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ReverendDeuce Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 06:16 PM
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What's UP With Andrea Mitchell???
Andrea is all over Obama's case and has been all day! What gives??
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anonymous171 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 06:17 PM
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1. lol Mrs. Greenspan
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Faygo Kid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 06:24 PM
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10. Inside the beltway, untold wealth, out of touch - that's Andrea.
Never much liked her or her twin, Lesley Stahl.

Andrea probably pals around with the McCains. When you're worth nine figures (at least), you don't care for "the little people."

At least not when your every whim has been catered to for most of your life.
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Hieronymus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 09:45 PM
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34. For all those reasons, she knows the Greenspans will pay higher taxes
under Obama.
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Egnever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 06:18 PM
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2. She has been pissed for a week now at least
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Pirate Smile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 06:19 PM
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3. She was in Baghdad and didn't get an exclusive or any access. She was there and got nothing for it.
She's pissed. Obama can't be bullied and jammed into doing things he doesn't want to do - and she doesn't like it!
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 06:21 PM
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6. Bingo. Though she did praise Obama today; she was surprised
at his confidence, comparing his not caving to the military men compared to Clinton caving over different things. Notice she picked on Dems and had not a mention of rethugs.
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tishaLA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 08:51 PM
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27. even more: she "bigfooted" Lee Cowan, who covers Obama
Cowan would be the natural choice to go because Obama is his beat. Mrs Greenspan said she was going, and so was Brian Williams, and that meant that Cowan was out. It was a nasty thing to do, karma bit her in the ass when she didn't get access, and she's bitter.
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Mz Pip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 06:19 PM
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4. Hubby is
a McCain supporter. :rofl:

I think everytime she comes on there should be a disclaimer about who she is married to and who he supports.
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K Gardner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 06:21 PM
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5. Did she just call him cocky?? Or was that Tweety.. good lord !
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 06:22 PM
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7. I think she did, after calling him confident.
:crazy:
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TwilightGardener Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 06:23 PM
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8. Yes: Mitchell calls him cocky, Gregory calls him arrogant--all in the same day.
Coincidence? Nahhh. Not a concerted effort to spread a RW meme, certainly not.
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 06:29 PM
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12. david gregory called Obama the Messiah and has
his fascist mediawhorea$$ bowing down before him.
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Liberal_Stalwart71 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 08:41 PM
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24. Did Rachel say *anything* in Obama's defense? She's been horrible lately, letting these shills
get away with shit and attacking Obama without calling them out on it. I don't know what's wrong with Rachel. The M$M spotlight is rubbing off on her!
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 08:46 PM
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26. I don't get cablepunditnooze..I just
read about it filtered throught DU. I stopped getting it on Nov 6, 2002 right after the mid-term elections they made sure went to the republicons.

I hope what you're thinking isn't true.
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BeyondGeography Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 07:33 PM
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20. Gregory got off on feeling superior to Dumbya
and now he feels inferior to this guy who looks even younger than him...so sad. :cry:
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movonne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 06:24 PM
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Did he show her his cocky???
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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 06:24 PM
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9. I can't say that word here
But that is what is wrong with her.

She is a right wing ******. Always has been.
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lamp_shade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 06:27 PM
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11. You've probably all noticed that...
She customizes her answers for her various questioners... i.e., she gives Matthews the answers he's looking for, Gregory the answers he wants to hear, etc. etc.
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A-Schwarzenegger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 07:40 PM
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21. DING!
:)
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curious one Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 07:15 PM
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13. She needs to change or adjust her medications. Ms greenpissy RW nut is getting disparate for
attention.
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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 07:18 PM
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14. He's just not supply-side enough. n/t
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PCIntern Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 07:19 PM
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15. What's UP?
Not Mr. Greenspan...
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Divine Discontent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 07:20 PM
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16. ReverendDeuce - that is nothing new from her
I've always felt she was a rabid conservative, even when she's trying to be even-handed, you can sense her inner-con creeping out.
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Thrill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 07:24 PM
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17. Whenever Obama speaks confidently. She claims its arrogance
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Mayberry Machiavelli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 08:44 PM
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25. "Arrogance" is the new "uppity" for 2008.
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GalleryGod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 07:29 PM
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18. another DOUCHEBAG for LIBERTY
Nice Chem Peel, Andi!
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creeksneakers2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 07:32 PM
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19. NBC campaign coverage has all been outrageously biased
in McCain's favor. Every night they run a report on Obama which consists of McCain's attacks on Obama, the same ones night after night. Then they run a report on John McCain by Kelly O'Donnell, who gives the McCain talking points for the day along with warm fuzzy pictures of McCain speaking at places like picnics. Then the McCain attacks on Obama run during the Obama segment are repeated, but with McCain saying them. The McCain report must receive as much time as the Obama report, even when there is big news about Obama, like this week with his trip. Obama is not entitled to equal time with the McCain reports though.

