This Week: Halperin Thinks McMansion's House Gaffe Spells Trouble For - Obama?
By Logan Murphy Saturday Aug 23, 2008 1:30pm
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During the roundtable discussion on today's This Week, "journalist" Mark Halperin shows yet again that he's fully in bed with John McCain. As Donna Brazile, Cokie Roberts and the always flaky George Will do the usual back and forth, Halperin chimes in with a zinger that is so ridiculous that even host George Stephanopoulos can't let it slide:
Halperin: " My hunch is that this is going to end up being one of the worst moments in the entire campaign for one of the candidates, but it's Barack Obama. I believe this has opened the door to not just Tony Rezko in that ad, but to bring up Reverend Wright, to bring up his relationship with Bill Ayers. I think that the Obama campaign agressively jumped on something -"
Stephanopolous: "Don't you think that was going to come up anyway?"
Of course it is, it already has and Halperin knows that. He speaks as though John McCain hasn't already been running a nasty, Rove-designed campaign already. Halperin's talking points sound eerily familiar to those of another McCain hack, Joe Watkins. Perhaps they're feeding at the same trough?
UPDATE: (Nicole) Oh, this is too good. Balloon Juice's John Cole awards Halperin an award of merit for his servicing of McCain. (h/t Bill W.)
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Yeah...this makes perfect "NO"sense. What a bucket of bull shit from another mcAncient shill.
This whole panel must be in mourning when the cameras are turned off.
Typical republican strategy, take Democrat's strengths and try to turn them into weaknesses. It's time to stop falling for this old trick.
Well at least Halperin got to get the words Rezko, Wright and Ayres into the conversation. He probably gets points for that.
This is pathetic on Halperin's part and makes him look like an idiot.
Re: cognitive dissonance
Mark Halperin wrote a book I loved, A Winter's Tale. Then he turned into whatever he is in his display. God Almighty I'm glad I don't have tv. What on earth is he talking about? Please C&L people, do you really think this is going to be a 50/50 election? They (and I mean "they") keep saying it, but it sure don't look like that from here. Still not sure about Biden though. My husband was hoping for Wesley Clarke. AN there's nothing wrong with hope, unless it's blind. Have a nice Sunday. And welcome back, Nicole, I really missed you.
Ya know, I could never, ever get a job as a pundit. My problem is that my IQ has 3 digits. I guess that let's me out as a Republican operative as well.
Joe Watkins is disgusting, not just because I disagree with him - heck, HE might not even believe half the trash he spits out through that million megawatt smile he has permanently on his lying face -- it's just that he and that other nasty mofo Brad Blakeman (the GOP hack and circus master of the 2000 Florida recount) will go out ahead and lie and misdirect with impunity, they're just paid hecklers after all right?, because their job isn't to elevate their own candidates at all. It's merely to send out negative talking points, to soften the opposition. And here's the sick part, they'll tell you straight that it's what they do - because it works! Not on me anymore, I've been watching these guys for three elections now. Troublingly, there seems to be some people who are buying that Rezko is "the man Obama doesn't want to talk about" . Except that he HAS talked about it -- because it doesn't have ANYTHING TO DO WITH HIM. Rezko is bad, or has been bad since, but if we're going to start retroactively placing guilt by association...well the GOP shouldn't want to go there. Bush would be in jail, and John McKeating Five, the Senator from (R) Hanoi. Oh and this answer to everything "I spent five years in P.O.W. camp." Of course John, how foolish of me for doubting you. And why did the media wave off GENERAL Wesley Clark for daring to ask what everyone knew, that McCain was a good soldier, but as Biden and Obama pointed out also, "a good soldier" doesn't mean a great president. OH and the best one all week, after weeks of trying to paint Obama as the "elitist" it finally gets out that McCain is loaded with dough and lives a lavish lifestyle. SUDDENLY the GOP hacks are saying "What's wrong with being successful" "You have to be Elite to run for president, these days it costs a lot of money." The Watkins, the Blakemans and Terry Holts will say anything to smash open a discourse on negativity. Maybe Joe Biden will clean their expensive clocks.
