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David Plouffe: “Palin, Limbaugh, Beck And That Wing Of The Party Is In Control”

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Pres. Barack Obama‘s 2008 was a guest on CNN’s John King, USA last night, and weighed in on the primary election in Delaware today and Newt Gingrich‘s recent “Kenyan” comments.

Plouffe echoed a familiar theme in politics when looking at Delaware, and the current Republican party as a whole – blame the media (well, the conservative media).

Plouffe looked to Delaware as a representation of the current Republican party – where the primary has been dubbed Tea Party vs. GOP. But while Sarah Palin has endorsed Christine O’Donnell, Plouffe continues the convenient grouping of Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck:

This is the Republican party. That Palin, Limbaugh, Beck and that wing of the party is in control. And if you look down the line in elections, even in ’12, where you’re going to have 60, 70 million more voters, I can tell you most of that increase is not people who are part of that extreme right wing.

We’ll see what happens tonight in the primary, but if O’Donnell pulls off the upset over Mike Castle, expect Democrats, especially those associated with the Obama administration, to link this victory with their media critiques.

King also asked Plouffe to think as a “political strategist” and not a former Obama campaign manager to respond to Gingrich’s “Kenyan” remark. “Two words that come to mind are ‘sad’ and ‘reprehensible,’” he said. “It makes me think he’s probably pretty sure he’s going to run for President because he’s clearly trying to appeal to the folks who are supporting Christine O’Donnell in Delaware.”

He also suggested King “ask other Republicans out there whether they agree with that” – a line of questioning to expect this week and on the Sunday shows.

Here’s the full interview:

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  • Big Eddie

    You know better than that , Poofy . The Democrats , led by Ed Schultz , Michael Moore and Alan Grayson , know that Newt is not questioning Obama’s birthplace .

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    Plouffe, Marx, Castro, Che and Mao are in control of the democratic party and the increase in voter turnout won’t be the people that support socialism and communism.

  • Zakk

    Can’t this idiot talk without waving his hands around.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Andy-Lamb/1085325013 Andy Lamb

    What a horse’s ass. His comment is akin to saying “this is the Democratic Party. That Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, Rosie O’Donnell, and that wing of the party is in control.” The current administration and it’s dwindling supporters are becoming a liberal freak show.

  • greg454

    What about the Huffington Post and the Daily Koss? They control the Democratic Party, even the President wants you to check out their blog. Even Maddow was talking about the 90% tax rate FDR placed on the rich. If these people get their way the rich are gonna think twice about investing in America. Who wants to invest in a country where the government wants to confiscate 90% of your wealth?

  • BatBoy

    Progressives always tell you who they are very afraid of….very afraid of.

    Progressives always need a boogy man or woman…that is their conversation…for they can’t run on their record!

  • writer

    So when Sarah backs a tea party candidate, she’s ‘splitting’ the Republicans. But the left says that all those tea partiers are just Republicans anyway. So Sarah controls the tea party, and the Republicans, although they’re different, and the same.

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  • http://www.libertarianism.com/ Burnnotice

    writer said:
    So when Sarah backs a tea party candidate, she’s ’splitting’ the Republicans. But the left says that all those tea partiers are just Republicans anyway. So Sarah controls the tea party, and the Republicans, although they’re different, and the same.

    Sarah Plan has a lot of clout. Not just the Republicans but also with us Libertarians, Who are made up of a lot of liberal as well as conservative people. We have a great distaste for the progressives who have infiltrated the Democratic party. You will find that the majority of the Tea Party are made up of the silent majority. I do not think they will be silent when November 2nd rolls around…

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    gordonbloyershow says: “Plouffe, Marx, Castro, Che and Mao are in control of the democratic party and the increase in voter turnout won’t be the people that support socialism and communism.”

    As a critic of another reactionary, Glenn Beck, I’m quite used to reading and hearing this kind of stupid propaganda. It still amazes me that someone can be so uneducated or dishonest as to confuse mainstream American liberalism with “socialism.” Nice try Gordon. Actually, lame try.

    Let me take just one example to debunk your idiotic notion that the Dems in control are “socialist.” Obama took over GM, and now, instead of handing the company over to the unions that make it successful, the govt. is selling the stocks we bought back to the market. Ohhhh, so “socialistic!” NOT!

