There she goes again - Cokie speaking from her own special planet . . .

[beaconess]

Cokie Roberts just said on This Week that after the debate, the questioners all gathered around Bush and Kerry was left by himself.

Perhaps I couldn't see Kerry standing alone because all of the people crowding around him blocked my view.

[speedoo]

1. And now she's saying voters are tuning out Iraq as an issue.

And Kerry was incoherent on abortions.

She has gone over the edge into freeperville.

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[Kierkegaard]

2. Cokie is a fitting name.

Where do 'journalists' get off repainting events as they had wished they happened instead of how they really happened?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. There are no journalists on TV any more.

Only whores. Broadcast journalism is dead.

[OKNancy]

5. A quick check of images on CNN

Go here: http://news-info.wustl.edu/news/normal/page/4015.html

Images of Kerry after the debate.

[AP]

15. From yahoo:

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites) talks with the audience after the presidential debate in St. Louis, Friday, Oct. 8, 2004. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)


Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry (news - web sites) shakes hands with audience members at the end of the presidential debate Friday, Oct. 8, 2004, at Washington University in St. Louis. Behind Kerry in the white jacket is his wife Teresa Heinz Kerry. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

And just for fun:


Democratic vice presidential nominee John Edwards (news - web sites) holds his children Jack (L) and Emma Claire after his debate with U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites) at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland Oct. 5, 2004. Edwards and Cheney battled over the Iraq (news - web sites) war Tuesday night with Cheney defending the conflict as essential against terrorism and Edwards charging 'you are still not being straight with the American people.' (John Sommers/Reuters)

[rocktivity]

34. Thanks AP

You save me from going to cspan.org, going through their tape of the debate, and doing the screen captures myself! Anyone got an e-mail for Roberts? this photo should be sent to her!

:headbang:
rocknation

[RevCheesehead]

40. Love the Edwards pic!

I heard Jack asked his dad right after the debate "which one is Cheney?" Might give the kid nightmares; but then again, it might give him ideas for Halloween, too.

[Blue_Roses]

19. cokie needs this in an email.

what is her email address--I'll send it--

[amber dog democrat]

6. She seems to have changed

right about the time the Chimp stole the election. Always wonderd why.
I expect nothing good from this whore.

[Crunchy Frog]

16. She was like that well before Chimp

stole the election. I still remember her heartfelt defense of the Elian Gonzales kidnapping in 2000, while representing herself as a scion of family values.:puke:

[PCIntern]

7. Cokie changed when:

Bush I ascended to the throne. she had a lot of inside contacts there and wa in her prime when Clinton "Stole" the election via Perot (her words) and threw the Bushies out. I rmember well her day on the Brinkley show where she was almost in tears.

Her father was the only real objector to the Warren Commission on the Commission itself and forced re-phrasing of certain conclusions. It was no surprise that he disappeared. The only surprise was her hypocrisy when the movie JFK came out and she blasted it without having even seen it, as did many of the NYT WaPo press. They were an integral part of the cover-up which continues to this day. That's why it should be no surprise that they cover for * - they're veterans of this war.

[ljm2002]

26. As an aside,

...when the movie JFK came out, I did not have detailed knowledge of what was in the Warren Report vs. what the (so-called) conspiracy theories said. But one thing came through loud and clear: the howls of the political establishment, and the squealing of movie reviewers who yelled and jumped up and down at the audacity of it, to dare question the Established Truth... without knowing anything more, I knew that Oliver Stone had hit a nerve, a big one, and that told me there was something there.

And the more I learn, the more I realize that gut feeling was right. Stone was overturning rocks whose slithery residents did not want to be uncovered. The establishment was furious because (among other things) they don't want us to know how easily our "secret service special agents" and their "covert operations" get out of control. It's one of the dirty little secrets of the shadow government.

Not saying I know what happened. But it was clear he had stepped on some major sensibilities with that film.

[RevCheesehead]

41. Sounds similar to the press reaction to F-9/11, too.

[amber dog democrat]

30. I guess this means it is safe for her to fly on small planes.

There defiantly may be fear of something - as the underlying motive for her allegiance to the re pug and Chimp juntas.

some one may have gotten to her sometime back and suggested she be mindful of what she says regarding certain topics.

With regard to the Warren Commission Report. I have yet to meet anyone whom I would say has any qualifications as a marksman honestly believe it could have gone down the way the report stated.

That kind of bolt action rifle, ( not even as accurate as say a 1903 Springfield ) , equipped with a cheap scope with poor eye relief would have been next to useless on a target such as the presidential limousine - mind you its moving away from you on a curve and accelerating in velocity as it goes....

