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On The McLaughlin Group, host John McLaughlin asked his panel their view on the pundit-driven “come from behind” Hillary Clinton win in the New Hampshire. Monica Crowley takes the cake for her analogy that is offensive on so many levels. Nothing like painting Hillary Clinton as a unhinged, dangerous killer for winning an primary.
McLaughlin: “What did you think of Hillary’s performance?”
Crowley:”Well, you know, she’s like Glenn Close at the end of Fatal Attraction - you think she’s dead and then she just bolts upright in the tub!”
Is that so? Well, I don’t think it would be out of line to say that Ms. Crowley is like Ann Coulter, except not so much “class,” ahem.
Thanks to Nicole for her assistance.
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You’re too easily offended.
Relatively speaking, it may have been much worse.
Side note: it’s just so cute seeing Monica flirt with John. It’s like watching a train-wreck in slow motion.
Steve Charb @ 1:
Of course. There’s absolutely no reason to be offended by an entirely artificial ’sudden demise’ and ‘miracle comeback’ and media that continues to obsess over Barack’s middle name (while forgetting the late King Hussein of Jordan), John Edwards’ hair, or Hillary’s laugh.
There’s certainly no reason to be offended by a comparison to a film villain, particularly a psychologically unbalanced, knife-wielding one.
But cast the merest aspersion in the general direction of Bush, and you get throngs of automatic patriots and accusations of being ‘Bush haters,’ disloyal to the core, and suggestions you should be tried for treason or enabling al-Qaeda.
No First Lady has ever received such disrespect. It’s amazing. Barbara Bush was/is a much bigger bitch than anyone, yet no one ever made jokes about her balls hanging out of her skirt or compared her to a movie villain.
Steve Charb @ 1:
Who said they were offended?
I’m so sick of this librul media.
DickCheneyShotMeInTheFace @ 4:
No, they compared her to the guy on the Quaker Oats box.
DickCheneyShotMeInTheFace @ 4:
I’d still do Monica.
C. Montgomery Burns @ 8:
Yeah, one my heroines. I can’t say the same for Hillary, but the personal attacks are getting ridiculous. Call her out on the issues and that’s it.
myiq2xu @ 7:
Really? On The MacLaughlin Group. Supposedly serious pundits on The McLaughlin Group (or any of the Sunday news talk shows) said Barbara Bush looked like the Quaker Oats box?
Or was it hack comics on crap standup showcase programs? And you can’t tell the difference?
here’s a hint, if, while you’re watching the program, you’re hung over, embarrassed and desperately trying to remember the name of your date, it’s probably sunday morning.
Back on-topic, I thought it was kind of an unfair douchey comparison when I saw it yesterday, too. If you had to draw a comparison, and since the political race IS a race, a competition, I’d think a sports analogy - Rocky, Miracle, hell even the Mighty Ducks - would make more sense. She’s down, but not out. Beat down, but not beaten, and she’s still going.
Makes more sense to me than a “Oh, my God that crazy bitch Just! Won’t! Stay! DEAD!!!” comparison.
But then again, I don’t fear Hillary, I’m not some attention whore trying to think of something to say on network TV, and I’m not a big republican pu$$y. That may make a difference.
The arrogance of this ass clown to think her stupid little comment on Mrs. Clinton has any significance. :(
If Crowley is going to make that comparison then I suppose its safe to compare John McCain’s comeback to a rising from the grave zombie like the ones found in the movie The Night of the Living Dead or maybe even the Crypt Keeper.
DickCheneyShotMeInTheFace @ 4:
barbara bush ? you mean the grand old gal of shitbags? the wortless piece of crap who dropped george w bush from her nether regions? the old fartbag who said katrina victims beniffited from looseing thier homes thier familys thier pets just because they ended up in the shithole of houston texas, what a grand old gal, shes the yellow rose of texas,
Who is this insignificant slag and why is McClaughlin still on ?
Monica should talk. Look at her career. She’s had more lives than any pussy I’ve ever known.
The bitch just won’t stay dead.
tyree @ 14:
That’s the one.
It’s time for some good blond jokes!
Who watches the McLaughlin Group anymore? You can’t learn a damn thing with everyone shouting and cutting each other off with school yard taunts.
As for Monica Crowley, any relation?
http://library.thinkquest.org/.....owley1.jpg
Pinky & the Brain called them the McLoudness Group.
tyree @ 14:
Jabba the Hut with pearls.
This Monica Crowley is without doubt the most ignorant bitch I have ever heard on PBS. No original thought,not funny or interesting, just a preemptive Hillary hater from the right wing urinal.
Question! On a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being non-existent and 10 being universal certitude, just how dumb a bitch is Monica?
Eleanor Clift: I’d say a 4.
Tony Blankley: 6
Pat Buchanan: 8
The correct answer is 9.7…bye bye.
Maybe this is a good comparison for Crowley to use when she explains John McCain’s surprising comeback. Heres Johnny!
The Best Part Of The Shining
http://youtube.com/watch?v=2TVooUHN7j4
Monica Crowley is a joke. When she was on the Daily Show she had the balls to say George Bush could become the best president ever, she was practically laughed off stage. When she use to share a program with Ron Reagan JR. She always spouted her right-wing crap. Totally laughable!
