Cokie Roberts ‘I know Hawaii is a state, but…’

[RedEarth]

Stephen Hess, a presidential historian with the Brookings Institution, noted the other day, “Anybody who picks on for going to Hawaii is really looking for something to pick on.”

Dr. Hess, meet ABC News’ Cokie Roberts.

“I know Hawaii is a state, but …” Roberts said, before recommending Myrtle Beach, S.C., as a preferable vacation locale.

Lest anyone think Roberts accidentally shared a foolish, stray thought with a national television audience, she repeated the criticism on NPR this morning, saying Obama’s decision to vacation with his family is “a little rough,” and Hawaii is a “somewhat odd place.” She added that the locale “makes him seem a little bit more exotic than perhaps he would want to come across as at this stage in the presidential campaign.”

It’s hard to overstate how unusually dumb this is.

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[gateley]

1. For the love of God -- Hawaii was his HOME for several years of his life! Sheesh. nt

[Bjorn Against]

30. And if I am not mistaken his Grandmother still lives in Hawaii...

Of course our media can't help creating a false controversy, and if they actually informed the audience that he was going to visit his Grandmother it would be more difficult to call him an "elitist". It is a sad day when this crap is considered to be journalism.

[gateley]

32. Yes she does. nt

[CatholicEdHead]

35. Exactly

Vacation prices are probably comparable to SC in the summer.

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. Not dumb.... just a freeper doing what she can to get her (old) man elected. NT

[WinkyDink]

52. Thank you. There is nothing "dumb", "foolish", or unaware that Cokie utters. It's the PLAN.

[Phredicles]

3. All of Cokie Roberts' thoughts are foolish;

And I thought NPR at least had certain standards.

[TomClash]

4. Cokie Roberts is a twit

And no Dem regardless of her current or prior party registration.

Myrtle Beach?

[HCE SuiGeneris]

37. Don't give me that! Don't you know media whores are supposed to pick the candidate's vacation spots?

[TomClash]

55. Sorry my bad

They'd make Barack vacation in Camden, New Jersey.

[Supersedeas]

63. that's one description -- there are others

[Lucky 13]

5. Terminally stupid.

[ClassWarrior]

8. Not necessarily. Just vile.

It really troubles me when people instinctively reach for the "stupid" meme. What appears stupid to good people like us is usually calculated to look that way by evil people like them.

NGU.

[ccharles000]

6. Stupid.

[ClassWarrior]

7. Just regurgitating the talking points. LOL... What honest American...

...will fall for the "Hawaii is too exotic for a vacation" meme?

NGU.

[The_Casual_Observer]

9. More personal opinion brought to us by somebody

who claims to know "what the people are thinking". Cokie is renown for knowing the mood of the country, it's her stock in trade.

[mediaman007]

12. Cokie "milks" the Washington party circuit for her information.

That's where America gathers: Parties on the Potomac!

[GoesTo11]

27. Hawaii is a little more exotic coming from DC than from LA

It's a coast thing.

[gateley]

33. The first time I visited LA I flew in at night, saw

all those lit-up swimming pools from the air, walked out of the airport into WARM night air and saw palm trees for the first time in my life. THAT was exotic for me, coming from Seattle. So you're right - it depends what you're familiar with.

[DarthDem]

40. Cool Vignette - - Thanks n/t

[AndyTiedye]

21. Her Job is to Tell People What to Think

[hisownpetard]

10. So Cokie says that visiting Grandma is off the table?

Way to go, Cokie.:wtf: :spank: :nuke:

[polichick]

11. What an ASS she is!

[Starbucks Anarchist]

13. Exotic compared to Sweden, maybe.

[JuniperLea]

14. Riiight... no one goes to Hawaii on vacation...

Especially not anyone who lived there...

:sarcasm:

This woman is a freaking idiot if she thinks this line of talk is clever.

[gaiilonfong]

15. what a hagg she is n/t

[Bobbie Jo]

16. Well, it's more than I thought she knew. nt

[SeattleGirl]

17. Yeah! Shame on him for wanting to see his grandmother! Yeah!

Gawd, Cokie, you are such a tool! :puke:

[Tempest]

18. Hawaii Senator Daniel Akaka office's response

Hawaii Senator Daniel Akaka's office, in response to ABC's Cokie Robert's repeated suggestion that Hawaii was somehow a "foreign" un-American place for Obama to visit:

"Saying our 50th state is somehow 'foreign,' does a great disservice to the hard working, patriotic Americans who call Hawaii home. For months people have been asking me, 'when is Sen. Obama going to come home?' I'm so glad he found time to visit his sister and his grandmother, show his daughters more of his home state, and relax a little. Hawaii is a great U.S. destination, just ask the 5.5 million Americans who visited last year for business and pleasure."

