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Are These Really the Left's Experts? (MSNBC Taps Ron Reagan Jr. as an expert on Afghanistan?)
NewsRealBlog.com ^ | October 23, 2009 | Ben Johnson

Posted on 10/23/2009 1:23:20 PM PDT by FrontPageMag.com

"You have got a sanctimony factor here that is extraordinary."

Gaffney: "You have got a sanctimony factor here that is extraordinary."

I managed to watch two MSNBC programs last night attempting to defend Barack Obama from Dick Cheney's incisive criticism over "dithering" in Afghanistan before my blood pressure hit 300. On the Right, they featured former Congressman Tom Tancredo and foreign policy expert Frank Gaffney, respectfully. Their opponents on the Left were:

The Ed Show: Joan Walsh of Salon.

Hardball with Chris Matthews: Ron Reagan.

Really? Ron Reagan&'s expertise is in ballet, ungrateful nepotism, and smug sanctimony.

Gaffney, the clearest mind in foreign policy for 30 years, was ever-unflappable and took Reagan down, hard. Pairing Gaffney with Ron Jr. was sad to watch for a number of reasons (although his pairing with that other Reagan was extraordinary)....

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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: boycottge; boycotttimewarner; dnctalkingpoints; msnbc; pravdamedia; timelies
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1 posted on 10/23/2009 1:23:20 PM PDT by FrontPageMag.com
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Huh? Wha’?....


2 posted on 10/23/2009 1:25:31 PM PDT by cld51860
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Ron Reagan Jr: Proof that the apple sometimes falls on a downward slope and doesn’t stop rolling until it shows up MSNBC.


3 posted on 10/23/2009 1:27:03 PM PDT by Callahan
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rahm & ron, perfect together...


4 posted on 10/23/2009 1:27:35 PM PDT by ronnied
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To: FrontPageMag.com

What planet or dimension is MSNBC on?

BTW, isn’t GE a TARP company? Where are the Czar mandated 90% reducions in the income of Olberdouche, Madcow, and the rest of the MSNBC sub-humans?


5 posted on 10/23/2009 1:28:01 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember (When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.)
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To: FrontPageMag.com

What degree did he get in college? If it is political science than maybe he has some background but I am unsure of what his major was and even where he went to school. I am pretty sure he did not go to Harvard or Yale or any top school that is for sure.


6 posted on 10/23/2009 1:34:47 PM PDT by napscoordinator
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To: FrontPageMag.com

OTOH, a few weeks ago BOR was interviewing Marc Lamont Hill on what should be done re: the Iran situation. Other than the fact that he is a “hip hop culture expert”, why should anyone care what Hill’s thoughts were about Iran, as opposed to the thoughts of any random bloke you could interview in any street corner bar?


7 posted on 10/23/2009 1:41:15 PM PDT by Signalman
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Ron and Rahm...the left really loves their ballerinas...


8 posted on 10/23/2009 1:42:09 PM PDT by Motorheadlemmy ('Hey Clark, I bet you could use a cold one...')
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To: Bobkk47

Yes, David Horowitz asked this question at NewsRealBlog.com, which led to chain of events that result in Hill’s firing. Not a moment too soon, either.


9 posted on 10/23/2009 1:42:27 PM PDT by FrontPageMag.com
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Since the left has no use for facts, anyone can be an expert on anything.

But you have to be able to read a teleprompter while on cocaine.


10 posted on 10/23/2009 1:42:28 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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Yeah, his name is the first to pop into my mind when I think of experts on the Middle East. Let’s see, as venerated background therefor he’s been the M.C. of the American Kennel Club Dog Shows, done color for figure skating, pursued a career in the ballet and is one of a rather small minority of people who think his father was a putz. Yup. He’s about as qualified as anyone else on the left. As I say, this would all be hysterically funny if it weren’t so hysterically sad.
11 posted on 10/23/2009 1:43:54 PM PDT by Constitutions Grandchild
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True! They could dance a little pas de deux together.


12 posted on 10/23/2009 1:45:09 PM PDT by lonevoice (If Fox News is the only outlet reporting it, did it really happen?)
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To: FrontPageMag.com

Have you ever noticed that the left has tried to portray people like Alex Balwin and Martin Sheen (and Woody Harelson and Sean Penn) as experts that the sheople should pay attention to? And many sheople buy into it? Increible!


13 posted on 10/23/2009 1:47:17 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud Dad of a U.S. Army Infantry Soldier whose wife is expecting twins SONS.)
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I hope he’s negotiated a great, iron-clad, gold-bonded contract. At least then his mother can go to her eternal reward knowing he’s finally got a steady job that pays relatively well.


14 posted on 10/23/2009 1:47:24 PM PDT by Constitutions Grandchild
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I just couldn't listen very long. I feel like sticking my fist through Mathew's skull. What a blowhard. He couches his questions with his opinion and then asks a question, then cuts him off.

That might be why Hannity bugs me as well. I'm a supporter of his positions but just can't stand the manner in which he speaks. Just kinda phoney.

I like Ann Coulter, Neil Bortz and such.

Reagan is a tool of the left and the gay mafia. He knows it, his boyfriends know it and so does the democrat party (which is probably blackmailing him) to stay in line.

How anybody can watch Chris Mathews is beyond me.

15 posted on 10/23/2009 1:48:56 PM PDT by erman (Give a man a fire, warm him for one night. Set a man on fire, warm him for the rest of his life.)
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To: Liz

OK Liz, baby! Have at it ;-)


16 posted on 10/23/2009 1:49:17 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Pray for, and support our troops(heroes) !! And vote out the RINO's!!)
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These twerps obviously failed debate .


17 posted on 10/23/2009 1:49:51 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (TAZ:Untamed, Unpredictable, Uninhibited.)
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To: FrontPageMag.com

Maybe he and Rahm Emmanuel can do a pas de deux.


18 posted on 10/23/2009 1:51:04 PM PDT by livius
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How anybody can watch Chris Mathews is beyond me.

Mercifully, I don't believe that many do.

19 posted on 10/23/2009 1:52:15 PM PDT by Salvey
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This is the only Afghan Ron Jr. knows anything about.


20 posted on 10/23/2009 1:58:11 PM PDT by BubbaBasher ("Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals" - Sam Adams)
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