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Ziegler on Morning Joe

Posted: March 3, 2010 by datechguy in opinion/news
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Ziegler talks about how when she is treated fair she comes through.

He mentions that celebrity sells that is the reality

Joe: Is she closer to being a celeb than a pol?

Ziegler: This is Sarah Palin 2.0 not the same person who was destroyed by the media. Ziegler things that her path takes her out of the running in 2012, if she is not running it is brilliant, if she just wants to go after celeb then she is on the right path.

That is a good point, but then again she doesn’t have to run in 2012 she has YEARS to go on that.

He did through some shots at MSNBC but Joe treated him really fairly. I think one shot would have been fine, I think 5 shots when nobody is firing back was a bit much.

Update: Captain Ed commentary.

That doesn’t mean that Palin can’t do it. There is plenty of time for her to focus less on her base, which is already tremendously loyal, and start working on her appeal to independents, if she’s interested in the 2012 race at all. Her appearance on Leno last night was a good step in that direction, but she may be playing for a longer game than her fans and critics think.

Youtube and Ed have the video.

Mitt Romney on Morning Joe

Posted: March 3, 2010 by datechguy in opinion/news
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Mitt Romeny is on Morning Joe right now plugging his book: No Apologies, in likely a more friendly setting than The View was.

I’m very hard on Mitt, at least I was at CPAC. I didn’t like the answers to the softballs I threw him at the Brown Party and I was unhappy at his general inaction as governor here although he did hold the line on the budget as well as one can in Massachusetts.

I would support him over any democrat but on a political level he doesn’t impress me but he is looking good today. (On a personal level he is an excellent example with a fine family meaning he got the most important in life right).

He is making a good case and he is showing a better face than I’ve seen him show. Morning Joe tends to loosen up guys a bit. Maybe he needs more settings like this.

He declared George W. Bush a good president, Sarah Palin Qualified to be president and Mike “dishonorable” Huckabee a conservative.

Pretty good job.

On a side note I REALLY like the photos they go in and out with on the show lately.

Update: Linked by Texas for Sarah Palin. thanks.

Harold Ford on Morning Joe…

Posted: March 2, 2010 by datechguy in Uncategorized
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This should be interesting.

“We would have won a primary”…”the notion that liberals would have rejected me is wrong.”

Joe: “Why did the establishment want to beat you up.”

Harold: “At the end of the day I’m a democrat and the last thing I want to see is the seat going republican…this seat could decide the senate…if you can’t hold Massachusetts…” blah blah blah.

He isn’t answering the questions. Joe puts it succinctly, the party is painting him as a right wing nut, but then again playing games with his “evolving” gay marriage position to tailor it to New York. Apparently it is no longer “Gay Marriage” it is “Marriage equality”. When you start changing the names of things that means you can’t win the argument otherwise.

Joe goes about how insane it is to care about the abortion issue. this speech could have been made about the Slavery Issue in 1850. Why should we obsess about Slavery when people are hurting about the Tariff?

The Nation’s representative now says it’s about Racism, of course. Morning Joe has become a full employment program for people from the Nation magazine. They might be nice people but they are so far left that they would never be out there otherwise. This is a bone to their base far left Niche market.

Abortion is again being painted as “reproductive rights”. Again sanitizing things.

The reason why Abortion is such an issue because it is a basic issue of right vs wrong and evil vs good. People may not like to hear it, but that’s the way it is.

The idea that we should “divide” ourselves we should put aside social issues, religious issues and make them not a part of ourselves. That is not the way humans are, and if a person does do that they become well false to themselves.

Joe: “If you are prolife and a democrat in NY you can’t win” and of course if you are a republican in Massachusetts you can’t win Ted Kennedy’s seat.

Isn’t this the same argument that we’ve heard over and over again here that has been proven wrong over and over again? When conservatism fights it tends to win or inspire.

Ford’s bottom line is any primary winner would be too bloodied to win. Personally I’m glad he pulled out. I thought the move to NY was even more cynical than Hillery Clinton’s. I think he let his position on Morning Joe go to his head and make him think he could win. I think he really need to look in the mirror and examine himself and decide what he wants to do personally and what he wants to achieve.

This entire conversation paints a false choice. There are plenty of leaders out there who are pro-life and against gay marriage who are leaders and good ones. To pretend that people don’t want leaders is ridiculous, but it is the MSM that constantly paints people who disagree with their liberal outlook as kooks, who can’t lead.

That abortion love-in this morning was disgusting, I don’t know how many people sitting there were Catholic but if any were and kept silent they ought to be ashamed and more importantly worried.

If Joe and company want to see what leadership is I suggest they broadcast from one of the April 15th tea parties and see what kind of leaders the average people bring up on their own. It was leadership enough to stop an administration with Supermajorities in both houses.

Update: The Lonely conservative is disappointed.

Speaking of Dogs that didn’t bark…

Posted: March 1, 2010 by datechguy in Uncategorized
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R.S. McCain hits Frank Rich upside the head, which apparently is highly necessary for this man since he is acting like an idiot, except for the acting part:

Accusing opponents of dangerous insanity has become so commonplace in the Age of Obama that such discourse is now taken for granted. Frank Rich devoted the entirety of his Sunday New York Times column to insinuating that the Tea Party movement is a paranoid aggregation motivated by “frothing anti-government, anti-tax rage,” and thereby complicit in the Feb. 18 crime of Andrew Joseph Stack III, who piloted his Piper airplane into an Internal Revenue Service office in Texas.

Of course Stacy, my soft fedora in hand, is still recovering from my 20/40 parry of Rule 5, so he was a day late hitting Rich, but he is not the only one going after him:

Frank Rich of the New York Times retired as a drama critic in order to take up his new role as the paper’s full-time drama queen. As an op-ed columnist for the Times, his assignment, apparently, is to write in such a hysterical fashion that Paul Krugman seems rational by comparison.

Read the entire Fisking by Mr. Hinderacker and wonder what kind of readers the Times must have for this story to be recommended by anyone.

Now all of this is well and good but what does this have to do with the famous line from the Sherlock Holmes short story Silverblaze?

Well nothing but Morning Joe does…

Morning Joe often touches on Frank Rich’s columns. I had it on this morning from about 6:30. It is certainly possible that I missed something they said because I haven’t been just sitting in front of the TV this morning but as Rush would put it on the subject Zip Zero Nada.

It’s fair to say that the Healthcare bill and the McCain stuff is much bigger and maybe they can get to it tomorrow but Morning Joe is the dog that didn’t bark.

I suggest there is no way to look at the Frank Rich Column without concluding that it is one of the most idiotic pieces of writing that a person has ever been paid to paper or pixel. It has no basis in reality. The only reason why I don’t give him the Mike “Dishonorable” Huckabee treatment is because I expected better from the Gov.

I would very much like Joe and Mika to tackle this column this week. I suspect MSNBC would very much like them to stay away from it, I suspect the reason is because they are honest enough to call it the pap it is. This might be a bridge too far for their niche market.

Next year they should broadcast from CPAC.

Update: No sheeples here offers a restrained image of Mr. Rich, who in fairness has more hair than me, but no fedora.

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