Posted on 02/23/2020 9:27:51 AM PST by rktman
On Friday's PBS NewsHour, liberal commentator Mark Shields made a very odd historical comparison -- the 2020 Democrat presidential contenders were like American revolutionaries of 1776, fighting a president who is somehow like King George III, the tyrannical English monarch.
But first, both Shields and David Brooks agreed that Bernie Sanders -- the antithesis of 1776 libertarian ideas -- was the clear front-runner among Democrats, and Michael Bloomberg had a terrible debate. "He couldn't go toe to toe with Elizabeth Warren. I mean, she absolutely dominated him. She dominated the stage," proclaimed Shields. "I'm not sure she won the crowd, but she certainly was the dominant figure in that debate."
MARK SHIELDS: There's just one thing about the Democrats that I just want to — that kind of fits in here.And that is, the Democrats, I think, after that debate, are in danger of fragmenting and fracturing themselves. And I think there's a page in American history, the Revolutionary War. The revolutionists sought the active alliance with Charles XVI [oopsy] of -- the king of France, Louis XVI and Charles III in Spain -- monarchies, to help them....They had a single objective, and that was to defeat the king of England, to get independence.
JUDY WOODRUFF: The monarch.
SHIELDS: The monarch.
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Mark Shields and Judy Dandruff are still alive??? No way.
Well, depending on “alive” meaning.
Shields is a Democrat fossil who’s time has long passed.
Mark Shields, a deranged senile Commie nutter all the way to the end. He was a bullying, loudmouthed imbecile back 25 years ago on “The Capitol Gang.”
Seems like everyone is picking sides and calling the folks on the other side, the enemy. This can lead to only one inevitable end state.
JoMa
Just further proof that Mark Shields is an idiot of the highest order.
I admit to not reading most of the articles, but anything with Mark Shields in the title gets an automatic blow by.
Shields has never had a shred of sense.
Hard to believe these two old farts are still eating LSD on a regular basis...
Damn, what an idiot! Please tell me I am not paying his salary.
Who watches PBS’s NewsHour?
I doubt if you can find more than two people out of a hundred who just admit they watch it once a month.
Our Founding Father’s would have burned down Shields house long ago.
Shields is such an f’n idiot. Always was, a little bedbug incapable of learning.
First he’s Hitler, then he’s King George, then he’s a Mafia don. Whatever. Stupidity on parade. Who cares what they say. But 2020 Democrats compared to the Founding Fathers?! Those imbeciles?! That’s too much.
The Demonrats of our time couldn’t have existed in the 1770s/80s. Bernie would have starved to death because he’d have actually been required to work. Buttgiggity the Sodomite, well, we know what would’ve happened to him. As for the rest of the totalitarian gang, they’d have been Royalist Toadying Tories to the last.
“MARK SHIELDS: .... The revolutionists sought the active alliance with Charles XVI [oopsy] of — the king of France, Louis XVI and Charles III in Spain — monarchies, to help them....They had a single objective, and that was to defeat the king of England, to get independence. “
So he wants the Dems to collude with foreigners to gain independence from the President?! Or to win an election? Incoherent AND hypcritical.
PBS is a left wing propaganda machine. They should be given 90 days to become politically neutral or a-political.
If they fail to do so all federal funding should be instantly withdrawn.
Shields is the idiot.
Trump leads the RESISTANCE to the reigning wannabe kings of the United States - the media and the deep state. The sheeple are their well indoctrinated slaves egged on by their uncle Toms, the Dims.
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