Countdown's Worst Persons: GOP Candidates Edition
By Nicole Belle Tuesday Jan 15, 2008 2:01pm
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Tuesday's Worst Persons In The World segment on Countdown featured GOP presidential candidates. First up with the bronze is John McCain, who touted the recent de-Baathification law as proof that the surge is working and we're winning in Iraq. (Anyone else tired of that canard?) Unfortunately for McCain, the reality is that the new law isn't so great, especially for the ex-Baathists it supposedly helps.
The silver goes to Mitt Romney for his silly staged "concerned for the little people" photo op in Marshall with the mother of one of his staffers. By the way, as an eagle-eyed commenter over at Balloon Juice noted, Elizabeth Sachs has been in the news before. Ooooh, it's a sign!
And finally, the gold goes to Rudy "Señor Nuevo Once" Giuliani, whose harsh English-0nly rhetoric has been tempered or rendered ridiculous (your choice) by his pandering to the Hispanic vote in his all-in bid for relevance in Florida, including a visit with Katherine Harris to a bilingual Hispanic mega-church in Miami. ¿Dónde está la double standard, Rudy?
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frist! yes, i'm never first! This is going to be an entertaining GOP primary season.
Keith, put your own company execs in your top three for last night's exclusion of Kucinich. Brian Williams and Russert also deserve spots. Where's your unbiased journalistic integrity? Silence is consent.
"Keith, put your own company execs in your top three for last night’s exclusion of Kucinich. Brian Williams and Russert also deserve spots. Where’s your unbiased journalistic integrity? Silence is consent."
As a resident of Nevada, and as an aspiring attorney, the Nevada Supreme Court made the right decision. A State Court has no jurisdiction to tell a cable operator what to do unless and until all remedies through the FCC and (in this case) the FEC have been exhausted. Kuchinich did not even go through the motions, and simply filed for a judicial remedy. Such a remedy is the remedy of last resort, not the first.
Kucinich has less than 1% support here - no amount of exposure is going to raise his numbers enough to meet the 15% threshold to remain viable past the first round of the caucuses. MSNBC, just as ABC did in New Hampshire, has the right to narrow the field to the candidates who are capable of meeting minimum levels of support.
Spotts1701 @ 3:
Yes, I agree; the "rule of law" should and did correctly apply, but as to Brian Williams
and Timeth(prune face) Russett, they do earn recognization in K.O.'s "worst" for their
"performance" last night. Right up there with O'Liely.
I got a sign from God inside a potato!
Yes, that Elizabeth Sachs!
While it's always important to remain vigiliant against the evils of these people, we can tell when it's a slow news day for Keith. The telltale signs are barrels of fish and Keith totin' a 12 gauge.
myiq2xu @ 5:
The message I got from that-there guy upstairs walking around on the clouds was
in a tomatoe.
MSNGE: Worst Network in the Worrrrrrrld
Doggiebobo @ 7:
Tomatoe...tomato...let's call the whole thing off.
liberalNmoderation @ 9:
Right on...thanks for spelling correction. By the way, the message was in the form
of a worm, so I think it was a sign not to eat the tomato because it was rotten.
"It's been really hard," Sachs said. "This potato has changed everything. I can't explain it. It's given me hope and I know God's here."
She went from potato to Willard. She likes starchy white things with superficial aspirations to divinity.
Doggiebobo @ 10:
Ah I wasn't correctin ya...I was thinkin of that ol' song, lol!
Well the tomato may have been rotten, but the worm was probably ripe. ;)
Gouliani was there to show the world that he felt comfortable around "Mexicans" ;-)
And Katheren Harris was hoping to find a guy that didn't know that she is batshit crazy ;-)
Manila Ryce @ 2:
I agree, I am through with MSNBC and their crappy programming, Keith too.
It's happened again!!!:
http://tinyurl.com/ysgy7u
What, the Worst Person in the World isn't Hillary Clinton for running against Barack Obama?
First they laugh at you, then they fight you... http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Fox__Friends_attacks_MSNBCs_Keith_0116.html
Romney's featuring people in his campaign who see God in a baked potato?
WHY is the Republican party so full of lunatics? Is this a plague that's swept America, or is it just confined to the Republican party?
"Senor Nuevo Once" means "Mr. New Eleven". It should be "Senor Nueve Once".
fyi.
It's actually "Nueve Once", and that's a good idea, all the candidates should have monikers, such as John "El Abuelo" McCain, Mike "Jesucristo" Huckabee, and Mitt "¿Cual Posición?" Romney.
"Rudy,Rudy, is me kathleen harris...remember me, I threw the 2000 election so bush got elected...I maybe can do the same for you....".
Spotts1701 @ 3:
And who/what exactly gives them that right? Technically, you're right that the FCC doesn't have jurisdiction in this, but why the f**k are we letting entertainment companies make decisions about debates? That's just insane. Do you not have any concept of that? The only people who have the right to narrow that field are VOTERS!!!
