George Bush was a cheerleader, what’s the point?

Picture of George Bush cheer-leading.

http://www.fugly.com/media/IMAGES/Random/george_bush_college_cheerleader.jpg

“Maddow sees desperation in this move because she lives in a world where it is absurd for a candidate like George Allen to exist.”

Maddow is rather unqualified to analyze Republican manouvres, come to think of it.

It’s like asking Michelangelo to explain Dada. They inhabit disparate planes of reference.

” Good Evening . We begin tonight with a story that no one is talking about .”
_

For good reason .

The Real RoyaI King said:
“Maddow sees desperation in this move because she lives in a world where it is absurd for a candidate like George Allen to exist.”

Maddow is rather unqualified to analyze Republican manouvres, come to think of it.

It’s like asking Michelangelo to explain Dada. They inhabit disparate planes of reference.

To my friends, colleagues, compatriots, the Western World, etc.,: That lying, thieving, mischievous Kumquat Also Known to many of us here as writer, The Lantern of Truth, The Real Royal Knig, The Real Royal Queen, Michelle-in-Utah, Armwood, BFD, Olby Sucks, GlennBovineKolbys, George C., Elaine B., SarahP, Garth, and a host of others, has ONCE AGAIN Misappropriated my own untarnished good name for his nefarious ends.

He is a terrorist, and his jihad against me and all I hold dear is unrelenting, but I will fight to the last bullet. Metaphorically speaking.

possibly said:
George Bush was a cheerleader, what’s the point?

So was Trent Lott.

I don’t like male cheerleaders.

George Allen had advance knowledge about the Virginia Tech massacre, I heard!

The Real RoyaI King said:
To my friends, colleagues, compatriots, the Western World, etc.,: That lying, thieving, mischievous Kumquat Also Known to many of us here as writer, The Lantern of Truth, The Real Royal Knig, The Real Royal Queen, Michelle-in-Utah, Armwood, BFD, Olby Sucks, GlennBovineKolbys, George C., Elaine B., SarahP, Garth, and a host of others, has ONCE AGAIN Misappropriated my own untarnished good name for his nefarious ends.
He is a terrorist, and his jihad against me and all I hold dear is unrelenting, but I will fight to the last bullet. Metaphorically speaking.

The Real Royal King said:
No thanks. Not an accomplished snitch.</blockquote

“Homos and Indians Unite!”

Rachel’s got tiger blood.

The Real RoyaI King said:
To my friends, colleagues, compatriots, the Western World, etc.,: That lying, thieving, mischievous Kumquat Also Known to many of us here as writer, The Lantern of Truth, The Real Royal Knig, The Real Royal Queen, Michelle-in-Utah, Armwood, BFD, Olby Sucks, GlennBovineKolbys, George C., Elaine B., SarahP, Garth, and a host of others, has ONCE AGAIN Misappropriated my own untarnished good name for his nefarious ends.

I want to be a Kumquat too . Is there a sign up sheet ?

Anne 1 said:
” Good Evening . We begin tonight with a story that no one is talking about .”
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For good reason .

Well done, you almost made me laugh out loud at work. That’s a hell of a burn.

Rachel has her moments, but the whole silly/snarky/perpetually offended bit gets old fast. Also when her producer subs in for her, it sometimes takes me awhile to realize it.

Anne 1 said:
I want to be a Kumquat too . Is there a sign up sheet ?

I’m pretty sure everyone commenting on this site that isn’t RRK is Kumquat to RRK.

So is Mediaite a site about the media, or a site that uses the media to push its agenda?

LOL @ ‘Rachel Maddow broke down the connection…’ Did she use a Beck-like chalkboard? These rabid Leftist media hacks exhaust themselves demonizing Glen Beck for his connect-the-dots M.O. and then they go out and do it themselves.

“It’s about finding all the disperate facts and then finding their coherence . Doing this right ,takes rigour and a devovtion to facts that borders on obsessive. ”

* snicker…*

More Liberty4 said:
So is Mediaite a site about the media, or a site that uses the media to push its agenda?

It’s a site about the media. Some of their columnists slide liberal, but Tommy really went after Olbermann during the #MooreAndMe deal, for example.

It’s certainly more middle of the road than say, Blaze or Kos. They’ve had articles praising Fox, critiquing Fox, praising MSNBC, critiquing MSNBC.

Anne 1 said:
“It’s about finding all the disperate facts and then finding their coherence . Doing this right ,takes rigour and a devovtion to facts that borders on obsessive. ”

* snicker…*

“Except when fact-checked by Politifact.”

