This Repub debate is a total " setup " by MSM

[jaysunb]

Look at the way they ( MSNBC ) is staging this thing to look so regal and dignified. Playing on the Reagan supposedly greatness and granduer. Trying to separate the past 7 years of neo con facist rule from reality while trying to brings voters back to " good old days" of hard core conservatism that has fooled so many.

I'm proud to see the Democrats debate at a historical Black College that looked just like most Americans gathering places, not all this pomp and circumstance.

I'll bet they won't even ask these guys "if they still beat their wives," questions like Brian Williams did the Dems.

:evilfrown:

[senseandsensibility]

1. Sickening.

And as you say, I can't wait to hear the questions.

[C_U_L8R]

2. So desperate it's silly

All that pancake makeup doesn't hide the stink of the repuke.
Maybe Rudy's got some lipstick he can put on it

[Mz Pip]

3. They picked the wrong time

to use this venue. It might have had more impact later on in the primaries.

People aren't paying attention that much, yet. I doubt they can use the Reagan Library over and over for future debates. It will just look like more pandering and stage managing. Not that the Repugs are beyond pandering and stage managing. NYC for their 04 convention was a perfect example.

The Democrats can up the ante by holding one in Dallas and have endless punditry on the legacy of JFK.

None of these clowns is the reincarnation of Reagan. I'm sure Ron Reagan will point that out.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[jaysunb]

5. "I'm sure Ron Reagan will point that out."

You can count on it. :rofl:

[Mz Pip]

6. And I can't wait!

:rofl:

I hope he's a commentator tonight somewhere along the way.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[LSparkle]

7. I thought I heard earlier in the week that the entire Reagan family would attend

[Carolina]

24. endless punditry on what

the country would be like if JFK had lived, if only he hadn't gone to the state that gave us Bush.

So sorry DU Texans ... you can always point to Molly Ivins, Jim Hightower, Barbara Jordan ;-)

[jaysunb]

4. Now here's Nancey !!!!!

I guess we should have trotted out Rosalind Carter or Lady Bird Johnson, since Hillary was already there. :evilgrin:

[LSparkle]

8. As with everything with the Repugs, it's all about APPEARANCES

We're not supposed to remember what they SAID, just the pageantry and ceremony and how *good* it all looked ... "Movie set" politics (all front, nothing behind).

[global1]

9. So Who Will MSNBC/MSM Annoint Tonight?......nt

[Philosoraptor]

10. NO WAY did they give the Democratic debate this much coverage!

[symbolman]

11. Here to BURST the Bubble

For your Listening Pleasure, PINK FLOYD and for your Viewing Pleasure:

"Mourning FOR America" (Or Reagan starved MORE People than STALIN)

http://web.takebackthemedia.com/geeklog/public_html/staticpages/index.php?page=20040618050418549

I said last week that the Whole DEM debate was a SETUP, with LOADED questions, you wouldn't believe how many people Disagreed with me.

I've only run Takebackthemedia.com for 6 years, I don't know anything about Media asking questions with a POISON PILL inside.. :)

[jaysunb]

16. Yes , Symbolman

I imagine you would know a thing or three....:rofl:

I haven't forgotten your 9-11 movie. :hi:

[Hawaii Hiker]

12. Let's see if Chris really plays "Hardball"

& doesn't ask "softball" questions....

Be sure to send comments to MSNBC if Chris goes easy on the Rethugs...

[Skidmore]

14. The only balls Chris will have by the end of the evening will be

blue.

[Skidmore]

15. McCain needs to be in the same padded cell as Little Boots.

[jaysunb]

17. OUCH !

I remember those ! :rofl:

[smtpgirl]

13. They all look like the frightening robots

of the Manchurian Candidate.

All have black suits with dark ties.

[tech3149]

18. In case you hadn't noticed, they've been doing that since Kennedy

In the Nixon-Kennedy debates,I think they were the first televised, Nixon actually did very well if you didn't watch but listened. Nixon was sweating and looked uncomfortable. Kennedy prepared for the media format and used makeup. He looked in control. The problem now is they are even more rigged. In Kennedy-Nixon, they had eight minutes each to make an opening statement. When the LWV ran the debates they were more fair and open to independant and third-pary candidates. Look how they tried to shut Gravel out ov the NH debate. It's pablum for the proles.

[jaysunb]

19. I saw that debate

While I admit to the fact that I didn't really have the judgement then that I have now, Nixon's performance that night was a glimpse of his brillance as well as his darker emotions.
And, you are right about the difference of quality now and when the LWV did it.

[tech3149]

20. agreed, he showed his paranoia, but some of us were not far off from

that mindset.

[B Calm]

21. What did it cost us tax payers to donate Airforce 1 to the Raygun library?

Don't seem very conservative to me!

[Cha]

22. They sure didn't want to

hold the debate at the Hoover Library.

I knew as soon as I read reagun library what the hell they were doin'..they're as transparent as jesse helm's skin.

[bullwinkle428]

23. Matthews is one helluva moderator - basically letting them make their stump

speeches which have nothing to do with the question asked.