Posted on 10/05/2008 5:11:22 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
Jane Pauley, one-time co-host of NBC's Today and Dateline NBC programs, is actively campaigning for Barack Obama. A couple of weeks ago, I wrote of one such appearance in Portage, Indiana that attracted only eight people. That event also featured Steve Skvara, the retired steelworker who in August of last year tearfully asked Democratic presidential candidates at a debate, "What's wrong with America? And what will you do to change it?"
It's only fair that I follow up by reporting that Pauley's current efforts are being met with much more enthusiasm. Maybe it's because she's now campaigning at Democratic headquarters and that's a more welcoming venue than the previously utilized union hall, difficult as it is to distinguish between the two. Perhaps the advance planning, blamed for her earlier poor turnout, was improved. Possibly it's because she lost Skvara, even though his admirers include MSNBC's Chris Matthews, who last year asked Skvara, "Well, can I pay tribute—can I pay tribute to you, sir?"
Whatever the reason, Pauley is pulling in much larger crowds. As reported Thursday by the Anderson, IN Herald Bulletin:
Appearing before a crowd of about 40 area Democrats, Indiana-born broadcast journalist Jane Pauley opened her speech at Democratic Headquarters in Anderson Thursday afternoon by alluding to her own hopes for the upcoming presidential election.
“I’m looking forward to a life into the blue, if you get my meaning,” she said with a smirk as the crowd clapped and hollered in agreement. The remark about political sides was also a reference to Pauley’s 2004 autobiography, titled “Skywriting: A Life Out of the Blue.”
Pauley made a brief appearance at the local Democratic headquarters to stump for presidential candidate Barack Obama and criticize presidential candidate John McCain’s claims that he is a maverick and a reformer.
“The original ‘Maverick’ was a gambler,” she said, referring to the TV series starring James Garner. “In these uncertain times, can we afford to gamble on a pair of mavericks?”
And later:
Focusing on foreign policy, Pauley said the United States had alienated allies and emboldened enemies during the past eight to 10 years. Recently though, she said, respect for America is rising.
She named three reasons for the change in opinion. “Barack. Hussein. Obama,” she shouted.
Pauley must not be aware that using Obama’s middle name is, according to no less an authority than Michelle Obama, “the fear bomb.”
Regardless, Pauley’s campaigning is obviously attracting increasing crowds. Little wonder she’s smirking. Keep it up, Jane. You might hit an audience of 100 by election day.
Perhaps it's because they all got the day off if they attended the event.
who’s Jane pauley?
Wow, is she still alive, and can you call it “actively campaigning” if 8 people show up?
The 80's Deborah Norville.
Yeah. I think she was on some boring morning show and is married to a socialist cartoonist. She looks like some of the characters in his strip. Only they are more interesting.
Was half of the forty the press?
Hey Jane:
Can we afford to make a gamble on your candidate, who has less experience than the VP candidate on our side? HELL NO!
Is it any coincidence she suffers from a severe mental illness that without medication she goes off the handle? Not making it up and also why NBC keeps her at a great distance these days.
“Appearing before a crowd of about 40 area Democrats,....”
That’s hilarious. I could get twice as many folks to show up at a BBQ.
Heck, I’ve seen more folks waiting their turn for the restroom at a highway rest stop.
LOL! You have a way with wording insults. I like that. Too funny.
Wasn't she that sour-faced comic from Saturday Night Live, later on Third Rock From The Sun?
Isn’t she some old bag they took off the tube because she didn’t age well? Isn’t she married to some POS lefty no talent cartoonist?
What’s even better is that Anderson ought to be a Democrat stronghold here in Indiana. The only other cities as liberal are Indianapolis, Bloomington and Gary. Even Hoosiers don’t want to see Jane Pauley.
Who moved her mouth for her???? Can you in all honesty imagine her having sex with Trudeau??????????? It boggles the mind. I’m sure a cranial CAT scan would find plenty of wide open Blue between her ears!
Through his comic strip, he has continued a two-decades old extreme attack against America and conservative politicians.
Bill O'Reilly called him a "committed leftist."
He made news last year by attacking the Danish cartoonists who did the Mohammed spoofs. In other words, it's bad to satirize the Islamic Prophet in cartoons, but perfectly okay to relentlessly attack one's own country.
He's distantly related to the late socialist prime minister of Canada, Pierre Trudeau.
Jane Pauley, his wife, seems to have found the perfect match when she married this cochon (French for pig).
Leni
Interesting....not that I watch much tv these days, but I don’t recall seeing her on tv in YEARS....
Is this the best she can come up with? Lame.
Heck, I’ve seen more folks waiting their turn for the restroom at a highway rest stop.>>
Well...they would be doing the same thing at both events in this case...lining up to hear shit spew.
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