Wolfie says Dems 100-Hour Plan Was a Stunt

[marmar]

Gawd I cannot stand that man.:argh: - OP's comment



from MediaMatters:


Disputed even by a Republican, Blitzer persisted in suggesting that Dems' "100 Hours" agenda was a "stunt"
On the January 18 edition of CNN's The Situation Room, host Wolf Blitzer persisted in suggesting that the Democratic "100 Hours" legislative agenda was "merely a stunt," even after former Rep. J.C. Watts (R-OK), CNN's conservative voice in its "Strategy Session" debates, had previously told Blitzer: "I don't think it's a publicity stunt." Blitzer asked CNN congressional correspondent Andrea Koppel if the then-expected passage of all the items on the agenda was "a success" or "merely a stunt." While discussing the first bill in the 100 Hours agenda on January 9, Koppel asserted that there was "a political calculation involved in the timing of all of this." But on January 18, when Blitzer again suggested the agenda was a "stunt," Koppel replied that it was not, saying "it was definitely a success." On-screen graphics throughout Koppel's report and afterward continued to ask: "100 Hours: Success or Stunt?"



Twenty minutes later, Blitzer, Watts, and CNN political analyst and Democratic strategist Paul Begala again discussed the 100 Hours agenda. Although they did not suggest the agenda was a stunt during that exchange, on-screen graphics still asked: "Success or Stunt?"



As Media Matters for America noted, Blitzer told Watts on the January 9 edition of The Situation Room that " lot of critics are saying it's a pure publicity stunt." Watts disagreed: "I don't think it's a publicity stunt. I think there is substantive policy in what they're talking about doing." Despite Watts' answer in the 4 p.m. ET hour, Blitzer again asked of the 100 Hours agenda in the 7 p.m. hour: "s it a serious call to action or a political stunt?"

From the 4 p.m. ET hour of the January 9 edition of CNN's The Situation Room:

BLITZER: You used to serve in the House of Representatives. Let's get to this first 100 Hours on their legislative calendar. The Democrats are saying, you know what? These six items they want to pass, they're all important, including raising the federal minimum wage.

A lot of critics are saying it's a pure publicity stunt.

What do you think?

WATTS: Wolf, I don't think it's a publicity stunt. I think there is some substantive policy in what they're talking about doing.

I think they made -- if I would have been advising them -- and I said this a week ago -- I would have advised them to not shove it down the throat of Republicans, allow them to have a say in debating this, going through committees and all those things, simply because I think there is some substantive policy there that needs to be debated. ....(more)http://mediamatters.org/items/200701190008

[high density]

1. Umm so what if it was a publicity stunt?

That's what politics has turned into in this country, thanks to CNN, et al.

[babylonsister]

2. Results matter, Wolfie, whether you like it or not. nt

[AndyA]

3. Wolf has his nose so far up Bush's butt he knows what was for dinner last night.

What a jerk.

I do enjoy seeing Jack Cafferty smack him down from time to time, with comments from viewers that totally disagree with the cr@p Wolf is dishing out.

[BlueManDude]

4. How can it be a "stunt' if they passed 6 pieces of previously ignored legislation?

[Hobarticus]

5. Wolfie's the Al Michaels of political commentary...

His best years are behind him, but he's kept around for nostalgia's sake.

Six pieces of legislation in 42 hours...That's more than the last session could accomplish in 42 WEEKS. Put that in your gnome pipe and smoke it.

[Mend]

6. Btw, his name is "Lesley". The name "Wolf" is a stunt. eom

[cassiepriam]

7. Healthcare, ethics, the war, minimum wage. Yep just stunts.

What an idiot.

[jpak]

8. So was the GOP "Contract On America"- BFD

it's called politics - funny how it works...

[tanyev]

9. So was this. Difference is, the Dems really did accomplish something.

[Parche]

10. stunt this wolf

If that was a stunt, then I want a million of them............


They have done more in 100hours then the Republicans did in 12years............

[GreenTea]

11. What would Volfie say that NOT one item of the republicans

Contract with America was ever accomplished...NOT one...still waiting for term-limits the republicans were so concerned with when the Dem's controlled the house for 40 years....not a word after they took it over..

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

12. Three words:

"Contract With America"

[fooj]

14. LOL. I thought you were gonna say...

Go f*ck yourself. :spray:

[Kadie]

15. ROFL

That is what I thought too!

:rofl:

[liberal N proud]

13. They did more "for the people" in 100 hours than the pukes did in 12 years

Enough said

[lonestarnot]

16. Wolfie has shit for a brain.

[xchrom]

17. wolfie is a spokes model for the republick party.