I still detest Michelle Bernard

[malaise]

That ReTHUG woman is such a hypocrite.
She's running her mouth on Up With Chris Hayes.

[Motown_Johnny]

1. I'm watching that too

I can't believe she said she was a big Barack Obama fan, and that she has been at both ends of the political spectrum. I don't remember her being anything other than a Republican mouthpiece.

[malaise]

3. I cracked up at that

I hope Jon Stewart plays clips of her comments leading up to November 2008.
She has reinvented herself - fugging opportunist.

[spartan61]

4. I was also taken aback when I heard her say this.

She has always spouted the repuke line whenever I have seen her on TV. No way is she "independent!"

[spanone]

2. she's a part of this hateful shit that allows a 'limbaugh' to exist

i heard her talking about how the 'personal rush' is such a great guy...yea michelle, sure is, eh?

[malaise]

5. A complete ReTHUG enabler

[PCIntern]

6. I agree 100%...she did something which perked up my ears years ago...

she was referring to her father as a "doctor" and of course, his practice, in discussions of healthcare and that he was a surgeon and all, over and over and over, and then she slipped and said that in fact he was a dentist/oral surgeon. Now I'm a dentist and am called Dr., BUT I don't pretend that I'm part of the MD/DO healthcare issues and debate...that's a whole different ballgame, believe you me.

[malaise]

7. She's a Colin Powell ReTHUG

a complete opportunist. She only became an Obama fan after Powell supported him.

[aaaaaa5a]

8. Michelle Benard use to be married to CNN reporter Joe Johns. They have 2 children.

I believe she worked for the Bush-Cheney ticket in 2000.

She was always a conservative. She tried to build a career as one of those "Hey look at me, I'm a black conservative" types. Often being black and conservative can get you TV gigs faster because networks like the contrast. (I hope everyone has noticed this in the world of cable TV.)

Then in 2008, with the rise of Barack Obama, many of these (I'm conservative because it helps my career) black pundits were caught in a bind. As a result they suddenly were "independent!" They were "open-minded!"Many of them suddenly even touted Democrats. (See Michelle Bernard's many appearances on "HardBall" in 2008.)

I really hate this kind of stuff. If you choose to bank with the GOP then stay there. The race or gender of our nominee shouldn't matter. It shouldn't suddenly change your mind. BTW... that goes for Condi Rice and Colin Powell too!


Michelle Bernard spends her time building her career supporting destructive GOP policies. Outside of drastically changing positions/sides in 2008 to briefly "save face" in the black community, she touts conservatism.

I believe Michelle Bernard works for the Women's Independent Forum. If you are confused as to how any woman can work to advance the cause of women while supporting conservative causes like the Women's Independent Forum, you are not alone.

On a different note... she is beautiful.


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Here she is with her ex husband





Michelle Bernard use to be a regular on "HardBall." But to my knowledge she has not been on the show in very long time.





Tweety loves Joan Walsh now.

[Skidmore]

9. Watching Robert George just now on

Kornacki's show brought Bernard to mind so I used the Google machine and this thread was among the results. Can't stand either one of them or that odious Michael Steele. Wonder if Bernard still thinks women are in such good shape now. Didn't she used to hang with that Concerned Women group for a while who were advocating that the vote be taken from women? This was during King George of Bush's reign. Gotta double check that one because synapses don't fire as reliably as the used to.

[malaise]

10. LOL - I was wondering who found this old thread

Like the war criminal Colin Powell, Michelle Bernard has Jamaican connections. She supported John McCain big time. It was only after Powell jumped on the Obama wagon that she pretended to change stripes - one more fugging opportunists who can't ever be trusted.

Michelle D. Bernard (born July 30, 1963, Washington, D.C.)[1] is an American journalist, political analyst, author, and President and CEO of the Bernard Center For Women, Politics & Public Policy. She was formerly President and CEO of Independent Women's Forum and Independent Women's Voice.[2]

Bernard graduated from Howard University with a B.A. in Political Science and Philosophy. She has a J.D. degree from the Georgetown University Law Center, and was a partner at the lobbyist and law firm Patton Boggs. In 2000, she was a member of the Bush-Cheney Presidential Inaugural Committee. She was the chair for the District of Columbia's Redevelopment Land Agency.

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

[Skidmore]

11. You might want to file this article away for future reference if she

starts becoming a fixture in the 2016 punditry.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/06/14/535833/-A-Wolf-in-Sheep-s-Clothing-Who-is-Michelle-Bernard

It was the Independent Womens Forum that she was CEO of. I distinctly remember her being on during the Bush years and railing about how women should not be exercising political voices or power while she herself was earning a living doing the same damned thing. Most of the women on the right have that same problem. Ultimate hypocrites--using political voices and power to take power away from other women and shut them up. And no one ever calls them on it.

And her defense of Clarence Hill forever puts her on my poop list.

From the Wikipedia entry on IWF:

Sources of funding[edit]
The IWF operates through funds provided by donor organizations. It has been described by the think-tank monitoring group MediaTransparency as being "largely funded by the conservative movement."[50] Sources of funding include three of Richard Mellon Scaife's four Scaife Foundations. A full breakdown[50] of foundation donors is given below:

Body Donations Total (USD)
Sarah Scaife Foundation* 10 1,675,000
Brady Education Foundation 6 1,604,000
Randolph Foundation 14 1,559,000
John M. Olin Foundation 11 776,000
Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation 15 490,000
Castle Rock Foundation 5 300,000
Carthage Foundation* 3 300,000
Jaquelin Hume Foundation 6 265,000
William H. Donner Foundation 5 200,000
Scaife Family Foundation* 1 100,000
JM Foundation 5 95,000
Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation 4 70,000
Shelby Cullom Davis Foundation 6 61,000
Gilder Foundation 1 50,000
Earhart Foundation 2 35,000
Lovett and Ruth Peters Foundation 1 25,000
Roe Foundation 5 22,500
Hickory Foundation 4 17,500
William E. Simon Foundation 2 6,000
Total 106 7,651,000

[malaise]

12. Bookmarked

Thanks Skidmore

She used to be a regular on GEM$NBComcast