Lanny Davis Attacks Maddow For Clinton Criticism: 'Worst Element Of Our Party'

[democracy1st]

After President Bill Clinton struck back at Rachel Maddow for her criticism of his presidency, former Clinton aide and high-profile Democratic insider Lanny Davis weighed in with his own attack on the cable news host.

While appearing on Wednesday's edition of the radio show "America's Morning News," Davis was asked about Maddow's comments on her March 31 show. She said that Clinton "was probably the best Republican president the country ever had, if you look at the policies that he passed."

Asked to reply, Davis didn't hold back:

"We have our Tea Party side, and Rachel Maddow is typical...she's sanctimonious and intolerant of anyone who disagrees with her. So, if it's Bill Clinton, she calls him a Republican because he doesn't meet Rachel Maddow's test. So, the worst element of our party are people who call themselves liberal who are actually illiberal because they are intolerant of anyone who disagrees with them..."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/16/lanny-davis-attacks-maddo_n_719684.html

[provis99]

1. go back to the slimy mudhole you crawed out of, Lanny.

You've been an embarrassing twit for the past 20 years.

[Cant trust em]

2. Fuck you, Lanny. nt

[joeybee12]

3. Fire up that base, Lanny!

Asshole.

[montanacowboy]

4. Worst element of our Party

Lanny Davis - talk about projection

what a frickin creep

[EFerrari]

5. So, why is this scumbag piping up lately?

I wonder what deal he's trying to close.

Rachel didn't originate that description of Bill Clinton. It's been around for years and Lanny "I represent torturers, rapists and murderers" knows that.

[blm]

15. Maybe because they WANT base to stay home. Clinton used his summer2004 booktour to defend Bush

and he came out in October of 2006 to exclaim how much he LOVED George Bush.

People to need to wake up to Bill's political gaming against us the left and the entire party.

[EFerrari]

24. Yeah, I remember that. n/t

[truebrit71]

6. No Lanny you bent-over-for-a-dollar right-wing stool pigeon..that would be YOU...

Rachel has the courage of her convictions and sticks with them. You sold your convictions to the highest bidder so long ago you no longer know which way is up anymore...

I don't know which party you think you belong to, but it sure as fuck ain't the same one as me...

[madfloridian]

7. That has been said about Clinton for years. It's true.

That is an old saying from the 90s. It was meant fondly by some, not so fondly by others.

Rachel is correct, and the rest of the Democrats are not fighting hard enough to keep the integrity of our party....and stop it from becoming so much like the other one.

[Arkana]

8. Fuck you, Lanny Davis. Rachel Maddow is a fucking GIFT.

Davis was a slimeball during the primaries too--I see he hasn't changed.

[hlthe2b]

9. Do Lanny and the other Clintonites really not know

how common is this belief? :eyes:

[still_one]

10. lanny davis should shut up. Funny but the same criticism he is throwing at Maddow

is applicable to him:

"sanctimonious and intolerant of anyone who disagrees"

[Larkspur]

11. Clinton and Davis are just now responding to a critique made on March 31, 2010?

You guys are way late for responding to Maddow's apt critique of the Clinton Admin. Where you taking your Rip Van Winkle nap or something?

Oh, btw, Rachel doesn't have a sanctimonious bone in her body, but Davis reeks of it.

[EFerrari]

26. It's 'way older than that. Like years older.

Davis is just trying to ride Rachel's shirt tails to get some attention. What I wonder is, why now? What is he up to, it can't be good.

[mitchtv]

12. sounds like a certain element here

on DU

[Ignis]

23. I'd agree with you, but my post would be deleted.

So please consider my official response to be hearty disagreement. :spank:

[ibegurpard]

25. ya think?

[blm]

13. so Clinton, Davis and other Bushlovers are targeting Rachel for noticing the enabling fascist wing

of the Dem party.

[gratuitous]

14. Maddow is sanctimonious and intolerant, Lanny?

Oh, do tell. I suppose she's fucking retarded and needs a drug test, too. I know! Why don't you become a Republican operative, Mr. Davis? That would sure show that Rachel Maddow!

[City Lights]

16. I've never liked Lanny.

Always seemed like a greasy scumbag to me.

[AtomicKitten]

17. Jeez I hate that guy with the heat of a thousand suns.

:mad:

[Luminous Animal]

29. He is a scumbag.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-grandin/fact-checking-lanny-davis_b_255900.html

[Flubadubya]

18. The fact that Lanny Davis has attacked Rachel Maddow...

tells me Rachel is doing her job "just right"!! She should wear this as a badge of honor. :bounce::toast:

Up yours, Mr. Davis! :puke:

[Robbins]

19. Well

Why don't he for once critice the traitor Lieberman and Republicans Instead of Rachel Maddow.The truth Is there are facts to back
up what rachel said.Michael Moore said it first by the way.

While CLinton Is better than any Republicans there are truth to this.And If think Obama Is a corporate sellout then CLinton Is In
bed with the Corporations.

[bullwinkle428]

20. Lanny, you're well on your way to displacing Dick Morris

as the most pathetic waste-of-skin former Clinton aide!!

[damntexdem]

21. Ahh, now that's the Democratic Party that I know: whap, whallop, bop.

Maybe the Dems really are making a comeback. ;-)

[Vinca]

22. I can't stand Lanny Davis. I remember him thinking it was no big deal

to cede the public option in favor of serving us all up to big insurance. What Rachel said about Bill Clinton was correct. Clinton considered himself a "new Democrat" which pretty much equals Republican-lite.

[Toucano]

27. This goes back to MARCH? For the love of God!

Get over it!

[David Zephyr]

28. Lanny is dress rehearsing for a job at Fox as another "Democratic Leader"

like Pat Caddell. LOL.