Very objective of you , Chuckie . How dare you , SIR !

First, I must congratulate Frances for this report. Shocking. A report here wherein the columnists talks about NBC/MSNBC hosts working on behalf of Team Obama.

I read about this earlier and found it quite shocking. Todd works for NBC as the senior WH correspondent (I think), and here he is flacking for Christ because he doesn’t want Rubio to win.

And this is the NEWS from NBC/MSNBC.

Again, Frances….I tip my hat to you for reporting this.

Right except that this is what you dolts call a Liberal network? Tell me, has fox suggested that O’Donnell get out since she’s down 24 points? By the way did Todd have Castle winning the primary against O’Donnell? Now you know why Liberals don’t watch MSNBC during the day. It’s not a Liberal network no matter how much the Villagers and their minions like to pretend it is.

roxsteady said:
Tell me, has fox suggested that O’Donnell get out since she’s down 24 points?

Yeah that makes total sense, Coons go unchallenged ?

Meeks could drop out and Rubio would still win by at least 5.

TfT said:
Again, Frances….I tip my hat to you for reporting this

Frances feels so bad about this story that to cheer her up, Mediaite has decided she gets to do tomorrow’s “Rich Iott is a Nazi HOMOerotic Reenactor” story.

Huh Rox?

Guthrie asks Meek, “[if Marco] Rubio wins, can you live with your role in that?”

Todd and Guthrie gang up on the dem to drop out so that Charlie, who embraced hehimselftehone, can take over in the polls and win the seat against the conservative.

To suggest that Guthrie and Todd do anything other than carry water for the DNC is absurd.

MSDNC in action, proven by these remarks. Again, I issue a thanks and congrats to Frances for reporting it here. This is a step in the right direction for mediaite…applause and brava.

HAHA, funny stuff Az!

murf said:
Yeah that makes total sense, Coons go unchallenged ? Meeks could drop out and Rubio would still win by at least 5.

Actually, it is pretty clear Crist would win without the split with Meeks. Rubio has virtually no moderate/independent support. However, I was in Florida shortly after Labor Day, and I saw a couple of Meeks’ ads. I was impressed. I did some research. I am even more impressed. Meeks is not going to win, but I don’t want him to drop out. Meeks is the type of candidate and official America needs.

For what it’s worth, I think Rubio has value as well. I am not unimpressed with him, even as I disagree with many of his policy positions.

Rubio is going to moderate when he takes office. Bank on it.

exiledtruther said:
HAHA, funny stuff Az!

Michelle-in-Utah, do you come to Mediaite simply to feed your own bitterness? Pretty pathetic.

The Real Royal King said:
Actually, it is pretty clear Crist would win without the split with Meeks. Rubio has virtually no moderate/independent support.

A month ago you’d be correct , not any more.

murf said:
A month ago you’d be correct , not any more.

You may have a point, but Rubio has already had to moderate to get the final push. One on one with either Meek or Crist, he would have had to moderate even more. A Tea Partier can win the Redneck Riviera section of Florida, but not Souh Florida. I’ts an interesting dynamic, and as I said I find Rubio the least objecionable of virtually any Republican.

roxsteady said:
Tell me, has fox suggested that O’Donnell get out since she’s down 24 points?

No.

What Fox had was conservatives on the air the day before the primary advising people against supporting her campaign and saying she couldn’t win the general.

Somebody should have this same talk with MSNBC management about their ratings: “What is more important: sort of making a point and trying to finish second between you and CNN, or is it more important to try to prevent Fox News from winning?”

Wow, that was really disrespectful and condescending. The guy is his party’s legitimate candidate and has every right to run to win. Why would he capitulate and defer to someone who isn’t of the same party and can’t decide what the hell he stands for?

Politicians who change parties just to have a better shot at winning instead of going through the process and either winning or taking a loss graciously make me sick.

ST. CLAIRSVILLE, Ohio — Republicans are expanding the battle for the House into districts that Democrats had once considered relatively safe, while Democrats began a strategy of triage on Monday to fortify candidates who they believe stand the best chance of survival.

As Republicans made new investments in at least 10 races across the country, including two Democratic seats here in eastern Ohio, Democratic leaders took steps to pull out of some races entirely or significantly cut their financial commitment in several districts that the party won in the last two election cycles.

Representatives Steve Driehaus of Ohio, Suzanne M. Kosmas of Florida and Kathy Dahlkemper of Pennsylvania were among the Democrats who learned that they would no longer receive the same infusion of television advertising that party leaders had promised. Party strategists conceded that these races and several others were slipping out of reach….