[eppur_se_muova]

36. Good for him! He got all the important points in that statement!

Interesting bit of trivia (which I *think* is still current): Hawaii is supposedly the only US state with a non-white majority.

Suggesting that Hawaii is 'foreign' or 'exotic' is very close to saying it's not quite normal because it's full of brown-skinned people. Is that what Cokie is really thinking? Hmmm?

[geckosfeet]

19. Why deos NPR still pay that RW shill.

Oh. That's right. Just another whore in the stables.

To be fair cOkie, it's his home state. He just may want to visit home. Is that OK with the RW shill crowd? I mean,,, dumAssYa gets to visit Crapford texAs for 6 months out of the year and I don't hear ya spoutin bout that.

[opihimoimoi]

20. She is revealing her orders to somehow, anyhow, FRAME WHATEVER HE DOES AS NEGATIVE

Thats what Pub Hit Persons do.....Many of them do this...all the time

To omake it SOUND OBJECTIVE... some very cleverly include the Pubs in a rant to BLAME ALL THE POLITICIANS....A bully tactic...

[shireen]

22. there must be something in the DC water supply

that makes these people so stupid!

(I'm sure Obama drinks filtered water.)

[Occam Bandage]

23. Hawaiians: The sub-American Americans.

[City Lights]

24. Methinks Cokie is a few crumbs shy of a full cookie.

Totally lame, Kookie. :eyes:

[DinahMoeHum]

25. Kookie Cokie is no journalist - she just impersonates one on TV.

n/t

[lurky]

26. Obama's not in the club.

He wasn't born into power like Cokie, McCain, Bush the younger, Bush the elder, Nancy Pelosi, or any of our other self-styled Washington aristocrats.

He's trying to crash their little party.

[hedgehog]

28. In my town, Myrtle Beach is where the wealthier families take their

kids during the February break while the rest of us are stuck inside at home looking at icy rain.

[JNelson6563]

29. Yeah, everyone knows Hawaii

ain't the stuff of dream vacations and honeymoons. The place is so gorgeous, from what I've seen, would love to go in person some day. Not to mention didn't Obama spend some time growing up there?

I've never liked Cokie Roberts. She's always been a schill for the wingers. This angle is as tenuous as all the others McCorpse's campaign has come up with.

I give it a "0" for substance, a "2" for originality and a "10" for lameness.

Next!

Julie

[pansypoo53219]

31. kookie is an ABC

mickey mouse WHORE.

[azmouse]

34. Tell me again about this 'liberal' media.

What an idiot Cokie is!

[gauguin57]

38. Hey, Cokie ... why don't you and your hubby take MORE massive amounts of tobacco money for speaking.

Cokie, your hairspray is obviously toxic to your faculties!

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[CrazyDude]

41. This is an insult to all the WWII veterans n/t

[Franc_Lee]

42. Obama's 85 year old Grand mother doesn't live in Myrtle Beach, S.C.

[Norrin Radd]

43. Let's see...McCain was born in the Panama Canal Zone.

Is that a state? Is it exotic?

[Hekate]

44. He was born there. His grandma and sis live there. Is Cokie trying to be Dana Perino? nt

[dkf]

45. I just sent an email to ABC to complain about her.

How dare she make us to be less than American.

And the same goes for Mark Penn.

I think that their superior snotty attitudes are UnAmerican.

[Hekate]

47. Address please? So many DUers complaining over the past few days, I hope some are writing to ABC

I would have done so before this, but I wasn't sure of the address.

Thanks.

Hekate

[dkf]

48. Here it is...

http://abcnews.go.com/Site/page?id=3428174

I hope it works for you.

[Hekate]

49. Many thanks. My email says...

COKIE ROBERTS & HAWAII'S EXOTICISM

Cokie's twice-repeated comment about Obama's vacation in Hawaii is baffling unless one believes that Ms. Roberts is taking her cues from the McCain campaign.

Regardless, it remains a remarkably asinine slur on Senator Obama, who was born and raised there and whose grandmother and sister still live there, and a slur on an entire state full of American citizens.

