Begala Driven Mad by Palin Bridge Coverage

[jefferson_dem]

Run time: 01:50 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm7icN-GrDA   Posted on YouTube: September 09, 2008 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: September 09, 2008 By DU Member: jefferson_dem Views on DU: 5794

 

[lapfog_1]

1. As mayor she carried so much pork home she got trichinosis.

:rofl: Nice one Paul.

[AllexxisF1]

2. Urghh....

As the Repug's and their enablers giggle at the very end.


It is all BULLSHIT and I am sick and fucking tired of it.

[Ishoutandscream2]

3. You're right, it is all bullshit, and they know it!

And they fucking laugh all the way to power. God, the media needs to get off its ass. Nice job by Begala there.

[Plucketeer]

7. There IS no "media"

It's all just entertainment put up by CORPORATIONS. Corporations that twiddle the strings of puppets in DC. "Stand up?" "Call out?" Where would that happen?

:grr:

[Heather MC]

10. me too, but I am glad paul put it out there, CNN is winning in the ratings

So hopefully the right people saw it.

[liberal N proud]

4. He and he was just swept under the proverbial fucking rug

:banghead:

[LiberalLovinLug]

5. more He said, She said bullcrap

I am sick of this as well. The host doesn't even react to being called out on his ineptitude. Do they have not an ounce of journalistic shame? For the New MSM, it is all about refusing to do any research and/or confrontation with facts. Instead it is a he said / she said script where the ignorant hosts throw their hands up, chuckle, look at the camera and declare "Who knows who is right on this, I guess they both will just agree to disagree"

The Repukes might as well go on air and say that Bush has brought DOWN the national debt, and had record increased jobs under his watch.

DO YOUR F*%KING JOBS!

[TooBigaTent]

6. I happened to catch the end of his appearance this morning and the host simply

ignored what Paul was saying. Even when he repeated it and stated flat out that "the media are not doing their job" they broke for commercial.

To what extent are people going to have to go to bring anything like this to national attention?

Just keep saying the same thing over and over and over again? When the message can be repeated on multiple networks, that message sinks in but does not sound like whining or harping. But if someone like Begala tried that on any show, it would come off badly and the pukes (including the media person, would label it juvenile, etc.

The only way to approach this is to make the individual media talking heads recognize that they, personally, will suffer consequences if they continue to shill for the pukes. I am not talking boycott because that will do nothing. There are always sellouts (Estrich, etc.) willing to self-defeat for a buck. I am talking direct action. By any means necessary.

[pnorman]

8. No particular admirer of Begala, but GREAT phrases!

"Monkey & organ grinder", "pork & trichinosis"!

pnorman
On edit: Perhaps we can start referring to Ms. Palin as "Ms. Porky"!

[tblue37]

45. The winner of the Miss Alaska Pork Queen Contest." nt

[pnorman]

47. And here is Miss Porky herself, in the flesh!

('Lifted' from another DU posting)

pnorman

[BREMPRO]

9. FACTS, FACTS MATTER!! I like the way he calls out the media treating lies as equal to truth...

just to be fair to both candidates. It's about time we get a REAL debate about the issues and a media that properly fact checks.

[bulloney]

11. 'They all do it. That's their jobs as legislators.'

That's the defense the Republicans throw out when their own is being targeted as the hypocrite that she is. They're right. They all do it. But Palin's been trotting around the country selling herself as an anti-earmark, anti-pork, agent of change Washington outsider who will deliver reform.

God forbid if a Democrat is on the defensive in a similar debate.

How many mayors of towns with 9,000 people hire lobbyists to bring federal dollars back to their towns? Alaska's per-capita receipts of federal dollars is highest in the nation, if the stats I've seen are accurate.

Again, it's not Palin's credentials and track record as much as it's the hypocrisy.

[AlbertCat]

12. They all do it

No they don't all say they fought against pork and then got more per capita than any other state. Another LIE.
Notice how the fact "Alaska is a welfare state" just went swooosh! right by.

[savistocate]

24. The elephant in the room..with high heels. They have to know

they are lying..as we've witnessed cheney.vil bush club 8 yrs -plus campaign 2000.

McCringe - Pail o sh** in a bucket. They're proving demonstrating they are same as past 8+ years.

[savistocate]

25. Highest $$$pork..heard earlier highest incest rape

in the US. No not kidding.

[rucognizant]

27. WHatwill work inMAine

They still focus on Reagan's "welfare mom" so Ak the highest welfare state in the nation, should anger them
leters to the editor.

[hamsterjill]

35. You're right. They do it every time!

Every time the Republicans are on the defensive, they use the same line: Everyone does it.

As if to say that if "everyone" does something bad, deceitful, illegal or shameful - the fact that "everyone" does it makes it okay.

America used to be smarter than this!!!

[tblue37]

46. only 6000 when she was mayor, though. nt

[Ronbeaux]

13. Why do Americans tolerate this?

I don't understand and it angers and sickens me at the same time. The 'Pubs just lie and lie and lie some more and people just lap it up like its gospel. I hear people parroting the words from the lying right all the time and it is driving me slowly insane.

Wake UP, People!! I think that most of them want to believe what they want to believe, the facts be damned. This isn't America...its La-La Land.

:argh:

[K8-EEE]

14. That Castillenos guy grinning like a jackass while lying AGAIN

They're all on the same playbook....just tell the same lie so many times people start believing it. But we have got to SCREAM that it's a LIE three times every time they say it once!

