Soledad O’Brien - This time mocking Christine O'Donnell with "Define Marxist"

[Ruby the Liberal]

@rudepundit
Sweet Jesus, I love that Soledad O'Brien has decided she has eaten enough shit for one lifetime:

Soledad O’Brien tries to get Christine O’Donnell to define the word ‘Marxist’

“Why do you think they’re Marxist?” O’Brien asked. “I mean, you kind of throw the words socialist and Marxist around that are not necessarily, I think, anchored in definitions of socialism and Marxism. So give me the definition.”

“Well, they absolutely are,” O’Donnell replied. “They absolutely are. But let me, I’ll get to that…”

-snip-

One mistake she probably won’t make again is calling herself a “policy wonk” in front of O’Brien. Earlier in the segment she’d mentioned that “policy wonks like me” read a lot of statistics and figures that apathetic youth don’t. “You’re a policy wonk now? When did that happen?” O’Brien asked a moment later, prompting O’Donnell to change the term, then change the subject.

“Well, I’ve been involved in politics for 20 years,” she tried to explain. “I mean, that’s what… Policy junkie. Political junkie. You know, I mean…

Video at link: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/20/soledad-obrien-tries-to-get-christine-odonnell-to-define-the-word-marxist/

Starting to have a girl crush on Ms O'Brien over here!

[spanone]

1. why on god's green earth is ANYONE interviewing christine o'donnell?????

[deutsey]

2. Because she's a WITCH!

[JoePhilly]

5. Well, of course ... its obvious that she floats, her head is filled with air.

[hifiguy]

19. Cardinal Terry Jones: "And what do we use to burn witches??"

Peasant Michael Palin: "MORE WITCHES!!!!"

[JoePhilly]

22. I started laughing even before I opened your response.

[A HERETIC I AM]

25. How do we tell if she is a witch?

( skipping a few lines)

Build a bridge out of her !

[hifiguy]

28. But bridges can also be made of stone.

Well, if she weighs the same as a duck it proves she's made out of wood?

Truly, there is no occurrence in life for which there are not applicable verses from the Book Of Python.

[Cracklin Charlie]

34. Absolutely true.

I recently attended a funeral for a dear, way-to-young cousin (52), and a bunch of his friends did readings from various Monty Python sketches. Everyone in the crowd had tears of laughter flowing down their faces. People were mopping their faces with tissues.

Cousin would have thoroughly loved the crowd's reaction. Just thinking about it makes me smile.

[SheilaT]

35. Ohhh! I wish I could have been there.

Now that's (as far as I'm concerned) the right way to do a funeral. Make 'em laugh.

I know that different groups of people have different traditions. My family is Irish. The my mother died, my brother and sister and I (there's another sister and two older brothers not in the same city) got together to mourn. We'd all be going out to the funeral in a few days. Anyway, at first we were understandably sad, and then after a bit, and a couple of drinks, we started telling stories about her and pretty soon we were laughing hysterically. My husband, who is Jewish and used to more sedate behavior upon the death of a parent, was quite shocked. I don't know if he ever really got over it!

I'll need to talk to my sons about what to do someday when they need to hold a funeral for me.

[hifiguy]

38. A dear friend of mine passed quite suddenly back in '05

and he was only in his early 40s. He was 100% Norwegian but loved Irish music and Guinness better than nearly anything else in life. A group of his friends threw an old-sod Irish wake for him at the best Irish pub in town. Pete's pipe and cap were on the table in front of an empty chair accompanied by a full pint of stout. We drank Guinness and told "Pete stories" for hours and all left filled with both sadness but also with good humor in our shared memories of our departed friend.

[hifiguy]

36. There's a video out there on the intertubes

of various Pythons speaking at Graham Chapman's funeral. It is screamingly, fall-down funny and one can only imagine that no one would have been laughing harder than Graham himself.

[A HERETIC I AM]

57. You may be thinking about this.....

Part one of 3, Monty Python "Live at Aspen"

The other two clips can be found in the comments under the vid screen if you open the clip in YouTube

This is where Eddie Izzard comes out on stage with them as if he was one of the originals.

Later, they have (supposedly) Grahams ashes in an urn and spill it. Hilarity ensues.

If it's not the one you're thinking of, it's worth the watch anyway.

