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Fmr. CIA Analyst Laughs At CNN Host: ‘You’re Just Carrying the Water for Mr. Obama’

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On CNN this morning, former CIA Counterterrorism analyst Michael Scheuer appeared with Kiran Chetry and Christine Romans and was not happy with President Obama’s actions in Libya. Scheuer is not optimistic about success in the country and wasn’t pleased to hear Romans offer up any possible rationale for American intervention there.

Scheuer was adamant that the U.S. should never have gotten involved in Libya because “I’m not sure that the opposition, if it takes power, is going to be much better than was Gaddafi.” Arguing that Libya was “none of our business,” Scheuer fears that our involvement will be a recruiting tool for extremists, since “in the Muslim world this is Americans killing Muslims again, and it looks like it’s for oil.” The increasingly tense interview got a little more uncomfortable when Scheur referred to “the rather crazed Ms. Rice at the UN” and Romans took exception to the description.

Scheuer then concluded that when no American interests are at stake, we should not be spending money “at a time when we’re nearly bankrupt.” However, Romans disagreed with the argument, suggesting that the problems in the national economy and Libya were two separarte issues. Scheuer laughed and attacked back, “they’re not separate issues ma’am, you’re just carrying the water for Mr. Obama.” Romans, not eager for that to be the last word, passionately responded, “I’m certainly not carrying anyone’s water! And, I will assure you of that.”

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  • Garth

    And this guy is simply a right wing whack job.

  • Black and Gold Brad

    CNN carries water for Obama every day, which explains their ratings.

    Can’t you just imagine Ms. Romans coming to GWB’s defense? Me neither.

  • BFD

    Debate the issue and leave out the personal attacks, Scheuer.

    You’re not on Fox News.

    Shithead.

  • Not Your Typical New Yorker

    It’s not just you Mr. Scheuer, we’re all laughing at CNN.

  • ohwell

    Christine Romans? The business correspondent? LOL
    Further proof these tight-ass righties are going insane. Someone actually tries to counter-argue your point, and you’re suddenly a rah-rah Obama fan? Hilarious.

    Scheuer should just go on that circus freakshow Fox & Friends if he wants to get his talking points through without interruption.

  • Garth

    Not Your Typical New Yorker said:
    It’s not just you Mr. Scheuer, we’re all laughing at CNN.

    No, just you nit wit tea-bagging idiots.

  • Black and Gold Brad

    Garth said:
    And this guy is simply a right wing whack job.

    Apparently this “right wing whack job” also takes shots at McCain and Republicans throughout the interview.

  • Black and Gold Brad

    BFD said:
    Debate the issue and leave out the personal attacks, Scheuer.
    You’re not on Fox News.
    Shithead.

    Eschewing personal attacks by calling someone Shithead? Ya.

  • Moderate

    ““their not separate issues ma’am”

    Get it right, people.

    Their is a possessive pronoun. It always describes a noun.
    Note the spelling of their. It comes from the word they, so the e comes before the i.

    There is an adverb meaning “that location.” It is sometimes used with the verb to be as an idiom. It is spelled like here which means “this location.”

    They’re is a contraction of they are. Note the spelling: The a from are is replaced by an apostrophe.

  • Garth

    Black and Gold Brad said:
    Apparently this “right wing whack job” also takes shots at McCain and Republicans throughout the interview.

    Thanks for that informative update. Still a whack job.

  • kvon

    So, all the Conservatives that are going to cheer this dude, remember, he wants America to STOP supporting Israel COMPLETELY.

  • Black and Gold Brad

    kvon said:
    So, all the Conservatives that are going to cheer this dude, remember, he wants America to STOP supporting Israel COMPLETELY.

    Non Sequitor. Nice try, though.

    So, all the Liberals that damn this dude, remember, he wants Obama to not bomb an arab country.

    See, wasn’t that fun?

  • kvon

    Black and Gold Brad said:
    Non Sequitor. Nice try, though.

    So, all the Liberals that damn this dude, remember, he wants Obama to not bomb an arab country.

    See, wasn’t that fun?

    He was public enemy number one under Bush.

  • felixw

    Everyone can see that CNN carries water for Obama, but you KNOW that the CNN execs HATE to hear anyone say it on the air. Because they like to pretend they are journalists not partisan spin-meisters. This pretense is a key part of their self-image as a network. But CNN made a choice a long time ago that journalism would take a back seat to ideology on their broadcasts. Hence all the stories they refuse to cover. Hence the viewpoints they refuse to present on air. Hence the spirited debates that take place on Fox but never are permitted on CNN. Hence the smug tone with which liberal Northeast opinion is invariably presented as scientific fact…

    And that is why CNN is totally incapable of responding to Fox or turning around their flailing brand — since the only effective response is to offer honest, frank coverage of the daily news without mind-numbing political correctness or hidden agendas. And CNN simply can’t operate without mind-numbing political correctness or hidden agendas. Those are its main purpose, even more important to them than journalism.

  • WCinWI

    kvon said:
    So, all the Conservatives that are going to cheer this dude, remember, he wants America to STOP supporting Israel COMPLETELY.

    That’s not what the article stated dude.

  • Garth

    Black and Gold Brad said:
    Non Sequitor. Nice try, though.

    So, all the Liberals that damn this dude, remember, he wants Obama to not bomb an arab country.

    See, wasn’t that fun?

    Complete bs. Wasn’t that fun?