I’m confused. Is the gist of this post that the GOP prefers to run candidates who are racist and/or homophobic? How or why is this news?

Maccacca he really is. I don’t know how some gays were hoodwink into joining the bloody GOP.

VinoVeritas said:
“I’m confused. Is the gist of this post that the GOP prefers to run candidates who are racist and/or homophobic? How or why is this news?”

Well it is what they want to be news. It’s all a distraction, and rather silly. Instead of talking about actual issues, Tommy and the rest of the media want to talk about sensitivity issues. In a time where we have decade long wars, and debt we will never be able to repay these people want to talk about…..race and if someone might or might not have said something offensive. What it does, is show they are fairly “light” in the intellectual department.

I wish Maddow would publish a list of all the “code words” and “dog whistles” so the rest of the country can know when they’re hearing one.

Oh, wait, since the “code words” and “dog whistles” are never defined, they can be a constantly moving target, including whatever the Left wants, whenever they want to take down a candidate.

Get over yourself, Maddow. No one cares about your sex life. How many “victim” groups can you identify? They’re getting pretty boring too.

Good point Anne. The thing about many liberals, not all but many, is that they like the victim card. It makes them feel safe and thus they can blame their problems on being a victim instead of taking personal responsibility. Additionally, it helps the politicians since they can use fear to attract voters.

So…this is what Maddow comes up with when she for once decides to create an original story, instead of just obsessing over what Beck and company are doing?

“you’re a woman an overkill much?”

how about *stretch* much? so, now calling someone a cheerleader is homophobic?

And why is she so concerned about someone mocking someone who hasn’t announced their candidacy yet? Did she go after Jon Stewart for mocking all the Repubs who have yet to declare their candidacy?

“To her credit, Maddow doesn’t pick the low-hanging fruit….”

T.C.
You must stop this gay baiting and these gay slurs…..seriously….really….seriously.
Let’s keep it civil.

It’s almost Happy Hour!!!!

skyfet said:
Maccacca he really is. I don’t know how some gays were hoodwink into joining the bloody GOP.

So, being gay means you can’t be conservative? Some of my gay friends are also conservatives. It’s because they believe in self-reliance and responsibility. They also aren’t selfish enough to want to spend money and leave the debt to their children.

The cheerleader outfit isn’t anti-gay, it’s tying the blue dog democrats to Obama’s bad policies. It’s fine to be sensitive, but if she hates these ads, she must hate all the beer ads as well. Lighten up, folks.

sarainitaly said:
So…this is what Maddow comes up with when she for once decides to create an original story, instead of just obsessing over what Beck and company are doing?

“you’re a woman an overkill much?”

how about *stretch* much? so, now calling someone a cheerleader is homophobic?

And why is she so concerned about someone mocking someone who hasn’t announced their candidacy yet? Did she go after Jon Stewart for mocking all the Repubs who have yet to declare their candidacy?

I think it’s sad. I think she could have been more like Greta, but instead she’s gone all ‘Olby’ style. She really seemed bright and open to engaging different viewpoints, but has devolved into an MSNBC clown stereotype.

lane said:
So, being gay means you can’t be conservative? Some of my gay friends are also conservatives. It’s because they believe in self-reliance and responsibility. They also aren’t selfish enough to want to spend money and leave the debt to their children.

So because you don’t want to pay taxes, that makes you a conservative. Well,, that’s the kind of conservative that pick and choose when they have more money in their pocket. Your type is not enough to win an election, remember Reagan (pandered to the Christian right), Bush and Rove (used the gays as bogeymen to win the 04 election), where were your gay friends then to stand firm as conservatives. Conservative my behind, its just a desire not to pay more taxes, not a deep belief in conservatism.

Capich!

More Liberty4 said:
So is Mediaite a site about the media, or a site that uses the media to push its agenda?

Mediaite is a site about the media that features commentary from a diverse spectrum of viewpoints.

Urban Dictionary for Rachel Maddow:
“A talking head on MSNBC who also has a radio show on Air America. Neither are worth listening to.

Mr. Maddow began his career as a lumberjack, working long burly hours in the forest, chopping down wood until a local paper towel company hosted a contest in search of a logo they could use. Mr. Maddow, with his unheralded manly features, easily won the contest and became the face of “Brawny” paper towels for years to come.

