Donna Brazile loses patience with Paul Begala

[RamboLiberal]

Video at link: http://rawstory.com/rawreplay/?p=988

Democratic strategist Donna Brazile, who managed the campaign of Al Gore in the 2000 election, got into a heated back-and-forth with fellow talking heads on CNN amid discussions of Tuesday’s primary results.

Paul Begala, political consultant and former adviser to President Bill Clinton, began by saying, “Some of the commentary tonight kinda bothers me. If point is that there’s a new Democratic Party that somehow doesn’t need or want white working class people and Latinos, well count me out.

“We cannot win with eggheads and African-Americans,” Begala warned, which got an animated rise out of Brazile, yielding laughter and applause from those in CNN’s studio.

CNN host Campbell Brown chimed in, saying of Obama, “Why hasn’t he been able to yet?”

Responded Brazile, “Do you think that Barack Obama would be leading in the pledged votes, the delegate votes, the money, if it was simply because somehow or another black people … became the majority? Barack Obama has won the hearts and the minds of white voters as well as black and Hispanics.”

This video is from CNN’s Election Center, broadcast May 6, 2008.

[ShortnFiery]

1. Donna Brazile beat Paul Begala "like a bad piece of meat" = one of his FAV quips.

:evilgrin:

[NanceGreggs]

4. Smacked him like a red-headed step-child ...

Sorry, Begala, that dog won't hunt!

[Blue_Roses]

2. Campbell Brown makes me sick...

:puke:

[goclark]

3. They totally control the media ~

[Spiffarino]

7. You mean, "Mrs. Dan Senor?"

She loved the Neocon Reich so much she married into it.

[closeupready]

25. I know - she was the one who was trying to spin Hillary's underwhelming performance as "winning".

Last night. :rofl:

[americanstranger]

5. She beat him like a rental car.

Begala's jealous because David Axelrod is about to steal his rep as a genius political consultant - if he hasn't stolen it already.

- as

[KSinTX]

6. Whoa ... African Americans are now the majority?

Damn, why didn't someone wake me the f*ck up! Begala "Shame on You" for not filling us in on these tidbits.

[d.amber]

8. She was great

loved the way she got sick of the talking about seating FL and MIch and it is all Obama's fault they didn't revote. If I hear that again from another Hillary supporter I might scream.

[Hamlette]

9. I loved that she said "When McCain won his party was not united"

or words to that effect.

Remember how the GOP was talking about NEVER voting for McCain...Coulter, Rush etc. They are all in line now.

We'll come together too.

[CreekDog]

10. well if i'm an egghead, then why do i think she should have kicked his stupid ass?

sounds pretty blue collar of me and i voted for Obama. :banghead:

[Warren DeMontague]

11. Paul Begala's head is the mother of all fucking eggs.

That guy has a veritable omelet on top of his neck.

[Hekate]

12. Good for her. Someone should have lost patience with that snake LONG ago. nt

[DianaForRussFeingold]

13. K&R I'm impressed! She's sharp!

"Because of my faith and my imagination, I was able to enjoy my childhood, even though it was tough."
Donna Brazile

"Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school."
Donna Brazile

"I was motivated to be different in part because I was different."
Donna Brazile

"If you're not out front defining your vision, your opponent will spend gobs of money to define it for you."
Donna Brazile

"Look, Congress has allocated more money to finance the upcoming Iraqi elections than it has for the American elections. There's something wrong with that."
Donna Brazile

"No voters will be left behind."
Donna Brazile

"Since Bush has been in office, African-American women have fallen behind in terms of income and wages."
Donna Brazile

"The 2000 election exposed some ugly history in our country."
Donna Brazile

"We're like a Third World country when it comes to some of our election practices."
Donna Brazile

"A campaign is about defining who you are - your vision and your opponent's vision."
Donna Brazile

:yourock:

[mopinko]

34. she was great on colbert the other night.

completely went along with the game, which so many pols do not manage to do.

[Reader Rabbit]

37. "I can meet you in Kansas City."

I loved her wicked humor! It was awesome the way she flirted with Colbert. He seemed to love it to: "I've gotta get to Kansas City!" LOL

[Cha]

14. What a stupid, whineyass hilary, comment

to make..no wonder Donna jumped on it with facts.

[krkaufman]

15. Yes, and Obama supporters on DU are supposed to roll over and play nice ...

... according to several posters.

[davidpdx]

16. It wouldn't surprise me if Brazille

finally came out and endorsed Obama this week.

[totodeinhere]

18. And she would make a good DNC Chairwoman when Dean steps down.

[davidpdx]

22. I think she would and I genuinely like her

I do think she should have not sat on the sidelines as long as she has, but then again that's her prerogative as a super delegate. I would have liked to seen her endorse Obama after PA.

[eridani]

23. Is she committed to the 50 state strategy?

If so, I agree.

[TheDonkey]

17. You go Donna!

[rodeodance]

19. Paul you were right on and I hope the SD's were watching.

[onenote]

31. dream on.

And nice to see you sticking around. I figured you'd be out of here at this point.

