FNS
Newt wants $30 million because Romney, being a businessman, can write a check for $100 million.
[Sure, Newt. El checke es in the mail — as soon as I find a postage stamp.]
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Brit thinks Chris asked tough questions. [Sad. Brit, you know better!!!]
They were decent questions— but he didn’t press them very hard. He had something with the Hillarycare, but he never really pursued it when she started dancing around.
I too was disappointed in Brit’s comments; I don’t think the questions were hard charging and I don’t think her cackle is “disarming”. I think they are all afraid of her....will Brit change his closing line on his nightly show from “fair, balanced and unafraid” to “fair, balanced and Hillary?”.
I have never been so disappointed in Brit, trying to tell us she did great. Kristol did MUCH better than Brit.
Bottom line: the Botch did not give one straight anwer to any question. Even ones that could have been answered "yes" or "no".
I think she has memorized mini speeches on various subjects and can and does spit them out when she hears a particular cue word in a question.
(Yes, I also think she had a prompter going and maybe whoever was running the prompter plugged in the same little speeches she memorized just in case.)
As Capt Ron said, she has yet to answer the actual question. If she hears "divisive" or "polarizing", she squirts out the one about getting Republican votes in New York state and how big her margin of victory was. I heard her repeat that speech, but I don't know if it was word for word.
When she heard the cues about voting not to rebuke MoveOn.Org for their ad, she spat out the speech about voting FOR the BS CYA bill to condemn people who say bad things about military or ex-military like Kerry and Max Cleland. She repeated that one twice on MTP and I think twice again on FNS. And she never differentiated that the claims against Kerry and Cleland were accurate and the MoveOn.Org ones were totally made up.
There were lots of others that got repeated, my point being that she repeated the same scripts over and over whether they matched the questions or not. Let's watch for it and point it out to less political people. I think when they see that for themselves, they'll have the right reactions. (I hope.)
She was like those little kid toys where you pull a string and one of several recorded sayings comes out. The only difference was that she went on and on and on.
Frankly MEGO and I found it hard to pay attention to the droning which is why I'm not sure if she repeated word for word or just pretty damn close to it.
I agree with rodguy911 that she'll try to pull that bit about I already answered that long ago on MTP, Steffy, FTN etc. Somebody has to pop up and say, "Very few people watch that crap. Would you please let the majority of American voters know ______."
I also agree with everyone who thought her laugh was harsh and grating (somebody called it her Howard Dean Scream), not a nice round belly laugh that sounded like she was actually amused. She also didn't look too good when she just talked right over Mikey's boy and, frankly, he looked like he was being run over by a tank.
(I have to admit that he and others annoy me when they interrupt the answer to the very question they asked the guest and sometimes I enjoy it when somebody just shuts them down, but I prefer it when the person confronts them on the interruption instead of just plowing on in their Panzer.)
Finally, as others have pointed out, she just plain straight out lied through her excrement stained teeth and was NOT called on it. We all saw her with our own eyes and heard her with our own ears when she called General Petraeus a liar. I know she didn't say "liar", but anybody who thinks that's not what she meant wasn't paying attention or is too stupid, dishonest or both to bother arguing with. And then, today, she tells us how she has nothing but the utmost respect for him.
Brit, we saw it and heard it with our own eyes and ears and we're just not as stupid as you need us to be for us to accept that she did great when all she did was dodge the real questions and just plain lie.