[reflection]

45. I have a friend

who loves MPatHG. He and his wife watch it often. When she was giving birth to one of their kids, instead of doing all those breathing exercises, they both recited lines from that movie back and forth. I talked to the doctor who delivered the baby afterwards (he's a friend of my wife's) and he said it was the most bizarre thing he's ever seen.

(huffing, puffing) "HELP HELP I'M BEING OPPRESSED"

(grunting, gritting teeth) "THERE ARE SOME WHO CALL ME... TIM?"

[Ikonoklast]

51. "She turned me into a newt!"

"I got better."

[Hugabear]

27. I know some pagans who would take offense to that term

Using that to describe O'Donnell is an insult to witches.

[deutsey]

44. It's a reference to an "issue" from her senate campaign n/t

[Fawke Em]

53. Yup... I noticed Halloween decorations going up at the store.

Time of year for witches!

(I mean the O'Donnell kind - not our Wiccan friends.)

[Lone_Star_Dem]

3. My guess? The other Republicans are too afraid to go up against Soledad.

[TeamPooka]

4. word is getting out... :)

[JoePhilly]

6. They don't want to get "Sununued"

[spanone]

9. i guess if you have a sheet of 15 pages of republican 'surrogates', she's on page 15 at the bottom

[LynneSin]

41. She's on the part of page #15 someone tore off...

and used it to wipe their nose boggers in it.

[uponit7771]

24. +1

[Cha]

40. Yeah, they all Cancelled.. O'Brien was

left with Christine. lol

[immoderate]

7. Comic relief?

--imm

[Ruby the Liberal]

13. Vapid breakfast fare?

Only one in the Rmoney camp willing to go on the show?

Sununu doesn't want the other half of his ass handed to him this early in the week?

I didn't see it - that link was sent out by the RudePundit. Apparently, I'm Not A Witch was involved in some teabagger/OWS event this weekend that this was supposed to be a follow up to.

[Tom Ripley]

21. +1,000,000????

[1StrongBlackMan]

8. quantifiable data?

And these soundbites might sound good and noble on the surface, but the problem is there’s quantifiable data that prove that they simply don’t work, ...

I would suspect that a "Policy Wonk" wouldn't make that comment ... But that's just the opinion of someone that analyzes and drafts policies for a living.

[Wednesdays]

10. "I'm not a witch" Christine is still around?

I'd thought she'd become some preacher's or third-rate musician's mistress and/or crawled into a bottle and heavy drugs by now.

[Politicalboi]

11. Man, Sarah Jr

Is just as stupid as her idol Sarah .

[LynneSin]

42. Even Caribou Barbie wants nothing to do with the Delaware Witch Project

Supposively Caribou Barbie threatened to pull out as the speaker at a Tea Party convention if they allowed the witch to speak there. The Tea Party convention organizers then dumped the witch.

[ecstatic]

12. OK. I'm sold. What time is her show on?

[lightcameron]

18. 7-9am on CNN. Rated lower than HLN's morning show, and barely beats the "Squawk Box" ratings.

I think it's mostly because of her personality. Content is fine, but she's annoying to watch for more than about seven minutes.

http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/08/15/cable-news-ratings-for-tuesday-august-14-2012/144962/

[ecstatic]

31. thanks.

Comes on kind of early, but I'll keep it in mind if I'm ever up at the crack of dawn.

[Brother Buzz]

14. You know what? Christine O'Donnell's got spunk.

I hate spunk.

[louis-t]

32. Ha! Good thing I finished my iced tea already.

[laundry_queen]

23. You aren't very subtle.

Just so you know.

[HangOnKids]

49. LOL! I Was Just Thinking The Exact Same Thing.

[genxlib]

16. In fairness

If Paul Ryan is considered a "policy wonk", then there has been some considerable deflation in the wonk market.

[freshwest]

17. K & R

[pokerfan]

20. Policy wonk?

Main Entry: policy wonk. Part of Speech: n. Definition: an expert in administration or government, esp. one overly concerned with policy details. Usage: slang

For her next trick she will claim she's a constitutional scholar.

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/obrien-confronts-odonnell-you-throw-the-word-socialist-and-marxist-around-unanchored-by-definitions/

[woodsprite]

29. I thought she tried that one already - against Biden or Coons

[pokerfan]

33. Maybe both

"Where in the Constitution is separation of church and state?" O'Donnell asked while Democrat Chris Coons, an attorney, sat a few feet away.

