Jim Lehrer (PBS) ridicules Kerry for calling for filibuster from "the ski slopes"; Democrats furious

PBS ^ | January 27, 2006 | nwrep

[nwrep]

Jim Lehrer, on his NewsHour program on PBS on Friday night, ridiculed John Kerry for calling for filibuster from "the ski slopes." Click the link above for the entire transcript. Liberal Mark Shields and conservative columnist David Brooks both joined Lehrer for some Kerry bashing.

This exchange is making left-wing radicals furious, who are now calling Mark Shields a "Republican stooge" and a "Fox News Democrat." One leftist website had this to say to Mark Shields, long time CNN analyst:

"This is the most despicable performance in your long career of pretending to be a Democrat. If you love George Bush with such devotion, then go register as a Republican today. Better yet, pick up a gun and go fight his disastrous war in Iraq. And give your "Democratic" spot on PBS to a REAL Democrat - someone with the cojones to stand up to the Emperor Without Clothes and his mouthpiece, Jim Lehrer!"

[msnimje]

Has anybody seen a political cartoon of Kerry wearing lederhosen on the Senate Floor and Yodeling?

Hopefully it has been done or will be soon.

Yodelbuster!

[marron]

Yes, Shields and Lehrer are attacking a dem. But the beneficiary will be HRC, not W. So they are still reliably on the plantation.

I think you're right.

[Calvin Locke]

said the only known cure for the presidential virus

Gus Hall?

[1rudeboy]

Man, the libs are loosing it. [sic]

[txrangerette]

Shields and his ilk have a choice; they can become more and more like the moonbats, or they can take a step back, like Pat Caddell, and even Zell Miller, and change their nasty partisan ways. They may think their kind still run the Dems, but they would be wrong. Now is their moment of truth...

[Graybeard58]

Regarding your statement:

I don't think this is that scary. It will merely triangulate the left into moderate left, extreme left/communist left.

Let's hope that happens.

The media are on John McCain's band wagon to be the Republican nominee, with the full knowledge that he doesn't have a snow ball's chance in hell of winning the primaries and hoping that he will run as a third party candidate, thereby handing us 8 more years of the Clintons a la Ross Perot in '92.

[brainstem223]

You can go broke betting on how dumb the demoncraps actually are. Here are the losers they nominated in the recent past... Mondull, Dukaka, algorey. and skerry... Clintoon was their only winner in the past generation and his term in office was an unmigitated disaster. If all the devilcraps had won, the nation would be somebodys colony by now...

[OldFriend]

Media doing the bidding of slick and slime klinton.

[top 2 toe red]

I think Gore will run again as well. Gore and Kerry, talk about has beens.

Merci...the entertainment of that! But, I'll never get anything done again, plus I'll be as big as a barn door...just glued to the TV, Freeping and goobling on munchies.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I'm surprised they their DNC ID cards weren't taken away.

[OldFriend]

Murtha and Kerry both have mental disabilities.

[SouthTexas]

The left is coming apart at the seams.

[Dad yer funny]

yuppers for the "Carsonesque" cue to:

... "Lurch is sooo dumb" [how dumb is he?]

... "Lurch is so dumb, when he got to the Slausen Cutoff,

, he actually got out and cut off his slausen!!!"

[Liberty Valance]

I read the transcript and Lehrer said "the ski slopes". For that he is being called a Republican stooge? The dem talking point police must rival the KGB.

[MinuteGal]

Note the men on either side of Gates. The haughty look-down-the-nose face of the global elite. You can tell right off they're wealthy snob-snots because they have on their no-tie-collars-open-I'm-for-the-little-guy costume for the photographers.

Gates looks like a deer caught in the headlights. His shirt is open also, but that's because the collar doesn't fit.

He's got to try hard in the next couple years to develop that continental "look". I doubt if he can ever achieve this..... he'd have to get a new hair-do, an eyelid job, a nose job, get rid of the John Lennon glasses, retrain his lips not to curl up in a smirk, and work on a sun tan.

Maybe he'd be better off getting a complete head transplant......he's got the money to do it.