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/12/us/politics/12repubs.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all

Chuck Todd leans forward.

I live in Meek’s district and he has done nothing for us. Nothing. He has ignored this part of his district except at campaign time and he has very little to show for his time in Congress.

To be fair, Rubio’s irresponsible actions as Florida House Speaker have left us in bad shape. We have socialized property insurance (Citizen’s) and tax cuts without spending cuts to match. He sent 80 million tax dollars to private University of Miami while cutting public university budgets.

All told the Democrat and the Republican both stink. At least Crist routinely acted as the people wanted including the stimulus money, which, unlike most Republican governors he was honest enough to publicly accept instead of railing against it publicly while quietly taking the money like Rick Perry or Jindal or Pawlenty.

I am glad Chuck Todd has begun to face reality. The last time I listened to him, he was reading the Democratic talking points and ignoring the polls. Hopefully soon the other people on MSNBC will admit there is a tidal wave of angry voters that are go sweep Obama supporters out of office.

That tidal wave keeps getting bigger.

Add Arizona Rep. Raul Grijalva to the growing list of Democratic worries this election season.
Four Democratic sources from different parts of the country said that there is new attention to a race that was long considered in the bag for Democrats.

Keeva said:
I live in Meek’s district and he has done nothing for us. Nothing. He has ignored this part of his district except at campaign time and he has very little to show for his time in Congress. To be fair, Rubio’s irresponsible actions as Florida House Speaker have left us in bad shape. We have socialized property insurance (Citizen’s) and tax cuts without spending cuts to match. He sent 80 million tax dollars to private University of Miami while cutting public university budgets. All told the Democrat and the Republican both stink. At least Crist routinely acted as the people wanted including the stimulus money, which, unlike most Republican governors he was honest enough to publicly accept instead of railing against it publicly while quietly taking the money like Rick Perry or Jindal or Pawlenty.

In fairness to Toll Booth Perry, he always takes any money lying around. Situational principles, you know. He’s running an amusing ad right now about how he confronted “Obama”. He doesn’t use the honorific. This confrontation consisted of a letter he was going to hand President Obama as he deplaned at AUS. In the film, you see Toll Booth reach inside his lapel to pull out a letter. Before he gets it out, President Obama has already pivoted to the next dignitary in line and moved on. Toll Booth then handed the letter to a presidential aid.

The Real Royal King said:
Rubio has virtually no moderate/independent support.

Wrong once again.

“Said CNN Polling Director Keating Holland in a statement: “Crist had a lead among independents at the start of the month, but Rubio now appears to have the edge among this key group.”

http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/10/01/1851427/poll-rubio-continues-to-maintain.html

The Real Royal King said:
Rubio has virtually no moderate/independent support.

LOL..man I hate proving you wrong.

“GOP candidate even beats Crist among independent voters, poll finds”
http://www.sunshinestatenews.com/story/marco-rubio-holds-double-digit-lead-senate-race

“Rubio’s lead at this stage in the race is due to his fairly broad appeal across the political spectrum, primarily among GOP voters and independents, the latter of which is what’s really hurting Crist,” said Jim Lee, president of VSS.”

I swear you just spew whatever you want to say don’t you – regardless of facts. Oh let me guess, you were just using satire when you made the claim.

roxsteady said:
Right except that this is what you dolts call a Liberal network? Tell me, has fox suggested that O’Donnell get out since she’s down 24 points? By the way did Todd have Castle winning the primary against O’Donnell? Now you know why Liberals don’t watch MSNBC during the day. It’s not a Liberal network no matter how much the Villagers and their minions like to pretend it is.

that’s not what msnbc.com said….

good grief.

@roxsteady: maybe we don’t watch MSNBC (or Fox) during the day because we are working! Did that ever occur to you? Fox wants to strike fear into the hearts of the older retired Americans, those who will be the most hurt when the Republicans destroy health care, Medicare, and SS if they a re given the chance. But according to Fox, it is the big black boogie man they have to fear. You know, the one who cut their taxes, closed the Medicaid donut hole for them, and is ending the wars so their grandchildren can stay in school and get jobs instead of being killed in the Middle East. Fox also tries to convince these retired folks that only the right believes in God, because, how can anyone allow a woman to choose what’s tight for HER and still be Christian? We must all be atheists. No matter that they care nothing for a child once it’s born. No welfare, no school lunches, no help with day care, no money for education….but by golly, let those children come on in to America, no matter if the daddy raped a 14 year old, or the Daddy is also the grand daddy.