[rodeodance]

33. "onto the WH" is the new slogan. Paul B. did well last night. We will hear of this issue.

[Raine]

20. She ripped him a new one

it was GREAT! :rofl:

[Tarheel_Dem]

21. Smackdown!

I loved it. Paul can be smarmy at times, as can Carville, and I'm glad Donna took him down a peg or two. Why, as a Democrat, would he want to make a statement like that, if not to cause more division?

[TexasObserver]

24. Besides spending the past 25 years as James Carville's personal ball polisher, what has he done?!

Paul Begala has been carrying Carville's nutsack since they hooked up in the Lloyd Doggett senate race of 1984, first against Kent Hance, then against Phil Gramm. He's a boy Friday, a glorified briefcase carrier.

[Binka]

27. Oh Jesus Your Post Made Me Laugh So Hard I Almost Woke Up Peyton

Begala is a little turd. With a big harness. LOL!:thumbsup:

[TexasObserver]

32. I've known the little bastard a long time, and Carville since he had hair

Those guys peaked in '92, and Carville has been nuts since he and Cheney's aide hooked up.

[Binka]

44. WTF Is Up With That? Mary & James I Mean

She is just NASTY. I guess he is too. BTW how tall is Begala? Like 5-4?

[JNelson6563]

26. I am in northern Michigan

Believe me, it doesn't get much "whiter" than this. Everyone I know supports Obama, I see Obama bumper stickers every day and I know my phone will be ringing today with people wanting to volunteer, donate, etc. after last night. You should've been here after he won Iowa. It was nuts! People were so excited, e-mailing, calling, coming into our office. They just want to be invovled in any way they can because they are excited about Obama. While all are white they vary in every other way, educated, not, well-off, not, etc.

Julie

[qanda]

28. Paul Begala is a whiny, crying baby

His girl is losing and he wants to take all his marbles and go home. That's very adult of him! :sarcasm: The Democratic Party wants to use black people while we sit in the back of the party bus and nod our heads to whatever they say. Now that they don't like the candidate that the majority of black people are supporting, they think we hijacked the bus. Ridiculous!

[sampsonblk]

29. Unfortunately, I can't watch CNN because they hired Campbell Brown-nt

[Eric J in MN]

30. college graduate = egghead...

...to a man as stupid as Paul Begala.

He graduated from "The University of Texas at Austin and The University of Texas School of Law."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Begala

Apparently, that was before he decided that people with college degrees should be denounced on national television as "eggheads."

[DefenseLawyer]

41. Old Paul ain't never had much use fer book learnin. n/t

[BeyondGeography]

35. Why didn't you just say ni**ers and nerds, Paul?

[eShirl]

38. NERRRRRRRRRDDSSSSS!!!!!!!!

[thevoiceofreason]

36. I liked how she jumped down that republican woman's throat

When that "What's her name" republican shill called the superdelegates the "democrat elite", Donna let her have it with "We're the ones who sweep the floor and set up the chairs. We are the workers. We are the farthest thing from elite that there is."

It was impressive.

[zulchzulu]

39. Campbell Brown needs to be on the House and Garden Channel. This is over her head

Begala is an idiot too.

[riverdeep]

40. Begala is for Hillary?

I didn't know that. From what little I heard of the guy on some radio shows as a guest, he seemed to be leaning to Obama. I know he said he was completely disgusted with the Hillary campaign, and that 'Hillary will quit when monkey's fly out of my butt'. I'm aware of his role in the President Clinton campaign staff, but he seemed to throwing them overboard.

He says some playful, tongue-in cheek stuff, so I wouldn't worry about the 'egghead' comment. Although it's kind of funny how that group can be playfully insulted while working class whites in notoriously forlorn regions can't even be called 'bitter'.

[Jennicut]

42. That is a disgusting man. His aim to divide people bothers me the most.

You need everyone to win in the GE, Paul. If the working class or Latinos stay home and don't vote for Obama in the GE or vote McCain they get what they deserve: economics for the wealthy, no change on healthcare, a war that will not end anytime soon. I doubt they will do that.

[graycem]

43. I'm losing patience with ALL of them...

I was glad she called them, especially him, on their bullshit. They have no problem, over and over, in their slimy, smarmy voices trying to trivialize his wins. They blow off his good numbers, his fundraising, the WHITE voters he IS getting, because apparently only the white vote Hillary gets are the ones that count. They keep saying over and over, he's not getting white women, and basically saying he's only winning because he's getting the black vote, well Hillary's only winning the wins she gets, white women, because she's a woman. Idiots.

He deserved a lot more than she gave him, all of the ones, almost mocking Obama did. And they wonder why people are crying racism all the time... it's because it's there ALL the time, and it was there with him, that IS what he was implying. Message to Begala: You're yesterday's "expert." Your game is over. He has won. :) P.S. You're an ass.

[chill_wind]

45. Some really genuinely raw exchanges. You feel the chill in the air.

She came at them out of nowhere. Campbell Brown didn't take it well. Like Donna had broken some holy rule.

It was GREAT!