The Look on the Faces of the "Pundits" at MSNBC Tonight Was Priceless...

[McCamy Taylor]

...when Obama had just finished speaking, they did what MSNBC usually tries not to do---they actually showed McCain delivering a long speech about his big wins in the DC area states. Remember that for weeks, everyone at MSNBC except KO and Richard Wolfe has been calling McCain a "maverick" or a "truth teller" or an "independent". I have heard him described as "giving the finger" to the establishment. To hear the employees of General Electric talk, this old soldier and favorite son of the Pentagon (General Electric's best customer) is one spry old political fighter cut from the same cloth as a Barry Goldwater. But you do not actually get to see him in action much on MSNBC.

I saw him on CNN a couple of days ago, and I figured out why. They should make videos of McCain and market them as insomnia aids. CNN is stumping for the Democrats( for economic reasons related to their parent company's cable business), so they like to talk about how Huckabee is walloping McCain---and they like to show McCain in action, just to remind people how easy it is to wallop him.

Anyway, tonight, for who knows what insane reason, the producers at MSNBC decided to interrupt an Obama speech to cut into a McCain speech. And boy was it slow. And dry. And monotone. And he looked so old. And bored. The highlights were when he kept referring to his POW experience, but he made even those sound dreary. As if all the life had been sucked out of him in the service of his country. I guess he cleaned up in the pity vote.

Cut back to KO and Tweety. KO says they have learned never to show anyone speaking after Obama. Tweety starts to say something about a strange feeling going up his thigh when he hears Obama talk. KO tells him not to go there.

The round table assembles.Everyone is very solemn. Someone---I think it is Pat Buchanan* announces at some point that the press has been easy on Obama,but it is time to start looking seriously at him or some other euphemism for "We have to start attacking him".

At this point, I just started laughing. The plan all along was to have Rudi be the nominee, in which case Obama was a good choice, because Rudi fights like a pit bull. Rudi also didn't vote for the war, and he is an outsider, and he isn't a million years old. Hillary could have given Rudi a run for his money, but the feel good Obama would have been an easy target. However, Rudi turned into the the All Fox FCC All the Time candidate, and so he got shit on by the other corporate media companies. That left Romney and McCain, and there was no way the country would elect a Mormon---

---so now we are in 1976, with our very own Gerald Ford---McCain---and suddenly Obama is looking a lot like Jimmy Carter Superstar. And all he has to do is not look like John McCain to win.

This was not what Karl Rove set out to do when he started trying to interfere with the Democratic primary. If he had known it would be McCain, he would have been better off with Hillary , because then it would have been grandma vs. grandpa, and grandpa could have run on an honesty platform in which all he would have had to do was try not to look like Hillary.

:rofl:

The best laid plans of the corporate media....


*Pat Buchanan is still doing on air commentary for the Democratic primary, despite his history of criminal attacks on the 1972 Democratic primary. I know some think I should let old dogs lie. But you know, a journalist who committed plagiarism would no longer have a career in journalism. One who wrote a series of news reports in which he made up sources would no longer be welcome in the world of journalism. Journalists have to be credible. John Dean turned Nixon in, repented, went to jail and reformed. Buchanan lied to Congress, advised Nixon to burn the tapes and have never repented. How does he have any journalistic credibility? He only has his current gig because everyone knows that he knows dirty tricks. So, they should come out and tell the viewer "Pat, rumor has it that you and Nixon's other people in CREEP arranged to feed Ed Muskie drugs in 1972, and you all had the FBI inform the press about Terry Eagleton's mental problems and then blackmailed him into not dropping out graciously. We know you can't comment on these stories, but with a history like that, you can probably tell us what kind of wild and crazy things to expect from the candidates this year."

[AtomicKitten]

1. I liked the visual.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=4567075&mesg_id=4567075

[John Q. Citizen]

2. Yeah, I think it's looking good.

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

3. good points. I have wondered why McCain is even running

he is not anything like the man I thought he was several years ago.

His candidacy is the most tortured, undignified event, its like watching that
white house correspondents dinner or something when Karl Rove got up and danced and said
he was MC Rove.

I know it sounds silly, but I wonder what on earth could make these jokers do this shit unless
someone had something really really bad on them.

What with the warrentless wiretapping, some people could find out anything.

Stock tips anyone?

[McCamy Taylor]

5. You read my mind. I think they sent Martha Stewart to jail as a warning.

The spying started as soon as Cheney got into office, so it was obviously to keep track of his enemies at home---probably people in Congress and the press. Maybe business enemies. Democrats on regulatory committees. They could intercept emails and phone calls anyone made. That would include communications between Kerry's wife and her stock broker. What if he told her to sell something right before it crashed. And when Kerry was going to challenge Ohio, Rove said "We know your wife got insider info and we are ready to prosecute and send her to jail just like Martha Stewart"? Or maybe his wife's cousin or best friend. Since they had seen Martha Stewart go to jail for something that was almost not a crime that probably everyone of them has done at some time, that meant that a whole bunch of people were suddenly subject to WH blackmail.

Or what about the people whose family members seek treatment for substance abuse or who see prostitutes or who are gay?

It seemed funny to me that the Senate Judiciary Committee said "No" to retroactive immunity to the telecoms but the Intelligence Committee was so adamant about yes. What is the difference? The Judiciary guys are all good lawyers. They know how to cover their asses. They probably never send an incriminating email or make an incriminating phone call and they have probably taught their families how to do the same. So, they are probably hard to blackmail. The guys on the Intelligence Committee would much easier targets.

As for impeachment--hell, I will bet that there are dozens of people in Congress who are being blackmailed with the stuff the telecoms have. They have every single phone call and fax and email. How could they not have dirt on Congressmen's cousins and brothers and best friends?

And when they leave DC, Karl Rove will take it all with him to use later. Obama will have to completely clean the DOJ to find anyone willing to prosecute him, and even then all the judges will probably be vulnerable.

That is why warrantless wiretap is so bad.

[Occam Bandage]

4. Interrupt an Obama speech? You mustn't have been watching closely.

They let Obama finish his victory speech, and then cut to McCain's victory speech, which was already in progress. Something of a slap in the face to McCain, actually.

Other than that, well, your analysis is a kick. I don't buy it, but it's a kick.

[Indenturedebtor]

6. No they interupted on CNN

Yeah it was pretty sad watching him blather on up there. And man who told him to tout Bush's policies? Fool.