Matalin STFU

[HeeBGBz]

She is spinning away. Trying to make Cheney look good. Trying to change all the first accounts of the shooting. Pfffttttt.

[C_U_L8R]

1. She'd be easier to take if...

she ended each sentence with "yeah that's the ticket"


and girl.... lose that witchie-poo get-up

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. Gee Mary, how much kool-aid did you drink this morning

and was that gin or vodka that you like to mix yours with?

[Stephanie]

3. the whole scandal is her baby

she screwed up the PR now it's her job to fix it

i just tuned in, did i miss anythign? it's on early

[HeeBGBz]

10. Denied that Armstrong didn't see the shooting

I guess that was the womans name? That was in the truck?

Blaming that the story was some how skewed up between the small newspaper and the national press. Bitch.

[WinkyDink]

72. Even though Armstrong herself said she thought Dick was the one hurt?

With another heart attack?

[Solly Mack]

4. She just said Cheney doesn't drink - nor would the SS allow anyone

around Cheney that does drink and hunt.

[LeinesRed]

11. that isn't true...

the ss takes orders from Cheney. They let Jenna and Barbara drink.

[Solly Mack]

14. No kidding

:hi:

[Ilsa]

22. Yeah, and they let them drink illegally when underaged. nt

[MSgt213]

5. This is crap. Tim is letting her filibuster and the reporters on there

should be ashamed on sitting on a panel with an obvious shrill and calling this some how objective.

[LeinesRed]

20. They all look as if they can't stand each other...

almost as if they agreed not to talk to each other!

[freeplessinseattle]

6. "the problem with these rules"

..is that they're inviolate" Dick is entitled to flexibility

[MSgt213]

7. Harry Whittington called?

[XanaDUer]

8. She sounds drunk.

And looks hung over, imo.

[LeinesRed]

9. She's making it worse...

was Armstrong a reliable witness or not? She wants it both ways.

[NJCher]

63. yeah, just like her boss Cheney

Cheney wants to run the world but not have a public persona. That's what gives me special pleasure over his misfortune this week; it must have been hell to be in the spotlight and especially over another one of his eff-ups.

I do regret that a seemingly nice but terribly misguided man like Whittington was shot. Why couldn't the dick be hunting with fellow ghoul Rumsfeld, for example.




Cher

[freeplessinseattle]

12. now David Gregory apologizing!

bc his wife told him not to talk that way, he says. oh, sure, his wife.

[LeinesRed]

13. Gregory looked ticked that Russert had to start with that!

Timmy is letting Matalin control this whole "round table." Round table it isn't.

[kentuck]

62. Russert is his boss.

He probably demanded the apology because NBC has an image to uphold.

[JNelson6563]

71. He did very well

I thought his apology for "unprofessionalism" (his word) was very classy. He put in a very strong but dignified performance. Made Matalin look even more shrewish in contrast.

Julie

[gumby]

15. Lying Liar

Mary: Lie, lie, lie
Tim: Yummy, yummy, yummy, give me more.
Mary: Lie, lie, lie.
Tim: Yummy, swallow, yummy.

[LeinesRed]

16. WHERE IS MAUREEN?

Round table my ass!!!

[LeinesRed]

17. Why isn't Timmy allowing any interaction?

I think I have to turn back to ABC...see how Katrina V. is doing!

[freeplessinseattle]

18. she is rockin now!

now over

but got the least amount of time!!!

[LeinesRed]

25. GLAD I STUCK AROUND...

Matalin's got nothing. Absolutely nothing. She can only attack and I hope that Gregory keeps attacking back. Russert should have called her on the jihad remark for Pete's sake. He's the WASHINTON BUREAU CHIEF!!!!

[XanaDUer]

19. Did you hear what she just said abotu Cheney?

And matalin is shaking her head angrily? LOL!

Paraphrasing: Cheney used a filter to spread the info he wanted to spin it to their political advantage, Cheney is like, "The Phantom", etc.

[freeplessinseattle]

23. now Gregory's going right at her

omg, what a bitch! she said "for 4 days you went off on jihad David"

[XanaDUer]

29. Did you hear what she said about Down and , "The smart set"?

what a freaking nasty bitch.

[freeplessinseattle]

37. did you see how she moved her hands down her sides

in a bitchy kind of way, you know what I mean? as she was saying "the Diva of the smart set" and did this little wiggle and slid her hands down her side. I guess she doesn't like understated elegance.

