Letters to the Editor
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Who's your daddy?
You people say Huckabee's name more than his wife!
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The Front Runner?
The front runner is a guy who with no money who the media tells us to pay attention to? Is that how things work? Remember a couple months back when money was an important factor in deciding if someone is a front runner? I guess it really isn't since the new establishment appointed front runner doesn't have any.
Interesting how that works. Did you get the letter from the DNC too?
It isn't about money, or "electability", or grassroots support, or positions, it is ALL about who the elites decide to anoint, period.
It will be clear who the real front runner is when the votes start being cast. All of the lazy "journalists" out there who do nothing but go along with what the pundits are saying are going to get kicked in the ass and discredited by their own hubris.
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Huckabee on Education
The Huckster on Education: "The States should handle education and the only time the feds should get involved is if I have a really neat idea".
Huckabee sounds more and more like a Neoconservative with every passing day.
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Awful
The debate was as lame as the moderator who was boring. What was Alan Keyes doing there? He is a nutcase. They have left out Kuchnich for the Dems debate. And you are going to be discussing this with Chris Matthews? Another nutcase! Really, Joan, is Hardball a venue for serious discussions about this election?
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Wrong. The winner was definitely Carolyn Washburn, the moderator.
"A litte more snappy, gentlement"? She was a wonderfully testy iron lady of a moderator, I enjoyed her delicious bitchitude.
It's sad that she seemed smarter than all the candidates. Sad for the candidates, and for Republicans.
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Ron Paulistas.
Yeah, yeah, we know. Ron Paul will solve all. We get it already. snore...
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MSNBC appearance
Joan,
I am a bit of a newsie. I watch a lot of MSNBC and read several blogs each day. I just wanted to say that I love hearing your thoughts and today I noticed you have a great new haircut!
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Last Iowa debate helped.....and it didn't matter
It is an election that is separate from the government - a government that is separate from an election. Outside, Hillary appeared on CNBC aside Warren Buffet - she spoke of fiscal responsibility - the use of spending, tax and longtern debt to perform the functions while standing aside a man who easily will speak of assuring that his heirs know to earn for themselves, separate of entitlements and endowments. It was a true Presidential appearance. The matters of the debates don't appear to be as interested in posterity. Religions deal with eternity and are harmful to posterity. In the government, posterity except when it appears as an unincumbered annuity of retirement payments or franchises has single administration term limits. We are dancing around a vaccuum until we each take a vote - unprepared to think on our own.
Aside: Red is a great color for a dress but not a voting class.
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I missed Joan's new haircut? Dang!
What was Alan Keyes doing at the debate?
Among that ridiculous bunch of dummies and stiffs, Keyes didn't look so crazy after all.
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You too can 'follow-up'
Saw you on Matthews-Since you were there...again, why is he so easy on Rudy- and increasingly hard on Huckabee-(only recently), and as usual , he then slides into his Hillary/Bill "Gossip"--Is he really as shallow and stupid as he appears? Why didn't you call him out on his crap?? Are we getting an 'edited' broadcast?? C'mon Joan...we expect more from you...
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These are Silly People
Oldanielle,
Did you see Chris Matthews at his silliest on the ridiculous Morning Joe. His newest brain storm is that people want Rudy because they want a Republican President who just goes to work and takes care of things so that the people don't have to spend time worrying about it. They don't want sissy Democrats who go around having meetings and policy discussions and all that sisssy stuff. Of course next to Scarbourgh Matthews is genius material. Just in the last week good old Joe explained why we bombed Dresden after we had already won the war, called idiots those people who point out that tax cuts never have "paid for themselves," and told everyone that torture works because he spoke to important people who told him so. Why it is so bad that his colleague on Countdown called him a fool. But, then Joe also likes to have on the Holocaust Denier Pat Buchanan who still repeats that England caused WWII by declaring War after Hitler invaded Poland. But, when Chris says inane things does he get named the Worst Person in the World. Joan wrote long ago that she liked Chris; and well, as with Willy Loman, it is all about being liked in return.
WHS
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"MSNBC let's me say what I want as long as it makes them money." -- Keith Olbermann
While I don't doubt K.O.'s political opinion is sincere, you have to understand the water in which he swims. And that goes for The weathervane known as Chris "babyhead" Matthews and "Smarmy Joe" Scarborough.
How much money does K.O. take home from his "Countdown" comedy/news show?
How much does Chris Matthews haul in?
Smarmy Joe?
Look people, understand one thing: These people are in the entertainment business.
Joan Walsh is in no position whatsoever to tell any of these guys what to do or what to cover on their info/tainment shows. She can go with the flow, or she can go home.
Staying home means having no voice in that medium at all. Going on the shows and doing the Hollywood Squares routine up against Pat Buchanan and some other paid actors at least gives Salon the cred and exposure that it needs to grow.
Don't lend "Countdown" or "Hardball" or "Morning Joe" with any more stature than any other bobblehead gab-fest. Just because they appear to hold the same values as you, they are on TV for one reason and one reason only: They make a profit for GE, Viacom, and the other corporate owners of the networks. They are selling you a "brand." In this case, the "Liberal Brand" as opposed to the "Conservative Brand" of Bill O'Rielly and Rush Limbaugh.
It's all just a fucking game.