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MELANIE MORGAN: Reporting From Inside the Fox News Green Room (The "Rest of The Story")
MelanieMorgan.Com ^ | March 16, 2008 | Melanie Morgan

Posted on 03/17/2008 2:39:29 AM PDT by Syncro

Reporting From Inside the Fox News Green Room PDF E-mail
Written by Melanie Morgan   
Sunday, 16 March 2008

Hells Bells.

If Howard Fineman of Newsweek and MSNBC's favorite Mainstream Media go-to guy can do his best reporting from the Green room (the holding area where guests get make-up and hair done) -- so can I.

I was invited on Hannity and Colmes on Friday night to talk about THE SEDITION REPORT  released by Move America Forward earlier in the day at a national press conference in Washington, D.C. before the moonbats took to the streets spreading lies about our soldiers during the Iraq Veterans Against the War propaganda-fest. Of course, those half-baked contentions were  soundly refuted. 

I found out late that evening that the whole show was going to be Obama, Obama, Obama and his connection to the Trinity Church in Chicago and the hate-filled rantings of it's retiring pastor Jeremiah Wright.

As I was waiting to go on-the-air, Major Garrett of Fox News was on stand-by to do further reporting on his excellent interview with BHO in which he simply asked a number of questions like: "Did Reverand Wright marry you? Did Reverand Wright baptize your children? How often did you attend church? Did you donate money to the church?"

After that segment aired, Major Garrett's phone started buzzing. He recieved a call from Obama's campaign, and they were REAMING him over the report. From his end, I heard Garrett say "I have nothing to apologize for." 

He repeated that several times, and he amplified by saying that he was merely asking questions that everyone wanted answers to.

That did NOT satisfy Obama's people, and Garrett flushed a couple of times while responding to the invective thrown his way.

He finally ended the conversation by saying 'I'll see you guys in April after I go home and visit my three children who barely know their father anymore."

I was scheduled for the last segment with Sean Hannity and Alan Colmes. Bob Beckel, a Democrat strategist with whom I have shared a split screen on several previous occasions, went on just before me.  

This time, he was FURIOUS. Madder than I have ever seen him on TV. He was making a point that I didn't really understand about kids who go to Obama's church growing up to become President, and was drilling Sean about that.

Whatever.

Here's the interesting part.

After the segment was over, I exchanged seats with Beckel. As he was leaving, he slammed the studio door so hard that it almost broke some expensive audio/video equipment, according to the technican who was threading my microphone.

He was STEAMED.

Later, I asked him why he was so upset.

He replied ..."because Obama's people didn't vet him and now Hillary's going to win.'

Catch that? A senior Democrat strategist thinks that Obama has lost the campaign over his association with Reverand Jeremiah Wright's militant separatist language that includes statements like "God Damn America."

I pointed out in my segment that my co-author Catherine Moy wrote about Obama's close personal association at this very website about a year and a half ago. Catherine and I were excoriated for making that piece public.

What a difference a year or so makes, plus VIDEO of those hateful rantings.

I think Bob Beckel really loves Obama. But just a guess on my part. An educated guess, but a guess.

I know for a fact that Alan Colmes does.

My advice to any pundit going on TV --stay away from Bob Beckel when he gets mad.

You might get singed.

P.S. Beckel was really quite lovely to me after he cooled down. He even complimented me on my H&C segment.

And that's my complete report from Inside the Green Room....



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KEYWORDS: bobbeckel; demchaos; hannityandcolmes; leftistanarchy; maf; melaniemorgan; nobama; obama
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To: Syncro

I watched the segment and Beckel kept going on and on about little children in the Wright congregation growing up to be President. His point seemed pointless, but he appeared to think that it was some kind of gotcha.

But I hope that Beckel is right and that this is the end of BO (middle initial deleted.)


21 posted on 03/17/2008 5:08:42 AM PDT by Malesherbes
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To: Syncro

Even better scenrio: Obama wasn’t vetted properly and he still gets the nomination. His campaign falls apart. The young voters become disillusioned. The old-school democrats wonder what happened to their party. Dem turnout in November is pathetic and the Republicans clean up.


22 posted on 03/17/2008 5:12:25 AM PDT by Dilbert56 (Harry Reid, D-Nev.: "We're going to pick up Senate seats as a result of this war.")
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To: SE Mom
This ties in with some other theories that Obama was the Clinton stalking horse all of the time and they were just waiting to take him out. If true my guess is he got bigger than they anticipated and when they tried to take him out a month or so ago it did not work and now they are frantic.<

also Beckel is and always was an a$$.

23 posted on 03/17/2008 5:14:57 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (John McCain - The Manchurian Candidate? http://www.usvetdsp.com/manchuan.htm)
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To: Dilbert56

The RATS are bound to be in disarray no matter what. If Hillary steals the nomination, the Obamaniacs are going to riot. If Obama wins, he’ll lose some of Hillary’s vote, for sure, but they’re certainly better off. Obama has said he’s not interested in being Hillary’s vice-President, and clearly shot down THAT idea that Team Clinton was floating a week or so ago. So that leaves Hillary as HIS Vice-President as the only other option that’ll keep the Democrats together... but I can’t see her ego as allowing that, and, frankly, I think Obama’s far too intelligent to offer the spot to her.

