wtfCokie ROBERTS:Chelsea's role 2nite humanizing 'cause"Hillary is not good at relating to people."

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Cokie has, rather recently over the past decade or so, put herself out there as a powerful and commanding specifically-woman. I've seen this as a change for her. I'm old enough to remember a time when Hale BOGGS her father was a big big Democratic Name, then (for me) more vaguely afterward when her mother Lindy BOGGS took a place somewhat less prominently. And when Cokie was not even a blip.

Then in her early career she was a featured sort of Dem surrogate on yak shows, but came across as tentative and sort of wishy washy. I never saw her as a leader for feminism. But in the last decade she has been presenting herself as a powerhouse of a feminist spokesperson, and her quasi insights (small opinions) have turned into bellowing assertions. And, correspondingly, as she has come to see herself as the embodiment of all the women across history, her punditry has become "tough" (in quotes) and therefore harsher on Dems to show how "tough" minded she is.

So her bit on GMA was to say that apparently Hillary is some sort of alien, and that Chelsea needs to do something different from just the angle of Hillary as mother and grandmother and daughter because Hillary "doesn't even seem authentic talking about being a grandmother."

Wtf. I would submit to Cokie that people like Hale BOGGS and Hillary have more concrete accomplishments than just spouting assertions.

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1. Hillary is obviously good at relating to people

consider that she inspired so many of her colleagues to endorse her.

Then look at the people who spoke who had met her.

The media attempts to create these problems.

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2. Cokie sucks and has for a long time

This apple fell far from the tree

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3. When Obama went to Hawaii during his 2008 campaign,

Cokie Roberts was contemptuous. Apparently, while being accused of being Muslim and Kenyan, going to Hawaii only reinforced foreign-ness. A panelist commented that Hawaii was America, whereupon she huffed, that it was too "exotic."

I gazed at the TV, in stunned silence, blinking in utter disbelief.


Okay, like the rest of us, maybe Cokie knew his grandmother was ill, but did not know how very close to death his grandmother was, but still....

And that is another way media does us in. Republicans on these "balanced" panels never undercut or sabotage the candidate of their party. Cokie Roberts, who often sits in the seat of a Democrat on these panels, on the other hand, will do it in a New York nanosecond, with a backward glance.

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4. Yeah because we know...

Chelsea will have the most difficult job in the world tonight, because we all know that Hillary is not nearly as relatable and down home around people as Donald tRump is.

[anamandujano]

7. All the shysters are singing this tune in unison.

She's not even trying to scare up an original thought.

I heard it at PBS the first night of the convention and at NBC last night. I'm always yelling at the TV, "We know who signs your paychecks."

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5. No more reliable Republican shill than Cokie Roberts

with her Buckleyesque nasal delivery, she never fails to spin how bad things look for the Democrats, how they step in it every single time, all the while burnishing every Republican who comes into her orbit.

Was so done with her so long ago.

[rurallib]

6. so true - part of that NPR Republican commentator crew

Along with Cokie and Mara Liasson they have added Jonah Goldberg and bowtie Tucker with an occasional Erik fucking Erikson

Sell your souls and cash the checks

[lindysalsagal]

8. Cokie Roberts: The most opinionated do-nothing bag of hot air to waste the airwaves

Self-important: She could read a hard-boiled egg recipie like it was her parent's eulogy.

She's got one speed: "Death In The Family."

Not exactly where I go for a good judgement of humanity.