  • kvon

    Black and Gold Brad said:
    Non Sequitor. Nice try, though.

    So, all the Liberals that damn this dude, remember, he wants Obama to not bomb an arab country.

    See, wasn’t that fun?

    I agree with him on most things, but here, I just disagree, the Arab League is not an American Institution my friend. Maybe your party should have listened to him a little…huh?

  • kvon

    WCinWI said:
    That’s not what the article stated dude.

    Outside reading retard.

  • felixw

    BFD said:
    Leave out the personal attacks…Shithead.

    The liberals here refute their own comments. You couldn’t make this stuff up.

  • kvon
  • kvon

    felixw said:
    The liberals here refute their own comments. You couldn’t make this stuff up.

    There is an entire TV show dedicated to Conservatives refuting their own comments. The Daily Show.

  • Garth

    felixw said:
    The liberals here refute their own comments. You couldn’t make this stuff up.

    I think the term is refudiate. And, you are right, you can’t make this up. LMAO!!

  • TfT

    It would have been nice if every conservative/republican legislator, pundit, etc., saw this and followed suit. The only way the media is going to change their water carrying ways is to get laughed at in the face. more should do this, and they should do it ofen.

  • BFD

    More “intelligent” things the Right said today…

    DONALD TRUMP: Concedes Barack Obama “was born”.

    REP. TOM MARINO: Concerning Libya…., “Where does it stop? Do we go into Africa next?”

    ____________________________________________
    Day 49 since Henny Glenny was struck by an overwhelming feeling that Egypt is the beginning of a growing evil that is going to spread a global Muslim caliphate and with the help of the communists and progressives create a New World Order ending our way of life as we know it.

  • Garth

    TfT said:
    It would have been nice if every conservative/republican legislator, pundit, etc., saw this and followed suit. The only way the media is going to change their water carrying ways is to get laughed at in the face. more should do this, and they should do it ofen.

    Do your homework before making an ass of yourself.

  • Dave Richards

    Garth said:
    And this guy is simply a right wing whack job.

    The truth hurts doesn’t it? We need more people to speak out like this.

  • Not Your Typical New Yorker

    Garth said:
    No, just you nit wit tea-bagging idiots.

    My, my, the liberal turds are mighty touchy now that their Messiah and all that they’ve believed is coming crashing down around their pointy little heads.

    It’s hard growing up Garth but you’ll make it, maybe.

    Maybe not. heh! G’way boy ya’ bother me….

  • Dave Richards

    Black and Gold Brad said:
    Eschewing personal attacks by calling someone Shithead? Ya.

    Well, BFD is a big joke.

  • notsofast

    Scheuer: “To call the United States bankrupt…”

    LOL

    Yeah, babe, $14.3 trillion in debt and a record February deficit of $223 billion is certainly not bankrupt to libs!

  • BFD

    felixw said:
    The liberals here refute their own comments. You couldn’t make this stuff up.

    I don’t want to get into a squirmish with you. We always get bogged down in a squagmire.

  • notsofast

    BFD said:
    I don’t want to get into a squirmish with you. We always get bogged down in a squagmire.

    Shouldn’t you be telling women that their husbands shot themselves?

  • CAINtheBULL

    This moment aside, This guy always comes off very angry and is very dismissive of anything anyone that doesn’t agree wit him says. Just look him up on Youtube.

  • kvon

    notsofast said:
    Scheuer: “To call the United States bankrupt…”

    LOL

    Yeah, babe, $14.3 trillion in debt and a record February deficit of $223 billion is certainly not bankrupt to libs!

    I wonder how we got there? What president had record surpluses? Which president spent us into the poor house? Which party is cutting taxes in a recession? I wonder….

  • Dave Richards

    kvon said:
    I wonder how we got there? What president had record surpluses? Which president spent us into the poor house? Which party is cutting taxes in a recession? I wonder….

    Which president doubled the debt in just two years? I wonder….

  • kvon

    notsofast said:
    Shouldn’t you be telling women that their husbands shot themselves?

    Should you be talking about women faking rapes so they can get abortions?

  • Severian

    Garth said:
    No, just you nit wit tea-bagging idiots.

    so what you are a cocksucker

  • TeaPartyPatriot

    If you’re for “IN” or you’re for “NOT IN” Libya, one thing remains absolutely clear:

    The “Coalition of the Unwilling” (aka, the “Keystone Kops Against Gadhafi”) reflect the total cluelessness and incompetence of our Community Organizer in Chief, “You Lie!” hussein. This bumbling mess is just as bad the bailouts to his crony capitalists, his out-of-control spending, his obozocare, his opposition to reducing the massive deficit and debt he created, and the many, many other massive FAILURES of hussein, the WORST PRESIDENT OF MODERN AMERICA.

    November 2012 can’t come soon enough so we can TAKE BACK OUR COUNTRY from this pathetic, inept buffoon.

  • Garth

    Severian said:
    so what you are a cocksucker

    Why, you looking for some action?

  • kvon

    TeaPartyPatriot said:
    If you’re for “IN” or you’re for “NOT IN” Libya, one thing remains absolutely clear:

    The “Coalition of the Unwilling” (aka, the “Keystone Kops Against Gadhafi”) reflect the total cluelessness and incompetence of our Community Organizer in Chief, “You Lie!” hussein. This bumbling mess is just as bad the bailouts to his crony capitalists, his out-of-control spending, his obozocare, his opposition to reducing the massive deficit and debt he created, and the many, many other massive FAILURES of hussein, the WORST PRESIDENT OF MODERN AMERICA.