All this would be GREAT news to us if we actually had a candidate WE liked.

Sigh.


24 posted on 03/17/2008 5:35:58 AM PDT by Pravious
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To: peyton randolph
Peyton.. There has been no indication that Graham will be his running mate, it is just that it sounds ominous that he would be accompanying him on this middle east tour.
25 posted on 03/17/2008 5:39:30 AM PDT by mware (mware...killer of threads.)
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To: Syncro
I asked him why he was so upset. He replied ..."because Obama's people didn't vet him and now Hillary's going to win.'

Very interesting.

26 posted on 03/17/2008 5:45:20 AM PDT by McGruff (Tribal name: 'One with many knives in back')
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To: Syncro
Beckel replied ..."because Obama's people didn't vet him and now Hillary's going to win.'

Hmmm. I would not have anticipated that response from Beckel.

27 posted on 03/17/2008 5:50:15 AM PDT by Petronski (Nice job, Hillary. Now go home and get your shine box.)
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To: Ditto

I would like to be around Beckel when he’s in one of those moods. I would slam his pasty wide a$$ to the floor if he tried that crap with me. As we say down South, this dude needs a whupping, bad.


28 posted on 03/17/2008 5:53:58 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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To: Syncro

Lindsey Graham is still in the Reserves. He may stay there for a couple of weeks to serve.


29 posted on 03/17/2008 5:55:58 AM PDT by Dilbert56 (Harry Reid, D-Nev.: "We're going to pick up Senate seats as a result of this war.")
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To: Syncro

“He was making a point that I didn’t really understand about kids who go to Obama’s church growing up to become President, and was drilling Sean about that.”

Beckel is a true DhimmiRat Buffoon. His pandering and posturing only serves to clutter the airwaves, IMO. His regualar appearances on FoxNewsChannel usually make for a good laugh, but little substance.

I watched the Friday evening fiasco, and he certainly was trying to bait somebody, anybody, into biting on that bit about all the kids going to Obama’s church being unfit for the Presidency. That’s typical of Beckel and the leftist loons...jump immediately to the absurd.

For my money...Beckel and Estrich should both be dropped off on a tiny island somewhere...with no television, no radio, and no internet...


30 posted on 03/17/2008 6:00:01 AM PDT by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion)
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To: MizSterious

Her ya go..I found it...can you please ping the others..I have to run


31 posted on 03/17/2008 6:40:53 AM PDT by ken5050
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To: SE Mom
It’s remarkable, really. When you realize this was all “out there”...and many on the right wrote, blogged and published about it- and only NOW does it go mainstream, it’s easy to see the power of the MSM.

And why did the MSM choose to dump it now?? Could it be that the Witch's minions persuaded the MSM to do it??

32 posted on 03/17/2008 6:47:58 AM PDT by libstripper
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To: RushLake

OMG LMAO You nailed it!


33 posted on 03/17/2008 6:48:28 AM PDT by gibsosa
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To: libstripper

I expect that’s exactly what’s happened. I had this discussion on another thread this morning- I was ASSuming all the MSM were in the tank for Obama..and was reminded there are still plenty who want Hillary..so this makes sense.

Somewhat OT- Just heard Hillary’s speech on Iraq just now. She was going on about Iraq, withdrawing, etc...when in the middle of it she said “Senator Obama has said WORDS MATTER...and I agree with him...”

Mind you- this was in relation to Iraq...~snort~


34 posted on 03/17/2008 6:53:16 AM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: ken5050

Thanks, ken5050—I posted the link on the other thread.


35 posted on 03/17/2008 6:55:55 AM PDT by MizSterious (The Republican Party is infected with the RINO-virus)
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To: Ditto

“I think Bob Beckel has serious anger management issues.”

From my perspective, it seems a lot of DEMS have serious anger mgmt issues.


36 posted on 03/17/2008 7:00:07 AM PDT by austinaero
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To: Ditto
I think Bob Beckel has serious anger managemnet issues.

Bob Beckel is , and always has been a Clinton stooge and an ass. He shows it every time some Dim gets caught doing something stupid, and all he can do is spew about what Repubs have done similar, instead of addressing the fallacy of his party.

37 posted on 03/17/2008 7:03:27 AM PDT by Pistolshot (Remember, no matter how bad your life is, someone is watching and enjoying your suffering.)
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To: Pistolshot

Rememebr, Beckel also floated the trial balloon in 2000 of convincing some Bush voters in the Electoral college to vote for Gore..and didn’t he have some Spitzer problems himself with a hooker. I seem to recall somethign to that effect?


38 posted on 03/17/2008 7:15:39 AM PDT by ken5050
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To: SE Mom

Fun Monday morning read...thanks, Mom!


39 posted on 03/17/2008 7:18:32 AM PDT by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: SueRae
It was Bob Beckel himself who predicted that it would be McCain/Romney and Obama/Clinton. Well, he got one wrong!
40 posted on 03/17/2008 7:21:10 AM PDT by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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