I talked about this to an ex Marine sharpshooter/ sniper who has 47 confirmed kills from the Vietnam War.
His remarks were that it would be literally impossible for it to have been accomplished from that vantage point using this weapon.

But back to the journalists and witnesses. I think they are all being pressured to back off.

Is Cokie being controlled by something related to this, I doubt it, but maybe she is just evil.
All I know is her scornful, dishonest cynicism turns me off.
This woman is not our friend. She was at one time but no longer

[coalition_unwilling]

47. "some one may have gotten to her sometime back . . ."

Right after 9/11, Cheney actually came out and said "People better watch what they say." Right then, I knew we had a problem. (Didn't realize how big a problem it was at that point, though.)

[AP]

8. Wow. That makes me feel really powerful. I posted the truth about this...

...here at DU. CBS's closing shot was of a big crowd around Kerry 25 minutes after the debate ended with Bush GONE. (Was the crowd so big around Bush earlier that he got tuckered out and had to leave the stage before Kerry was finished talking to his smaller crowd? Is it hard work talking to people? Maybe he thinks talking to the PEOPLE isn't really his JAAAHHHBBB.)

My post got a lot of responses and was on the first page at DU for most of the night.

I guess Cokie saw it and could tell how powerful that image was so she felt she had to lie about it today.

[PCIntern]

9. SHe's a smarmy creep

and snotty.

I've posted this a thousand times, but her "Morning, Bahhhhb" to Bob Edwards on NPR Monday AM, and I'm already in my office getting ready for the day, always made me sick to my stomach. She also, if you pay attention, 'vomits' out the word "Democrats" as though she's talking about crawling thru a sewer pipe.
Her daddy must be spinning in his grave or wherever they got rid of him. Shame - a real loss; one of many in that era of American politics.

[speedoo]

11. Cokie says the jobs data was "not all that bad".

She has no credibility except among freepers.

[PCIntern]

12. Well then,

her looks are 'not all that bad'. How's that for a compliment.

Snotty bitch. Stuck-up, cellophane-wrapped over-achiever and member of the 'lucky sperm club' along with W.

[endnote]

25. He had to leave fast because:

1) the drug cocktail was wearing off
2) the battery pack on his receiver was running low

[Shopaholic]

10. Who you gonna believe

me or your lying eyes??? Does she think we're all blind and stupid to boot? If anyone watched the end of the debates you could clearly see the crowd around Kerry and Dim Son left before Kerry! WTF?

Who has this whore's addy so I can give her a piece of my mind and let her know exactly what I think of her?

[underpants]

13. Bush ran out of the like he was late to apply to the Texas Air Guard

or :beer:

[PCIntern]

14. ABCnews.com

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[Blue_Roses]

18. She is such a liar and she is whoring for Bush even harder this morning

notice how fast she jumps back on someone who says anything positive about Kerry. I hate her... her voice is annoying too.:mad:

[Toucano]

20. ISN'T THAT FUCKED UP????????

She's not crazy, she's a FUCKING LIAR!

[Neecy]

21. stunning...

I was just slack-jawed this morning watching her lie and spin for Bush. She makes Crowley look like a socialist.

It was, by far, the worst performance I've seen this year.

[Kahuna]

22. What a vile, wretched, disgusting, old hen..

:puke:

[jimshoes]

23. That kind of tells me

that they were all hand picked pukes.

[texasmom]

24. She's one of the worst.

I used to have to turn her off when they had her "commentary" on NPR. I can't watch her on ABC.

I like the Potter Stewart thoughts on legal opinions transferred to the press, too...
Wouldn't it be nice if we couldn't tell which commentators leaned liberal or conservative? How about they just tell the facts?

Sadly, it's all entertainment and ratings for them. I realized that four years ago and nothing's changed.

[Dr Fate]

27. If the media told me: "Sex is good..." I would cut my wee-wee off.

My point is that in these days, its safest to assume the opposite of practically everyting info-tainment celebrities like "Cokie" tell us.

[maxsolomon]

28. Umm, Cokie: YOU ARE INSANE

on CBS's post-debate coverage, which lasted until 8 PST, you could see Kerry in the background until the end, answering questions, with a knot of town-hallers clustered around him. I have seen NO MENTION of that anywhere in the Filter.

Bush was LOOOOONG gone.

[Jack Rabbit]

29. Cokie Roberts should stop pretending to be objective

Of course, if she came out out of the closet and admitted she really is a GOP talking head, ABC would have to jettison her since George Will already fills that niche on that network and probably is better at it than she could hope to be.