50%-50%?
I really don't think so, I see 70%-30% in Obama's favor. Ofcoarse the fruad elections our great democracy holds will show a 50%-50%. We are ripped off, our country is not our country anymore, many people know this, many people are determined to act on it.........................
That's not even wishful thinking. That downright delusional.
In other words - typical re-pukelic trash.
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Who is Mark Halperin anyway? Never heard of him.
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Since most Americans don't actually watch these "news" shows, the only thing they know is that Obama is a Muslim terrorist who eats children for breakfast (according to all the McCain ads). McCain is a hero, no questions asked. Fair and balanced, that.
Imagine the laundry lists for attacks if Senator Clinton had been the nominee. They would have gone back even before Whitewater and pulled out every old piece of bs they could find. But having Obama to sling shit at is more difficult. As it is they just have Rezko, Wright and Ayers. They have to get every drop they can out these three names until they can round up something else they believe to be sordid..
Did anyone catch the MTP interview with Nancy Pelosi? Just wandering because if I saw correctly, Mc Mansion wasn't the first to call for a surge. In a 2004 interview with Russert (RIP), she was promoting the need for additional forces. This at a time when McStupidass was riding Bush/Rumsfeld's scrottum. Seems the MSM is starting to expose their own lies and coverups. As far as McRichboy is concerned, we are supposed to vote for him for two reasons and two only: I am still a POW, and my Brain is SURGE- ing! My resonse is :
McIlliterate maybe you should return to one of YOUR houses, call Dr. Phil and Sumjay Gupta so that you can receive counseling for your apparent lack of understanding that the war in vietnam has ended, and an MRI to stop the SURGE in your brain. WE as astute Americans are not fooled by your (REPUBS) silly talking points. This election is about real issues, and if you can't get over the past, how can we as a nation expect you to take us into the future? You and your buddies maY FIND IT FUNNY TO MOCK our candidate, but when you all experience what an amazing ground game Our Camp has, we will see who gets the last laugh. As far as Sen. Biden: I say welcome aboard fine and faithful soldier. We need to get the rest of the party elders " Off their Ass and on their Feet"! This is important to my family, my friends and for them to sit as if It's not in their interest to speak of behalf of our chosen leader (Obama), just amazes me. This is our country and if we expect to rescue it from the REthugs, then we have to fight toothe and nail all of us.
Round Table? Great, now that little pipsqueak Stephalottapuss thinks he is King Arthur! I was just getting used to Napoleon.
DeMarco @ 12:
When the guillotines come back in vogue these million dollar salaried 'journalists' may well find their heads in a basket.
I will shed crocodile tears, by the buckets.
Rezko, Wright and Ayres, oh my!
Rezko, Wright and Ayres, oh my!
Rezko, Wright and Ayres, oh my!
Please. McBush has hired the same smearers and swiftboaters than was used to tear down John Kerry. We've only seen the beginning. I say stop playing defense for a change and go on the offensive now, you know wha'ts coming down the road from McBush and we've only had a taste of it thus far.
halperin like so many neocons is
readily identifiable by their enormous
weight gain and the LIES and DECEPTIONS
that spew from their mouths(one on each end).
One House, One Spouse, Obama/Biden 08
What BS. The Rezko story is BS, one of guilt by association and no actual wrongdoing, and Halperin knows it. The same is true of Ayers and really, Wright as well. He doesn't care whether something's true or not, only with how it will play.
If all these losers have on Obama is Reza, Wright and Ayers after all this time, bring it on baby. I think most people who are losing their homes or scared they might will care a little more about McSane's wealth than who's church Obama used to go to. George Will: are you seriously comparing McSane to Roosevelt? Puleeze, any panel with an ounce of intelligence could rip that comparison to shreds. How can anyone watch these shows? I can rarely make it through the clips.
