NPR: Cokie Roberts' {predictable} take on Occupy Wall Street

[AmBlue]

There's hardly a time that Cokie's dismissive and heavily biased assessment of political affairs in this country doesn't grate on my nerves-- even the tone of her voice makes my blood pressure go up!-- but today was especially annoying. What a poor excuse for a journalist! If you didn't know a thing about OWS and heard her little shtick this morning, you'd still know virtually nothing about why OWS is happening.

Cokie's view of OWS is simply that this is all just bad news for Obama's bid for re-election. It's his constituency, pissed at him. End of story. By her painting of OWS events, sounds like everyone there is a teenager or twentysomething. She predictably whittled down the numbers of protestors to just a few hundred, didn't mention the 700 arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge, nothing about police brutality, and had not one thing insightful to say about why they are there. Not a word about the Wall Street criminals that have crashed the world's economy, nothing about the suffering across this nation that their failures have wrought. Zero... zip... nada... about what a monumental coming together of American citizens it has become.

Of course OWS is not good news for Obama, but OWS is so much more than just that.

[SpiralHawk]

1. "Shocking. They aren't ON THEIR KNEES for US eeleete Villagers & Banksters." - Cokie (R)

[Bake]

2. It's probably NOT good news for Obama

After all, Wall Streeters are his PEOPLE. He certainly doesn't give two shits about the people protesting. He'd rather have the dollars from Wall Street.

Bake

[stevenleser]

7. I don't think it has to be that way.

He can get behind OWS. Ultimately, I think that will be what he does.

[Bake]

13. No, it doesn't have to be that way.

But unfortunately, that's the way it IS. Subject to change, but not likely.

Bake

[AmBlue]

15. BINGO!

And I call bingo on that with a heavy heart... He could do so much better. Really.

If that guy who I voted for (and won!!) in 2008 would just show the f**K up!!!

[BOG PERSON]

25. you are living in a fantasyland

if you think obama is going to even acknowledge Occupy ________.

[CoffeeCat]

26. Seriously?

I admire your optimism, but I can't see it in a million years. Wall Street--those are Obama's peeps.

[stevenleser]

27. They are not Obama's peeps.

If you endeavor to change an organzation or industry and in the process of deciding how to do that you talk to a consulting firm that specializes in organizational change, one of the standard recommendations will be to involve members of that group in helping you figure out how to change them.

Part of the reason is, people involved in the group understand the challenges and general reasons why certain things were done certain ways.

I know the standard criticism that what I said will be met with but before you say what I think you will say, do you think it is a good idea to change the way teachers do things, for instance, without involving teachers. Do you think that changing the way unions do things makes sense without involving people familiar with unions.

[JuniperLea]

32. I see this protest as beneficial to Obama, ultimately...

I really do.

[bvar22]

37. Oh, well than...THAT explaind THIS:

The DLC New Team

(Screen Capped from the DLC Website)
http://www.dlc.org/ndol_ci.cfm?contentid=254886&kaid=86&subid=85

Obama filled the White House with DLC Corporate Toadies and Wall Street Insiders
because he's trying to "CHANGE" them!
Thanks for the explanation!
NOW I understand!


You will know them by their WORKS,
not by their excuses.

"There are forces within the Democratic Party who want us to sound like kinder, gentler Republicans.
I want a party that will STAND UP for Working Americans."
---Paul Wellstone

photo by bvar22
Shortly before Sen Wellstone was killed




Solidarity with the Wall Street Protesters!
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[Enthusiast]

36. What, and abandon his precious free trade deals?

And abandon his bestest buddies Geithner, Summers and Immelt?

[KansDem]

3. I stopped listening to NPR when Cokie gave her "Bush Charm Offensive" *report*

I was during the 2000 campaign.

She reported that Bush was "charming, oh, so charming" and, if elected, he would use his "charm offensive" to get things done in DC. :puke:

Oh, and he like to give nicknames and more Americans wanted to have a beer with W than with Al Gore. :eyes:

That was the last time I listened to NPR...

[defendandprotect]

4. Why do you watch this trash?

But just as an aside -- they killed her father -- Rep. Hale Boggs -- and she's

not about to show any liberalism!!

