Bill Maher this wk: WHO is that shrieking nasal harpie Margaret Hoover?

[CurtEastPoint]

GOD I wanted to smash the TV. Typical Republican blonde apologist. And a shrieker. And nasal.

[Cary Vonfused]

1. Great grandaughter of old Herbie himself, I believe

And advocating the same policies her great granddaddy did, probably completely unaware of what they did to the country.

[Raine]

2. What else is to be expected from one of the spawns of Herbert Hoover>

I didn't see it but it seems like a fellow DUer said one of his grandaughters or great grandaughters was on. :puke:

[HelenWheels]

3. She was horrible

Shrieking,interrupting and laughing like a witch.

[WillyT]

4. All You Need To Know...

Margaret Claire Hoover<1> (born 1977) is an American political commentator, political strategist, and blogger. She is a great-granddaughter of former President Herbert Hoover.

Professional overview

Margaret Hoover was raised in Colorado<3> and received a B.A. in Spanish Literature with a minor in Political Science from Bryn Mawr College in 2001. She also attended Davidson College for two years, where she was a member of Warner Hall and the Sigma Phi Epsilon sweetheart. She worked for Bush-Cheney ‘04, Inc. and was the Deputy Press Secretary to Florida Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart on Capitol Hill. She then held a White House appointment in the Bush Administration, and also served as a senior advisor to the Deputy Secretary in the Department of Homeland Security. Most recently, she has worked as Deputy Finance Director to Rudy Giuliani’s Presidential Exploratory Committee. She is a frequent contributor to Fox News's O'Reilly Factor.

In December, 2008, she traveled to the United States commonwealth of Puerto Rico to unveil a bronze, life-sized statue of President Hoover, part of a series of seven statues honoring the Presidents who have visited the territory during their terms of office. The series was commissioned by House Speaker José Aponte and Senate President Kenneth McClintock.

Personal life

Hoover is married to John Avlon, a former Rudy Giuliani speechwriter, a CNN contributor, and senior columnist for Newsweek and the Daily Beast.<4> <5><6> She is a member of the board of directors of GOProud.

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Hoover

:shrug:

[hlthe2b]

9. Why on earth would the descendent of Hoover have ANY cred...

on getting us out of this recession and US economics in general. Hoover was rightfully hated after the great depression. Have we rewritten history once again?

[xxqqqzme]

5. Thanks for the warning.

I passed on Maher this week - too many rethugs spouting the same tired lies. Maher has trouble keeping up w/ more than one.

[itsrobert]

6. Eliot Spitzer gave him some support

The Republican and the Tea Bagger were both in over their heads this time around.

[banned from Kos]

8. It was a supreb Real Time. Spitzer won hands down. And Harry M -

the financial whistle-blower was excellent. The yappy Ms. Hoover was vapid but entertaining as a foil. Three liberals on the panel who nod in agreement the whole time make for boring TV.

[ellenfl]

13. harry was VERY funny. good show this week. the teabagger

was marginal. at least margaret laughed at bm's jokes. cranston was a good offset to the two conservatives, as well.

ellen fl

[UTUSN]

7. "shrieking nasal harpie" would have gotten ME flamed as sexist. Apparently Rethugs who happen to be

women, and sometimes others who are minorities by NUMBERS, get some kind of free pass for being called names. To me, equality means Equal Insultation (a-hole MEN = "pricks").

[provis99]

16. harpy is more funny than nasty.

I'm never really sure, either, if it is ok to call a woman a muse, or a siren, though I've seen both used on DU.

[Graybeard]

10. Everything she and the Teabagger said on that show were lies.

Everything. Spitzer did a good job of calling them on their bullshit when he wasn't being interrupted and talked over.

[Morizovich]

11. Why no vid?

I checked PV. Nothin'

[drokhole]

12. Last night was the first I heard of her. I find it incredibly funny that...

...she has a book called "American Individualism," while at the same time owing her entire career/privileged life to the fact that Herbert Hoover was her great grand-pappy. It's not so much that she was born into wealth (nothing she could about that accident of circumstance), but more the dripping hypocrisy, coupled with the blind insistence/severe disconnect of "rugged individualism" in these people's minds, who think each man/woman is effectively a bootstrap-laden island.

We all depend on and are defined by one another. Things are what they are in relation to each other's presence (including our relationship with nature - space, itself, is the relationship between bodies). And people like this Margaret Hoover actively advance this inane individual double bind - where the community of which we are dependent members defines us as entirely independent members. And this leads to a dangerous thing - a society which has defined one as separate cannot then persuade that person to behave as if they really belonged, which breeds isolation, anxiety, resentment, hate, and violence. Further, it allows for certain folks (*cough* Republicans) to justify abominable treatment of the poor, and turn a blind eye to the homeless (not to mention the exploitation of the environment). We, by and large, fail to realize that differentiation is not separation.

And, Ms. Hoover has never "pulled herself up by her own bootstraps." She was born with a gold pair of boots, laced and ready to go.

[liberal_mama]

14. She was so socially awkward that I almost felt sorry for her

:(

[applegrove]

15. She obviously had her orders to disrupt any sane discussion and she disrupted very well. Yuk.