This isn't network entertainment programming, this is about a free, fair democratic election. That debate went out to the whole country and was not just broadcast locally in Nevada. No entertainment company has the right to decide for me who is a viable candidate and who isn't. Why even have this election? Let's just let the networks decide this thing based and who makes for the best storyline and ratings or who's ahead in the polls a year before the election? People like you really piss me off. Go back to watching TMZ.
Rudy will have to go new wife shopping after he loses FL
Doggiebobo @ 4:
I'm not a lawyer, nor would I ever pretend to be one, but Spotts argument is off-base here and should practice better on-topic stay-it-to-itiveness. I'm an engineering grad a couple of decades removed, so without a great command of our language I'll attempt to sort through this.
Manila Ryce makes a very good point. Whether Kucinich went through the proper channels or not is a point Spotts makes to whether Kucinich was serious enough in wanting to be included in the debate. It, like Gore's contest in the Florida recount, was a mistake on Kucinich's campaign, small (but with heavy consequences for dinky Nevada) that it was. Nevertheless NBC did exclude a serious candidate from the debate last night and fought to keep it so. Whether its their right or not, it was wrong and an attack on democracy in a country that (am I wrong about this?) espouses itself to the world as a beacon of democracy.
"Worst Person In The World" nominee.
Manila Ryce, and all others out there, you knew that this was going to be the case though. Chris Matthews should have been branded "Worst Person..." status, on the spot, by Keith on their MSNBC Morning Joe the morning after the New Hampshire Primaries for his incredibly insensitive and unbelieveably wrong comments regarding Hillary. An MSNBC Countdown runner should have woke Keith up, dragged him on the set and slapped Matthews right then and there.
End game: Keith must get rid of the "Worst Person..." segment because beside naming himself, which he has done at least once already, he can't pick on the boys and girls in his own sandbox. Getting rid of the segment will take away the relentless hits on O'Reilly (and the fun that ensues afterward) but since he can't be honest and say that everyone is fair game and that no one is protected, he shouldn't have it. Sorry Keith.
Jesus Flipper Christ. These people are absolute lunatics. GOD'S IN THE POTATO!!
Christ, this batshit-crazy woman makes Scientologists look like Ghandi.
Ha! Remember the Austin Powers movie "Goldmember?" He asks Austin if he wants a "shmoke n' a pancake."
How about "Pope In A Pancake?" Check it out:
Hmm... that link is:
http://www.woodtv.com/Global/story.asp?s=3961791
jr @ 23:
The day he drops out, I close the shop & throw a huge party.
After we sober up, I igonre the rest of the elections,...!
Katherine Harris??!! Perhaps Rudy's eye doth wander?
Glinda @ 29:
Damn, that's just nasty.
Keith has lost his credibility.
It's okay for him to get all Murrow on Bush and FOX, but when his network censors democracy, KO folds up and dances like the corporate facade he is.
And he knows it. His silence speaks volumes.
Boycott NBC/MSNBC.
Let KO know why.
Worst person in the world can sometimes be so Spititually liftingly truthful.
I swear Olberman is spreading freedom by giving them truth that sets the free !
Spotts1701 @ 3:
If so, let them treat both parties equally. They included all Republican candidates. They had no right to exclude any viable Democratic candidates.
As Dennis Kucinich said, the network is trying to use laws intended for use by the press, and no such protection exists for presidential debates on television.
How dare any of the network stations exclude any candidate running for president whether they be Republican or Democrat? How dare they make such decisions for the American people?
If Dennis Kucinich had been in the debate, it would have been a much more interesting and worthwhile debate, and Gravel should have been included also as he is still a candidate.
When and only when the parties have made the decision as to which candidate will represent them, the networks have a right to exclude the candidates that did not make the cut, and not before.
The network news has no right to make the cut on behalf of the American people. To make these decisions regarding Democratic candidates and not do so for Republican candidates is suspicious activity at best. To do so for candidates of either party is high-handed and unacceptable.
I am ashamed of what America's network news service has become: a propaganda machine and a vehicle by which to deceive the American public. Whether Kucinich is popular in Nevada or not is irrelevant to this discussion. The point is the right of every viable candidate to have a place at the table for any discussions of their views, and discourse with one another.
No network station has the right to tell the American public for whom to vote. This unfortunate and unconscionable practice must be stopped.
Mr Olbermann had to open the segment with an apology for calling the doughy pantload "Johnathan". 15 Johnathan Goldbergs waving fully stuffed diapers outside MSNBC had confronted him in typical liberal fascist manner (pouty lower lip) stating that unless he apologizes to their mothers for such an aggregious error he'll be forced to actually...............read the book.
Olbermann capitulated.
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