Chuck Todd-"Conservatives find their Obama."

[jenmito]

Really? 'Cause all I saw was someone reading a speech largely written for a man and tweaked to add parts about herself. She was NOTHING like Obama. She had no inspirational message, no plans for the future, just attack after sarcastic attack and lie after lie.

Why doesn't anyone ever point out Obama wrote his own speeches-including not only last Thursday's, but his '04 Keynote Address, his speech on race, and his speech on patriotism? Shouldn't his surrogates be pointing that out when the Repubs. claim he's good at reading a teleprompter/giving a speech?

[SuperTrouper]

1. I am beginning to hate this pompous hot air balloon with a goatee. He is so full of himself

[jenmito]

5. So am I. And he also keeps saying the Obama camp was left "flat-footed" trying to

figure out how to respond to Palin's speech.

[Cha]

27. That's just fucking more stupidity from chuckie todd..

waggin' finger from hell didn't leave Obama or anyone else "flatfooted".

Is chuckie talkin' about his own issues?

[jenmito]

30. I think he's just following the pre-approved narrative...

there are others saying the same thing. It's disgusting.

[Cha]

32. Yeah, just when some were acting like real

journalists a la campbell brown. Now, they're in horserace mode again.

[jenmito]

43. True. Campbell Brown DID do a good enough job on Tucker Bounds that McCain refused

to show up for his LKL interview.

[Nite Owl]

But I thought she was the answer to

Hillary? Guess that didn't work.
Why do they say they hate us then seek to imitate our candidates?

[jenmito]

12. They scrapped that idea...

Now she's a "base igniter."

[KittyWampus]

2. Palin divides people using hate to keep status quo. Obama brings us together, working for change.

[jenmito]

9. I guess that's what her base wanted to hear. But if that's their "Obama," I feel sorry for them as

they won't win the election. Obama is not someone who's so popular for just appealing to his base.

[calmblueocean]

3. No kidding. Obama is more than just a great speechmaker, no matter how much the media is determined

...to try to pigeonhole him as that.

And your point about Obama writing all his major speeches, while Palin's speech was written by a former member of the Bush administration for her to read is a good one. But television doesn't care about facts, it only cares about appearances. Our vapid media is the primary reason America has become so dumb over the past 20 years.

[jenmito]

18. Yup, yet today they're saying, "A star is born"...

Thanks. I wish there was some way to suggest to the Obama campaign that they should start bringing up that fact, since politicians RARELY write their own speeches, and his are so GREAT!

[Skidmore]

4. I just caught him comparing her to Reagan, saying that she

can deliver the conservative message without scaring the moderates. That little snippet deserves its place in an ad.

[jenmito]

20. I saw a couple other people comparing her to Reagan, too!

Unbelievable.

[patrice]

6. Did you see how clutched her hands were at times? Nerves.

She had to have that speech written for her, because she probably can't write anything, not uncommon these days.

[jenmito]

24. No-I was busy watching her clutched JAW...

and of course everyone in the media's bragging about how her speech shows what a "tough lady" she is. Let's see her write something on her OWN first.

[patrice]

35. I'd bet big money, if I had it, she can't organize a coherent paragraph, let alone

a project of somesort on her own. I see people like this in the business world often; they are USERS.

[jenmito]

45. I agree. Yet nobody in the media talks about

her lies and belittling of Obama.

[patrice]

48. I am no longer surprised by their ir-responsibility. They are dead to me.

I get all of my information from the internet, C-SPAN, and Air America Radio. For entertainment, I watch Turner Classic Movies.

[BeyondGeography]

7. He is so confused on this point

Todd has been comparing last night's attack-dog effeort with Obama's 2004 keynote. Obama's speech was an address to unify the nation; Palin's just trying to keep it torn apart.

Has anyone seen Todd's brain lately?

[jenmito]

26. Yeah-I saw that...

Do these people really not see the difference? Hopefully the polls will make them rethink their assessments.

[EV_Ares]

8. Chuck Todd is sickening. He is a prime example along with Scarborough of what is wrong

with the media and our news nowadays. Chuck Todd needs to just do honest polling, Scarborough should go to Fox where he would probably receive a hero's welcome and he would be quite at home with Hannity.

[Alter Ego]

25. Todd's better when he sticks to numbers.

As a political analyst he sucks dog balls.

[DJ13]

10. In Todd Democrats find their Benedict Arnold

To busy being fair to the unfair Republicans to see how his credibility goes down everytime he praises them.

[izquierdista]

11. Toad

I rechristen him Chuck TOAD. Now hop away and croak elsewhere before someone steps on you.