[XanaDUer]

43. Like that ugly-ass giant flower on her dress, as big as her stupid head?

God, 'puke women cannot dress...

[LeinesRed]

51. Would have loved if she would have been called on her name-calling

it's all they can do. Attack personally when they've got nothin'. Which is the case 100% of the time.

[LeinesRed]

53. Why did MM get 12 full and uninterrupted minutes???????

my head is still spinning.

[freeplessinseattle]

21. she looks like she wants to slap the crap out scary mary!

if looks could kill.

god what a contrast in class.

[C_U_L8R]

24. Here we go !

Food fight !

(aw crap they just cut away to Hillary to cool everyone down)

[LeinesRed]

27. that was B.S.

what was the Hillary footage for?

[LeinesRed]

28. Matalin can only name-call

uh-oh, why is Gregory back tracking?

[LeinesRed]

31. WHAT IF GORE DID IT?

good one David!

[HeeBGBz]

26. Said we were in a jihad against poor helpless Dick

That freakin flower thingy reminds me of an Outer Limits episode where alien flowers take over. That must be whats happening.

[C_U_L8R]

34. Day of the Triffids ??

or Invasion of the Body Snatchers ???

[HeeBGBz]

40. Kind of a cross between the two

She may have a flower but she's only a weed.

[XanaDUer]

46. ROFL!

:rofl:

[Jeanette in FL]

30. Did Mary just say "We have a man lying in a hospital bed...

that we should be sending our wishes to" Paraphrasing. I thought Whittinton was released and home? Did I hear wrongly?

[LeinesRed]

35. RUSSERT IS A PIECE OF SH*T n/t

[LeinesRed]

42. I think Matalin made the story worse for Cheeney.

But Russert should be ashamed of himself.

[gumby]

32. What did Mary just call MoDo?

She called her some catty name and MoDo rolled her eyes.

[erinlough]

33. The diva of the intellectuals n/t

[gumby]

36. ha ha

yep, that was it.

[XanaDUer]

38. Better than being the diva of the (lying) dopes.

Bitch.

[chimpymustgo]

39. Diva of the smart set. MM is a stone cold bitch.

nt

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

41. The worse part is that not one single person on that panel has challenged

her.

[chimpymustgo]

47. If this were such a pissant story, why'd the BFEE bring in this assassin?

Sorry, but Gregory was on the defensive, MoDo barely got 2 words in. Winner? Not us.

[LeinesRed]

48. MM threw out too many things that could be challenged

MoDo got a good one in with the pink tie and Cheney trying to look human.

[gumby]

44. One of the dumb things Matlin repeated

was that they went to the local paper because they understand the culture. WTF? Always the culture warriors. geeze.

[freeplessinseattle]

45. missed it! "Were you saving that line?"

said snidely to Gregory, but I missed what he had said? anyone catch that?

[XanaDUer]

50. Yeah, I missed it, too.

Anyone?

[BlueStateBlue]

64. He said something to the effect that her jihad comment was out of line

and HE'S been saving up the line for a week?

Gimme a break! :puke:

[erinlough]

49. All I learned from that was that the new Repub talking point is.....

White House press corps bad....
Dick Cheny good.

It won't work on anyone but their hard core base.

[C_U_L8R]

55. But what I want to know is...

WHERE the heck is this parallel universe ?????
(could she be right... and we've all just stumbled
into this evil bizarro world?? )

AND more importantly...
Do you think they start forcing schools to teach Parallel Universalism ???

[DainBramaged]

52. She was given WAY too much time today, and I lost faith in Gregory

"I was out of line, I misbehaved, wahhhhh, I was bad wahhh". Maureen Dowd was right, they spent 4 days trying to blame the victim (as usual) but Mary Muttshit got the last word.

[Maestro]

57. I am pretty sure that he was told he must apologize

I think he did a good job explaining himself and why he was frustrated with Scottie and the Cheney story.

Edit: Upon further review, Gregory is back-pedaling saying the Press Corps didn't have enough empathy for Dead-eye. Pftt! WTF?

[kentuck]

58. The Network has an image to uphold...

and they insisted Gregory apologize, it appears to me.

[zoeb]

54. Sh*t, missed a good program...but had to stop watching after

the first few minutes when Russert wouldn't call her on bullsh*t answers. He must be trying to get on the "F" network.