One of the main recurring themes I read, in all the forums I participate in (big number), the question, "How does that person convince talk shows they belong in front of a microphone?". You would expect George Will to say stupid things. He is part of the American-Israeli lobby, and a major supporter of Israel's right-wing party. But Will is not a journalist, he is a columnist. As such, he has a license to speak from a slanted point of view. Mark Halperin is a journalist. One should expect objectivity from him. Yet, he clearly cannot disguise his frame of reference. A loser for sure.
I just watched this crap!
McCain's October surprise is that no more than 20% of the country understands how wealthy he is, that it's his wife wealthy, and that he cheated on his first wife to marry the young, wealthy woman. How do you think that'll play in Ohio? Once that becomes common knowledge, McCain will win more Blacks then he win women.
I think Obama needs to get back on track, with the economy, fiscal responsibility, expensive nation building and so forth.
McCain is gaining with ads regarding taxes. Obama needs to counter with borrowing and spend creating inflation. The inflation tax is the Bush/McCain tax that we're paying already. The resulting devaluing dollar has caused much more of an increase in the price of gas than Democrat opposition to drilling. McCain want to conduct further nation building financed with more borrowing. Obama missed a golden opportunity to differentiate himself from McCain over the Russia/Georgia matter. Why on earth would we want to obligate ourselves to a multibillion dollar war defending Georgia when U.S. security interests aren't affected. (Obama, along with McCain advocated Georgia's admission into NATO.) With military costs so high, we need fiscal responsibility incorporated into military policy.
It's the economy, stupid. Tied into it is expensive warfare when U.S. security interests aren't involved.
This house thing will be forgotten in a week or so. The economy is ongoing.
Trittydi @ 9:
I believe he is Karl Rove lover
Elizabeth @ 4:
That was Mark Helprin who wrote A Winter's Tale, Elizabeth. Brilliant author, but wrong guy.
Great book, though. So was A Soldier of the Great War.
I just noticed there is room at that table for one more pundit. I'll bet Nash McCabe is available.
groucho @ 21:
I agree. Rezko doesn't work because outside of Obama being found not guilty in the entire situation, it's difficult to understand like the Whitewater case. No one understands or can state the specifics of the whitewater case against the Clintons, everyone can understand Lewinsky. The same thing with Ayers. The guy was 8 years old. Unlike Wright, there is no audio and video of Obama and Ayers plotting terrorist acts together. And the Wright case has been vetted. Everyone who will vote already know about Wright and Obama has already disassociated himself from him.
McCain is not a self-made wealthy man. He cheated on his first wife to marry into wealth. That is a simple juicy story EVERYONE can understand and he'll lose 10 points overnight when it becomes common knowledge.
Notice how George Will talked down an African American woman? "Donna, do you know where Springwood is? No." Will has the typical priveledged white converative male mindset that the African American woman couldn't know where Springwood is and had to be educated. Will shows his true racist and misogynist conservative colors. Will's probably just pissed a black woman was allowed to sit at the same table with him much less allowed to speak and share her views.
Guilt by association:
Rezko = Corrupt Obama.
Wright = Reliously intolerant Obama.
Ayers = terrorist loving Obama.
This stuff is carefully thought out and executed. They are going to pound away at this until election eve.
Snuffleupagus: Hee hee. So, Donna, you know that Obama didn't care that McCain would respond in kind, right? I mean, this was just such a delicious attack, right?
Brazille: Bingo. Hell, Obama should have gone further, and asked whether McCain even knows how to tie his own shoes.
George Will Lie: Donna, quick, what's Springwood?
Brazille: What the fuck are you talking about?
Will Lie: See, you don't know. Only I know. I am the smartest. Now, Springwood is the aristocratic castle of your favorite elite Democrat, FDR. I know this. You don't. Now, why is it important? Because Obama has the audacity to argue that mere ownership of homes and being rich means you can't sympathize with ordinary Americans. If that's true, then neither did FDR. Case closed. I win. Stop the show, Snuffy, for I have proven my intellectual superiority yet again.
Snuffleupagus: Uh, I'm not stopping the show, dude. You guys made this an issue against John Kerry, so, uh....so there.
