Comments on: Words and Phrases from the 2008 Election That I Never Want to Hear Again

By: Shorebreak

Shorebreak — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:35:46 +0000

Gimme a break, guys. Go easier? More manageable? Get serious.
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I’ll never forget the time that The Today Show was on in the background and my wife said to me “Do you think she sold her soul to Satan?” I wasn’t paying attention to the television and I had no idea what she was talking about. I said “What?” and she said “Katie Couric. Have you ever actually sat down and watched her?”
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So, when I discovered that she used to co-anchor with Brokaw, I figured my wife was onto something. So I checked the membership list for the Council on Foereign Relations and sure enough, Katherine Couric is a member. That’s why it came as no surpise to me that she was made nightly news anchor.
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And that’s also why I don’t need to speculate on why she was the one chosen to interview Palin. The answer is obvious.
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Also, if any of you have read the MSNBC follow-ups to the G-20 meeting, you can probably recocgnize some of the terms being used to groom their viewers – UK and China leaders announcing calls for a new global order. Get out your tinfoil hats, folks. World leadership must be paying too much attention to folks like me – they’re starting to follow our predictions.

By: Rico

Rico — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 19:16:57 +0000

Katie earned her stripes? She should retire in shame for what she did to NBC news. Do you want to compare the job performances of each woman over the last few years? Hmmm, 80-90% approval ratings versus perpetually plummeting TV ratings? Wow! Who’s performing better in her respective position?

It is nice, though, to have network anchors campaign for your candidate. Without their help, your boy would have been destroyed Nov 4th.

By: Abdul Hakim-Shabazz

Abdul Hakim-Shabazz — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 12:27:45 +0000

Actually they chose Katie because they thought a woman would go “easier” on another woman. Oops!

By: Think Again

Think Again — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 12:07:27 +0000

One more thing…the McCain Palin intellectual jaugernaut chose Ms. COuric to do the Palin interview. Because they thought she was the weaker, thus more manageable, of the network anchors.

Katie earned her stripes, Palin showed her true self, and America wised up.

You betcha. Also.

By: Think Again

Think Again — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 12:06:06 +0000

Rico–once again you show yourself…remember what happens when you assume things.

You’ve got my gender wrong, and you’ve got your Palin ideas wrong. And I’m not a self-assumed intellectual. Far from it.

Thankfuly, America realized the Palin truths Nov. 4.

By: Mauri

Mauri — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 07:10:36 +0000

Republican, Democrat, and politician – all spelled the same CROOK.

By: Rico

Rico — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 05:31:59 +0000

You could not be more wrong about Sarah Palin. Self-loathing women like yourself are so full of hatred for her that it actually borders on psychosis.
Michael Barone was right. The media disliked Sarah Palin because she chose to give birth instead of aborting her child. That is what your party has become. You claim to be pro-life, but I am calling you a liar.
Sarah Palin represents a threat to the liberal establishment. Imagine an accomplished woman who actually chooses not to kill the most innocent among us.
How did you actually feel when the experienced one on your ticket stated that Roosevelt spoke to the American public on television in 1929? Or any of the other countless gaffes during the campaign? The great Joe Biden with all his foreign policy experience–or any experience for that matter…
You’d rather be lied to than told the truth by someone who may mispronounce a word now and then. That is quite revealing about your character.
You watched the Couric interview, and have your head so far up your rear to believe that it was not their intention to make her look bad. Do you actually believe that if the MSM wanted to make Barry look ignorant on a given topic they couldn’t do it? And do you actually believe that if he did stumble it would have been aired?
I hope you read Thomas Sowell’s article. The self-proclaimed intellectuals like yourself are often at the heart of all this nations ills. If you’re not yet completely Godless(which will invariably be the law of the land in the Obama age), you need to take a look inside yourself to learn what truly matters.

Your boy needed a teleprompter for a few short sentences after Biden’s acceptance speech at the convention. The few times on the stump there were problems with the teleprompter, Obama looked like an unprepared dolt. Does he read reasonably well? Sure. Does that make him a master of the english language? Absolutely not! You’re still living in this fairy tale that Barry is your savior. You do need one, but he ain’t it.

By: Think Again

Think Again — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 01:50:15 +0000

It’s not strictly about grammar, Rico. It’s about a command of the language. Let’s be clear here, and I promise to stop any attempts to be “cute” about this, because it’s important:

Sarah Palin can’t string together two coherent English sentences. She misunderstands the Constitution. She’s frightfully unaware of geography and geopolitical traits. She shamefully and blatantly misused a Down’s child for personal poliltical gain, which is cruel. Someone is drastically lying about the wardrobe, and I think it’s her. America has not had a more-unqualified national candidate in my lifetime. Unqualified in the sense that she lacks intellectual curiosity and the ability to form cogent thoughts on a consistent basis.

If this election were closer, electorally, ask McCain if he really thinks he did a good thing with Palin. It patently back-fired, and I, for one, after listneing to this ditz, was an advocate of “give her more rope.” It was a matter of time.

FYI: “Ask around” is a throw-away phrase…meant as a subjective punctuation to draw attention to the prior thought. A common writing tool these days. Ask Safire. He laments it, and I do, too, but I use it. Sorry if it offends your grammatical soul…it’s a trait you won’t have to share with Gov. Palin.

I did read the column you cited. It’s interesting. Incorrect but interesting. Please don’t fall into the common far-right trap, that anyone who criticizes Sarah Palin’s lack of depth, does so from a basis of intellectutal snobbery. Far from it. The GOP can rattle that cage for four years if they wanna, but they’ll be right back where they are today: national political losers.

The woman scared the crap out of me and tens of millions of others. This is a leap for me, but: gimme Cheney. He’s the worst VP we’ve ever had, but he’s smart.

By: Silent Bob

Silent Bob — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:45:07 +0000

Let us not forget Obama’s famous entry phrase, “look”…….

By: Rico

Rico — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:50:03 +0000

Thank, God. I suggest ‘you’ read……