    November 2012 can’t come soon enough so we can TAKE BACK OUR COUNTRY from this pathetic, inept buffoon.

    Wow, I’ve never seen so many words used to say so little.

  • notsofast

    kvon said:
    What president had record surpluses?

    He had about a $230 billion surplus, which Barry is in deficit to each month.

    Oh, and this, son:

    “As for the deficit, CBO shows that over the first three years of the Obama Presidency, 2009-2011, the federal government will borrow an estimated $3.7 trillion. THAT IS MORE THAN THE ENTIRE ACCUMULATED NATIONAL DEBT FOR THE FIRST 225 YEARS OF U.S. HISTORY. By 2019, the interest payments on this debt will be larger than the budget for education, roads and all other nondefense discretionary spending.

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703906204575027181656362948.html

    Deficit climbs to record under Obama’s budget
    $3.8 trillion budget: Jobs take priority; reaction swift
    February 02, 2010|By Carolyn Lochhead, Chronicle Washington Bureau

    Washington — President Obama’s $3.8 trillion budget blueprint for next year sets a new deficit record of $1.56 trillion. The president sidestepped any major attack on chronic deficits, which would not drop below $700 billion in the next several years.

    http://articles.sfgate.com/2010-02-02/news/17842521_1_tax-cuts-house-republicans-head-of-tax-policy

    kvon said:
    Which party is cutting taxes in a recession? I wonder….

    Sorry, son- there was no tax cut- the tax rates stayed the same.

    And I wonder which President with the initials BHO supported keeping those rates the same?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dronetek-Bulk-Vanderhuge/100000918732763 Dronetek

    ““their not separate issues ma’am, you’re just carrying the water for Mr. Obama.””

    Its they’re.

    Also, CNN is always carrying Obama’s water. That is what they do.

  • Severian

    Garth said:
    Why, you looking for some action?

    you are the one fixated on men’s balls

  • notsofast

    kvon said:
    Should you be talking about women faking rapes so they can get abortions?

    Why bring your wife into this?

  • kvon

    notsofast said:
    He had about a $230 billion surplus, which Barry is in deficit to each month.

    Oh, and this, son:

    “As for the deficit, CBO shows that over the first three years of the Obama Presidency, 2009-2011, the federal government will borrow an estimated $3.7 trillion. THAT IS MORE THAN THE ENTIRE ACCUMULATED NATIONAL DEBT FOR THE FIRST 225 YEARS OF U.S. HISTORY. By 2019, the interest payments on this debt will be larger than the budget for education, roads and all other nondefense discretionary spending.

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703906204575027181656362948.html

    Deficit climbs to record under Obama’s budget
    $3.8 trillion budget: Jobs take priority; reaction swift
    February 02, 2010|By Carolyn Lochhead, Chronicle Washington Bureau

    Washington — President Obama’s $3.8 trillion budget blueprint for next year sets a new deficit record of $1.56 trillion. The president sidestepped any major attack on chronic deficits, which would not drop below $700 billion in the next several years.

    http://articles.sfgate.com/2010-02-02/news/17842521_1_tax-cuts-house-republicans-head-of-tax-policy

    Sorry, son- there was no tax cut- the tax rates stayed the same.

    And I wonder which President with the initials BHO supported keeping those rates the same?

    Who was the President after Clinton?

  • kvon

    notsofast said:
    Why bring your wife into this?

    I can see you’re trying to make a joke, but I just don’t see how that works…

  • notsofast

    kvon said:
    Who was the President after Clinton?

    One that was born in the USA?

  • Garth

    Severian said:
    you are the one fixated on men’s balls

    You are the one talking about them. Give nutsomuch a call. I think he’s game and I think you two idiots would hit it off. Mutual stupidity.

  • kvon

    notsofast said:
    He had about a $230 billion surplus, which Barry is in deficit to each month.

    Oh, and this, son:

    “As for the deficit, CBO shows that over the first three years of the Obama Presidency, 2009-2011, the federal government will borrow an estimated $3.7 trillion. THAT IS MORE THAN THE ENTIRE ACCUMULATED NATIONAL DEBT FOR THE FIRST 225 YEARS OF U.S. HISTORY. By 2019, the interest payments on this debt will be larger than the budget for education, roads and all other nondefense discretionary spending.

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703906204575027181656362948.html

    Deficit climbs to record under Obama’s budget
    $3.8 trillion budget: Jobs take priority; reaction swift
    February 02, 2010|By Carolyn Lochhead, Chronicle Washington Bureau

    Washington — President Obama’s $3.8 trillion budget blueprint for next year sets a new deficit record of $1.56 trillion. The president sidestepped any major attack on chronic deficits, which would not drop below $700 billion in the next several years.

    http://articles.sfgate.com/2010-02-02/news/17842521_1_tax-cuts-house-republicans-head-of-tax-policy

    Sorry, son- there was no tax cut- the tax rates stayed the same.

    And I wonder which President with the initials BHO supported keeping those rates the same?

    Um, remember the rich people’s tax cut? Or was that not on World Net Daily?

  • notsofast

    kvon said:
    I can see you’re trying to make a joke, but I just don’t see how that works…

    You are the joke, son.
    Big time!

    Did the aliens forget to remove your anal probe?

