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Sunday night after the FOXNews GOP debate in New Hampshire, former Clinton advisor, Dick Morris, joined Sean Hannity for a hearty round of Hillary bashing. It’s not unusual to hear this kind of drivel at Fox, but Morris was particularly nasty and unhinged in this segment. He’s convinced that not only is Clinton going make a “dirty comeback” in the weeks to come, she’s going to use Bill Clinton’s “Sistah Souljah” tactics, and use veiled racial comments in order to win. Shameless.
Morris: “I think what she’s going to do is take a page from Bill’s playbook in 1992 when he was facing Jesse Jackson going into the New York primary. From out of nowhere, he seized on an episode with Sistah Souljah, who is a black rapper who apparently had dissed the National Anthem. And he attacked her, and the whole point was to use race as an issue against Jesse Jackson — which succeeded and he carried New York by a very large margin. And I think that what she’s going to do is she’s going to say, Obama’s unelectable, Americans won’t elect him, he can’t beat the Republican party, America’s not ready for Obama and what - he doesn’t have the experience to win. And what she’s going to mean is that they won’t vote for an African American, but she won’t say it. She’ll say everything but, but that’s what she means. And we’ll see if that works, I hope it doesn’t.”
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im so sick of hearing about the elections….
bush is loving it, great smokescreen!
I met Dick Morris’s father a few years ago. He was a mean-spirited, foul-mouthed, misogynistic man. The apple doesn’t fall far from that tree.
Well, Dick has never been above being a dick, so it all works out.
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His argument, while unfounded, is at least well formed. I wonder if he tried it out first with some of his prostitutes.
Sorry
I want to know how Sean is feeling now that his BFF Rudy 9iu11liani is in last place.
dBa @ 3:
they pull out these dicks whenever things look good for progressives and democrats.
it avoids having to look at the repuglicans’ record.
Even though he is truly a “Dick”, he’s right. Just like all the little Hillbots are using the “everyone is picking on Hillary cuz she’s a woman” smokescreen. Face it Hillary. You could be a black, hispanic, female Ghandi, and people would not vote for you. It’s YOU! Has nothing to do with race, ethnicity, or sex. You come across as a shrill, corporate puppet. Nothing more, nothing less.
More proof that Faux Noise gets all their neurotic, deranged mouth pieces right from the nearest Mental hospital.
Dick constantly puts his own DICK in his own mouth.
He is wrong. Jesse Jackson did not run in the 1992 election.
I am not a big Clinton fan, the Sistah Souljah incident was disgraceful, imho, but let’s not take what Dick Morris says too seriously. He can’t even get his facts straight. Jesse Jackson invited Clinton to speak, he was not running against him.
In other words … “I can’t prove that Hillary is a racist, but I dislike her so much I’ve convinced myself she could be. Therefore, she brought this on herself.”
Why do we have to hear what this toe sucking twit has to say!
Is there anyone employed by Fox that isn’t a sex offender or criminal?
This proves that Fox News is not above using ‘Dumb’ to beat themselves to death.
If 24/7 masturbation doesn’t do them in first.
Right wing media logic:
1. If she does everything but race-baiting, she’s race-bating.
2. If Clinton had NOT attacked Sista Souljah, Jesse Jackson would be president today!
HA ha ha ha!
morally bankrupt…but who better to analyze the clintons
Reminds me of that jon stewart bit…
Dick Morris can’t get his toe sucked by a hooker without it going out on the ap wire…
Anyone notice that Dick Morris has no neck!
Not that I doubt the dark heart of any politician but I had no idea these political hacks could tell the future and read minds. Someone needs to call Ripley’s !
And I agree with the comment that the all-out and way over the top election ‘coverage’ is nothing more than a mask that the msm is using to hide their buddies in the shrub co. criminal enterprise.
Unbelievable! And now this will get forwarded throughout the MSM to make people think that Clinton has actually said something racist. As I said, it’s just unbelievable.
Hey, liar with an obvious agenda, put the fucking fork down!
The Dick will say or do anything to diss Democrats, and especially the Clintons. Put this in context. Nobody but the choir and the bloggers are listening.
Preacher Boob @ 16:
WHAT? Is Falafel boy going to a round-the-clock format on Faux? Ick.
It’s frickin’ brilliant to have Colmes provide the “balance,” since he’s an idiot.
When someone is spewing — in this case, Morris — you make it worse when you try to shut them down with BS. Not only does it fail to slow them down, but when you try to use BS — in this case, the idea that Clinton’s reply to Sister Soulja wasn’t planned — then you actually give them more momentum, since every time a hack successfully fights off an attack they appear more credible.
At the same time as finding both of these people rather distasteful, I can’t help but agree with Morris’ basic point: that Clinton will go negative and she’ll do it very soon and very nastily. If I didn’t care so much, I’d find it entertaining.
Drudge is stating also that Hillary is going to drop out. Total BS. Obama is leading now but Hillary still has a huge base.
Some of us are capable of voting for the candidate we want not the candidate they want. Fox News wants Obama because they know he will be easier to beat in a general election.
Dick Morris is slime who has several times made very false and slanderous statements about Hillary. I hope she gets the chance soon the bitch slap him.
An observation: I googled “Electoral Votes by State” and find that Iowa and N.Hampshire
have a total of 11 Elec. Votes(7 in Iowa and 4 in N. Hampshire). Those 11 elec. votes
represent less than one third of one percent of the total 270 Elec. votes needed(out of 538) to be declared the winner. How is it that the main stream media(as is being reported
today) can be considered a creditable/reliable source when it is forecasting that Obama
is “running away” from Hillary? Is the MSM implying that the remaining 49 States, still
to hold their respective Primaries, do not count and that we(the voters) are like Lemmings
and will follow suit? Just saying…
So according to Dick Morris anything to do with Obama has something to do with race.