Coons responded that O'Donnell's question "reveals her fundamental misunderstanding of what our Constitution is. ... The First Amendment establishes a separation."

She interrupted to say, "The First Amendment does? ... So you're telling me that the separation of church and state, the phrase 'separation of church and state,' is in the First Amendment?"

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39740538/ns/politics-decision_2010/t/odonnell-questions-separation-church-state/#.UDKUSSPl-OU

[SomethingFishy]

26. O'Brian seems to be going all Will McAvoy here...

The last few days she seems to have just about had it with what passes for "facts" and "reporting" these days. Good for her. Hopefully they will let her continue.

[greiner3]

30. Proof;

That beauty on the outside is sometimes not on the inside.

Call me prejudice, but I've noticed 'nice' people are usually Progressives and 'mean' people...

[CanonRay]

37. Only Christinen O'Donnell could make Sarah Palin look bright.

What a dufus.

[LynneSin]

39. I think using the word 'Marxist' is a reflex reaction for Christine O'Donnell

During the last senate race she had, her opponent, Chris Coons, had written a satirical college article called 'The Bearded Marxist'. Christine O'Donnell tried to play that as Chris Coons was actually a Marxist and used that about every 2 minutes of her campaign. Nobody outside Faux News actually bought into her argument and ultimately she lost by 17 points.

about the article from Wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Coons

During the campaign, a controversy arose surrounding an article Coons wrote in 1985 for his college newspaper, entitled "Chris Coons: The Making of a Bearded Marxist".[16] In it, he describes his transformation from a Republican to what Fox News described as a "Democrat suspicious of America's power and ideals."[17] Dave Hoffman, a Coons campaign spokesman, said the title of the article was designed as a humorous take-off on a joke Coons' college friends had made about how his time outside the country had affected his outlook. "After witnessing crushing poverty and the consequences of the Reagan Administration's 'constructive engagement' with the South African apartheid regime, he rethought his political views, returned to the America he loved and proudly registered as a Democrat," Hoffman said in a statement to Politico.[18]

According to Fox News, Coons was "targeted by Republicans" over the 25-year-old piece. Coons himself downplayed the article, as well as controversial past statements by his opponent Christine O'Donnell, saying that voters were interested in current issues such as job creation and the national debt and were not "particularly interested in statements that either of us made 20 or 30 years ago."[17] David Weigel, writing in Slate, opined: "If the Tea Party Express slings the 'bearded Marxist' nonsense, I doubt it will work."[19]

So I think because she screamed about Coons being a Marxist about 200000000 times during the election that it's just her 'go-to' insult of any candidate. She really had nothing to back it during the 2010 election and even less for when she's on TV jabbering about whatever.

Why anyone gives this loser a microphone these days is a joke. Even the Tea Party distances themselves from her (they uninvited her to their last convention since Sarah Palin doesn't want anything to do with O'Donnell) and the Delaware GOP party can't stand her.

[Brother Buzz]

48. Remember Coons schooling Christine O'Donnell, the 'Constitutional scholar', on the Constitution?

I will have to go on record and say giving this clown (or was her father the actual clown? LOL) a microphone is grand entertainment.

[LynneSin]

50. We had a Debate party at the Dem Office over on Union Street for that debate

You should have heard the gasps in the room when Christine didn't know about separation of church & state. I could only imagine what it was like at the Auditorium at Widener Law School.

[Brother Buzz]

54. There was audible snickering between the gasps in the video.

[TahitiNut]

43. O'Donnell probably expects the duck to fly down and give her $50

... every time she gives Groucho a plug.

[JDPriestly]

46. Ms. O'Donnell shall henceforth be known as Ms. O'Ditzell.

[Greybnk48]

47. She is amazing!

Other newsers have to be taking notice by now, she's being praised all over the internet.

[Erose999]

52. "Policy junkie, political junkie" - so she's basically saying she's a junkie. Say NO to drugs,

Yeah...

[Redford]

55. Christine O"Donnell is an idiot n/t

[Lint Head]

56. At minute 5:46 her facial expression changes and she looks like she is about to cry.

She kind of starts to speak out of the side of her mouth.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

58. An Occupy vs. Tea Party debate

Great. The insane rightwing loons vs the irrelevant "don't vote" disorganizers.
Why is Cenk pushing this?