Classless Stengel on MSNBC: ‘Weakness of U.S. Character’ Behind Coverage of Queen

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Before going to work at MSNBC, Rick Stengel had been President Obama's Undersecretary of State for "Public Diplomacy." With the sort of "public diplomacy" Stengel displayed today, we're lucky he didn't touch off WWIII!

Stengel appeared on Nicolle Wallace's MSNBC on Thursday, just after Brits Katty Kay and Keir Simmons made moving and emotion-laden statements about the passing of Queen Elizabeth. Stengel proceeded to announce that he was going to make himself "the skunk at the garden party." And man, did he deliver!

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[humblegunner]

Do as you're told, you insubordinate wretch.

Well I think that I shall NOT.

I'll stamp my feet and make scowling faces and NOT.

I may post angry words, don't provoke me further.

[bagster]

I told my wife that I was betting that over the next few days that leftist asswipes in America would start mocking and insulting Queen Elizabeth and crap on her memory by accusing her of every negative "ism" in the world. Sure enough, here we go. . .

You'd think it'd be the other way around, right? Leftists being followers with a serf's mentality who crave a leader to follow unquestionably.

Non-leftists like most on FR don't got no truck with that royalty business rigamarole. We became a free people over 200 years ago, in this shining city on a hill.

The Queen is dead. Long live the people.

[bagster]

Well I think that I shall NOT. I'll stamp my feet and make scowling faces and NOT. I may post angry words, don't provoke me further.

[Verginius Rufus]

Now that Queen Elizabeth is dead, we may never know if she found the time to listen to Obama’s speeches (remember his gift to her).

[sauropod]

That sure is more than mumblebummer is getting!

[sauropod]

Why?

You fighting ‘em for the chicken?

[Rummyfan]

Classless Rick Stengel accuses Queen Elizabeth of presiding over colonialism and apartheid...

Apartheid?! What?

[Rummyfan]

In the larger picture, whatever happened to respect for the recently deceased? This man isn't worth a pimple on the royal butt.

Of course it's MSNBC. Forget it Jake.

[Rummyfan]

Bushes and Clintons either in the Oval Office or running to get there. The hereditary lines are even worse in Congress. In some districts, it’s almost a de facto aristocratic line.

[SE Mom]

Well done my friend, well done!

[Rummyfan]

Man do I loathe leftists. . . ignorant, low-class filthbags of the lowest order.

They never disappoint with how low they go.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

I was thinking about that gift. The worst, most narcissistic, ever!

[Republican Wildcat]

If the poster owns MRC that would be quite a busy job.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Yep, such as the Dingell seat in Michigan: held by them for ninety years and counting

[humblegunner]

If the poster owns MRC that would be quite a busy job.

Oh, I doubt she owns anything.

Probably posting from a sticky computer in a public library.

Most bloggers do.

[Parley Baer]

WOW!. What a classless individual.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

No event, no matter how large or small, can be allowed to interrupt the available opportunity to take a dump on the United States.

[Rummyfan]

Yep, such as the Dingell seat in Michigan: held by them for ninety years and counting

Dumbasses keep electing them. What are you going to do?

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Yep, that’s one of the problems.

[Sam Gamgee]

The UK banned slavery 50 years ahead of America. So he is simply ignorant.