Nevertheless, I resent her pretending to be an objective journalist. She thought getting a presidential blow job was a matter of great national importance and that invading a country that had nothing to do with the September 11 attacks makes the country not just safer, but really safer. If she wants to hold those views privately, that's fine, but she has spent years promoting the notion that Republicans are right and Democrats wrong.

[bobbieinok]

31. wasn't she a good reporter at the time of the Hill-Thomas hearings??

when she was just on NPR

Something clearly happened to change her radically. She wrote a book about her family, especially how her mother took over for her dad in Congress.

And then there was lots of hoopla (interviews, etc) on cable.

And all the emphasis on her marriage to Steve Robers (subs for Diane Rhem). Again hoopla on cable; she and he start writing a joint column.

From what I recall, she changed radically. She was especially freaked out about Monica.

[KoKo]

35. She and her hubby Roberts got in BIG trouble for collecting fees for

giving speeches during the Clinton Administration. She seemed to "change" right after that. I don't know if someone had something on her or her husband Steve Roberts, but it's possible.

I try to avoid her because she was so bad on the Sunday pundit show when she and Sam Donaldson used to be on "This Week" on ABC...but hear from DU'ers she hasn't let up in her attacks on Dems since ABC booted her.

[merh]

37. Maybe they weren't claiming taxes and Ashwipe & his office

said they wouldn't pursue the charges that were filed by the evil dem adminstration's AG Reno?

Can you give me some detail on the trouble she got into during Clinton's admin? I find this very interesting.

[KoKo]

42. merh....here's a few links for you about Cokie and Steve:

American Journalism Review... It's not the speeches themselves that trouble Wald. ... So Warren writes about Cokie and Steve Roberts getting $45,000 from a Chicago bank for a speech and the ...
www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=1611 - 41k - Cached - Similar pages

frontline: why america hates the press: Talking for Dollars | PBS
... Cokie Roberts has spoken to the Amerlcan Automobile Association ... She and her husband, Steve Roberts of US News ... Roberts, whose parents both served in Congress ...
www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/ shows/press/vanities/kurtz.html - 63k - Cached - Similar pages

frontline: why america hates the press: Reactions | PBS... trashed relatively moderate and circumspect commentators like Steve and Cokie Roberts while ignoring ... The country is in trouble, but what the hell, let's go ...
www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/ shows/press/reactions/users1.html - 38k - Cached - Similar pages
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[merh]

43. Thanks, it could be that GW or poppy stepped in to

help these 2 when they were "in trouble. Definitely worthy of researching, don't ya think!

thanks again

[bread_and_roses]

32. Contact the Network

I didn't see this, or hear it, but I hope those who did will blast the network with objections. I was unable to watch the entire debate, only caught parts, and was in and out of the room during the after the debate footage. What I saw sure looked to me like Kerry mixing with people...saw people thronging around him, in fact...was I deluded? Mislead? If what I saw was Kerry in the debate hall, then Cokie's remark as reported here is just an outright lie.

[mitchum]

33. That's just more of her drunken lush talk

[okieinpain]

36. bullsh**, she did say that did she. no way, she could not be that

stupid to say something like that.

[TriMetFan]

38. Come on folks lay off her.

Mrs Roberts has drank to much Kool-Aid thats all. No but for real, I just don't get her. Its not like she grew up in a rupuk house. Wasn't her mom in Congress plus Ambassador to the Vatican under Clinton?

[K8-EEE]

39. Before She Said Whoever Looked More Presidential Wins...

the debate and since W didn't exactly set the world on fire with his Yosemite Sam act, she's completely changed her criteria.

[VolcanoJen]

44. LOVED the part where she said....

"I think the voters are just going to tune out all this noise about Iraq. The voters are becoming more and more concerned about tort reform, and the effect trial lawyers have had on their rising health care costs and premiums."

:grr: :mad: :grr:

Oh, to live on Planet Cokie.

[IIgnoreNobody]

45. She actually said that?

Yeah, right, the voters care more about tort reform than Iraq :eyes:

[VolcanoJen]

46. Yes, she did say that, and Fareed Zakaria looked as though...

... he might spontaneously combust. He smacked her back down repeatedly during the roundtable, insisting that events on the ground in Iraq concern Americans deeply.

I was so disgusted when she claimed to understand the "mood" of the "electorate" so "deeply," and therefore we consider Iraq to be nothing more than "noise."

Oh to live on Planet Cokie...