Posted on 12/20/2005 4:59:35 PM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
Mark Finkelstein
December 20, 2005 - 19:40
Chris Matthews might be off tonight, but with Andrea Mitchell sitting in, the hysterical anti-Bush beat goes on at Hardball.
Mitchell interviewed a panel in which far-left Jonathan Alter was 'balanced' by the politically-androgynous David Gergen.
When Alter surmised that the impeachment of President Bush is a real possibility in light of the NSA surveillance matter, Mitchell, rather than bursting into laughter, asked Gergen with a straight face:
"Are we headed toward a constitutional crisis?"
Gergen didn't seem to think so, but, ever the suck-up, later bent over backwards to congratulate Alter on his "excellent" column in Newsweek.
Blech! Just reading that makes me glad I don't have cable anymore.
BTW, we ignore this at our peril--the radio news is on right now, and you'd think we were days away from a resignation. They played a clip of Harkin, AND one from Dean, and no clip of the President.
This is priceless.
At the end of the show, Mitchell teased some kind of retrospective program on 'the top political stories of 2005'. And what were the two, and only two, stories she mentioned?
1. The indictment of Scooter Libby; and
2. The slow response to Hurricane Katrina!
I agree, but on the other hand, I do say: bring it on!
Let the Dems run in 2006 on the platform:
"Vote Democratic. We Won't Be as Tough on Terror as the Republicans!"
Missed that.
Meanwhile, I always chuckle when I notice Andrea, that vixen, dressed in her hot leather jacket!
I'd love to see Bush ask the House to impeach him so he could force his critics to produce evidence of their allegations at his trial in the Senate. Somehow, I picture a sudden silence.
In fact, CIC GWB is going to come out looking stronger because of all this -
If the GOP Senators will stand up (and shut up the likes of Hagel and Graham) we are going to win in a landslide this coming Nov -
I said yesterday, the Dems were reluctant to publicly embrace Michael Moore's sentiments a year ago, but now they have dropped all pretense. Let them. Dean, who people were talking about a few weeks ago as being off the rails, is now in no danger of losing his position as the MSM and libs love him.
We can only hope good sense prevails, and the American people remember what happened on 9-11, and the reality of dealing with such enemies, and not fall for what they would LIKE to believe.
the coverage of this by the MSM - radio news, etc - definitely has an "impeachment" mantra to it, even if not said so explicitly.
I agree. Ive listened to the hour by hour news breaks and it is alarming. Ive even delved into a little TV tonite and I am not seeing the right side at all. I have literally heard impeachment 5 times tonite including entertainment news. Now that is a big problemo. We must be diligent and loud. God Help Us. I think another presser would be good!
I'm still curious what prompted Alter to stop wearing that horrible wig he used to sport, besides how bad it looked ROFLMAO
His "hair" is SUCH an improvement over that dead muskrat he was wearing. Back then his eyes read "I know I'm not fooling anyone" whenever I saw him on TV.
Alter has his head so far up Dean's rectum he can see his tonsils..what a POS
In 1998, Republicans were perceived as being on a vendetta against Bill Clinton and didn't do well in the general elections that year. Democrats will do far worse if they persue impeachment based on what we know now.
I try to avoid commenting on people's appearance, but couldn't help but being struck, in watching the show this evening, at how Alter is at that sad stage in which a few straggly strands separate him from dignified baldness.
David Gergen makes a living pretending to be a Republican.
but the difference with Clinton was that you didn't have a media shoveling propaganda at the sheeple validating it.
I agree with what you are saying, but my only point is that the MSM and the left are running full bore with this, and we can just say "ok, let these nuts say whatever they want".
now that I think about it, that wig may have been all there was to cover his head & incubate his foolish thoughts before he exposed them ... half-cooked!
The MSM coverage of about every issue since GWB took office in 2001 has had this type "tone" to it -
The MSM is a dying dinosaur. It is fun to watch them die a slow and pathetic death. And pathetic is precisely what they are becoming to even the "average" Joe/Jane on the street.
Alter is on Hugh Hewitt right now. What a bonehead.
Don
they still control what alot of americans believe is the "news".
Good point, but the lamestream media has lost clout since then. They have very little pull with conservative base voters, and the swing vote is smaller than it used to be. So far, there's not much to go on, just alleging that Bush may have engaged in legal hairsplitting.
There is another posting pointing out that Bill Clinton once signed an executive order allowing wiretaps without warrants. That can start the basis of a defense should one be necessary.
I believe Alter had cancer, that's why he lost his hair.
The fact is for going on six straight years we have seen a bias MSM like at no other time in history. Completely spinning news for the DNC and MAKING UP news to hurt the GOP.
They have tried everything possible (everything) to defeat GWB and the GOP. They have lost miserably in the last 3 major elections.
2006 will be no different if the GOP Senate will stand up with a backbone.
I always get Alter mixed up with eric Alterman. They're both lying, left-wing, anti-American commies. I wish there were a few Republicans with the balls to stand up to these traitors.
A Google search indicates Alter is indeed a cancer survivor. Apparently he had lymphoma.
http://www.lymphoma.org/site/pp.asp?c=bfIKIVMIG&b=872797
Mitchell, Gergen, and Alter... sounds like a group of mutual masturbators. (Sorry, no other word for it). Hardball with Chrissy Matthews is nothing but a televised slumber party where the exhibitionistic host(ess)and liberal guests play 'daisy-chain'.
Hardball? Is this one of those "reality shows" where people beat one another up over sex?
Only in a world of the ignorant can a dufus like Gergen gain stature as a journalistic sage.
If we let the Dems take the House, Impeachment will happen. The only way to stop this is to become aggressive NOW.
Donate to the campaign coffers of your Congressman and to the RNC's Congressional fundraising.
>>>A Google search indicates Alter is indeed a cancer survivor. Apparently he had lymphoma.<<<
Does not make him any less a dumbass.
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