Will Lie: Oh, you silly sentimental boy. We live in a democracy. Do you know what that means? It means that elite royalty rules the country. Ok, now you can stop the show. Sheesh.
Snortin' Cokie Roberts: Well, look. McCain could have said, 'We have a bunch of houses, what of it?' Instead, he kinda stumbled. And truly the important thing about this is that McCain looked like a stumbling old guy. Oh, and that we ordinary people really do know what we own, what our mortgage is and what our taxes are. We struggle.
Brazille: What do you mean we, white woman?
Needs Help-erin: Okay, dammit, let's talk about what matters. Obama made an attack. A personal attack. So, a Democrat thinks he can do that against a Republican? Well, all right then! Game on mutha fucka! Let's go! That opens the door -- legitimately now -- to our attacking you guys on everything! EVERYTHING! You wanna talk about McCain being out of touch! Well, now we're gonna bust a cap in your ass about Wright, Rezko and Ayers!!
Snuffleupagus: Dude, I already brought all of that up at the debate I ran. Sean told me to.
Needs Help-erin: No, mutha fucka! Uh-uh! You talked about it, and that's all McCain would have done up until this point. But your side just made it LEGITIMATE for us to come at you with everything and the kitchen sink! You damned fools! Attacks are our right, not yours! Get it through your Dumbocrat heads! You guys just made it ok for us to call Michelle Obama the bitch ho that she is, and to call the Obama kids ugly. Fuck you all. This is war! Notice how the media didn't complain when we attacked with Rezko? Well, because of your despicable attack, ain't no media complaints coming when we say Joe Biden actually killed his wife and kid in that accident. That's right motha fucka! You guys stepped in it big time with this!
Snuffleupagus: Hmm. You might have a point. Could you go over who William Ayers is again for us all, in case there are some people who missed the debate I hosted?
Needs Help-erin: He's a criminal.
Will Lie: A terrorist!
Snortin' Cokie: A criminal terrorist with whom Obama closely associates!
Needs Help-erin: And who helped plan criminal terrorist acts with Osama bin Laden!
Will Lie: Does Obama al-Zuraqi bin Maliki Hussein Ayers ring a bell to anyone?
Brazille: Are you all insane?
Needs Help-erin: Look, bitch, you guys brought this on. You want a respectful campaign, or one that's like this?
Brazille: Respectful, but if Obama doesn't attack back, then----
Needs Help-erin: Back? He started it! He started everything! He can't attack us! We're Republicans. He's a Democrat. Case closed!
Snortin' Cokie: Ok, look, this is a 50/50 election. Meaning everything is always on the table. And Republicans always win when the vote is 50/50. Now the case is closed.
Will Lie: Indeed. Now, has anyone seen my bow tie?
This lineup on ABC's Sunday AM talking bobblehead show is one reason I no longer watch any Sunday morning television.
A host who has drifted to the right and three conservative panelists to one sort of liberal.
George Will should go back to nostalgia pieces about baseball.
Cokie Roberts is so full of herself should be ashamed and she is certainly NOT left of center.
Halperin is just another right wing screamer occupying a chair reserved for right wing screamers.
Donna Brazile has the right ideas, but no passion to let her views be heard above the bloviating from these self-important clowns.
Why don't they just be done with it and get Rove, Drudge, Dobbs and O'Reilly as the panel.
george will tries to call dems. hypocrites with his story about roosevelt and how modern politics should get beyond negative politics such as this. the problem i have is the (R) want to be negative......you can't have it both ways george......this is exactly what they did to kerry/heinz in 2004. now that the (R) are getting the same treatment they whine foul.
according to mccain 5 million is rich well obama isn't there yet and mccain is that many times over. they want to call obama an elitist but don't want to hear about themselves. that's why mccain bubbled on the
how many home(s) question......he didn't want to answer the question....he thinks it's private and doesn't
matter but at the same time they can label obama elitist.....well money can be considered part of the elitist definition. i say now tie this into the real time present day economy. inflation/tax loopholes/low wage growth. obama just recently got into some money.
mccain has been the social government system his entire life....social security monthly payment$1,930.00
Biden's Son Employed in Profession Obama Disdains: Lobbying
http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20080824/pl_bloomberg/a6qrvqdtzkv4
"Both Obama and Republican presidential rival John McCain have said lobbyists may not work on their campaigns. McCain recently called lobbyists ``birds of prey,''...."