  • kvon

    notsofast said:
    One that was born in the USA?

    Hahahahaha…wow, great come back redneck.

  • notsofast

    kvon said:
    Um, remember the rich people’s tax cut? Or was that not on World Net Daily?

    Sorry, son, the biggest tax cut went to the lowest bracket- they got a 33% cut versus the 12% the top bracket got.

    Try again!

  • kvon

    notsofast said:
    You are the joke, son.
    Big time!

    Did the aliens forget to remove your anal probe?

    How old are you? These are the comments of a senile old man.

  • kvon

    notsofast said:
    Sorry, son, the biggest tax cut went to the lowest bracket- they got a 33% cut versus the 12% the top bracket got.

    Try again!

    But there were tax cuts right? To the richest people? In the middle of a recession?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    Severian said:
    so what you are a cocksucker

    So what, you’re a koch sucker

  • notsofast

    kvon said:
    But there were tax cuts right? To the richest people? In the middle of a recession?

    LOL

    Wrong son! Those happened in 2001 and 2003. Recession started 12/22007!

    You are the one senile.

    LOL

  • kvon

    notsofast said:
    LOL

    Wrong son! Those happened in 2001 and 2003. Recession started 12/22007!

    You are the one senile.

    LOL

    They were extended in what year? Leading to a TAX CUT

  • Severian

    Garth said:
    You are the one talking about them. Give nutsomuch a call. I think he’s game and I think you two idiots would hit it off. Mutual stupidity.

    great comeback, for a third grader, in a I’m rubber and you’re glue, sort of way. Swallow and get back to us when you mature a little, ok boy?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Donald-Dweebo/1579728276 Donald Dweebo

    Hahaha, some of ya’lls comments are just silly. What’s with all the homophobic stuff?

    Anyway, CNN is another slinger for Obama most of the time, but meh. They’re better about it than MSNBC or the Times. Part of this might just be that a news anchor needed to say something, and the easiest things to say begin with “You’re wrong,” especially if the primary goal is to get ratings. She was definitely arguing an Obamaesque case, but many conservatives might also argue the same case. Libya has people split a bit oddly since there are many conservatives who support our actions there (and who criticize Obama for being belated in his action, rather than for being there at all).

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Joseph-Glackin/100000892011713 Joseph Glackin

    Dave Richards said:
    Which president doubled the debt in just two years? I wonder….

    In 2007, just as the Dems. took over Congress, the cheap condom called the housing bubble burst. That added to the two “off the books” wars run by the sitting Pres. and approved by the GOP Congress to set the nation on the road to escalating debt for years to come.
    You don’t repair six years of willful profligacy and two years of conflicting agendas in two years. Six is a more reasonable time frame.
    But no one expects the uber-right or the TPers to be reasonable. It isn’t in their playbook.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    Dave Richards said:
    Which president doubled the debt in just two years? I wonder….

    Why don’t you answer that? Which president did that? Ronald Reagan did it. And he and George HW Bush multipled the national debt by almost 5 times 1981-1993. Now, I admit, Bill Clinton added 25% to the amount handed off to him by George HW — but then along came Goober W. who, 2001-FY 2009, took the $5.7 trillion and added 210% to it. $6.5 trillion to be exact – or, if you prefer, $6, 500, 000,000,000.00. Now that’s a lot of zeros (of course the same could be said for the Republicans). But now you claim some president doubled the national debt in only two years. I think – no, I know you’re full of shit if you’re apply that charge to Obama.

  • Garth

    Bill Adkins said:
    Why don’t you answer that? Which president did that? Ronald Reagan did it. And he and George HW Bush multipled the national debt by almost 5 times 1981-1993. Now, I admit, Bill Clinton added 25% to the amount handed off to him by George HW — but then along came Goober W. who, 2001-FY 2009, took the $5.7 trillion and added 210% to it. $6.5 trillion to be exact – or, if you prefer, $6, 500, 000,000,000.00. Now that’s a lot of zeros (of course the same could be said for the Republicans). But now you claim some president doubled the national debt in only two years. I think – no, I know you’re full of shit if you’re apply that charge to Obama.

    Be careful. you are dealing with delicate minds.

  • Barack Must Go

    So I guess finally after 21/2 long painful years under the Obama regimes pseudo rule here in America, and all the dashed hopes, it becomes more apparent with each passing day that this Libyan ‘ not a war, read my lips, no boots on the ground ‘ mistake number one thousand three hundred sixty one and three quarters, this is really and truly Obama’s Waterloo.

  • mmars

    Ha Ha! He is right! This Romans woman thinks she knows everything that we need to know, and she is anxious to “teach” us what we already do know. She’s obnoxious! They need to put her somewhere off camera.

  • Garth

    Barack Must Go said:
    So I guess finally after 21/2 long painful years under the Obama regimes pseudo rule here in America, and all the dashed hopes, it becomes more apparent with each passing day that this Libyan ‘ not a war, read my lips, no boots on the ground ‘ mistake number one thousand three hundred sixty one and three quarters, this is really and truly Obama’s Waterloo.

    There’s been more than one regime? Go play shuffle-board.

  • tiredofbs

    ohwell said:
    Christine Romans? The business correspondent? LOL
    Further proof these tight-ass righties are going insane. Someone actually tries to counter-argue your point, and you’re suddenly a rah-rah Obama fan? Hilarious.