All I see here is the media pushing back against the public having more than two choices for an office.

It seemed to me like an implicit condemnation for breaking with the ’2 choice’ tradition.

Sally said:
@roxsteady: maybe we don’t watch MSNBC (or Fox) during the day because we are working! Did that ever occur to you? Fox wants to strike fear into the hearts of the older retired Americans, those who will be the most hurt when the Republicans destroy health care, Medicare, and SS if they a re given the chance. But according to Fox, it is the big black boogie man they have to fear. You know, the one who cut their taxes, closed the Medicaid donut hole for them, and is ending the wars so their grandchildren can stay in school and get jobs instead of being killed in the Middle East. Fox also tries to convince these retired folks that only the right believes in God, because, how can anyone allow a woman to choose what’s tight for HER and still be Christian? We must all be atheists. No matter that they care nothing for a child once it’s born. No welfare, no school lunches, no help with day care, no money for education….but by golly, let those children come on in to America, no matter if the daddy raped a 14 year old, or the Daddy is also the grand daddy.

wow. ‘republicans destroy health care’?? really? i’d say the argument could be made that there is a group who has done plenty to ‘destroy health care’ but but but… nobody on the left seems to give a crap about putting a leash on them.

republicans bad…. democrats good. we get it. nice steretype-filled rant btw. while we’re at it let me toss another log on the fire….

Sally said:
@roxsteady: maybe we don’t watch MSNBC (or Fox) during the day because we are working! Did that ever occur to you?

of course that didn’t ‘occur’ to rox…. everybody knows libs don’t work. they use their votes to keep their gubbmint sugar daddies in power. they keep the economy chugging along by accepting those ONE DOLLAR food stamps and (abracadabra) turning them into $!.79!!! (that’s one-dollar seventy nine cents for those educated in public schools).

what would we do without entitlements?

Keeva said:
I live in Meek’s district and he has done nothing for us. Nothing. He has ignored this part of his district except at campaign time and he has very little to show for his time in Congress. To be fair, Rubio’s irresponsible actions as Florida House Speaker have left us in bad shape. We have socialized property insurance (Citizen’s) and tax cuts without spending cuts to match. He sent 80 million tax dollars to private University of Miami while cutting public university budgets. All told the Democrat and the Republican both stink. At least Crist routinely acted as the people wanted including the stimulus money, which, unlike most Republican governors he was honest enough to publicly accept instead of railing against it publicly while quietly taking the money like Rick Perry or Jindal or Pawlenty.

You are correct about all of this and that is why I am going with Crist. First Republican I have ever voted for. Now on here they don’t consider him a Republican but that is because most on here are far righties.

Sally said:
@roxsteady: maybe we don’t watch MSNBC (or Fox) during the day because we are working! Did that ever occur to you? Fox wants to strike fear into the hearts of the older retired Americans, those who will be the most hurt when the Republicans destroy health care, Medicare, and SS if they a re given the chance. But according to Fox, it is the big black boogie man they have to fear. You know, the one who cut their taxes, closed the Medicaid donut hole for them, and is ending the wars so their grandchildren can stay in school and get jobs instead of being killed in the Middle East. Fox also tries to convince these retired folks that only the right believes in God, because, how can anyone allow a woman to choose what’s tight for HER and still be Christian? We must all be atheists. No matter that they care nothing for a child once it’s born. No welfare, no school lunches, no help with day care, no money for education….but by golly, let those children come on in to America, no matter if the daddy raped a 14 year old, or the Daddy is also the grand daddy.

Sally, I guess because you make so much sense you will get creamed on here.

BlackWidow said:
Now on here they don’t consider him a Republican but that is because most on here are far righties.

I thought it was because he is an ‘independent’. He has an (I) after his name, right?

But OK… it’s a ‘rightie’ thing. Kinda like knowing that if someone says they are going to vote for the ‘republican’ in that race then there is only ONE choice.

Accuracy. It’s a ‘rightie’ thing.

The Real Royal King said:
Rubio has already had to moderate to get the final push. One on one with either Meek or Crist, he would have had to moderate even more. A Tea Partier can win the Redneck Riviera section of Florida, but not Souh Florida.

As a resident of South Florida, I’d be willing to bet that you’re way off base on this one. Rubio is a Cuban American, and Cuban Americans (of which there are many in South Florida) vote overwhelmingly for the Republican ticket.