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flpoljunkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-10 06:44 AM
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CBS's Lesley Stahl, on Morning Joe, understands our campaign finance system is broken.
Stalh thinks Democrats pointing out all the corporate money awash in our broken campaign system is a great issue for Democrats. She understands how dysfunctional our representative democracy has become.

Clueless Mika Brzezinski spouts Republican talking point that Democrats took money from anonymous donors in 2008--which is a lie. She changes her bogus argument a bit when David Gregory comes on by saying Democrats didn't care about anonymous corporate money being used to run ads in 2008. Mika could not be this uninformed. She knows full well the John Robert's Supreme Court Citizens United ruling has unleashed a massive flow of anonymous corporate contributions into groups like Karl Rove's American Crossroads GPS. Former Newsweek editor, the loathsome toady Jon Meacham thinks Democrats are whining.

MTP's David Gregory is on now and says this anonymous corporate money in politics is a 'process argument' and all voters care about is about the economy-- which is a 'real issue.'

If 'money is speech,' then those without money, have no voice. This is an undeniable fact.
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JamesA1102 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-10 06:49 AM
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1. Mika is carrying a lot of water for the GOP this morning.
I wish Norah O'Donnell was there today. Last week she schooled Joe on this issue and he left the set and didn't come back until she was gone.
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realitythink Donating Member (354 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-10 07:08 AM
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2. The whole crew is clueless
Then they had some freak woman who works for CNBC on. She sat there and spewed out radical right wing views, like abolishing the Departments of Labor, Energy, Education, ect. and not one of the fools challenged them. They call that leaning forward? That show is ridiculous.
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Cosmocat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-10 07:32 AM
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4. Joe and the bobbleheads ...
everyone on that panel knows they face the wrath of Joe if they don't republican water carry ... It is like a real life abusive father and the family scared to get the ever loving snot beat out of them if they don't say what he wants them to say ...

Just a very, very sick show ...
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-10 07:11 AM
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3. Gregory disgusted me; he tried to think of every reason in
the world why people shouldn't/won't vote for Dems and then stated them. He was so down on Dems; very obvious what his agenda is.
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ClassWarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-10 07:34 AM
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5. Gotta defend the narrative, or Davey can't be a part of the Kool Kidz Klub.
:eyes:

NGU.

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66 dmhlt Donating Member (935 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-10 07:56 AM
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6. Methinks the Teapublicans protest too much ...
Anytime they get this worked up over trying to dismiss the proof that elections can be bought, you just know they're worried about it as an issue.

Go Lesley!

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Enthusiast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-10 08:22 AM
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7. They manipulate
the discussion to favor the RW position. MSNBC is not liberal.
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flpoljunkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-10 08:35 AM
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8. MSNBC's morning lineup is GOP TV.
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Enthusiast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-10 08:52 AM
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9. Sure is.......nt
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