Uhmmm, isn't the McCain staffed by lobbyists?
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/06/mccain-campaign-staffed-telecom-imm...
John McCain's Lobbyist Friends
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gEROVh8zK4
McCain Has Had At Least 133 Lobbyists Running His Campaign & Raising Money For Him
http://mccainsource.com/corruption?id=0006
Trittydi @ 9:
Another conservative hack shill whose opinion only matters to a small minority of reich wingers who will believe anyting they are told and who is paid handsomely to spin just like in the pretzel twisting move you just witnessed in this clip. That's who Mark Halperin is.
Mark Halperin has forgotten that John McCain was involved in the Keating 5, Saving and Loan scandal in Arizona back the 1980's. I don't think John McCain isn't going to go there without having to answer questions in his role in the scandal.
I'll never understand how Mr. McCain's display of his senility can help his campaign. However, this debate is getting rather ridiculous and I believe Mr. Obama would do well to stop it immediately.
they are stretching the rezko story again make the politic
search for the truth..when they're working two jobs and have two kids....not much time
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/rezko_reality.html
theWalrus @ 30:
Rezko = Tin man: if he only had a heart
Wright = Straw man: if he only had brain
Ayers = Cowardly lion: if he only had courage
And it is goodbye yellow brick road, and goodnight Irene.
sorry....make the public search for the truth..
One smear is that Obama's house is worth $1 mil. Well, that's not that much of a house in Chicago, compared to other cheaper places to live. And the guy makes $4 mil - well, that also is just about right, your house payment should be around 1/4 of your monthly salary. Hey, if I made $4 mil a year, I'd have a million-dollar house, too! However, I would never, no matter how much money I had, own 8 houses. One of McCain's places is a damn plantation, with the massa's house and all the little houses around it. I wonder how many illegals McCain employs to clean his toilets?
The funny thing about the McCain 8 house issue and what it exposes about the press.
These guys have known all along about McCain's life style and wealth.
When their buddy was bashing Obama for being an out of touch elitist they knew Cindy was worth a hundred million.
But now we the public have seen how far up McCain's ass Mr. Halperin and his buddies have been, and astonishingly they are not ashamed but defensive.
I guess what do expect from people who sold their collective souls for some BBQ at sunset in Sedona.
The Rezko story has been debunked time and time again. Obama paid market price for his propery and Rezko did not receive $14 million dollars via Obama's support.
From FackCheck.org:
On the defensive over the extent of multiple McCain homes, the GOP candidate strikes back. But his TV spot gives an oversimplified and misleading account of how Obama bought his own $1.6 million house in Chicago.
* The ad says Chicago power broker Tony Rezko got "political favors" including "$14 million from taxpayers." But there's no evidence of any connection to the Obama home purchase. The $14 million was to build apartments for low-income seniors. Obama wrote a letter supporting the "worthy" project, but both men say Rezko didn't ask for the letter.
* It says Rezko "purchased part of the property [Obama] couldn't afford." Rezko's wife did buy an adjoining tract but later sold the land at a profit. Obama paid market price for his home.
TheAdviceWeAllNeed @ 25:
Yep, thats what Im hearing too!
the monk @ 35:
Time for the Obama campaign to hint they will pound the Keating 5 Crime Scandal onto the airwaves!!
If Media Whores Online were still around, Halperin would have already retired the Media Whore Of The Week trophy.
What a slimy little twerp.
Karen @ 31:
I won't reprint the whole thing, but that was pretty good, Karen.
Saves me from having to watch the video.
Trittydi @ 9:
He is John McCain's real estate agent.
