I wanted to give kudos to MontanaMaven for this diary today on the subject of the 3-Way Race between the Democratic primary challengers and the press' response to it today on several shows, and to HairyTrueMan for this diary on Russert's pitiful response to Orin Hatch's "correction" from the previous week's show. I also wanted to expound a bit on just what happened on Meet the Press this week, how out of touch these guys are with what's happening in the Netroots and share a few video clips posted below for anyone who didn't watch MTP this week.
I have to admit that I also got a great deal of enjoyment from watching these "pundits" act shocked by the small donation givers to Barack Obama. Welcome to the world of the Netroots folks, and get used to it. I think we'll all have a whole lot more surprises for you yet before it's over. Join me for some video clips of this week's Meet the Press and more commentary on the flip.
I know this has been shared here already, but here's a link for the entire transcript from this week's show.
In this first clip, they're still dragging Cheney out there like anyone in this country cares about a thing that comes out of his mouth, and asking them about his comments on Rush Limbaugh's show no less. Nothing like legitimizing Limbaugh to boot along with one of the most despised VP's in history. Basically it's the give us the money or we'll shoot you in the face....er...I mean or else sorry line again.
O'Beirne gives her usual screed about how the evil Democrats are trying to undercut the President's war powers as Commander in Chief and have no right to do what they're doing. Cut off all funds or nothing. They think the public is stupid if they feel that anyone in this country thinks that things are that black and white with this issue. We want the troops out. We know Bush will do whatever he has to even if it means more loss of life intentionally to make them look bad if they try, and the press keeps telling them to "be careful". "Don't over reach." Woodruff gets it right which can be read in the transcripts and is not shown in this video when she says the greater peril is for Republicans as to how they handle the Iraq war, not that most of them in the media will try to spin it that way as this thing plays itself out.
Someone needs to ask Mrs. O'Beirne when she's going to take a little responsibility for her husband being the one who made sure incompetent Republican hacks were appointed to screw up Iraq to begin with when he was working with Paul Bremer there and setting up the interim government. Remember those 22 years olds that had no clue what they were doing over there? Yeah, that was something her husband was involved in. For more on her wing nut husband, check out this clip at C & L.
Bremer answers questions about O’Beirne’s hiring practices
Next there’s the clip that was written about among other things in the diary by MontanaMaven where the pundits are "shocked" and talk about how "stunning" it is that a Democratic candidate actually had....gasp 100,000 donors!! Stop the press!! How out of touch are these people about what’s been going on in communities like this one? Are they really that insulated and blind to it all, or are they just pretending to be and fully aware that there is a groundswell out there. I know it’s there. I’m sure all of you know it’s there. I’ve been feeling it since before ’06 where I’m sure if not for all of the cheating out there it would have been a landslide election. I have a feeling in my gut that ’08 is going to be a tsunami. Nothing I can prove, but my Stephen Colbert moment of "truthiness". My gut tells me it’s true and I feel it, and I think if they’re shocked by the first quarter numbers, look for even more discussions like this one to follow:
And last of all, we’ve got Multiple Choice Mitt the Varmint Hunter Extraordinaire!! They talk about his trying to pander to the gun lobby. My question is how many times has this guy been hunting without a license??...lol. When your leading GOP fundraising candidate is comparing himself to Jed Clampett in order to spin his way out of some pandering BS he tried to lay on the public, it doesn’t look like good news to me, but hey, what do I know? This guy makes Kerry's supposed flip-flopping pale by comparison. My husband is a hunter (life long and deer and turkey, and not "varmints"...lol), and he's been laughing at this guy all week for this story.
I hope everyone enjoys the videos. I've been working on a little project over at You Tube and you can see the rest of it if you click again on any of the video links and then go follow my user name over there. My question would be when are these people either going to realize/admit to the political tides that are changing out there and quit acting "shocked" by what's going on with the Netroots, and average citizens actually forking out money to participate in their democracy?
Note: I had posted this diary previously under a slightly different name and had some video loading issues with You Tube and decided to pull it and repost it for anyone who saw this up previously.