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Shrum So Shrill, Even Chris Cringes
Hardball/NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 06/28/2006 7:10:31 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

by Mark Finkelstein

June 28, 2006

Over the last couple days, I've received four emails from one liberal reader of these columns, repeatedly asking me why conservatives are so 'angry and mean-spirited'. I tried explaining that while anger is common to the human condition, in no way do conservatives have a monopoly on the emotion. To the contrary, I cited a recent study revealing that, even when controlling for relevant variables, Republicans tend to be happier than Democrats.

Since I was unable to prove the proposition to the reader's satisfaction, I very much hope he was watching this evening's Hardball. For the show provided a perfect case in point of Republican good humor and angry Dem bitterness.

Chris Matthews' first guest, in for an extended interview, was Tom Delay. He had been invited on the occasion of the Supreme Court decision that largely vindicated his redistricting effort in Texas. DeLay took even Chris' hardest hardballs in stride, answering cheerfully and with refreshing straightforwardness.

Fast forward to the next segment, featuring the affable Republican consultant Ed Rogers and Dem consultant Bob Shrum. In fairness, Bob has what to be bitter about, as is well understood by those familiar with his world record for futility as a consultant in presidential campaigns.

Even so, Shrum's raw hostility was breathtaking. The very first words out of Shrum's mouth, without so much as a 'hi Chris', were these:

"The real sleaziness of DeLay's approach was exposed --"

Matthews was clearly taken aback. He interrupted: "Let's get personal right away!"

Shrum would not be deterred, actually resorting to that most tired of attack lines: "Look, how do you know when the guy [DeLay] is lying? He moves his lips."

You could hear Rogers' protest in the background, and when the camera moved to Matthews, he was manifestly mortified by his fellow Dem.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: bobshrum; chrismatthews; hardball; looser; msnbc; redistricting; supremecourt; tomdelay
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1 posted on 06/28/2006 7:10:35 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; netmilsmom; Diogenesis; YaYa123; MEG33; ...

Hardball/NewsBusters ping to Today show list.


2 posted on 06/28/2006 7:11:09 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Watching the Today Show Since 2002 So You Don't Have To.)
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To: Bahbah

Just part of what I forgot to tell you....LOL

I told you there was a lot I would forget.


3 posted on 06/28/2006 7:12:27 PM PDT by Txsleuth
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Shrum has such a stellar record of success too ........ ROFLMAO, That guy couldn't even find the prize inside a cracker jack box, much less be a winning campaign manager :-)


4 posted on 06/28/2006 7:13:59 PM PDT by MJY1288 (THE DEMOCRATS OFFER NOTHING FOR THE FUTURE AND THEY LIE ABOUT THE PAST)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The libs are losing it

Watch for them to get even more petty in their attacks


5 posted on 06/28/2006 7:18:24 PM PDT by Mo1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePb6H-j51xE&search=Democrats)
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To: MJY1288

Bob Shrum indicates the number of his winning campaigns.

Shrum has such a stellar record of success too ........ ROFLMAO, That guy couldn't even find the prize inside a cracker jack box, much less be a winning campaign manager :-)

6 posted on 06/28/2006 7:18:34 PM PDT by Covenantor
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To: MJY1288

SSHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! (they'll stop hiring him~!!!)


7 posted on 06/28/2006 7:19:39 PM PDT by Mr. K (Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help...)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Wasn't Shrum the guy who called the gigolo, Mr. President that wonderful night of the election?


8 posted on 06/28/2006 7:20:13 PM PDT by OldFriend (I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag.....and My Heart to the Soldier Who Protects It.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
In fairness, Bob has what to be bitter about, as is well understood by those familiar with his world record for futility as a consultant in presidential campaigns.

Bada-BING. This is where we got the verb "shrum." To shrum, to be shrummed, etc...

9 posted on 06/28/2006 7:20:21 PM PDT by Gordongekko909 (I know. Let's cut his WHOLE BODY off.)
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To: Covenantor

Lol! I was thinking the same thing. The guy is like 0 and 9
in Presidential races. What I could never understand is how he could continue to find employment?


10 posted on 06/28/2006 7:20:54 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The masks fall off these mean a*s democrats.....and it's NOT pretty!!


11 posted on 06/28/2006 7:23:10 PM PDT by Suzy Quzy ("When Cabals Go Kaboom"....upcoming book on Mary McCarthy's Coup-Plotters.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Special shout-out to General Meredith, if she happens to read this thread!


12 posted on 06/28/2006 7:25:00 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Watching the Today Show Since 2002 So You Don't Have To.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Shrum is a nasty, nasty man. Mean, snarling, you can see hatred and meanness in his eyes, as he listens and impatiently waits to spew out predictively ugly, vile insults. I wonder how he manages to enjoy living, with all that venom stored up inside him.


13 posted on 06/28/2006 7:26:30 PM PDT by YaYa123
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To: OldFriend

Correct and Ted Kennedy did the same. We are fortunate that our political opponents are so delusional that they even believe their own fake polls and exit polls.


14 posted on 06/28/2006 7:28:45 PM PDT by jveritas (Support The Commander in Chief in Times of War)
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To: YaYa123

Bob had his heart set on the lead role in 'The Return of Pollyanna', and after his audition was heart-broken when the casting director informed him they had 'decided to go in a different direction' ;-)


15 posted on 06/28/2006 7:30:17 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Watching the Today Show Since 2002 So You Don't Have To.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Just more Liberal Projection (tm). No one likes losing, but with Dhimmicrats it is pathological. It's gonna be excruciating (for them) this fall, and I expect mass suicides by '08...
16 posted on 06/28/2006 7:30:54 PM PDT by rockrr (Never argue with a man who buys ammo in bulk...)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Shrum is the LA Clippers of political strategists.


17 posted on 06/28/2006 7:31:38 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (What you know about that?)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
He acts like he got shrumed or something.

TT
18 posted on 06/28/2006 7:31:40 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (NEMO ME IMPUNE LACESSET)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

They're a strange bunch, and being out of power has made them even stranger.


19 posted on 06/28/2006 7:33:52 PM PDT by elhombrelibre (The MSM is "the propaganda arm of our enemies." - Jack Kelly)
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To: YaYa123
"Shrum is a nasty, nasty man. Mean, snarling, you can see hatred and meanness in his eyes, as he listens and impatiently waits to spew out predictively ugly, vile insults"

That's why he was just the perfect guy for the nasty Hanoi John Kerry's campaign.
20 posted on 06/28/2006 7:34:32 PM PDT by Jameison
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