Mourning Schmuck is crying his eyes out again this am about that bad bad Bill Burton ad...

[winstars]

But thanks to the miracle of DVR, I did not have to listen to all of his rantings. Joe, who some people say is a real ladykiller, went on and on about how really, really, really despicable that Bill Burton ad is for at least 20 minutes. To be fair, they did talk about the Andrea Saul blowback on the right for about 30-45 seconds... And again to illustrate that MSNBC is so in the tank for the president, poor Joey only had Meeka, Mark Halperin, John Heilemann (who seems to taylor his opinions to whichever show he is on, he's more progressive on Tweety or LO's shows) and also Mr. "no labels" Mark McKinnon. (that really took the country by storm didn't it!!!) I was surprised Harold Ford and John Mecham did not show up for the beady eyed circle jerk that is the show brought to you by Starbucks... (cups of coffee on the table is one thing but recently they now have added a BAGS OF COFFEE ON THE TABLE?????)

But indeed that wasn't enough, Joey Scar then brought in Newt for some insightful views of the "Saul Alinsky" President, that guy called Obama... Breaking news: Newt does not like the President!!!

And since it is the liberal media, who shows up also??? The newly throughly discredited (again?) SCUMBAG, Dan Señor, who very surprisingly, talked like the Neocon jerk he is. Its amazing that anyone, even Scar and Meeka, lets him on TeeVee after his fiasco of advising recently for Mittens... And I again missed the part where they identify him as a Rmoney stooge...

Oh and BTW, Anderson Cooper had David Gergen on last night for some more head shaking about the attacks on Rmoney. Naturally, they did not mention his numerous connections to Bain Capital, I guess that was for last week only.

Damn Librul Media....

[The Magistrate]

1. He Should Be Crying, Sir: Romney Killed That Man's Wife For Pocket Change

He has done this to hundreds, thousands of people; pocketed their livelihoods and pensions, thrown them out of their homes, left them destitute and dying, and all so he could cram a few more dollars into his pockets. He has no regard whatever for human life where snatching a few more bucks for himself is concerned.

"Romney loves America like a tick loves a dog."

[Canadian 2]

2. Why does Joe Scarborough have a TV Show?

It's one thing to be a blowhard: quite another to be a magnificently-obvious stupid blowhard.

[winstars]

7. Hey, don't insult the stupid blowhards out there, Scar is in a class by himself...

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I mean Dan Señor AND Newt Gingrich at the same time??? I had to wipe my TV screen off throughly after that sequence!!!!

[Canadian 2]

13. Heh, eh?

[hedgehog]

3. The irony is that I read that the ad is not running on tv,

only the internet. So the more people complain about it, the more other people see it.

I think anyone who lives pay check to pay check understands that ad. Anyone who has been out of work understands the hit that family finances take. Even if you get a similar job at similar pay, it takes years to get back to where you were. I don't think you ever feel secure again.

So Joe, any chance of getting your buddies at Fox to talk about the ad?

[SoCalDem]

14. You NEVER regain your footing after such a financial hit

There are some things that just cannot be gotten back.

For instance:

A family with adolescent kids just have ONE chance (one "bundle of years" to prepare for their college/futures), and if that window is slammed shut, those kids grow up in a family of hardship. It CHANGES people.....permanently.

A kid (or kids) who grows up in a family that is on the edge, is more likely to drop out of school (to find a job to help out..or from frustration), and if they do graduate, they will be getting more loans & less family help, and more likely to drop out of college with debt they cannot afford, so it has a spill-over effect for the next generation.

And after only a few missed house payments, the family's credit ratings plummet like a rock, and as my friend found out, those missed payments often have to be repaid (if the bank even gives them a chance) IN FULL in a single payment, which is impossible for most, so the foreclosure clock starts up, adding more pressure.

The only "cure" for a lost job, is a BETTER job, found immediately..and we all knwo that rarely ever happens anymore.

[hedgehog]

15. My husband makes excellent money, but most of it goes

to pay off debts we accumulated when I was unemployed/under employed.

[progressivebydesign]

20. I hear ya. We're still digging out of the hole called "the Bush recession."

We have debt from that time, lost our home, and have bounced back thanks to the Obama economy. But the financial scars linger, and you don't have extra money, can scarcely afford the catastrophic health insurance I had to buy for myself.

[brewens]

4. I've been saying that it's literally a matter of life and death, getting and keeping a good

job with insurance benefits, for years. Even if they see that that woman died a few years after her husband lost his job and even though she seems to have been briefly covered at another job, so what? Had his plant kept operating and their insurance had stayed in effect, it's entirely likely she could have caught that cancer early enough to have made a difference.

