This Black reverend guy is really pond scum

[Stinky The Clown]

His name is Joe Watkins and he's a teevee yakker often on MSNBC, he's also a former Bush I staffer and a Bush-Cheney 04 cheerleader.

Why is HE talking about Wright .... and more specifically, how Wright is hurting Obama?

As if he gives a fuck.

Why is HE even on teevee?






Actually, I apologize to pond scum.

[MNDemNY]

1. Religious scum is religious scum......

[IndianaJones]

4. Amen. nt.

[ellacott]

2. He bugs me also

He's also a Pastor. I guess that's why they think he may have some credibility on this issue.

[cliffordu]

3. Yep, Pastorbating pastor is still a pastorbater...

[DarienComp]

5. He only started being introduced as "reverend" since the Wright controversy started.

Before that he was a "Republican strategist".

[ellacott]

9. Very True

[blm]

6. Watkins has been a GOP STRATEGIST and RW columnist for MANY YEARS. This is BS

to present him as anything BUT a political strategist.

[Scurrilous]

7. &@#$ Liberal Media!!1!

How long until this guy's talking points are regurgitated here?

[babylonsister]

8. rethug pond scum; you betcha. I can't stand him myself. And there's

the good ole 'liberal' m$m, being balanced. They've done nothing but bash Wright non-stop all morning. War? What war? Gas prices? Economy? Ha! Non-issues!

[donheld]

10. Yes he is

[Liberal Gramma]

11. I had to change the channel so I could keep my breakfast down.

[ej510]

13. They pay him to be a black man.

[ej510]

30. They pay him to be there token black man. Is what I meant to say.

[graycem]

12. Deliberate deception too..

All this time he has been brought in for his opinion on this. I didn't know who he was except that he was a "minister." He just let it slip he was a Republican and I was really surprised. I mean I knew he was a hypocrite, and now I know why.

[rucky]

14. We all know why.

Blackwell didn't invent the game.

[catnhatnh]

15. All you need to know about Joe Watkins.....

...from DailyKos...
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/4/25/12333/7646/51/503358

From his humble pastorage (to a congregation of less than 100) through his personal judgement (worked for Bush1)....not that he would ever let politics "color" a frank discussion on the racism of Rev. Wright....

[ErinBerin84]

16. Sooo transparent

I agree with the other posters, as someone who (unfortunately..I don't know why) watches MSNBC frequently, I've always seen Joe Watkins characterized as a "republican strategist", and have never seen them give him the "Rev.Joe Watkins" . Convenient day to do it.

[quantass]

17. Like someone said..TeeVee only gets Black Conservatives to talk about Obama which is purposely

negative because the media needs the controversy.

[ellacott]

21. Armstrong Williams is frequently on a black moning radio show

Surprisingly he is pretty fair. I actually enjoy listening to him when he's on this program. He's changed a lot since he got caught taking govt. money.

[Stinky The Clown]

23. Beware the unchanged stripes

He's the same guy he's always been.

There's only two transformations that seem to be sincere ......

Arianna Huffington and David Brock.

[ellacott]

24. That's true

Maybe it's because he wants to see HRC defeated.

[redqueen]

18. Why is he talking about it? Cause that's the order of the day.

It's the VRWC, of which Hillary is now a part.

[Hatchling]

19. I'm a Reverend myself with a congregation of four.

My cats! Lol! They love the Friskies communion I offer them twice a day.

There's some church on the internet that you can register with and they will issue you a document that you can print out. I did it with a gorup of people who were trying to point out some one else's hypocrisy. With a little more paper work with the state I could actually perform wedding ceremonies.

I wish I still had the link. I know I still have the certificate around somewhere.

[americanstranger]

20. I was married by a friend with one of those documents.

Nice little way to stick it up organized religion's nose.

He closed the ceremony with 'by the power invested in me by the State of New York and the internet...'

Certain religious members of my family hated it. But my wife and I decided to make a point with our ceremony, and make a point we did.

- as

[SoCalDem]

22. Why is he on tv?

he's a black guy who is against Obama..

Modern media HAS to be about oppostion..always about fighting.. that's why they seem to prefer Clinton..she likes to fight fight fight..

How could we ever expect a media with only 24/7 to fill, to have the precious time to spend some of it actually fleshing out subjects and giving us real information we need:eyes:

[Coexist]

25. they never mention his background, or that he is Republican.

I can't stand him.

[ShortnFiery]

26. He's the M$M's Power Elite's ONE BLACK Friend. "See, dat one Black Preacher supports us."

End of case ... nothing to see here ... move on. :eyes:

[Doityourself]

27. Watkins=Republican Hack..Watkins on poverty and Pres. Bush...

On the September 12, 2005 edition of CNN's Paula Zahn Now show, CNN contributor, talk radio host, and Bush-Cheney '04 campaign adviser, Rev. Joe Watkins, falsely claimed that the United States has experienced a "reduction" in poverty under President Bush. Watkins stated that "under Bill Clinton, 15.1 percent of the population was poor; under President Bush, 12.7 percent of the population is poor. That's a reduction, that's a good thing."

The truth is that the 15.1 percent poverty rate is what Democratic President Bill Clinton inherited from his predecessor, Republican President George W.H. Bush. What any honest reporter would credit him with is what he did with that figure. And since President Clinton reduced the 15.1% poverty when he took office in 1993 to a low of 11.3 percent in 2000; what he should be credited with is the 11.3 figure. By the same token, what Republican President George W. Bush deserves credit for is not the 11.7% which he inherited from President Clinton, but what he himself did with that figure. And since the poverty rate has risen every year that Bush has been in office, from 11.7 percent in 2001 to 12.7 percent in 2004, his record is the very opposite of what this shameful Black Republican "man of God" claims. What "god" does Rev. Joe Watkins represent, anyway?

Source http://mediamatters.org/items/200509130002

[City Lights]

28. When was he a Reverand and why did he switch careers?

Small flock?

:shrug:

He's a serial interrupter. Every time I've seen him on against a Democrat, he's refused to stop talking long enough to let the Democrat make his/her point. The anchor (usually, the horrid Contessa Brewer) couldn't control him either.

m$nbc isn't worth watching lately, IMHO, although I do make an exception for Countdown.

[Stinky The Clown]

29. He's on the afternoon shift, now

And why is this asshole's delivery always breathless?

God, I hate Republicans.