    Scheuer should just go on that circus freakshow Fox & Friends if he wants to get his talking points through without interruption.

    It’s so obvious the posters here are so detached from reality & have zero clue of Political facts.
    To call Michael Scheuer a “righty” is absurd to laughable.
    idiots.Just continue to jab Republicans on endless personal insults back & forth
    and don’t try to debate in adult political matters. idiots.
    Go read someth ing…
    T HE LAST THING he is ,is a fan of Bush or Republicans

    Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq [Hard
    Michael Scheuer

    Former top spook is critical of U.S. foreign policy. Very pessimistic, February 13, 2008*

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    Garth said:
    Be careful. you are dealing with delicate minds.

    One cell life forms like the idiot to whom I respond? I think claiming that one has a ‘mind’ is being far too imaginative.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Joseph-Glackin/100000892011713 Joseph Glackin

    Barack Must Go said:
    So I guess finally after 21/2 long painful years under the Obama regimes pseudo rule here in America, and all the dashed hopes, it becomes more apparent with each passing day that this Libyan ‘ not a war, read my lips, no boots on the ground ‘ mistake number one thousand three hundred sixty one and three quarters, this is really and truly Obama’s Waterloo.

    To paraphrase Cher in “Mask”, “If we started digging every time some right-winger predicted the death of the Obama Admin., we’ all be eating Chop Suey in China by now.”
    Wasn’t The Affordable Health Care Act supposed to destroy the country by now, already?

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    you know a guy as smart as michael scheuer would be the perfect person to send to kill bin laden. i don’t think someone as smart as scheuer would let him get away.

  • Garth

    tiredofbs said:
    It’s so obvious the posters here are so detached from reality & have zero clue of Political facts.
    To call Michael Scheuer a “righty” is absurd to laughable.
    idiots.Just continue to jab Republicans on endless personal insults back & forth
    and don’t try to debate in adult political matters. idiots.
    Go read someth ing…
    T HE LAST THING he is ,is a fan of Bush or Republicans

    Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq [Hard
    Michael Scheuer

    Former top spook is critical of U.S. foreign policy. Very pessimistic, February 13, 2008*

    But if you are familiar with his past (and you aren’t, you wouldn’t take the time to find out because you are a moron who reads at a third grade level) you’d know that he is a far right wing whack job. You are aware that he called Obama a racist? No? Go figure.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    ChiliPeppersFan said:
    you know a guy as smart as michael scheuer would be the perfect person to send to kill bin laden. i don’t think someone as smart as scheuer would let him get away.

    Then it might have been nice if he’d been in charge when we went into get bin Laden in Afghanistan. Instead we had that shit for brains Goober W. Bush, the antithesis of military genius, who screwed the pooch in Afghanistan and blundered into Iraq.

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    Bill Adkins said:
    So what, you’re a koch sucker

    haha…perfect.

  • http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

    The actual clip is a little more conversational than the post implies, but the two anchors do border on expressing an opinion and I have to wonder how much of this change can be traced to an old Daily Show essay about CNN’s (former?) tendency to “leave it there”.

  • felixw

    kvon said:
    There is an entire TV show dedicated to Conservatives refuting their own comments. The Daily Show.

    Perhaps the single biggest sign of the intellectual death of the Left is its reliance on Comedy Central to shape its opinions and worldview.

  • Garth

    felixw said:
    Perhaps the single biggest sign of the intellectual death of the Left is its reliance on Comedy Central to shape its opinions and worldview.

    You mean as opposed to Fox “News?” LMAO!!

  • kvon

    felixw said:
    Perhaps the single biggest sign of the intellectual death of the Left is its reliance on Comedy Central to shape its opinions and worldview.

    I feel the same way about the Right and the 700 Club.

  • felixw

    Garth said:
    I think the term is refudiate. And, you are right, you can’t make this up. LMAO!!

    Do you constantly change aliases here because the old ones get banned by Mediaite for spamming? Or is it simply that you grow ashamed of your own handiwork?

  • tiredofbs

    Garth said:
    #

    But if you are familiar with his past (and you aren’t, you wouldn’t take the time to find out because you are a moron who reads at a third grade level) you’d know that he is a far right wing whack job. You are aware that he called Obama a racist? No? Go figure.
    « Pre

    Screw u & your insults.(in your own language)
    You comments speak for themselves.
    Want me to bring them forward for review?
    Left wing pond scum bottom feeder.

  • Garth

    felixw said:
    Do you constantly change aliases here because the old ones get banned by Mediaite for spamming? Or is it simply that you grow ashamed of your own handiwork?

    Why, you need a friend?

  • LOGICandREASON

    LOL.. I kind of like this dude’s objective assessment, he speaks like Brent Bozell. The CNN chic would be ashamed she was called out on her evident pro-obama demeanor.

  • http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

    Magister said:
    The actual clip is a little more conversational than the post implies, but the two anchors do border on expressing an opinion and I have to wonder how much of this change can be traced to an old Daily Show essay about CNN’s (former?) tendency to “leave it there”.

    Apologies for responding to myself, but I re-ran the TDS clip that Steve embedded in the prior post and I see Christine Romans as one of those in Stewart’s montage. So it may not be so much a result of an official change in policy, rather it could be attributable to her reaction for being called out.

  • notsofast

    kvon said:
    They were extended in what year? Leading to a TAX CUT

    LOL

    How does keeping rates the same lead to a tax cut?

