Cokie Roberts and Her Slide Right-July 23, 2007

[Ichingcarpenter]

Good Article on Cokie Roberts to show she has been doing Republican
talking points for years


eRobin at Fact-esque caught NPR’s Cokie Roberts pushing right- wing TP’s today as shamelessly as she probably ever has. She seems to have abandoned her usual sugar-coating of faux-objectivity altogether.

I just heard Cokie Roberts, serious journamalist , tell me that the Dems have to be careful:

The Democrats could do something things that could blow it. The Congress could seem to be ineffectual or they could seem to be overreaching. … (mentions Feingold’s censure resolution and Reid’s backing off of it) … Things like that, um, if the Democrats seem to be just piling on a pres who’s already at remarkably low approval ratings on a war that that public has turned their back on, if the Democrats pile on on that, that could be a problem.

Clever girl, our Cokie. She hit the GOP trifecta: She helpfully raised the Republican talking point of the “ineffectual Democratic Congress,” she tied the efficacy of Congress to ending BushCo’s Quagmire in Iraq without mentioning the Republican Quagmire in the Senate and then helpfully set up an impossible frame for the Democrats: They have to fix everything that BushCo has destroyed in the last six years except that they can’t do it on their own or appear rude while doing so. They have to get legislation passed by working politely with an obstructionist opposition party that was perfectly happy being a universal rubber stamp for Dear Leader and NOT PASSING A BUDGET THE LAST YEAR THEY WERE IN POWER. They have to end a war of aggression without hurting the feelings of the maniac who started it. They have to balance, weave, dodge and frolic and when they do, it still won’t be enough to win accurate coverage in the corporate media.

You almost have to be my age to remember when Roberts was a reasonably legitimate reporter and a fair if not exactly perceptive political analyst. Back in the day, Roberts was a young (30-ish) correspondent for a public broadcasting service that found its legs during Watergate>>>>>snip


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Ridgeliner is also commenting on Jedreport article also.

[tularetom]

1. The stick up "cokie's" butt has a stick up its butt

She's the tightest ass twit anywhere in punditland.

[WCGreen]

2. I remembered the old Cokie...

The new one is just like any other boomer who made a pile of cash; they go right to the GOP because they think they know they will protect the wealthy at the expense of the hoi poloi.

[redqueen]

3. The old Cokie? What... from the 70's? (nt)

[Ichingcarpenter]

5. That's the postive one I remember

she sold out years ago after she got the big money
and became a Washington cocktail waitress
that worked for tips for her corporate and republican masters.

[pscot]

8. Once they start casing those big checks for speaking fees

from the Business Roundtable, the National Chamber of Commerce, the National Association o Manufacturers, etc., they start to taylor their views to suit their audience. She and her husband Steve, are much in demand on the lecture circuit, and command top dollar.

[Supersedeas]

4. Kookie does want any Obamas messing with the demographic of her Beltway cocktail parties

[Carrieyazel]

6. Cokehead Roberts was astonished when her own Bob Livingston

(fellow Louisianan) got buried by Larry Flynt during the Monica fiasco. She's been a total Repuke shill ever since. Also a rabid Clinton-hater from the get-go. The elitist, arrogant little wench is supposed to be retired, but ABC keeps bringing her narrow ass back.

[oasis]

7. Cokie has designs on being the toast of the D.C. cocktail circuit. Her "devotion"

to journalism has been diluted in a sea of high-balls.