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WashPost's Milbank Compares Gorsuch to Eddie Haskell
NewsBusters ^ | March 22, 2017 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 03/22/2017 1:20:42 PM PDT by PJ-Comix

Gosh, Senator Cleaver, your questions are so insightful and interesting that I wish this confirmation hearing could go on forever!

Unless a nominee is a complete idiot, he (or she) will be incredibly polite during his confirmation hearings in the U.S. Senate. It is hardly the place to display a Fonzi (Happy Days) attitude. However, Dana Milbank in the March 21 Washington Post suggests that the politeness demonstrated by Neil Gorsuch during his confirmation hearing for Supreme Court justice could be insincere thus making him a judicial version of Eddie Haskell from Leave It to Beaver. If you are one of the small handful of people still unaware of Eddie Haskell, he was the young character who displayed insincere polite flattery towards adults to cover up his true smart aleck attitude. 

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TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 4thestate5thcolumn; danamilbank; eddiehaskell; fakenews; neilgorsuch; wapo
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Dana Milbank was the one who had to eat his own words last year over his prediction that Trump would NEVER be nominated.
1 posted on 03/22/2017 1:20:42 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
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At least Eddie Haskell tried to sound mature.
2 posted on 03/22/2017 1:23:06 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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Agreed. And Dana Milbank is Lumpy.


3 posted on 03/22/2017 1:25:17 PM PDT by Obadiah (Democrats continue their crusade against normal.)
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When these progressives have no argument, they resort to name-calling.


4 posted on 03/22/2017 1:27:01 PM PDT by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.)
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Would love for you to do a dummyfunnies post on the latest Wiretap revelations especially after the orgasmic joy of impeachment am sure DU was experiencing on Monday after the Comey hearings.


5 posted on 03/22/2017 1:27:41 PM PDT by bushsupporter30
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Dana(girls name) has outwardly expressed his hate for President Trump. To expect anything less from him would be a surprise


6 posted on 03/22/2017 1:27:45 PM PDT by CGASMIA68
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Dana Milbank is Lumpy.

More like Judy, the creepy girl The Beave had to contend with in 1st grade, who always reminded Miss Landers that she forgot to give the class homework.

7 posted on 03/22/2017 1:27:50 PM PDT by Cincinatus (Omnia relinquit servare Rempublicam)
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Sounds like an analogy Larry Mondello would come up with.


8 posted on 03/22/2017 1:28:14 PM PDT by TigersEye (We all have a stake in MAGA! We all need to contribute our efforts.)
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Of course he does. Milbank is a bottom-feeding, fascist leftwinger. I’d be surprised if he didn’t. Milbank was depending on Slick Willie’s wife to take us the rest of the way down the road to the slavery of communism.


9 posted on 03/22/2017 1:30:06 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it. - Clint Eastwood)
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when they start calling you “Nazi”, you know you have carried the discussion.

they know no different.


10 posted on 03/22/2017 1:30:59 PM PDT by QualityMan (The Adults are back in town)
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..and at the end of the day, Gorsuch will be a supreme court justice, and Milbank will still be a puissant leftist.


11 posted on 03/22/2017 1:31:52 PM PDT by QualityMan (The Adults are back in town)
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Maybe more like Lumpy’s dad? Arrogant, condescending, and no one takes him seriously.


12 posted on 03/22/2017 1:31:58 PM PDT by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless, indisputable clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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Dana Milbank is just a perpetual loser with his head up the DNC’s a$$.


13 posted on 03/22/2017 1:33:43 PM PDT by ImNotLying (The Constitution is an instrument for the people to restrain the government...Patrick Henry)
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Eddie Haskell was a fictional character. Ken Osmond, who played him, went on to become an LAPD motorcycle cop who got shot and went on disability.

What would be Milbank’s bitch about that?


14 posted on 03/22/2017 1:41:04 PM PDT by onedoug
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Couldn’t he find a character from burlesque or vaudeville to compare him to?


15 posted on 03/22/2017 1:41:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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wish I could think of where I recently saw someone else being compared to Eddie Haskell. Doesn’t matter that I can’t remember. All that matters is that Milbank’s comparison of Gorsuch to Eddie Haskell is weak because it was recently used on someone else.


16 posted on 03/22/2017 1:45:48 PM PDT by EnquiringMind
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No fewer than eight times he punctuated his testimony with “Leave It to Beaver” exclamations of “goodness” — “goodness, no!” “oh, my goodness!” — and, though only 49 years old, spoke in archaic phrases: “since I was a tot,” “a fair and square deal,” “doesn’t give a whit.”

I guess Dana views swearing, crass language, rudeness and taking an informal tone with a Senate committee as signs of maturity. The whole 60s liberal generation rebellion against their parent's politeness and morality is getting really, really, really old.

17 posted on 03/22/2017 1:51:48 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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Some people never learn from their mistakes. Evidently, Milbank is one of those people.


18 posted on 03/22/2017 1:55:13 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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At first I thought the comparison was to the “Fast Eddie” character played by Paul Newman.


19 posted on 03/22/2017 1:56:34 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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Was Miss Landers hot or what?! Sue Randall, RIP.


20 posted on 03/22/2017 1:57:00 PM PDT by irishjuggler
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