McInsane has shown again that he is nothing but a low-class liar and fraud. He disavowed the Swiftboat crap the last time it was used in 2004. But now he fully embraces it because he knows that Obama is kicking his sorry ass where it counts the most. He is desperate to add the WH to the list of the homes he doesn't even know he has. As some above noted, 'who is Happless' Halperin anyway. He has to be low in the food chain if he is supporting McInsane and willing to make himself look more like an idiot than he already is for doing so.
Just goes to show you, Republicans argue every which way but true.
Cindy could probably tell you to the dollar how much she stole from her own charity to support her drug habit but McCain can't tell you how many houses he has. Cindy is the brains of this outfit.
Boy, George Will is even more of a pompous ass than usual here - especially given his BS about taxes in his column today.
This is a good summary, with sources, of the story of Cindy, and The Case of the Missing Percocets:
http://arcanebliss.newsvine.com/_news/2008/06/20/1593994-the-audacity-of...
Karen @ 31:
That was TOO damn funny! Thanks!
didn't halperin meet larry craig
in the men's room at the
Minneapolis airport?
just asking...you never know
Batocchio @ 52:
Boy, George Will or Boy George Will?
Halperin's right.
Obama might be aware of the domestic issues in the South Side of Chicago but what about Palm Springs or Beverly Hills or Beacon Hill?
Has he ever been tormented by a squeaky gate entering his community or have to actually talk to a security guard with a crooked tie or unsightly mole? Ugg.
How about the embarrassment of having the butler sign for a delivery at the FRONT door?
My gawd, some people must think that the servants entrance is there just for looks.
How can he know the trials and troubles we average citizens put up with every day?
Yes, makes one wonder how Obama can be so out of touch with America?
Well ta ta for now possums, have to take the Lundehund in for her botox shots and a Brazilian wax job. She's such a tart!
Geez, you can't make this stuff up.
Are Republicans born stupid or raised stupid? Probably both.
After his condescending remark I would have liked to have seen Donna wrestle Will to the ground like bear. That would have been funny.
Despite the Dems and the main stream media’s desperation to see Romney as McCain’s Veep, Mitt is clearly out, with (1) Obama doubling down on the class warfare theme (McCain’s 7 houses) and (2) McCain doubling down with ads showing the hypocrisy of Biden attacking Obama in the primaries — Romney did way more than that contra McCain.
This leaves only Govs Sarah Palin and Tim Pawlenty. Pro-abortion Ridge and Dem-Lieberman were never real considerations, despite relentless media goading. Pawlenty’s lackluster TV performances, coupled with Palin pizzazz, the primacy of oil drilling and the ticked off women/Hillary voters, does now portend a McCain/Palin checkmate on the Dems. This is so albeit the Dems and media dare not mention Palin’s name, that is, everyone but…..
There seems to be no question as to Palin being uniquely positioned and able to more than nullify Biden in debate.
Oh well, we'll have to wait till 2012 (unless Palin runs for Pres then)
idiot parade.
i have not heard one talking head or pundent point out the fact that McCains campaign spent weeks calling Obama an elitist and that this approach on character assination has now been disarmed by the fact that McCain has now proven himself to be th elitist. in one simple moment/answer, McCain has shown he is both the true elitist and not like the common working people he claimed to be and also that he has little feeling or true understanding of what this economy means to average americans. for anyone to say that becasue a reporter asked a simple question and that the Obama camp pounced on the answer somehow opens the door for any and all forms of attack should not be repeated by the press but should be labeled for how rediculous a statement it really is.
The problem with Halperin is Karl Rove's c*ck is so far down his throat, it's cut off the oxygen to his brain.
Halperin would have you believe that the same old race and division cards that the GOP has played since the Nixon years to win elections would not be played this year if only somebody didn't question McCain on how many houses he has?
a noun a verb
and POW
heh...
go for it joe
Jeff @ 62:
I don't think Karl Rove's c*ck could get much beyond Halperin's front teeth though it's probably been tried a few times.
The obvious point this Village chat missed was that, yes, the Rezko/Ayers/Wright kitchen sink was going to be brought up by McCain eventually -- but not in August!
