Li'l Luke Russert Sneers At Elizabeth Warren On Air

[babylonsister]

http://crooksandliars.com/2014/12/lil-luke-russert-sneers-elizabeth-warren

Li'l Luke Russert Sneers At Elizabeth Warren On Air
By karoli
December 12, 2014


Just after the House passed the budget bill, Luke Russert went on the air (and the record) with his opinion of Elizabeth Warren.

Watch Li'l Luke Russert sneer at Elizabeth Warren and call her a purity troll for daring to stand up for ordinary people instead of Wall Street's interests. As if it's her fault that Jamie Dimon was having a hissy fit and demanding that Congress fix what he broke all those years back.

While discussing the progress of the bill and transition to the Senate, Li'l Luke's analysis of Democrats suddenly waking up to the idea that maybe they shouldn't be supporting campaign finance limits and Wall Street bailouts was flawed to begin with, but as usual, he loves to spin it as Democrats eating their own instead of simply listening to common sense.

Then he went completely off the rails, saying "There is an appetite in the Democratic party for purity, and who fits purity better? Elizabeth Warren, much more so than Hillary Clinton."

Oh, talk about damning with faint praise. We all know the word purity is cablespeak for wingnut. So there you have li'l Luke setting the table for some "bothsides" talk, should the Senate balk at passing this bill.

Cable news and the Beltway pundits need to be blown up (figuratively, not literally) and made irrelevant. If Li'l Luke sticks around long enough, his bosses will pretend he knows what the hell he's talking about instead of realizing he's nothing but an empty head spewing out whatever rolls out of his mouth without thinking, thus spawning yet another generation of nonsense talkers on TV.

Enough, already with this. Luke made it sound like the idea of NOT kowtowing to Wall Street had never occurred to any Democrat ever. What Elizabeth Warren did was simply speak truth to power, and wake up some members of the Democratic caucus to the political price they pay when they side with Wall Street.

[BeyondGeography]

1. Elizabeth Warren in a battle of wits with Luke Russert?

Kids these days.

[tularetom]

2. Actually, literally, not figuratively

[Scuba]

3. An odiferous gas bubble escapes a quivering blob of santorum.

[LawDeeDah]

5. ewww and lol

[daleanime]

6. "Santorum"....

[fadedrose]

4. I don't care for him

and didn't care much for Tim Russert either. Never understood why Tim was so popular and Luke seems to want to inherit his father's job. Sour grapes. Todd is doing okay in Meet the Press, much better than Luke ever would.

Purity isn't a bad word and foolish Luke will soon find out that many Democrats are "pure" and want someone who's not "dirtied" to vote for.

Thanks for posting, sister.....

[Mike Nelson]

7. He started out reporting with some sympathy...

...but had to turn sharply. He knows GE is watching.

[djean111]

8. Funny how "purity" now means not going along with whatever the fuck the GOP, Third Way, banks, and

corporations want, these days.

[Bluenorthwest]

9. My Rep voted against it and I did not even need to ask, he's always been voting against this crap

Not to put too fine a point on it, but Peter DeFazio has been in the House voting that way since 1987, when Elizabeth Warren was still a Republican. The following year she would vote for George Bush.

[hrmjustin]

10. Is it me or does he always look constipated?

[LuvNewcastle]

12. We should all send him Fleet enemas in the mail.

[librechik]

11. aww, did somebody try to school lil Luke about politics n stuff?

FAIL

[oldandhappy]

13. Hope he matures.

With his name, he is sure to be around for the rest of my life. People should not commentate until they have worked somewhere other than media.

[JHB]

16. Go hope his boss matures and gives him an assignment he's more qualified for

surely he has a compost pile that needs aeration.

[Rowdyboy]

14. Chris Wallace is 67...That Faux News Sunday host job will open up someday soon and Lil Luke

will be primed and ready

[ReRe]

15. Has Little Luke ever had the privelage...

... of interviewing Elizabeth Warren in the face-to-face? If not, I bet you he does now, and I want to be tuned in to see it. She will turn him over her knee!

[TNNurse]

17. I would rather someone intelligent and knowledgable interview her

And make Luke sit and try to learn. I would be happy with Charlie Rose doing the honors.

[ReRe]

22. As I remember...

... she WAS on CBS in the morning a couple weeks ago. They did treat her very respectful, no snide questions or remarks as I remember.

[glinda]

18. He lacks the tact and restraint his father had. Epic fail.

[90-percent]

19. I listened to him on MSNBC last night

Really condescending, and he calls it like it's a sporting contest. It's not a sporting contest. It's Oligarch's purchasing politicians and thus our Democracy to make the formerly illegal perfectly legal again.

And for most Americans, the crash of 2008 was not about the indignity of having to use taxpayer money to bail out Wall Street to cover their bad bets and lavish upon themselves their own self imposed multi-million dollar bonuses for doing God's work.

It was about the actions of these greedheads directly triggering the GREAT RECESSION OF 2008. We narrowly averted another GREAT DEPRESSION and there's a lot of foreclosed and laid off Americans and American's just one paycheck away from bankruptcy that can now clearly understand that our government serves the ultra-wealthy by screwing over the rest of us.

This despicable trick shows just how craven and morally bankrupt the Republicans in Congress really are. And how they don't represent the people that elect them in any way shape or form.


-90% Jimmy

[TheNutcracker]

20. Those are talking points that he is receiving

He does not have an original thought....

[Odin2005]

21. The only reason Luke the Puke has the job he has is nepotism.

[liberal from boston]

23. Howard Dean

Lawrence had another segment last night w/Howard Dean on this:

http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/howard-dean---this-is-a-mistake-to-do-this--370865731671

[CTyankee]

24. L'il Luke is a little shit IMO. Screw him.

[hifiguy]

25. Another incompetent aristocrat

who would be the weekend fill-in sports guy at a 5000 watt radio station in East Bumfuck, Montana were it not for his last name.

Nepotism is just another tool of TPTB.

[upaloopa]

26. I was encouraged to hear him say there is a purity

group of Dems

[Marr]

27. Sounds like some of the posters here. /nt

[Politicalboi]

28. Elizabeth Warren is a self made woman

She didn't ride her daddy's coat tails to get where she is today. Fuck you Luke.

[chrisa]

29. Elizabeth Warren is an example of purity? Dafuq?

Luke "King Nepotism" Russert is another sniveling Hillary fanboy who can't understand why Liberals won't support a Conservative-lite instead of a real Democrat.

[jwirr]

30. I mute him - he has nothing to say I want to listen to.

[COLGATE4]

31. President and Secretary of the Lucky Sperm Club. nt

[90-percent]

32. Lucky sperm

Well, it wasn't lucky enough to genetically pass some of the brain power that made Tim Russert a respected journalist now and then. Luke seems congenitally incapable of even understanding the basic concept of journalism in the first place. Luke's DC bubble suffers from inbreeding more than most. Or "son of boss"" syndrome.


-90% Jimmy