Then like all famous people Mr. Maddow felt it necessary to get involved with politics and was given her own show on MSNBC when the network felt they needed a masculine presence to counter Keith Olbermann’s femininty. So far it’s working out.
Keith Olbermann has problems with his intestines. Rachel Maddow has a thirteen inch penis. Draw your own conclusions.”

Rach, I would reference a website that says things, like the above, about you.

Tommy Christopher said:
Mediaite is a site about the media that features commentary from a diverse spectrum of viewpoints.

You might end up in the same line as CNN, who can’t define what side they are on.

According to the King, I am the only conservative posting here, and just using different names. Now that hurts. I’ve always spoken so highly of him.

BTW, King, it’s not me doing it. Seeing a calm, rational post under that crown avatar is too jarring.

Royal Dimwit says:

To my friends, colleagues, compatriots, the Western World, etc.,: That lying, thieving, mischievous Kumquat Also Known to many of us here as writer, The Lantern of Truth, The Real Royal Knig, The Real Royal Queen, Michelle-in-Utah

Prove it or shut up and stop lying about me. I have never ONCE pretended to be you or anyone else, idiot. I have better things to do with my time. (not that I haven’t thoroughly enjoyed how angry it’s making you)

TC says

Mediaite is a site about the media that features commentary from a diverse spectrum of viewpoints.

Did you get that out with a straight face? Don’t pee on my leg and tell me it’s raining.

Tommy Christopher said:
Mediaite is a site about the media that features commentary from a diverse spectrum of viewpoints.

I agree Tommy. Mediaite is one of the best sites on the web. You see some childish and ignorant remarks once in a while. What you don;t see is the vile garbage that sites like News Hounds and DemocraticUndergound put out. They are the worst of the worst.

I hate to admit it, but if the King were nice and sane it would take all the fun out of it. Again, King, it’s not me. I enjoy pointing out the hypocrisy of the old you too much.

Dave, How can you possibly agree with Tommy when he claims they aren’t a liberal site? I agree with you that the site is entertaining (mainly because I enjoy arguing with ignorant libs), but they are NOT a down the middle site in any way shape, matter, or form. They are a liberal site with a liberal agenda that they push daily. Let’s not pretend otherwise.

Annie Oakley said:
I wish Maddow would publish a list of all the “code words” and “dog whistles” so the rest of the country can know when they’re hearing one.

Oh, wait, since the “code words” and “dog whistles” are never defined, they can be a constantly moving target, including whatever the Left wants, whenever they want to take down a candidate.

Get over yourself, Maddow. No one cares about your sex life. How many “victim” groups can you identify? They’re getting pretty boring too.

More Liberty4 said:
Good point Anne. The thing about many liberals, not all but many, is that they like the victim card. It makes them feel safe and thus they can blame their problems on being a victim instead of taking personal responsibility. Additionally, it helps the politicians since they can use fear to attract voters.

Why don’t you both address the fact that Republican are on RECORD openly discussing their use of the Southern Strategy–dog whistle politics?

Bush Sr’s advisor and Karl Rove’s mentor, Lee Atwater:

”You start out in 1954 by saying, ‘N*****, n*****, n*****.’ By 1968 you can’t say ‘n*****’ — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states’ rights and all that stuff. You’re getting so abstract now [that] you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites.

”And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I’m not saying that. But I’m saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me — because obviously sitting around saying, ‘We want to cut this,’ is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than ‘N*****, n*****.”’

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04E6DF1E30F935A35753C1A9639C8B63

“Although the phrase “Southern strategy” is often attributed to Nixon political strategist Kevin Phillips, he did not originate it,[2] but merely popularized it.[3] In an interview included in a 1970 New York Times article, he touched on its essence:

From now on, the Republicans are never going to get more than 10 to 20 percent of the Negro vote and they don’t need any more than that… but Republicans would be shortsighted if they weakened enforcement of the Voting Rights Act. The more Negroes who register as Democrats in the South, the sooner the Negrophobe whites will quit the Democrats and become Republicans. That’s where the votes are. Without that prodding from the blacks, the whites will backslide into their old comfortable arrangement with the local Democrats.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy

Remember former RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman’s FIRST confession?

It was called “the southern strategy,” started under Richard M. Nixon in 1968, and described Republican efforts to use race as a wedge issue — on matters such as desegregation and busing — to appeal to white southern voters.

Ken Mehlman, the Republican National Committee chairman, this morning will tell the NAACP national convention in Milwaukee that it was “wrong.”