    How did the far right become so pathetic? They didn’t; reactionaries have always been pathetic liars when politics don’t go their way. Even President Eisenhower was attacked as a “Communist.” The more things change, the more they stay the same.

    http://www.sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/2010/07/becks-paranoid-style-puts-him-in-long.html
    and more relevant:
    http://www.sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/2010/07/glenn-beck-does-his-best-robert-walsh.html

  • greg454

    “Obama took over GM, and now, instead of handing the company over to the unions that make it successful”

    —Dude! GM is broke BECAUSE OF THE UNIONS. Toyota, Nissan and Honda are doing great because they’re not paying outrageous union salaries, pensions and benefits. Besides, if the unions were in charge these workers would work four hours a day and get paid for eight. Think I’m kidding? In France they experimented with the 35 hour week, that is you get paid for 40 hours but only work 35.

  • StandUp

    GlennBeckReview said:
    As a critic of another reactionary, Glenn Beck

    You sure like to throw that new word you learned, “reactionary”, around.

    Isn’t it “reactionary” to march in an anti-Beck rally with Al Sharpton when you admittedly said that you didn’t know much about him? Aren’t you just a reaction to Glenn Beck?

    GBR still and will forever be the biggest hypocrite on this site

  • newzmaker

    Shouldn’t Plouffe be more concerned with the number of Democrats, running from Obama? If the Dems are so divided, as a party, Repubs aren’t their biggest worry.

  • dhg

    This is just more use of fear and hysteria ahead of a very challenging election for democrats.

    Any voter should evaluate a candidate specifically and not let broad biased generalizations influence their decisions.

  • http://www.libertarianism.com/ Burnnotice

    GlennBeckReview said:

    Let me take just one example to debunk your idiotic notion that the Dems in control are “socialist.” Obama took over GM, and now, instead of handing the company over to the unions that make it successful, the govt. is selling the stocks we bought back to the market. Ohhhh, so “socialistic!” NOT!

    Oh the Unions got a great deal out of this my friend. They made out quite well. All on taxpayers dollars. The formula for a Government to run has always been to be socialist. Its the nature of the beast. In order to finance far and above what they pilfer from the citizens.They must engage in Capitalism. Kind of like the mob, After they shake down a mom and pop shop. They use the money to run a booking operation…. : )

  • StandUp

    I’ll take Palin, Limbaugh, & Beck over Pelosi, Reid, & Obama

    …or Biden, Frank, Dodd, Waters, Grayson, Kerry, Schumer, Waxman, Franken, Rangle, Boxer, Feinstein, Specter, Olbermann, Schultz, Maddow, Matthews, etc…too many to list.

  • newzmaker

    Check out this website. I believe this is the same website, which threatened to boycott sponsors of Beck’s show, on FNC. Now they want Fox News banned. LOL. What kind of people, do not understand freedom of the press?

    https://secure.colorofchange.org/turnofffox/sticker/

  • bugspot1

    gordonbloyershow says:

    Plouffe, Marx, Castro, Che and Mao are in control of the democratic party and the increase in voter turnout won’t be the people that support socialism and communism.

    no play this music in the background and read again
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E53jw0ezC-o

    I’m checking now, but seems to work great with all of the RED SCARE comments

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    GBR, LOL the comment is same kind of comment that Jon Stewart makes everynight that you think is funny. You have no idea what funny is. The democrats are a joke.
    The ONLY reason Obama doesn’t do all out socialism is that he knows he can’t get away with it.

  • JimBob

    Who in the hell, if I may ask, is David Plouffe? Come the morning
    of Nov 3, 2010, that puckey little sour puss face of his
    is going to be drawn up even tighter.

  • Kitsune

    So, Plouffe basically is lamenting that the most vocal people even loosely associated with the Republicans are the ones who won’t go along with the Progressive/Social Justice agenda. Why does he see that as such a horrible thing?

    …that was a rhetorical question.

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    StandUp says: “You sure like to throw that new word you learned, “reactionary”, around.”

    This is not a new word, “StandUp,” I’ve been using longer – I’m guessing – than you’ve been politically aware. I use it because it accurately describes people like Beck, Palin, Linbaugh, Gingrich and Bloyer who want to take this country back to the 19th Century. I could just as easily use the word “wign-nut,” but that slang term is perceived by some as name-calling. I aim for accurate descriptions:

    http://www.sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/2010/06/what-is-glenn-beck-politically.html

    “Isn’t it “reactionary” to march in an anti-Beck rally with Al Sharpton when you admittedly said that you didn’t know much about him? Aren’t you just a reaction to Glenn Beck?”

    You don’t know the meaning of the word “StandUp.” Try doing some reading instead of demonstrating your political ignorance to readers here.

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    gordonbloyershow says: “The democrats are a joke.”

    Sure Gordon, whatever the extreme, far right has to say. It must be true!

