MSNBC Host Thinks Hillary is ‘Arrogant’ For Naming Transition Team 3 Months After Trump Did

[DonViejo]

For some strange and completely unknowable reason, Morning Joe regular and With All Due Respect fill-in host Donnie Deutsch seems to be applying wildly different standards to presidential nominees Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Both he and regular WADR host Mark Halperin reacted to the news that Hillary Clinton has named former Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar to head her presidential transition team by wondering if this was a smart move politically, with Deutsch deciding it leaned more toward “arrogance” than “assumptiveness”:

I think this is a terrible mistake. It’s one thing to act like a winner. It’s another thing to start declaring victory. One of the things that hurt Hillary at the beginning of the election was the “We are not going to coronate her,” that propped Bernie up. There is a difference between assumptiveness and arrogance. It’s a little early in the campaign, you’re signaling to people, I’m telling you how this is going to end versus you telling me how this is going to end. There’s a difference, once again, versus trying to get ducks in order. This just did not feel right to me.

Halperin, for his part, at least had the sense to deign that this announcement was beneficial in ways that “trumped” Deutsch’s concern, although they both agreed it amounts to a declaration of victory. Great point, brah and fill-in brah, except Donald Trump announced his transition team more than three months ago. If Hillary is arrogant, then Trump must consist of pure arrogance plasma, unable to take human form or to be viewed except by using a pinhole reflector.

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http://www.mediaite.com/online/msnbc-host-thinks-hillary-is-arrogant-for-naming-transition-team-3-months-after-trump-did/

[One of the 99]

1. Deutsch is a joke

and not a liberal like he claims.

[DURHAM D]

2. Donnie Douchebag has diarrhea. nt

[Blue Idaho]

3. Donnie Douchbag isn't really what you'd call "deep."

He is mostly concerned with how things "look" - he is especially concerned with how he looks. There's really not much more to him than what you see...

[OnDoutside]

8. That's fair comment. On the plus side he has been really Anti Trump over the last few weeks.

[Blue Idaho]

10. Well he is smart enough to know

Which side of his bread is buttered...

[OnDoutside]

11. In fairness he was attacking Trump for a number

Of weeks when Scarborough was still cheerleader Trump.

[Blue Idaho]

12. True, but I'm still not a fan... nt.

[OnDoutside]

13. That's fine, but at least he challenges Halperin, unlike the poodle Heilemann

[Cosmocat]

4. Romney publicly named the head of his transition team June 4th

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2012/06/mitt-romney-transition-team-mike-leavitt-project-ready-/1#.V7SB1PkrKM8

IOKIYAR at work ...

[politicaljunkie41910]

5. The media announced more than a month ago that the Obama administration had leased office space

for both campaigns for their transitional administrations. The announcement mentioned that it has become customary for the current administration to provide leased office space for both campaigns to begin transitioning to governing six months prior to Inauguration day so that both would be ready to assume the duties of the office on Day 1. Some people just like to either hear themselves talk, or to create controversy where there is none.

[chollybocker]

6. "For some strange and completely unknowable reason,..."

Now THAT is quality sarcasm, DV.

[CajunBlazer]

7. Why do you watch MSNBC?

I don't watch it myself so I will reserve my opinion, but all I see on this board about MSNBC on this board is one complaint after another.

[ismnotwasm]

9. Assholes

Just nasty