Posted on 08/30/2008 6:47:31 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
You might have thought Bill Weir would have learned. Yesterday, CNN's John Roberts was roundly condemned for suggesting Sarah Palin might neglect her Down Syndrome baby while running for VP. But Weir, the weekend co-anchor of Good Morning America, posed a very similar question this morning. Coke Roberts, to her credit, called him out on it. Weir's guest during GMA's opening half-hour was McCain political director Mike Duhaime.
BILL WEIR: I must ask. Adding to the brutality of a national campaign, the Palin family also has an infant with special needs. What leads you, the senator and the governor to believe that one won't affect the other in the next couple of months?
MIKE DUHAIME: In terms of her personal life? You know, to the extent people want to look at her, she's got an incredible life story: five children, the son going into the military, she's got a --
Weir brusquely interrupted, virtually shouting.
WEIR: She has an, she has an infant with special needs. Will that affect her campaigning?
View video here.
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“In a way, this ugly, low-class situation continues to show what the American Fifth Column is all about. They live in the dirt, they are just filth that has nothing at all for REAL AMERICA -— nothing but an ugly, selfish, blind pursuit of power and control over America and its citizens. The MSM lapdogs are just low-life enablers for the radical left, and it shows every time thier open thier classless mouths.”
I saw this video as well as the John Roberts video posted on Newsbusters.
Absolutely disgusting. I expect a negative backlash from good and decent people everywhere. Bias and elitism are why the MSM continue to die, which pleases me greatly.
Cokie might also be asked about how much “experience” a woman needs to assume national office.
Her mother Lindy was not exactly a policy expert when given the seat of her deceased husband Senator Hale Boggs. Whose plane ironically disappeared in Alaska.
We live in an amazing world.
>> Striking. Weir had fire in his eyes when he was on the attack.
I’m glad someone else caught that. His tone and body language were unmistakeable.
Wonder where the “ABC ombudsman” is on all this — or if they even have one. These folks (ombudsmen for the “news” outlets, who ostensibly review reporting for bias) are either asleep at the switch, ALSO in the tank for O-boy, or nonexistent.
Weir also had a snide comment about Palin keeping a dead grizzly in her office. The MSM is going to peel off voters by the millions - Reagan Democrats in flyover country who think having a trophy griz in the office is pretty cool - and who will look askance at some NY metrosexual liberal talking head who wouldn’t know which end of a rifle the bullet comes out of and whose idea of the great outdoors is Central Park.
>> and, like other people of their station, they have the resources to hire qualified help.
True, that.
Another point:
The Palins’ “station” was made with their own hands, by working hard. Ms. Palin at least had a solid home life, but no silver spoon. (Don’t know anything about Mr. Palin’s home life).
They have *earned* their way to a station in life where they can afford to take care of a child with special needs, and have *chosen* to use their resources in that manner.
They have my profound respect.
Here is Sarah Palin and her husband, a pair of grown, intelligent Americans who have made a decision to take a certain path with their lives. Doubtless they have thought it out, thought about how they will deal with the schedule that path, probably made accommodations for the same. And without a doubt, any couple making such a decision would have to consider if they thought they would be able to accommodate the needs of their children, including the child in question.
And yet, somehow its not enough for this guy. He needs to get in there and decide if they are adequately handling their own affairs, impose his judgment and suggests that he, miles away from the situation and without any intimate knowledge of the workings of their family, knows better than they do, and is considering it from a more intelligent perspective, and has decided that they don't know what the hell they are doing.
This is whats wrong with the media, and what is wrong with government. The correct answer, and the one I sure wish McCain's guy would have given, was “that is none of your damn business. And for that matter, neither is child care in general, except as it applies to YOUR children”.
Media and Democrats. Birds of a feather.
And Obama-Biden-MSM '08 will not be as smart.
self ping to watch later.
There's a reason that Obama and Biden looked like they had some bad seafood when asked about McCain's VP pick.
It's because the "Iron my shirt, bitch" routine from Obama's minions nearly cost O the nomination. Now that his side has a history of it, it's political suicide to press it into the general election. Oh, and did I mention that his supporters are a pack of undisciplined, abrasive jerks who don't realize the damage they're doing to their Messiahobama, or simply can't restrain themselves.
Palin will be a magnet for these clowns, exposing the left to the general electorate, unmasking them as the thugs Hillary's supporters now realize they are. I've spent a good deal of today browsing through the left wing / Hillary sites. Let's just say that I think we're going to see something shocking when the 'post convention bounce' polls are released. IF they're released, that is.
Weir is a moron.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1971468/posts
BILL WEIR: The idea if there’s two or three people in an economics class, and a gunfight breaks out, are you really saying, it’s sort of like we’re devolving to the OK Corral here.
screwem!
Right on the money.
Gotta love their misplaced enthusiasm and efforts. One mention of this on PMSNBC or the Clinton News Network and a redacted copy of the tests from last December that confirmed that soon to be newborn Trig would have Down syndrome should be worth 1 to 2 polling points for the COUNTRY FIRST team.
Cokie related, in a book or article many years ago, that when her daughter was born (over 30 years ago) she had a job that she loved and needed and had her mother come and take care of the baby when she was 2 weeks old. Her mother sniffed, “at two weeks old, she should still be in the hospital.” Cokie replied, take her to the hospital if you like but I am going to work.
Where are all the polls? We are two days past the messiah’s speech and their convention.
“They have teenagers who are perfectly capable of taking care of a baby, if they have been raised right. And know what? I’m betting they were and can do it.”
Don, with all due respect, that’s simply untrue. Those teenagers haven’t a clue what to do with a new special needs baby. I know, my 25 year old son with Down Syndrome is sitting in the next room watching Big Bird tapes. Gov. Palin has no business running for VP under these circumstances.
I expect the McCain team to highlight this couple's blue collar origin and common man lifestyle. She is an outdoors person who hunts and fishes. Her husband is a commercal fisherman and works on the North Slope oilpatch for goodness sake. How much more in touch can a couple be?
McCain absolutely must introduce them to the American people and not let the whorehouse media get the PR jump on them. Spend all the money they need to to get the job done. No Dan Quayling of Sarah Palin.
In an interview in Dayton Palin said her husband would take leave to care for the children. They also have many relatives she said, grandparents, aunts, uncles, etc. They are a real family it seems.
Does she have a husband? Oh, yes, I think she does. In fact, I believe they even stated he would be the main caretaker while she was at work.
Are you saying a man is unable to care for his own children?
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