[baldguy]

19. He looks like a dried up old porn star.

[provis99]

26. he's one of these fascist Cuban exiles from Miami

I can't stand the sight of him.

[falcon97]

15. It is very, very scary.

John Roberts asks, "Why can't Obama make it stick?" Look in the mirror!!! Reporters have abdicated their traditional role and become nothing more than outlets for candidates to spew whatever talking points they want. The truth and facts be damned.

[ginnyinWI]

16. CBS told the truth about Palin tonight.

In their nightly "Reality Check" feature, they told how Palin keeps repeating that she opposed the bridge to nowhere, then stated the truth: Palin was for the bridge for an entire year, until she pulled state funding for Alaska's half of the cost of it. Took the federal money which had already been allocated and spent it on other things.

They also debunked the earmark lie, saying that she requested 450 million in earmarks--fewer than her predecessor, but still a whopping amount.

Oh, and they finished with this: uncommitted voters are leaning toward Obama by 72%.


They also are going to have a nightly "Where They Stand" segment and compare/contrast McSame and Obama's policy positions. Tonight it was on taxes.

[krkaufman]

20. Oh my god, well good on them...

> They also are going to have a nightly "Where They Stand" segment and compare/contrast McSame and Obama's policy positions. Tonight it was on taxes.


Amazing that someone might be addressing the issues. (They should be expecting a call from the McCain campaign real soon.)

[LostinRed]

17. I've said it once, I'll say it again:

If the media would do their job, report the truth instead of trying to present both sides in the name of objectivity, McCain loses big.

[krkaufman]

18. Give me a call, Paul. I've got the answer. n/t

[bbgrunt]

21. and they keep lying with smiles on their lying faces.

I think they are trying to drive everyone insane. That is their aim. They don't want facts, they want faith and belief. They want Social Darwinism while denying evolution.

[happygoluckytoyou]

22. ALEX so FULL OF SHIT he can't take a bow...just keep repeating the LIE

[JI7]

23. why can't Obama make it stick ?

this is the problem with these whores. by asking it like that they are implying that it's just political attacks from the Obama campaign when it's an issue of truth.

[minnesota_liberal]

28. Finally someone who speaks the truth - about Palin and the press

Paul Begala is right on the mark. As usual, the press is failing to do its job. The facts do matter - or at least they should. And, yes, the "false debate" that dominates the news cycle is silly when the facts are known. Thanks to CNN for having at least one good commentator.

As if there is such a thing as "telling the other side of the story" when you're discussing facts, CNN had to have Alex Castellanos on board to lie in Palin's defense.

[spelldmilk]

29. HaHaHaHahahahahahahaa!!

Who said the Revolution wouldn't be televised? Bwahahahaha!

[Honeycombe8]

30. He's right. And Obama had a perfect opportunity to say this during his two recent interviews.

Ordinarily I'd say that Obama shouldn't discuss the second banana of the opposing side at all, but since he DID mention Palin in I think both of those interviews (O'Reilly & Olberman), THIS is what he should've snuck into the discussion.

[curse10]

31. The Republican spin machine is the fucking Hadron Collider

And they have the media in their pocket-- it appears John McCain has his "base" back.

[katty]

43. hadron collider--exactly

[EnviroBat]

32. The Republicans ARE the fucking media!

They are running the show. The RW propaganda spin machine should be destroyed, and the people driving it need to crash and burn in a slow, fiery death.

[katty]

44. yes they are running the "show election"-when they can

get ass licking, centrist tweety OFF the GE anchor coverage...a veteran of msnbc with a massive ego--without him causing a major stink about it--o yeah the RWing is fully embedded on every level.

[Dawgs]

33. Why isn't every Democrat acting like this?

There shouldn't be any Democrat left that isn't pissed off.

[sasquatch]

34. I'll have to see it later

[JBoy]

36. The frustrating thing about that particular episode

is that the media did not actually report on the facts, instead they presented two partisan surrogates who argued. In this case obviously Begala was correct, but instead of stating any facts themselves, the media provides viewers with a little "spat" for excitement.

[kid a]

37. exacty what John Stewart said was hurting America and why crossfire was cancelled

[Serial Mom]

38. They didn't GET IT!!!

They were playing the part of themselves!

[Anticon]

39. FINALLY Someone calling a liar a Liar!

Thank you Begala!

:toast:

[raystorm7]

40. You can literally see the frustration all over him as he sits on that chair :)

[happygoluckytoyou]

41. TIME TO FUND THE 527s

on the news today... and in the papers "DEBUNKING THE MYTHS AND RUMORS ABOUT SARAH PALIN"
brought to you by mostly conservative BUT some centrist media....
...........WHERE WAS "DEBUNKING THE MYTHS AND RUMORS ABOUT BARACK OBAMA" ? ? ?
time to donate.... once again.... to the 527 of your choice......
THE WORD HAS TO GET TO THE PUBLIC ! ! !

[katty]

42. Palin has 6 catch phrases--Mike Malloy radio last nite

was spot on about Obama's responses so far-week after RNC--get angry Obama and call them LIARS (yes, we know you are smart but you have to hit the voters over the head with the 'hammer of truth'!! over and over again! not just mc cain voted with bush...yeah yeah we know--they are kicking Obama's ass out there.