[Maestro]

56. Her sneering, smug looks while

David Gregory was talking just makes me want to slap her!

Edit: Mary jusn't open her mouth when she talks. Wierd.

[aaronbees]

59. Russert sure spoonfed her lots of time to spin...

Pathetic. :eyes: Her over the top "Jihad" remark was classless and her insistence that she knows what the American public thinks was condescending -- all in all, pretty piss poor PR. Maureen made good use of her little time -- like the pink tie and creaking door lines.

[tetedur]

60. It is emblematic of their entire administration. Information

is not communicated until it is too late. Reaction does not happen until it has been analyzed for the political implications.

Example: Levees are breached mid-morning Monday as the hurricane passes through N.O. They don't seem to understand that this has happened for 24 hours. Is it not similar to the Whittington shooting? They can't announce anything because they don't have the story straight.

Example: In New Orleans it is the victims' fault for staying in the city when they should have evacuated. It was Whittington's fault for not announcing where he was so that Cheney could avoid shooting him. Whittington, of course has apologized. Somehow I don't think they could get some New Orleanians to apologize.

You've got to hand it to Cheney though, he sure sends out a heckuva cat to do his dirty work.

[Stephanie]

66. In Katrina they were all on vacation. Where was Bush last Saturday?

I don't think I ever saw that. Was he in Crawford? Where was he?

[kentuck]

61. She was part of the coverup of the story...

Perhaps even the main part? It was probably her decision to keep it out of the press as long as possible.

[RhodaGrits]

65. I watched expecting someone to shred Matalin

instead I saw Gregory apologize and back off, Russert lob a Hilary softball at Matalin, NO ONE point out that the ironic fact after the WSJ column bit was that Armstrong IS a registered WH lobbyist and the total lack of mention that Whittington is married to James Baker III's sister is not significant? Someone leaned on Gregory and it made me both angry and queasy. We lost that round and frankly, I don't see how we are going to win any in the MSM. There is no attempt at getting at the truth. Grrrrrrr.

[DainBramaged]

67. Liberals of all stripes must simply refuse to go on these shows

And then just maybe, they'll get the message. But as is so true in real life, some who claim to speak for us are also shills and whores. Ms Dowd, on the other hand, is such a rare treat I guess I would overrule myself and let her speak for us on every talking head show.

Today a point was proved. Mr. Potato Head speaks for GE and is as impartial as Nupercainal is to hemorrhoids.

[C_U_L8R]

68. I don't know if we lost

Sure can't say that Mary or Cheney won anything.

In fact they just looked more foolish... Mary repeating so
many lies that have been debunked.. some by Cheney himself.
and good gawd.. THAT FLOWER !!!!

Yeah it was tuff to see Gregory suck it up...
but I'm sure that's the price he has to pay
to keep his seat in the Press Corps....
Although there seemed a little Lau Tzu to his maneuvre
"To bend like a reed in the wind - that is real strength"

[RhodaGrits]

69. yeah but "repeating many lies that have been debunked"?

Most people have NO idea what lies have been debunked. I had an exchange of emails with RW'r over this and he had NO IDEA about most of these inconsistencies etc because he's getting his news from MSM. He offered up that 65% of Americans think this is a non-issue and I pointed out exactly that - how could they possibly think it was an issue when the MSM has basically said "nothing here - move along". Garbage in - garbage out. When an ignorant and misinformed population gives me an opinion, that doesn't make it truth. That is what I find is so frightening about this - we've conceded the fourth estate to the BFEE.

[Nikki Stone 1]

70. Good post and good points

The MSM is "moving along", so we'll never know.

[WinkyDink]

73. The "debate" was fixed. A partisan Republican vs, objective journos.

HOW could they have sufficiently countered MM?

[peacetalksforall]

74. Will someone agree with me that the country cannot trust NBC/GE?

Everyone gets excited about something they do that appears to be an improvement or a change towards journalism - then they pull the rug out from under.

Never, never trust them and you'll be less frustrated.

It's too bad that these so-called journalists have so many kids and such big loans.

NBC is Biden and Leiberman Land. And that's about it. All else is 'baron'.

[kentuck]

75. You should start a new thread...

GE CANNOT BE TRUSTED TO GIVE YOU THE NEWS !