[SuperTrouper]

34. LMAO!! He is making Andrea Mitchell look good!

:rofl:

[spanone]

13. she was a thorougbred rethug....mean and hateful

[liberaldem4ever]

14. I totally give up on MSNBC

Except for Keith and Rachel's new show. I can't even watch them for news at all anymore. It seems like they want to prove that they don't have a liberal bias to the Rethugs at Faux Noise channel. Mission accomplished Chuck Todd.

[jenmito]

29. I now watch MSNBC only and gave up on CNN...

CNN is much worse than MSNBC and it's easy to tell by the people they hired-Tony Snow (before he got sick again), Dana Milbank, and some others I can't recall. At LEAST MSNBC has Olbermann and Maddow like you said.

[Enrique]

15. Obama isn't anybody's tool

Palin did her job, she read the words she was given.

[NYDem Observer]

16. Too late Todd we know how you really feel

Hot mic anyone?

[chitty]

17. He needs to go back to standing

in front of his graphs and maps and quit getting so much airtime on the tube.

The more you see him, the more you don't like him.

[Lady-Damai]

19. Oh why Chuck......

I have NOW placed u on my s*** list!!!!!

[BumRushDaShow]

21. If anyone here heard the open mic comments from Todd

it appears that they are all forced to drink the koolaid while on air. I won't take up for him because I think he has been a disgrace, but then when you see/hear him and his colleagues off-camera, it's enlightening.

[jenmito]

31. I heard it-the one with Peggy Noonan and someone else...

too bad they can't say what they really think while they know the mic is on.

[shaniqua6392]

22. Hey Chuckie!!

We know Obama and Sara Palin is no Obama. She is not fit to shine his shoes.

[Cha]

23. No they haven't and that's insulting for chuck todd to

make a stupid statement like that.

They have no idea what Obama is about..there's your proof right there.

[glancingthefuture]

28. I will admit

that she was good. Articulate and came across well---to her base.

She is no brush off and we should not brush her off. The content was another matter (repug policies are in the cess pool).

[jenmito]

33. Coming across well to your rabid base is not even CLOSE to what Obama does.

Apples and oranges.

[BumRushDaShow]

36. Actually, I thought her delivery was awful

and she seemed to try to "copy" Hillary's style. She was too stilted and the cadence was too slow. There was no natural flow. She's the kind who ignores a moderator's (or timer's) yellow and red warnings alerting the person to wrap it up because they are over the time.

[patrice]

37. I agree. She should be taken VERY seriously and with courage.

Anything wimpy is going to hurt us. I think Biden is up to the task on policy, but I don't know about his abilities to address the psycho/emotional context, which IS where she operates.

[Left Is Write]

38. Comparing Palin to Obama is such a gross insult that I don't even know what to say.

[phleshdef]

39. If Sarah Palin is the closest thing to Obama that they can come up with...

...then I think we are in pretty good shape.

It still doesn't change the fact that we are eating steak while they are stuck with a dried up, overcooked hamburger.

[jenmito]

42. Well, she DID "energize" her base. But that is NOT comparable to what OBAMA

has accomplished with HIS speeches (which HE wrote), not to mention all the things he has accomplished in his life (even though he never hunted moose as far as I know).

[GreenPartyVoter]

40. Not. Hardly. Chuck is nuts

[BlackmanX]

41. Barack Obama got 19 million votes in the primaries.

Barack Obama has spent the last 2 years of his life getting to know the American people. I voted for Barack Obama in the primaries. Chuck Todd... sarah palin is no Barack Obama.

[jenmito]

46. Exactly. Palin was a desperate pick by McCain who didn't even fully vet her and didn't

even WANT her (as his VP, at least.)

[Sebastian Doyle]

44. Chuck Fuck Todd!!

Er, I mean Fuck Todd Chuck! No wait a minute.... FUCK CHUCK TODD!!

OK, I feel better now. :)

[jenmito]

47. Thanks for clearing that up...

that's what I THOUGHT you meant. :D

[Overseas]

49. Oh how disgusting of Todd to say! An airhead reading sarcastic RNC sitcom speech?

That is really disappointing to read. What a grotesquely dumb comment from Chuck Todd. Or it shows how little regard Chuckie has for conservatives if he thinks that show last night was as inspiring as Barack Obama's.

Palin just read the sarcastic and sentimental speech written by RNC fratboys, with timing for the laugh tracks on cue. Standard slam the liberals material with little regard for the truth or the seriousness of the occasion. Perky McBubbles was cute doing the sitcom speech. Then doing the gosh, folks, it's POW time, poignant face.

Maybe Chuck thinks all conservatives are just Limbaugh types-- it won't bother them if she's a fundamentalist Christian who believes creationism should be taught in science class. It won't bother them that she gave money back to Wisalla citizens and then left the town $20 million in debt. That a bipartisan group of legislators called for an investigation of her firing of the trooper. That she asked city officials to sign loyalty oaths to her. That she thinks the Iraq war was directed by God. Etc Etc.