    I love it: you are paid $70K a year in 2010, and in 2011, you will earn $70K and that is an increase in lib land.

    LOL

    Tell me who received more money in their paychecks, son?

    More bad news, son:

    “A group of economists from the National Bureau of Economic Research, a private, nonprofit group, has finally decided that the recession ended in June 2009.”

    http://money.usnews.com/money/blogs/flowchart/2010/09/20/why-theres-no-joy-over-the-recessions-end

    So it ended BEFORE Barry’s stimulus was even taking effect .

  • BFD

    Garth said:
    You are aware that he called Obama a racist?

    Not only did he call Obama a racist but this is the guy who wished for another terrorist attack on the USA so we’d “learn”….

    Scheuer: The only chance we have as a country right now is for Osama bin Laden to deploy and detonate a major weapon in the United States.

    This is the scumbag our resident teabaggers are defending.

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    Bill Adkins said:
    Then it might have been nice if he’d been in charge when we went into get bin Laden in Afghanistan. Instead we had that shit for brains Goober W. Bush, the antithesis of military genius, who screwed the pooch in Afghanistan and blundered into Iraq.

    the whole thing is a big mess and i can’t really fault w on this particular blunder because clinton dropped the ball before him.
    but i was being facetious about scheuer because he was the head of the bin laden station from ’96 to ’99 and again from ’01 to ’04 and blew a couple opportunities to get him.
    there’s a good book by him which shows the genius of bin laden.
    http://www.amazon.com/Osama-Bin-Laden-Michael-Scheuer/dp/0199738661

  • Garth

    tiredofbs said:
    Screw u & your insults.(in your own language)
    You comments speak for themselves.
    Want me to bring them forward for review?
    Left wing pond scum bottom feeder.

    By all means “bring them forward for review.” You should be studied, it was believed that people like you became extinct some 500,000 years ago. And there you are. LMAO!!

  • felixw

    Garth said:
    Why, you need a friend?

    You see, changing the alias doesn’t really help. People aren’t giving you thumbs down because of the alias or avatar, they are expressing their opinion of the content of your comments. And they really are every bit as bad as the vote totals indicate.

  • Garth

    felixw said:
    You see, changing the alias doesn’t really help. People aren’t giving you thumbs down because of the alias or avatar, they are expressing their opinion of the content of your comments. And they really are every bit as bad as the vote totals indicate.

    I’m devastated. You are cruel.

  • kvon

    notsofast said:
    LOL

    How does keeping rates the same lead to a tax cut?

    I love it: you are paid $70K a year in 2010, and in 2011, you will earn $70K and that is an increase in lib land.

    LOL

    Tell me who received more money in their paychecks, son?

    More bad news, son:

    “A group of economists from the National Bureau of Economic Research, a private, nonprofit group, has finally decided that the recession ended in June 2009.”

    http://money.usnews.com/money/blogs/flowchart/2010/09/20/why-theres-no-joy-over-the-recessions-end

    So it ended BEFORE Barry’s stimulus was even taking effect .

    Stupid bullshit argument.

  • notsofast

    BFD said:
    The only chance we have as a country right now is for Osama bin Laden to deploy and detonate a major weapon in the United States.

    Yes, son, he was lamenting Barry’s lackadaisical approach to protecting the country and said the only way the politicians would take the terrorist threats seriously would be if OBL were to “deploy and detonate a major weapon in the United States.”

    Strange, your post left that out. You must have forgotten.

    But let’s watch a Dem strategist tell Chris Matthews that Barry needs an “Oklahoma City” moment to reconnect with the people.

    http://townhall.com/video/msnbc-pollster-says-obama-needs-an-oklahoma-city-bombing

  • felixw

    tiredofbs said:
    You comments speak for themselves.
    Want me to bring them forward for review?

    It’s bad enough to read Garth’s comments once. To put them up for us to read again would qualify as cruel and unusual punishment under the 8th amendment.

  • kvon

    notsofast said:
    LOL

    How does keeping rates the same lead to a tax cut?

    I love it: you are paid $70K a year in 2010, and in 2011, you will earn $70K and that is an increase in lib land.

    LOL

    Tell me who received more money in their paychecks, son?

    More bad news, son:

    “A group of economists from the National Bureau of Economic Research, a private, nonprofit group, has finally decided that the recession ended in June 2009.”

    http://money.usnews.com/money/blogs/flowchart/2010/09/20/why-theres-no-joy-over-the-recessions-end

    So it ended BEFORE Barry’s stimulus was even taking effect .

    So, if you take out a new loan the year after you finished paying another loan, then it is the same loan?

  • notsofast

    kvon said:
    Stupid bullshit argument.

    Translation: “I have no response. My talking points don’t cover this.”

  • notsofast

    kvon said:
    So, if you take out a new loan the year after you finished paying another loan, then it is the same loan?

    Did you get more take home pay?

    No, and no, and no.

  • notsofast

    kvon said:
    So, if you take out a new loan the year after you finished paying another loan, then it is the same loan?

    We ain’t talking about loans, son.

    Do keep on topic.

  • Garth

    felixw said:
    It’s bad enough to read Garth’s comments once. To put them up for us to read again would qualify as cruel and unusual punishment under the 8th amendment.

    Don’t read them then. You tea-baggers complicate everything.

  • LOGICandREASON
  • kvon

    notsofast said:
    We ain’t talking about loans, son.

    Do keep on topic.

