Cokie Roberts on NPR: " 'Marning, Baahb..."

[PCIntern]

The usual snotty tone...except that she did concede that the issues were working against Bush. She stated that Seniors were not happy with the 'Drug' Bill and governors and educators were not happy with No Child Left Behind.


She also had to admit thru clenched teeth that Clarke's resume is outstanding. She wasn't happy at all whatsoever - she didn't even give us the usual vomit-intonation when using the word "Democrat". good day for us, bad day for her.


She's still a royal pain in the ass, however...

[displacedtexan]

1. I don't understand what happened to Cokie.

She comes from a well respected Dem family. If anyone knows how she was seduced by the dark side, I'd like to know.

[tishaLA]

2. She decided Rummy is sexy

what more needs to be said.

Oh and she never got over the fact that she and her mother were kept waiting by President Clinton when they came to the WH...something to do with her father. I guess Cokie loves good manners more than she understands that a President has to balance a lot of things, one of the least of which is an anchor with badly frosted hair.

[Junkdrawer]

6. In the 90s, when NPR came under attack from the right, she was...

one of the first to jump ship. She went to ABC and did a show with Sam Donaldson and became the darling of the Washington cocktail circuit.

[The Backlash Cometh]

7. I have an idea.

It's the limo liberal syndrome that we all hate to see. Democrats who are well connected are just as prone to get seduced by the good ole boy network. And if you see a lot of that, you lose respect for people who profess to be men of the people. In that regard, Republicans are more honest about who they are -- selfish, self-centered etc. -- than Democrats. Cokie may have reached that level where she saw too much and just said, well, as long as I'm in it for myself, the Republicans have a better plan.

[SpaceCatMeetsMars]

8. A lot of them must be so caught up in their social scene that

they have lost all perspective. I say that because I will never forget when I read in the TV Guide a little interview with her where she was commenting right after the 2000 election that she was very upset about the whole thing becasue it was interfering with her holiday parties! She also said that she was a mother.

She really should retire, but the money and the easy work must be too good to give up. I wish people like her could see the damage they are doing to the country and to ordinary people's live's because nobody is holding the administration accountable. I don't know how they live with themselves.

The thing that annoys me with people like her talking about their motherhood is that she could easily afford to stay home, but over the years I have known so many friends and relatives, women and men, who would have LOVED to have more time home with their kids but couldn't afford it. So people like her bragging about how they are such wonderful, sacrificing mothers seem like clueless pain-in-the-arses to me.

[KG]

3. uninformed, incoherent, irrelevant.

cokie is just winging it. she's truly a moron.

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[xchrom]

4. check me off

in the cokie is kookie column.
she's one of those reporters i loathe the most because she lets her disdain of democrats, liberals, etc fly so high.
the establishment press likes to present her as a creature of some intellectual standing and that galls me even more.

[Racenut20]

5. Right wing religious prude is her problem

The lady needs a good orgasim.

[kstewart33]

9. Give her a break

There are far worse on the networks and cable. She's recovering from a rough bout with breast cancer. Lighten up.

[PCIntern]

10. You're right and we shouldn't lose our humanism

it is what distinguishes us from the other side...

But she shouldn't lose her objectivity (what's left of it) either.

[MetaTrope]

11. Breast cancer?

Must have been a result of fellating Bush for three years.

[PCIntern]

12. The problem is or continues to be

that she has always spoken about the Bush White Houses with great reverence - you can hear it in her voice. When Clinton was the real President, she couldn't say enough horrible things about him, his family, and his staff and she was venomous, both in style and substance.

Her predictive abilities are 'guarded to poor'.

[tishaLA]

14. Dang!

Was that really necessary?

[MetaTrope]

16. If criticism of Republican parasites were to be muted

by their physical infirmities, we'd have nothing to talk about all day but Jeb's rapist son.

[tishaLA]

18. To suggest a causal relationship

between the two things is indeed offensive.

[MetaTrope]

19. Sorry

But I'll reserve my compassion for the 600 dead and 12,000 maimed American troops whose path to Iraq was greased by Cokie's constant squawking of WMDs, and the tens of thousands of Iraqi men, women and children who died to the sound of her orgasmic raptures over "shock & awe."

[mac56]

15. good lord -

Unnecessary, ignorant, and crude.

[lapislzi]

21. No

I am sorry that she's had cancer.

It has NOTHING to do with her emptyheaded onair idiocy.

Keep the personal separate from the political, please.

[sendero]

13. It was truly pathetic...

.. she gave 10 seconds to the Clarke position and a minute and a half to the "rebuttals", which frankly fly in the face of the truth as I understand it.

If you are still giving money to NPR affiliates, please consider finding a more useful application of your funds. Failing that, please flush the cash down the toilet.

With friends like these who needs enemies? :)

[Brewman_Jax]

17. Music to my ears

having to listen to Kookie have to admit that her man Bush* has taken a big hit by a very credible source. She couldn't tap dance fast enough!


Not a bad way to start a Monday!

[ithacan]

20. the story was almost totally the Bush rebuttals

they only briefly mentioned and summarized Clarke's charges, they did not go into detail, they did not have quotes from him on the devastating specifics.

But Cokie did a great job repeating all of the details of the Bush "rebuttals."

Disgusting as usual, a mouthpiece for the right.

[dpibel]

22. Minnie the Moocher

It was down in Chinatown
All the Cokies lyin' around
Some was high
And some was mighty low. . .

"Minnie the Moocher" as performed by Cab Calloway