Actually, we idiots in the MSM are trembling with fear over McCain's selection.
Posted on 08/31/2008 6:36:25 AM PDT by Zakeet
Newsweek's Eleanor Clift disclosed on the McLaughlin Group -- seemingly without any compunction for how she was outing her fellow journalists as behaving the same way as Barack Obama's campaign staff, but I suppose we already knew that intuitively -- that John McCain's selection of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin for VP was greeted by “literally laughter” in “very many newsrooms.”
From the show taped on Friday at Washington, DC's CBS affiliate and airing at various times over the weekend around the nation, mostly on PBS stations:
ELEANOR CLIFT: This is not a serious choice. It makes it look like a made for TV movie. If the media reaction is anything, it's been literally laughter in many places across news-JOHN McLAUGHLIN, TALKING OVER CLIFT: Where is that? See that?
CLIFT: In very, very many newsrooms.
Audio: MP3 clip which matches the video (13 seconds, 80 Kb)
Earlier, Clift had more fully elucidated on her disdain for Palin, including the ultimate liberal media insult of comparing Palin negatively to Dan Quayle:
She doesn't meet the initial threshold of being seen as a credible President should the need arise for her to step into that position. She's been in the Governor's office since 2006 and before that, her elective experience was in the Wasilla City Council where she then became Mayor. Population five thousand, five-hundred and five. I guess that's where she learned about the budget. It seems to me this is a blatant attempt to woo disaffected Hillary voters and it is such a misreading of what women care about.....
This is a pick on the par of Dan Quayle where the first President Bush went for the youth vote. And Dan Quayle had a lot more experience on the national stage than this woman does. Now maybe she'll perform fine, but I thought the verbal factor was pretty high this morning and she doesn't apparently know very much about foreign policy or most domestic issues.
—Brent Baker is Vice President for Research and Publications at the Media Research Center
Actually, we idiots in the MSM are trembling with fear over McCain's selection.
Note to the MSM: Guess who won't be getting the last laugh....
Wonder how they’ll feel in November.
Yea, the same way I laughed when Barry decided to run...
....yep, I’m sure that Clift is right....and I’m just as sure that after McCain-Palin wins big in November, those same smug journalists will be wringing their hands saying “How could we have gotten it so wrong?”
Yeah, keep laughing. Like you laughed when Ronald Reagan won the nomination Clift.
If you look up Clift in the dictionary you see one bottomless pit adjacent and then a photo of the washed up liberal journalist hack.
Has she found time to stop screeching in defense of everything Clinton yet?
Thought not.
The high point in Eleanor’s life was Chicago in 1968 when she had sex with Bill Clinton on the sidewalk outside the Democrat convention hall.
It has been prettymuch all down hill since. She was old in the 90’s and although blonde, no longer suitable. She was not even able to beat out Mora Liason who as whitehouse reporter for NPR got Bubba to knock her up in the waning days of his administration.
It's the second step beyond “whistling past the graveyard”, and is commonly symptomatic of extreme fear.
Eleanor Clift is such a desiccated douche bag! If people were listening to “newsrooms” the industry would not be in such rough shape.
i knew some j-school morons in college.
that’s the way they reacted to every republican development—like adolescents.
while we studied into the late night in the engineering school, they partied nightly.
Remember the old saying, Eleanor, he who laughs last laughs best.
Remember the old saying, Eleanor, he who laughs last laughs best.
George Stephanopolous said the Dems wouldn’t criticize Palin, but would let the media do the job. Elanor, the Hag, is more than willing to jump in.
“Laughing while their ratings and circulation figs circle the bowl...”
OK, if your going to say things like that then I would appreciate a warning... Coffee up my nose again...
Y’know bert, incredibly somehow I don’t think you’re joking. And, actually I believe you! V’s wife.
Unfortunately for the media, they hardly matter anymore.
And that's their problem. They are such elitists snobs, they think they know what's best for the country. I'm glad fewer people (though not enough) watch these DemocRAT shills.
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