    Extending a tax cut is the same as a new tax cut retard.

  • http://crpa.co Ron C. de Weijze

    This is the kind of intelligent conversation that is always kept away from us by those who believe they are more correct than others and therefore will not let in other strong POV’s. I figure CNN and especially the sweaty handed interviewer, must have felt they dropped their ball there.

  • kvon

    Ron C. de Weijze said:
    This is the kind of intelligent conversation that is always kept away from us by those who believe they are more correct than others and therefore will not let in other strong POV’s. I figure CNN and especially the sweaty handed interviewer, must have felt they dropped their ball there.

    You only saw that because he appears as anti-Obama in this clip.

  • notsofast

    kvon said:
    Extending a tax cut is the same as a new tax cut retard.

    LOL

    Did you get more money in your paycheck?

    NO

    CASE CLOSED!

  • notsofast

    kvon said:
    Extending a tax cut is the same as a new tax cut retard.

    YOU ARE A COMPLETE MORON!

  • Garth

    notsofast said:
    YOU ARE A COMPLETE MORON!

    I think he’s right, you are retarded. Something I’ve suspected for some time. Say hello to your mullet.

  • Alz

    kvon said:
    Extending a tax cut is the same as a new tax cut retard.

    There is no such thing as “extending a tax cut”. Since the money is OURS, not the government’s, we should always look at it from OUR point of view. We have to start from zero, meaning that assume the government doesn’t get any money.

    It’s just less or more confiscation. The other thing is we are talking about RATES, not costs.

    (Also, we should do away with withholding. We all should get a monthly bill from government, just like our electric bill. This way people will see what it costs.)

    It would be much better if people were more precise about all of this.

  • Hunk

    If anybody knows what’s going on in the middle east it’s Michael Scheuer. He’s right about the water thing, too.

  • Garth

    Hunk said:
    If anybody knows what’s going on in the middle east it’s Michael Scheuer. He’s right about the water thing, too.

    LMAO!!

  • notsofast

    Garth said:
    Garth says:
    March 31, 2011 at 7:20 pm Garth(Quote)

    You’re the reason God created the middle finger.

  • Garth

    notsofast said:
    You’re the reason God created the middle finger.

    Sitting on it yet again sparky?

  • Hunk

    Garth says:
    March 31, 2011 at 4:43 pm Garth(Quote)
    Thumb up 0 Thumb down 99

    Don’t be so sure that MM made an error. Wait and see.

    Garth says:
    March 31, 2011 at 6:06 pm Garth(Quote)
    Thumb up 0 Thumb down 46

    Do your homework before making an ass of yourself.

    —————-

    How’s that boot leather taste?

  • Garth

    Hunk said:
    Garth says:
    March 31, 2011 at 4:43 pm Garth(Quote)
    Thumb up 0 Thumb down 99

    Don’t be so sure that MM made an error. Wait and see.

    Garth says:
    March 31, 2011 at 6:06 pm Garth(Quote)
    Thumb up 0 Thumb down 46

    Do your homework before making an ass of yourself.

    —————-

    How’s that boot leather taste?

    How do you like the smell of your ass?

  • notsofast

    Garth said:
    Garth says:
    March 31, 2011 at 7:32 pm Garth(Quote)

    Practice safe sex; go screw yourself!

  • Garth

    notsofast said:
    Practice safe sex; go screw yourself!

    You need new material. I tell ya, I’m in a bit a of a pickle. I’ve entered a debate with a boob who is at worst a retard and at best a mental midget. What to do? Nutsomuch – have you and the mullet tried arts and crafts? What about checkers? Collecting beers cans? Trying to be helpful here.

  • glenn113

    Scheuer absolutely belongs on this site.http://www.nhgazette.com/chickenhawks/ And i will make sure he does.

  • BFD

    notsofast said:
    Shouldn’t you be telling women that their husbands shot themselves?

    Hey, where is the Mormon Widow anyway?

  • rocky road

    I swear, the posters on this site are the most childish on the web. Where do you guys come from anyway? I can’t believe the level of name calling and 5th grade antics. Grow up please. You all are ruining this site as if it needed any help.

  • glenn113
  • Garth

    rocky road said:
    I swear, the posters on this site are the most childish on the web. Where do you guys come from anyway? I can’t believe the level of name calling and 5th grade antics. Grow up please. You all are ruining this site as if it needed any help.

    Golly, the whole web?! Jeepers!!

  • http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

    TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT!

    ps) Doesn’t most of the media carry his water?

  • btimsah

    Michael Scheuer is awesome.

    He pwned these chicks.

  • http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

    Hey Progressives….

    Which MUSLIM country will Obama be BOMBING next week?

    Who thought, of the two of them, Bush would be the “Peace President”?

    LOL!!

  • Alz

    NORBIT Jr. said:
    Which MUSLIM country will Obama be BOMBING next week?

    …the one with the best chance of being controlled by the likes of the Muslim Brothers and ending up being anti-American.

  • felixw

    kvon said:
    Extending a tax cut is the same as a new tax cut retard.

    Sure, and not cutting your salary is the same thing as a raise.
    Not confiscating your old car is the same thing as giving you a new car.
    Not throwing up your dinner is like having a new meal.
    Etc. etc. etc.

    Using liberal logic (oxymoron there) you can prove anything you want….

    But the little addendum of “retard” at the end of your post is such as brilliant little touch. Really sets this out as the post of a supporter of the “progressive” ideology.

