As the dust settles and the results come in Tuesday night, there will be lots and lots of MSM pundits who will come out looking like fools. I propose that we have a "greatest hits of stupid punditry of the 2008 election award." I have named this honor after Cokie Roberts, who after a career on NPR as a reasonably perceptive political watcher, sold her soul to ABC and became a typical hack talking head. Back in 2006, she and George Will rued the Ned Lamont victory over Lieberman as a "disaster" for the Democratic Senate races both in 2006 and 2008. Their reasoning was that a take-over by the netroots left would destroy the party's viability to the mainstream. How wrong they were!
This year, Cokie's prognostications on NPR have been completely off-the-mark and uniformly vapid. (I don't watch her tv show as George Will gives me nausea and George Stephanopoulos brings on hives.) Perhaps her choicest piece of idiocy was her comment on how Obama was endangering his support by taking a vacation in Hawaii (where his beloved grandmother lives), to wit:
"Going off this week...I know his grandmother lives in Hawaii and I know Hawaii is a state, but it has the look of him going off to some sort of foreign, exotic place. He should be at Myrtle Beach if he’s going to take a vacation at this time. I just think this is not the time to do that."
There were banalities galore from Cokie's mouth. She never acknowledged that Obama had wiped out Hillary in the primaries until the latter formally threw in the towel. She consistently criticized Obama as too far left and has consistently derided the netroots for their left-wing views. Her daft comments wouldn't mean squat but for the fact that they have been consistently WRONG. Why anyone takes her seriously is really beyond me. But hell, you and I pay for NPR to bring her on every Mondsay, as some kind of great political oracle. Enuff ranting on this poor talking head -- my own head is about to explode and unlike Cokie, I cannot afford Botox.
So there you have it netroots. Let the schadenfreude begin. Nominations for stupidest predictions, most banal observations, consistent record of hitless innings, and just plain dumb remarks by the pundits of the MSM. And Dick Morris can be in the pile even though we know the guy is stupid even by Faux News standards.