At this point Hillary Clinton is getting my vote.
To get this much outpouring of bile from the MSM and their buddies in the blogosphere (like the now discredited HuffingtonPost) she must really be something great.
Women are the bottom rung on the totem pole.
They were last in line to even get the vote - decades after all men, white and black, had secured the vote.
Difficult to believe, but true.
How she can retain her composure in the face of such an irrational onslaught is beyond me.
I find Monica Crowley to be particularly noxious among the right wing blowhards I am aware of.
During a radio interview with Conrad Black I heard a couple of weeks ago (taped apparently sometime in the beginning of 2007) - beyond sucking up to him about how hard it must be to endure the hardships of being on trial - Crowley was interviewing him in relation to a biography of Richard Nixon that he had recently written or published.
The most infuriating statement within the interview (and there were many) was a statement by Crowley about how Nixon was essentially dragged down by some lunatic fringe of the Left, that it was some vendetta, that the conspiracy was out to get a decent man.
Hunter S. Thompson
Among many unbelievably cynical and infuriating tactics of the current conservative punditocracy, the effort to simultaneously revive Nixon’s reputation, and cast him as a closet liberal to be smeared from the right is one of the truly disgusting ones. And she is one of the proponents of that.
Ruthless People @ 21:
My hope is that these pundits wake up in a parallel universe where everyone in the media is putting them under a microscope and making glib jokes about them 24/7 and making vast sweeping assumptions about their personal lives and families. Actually, the first pundit I hope that happens to is Tweety.
ReBorn @ 26:
corporation money buys a lot of resolve hillary never ever turned down that kind of resolved!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ruthless People @ 21:
I remember when Cokie Roberts said about Barbara Bush that she was “beloved” - pronounced in three syllables:
“be -lov -ed”. I wanted to tear my hair out.
This whole discussion about personal attacks against Hillary is at times silly.
First of all, the “attacks” on her are coming from the same people they’ve always come from…the GOP and the right wing that despise both her and Bill. These are the infamous personal attacks that are being mentioned above.
On the Dem side, I’m sorry…but I just don’t see it. Her opponents have attacked her in debates over her policies, but the fact is that those are all fair game. Hell, she’s the “experienced” candidate…so she has a track record, and it is fair game in a debate. NO ONE on the Democrat side has brought up gender or race. The fact is…she has. She uses her gender covertly, such as when she “wells up”, she uses it when she has Bill attack her opponents (remember…he’s not simply a supporter…he’s her husband).
She is the one using surrogates to attack Obama over race. I’m not looking to start an argument, I’m merely pointing out what I see. Personally, I don’t think either one of them can win a NATIONAL election, and I’ve said that for two years.
tyree @ 14:
Hey Tyree,
Yeah, that’s the one - the one who even called Hillary a “..I don’t want to say it, but it rhymes with witch” during the 1992 campaign. Can you imagine how much shit Hillary would’ve gotten if she would have said that about Barbara? Of course, it’s always OK for Repigs to say shit like that, because they’re the party of Jay-sus.
And please don’t take my previous post as a step back from my original position…
Monica is still a stupid bitch.
ReBorn @ 26:
Depends on what you mean by “secured,” ReBorn.
Blacks in the South waited a great many decades longer to “secure” the vote than women, no matter what the Bill of Rights says.
the most offensive part about this video clip is that woman’s shirt!
my god, is it 1983 again and no one told me??
looks like her fashion choices are about as relevant as her assessment of Mrs Clinton.
Liberal AND Proud @ 31:
My concern is McCain winning in Michigan, then getting the nomination. Of all the Repukes running, he is the one who will be most palatable to the majority of the party faithful, and will attract the most independents, even though he sold out his vaunted “maverick” title by kissing Bush’s ass for the past 7 years.
McCain over Clinton or Obama in a squeaker.
You heard it here first.
honeybunny @ 35:
She’s wearing Katie Couric hand-me-downs.
In Lies and the Lying Lyers Who Tell Them, Al Franken tells a high-lari-ous story of having to sit next to barbara boosh on an airliner.
Liberal AND Proud @ 37:
Did she have to take them in?
Matt in Texas @ 36:
I totally agree with you. McCain is going to be the GOP choice for all the reasons you outlined, and yes…he CAN beat either Clinton or Obama. He will be able to garner enuf “undecideds” based on his being a veteran, his age and experience, his “blandness”, which will make him appear “steady” and focused (unlike the current WH occupant), he will also siphon off women voters who will simply not vote for a woman (look at Hillary’s demographics with women…she does lousy with “older women” due to her acceptance of Bill’s infidelity…and thos women actually VOTE) and if he’s running against Obama, he can siphon off enuf of the black vote based on track record (McCain has supported minority programs and is accepted to be at minimum a moderate on those issues).
love the Victorian blouse honey!
god, i hate hillary so much
she is like a zombie and everything she does is calculated
The thing that makes it all worse is the laughing response. That, and Crowley’s material for her hack attack is so goddam old.
honeybunny @ 35: