Up with Steve Kornaki and M.H. Perry's show are my two sunday am pics...

[spanone]

6. gohmert would make a gerbil appear intelligent. george will? maybe not.

[Motown_Johnny]

7. I heard ~30 seconds of Limbaugh today

Not by choice, I walked into a locksmith and it was on. I left as soon as possible and spent $83.37 somewhere else.

Anyways, he was saying that the problem the Republicans are having is with their base. So if that is true (in Conservative minds at least) then having these people on the Sunday shows is actually helping.


I didn't watch much in the line of Sunday talk shows this week but I must admit, I almost jumped out of my seat when King said something to Navarro about "if you understood the language". My God that was offensive.

[Vashta Nerada]

9. Serious question.

Does the general public care about the Sunday political shows? I pay attention to politics and I don't care about them. I'd rather sleep in than listen to circular arguments.