if moore had any real balls, they'd be hurting right bout now, cause he just got kicked in them...
Posted on 05/15/2007 6:21:49 PM PDT by Politicalmom
I thought this comment by Bob Krumm — "Thompson’s reponse to Moore will have a much greater impact on the presidential campaign than anything said at this little shindig tonight. It’ll be seen by many more people too" — was an exaggeration, a bit of blogospheric triumphalism. Now I'm not so sure. As of 7:45 p.m. EST, the video has 156,069 views. Obviously, plenty of those are repeat viewers. But that's a good run in less than eight hours.
MSNBC’s first Democratic debate had 2.26 million viewers; their GOP debate had 1.76 million viewers. (Reasons for the lower viewers for the GOP? 1. Most of America was glued to their web-browsers for my live-blogging. 2. Pre-game hosted by Keith Olbermann, who eight nights earlier had "accused Rudolph Giuliani of using the language of Osama bin Laden with "the same chilling nonchalance of the madman." 3. It was hosted by Chris Matthews. 4. Many Americans actually have lives.)
Anyway, it will be interesting to see what gets greater buzz in the coming days. In a way, if every GOP candidate on stage tonight plays it safe, a potential candidate bit- er, slapping around Michael Moore might actually spur more discussion in GOP circles.
05/15 07:57 PM
“38 seconds of political brilliance!”
Amen!
Go Fred!!!
The cigar was a nice non-PC touch!
Sistah Soulja (sp?) moment.
Cable channels are not covered by the Equal Time Rule, and HBO says they will run the movie regardless of what Fred does, as he is nearly unrecognizable due to heavy costuming.
Ron paul just got slapped down by Rooty
None of the men participating tonight in the Fox News hosted Republican party debate will be the next President of the United States.
if moore had any real balls, they'd be hurting right bout now, cause he just got kicked in them...
And as someone who does not want Rudy to get the nomination- I take my hat off to Rudy for that- he gave him holy hell for it as well he should have.
Ron Paul is an utter fool, and a disgrace to his party.
TNT is taking the position that they are covered, and is also owned by Time Warner (who also owns HBO).
Regardless of the costume or anything else, I think the biggest fear is other candiates demanding airtime, if HBO is saying they will run regardless of what Thompson does, that only means that intend to challenge if a candiate demands the airtime, but TNT is NOT taking that position at all and is going to act in compliance of equal air time, I remember reading something about TNT compliance in the daily news only a few days ago.
That's better. Ron Paul's party is the Libertarian Party. He does them no disservice.
San Hannity just gave Rudy 5 minutes of free time. Sean is an idiot!
Fred will make an outstanding VP!
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And Mitt will make an outstanding janitor cleaning Fred’s toilet.
Rudy was crashing and burning and Paul opened the door for him to make a huge comeback - and comeback he did. That overshadowed everything else.
Fred is poorly suited to these 10-man debates. He has a slow, deliberate delivery and just would look bad when limited to 45 and 30 seconds.
Not a problem. By the time Fred joins the race, the stage will have considerably fewer men standing up there:)
The video was just simply a classic.
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