Digby says what a lot of people are thinking about Matt Lauer

[BurtWorm]

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2006_10_01_digbysblog_archive.html#116190299673496422


Good Morning, Creep

by digby

This Michael J. Fox controversy is making me more angry than I can remember being in a long time. There is something wrong with people who think like this:

LAUER: And you brought up Michael J. Fox. Let me just ask you: You know, Rush Limbaugh started a lot of controversy when he said perhaps Michael J. Fox was exaggerating or faking these effects of Parkinson's disease in that ad promoting stem cell research. Didn't Rush Limbaugh just say what a lot of people were privately thinking?

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LAUER: But also, Susan, last word. If Michael Fox goes out there politically and puts himself in the fray, he has to expect to be, you know, taken to account, correct?

ESTRICH: Correct. And he is being taken to account.




If Michael J. Fox could still act he would be making millions of dollars acting in paying TV commercials, films or sitcoms. He's only 45 years old for God's sake and he still has young kids. He is suffering from a horrifying disease and he deserves for people to respect his sincerity if nothing else. He does actually have Parkinson's, after all, and I'm sure he really does believe that stem cell research provides a hope for a cure --- unless they think he's lying about that too.

I was never an avid fan of The Today Show but I never knew that Matt Lauer shared the same privileged, cynical sophomoric worldview as the talk show pig, Rush Limbaugh. Now I know. I won't be bothering with him anymore.

* And Susan Estrich is typically obtuse too for agreeing that Fox should be "called to account." What exactly does he have to account for? Being struck by a debilitating disease and campaigning for a cure?

Jesus this political establishment is a bunch of heartless, useless creeps. No wonder most poeple in this country are turned off to politics.

[rox63]

1. Lauer is a close personal friend of Bush family

That's all you need to know about him. :puke:

[rodeodance]

2. umm.. that that is interesting I did not know that. No wonder!

[tularetom]

5. He may think he is a close personal friend

but I'll bet they consider him a useful idiot and nothing more...

[KoKo]

8. JAYSUS...that Repug BED of Friends and Family is SO HUGE!

One wonders how they all can get together in it! Sheesh.

So which one is he "bedded with?" Want to TELL????

[KoKo]

9. Diby Site helps me keep sane....thanks for the post...I missed this one...

cause I visit him late at night...with the "sleepless." :D

[BurtWorm]

12. Me too, usually.

;)

[jarnocan]

3. BRAVO! and Laura Ingram -almost as ugly as Ann Coulter

she sure had a lot more time to talk then the other one.

[gratuitous]

4. What does Fox have to account for?

Having a disease? Hoping for more money for research and a possible cure? Or having the bad taste to appear in public and giving poor Matt the heebies and poor Susan the jeebies? Don't worry kids, you'll be young and healthy and beautiful and rich all your lives, and one day your life will just stop without any pain or lingering or other unpleasantness. And then you can hold Michael J. Fox accountable.

[Benhurst]

6. I feel sorry for Matt Lauer.

It must be horrifying to be an over-paid, aging, balding pretty boy with no brains or skills to fall back on.

As for Susan Estrich, what few assets she had went south a generation ago. Integrity and truth are always the first to go.

[WinkyDink]

7. "pretty boy"? IN HIS DREAMS!

[Benhurst]

11. Thanks, WinkyDink , It's good to hear the feminine perspective.

But that is the way NBC sold him when they put him on the Today show.

I've always thought he was a repulsive jerk, but that's a male perspective, and there is always the possibility of envy.

I'm still enjoying his going bald and hope his teeth start to fall out as well.

:rofl:

[Toucano]

10. What a lot of people were privately thinking.

How does Matt know what a lot of people are privately thinking?

And does "taken to account" mean maligned? If you have a view and you express it, you deserve to be lied about and maliciously attacked by a greedy, undereducated, over-fed drug addict with a microphone and a broadcast tower?

[Stephanie]

13. it's disgusting and it's part of a pattern

these creeps will swiftboat anyone, anyone. they live to lie.