“By the ’70s and into the ’80s and ’90s, the Democratic Party solidified its gains in the African American community, and we Republicans did not effectively reach out,” Mehlman says in his prepared text. “Some Republicans gave up on winning the African American vote, looking the other way or trying to benefit politically from racial polarization. I am here today as the Republican chairman to tell you we were wrong.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/13/AR2005071302342.html

I’m eagerly awaiting both of your commentary on these quotes.

–Cobra

Cobra, take your hateful, seething with rage, hatred against anything white and stick it! It’s getting tired.

Was this song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDZBgHBHQT8) playing in the background as Maddow was presenting her “facts”?

Cobra hating whites doesn’t count as racism.

Tommy Christopher said:
Mediaite is a site about the media that features commentary from a diverse spectrum of viewpoints.

I’m seeing a few definite far leftists and a few moderates, but I’m not seeing the conservative viewpoint, so I think the “diverse spectrum” is missing a few colors.

writer said:
Cobra hating whites doesn’t count as racism.

Now, now! victim’s can’t be racist against their oppressors!

Cobra, you are the perfect example of the victim mentality that has destroyed the black family and continues to keep minorities on the Democrat plantation.

Instead of listening to Louis Farrakahan and Rev. Wright, listen to Hermann Cain, Allen West, Bill Cosby, Michael Williams(who I hope will win the next Texas senate seat when Hutchison retires), Charles Payne, or even Juan Williams. Folks like you, who spend all their time gnashing their teeth over perceived insults, never accomplish anything or add to their community. An assh**e is an assh**e, no matter his race- and you are eminently qualified.

Liberal Tormentor said:
Dave, How can you possibly agree with Tommy when he claims they aren’t a liberal site? I agree with you that the site is entertaining (mainly because I enjoy arguing with ignorant libs), but they are NOT a down the middle site in any way shape, matter, or form. They are a liberal site with a liberal agenda that they push daily. Let’s not pretend otherwise.

Okay, I will play this game if you will agree to one rule: how many examples must I provide before you will admit you were wrong, and apologize? I’m betting the answer is the empty set.

I’ll bite TC, who is this supposed conservative at Mediaite?

Lets see – Macaca, Macaca, Macaca…..no matter how many times Rachel yells it, and tries to make up stories about it, it isn’t going to impact the race. The expression “fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me” applies here. The people of VA have opened their eyes to the liberal bias in the media and they will not be fooled again by the one-way reportage that was in existence during the last election.

Rachel can talk to it, and Tommy can write about it, but in the end, macaca is in the past. Get over it.

Liberal Tormentor, Einstein said infinity is a circle. So if move far enough left, you’re finally on the right.

Liberal Tormentor said:
I’ll bite TC, who is this supposed conservative at Mediaite?

It’s not my place to assign ideology to other writers, but I can easily point out story after story that reflect the conservative point of view. My question is, how many will it take to get that apology?

If any of the windbags who object to Cobra’s post would spend the next 24 hours researching instead of posting, they might learn about the cynical campaign to win the South by the GOP. How do you think the Party of Lincoln became the party of the CSA? In1964, Goldwater won AZ and the die-hard South. Nixon noticed, and race-baiting became the GOP standard.

More Liberty4 said:
So is Mediaite a site about the media, or a site that uses the media to push its agenda?

The original name was Media Matters Lite, but they decided to shorten it to Mediaite.

Liberal Tormentor said:
Prove it or shut up and stop lying about me.

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My theory is that TRRK is also the ALEDGED namejacker TRRK.

It is in line with his long history at other sites and although 2012/LibTor complained to Mediaite and got relief it seems that this “Namejacked TRRK” just continues on and on.

As conspiracy theories go how does this one stack up?

Grammie said:
As conspiracy theories go how does this one stack up?

Spot on Grammie . As I said to TRRK on the Bret Baier thread after Joyella had addressed a comment of his:

George C said:
You’ve been bleating , moaning and kvetching for days that someone has stolen your account TRRK . Now that you have Mr.Joyellas attention , perhaps he could remedy that for you .
“I am on a drug, it’s called The Real Royal King, It’s not available because if you try it you will die. Your face will melt off and your children will weep over your exploded body.”

That putting a guy in womens cloths is always hilarious….Rachel? Isn’t that a little bit of the kettle, and pot?

Allen lost to the moderately conservative Webb by fewer than 10,000 votes (50% to 49%) in a year that saw the anti Bush/Incumbent wave sweep in many Democrats.

Maddow is either in denial or she is launching a preemptive strike against the growing whispers for a “draft Allen for President Campaign” that is beginning to gain traction.