Paging Dr. Dean.. Pick up the Blue Phone

[SoCalDem]

Are democratic pundits being rationed>

Princess Savannah (MSNBC) just asked a McCaniac spokesguy to "put on his democratic hat" and give some advice to Obama & Clinton.. :wtf:

Why am I thinking that they would be asking Wayne Gacy to come on and give teen safety advice, if they had been on the air when he was burying the bodies all over his yard and in his basement

:eyes:

If anyone knows anyone who knows someone, please plant this seed of advice..

MAKE SOME REAL DEMOCRATS AVAILABLE TO THE "NEWS" OUTLETS..and INSIST that they be invited.. I am sick of Pat Buchanan's "healtfelt advice' to dems too.. and I am tired of hearing Joe Scarborough pretending to be evenhanded and bi-partisan..

Sheez. even Donna Brazile & Bob Shrum are starting to look good to me

[leftofcool]

1. LOL! it's never going to happen

When your stations are owed by repukes, yer gonna get repuke pundits.

[DJ13]

2. I've notived this tactic has been increasing since 2004

2004 was when I first noticed the MSM using Republican talking heads to state the Democratic positions.

It gives the GOP more airtime, lets them shade Democratic positions in the worst light possible, and gives the viewers the false impression that Republicans are somehow being "fair minded".

You should post your question directly to the DNC, and include the station and the Republican that was given the opportunity to state our party's case for us.

[walldude]

3. Poor Rachel Maddow.. up there with a sword in both hands

trying to fight off stupidity from every direction. She has become my favorite pundit.

[SoCalDem]

4. Poor Rachel.. she's all alone too

I loathe the ones who pretend to be unbiased, the most.. They are more dangerous because they slyly discredit and then trumpet their impartiality..hah!

It;s better to be up-front for or against someone.. at least that way we know what to expect and can judge their comments accordingly..

That;s why I always google the Washington Journal guests BEFORE I call in..

I once nailed a little bush-ite on camera, by asking him to comment on some emails he wrote, that were part of some investigation that was going on.. I LOVED watching that little turd's face turn red and seeing him sputter and stammer :rofl:.. I think he was from the FDA..

I am sooo mean :)

[Justitia]

5. Love her! -eom

[gratuitous]

6. It's a producer problem

Producers and their minions are the folks who book the guests on these shows (with a huge bit of help from the on-air "talent" of course). And producers book people who (a) answer their phones and (b) they are comfortable with. Over the last two decades, these folks have gotten very comfortable if not downright cozy with their reactionary guests. Everybody's rich, they all go the same parties, socialize and intermarry, and it's just so easy to call your old pal to come on for a 15-minute segment; chances are he's right down the street and has his own make-up kit in the Green Room.

But I saw Howard Dean this morning on the Today show. The show ran a piece that could have been called "Democratic party superdelegates: Outright terrorists, or just subverters of democracy?" Dean came on, and David Gregory was framing furiously, wanting to know how the Democrats were going to solve this unprecedented crisis of not having decided on a candidate by March 6 of an election year?

Dean bore up manfully under the onslaught of ignorant blather, and finally squeezed a word in edge-wise about superdelegates. He said that superdelegates were not elite shadowy figures hiding out in smoke-filled rooms, but were drawn from the rank and file of the Democratic party, representing a fair cross-section of the Democratic party as a whole. That is, they were men AND women, rich AND poor, office holders AND voters.

Gregory almost literally waved the comment aside to go back to the burning issue of the Democrats' failure to decide on one candidate, and how it was all going to be decided in a shadowy world of back rooms by nameless, faceless elites. Dean reiterated what he had just fucking said to Gregory about the superdelegates, and Gregory ended the chat a couple of moments later with the ominous sobriquet that the story would continue.

Yeah, the story will continue because it's apparently not quite sunk in to the public consciousness that the Democrats are a bunch of elitist haters of democracy who will select their candidate any old way they please, the voters be damned. Gregory is hopeful that the next person he tries to trap on the air with nice-sounding stupidity won't call him on it.