    “The ONLY reason Obama doesn’t do all out socialism is that he knows he can’t get away with it.”

    Or he’s the corporatist liberal that the make-up of his Administration shows him to be. If he were “socialist” as the politically uneducated suggest, then he never would have filled his economic team with Goldman Sachs and Wall Street people.

    Once again, lame try Gordon. You really think you have a better understanding of the political order than I do Gordon? Really? Go ahead, make another comment for me to chew up and spit back into your face. This is so much fun!

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    GBR, I don’t know what you are smoking but it must be strong. Keep telling yourself that you are chewing me up.

    I am puzzled, what is like to be INSANE? Do you hear voices in your head? Do they let you use metal silverware or just plastic so you don’t hurt yourself. Do you see White Buffalo? When they walk you, do they use a leash?
    There is no tooth fairy, big foot, little green men or a good liberal.
    On Nov. 2nd do not call the suicide hot line, they will hang up on you. Now suck your thumb and go to bed.

  • redleaf

    Rush, Sean and those guys have hijacked Conservative thought.
    Their trick is they created enemies they could then protect their listeners from.
    This is how they derive their considerable power.
    So a liberal is no longer a fellow American who has different political beliefs.
    A liberal is now a treasonous, America-hater who coddles terrorists and wants harm to come to our country.

    If you want to know who THEY are and how to protect yourself from THEM, listen to their show.

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    gordonbloyershow says: “{I am puzzled, what is like to be INSANE? ”

    That’s actually what I’m talking about Gordon. You’ve not nothing but stupid, inane insults to make that demonstrates the vacuousness of your mind.

    Try again. This time, take on an adult subject. Try, oh I don’t know, a POLITICAL subject, just in case you actually do address anything but yourself and “librals” on your “show.”

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Andy-Lamb/1085325013 Andy Lamb

    GlennBeckReview said:
    Or he’s the corporatist liberal that the make-up of his Administration shows him to be. If he were “socialist” as the politically uneducated suggest, then he never would have filled his economic team with Goldman Sachs and Wall Street people.

    A corporatist liberal IS a Socialist. Obama has no issue with things like corporations exporting American jobs and business overseas. He doesn’t care where the money comes from, he could care less. As long as he can tax as much of it as possible so that it ends up in the hands of the Fed to be redistributed as HE sees fit, he is happy.

    Three times today I’ve read comments on here about the health care bill, and that it is a moderate bill, hardly Socialist. Of COURSE it is. It’s all that the administration could get passed! Jesus, they had to rush to ram it through as quickly as possible as it was, bribes and coercion were used to even pass the watered down version that we now have. Obama is 100% for single payer, one option only, government run health care. He has said so many times in the past (prior to 2007, when he had to temporarily “moderate” many views to becoome a viable candidate). The bill that passed was 2700 pages of horseshit so that no one would really even know what was in it.

    Obama is not a Socialist? Please.

    “Well, what I’ve said is that we should raise the capital gains tax for purposes of fairness.” – Barack Obama

    “Political discussions came to take on the flavor of the Socialist conferences I sometimes attended at Cooper Union” – Barack Obama

    “I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists.” – Barack Obama

    “It’s because you have an obligation to yourself. Because our individual salvation depends on COLLECTIVE salvation.” – Barack Obama

    “Americans don’t want the whole pie. There are some who do, but most Americans feel blessed just being able to thrive a little bit. But that is becoming even more out of reach. If we don’t wake up as a nation with a new kind of leadership, for how we want this country to work, then we won’t get universal health care. The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.”
    - Michelle Obama

    “We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times … and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK,” – Barack Obama

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    Andy Lamb says: “A corporatist liberal IS a Socialist. ”

    Ignorance has never been so proud!

    Andy, why don’t you get some information besides the Republican propaganda that you’re fed on Fox “News.”

    Try, for starters, Goddling The Regressive Antidote. Read the 44th Do-Nothing President and then come back here and tell us how corporatist liberalism is socialism. YOu make a mockery of political theory, or I should type that Fox and especially Beck make a mockery of political theory. Of course, Beck jumps all over the place because in terms of having a political background or theoretical base, he’s a complete fraud.

    http://www.sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/2010/09/glenn-beck-admits-ignorance-of-obamas.html

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Andy-Lamb/1085325013 Andy Lamb