SCF
formerly a long-time Hawaii resident, now of California
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Hekate

[verges]

57. Great. Unfortuately,

I believe, she made the comment on NPR.

[dkf]

58. I think she did it twice.

Yup, reviewed the OP and the video is from ABC.

[symbolman]

46. I've lived here for five years total.. And thank god This is America too

one of the most beautiful places on earth where people of all Nationalities hang together and people of all Colors laugh together..

Cokie Roberts is RACIST Pig!!!

This is all the proof we need, she needs her "credentials" jerked from her bony hands and given her walking papers.. If I get time to make a presentation about this unforgivable RACIST remark and destroy her career please vote it up and go viral - workng on a McCain attack ad right now, but that bitch is Next.

Evil Nasty excuse for a Human being..

[Major Hogwash]

50. I would love to vacation in Hawaii. Cokie must be smoking crack or sumpthin.

My plan, from the day I turned 18, was to work my ass off and then move to Hawaii and retire in Hawaii and to even die in Hawaii. If you got to go, why not go where the sandy shores are, know what I mean?

I can't think of anyplace in the world other than Hawaii to live that has been described as "paradise" so many times by celebrities that have visited Hawaii.

My gawd, look at all the movies that Elvis, and a whole bunch of others, have made about Hawaii.

Hawaii 5-0 was a really popular tv show with Jack Lord in the 60s.
Connie Stevens became really popular when she starred in a detective show based in Hawaii called "Hawaiian Eye" in the late 50s and early 60s.

I can't believe that Cokie said this.
It's not like Obama went to China or sumpthin.
Now, China, that's an exotic place to go!

And I want to visit there someday, too.

[rasputin1952]

51. Pretty dumb statemsnt to say the least...

I have been fortunate enough to have been to Hawaii, it's a beautiful place, although somewhat tourist driven.

For the record...I'll take Hawaii any day over Crawford TX...;)

[npincus]

53. I suppose Cokie likes Myrtle Beach because she's more comfortable w/that demographic...

largely WHITE and upper middle-class or well-off. I suppose Hawaii is "exotic" because it's an ethnic jambalaya of sorts. Well COkie, THEY are Americans just like you.

[mwb970]

54. Aren't both Hawaii and Myrtle Beach cliches as vacation spots?

Every elderly retiree I know of has been to one or the other or both at some point. When Americans think "vacation", they seem to automatically think "Hawaii". Except Cokie, that is.

Personally, I have avoided visiting either of these places because of the "tourist trap" aspect, plus I just don't like to do what everyone else does (ornery, I guess). For Kookie Cokie to suggest that a vacation in Hawaii is "exotic" is just plain batshit crazy.

[zulchzulu]

56. I was hopeful when she announced she was going to leave the show

Apparently she had some health issues and she was going to leave the show.

[Orsino]

59. I would love to know how often Roberts herself vacations in Hawaii. n/t

[MBS]

60. "It’s hard to overstate how unusually dumb this is." ..

Boy, you said it!

[SOS]

61. I know "Cokie" is her name but it is somewhat odd.

nt

[LynneSin]

62. God forbid visiting your family is a strange and exotic thing to do

:grr:

I can't even begin to sum up the level of stupidity this comment makes. Hawaii is a state AND where many of Obama's family currently lives.

WHAT THE FUCK WAS COOKIE SMOKING?

[mokawanis]

64. plain language - Cokie's an asshole

To make that statement ad then repeat it a day or two later makes me think she's as out of touch as most politicians. She's been in the game too long, been corrupted by her success, and lives in insulated world. To hell with her.

[Alter Ego]

65. Cokie Roberts really is a fucking idiot.

Seriously, did she get those talking points straight from the McCain camp?

What a reach. "I know Hawaii is a state, but..." Geez, lady, could you be any more transparently pro-Gramps?

[blondeatlast]

67. Close--the Republican Party's official e-mail. Link to the thread forthcoming:

Here ya go:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x6624539

[dysfunctional press]

66. hawaii is our favourite vacation place by far...why would anyone consider it "odd"...?

especially since he partly grew up there and still has family there.

if it weren't for the time it takes getting there and back again, we'd definitely go more often. we've been there half a dozen times- we were married on kauai, and we've swam with the manta rays off the big island. i'd definitely prefer it to myrtle beach.