  • tatboy

    Those 2 ladies did not come off as heavyweights in that conversation.

  • More Liberty5

    LOL..those two ladies looked like a couple of morons. He schooled them that’s for sure – not their proudest moment.

  • Pablo

    glenn113 said:
    Scheuer absolutely belongs on this site.http://www.nhgazette.com/chickenhawks/ And i will make sure he does.

    Yeah. CIA agents are such pussies. Moron.

  • Pablo

    kvon said:
    But there were tax cuts right? To the richest people? In the middle of a recession?

    The Obama Tax Cuts are for everyone.

  • More Liberty5

    Kvon said:
    “Extending a tax cut is the same as a new tax cut retard.”

    Are you serious? No it’s not. if my taxes don’t go up, that’s not the same as a new tax cut. A new tax cut would be if my taxes decreased – not stayed the same.

  • VoiceofReason

    BFD said:
    More “intelligent” things the Right said today… DONALD TRUMP: Concedes Barack Obama “was born”. REP. TOM MARINO: Concerning Libya…., “Where does it stop? Do we go into Africa next?” ____________________________________________Day 49 since Henny Glenny was struck by an overwhelming feeling that Egypt is the beginning of a growing evil that is going to spread a global Muslim caliphate and with the help of the communists and progressives create a New World Order ending our way of life as we know it.

    Stand up man!!!!
    We have to vote for the bill so we can tell what’s in the bill.
    I’m worried with all those extra Marines the island might simply tip over and capsize.

  • VoiceofReason

    Garth said:
    Do your homework before making an ass of yourself.

    Good advise. You should consider it.

  • VoiceofReason

    Garth said:
    Why, you looking for some action?

    Why? You need a quick 10 bucks?

  • VoiceofReason

    Joseph Glackin said:
    In 2007, just as the Dems. took over Congress, the cheap condom called the housing bubble burst. That added to the two “off the books” wars run by the sitting Pres. and approved by the GOP Congress to set the nation on the road to escalating debt for years to come.You don’t repair six years of willful profligacy and two years of conflicting agendas in two years. Six is a more reasonable time frame.But no one expects the uber-right or the TPers to be reasonable. It isn’t in their playbook.

    What a completely dumbass post.

    First you try to deflect by talking about the housing bubble bust to bash Bush but omit the dot com bust. You also omit the vote by that “GOP Congress” on both those wars. Google it sometime. Sure were a lot of “Ds” masqurading as “Rs” those days…….

    Conflicting agendas? Bush was willing to co-sign any spending you guys wanted to do. Where’s the conflict? One drunken sailor or the other? BTW, when the hell are you assclowns going to realize:

    1. Bush is gone.
    2. Bush wasn’t our guy either. If anything his big spending increasing govt. size ideology more closely resemles yours…..not mine. Progressives one and the same.

    As to recifying ANYTHING. At some point the needle would have to move in the other direction……even at a creep…….but you have it pegged in the wrong direction so bad it’s looped itself three or four times.

    Dayum but y’all lie.

  • VoiceofReason

    Bill Adkins said:
    Why don’t you answer that? Which president did that? Ronald Reagan did it. And he and George HW Bush multipled the national debt by almost 5 times 1981-1993. Now, I admit, Bill Clinton added 25% to the amount handed off to him by George HW — but then along came Goober W. who, 2001-FY 2009, took the $5.7 trillion and added 210% to it. $6.5 trillion to be exact – or, if you prefer, $6, 500, 000,000,000.00. Now that’s a lot of zeros (of course the same could be said for the Republicans). But now you claim some president doubled the national debt in only two years. I think – no, I know you’re full of shit if you’re apply that charge to Obama.

    You must not do anything for a living that involves math.

    If 5.7 is your starting point adding 210% to it would be 11.97 (whatever…million…billion….trillion)NOT 6.5, for a total of 17.67. and increase of 6.5 to an existing 5.7 would be about 114% increase.

    If you are talking about increasing from a starting point of 5.7 to 6.5 you have only increased by 14% not even close to 210%.

    Do you get frequent notes from your bank regarding your account balance?

  • Tedderman

    Will someone please check with the C.I.A. and see what types of halucinogenic drugs and compounds Michael Scheuer was subjected to during his employment. This guy is NUTS!

  • HostileLogic

    Tedderman said:
    Will someone please check with the C.I.A. and see what types of halucinogenic drugs and compounds Michael Scheuer was subjected to during his employment. This guy is NUTS!

    Michael Scheuer is the one person making sense.

    So you think you actually know what’s going down in Libya? Do you know who these “rebels” are? Read the West Point Counter Terrorism Center’s “Sinjar Records” at http://www.ctc.usma.edu/harmony/pdf/CTCForeignFighter.19.Dec07.pdf

    These “rebels” are fanatical Islamic jihadists closely allied with al Qaeda.

    And do you know anything about the political intrigue driving this crap? Read about the Obama – House of Saud nexus at http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MD02Ak01.html

    Educate yourself and stop throwing mindless turd bombs.

  • Tedderman

    Sorry, I’m not going to submit myself to your right-wing horse-shit. I was in the Army for more than twelve years(medical discharge) and I’m more than familiar with these types of reports and those who prepare them. As for your “political intrigue,”certain people can ascribe an array of ideas, all of which amount to a hill of beans and have no basis in reality.

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