    GlennBeckReview said:
    Andy Lamb says: “A corporatist liberal IS a Socialist. ” Ignorance has never been so proud! Andy, why don’t you get some information besides the Republican propaganda that you’re fed on Fox “News.” Try, for starters, Goddling The Regressive Antidote. Read the 44th Do-Nothing President and then come back here and tell us how corporatist liberalism is socialism. YOu make a mockery of political theory, or I should type that Fox and especially Beck make a mockery of political theory. Of course, Beck jumps all over the place because in terms of having a political background or theoretical base, he’s a complete fraud. http://www.sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/2010/09/glenn-beck-admits-ignorance-of-obamas.html

    Sorry buddy, for referencing an article by some leftist college professor whose complaint about Obama isn’t that he is too far left, it’s that he ISN’T FAR LEFT ENOUGH. A guy who was so enamored with Obama that he resorted to constantly belittling Hillary Clinton and calling her “babe” during the last Presidential campaign. “Now” (because Obama hasn’t transformed America into Holland quickly enough, he titled another “article” of his this) “he is REALLY pissed off.” I can’t believe you reference a psycho like David Michael Green as good political reading. Hilarious. If you think as this guy does, then thank God, Jesus, Allah, and whoever else that there are so very few of you.

    Your hard on for Beck is unhealthy. I think you should seek professional help.

  • writer

    GBR, Beck has never hidden the fact that his show is his opinions. It’s an OPINION show, not a news broadcast. You equate having differing opinions as lying. Has Beck ever gotten anything wrong? Yeah. So do Olbermann and Maddow and all the others. But it’s only Beck that gets you so bent out of shape. But not to worry. According to your fellow far left winger Royal King, you and he are the only ones watching Beck anyway.

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    Andy Lamb says: “I can’t believe you reference a psycho like David Michael Green as good political reading. Hilarious. If you think as this guy does,…”

    You do a great job at belittling your opponents, there Andy. Actually lots of people follow Green. I use him to make a mockery of people like Beck who insists that Obama is a socialist.

    I think as I think. To my knowledge, I comprise a faction of one.

  • alamo2

    Andy Lamb said:
    Your hard on for Beck is unhealthy. I think you should seek professional help.

    That was crass, Andy.

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    writer says: “Beck has never hidden the fact that his show is his opinions. It’s an OPINION show, not a news broadcast. You equate having differing opinions as lying.”

    Who the f$%k do you think you’re addressing? I know the difference between his dumb opinions and his statements of “fact” that do not accord with reality.

    I must assume from your comment that you either don’t watch his show or you don’t know when he’s asserting something as factual. You know he tells (he says) the “truth?” Well, “writer,” one doesn’t tell the truth about opinions; one claims to be telling the “truth” about facts. But he doesn’t usually.

  • writer

    GBR, if Beck upsets you that badly, have you ever considered just turning off the set? Or is it like that scene from A Clockwork Orange, and you’re strapped down with eyes propped open, being forced to watch?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Andy-Lamb/1085325013 Andy Lamb

    GlennBeckReview said:
    You do a great job at belittling your opponents, there Andy.

    Do I do as great a job as you do constantly belittling Beck?

    GlennBeckReview said:
    Actually lots of people follow Green.

    If so, then wow. His views are absolutely more extreme than anyone who gets called extreme on this website. More extreme than Limbaugh, Palin, Beck, Pat Robertson. More extreme than Obama, Michael Moore, Rosie O’ Donnell, Joy Behar, Bill Maher. And he is angry, foul mouthed, and violent (in one of his articles, he says he wanted to reach through the TV screen and rip the head off of one of the Senators who was talking about compromise on health care, losing the public option, etc.)

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Andy-Lamb/1085325013 Andy Lamb

    Andy Lamb said:
    Your hard on for Beck is unhealthy. I think you should seek professional help.

    alamo2 said:
    That was crass, Andy.

    I agree. However, I was simply making points (valid and accurate, as they always are) in a previous post, and GBR replied by calling me ignorant. I felt that crass comment in my reply post was called for based on being called ignorant.

  • writer

    If GBR wasn’t so totally unbiased, I’d think he meant it as an insult.

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    writer says: “GBR, if Beck upsets you that badly, have you ever considered just turning off the set?”

    Tell that to the Media Research Center who tells their audience how biased the media is (without ever mentioning the far right bias of Fox “News” of course. Tell that to FAIR, to News Hounds, to Media Matters for America, to News Busters.

    Have I ever considered sticking my head in the ground? No.

  • writer

    Maybe you should.

  • http://none pyrope

    writer said:
    GBR, if Beck upsets you that badly, have you ever considered just turning off the set? Or is it like that scene from A Clockwork Orange, and you’re strapped down with eyes propped open, being forced to watch?

    It ain’t much of a life but it’s the only life he’s got.

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