[Enrique]

5. she's doing her job

she gets paid to miss the point.

[OHdem10]

6. I dismissed Cokie Roberts as a Moderate Republican years ago.

[OHdem10]

8. Of course she loves those big speaking fees she received from

Business Groups over the years. So whose side does she
have to be on. It became so obvious that Business is alwasys
right to Cokie, why bother.

[Bake]

17. You mean a moderate Repub like Obama?

Just askin'.

Bake

[FarCenter]

9. Cokie is definitely part of the establishment

Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs<1> was born on December 27, 1943 in New Orleans, Louisiana. She received the sobriquet "Cokie" from her brother Tommy, who could not pronounce "Corinne".<1> Cokie Roberts is the third child and youngest daughter of former ambassador and long-time Democratic Congresswoman from Louisiana Lindy Boggs and of the late Hale Boggs, also a Democratic Congressman from Louisiana who was Majority Leader of the House of Representatives. Her sister, the late Barbara Boggs Sigmund, was mayor of Princeton, New Jersey and a candidate for U.S. Senate from New Jersey. Her brother Tommy Boggs is a prominent Washington, D.C. attorney and lobbyist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cokie_Roberts for more.

[closeupready]

10. She's a Republican. Nothing she says is enlightening or informative.

Just disregard any and all things she says, as I have done for years now.

[qb]

11. Cockie is just another media whore... in a class with most of FAUX NEWS

[deutsey]

12. I find her and her husband, Steve, two insufferably self-satisfied bores. n/t

[CTyankee]

14. They were at their unsufferable worst during the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal.

They "couldn't believe" how Clinton was sullying Washington with his behavior! Yeah, Cokie and Steve, like nobody in Washington every committed adultery...idiots...

[NYC Liberal]

20. Reagan plundered the economy, made greed a virtue,

sold weapons to terrorists, gave Saddam WMDs, and set the country on a course for disaster...but at least he never committed adultery! :eyes:

[ieoeja]

21. I was disgusted by the sheer glee she took in reporting the Clintons "trashing" the White House.

She was happily reporting that what they knew all along was correct: the Clintons were just trailer trash. That is when it finally sunk in that it wasn't just the rightwing wurlitzer out to get the Clintons. It was the entire Washington establishment.

I am one of those who view Clinton as the "best Republican President" in decades. And I still found this establishment blue blood shit disgusting.

[Hutzpa]

16. Cokie is lost

sounded like she is looking for answers herself because this one has gone way over her head.

[AmBlue]

19. I'm sorry,,, but isn't it her JOB to have a clue????

sheesh

[Hutzpa]

23. Well

she spends most of her time on her knees instead of standing for what is right.

[FiveGoodMen]

29. In reality, her employers probably pay her to make sure the WE DON'T have a clue.

[Supersedeas]

38. there's the rub

[AmBlue]

18. Glad to see see she grates on more nerves than just mine.

I really should just shut it down-- but it's always on when I'm listening for news in the morning. It's just astounding to me that she's all they can manage to find.

[CTyankee]

24. I loved it when she criticized Obama for vacationing in Hawaii...

she said he should have gone to a beach less "exotic," like one in Maryland or Delaware...does the woman just get up every day and take a "stupid" pill...

[undeterred]

22. Cokie should go back where she came from and swim

topless in a swamp full of hungry alligators.

[Leopolds Ghost]

28. "for Obama's reelection... It's his constituency, pissed at him."

Well, she's accurate in that assessment. No?

[JuniperLea]

33. No, she isn't...

This isn't a protest against Obama... this is a protest against those who Obama is battling. The 1% he's trying to tax.

[Safetykitten]

30. If ther are no cocktails at a gathering, Cokie has issues.

[JuniperLea]

31. In reality, it is people out there helping Obama...

But Cokie would never see that... never.

This isn't hurting him at all. Not one little bit. This is people doing what he said to do.

[mrs_p]

34. She is why I stopped giving money to NPR.

The day they take that poor excuse for a journalist/analyst off air is the day I start sending them checks again.

[Enthusiast]

35. Cokie Roberts is a MEGA SUCK!

She has sucked for 40 years! She will continue to suck tomorrow. She is absolute proof that NPR is a conduit for right wing propaganda.