It only gets worse.

They even run every McCain campaign commercial without context, evaluation or response. They just say "John McCain has a new ad out" and run the sucker. I watch every night and haven't seen a single ad for Obama.

Last Saturday Night NBC ran what is best described as an infomercial for nuclear power without having the decency to disclose that NBC's parent company, General Electric is in the business of building and supplying nuclear power plants, as well as making the nuclear fuel itself. At the end of the infomercial, NBC praised McCain for his plans to build 45 new nuclear power plants.

NBC spent a month on the Reverend Wright guilt by association smear and a week going after Wesley Clark for remarks he never even said. When Phil Gramm called Americans "whiners" NBC went half way through the story giving favorable context before airing the actual Gramm quote. Then, NBC had its analyst come on and announce that statements that aren't made by the candidates themselves don't matter. That was the end of the Phil Gramm incident.

NBC spent last Friday night covering McCain complaints that the volume of coverage Obama's trip would get was unfair to McCain. In fact, Obama has received very little coverage. NBC is in Iraq and Afghanistan, but they've spent nearly all their time running reports about how "sensational things in Iraq are now that the surge(which Obama opposed)fixed everything" They spent two nights interviewing Bush's surrogate General Patraeus about this, with the first night dedicated to Patraeus saying that Obama's plans for Iraq are very dangerous. Maliki's statement that the surge isn't the cause of lower rates of violence in Iraq wasn't covered. The surge propaganda is given as fact, not opinion. The coverage comes from the perspective of an assumption that generals must have the last word on decisions which have always been policy set by civilians. Questioning generals (just the ones that agree with Bush and McCain) is treated as blasphemy.


Obama's joyous reception from our troops in Kuwait was only treated with a glimpse. NBC did find time find time to attack the New York Times for not running a McCain press release, more time than was spent on Obama's reception in Kuwait.

Blockbuster News about Maliki supporting Obama's timetable plan was barely mentioned. General Mullen's advocacy of bringing some troops out of Iraq and and sending more to Afghanistan, which supports Obama's position, hasn't been aired. McCain flip flop to Obama's position on Afghanistan hasn't been reported. NBC did not report the White House's involvement in the cover up of Iraq's efforts to politely evict us.

This is all just a part of it. The wingnuts are now ganging up on NBC and the rest of the media for an alleged bias in favor of Obama. While NBC has totally ignored complaints from Obama supporters, GOP complaints got immediate responses. According to NBC, Obama is a new candidate so he gets more coverage. So far, coverage means scrutiny. NBC announced that this election is a referendum on Obama so McCain has been designated as the default candidate and needs no coverage. In other words, they not only have failed to scrutinize McCain, they've already decided they aren't going to scrutinize him at all during the entire election. Obama can only win if he overcomes an entire election worth of smear jobs.

The wingnuts are ganging up on the media now. I wish the left would do the same.
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LostInAnomie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 09:05 PM
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30. It has been pretty fucking ridiculous.
Obama's trip hasn't so much been covered as the media's coverage, and the media's CW about the Obama trip has been covered.

Obama may get more coverage, but MSNBC spends the majority of their Obama coverage interviewing McCain surrogates for their interpretation of the Obama news.

McCain's huge gaffes are papered over or made a one day story. Obama doesn't even have to make a gaffe, only someone with the most facile connection, and it becomes a week long circus.

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Raine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 08:37 PM
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22. She's sore because she's used to getting 5 star
treatment and for once she's found out that it's not all about her! x(
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Doctor_J Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 08:39 PM
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23. Umm...She's a GOP whore?
just like she has been for the last 15 years?

Just a wild guess
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barack the house Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 09:02 PM
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28. They know the trip is a big winner for Obama. There words are pointless pictures speak a 1000 words
The world loves Obama.
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barack the house Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 09:03 PM
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29. The just can't spin the world loving Obama in to a negative. It's pretty funny really.
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themaguffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 09:06 PM
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31. she's been having a fit for 2 days now. But not when W, McCain do photo-ops etc
She's absolutely ridiculous.

What an ass she is.

She and her idiot husband need to just go away.
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depakid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 09:25 PM
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32. How is she any different that she's ever been?
She's been petulant, self important and dishonest as long as she's been on TV.
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IndianaGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 09:29 PM
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33. She is Mrs. Greenspan
so she is trying to support her GOP friends.
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