Leni

[ccmay]

I think that a good 10-20% of the American people are either socialists or communists. Their numbers have grown to the point that they will have their own voice and the strength to support their own candidates. Scary, but I think that it is happening.

That would only be scary in a country with continental European-style proportional representation, in which each electoral districts sends multiple representatives.

Here, we have the Anglo-Saxon "first past the post" or "winner take all" system. You only need a plurality of votes to win, not an absolute majority, and each district sends one representative. That means that even if the barking-mad commies had 30%, the remaining decent Democrats had 30%, and we had 40%, we could still shove a conservative agenda right down all their throats.

There are advantages and disadvantages to such a system. In Canada and England it has caused conservatives to get fewer seats than their popular vote would deserve. It also encourages gerrymandering. But looking back to the election of 2000, when Ralph Nader siphoned off a lot of Gore's votes, it is the reason Bush was elected in the first place.

If the Left eats itself and splinters into two parties, it will mean Republican supremacy for a generation. We should all be sending money to the Daily Kos.

-ccm

[Bahbah]

Either he's got a mouse in his pocket, or Shields is one of them democrats!

That is clear to anyone who has not gone over to the rabid, foaming at the mouth DU, DailyKos view of the world. You cannot point out the obvious or acknowledge a fact that is inconvenient to the far left. They simply will not endure it. I've lived a fairly long time and I don't recall ever seeing the like of this in this country in my lifetime and by that I mean the dem party "leaders" heading the charge. I guess MoveOn was not overstating the case when they said "we bought 'em, we own 'em."

[go-ken-go]

What on earth did Matthews say to be called a Rove stooge?
Must have been really good.

[AmishDude]

I don't generally watch NewsHour. I do agree with Jedidah that Hume is the best. It's made for political junkies, is absent of fluff pieces and fairly presents each side (which is easier to do in politics than in culture). I would say that the grapevine segment is the one area of the program that is decidedly conservative, so I certainly like it, but some may not.

If you look to PBS, there are a number of complaints that are legitimate. First, that the reporters, like in most non-Fox outlets are uniformly liberal. In the case of Lehrer, Gwen Ifill -- though professional -- has not been shy in letting us know she has an agenda. Second, the choice of experts is sometimes disturbing. An activist can become an expert in their minds. For example,

The Ford Motor Co. announced Monday it will make sweeping job cuts and plant closings. Gwen Ifill provides a report. Then, Ifill discusses the potential impact of the layoffs, as well as Ford's new business plan, with John McElroy, host of the television program "Autoline Detroit" and Harley Shaiken, a professor at the University of California-Berkely who specializes in labor issues.

I'm going to take a stab that ol' Berkely prof. Harley isn't dispassionate about which side he's on during a labor dispute.

Third, though they usually don't pick and choose stories, instead sticking with the top 4 events, they way they cover them reveals some bias. Here was how they addressed the Canadian elections:

"A Shift to the Right": Gwen Ifill reports on the election day victory of Canada's Conservative Party, bringing to an end 13 years of the Liberal Party as the majority in the government. Then, Ifill discusses the change of power with Jim Travers, the national affairs columnist for the Toronto Star.

and the next day they addressed Chile

Chile's President-elect Elizabeth Farnsworth sits down with Michelle Bachelet, president-elect of Chile, in Santiago to discuss her experience during the 1973 coup led by Augusto Pinochet and her goals as the country's first female president.

For the conservative Harper, they have Gwen Ifill interviewing another reporter (a columnist from a very liberal paper, no less -- an outspokenly activist paper that endorsed the Liberal party in 2006) of the impact of the election. For the socialist Bachelet, she gets to tell her own side, no doubt from a sympathetic Farnsworth and the topic was her groundbreaking accomplishments of being deficient of Y chromosomes and how mean and nasty Pinochet was 33 years ago.

I got this all from here.

[FastCoyote]

"Mark Shields a "Republican stooge"

That is just loony. But what do you expect from moonbats."

Mark Shields is one of the best Democrats I know at being an advocate for the corpse of Democrat ideology. When he goes, I gues they have to open the doors to the lunatic asylum for new recruits.