They were going to bring that shit up in late October.
McCain's I Dunno My Homes gaffe forced them to bring R/A/W up way too early -- like bringing in a closer in the 6th inning.
What will McCain have in Oct. -- other than a 3 - 1 money disadvantage? Oh yeah, he was a POW, I forgot for one second...
Obama wins it by 8-points plus.
Halperin asks if we'd rather have the election "be about Ayers & Keating or about George Bush." Hell, even if the election is about Ayers and Keating, that should help the Democrats. How many people lost their life savings because of Ayers? Zero. How many lost their life savings because of Keating? Several million at least. How many lost their pensions because of Ayers? Zero. How many lost pensions due to Keating? Millions. How many lost their homes because of Ayers? Zero. How many lost their homes because of Keating? Tens of thousands. And, finally, did Barack Obama help Ayers do what Ayers did? No, he was 8 years old. Did John McCain help Keating do what he did? Absolutely; he was right in their facilitating, creating & pushing policies and laws that allowed the scandal to unfold. All you have to do is compare the damage the 2 caused and contrast the part the candidates played in creating that damage.
By the way, does anybody know why the Raw Story website is inaccessible?
A panel of out of touch douchebags arguing over which candidate is an out of touch douchebag.
Interesting how Will denigrates Brazille, Democrats and Roosevelt for acknowledging there are people who are less fortunate and claiming it's somehow a "mythology".
HDon @ 69:
...discussion continued with Bill Kristol over the Applebee's salad bar in Adams Morgan.
2006 Midterm Elections
In the run-up to the 2006 Congressional elections, Halperin predicted that George W. Bush would be "back over 53% any day now" and warned "If I were them [Democrats], I'd be scared to death about November's elections". [6] [7] In fact, the Democrats regained control of both houses of Congress and George W. Bush's approval rating remained in the 30s. [8] From Wikipedia
Yes Halperin is such a credible little McMinion.
...wait... what??
McCain's inability to remember how many houses he owns means Obama better watch out for [bullcrap talking point so ancient it farts dust], [bullcrap talking point so ancient it farts dust], [bullcrap talking point so ancient it farts dust]?
That... I... Help... my brain is melting...
Is it me, or was George Will on the same page as Halperin?
I honestly think this was a warning shot to the MSM. Halperin recieved his talking points from Rove, Schmidt and the FOX Propaganda Network. He's basically saying it's time for the rest of the corporate media to get in on these upcoming smears.
university records will be released this tuesday uofchicago...there is big money behind ads to link ayers and obama.....texas billionaire is financing/bundling
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2008/08/university_to_release_obama_re...
Mark Halperin is busily looking for ways to blame Iran-Contra on Bill Clinton ........
Geno @ 43:
thank you,
i can't get that information from the MSM. they are only interested in perpetuating conflict, not solving problems and ironing out falsehoods.
Karen @ 31:
ROFLMAO!!!!
My version of "Ossetia in a nutshell":
McCain:
Georgia . . . Georgia . . .
No peace I find
Putin:
Hit the road, Saak
And don't you come back no more
Bush:
I think I'll go to bed, armageddon sleepy.
mark halperin has zero credibility left and is increasingly looking like a fool this election season.
I'be been wondering why Rudy 9i1ian1 was chosen to give the keynote address at the Republican convention. It didn't make any sense....until now. He's gonna link 9/11, particularly the attacks on the Pentagon, and draw comparison to Ayers' Weatherman group that took credit for bombings that included "nonfatal blasts at the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol four decades ago."
By the time Rudy and the Republican scum are done with these smears, a couple of weeks from now, the MSM and 40% of the dumb fuckers who vote will be convinced 8 year old Barry Hussein Obama was one of the bombers.
It only will take 2 words to trump whatever 'scandal' the GOP tries to sling about:
"Keating 5"
Thanks for playing John.
PorridgeGun @ 80:
I hope you are correct. I was thinking they will probably pull another false flag operation.