In the Open Thread people 'discussed' the appearance of
Cliff Schecter on MSNBC.
Video Here. Heres some of the comments from here @ DKOS, Americablog, and his personal blog on the appearance:
*the Foley remark on maybe should send him to Iraq and commenting Karen Hanretty hadn't gotten enough air were over the line and unnecessary.
*My grin was wiped off my own face when he descended from the fact-based high road to personal insults. He didn't need to. It was cheap and lazy
*Unfortunately he looks like a weasel with his silly smirks and twitches. I was pretty disgusted with the way he handled the interview and quite frankly don't like him at all.
*I thought he acted like an asshole. I see how it's done! Be rude, obnoxious ("lack of oxygen to her brain") and interrupt. And throw in a ridiculous reference to Foley.
Karen won this round - even with her inane talking points -because she knows how to conduct herself. I was embarrassed watching this.
*Cliff seems merely sassy, to me. Snark is ok, but snark has to have some element of humor or irony in it, no matter how small. Cliff just comes off as very rude, and that might just drive away people who thought they might, just barely, be able to vote Dem. this time around.
*Cliff kinda comes off like a dick here. He interrupted her twice during her reply, wandered off on that weird Foley tangent and then sank to questioning whether she was getting any oxygen to her brain.
Theres tons more, you can find them for yourself if you wish. You guys (and I direct this at the apologists) are mad because he interrupted? Because he made Foley references? These are the people who:
Covered up Foley, Led us into Iraq, Allowed Delay to steal congress, ignored Katrina, took bribes from Abramoff, use fear mongering, call Clinton a shrew, bring up Lewinsky at the mention of Bill, Associate with participators of genocide, bash gay and womens right advocates, accuse CNN of airing terrorist propoganda, compare bloggers to Al Qaeda, attacked the Dixie Chicks, ignored the Anthrax attacks, try and sell our ports to terrorist sponsors, supplied the missiles that fell on Lebanon, covered up Pat Tillmans real cause of death, blamed Clinton for 9/11, torture, indefinately detain, etcetcetc. and you're bashing Cliff for interrupting?
This was not 'an interview' as one commenter called it. Its a 3 minutes segment in which the MSNBC host was allowing the Rethug apologist to talk and talk. Cliff got 50 seconds compaired to the nearly 2 minutes Karen Hanretty was allowed to spread her misinforming apologist propoganda. You complain about 'name-calling' but start off your remark by calling him a 'dick'? You know what the people at Redstate are doing? They are pulling those quotes and pasting them in size 74 Bold Times News Roman to show everyone else how bad this left-wing maniac is, using your words.
One of the most important elections in history is about to take place, and you are attacking a Democrat for tackling the Rethug talking points head on? You are putting my daughters future at stake because you think it is rude to interrupt?
If you're not going to fly with us, get off our wings.