He knows if his wife would have been more likely to go to the doctor to get checked out if she'd had insurance. Who is Scarborough to say any differently? Some people won't go to the doctor, some will. He says she would have.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

10. I'm thinking about doing an OP about my buddy currently on his third week in the hospital.....

.... due to a bone infection that could have been easily preventable in a civilized society with access to health care.

He dropped something on his toe/foot and broke it but didn't go to the ER as he is unemployed with no insurance. Hell, I have insurance but don't have an extra $800 bucks in co-pays and deductibles to get "checked out" for a sore/broken toe.

Undiagnosed diabetes and bone fragments = 2 week stay in ICU, another 1 week currently in a regular hospital room and probably another week in rehab.

The hospital bill has to be close to what? A half a million? A million? He has had two surgeries to clear the abscesses on his spine.

[brewens]

11. I still have a deformed little toe from most likely breaking it or tearing something.

Same thing here, I have insurance but hate to have to pony up anything. In this case it was on the job sort of. I was in a motel and had a handtruck with temperature sensitive blood drive supplies in the room with me. I get up in the middle of the night and drive my toe into it!

Then it was throbbing so bad I couldn't even stand a sheet on top of it. I thought I was going to have to call in and get another driver to make the 70 mile trip to take over. I was amazed that by morning, as bad a s it looked, I could actually get my shoe on and walk on it okay. Not only that, I was able to go up and down the ramp on the truck hauling stuff. Gingerly for sure, but I did it. If I was diabetic, that could have been exactly the same deal.

[CTyankee]

16. It could have been that the insurance she did get after losing his had a very high

deductible or copay. If she was fearful about getting a bad diagnosis, one that could result in a blizzard of unaffordable bills, thereby threatening the tenuous finances of the family, she probably would take a chance on coming out okay.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

5. Thanks for watching so I don't have to.

I gave the show up due to the "fist through screen" desire it evoked.


"beady eyed circle jerk" Truer words were never written.

[Enrique]

6. i didnt know about Gergen and Bain

thanks for mentioning that, I agree they should disclose every time that he is on that he is a fellow greed-head of Mitt.

[winstars]

8. GOOGLE is your friend, it was revealed about ten days ago...

then apparently Gergen went on holiday and now he is back, pontificating, head shaking and bullshitting the increasingly gullible Anderson Cooper nightly...

[bluedeminredstate]

9. I tried to watch

starting at 6:00 but the faux outrage was just too much. I went back to it at 7:00 and they were still tut-tutting over it with Mika acting soooo sad that this ad was airing. An hour later and they were still up in arms over the ad, so I turned it off and never tuned back in. Sometimes I can take Scarborough, but not often. With Halperin and Senor and McKinnon there today, it was torture.

[Control-Z]

17. Was Mika calling Obama a liar?

Or did I imagine that? I woke up at something like 4 this morning. The TV was on and I heard them going on about the ad. Mika usually tries to stand up for the president, but it sounded like she was cheer leading for scabby on this one.

[winstars]

18. Basically she was totally saying that... Her tsk tsking and head shaking grimacing went on and on..

about how terrible the Bill Burton ad is. They even had a graphic showing (supposedly) how incorrect the ad is... They made a big thing about how the Obama campaign was saying that they have nothing to do with what the SuperPac does... All this about an ad that has yet to run ANYWHERE!!! What a bunch of lying cry babies they all were/are.

They totally missed the Andrea Saul story, giving it as mentioned above like a minute of their BS. It seems like they almost tape it the night before (I know they don't but) and are doing they stories from yesterday over again. This is the perfect example of completely missing the story of the day, and that day being TODAY not yesterday...

And, not for nothing, after being actually in the 30 Rock studio Monday, the ringleader of beady eyed circle jerks, Mourning Joey, was again in an undisclosed location with the fake fluttering flags behind him. Either he has the best contract ever--- i.e. able to work from his home like Palin the Grifter or then something is up as mentioned here on DU last week...

[Control-Z]

19. "something is up"?

Tell me, tell me, please. I must have missed that discussion last week:

"Either he has the best contract ever--- i.e. able to work from his home like Palin the Grifter or then something is up as mentioned here on DU last week... ?"

[uponit7771]

12. You can tell how bad it's getting for them, hopefully they'll stop giving rMoney any dough

[progressivebydesign]

21. this is what happens when the Fox-endorsed candidate sucks turkey balls...

you have to make shit up, and create fake outrage, wars on christianity, and whatever else you can do. They cannot sit and talk about how fucking brilliant Romney is, and how he'd be So great as Prez.