Speaking of Jessie J., I hope Sen. Obama tells him and Al Sharpton to take a hike. As a African American, I think these two attention seekers should, for everyone’s benefit, help by staying underground. They simply can’t help. Remember Ned Lamont and the pictures of these two firestarters stealing credit for his victory?
okieguy @ 27:
You could well be correct, but, if so, then I’d say that they’re moving too soon.
WTF? you say.
The sooner that you narrow it down to Edwards vs Obama or Clinton (but not Edwards vs both at the same time), the sooner the M$M will have to cover Edwards. And the sooner the M$M gives Edwards some real attention, the more likely he is to win the nomination.
okieguy @ 27:
Really? Don’t think so. Faux Luvs them some Hillary. They know the more attention given to her (good or bad, doesn’t matter) the better chance she has. Remember they helped Bush get elected the second time.
NEW YORK - Media mogul Rupert Murdoch, whose Fox News Channel and other conservative news outlets have been skewering Hillary Rodham Clinton for years, will host a summer fund-raiser for the senator, mystifying some observers and enraging others.
Especially incensed are liberal activists, who for months have decried what they see as a shift to a right on Clinton’s part as the Democrat contemplates a run for president in 2008. They are stunned that she is associating with a man viewed as a cornerstone of the “vast right-wing conspiracy,” a term Clinton herself employed.
“Hillary, help us. Who the hell are you?” thundered Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen.
What would the world be without a Clinton to bash? Obama is getting younger people engaged. Very good. It’s about time. But I ask, where was the 18-21 year old demographic when us “old people” they are now slamming and bashing and belittling were battling our asses off to put Gore over the top in 2000?
Nothing personal just think about it.
Why, she’s the Democratic Party’s answer to John McCain of course.
I recall that the “Sistah Souljah” incident was seen at the time as an effort by Clinton to show that he wasn’t beholden to the black community and other liberal special interests.
Part of a “triangulation” strategy - a move to the middle.
I’m not a gung-ho HC fan, but to listen to a low-life like Dick Morris talk trash with a career like he’s had is laughable … makes me want to bathe. This is a man who worked for Trent Lott and Jesse Helms and in typical republican fashion enjoys recreational sex with prostitutes. At least Fox likes him.
Didn’t you know it wouldn’t take long before they started accusing Hillary Clinton of using the race card. I guess the MSM is deaf, dumb and blind. They haven’t said a word or reported a flash about Obama using it. And oh by the way. What’s the difference in using the race card when Obama and the rest of the candidates have been using the GENDER card against Hillary since she declared her campaign.
And the press well hell they love to play the gender card, the hate card, the vile card, the swiftboating card and any thing else they can pull out of the rove dirty tricks bag against Hillary Clinton. You know the campaign THEY HAVE had against her for the last 20 years.
Since Obama is such a weakling and is not supposed to be critized do you think he would be cowering in one of cheney’s undisclosed locations if he had to contend with the daily dose of hate and vile Hillary Clinton has to put up with.
Mr. Morris, meet irrelevance.
L.A. Confidential @ 33:
Gore won L.A. The election results were fraudulent. That isn’t young people’s fault although they have quite a few faults. A better question would be, Who the hell are these millions of morons that actually voted FOR Bush twice?
Dick: hey Sean, my new hooker wants to say hi from my bedroom.
L.A. Confidential @ 33:
My recollection is that Generation X was trying to get a job and Generation Y wasn’t quite old enough to vote. I agree that they weren’t very much help.
Of course if Obama goes on to win the nomination, it will be perfectly acceptable if the Republican candidate does the same thing, right Dick?
Does anyone know the the percentage of viewers watch Faux News? I can’t believe so many people are so stupid.
L.A. Confidential @ 33:
You are so so right. And remember the so called campaign the YOUNG people had when they said they were going to vote in 2004. Gee they didn’t show up did they. And I love the fact that Obama is now calling on Ted Kennedy to quit because he is too old. Ted Kennedy who fought more than any other person in the senate to get civil rights for Obama and his people. If it hadn’t been for Ted Kennedy and his fight where do you think Obama would be now, not running for president. And his panning of labor, the unions and Al Gore and John Kerry saying the divided this country, what in the hell is he doing. YOU DON’T WANT TO GET THE OLD FOLKS AGAINST YOU BUDDY.
jr @ 15:
Bill Hemmer? Nah, probably not.
Doggiebobo @ 28:
I have always felt that this is what they want or even insist that we believe. That once the first primary is over, the race can be safely called and we can all go back to bed. I will admit that the first primaries are always high interest because this is where we get the first real idea of what people are thinking, of who has really made an impression and which way the party itself may be headed. But as an absolute predictor of the future outcome? Not by a long shot.
That sort of thing is just wishful or lazy thinking.
ConcernedCanuck @ 39:
They are the people you find at Church, not the clubs and hip spots.
From Wikipedia, the criticism of Sister Souljah was based on her statement:
“If Black people kill Black people every day, why not have a week and kill white people?”
Morris is either stupid or a liar, or both.
Why doesn’t anyone ever snag Morris for an interview about something on which he is an expert?
Like how much to tip an Dominatrix who specializes in beating your pecker with the heels of her spangled boots?
Okay, Morris got his nano second of attention. Let’s move on.
Suggesting something might happen doesn’t mean it will. If that were the case, cheney would already be impeached along with bush right behind him. We all have been suggesting that should happen.
Why attack a politician for something she actually said, when Dick Morris can just speculate about something she theoretically might say and attack her for that?
Marge @ 37: